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Postby Shyster » Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:15 pm

Iowa to pay $225,000 to settle lawsuit over trooper's force, kneeling on man's neck
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news ... t-20210405
Iowa will pay $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was injured when a state trooper knocked him over and put his knee on his neck during a 2017 traffic stop, according to documents released Monday.

The payment to Bryce Yakish ends a lawsuit he filed against the state and former Iowa State Patrol trooper Robert Smith in 2019, months after a sheriff released dash camera video of the arrest. The lawsuit alleged that Smith assaulted and falsely arrested Yakish, lying about what happened.

The case also prompted scrutiny into other allegations of misconduct against Smith, who left the patrol in 2018 after a 30-year career. He was later hired as an officer in the small town of Durant, but resigned after the video’s release. Smith was also accused of using excessive force against a woman during an arrest in Durant.

Cedar County Sheriff Warren Wethington released the video in 2019 after announcing that he would no longer book any suspects arrested by Smith at his jail because he could not vouch for the officer’s credibility. Prosecutors also dismissed several cases brought by Smith, saying he was no longer a credible witness.

Wethington said Monday that federal agents contacted him during an investigation of Smith, and that the inquiry appears to remain open. Federal court documents show a grand jury has been investigating allegations of civil rights violations against an unidentified trooper.

One of Yakish’s attorneys, Martin Diaz, said the state produced Smith’s personnel file during the litigation but declined to comment on its contents, saying they are subject to a confidentiality order.

Diaz praised the state for settling the case.

“I think the behavior of the trooper in this case was so over the top that we just didn’t get the pushback we normally would,” he said. “The state recognized it had a problem and I think the resolution is a good one.”

The video shows Smith pulling Yakish over for speeding on his motorcycle on Sept. 25, 2017, at a gas station off Interstate 80 near West Liberty. What appears to be a routine stop escalates immediately when Smith runs from his car with his gun drawn and pointed at Yakish, who was 20 at the time.

Smith uses his left hand to strike the face shield of Yakish’s helmet, knocking him backward onto his motorcycle. Yakish and the vehicle fall to the ground. Smith briefly puts his knee on Yakish’s neck while handcuffing him, the lawsuit alleged. Yakish is repeatedly heard complaining of neck pain.

Smith falsely accused Yakish of trying to flee and charged him with eluding law enforcement, even though Yakish stopped immediately after Smith activated his patrol car’s lights and siren. That charge was dropped after a prosecutor reviewed the video and concluded it was baseless.

Yakish lost his license because of the arrest, his motorcycle was impounded and he spent the night in jail. The lawsuit said a chiropractor later treated him for neck pain.

The Iowa Attorney General’s Office represented Smith because he was on duty at the time, and the State Appeal Board last month approved using general tax funds for the $225,000 payout.


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Postby Shyster » Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:33 pm

A Detective Was Accused of Lying. Now 90 Convictions May Be Erased.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/nyre ... tions.html
Over nearly two decades as a police officer and narcotics detective, Joseph E. Franco made thousands of arrests, many for the possession and sale of drugs. Mr. Franco often worked undercover, and his testimony secured convictions for prosecutors around the city.

But officials who once relied on Mr. Franco are questioning his accounts. After he was accused of lying about drug sales that videos showed never happened, Mr. Franco was charged with perjury in Manhattan in 2019.

Now, the fallout over Mr. Franco’s police work is spreading: As many as 90 convictions that he helped secure in Brooklyn will be thrown out, prosecutors plan to announce Wednesday. Many more cases in other boroughs could follow—a reckoning that lawyers said appears larger than any in the city’s legal system in recent history.

On Wednesday, the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, will ask judges to dismiss years-old drug cases in which Mr. Franco served as a crucial witness. The office did not uncover new evidence of possible misconduct—and none of the people involved still remain behind bars. But Mr. Gonzalez said he had lost faith in Mr. Franco’s credibility.

“We’re in a moment of talking about criminal justice reform,” Mr. Gonzalez said in an interview this week. “It’s clear that we couldn’t responsibly rely on his testimony to stand by these convictions.”

The move represents one of the largest dismissals of convictions in the state over concerns about official misconduct, and comes amid a heightened national conversation about holding police accountable and curbing abuses among officers. In New York City, legislators recently made it easier to sue officers for conducting illegal searches or using excessive force.

Mr. Franco was charged in 2019 with 26 criminal counts, including perjury and official misconduct, after investigators in the Manhattan district attorney’s office said that he had testified to witnessing several drug buys that video footage showed did not happen or that he could not have seen.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:36 pm

LAPD video shows Black man arrested at his home during search for white suspect
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... -a-suspect
Newly released video from a Los Angeles police officer’s body camera shows two officers grappling with and arresting a Black man outside his Hollywood home as they responded to reports of a domestic violence incident in which the suspect was the white boyfriend of a neighbor.

