When the cops are the criminals

[Kriegsspiel]

Smokers who think the street and sidewalk are their ashtray, man if I was a cop, every one would get a $500 ticket.

I knew this Native American guy who would always put his cigarettes out in a little metal tray and carry them home on foot for disposal. Some kind of herbal tobacco. But, he's the only one I've ever heard of who does that.

Remember when cars had ashtrays in the doors?

I've gotta hand it to the Native Americans, they really do use every part of the cigarette.

[Reub]

Turmoil in Milwaukee! Blacks rioting, burning and hunting down innocent whites for beatings.

And what's it all about? Well it turns out that a black man was killed by a cop. More unwarranted violence against innocent blacks by an authoritarian white police force?

But hold on! The black man turned and pointed a gun at the cop before he was shot dead (on video). Oh, and the cop was a black man too. And so is the police chief.

It really doesn't matter though in Obama's America.

[dualstow]

I knew this Native American guy who would always put his cigarettes out in a little metal tray and carry them home on foot for disposal.
~

I've gotta hand it to the Native Americans, they really do use every part of the cigarette.

[MediumTex]

I knew this Native American guy who would always put his cigarettes out in a little metal tray and carry them home on foot for disposal.
~

I've gotta hand it to the Native Americans, they really do use every part of the cigarette.

X 2

[MachineGhost]

Lincoln, Neb. police pull over double amputee, point guns at him. Unable to exit the vehicle as commanded, the motorist falls face-first onto the pavement, where he is handcuffed and remains while a (fruitless) search of his vehicle proceeds. Eighth Circuit: Police should have known that the bald, middle-aged driver was not their suspect, a young man with braids (and, presumably, legs). No qualified immunity.

Anaheim, Calif. police officers approach citizen who flees immediately, shedding what turns out to be a glass pipe and cell phone as he runs. An officer shoots him dead. Jury: Which wasn’t excessive force. Ninth Circuit: New trial. The jury was prejudiced by testimony about the deceased’s gang membership and recent meth use.

DeKalb County, Ga. police summoned to home where unstable father brandishes a kitchen knife, flees from a tasing, and then is shot dead as he reemerges with the knife. Eleventh Circuit: Qualified immunity on most of the family’s claims, but a jury should decide whether the shooting was appropriate.

[MachineGhost]

The police version is at odds with that of Scott’s family, who have insisted that he was disabled, sitting in his car reading a book, and had no gun. “He sits in the shade, reads his book and waits on his kid to get off the bus,” Scott’s sister told reporters. “He didn’t have no gun, he wasn’t messing with nobody.”

In a video posted to Facebook Live from the scene, Scott’s daughter Lyric can be heard yelling at investigators on the scene not to plant a weapon in Scott’s car. “Because that’s what the fuck y’all do,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... e-drop-gun

[MachineGhost]

Was this moda?

Man accosts three hijab-wearing women on the street. He departs, but not before a bystander calls police. Police find man; put him in joint lock, handcuffs, and squad car; and then book him for disorderly conduct. Wait a tick! Minnesota law requires officers to have personally witnessed a misdemeanor if they’re going to arrest (sans warrant). City: The officers didn’t arrest him; the bystander did, by virtue of filling out a citizen’s arrest form that police provided. Eighth Circuit: Qualified immunity.

[dualstow]

It was Moda.

[dualstow]

Pulled over for speeding, grieving man stunned when officer drives him 100 miles to be with family
fixed link or http://bit.ly/2cSs83u

EDIT: thank you, Xan,I fixed the link. 'Twas a lazy paste.

[Xan]

I think this is the link you're aiming for:
http://kfor.com/2016/09/27/pulled-over- ... th-family/

[Reub]

It was Moda.

Who is moda?

[dualstow]

Har har, Reub.

[MachineGhost]

The pigs may win this round:

Keith Scott WAS carrying a stolen gun, police say – and his wife filed for a restraining order against him saying he was armed, violent and had threatened to kill her

...

'He hit my 8 year old in the head a total of three times with is [sic] fist,' she wrote on the form published by TWC News.

'He kicked me and threaten [sic] to kill us last night with his gun. He said he is a "killer" and we should know that.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z4LSwKmhck

So she lied about him not having a gun during the encounter. Was she trying to protect him or was she trying to get him killed? Hmmmmm!

I'm disappointed to find out that pigs have to specifically turn on their bodycams. WTF? The point of surveillance isn't to give the pig the discretion!!! And it wasn't done in this case at the appropriate time it should have been, hence all the confusion.

[MachineGhost]

NYC undercover officer allegedly fabricates evidence against drug suspect, who spends eight months in jail before being acquitted. Officer: I had probable cause to arrest, so he can’t sue me for fabricating evidence afterward. Second Circuit: No, he can. The jury’s $20,001 award to the suspect stands.

Perhaps mistaking sound of car backfiring for gunshot, Cleveland police chase vehicle. Ultimately, 13 officers fire 139 shots at the vehicle’s (likely unarmed) occupants, killing them both. Nine white officers sue the city, arguing they were put on desk duty after the shooting for much longer than black officers who killed citizens in other incidents. Sixth Circuit: The district court did not err in dismissing the suit.

[Kriegsspiel]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/p ... izona.html

[farjean2]

Caution. If you're like me this might be the most sickening thing you've ever seen and it might leave you disliking cops....

https://youtu.be/VBUUx0jUKxc

The background is simple. Shaver was a traveling pest control worker. He was in his hotel room (a La Quinta Inn) showing off to guests a pellet gun he used for work. Police responded to a 911 call claiming that a man was pointing a rifle out a window.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/45 ... iel-shaver

[moda0306]

Caution. If you're like me this might be the most sickening thing you've ever seen and it might leave you disliking cops....

https://youtu.be/VBUUx0jUKxc

The background is simple. Shaver was a traveling pest control worker. He was in his hotel room (a La Quinta Inn) showing off to guests a pellet gun he used for work. Police responded to a 911 call claiming that a man was pointing a rifle out a window.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/45 ... iel-shaver

Unaccountable, murderous power structures infuriate me.

It kind of makes one wonder how much worse this problem was before body cameras.

[dualstow]

Awful.

[dualstow]

Speaking only for myself, I think the problem is that they told the suspect to crawl forward, and to do it without using his hands. The guy may be an idiot for waving a (pellet) gun around, making guests nervous, but not for a lapse in a very frightening, difficult situation.

I couldn’t even walk a straight line as a teenager once b/c a cop saw my hayfever-reddened eyes and convinced himself that I’d been drinking. This was just after a car crash. I was in shock. I finally got his more reasonable partner to produce a breathalyzer and luckily they opted for that instead of shooting me.

[farjean2]

I'm not sure what you guys think is the problem here. The cop thought the perp was armed, told the guy not to move his hands or he would shoot him, and the idiot disobeyed and got what was promised. If I was the cop, I would have shot him, too.

You think the cop should have let the guy potentially draw on him?

Did you check out the URL I posted with the video? http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/45 ... iel-shaver

An Iraq war veteran says that none of the soldiers he deployed with in Iraq would have handled the situation the way these officers treated American citizens.

It appeared to me that the guy was just trying to pull his pants up after being made to crawl on the ground with his legs crossed and hands in front of him. How do you even do that? He was drunk and obviously scared out of his mind. The policemen had an AR-15 trained on him the whole time and I fail to see the imminent danger.

Obviously the jury agreed with you. Good thing for the cop I wasn't on it.

[Kriegsspiel]

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalr ... cards.html

[Ad Orientem]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/us/a ... 8UmjOzs6DF

Sounds like an organized crime syndicate in uniform.

[Ad Orientem]

California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/02/26 ... t-have-it/

[Ad Orientem]

SC sheriffs fly first class, bully employees and line their pockets with taxpayer money...

South Carolina sheriffs have embezzled, bribed and dipped into public funds for expensive chauffeurs. They’ve driven drunk and bullied other public officials. They’ve been accused of leveraging their power to sexually assault their female employees.

While many South Carolina sheriffs have strong records of serving the public, others served themselves and their cronies, a five-month Post and Courier investigation found.

In the past decade, no fewer than 11 of South Carolina’s 46 counties have seen their sheriffs accused of breaking laws — nearly one in four.

Like the sheriff in Orangeburg who funneled public funds into bogus credit union accounts to buy a $72,000 motor home. The missing money was discovered only after the sheriff died.

And the sheriff in Chesterfield County who embezzled money, gave weapons to inmates — even let a prisoner host a dinner at the sheriff’s home. A judge sentenced the sheriff to two years.

Read the rest here...

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/sc- ... f8378.html

[Ad Orientem]

Investigators say the officer was driving his orange Corvette 94 miles an hour, nearly twice the speed limit, when he collided off-duty with a family’s SUV.

The crash killed a 1-year-old girl who went flying out of the vehicle, according to police. But the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Christopher Manuel will face no criminal charges — not even for speeding, prosecutors said this week.

The news has drawn further scrutiny to the 2017 tragedy that stirred public outrage last year after authorities arrested the dead child’s mother, 21-year-old Brittany Stephens, on suspicion of negligent homicide, saying the baby probably would not have been ejected and killed if Stephens had properly secured the car seat. Authorities have decided not to charge her, East Baton Rouge district attorney Hillar Moore III said.

The choice to prosecute neither Manuel nor Stephens was an agonizing one, Moore told The Washington Post on Friday. But after two years of discussions, he said, prosecutors felt they couldn’t meet the burden of proof for homicide or even a lesser charge like negligent injury for the officer. At the same time, they were loath to go after a young woman whom Moore said has already “punished herself.”

“You never want any officer traveling 94 miles an hour,” he said. “It’s just stupid. It’s dangerous. But when we looked at the law and the facts and the circumstances, we just thought that this was the only reasonable decision to make.”

An attorney for Stephens told The Post he’s troubled by authorities’ handling of the case, though. He has questioned last year’s action against his client, calling it a tactic to muddy responsibility for baby Seyaira’s death. Now, he’s blasting the district attorney for letting the officer off the hook, saying the choice exudes “impropriety” given prosecutors’ close work with police.

Read the rest here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... e-charges/