A federal magistrate ordered the public disclosure of the video Friday as part of a lawsuit alleging racial profiling and civil rights violations brought by music producer Antone Austin, known as Tone Stackz, who was arrested in May 2019 despite not being the suspect in a domestic violence call. Austin and his girlfriend Michelle Michlewicz were taken into custody for resisting arrest.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office had said in a court filing that it did not want the Los Angeles Police Department video released publicly because it would “be contrary to LAPD policy and may have a chilling effect on future LAPD investigations.” However, U.S. Magistrate Jacqueline Chooljian agreed with an attorney for the producer and his girlfriend that the 11-minute video should be released.

The video footage shows the two being physically detained by officers as they proclaim Austin’s innocence. But it begins with an unusual admission that the officers weren’t sure Austin was the man cited in the domestic violence call.

As their patrol car makes a U-turn after passing Austin, one officer asks the other, “This dude?”

“Probably,” says the partner on the May 24, 2019, recording. The officers were responding to a 911 call made by Austin’s neighbor about her ex-boyfriend, who was white; no description of the suspect is given in the call.

The officers see Austin as he was taking out the trash in front of his Fountain Avenue apartment; he smiles at the officers as they approach. The officers tell him to turn around. He asks why, and the officer snaps back, “Because I told you to.” Austin informs the officer he lives there, and the officer says, “OK, man, I don’t know who I am looking for.”

The officer asks Austin, “What is your problem?” As Austin attempts to turn back toward them, they become physical, grappling with him and placing his arms behind his back. Austin begins to yell “Help” repeatedly.

“You’re looking for the people upstairs,” Austin protests as the officers attempt to handcuff him behind his back.

The video then shows Michlewicz attempting to intervene. She can be heard saying, “What is happening?” while she attempts to hold onto Austin as the officers pull him away from her. At one point, her robe comes off, and she is briefly naked on the street. She is eventually pushed to the ground.

Handcuffed, Austin continues to try to explain to the officers that they have the wrong person. “My rights have been violated,” he says. His girlfriend says, “I just got tackled to the ground.”

Both were arrested.

“It is racial profiling. They had no description of the suspect — a completely blank slate,” said attorney Faisal Gill, who represents both of them in the civil rights lawsuit. “They literally saw the first Black man, and they arrested him.”

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Postby MR25 » Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:51 pm



The serviceman was pulled over because the cops claimed to not see his temporary plates. Apparently, that necessitates drawing guns and pepper spraying the driver.

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Postby Ad@m » Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:41 am

A Boston patrol cop allegedly abused a 12-year-old in 1995. Last year the victim reported that his daughter was abused by the same cop, who kept his badge despite an investigation finding he likely committed the crime.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boston-patro ... 51462.html
The Boston Police Department knew its union leader had previous allegations of sexual assault against a minor before a man and his daughter went to a police station last summer to report she had been molested, the Boston Globe reported.

In 1995, the father had also alleged Patrick M. Rose Sr. assaulted him when he was 12 years old. The police department at the time filed a criminal complaint against Rose and investigated the accusations. They found that it was likely that Rose had committed a crime.

The boy was reportedly pressured to recant his story and the criminal investigation was dropped in 1996, but a police internal affairs investigation continued and found that Rose broke the law.

Additionally, court records showed that after the criminal case was dropped, Rose's abuse of the boy continued and also "escalated," but the department has not said what disciplinary action if any was taken.

Despite this, he was still able to keep his badge and work as a patrolman for 21 more years, and also served as the head of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association from 2014 until he retired in 2018, the Globe reported.

Rose was arrested in August of last year after the daughter's allegations. Since then, five more people have come forward with allegations against him.

Mass Live reported last August that the girl, now 14, alleged she was repeatedly assaulted by Rose between the ages of 7 and 12.

He's now in jail and faces 33 counts of sexual abuse. The six victims range from 7 to 16 years old.

Three of the victims who came forward said Rose assaulted them in the 1990s and another said the assault took place in recent years, Mass Live reported.

"My client maintains his innocence to all of the charges that have been brought against him and he maintains his innocence to what was alleged to have transpired back in 1995," his attorney, William J. Keefe, told the Globe.

The Boston Police Department did not reply to Insider's request for comment at the time of publication.

The Globe learned that despite the known allegations and internal review results, Rose was still allowed contact with children in his role, in some cases being dispatched to assist minors in sexual assault cases.

In 1999 he was sent to help a 14-year-old girl who called police crying, reporting that she'd been raped. He was also the arresting officer in a 2006 child sex assault case.

"What we're describing here is an example of an institutional and systemic failure," former Boston police lieutenant Tom Nolan told the Globe. "The department had a responsibility to ensure that this individual was no longer employed in the ranks of the Boston Police Department."

Rose is currently being held in the Berkshire County Jail on $200,000 cash bail.

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Postby Pavel Bure » Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:14 am



The serviceman was pulled over because the cops claimed to not see his temporary plates. Apparently, that necessitates drawing guns and pepper spraying the driver.
My stomach turned when they issued the keep your hands out of the window and take your seatbelt off commands in the same breath. Thank goodness he had the sense to not take a hand out of view to undo that belt.

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:50 pm

Good thing he was dressed like a stormtrooper and not Vader, amirite?

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Postby Shyster » Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:28 pm

Lawsuit claims excessive force after Loveland police arrest woman with dementia



Confused, 73-year-old Karner Garner, who suffers from sensory aphasia and dementia, forgets to pay before trying to leave a Walmart with $13.88 worth of items. Walmart security stops her and takes the items back. By the time police arrived, Garner had left the store and was walking home. She had left the items back at the store and no crime had been committed, and police were told that no loss had occurred. Garner was walking back home when the Loveland, CO police catch up to her, throw her on the ground, cuff her (dislocating her shoulder and breaking her arm), and take her to jail, where she goes without medical treatment for her injuries more than six hours. If you are a Loveland police officer, I guess frail, elderly women with dementia constitute dangerous threats.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:08 am

I had a cop draw on me in the early 90s because my friends and I were playing Laser Tag. Yeehaw.

Thankfully one of the other officers on scene came up under his pistol immediately and pushed it up over my head. But that was a real wtf moment.

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Postby Shyster » Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:46 pm

Cops Raise $73K for K-9’s Medical Bills And Conveniently Left Out the Fact They Shot Him
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops- ... -shot-him/
Thurston County, WA — “Police K9 – and Tik Tok star – gets lifesaving surgery at OSU after he was shot twice” reads the headline on KATU after a police K-9 officer ‘Arlo’ was shot in the line of duty. Similar headlines ran across other news outlets as the department asked for help paying for Arlo’s surgery bills.

The article reported that “the dog was shot twice while on the job and immediately transported to emergency care. That’s when they realized his injuries were very serious and he needed to be transferred to OSU.”

Several officers with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office were quoted in the article saying how awesome Arlo is, photos were shared, and heart strings pulled all in an attempt to garner support for the K-9 officer who’d been shot in the line of duty.

Q13 Fox reported, “last week during a pursuit, the sheriff’s office said a suspect “exchanged gunfire” with officers, injuring the suspect and K-9 Arlo on scene. Arlo was shot twice, but he has since recovered.”

“Right now a police dog and an armed driver are in the hospital after a police chase and shooting overnight in Thurston County,” KOMO News reported.

Arlo’s story made national headlines and millions of tik tokers viewed videos of his recovery and he received an outpouring of support, raising over $73,000 in a GoFundMe drive. Arlo was even made into stickers and t-shirts with the hashtag #arlostrong.

Nowhere in any of the articles, however, did it state who shot Arlo. As the Intercept reports:

On January 27, the Mason County Sheriff’s Office, which led an investigation into officers’ use of force in the shooting, notified the public that Arlo had been shot by friendly fire. But it wasn’t until weeks later that local outlets like The Olympian, a paper based in Olympia, reported on what had actually happened.

By that point, Arlo’s story had taken on a life of its own. The Thurston County Deputy Sheriff’s Foundation organized a GoFundMe page and raised more than $73,000 for Arlo’s medical bills. Arlo grew his social media following on TikTok to 2.5 million, and on Instagram to 130,000. Arlo’s handler, a deputy with the sheriff’s office, together with another K-9 handler and ex-cop started a website called “VARLO Nation,” a business for law enforcement officers and others to “buy affordable quality equipment.” No such efforts were made to support the recovery of the suspect, who was hospitalized after being shot at least three times by police and later told a nurse he was contemplating suicide. He was released from the hospital in late January and booked into the Thurston County jail.

Naturally, police are claiming that they did not mislead the public to raise the $73,000 and loads of other funds through the sale of stickers and shirts.

“To the best of my knowledge we did not make any statements that the dog was shot by the suspect or was shot by the officers until we were very comfortable,” Jason Dracolby, chief criminal deputy of investigations at Mason County Sheriff’s Office, told The Intercept.

Apparently, “very comfortable” means two months down the road and nearly six figures in income for a dog the cops shot. The deputy also failed to answer questions as to why all the media outlets ran stories — with information given to them by police — that the suspect shot the dog and that there was an “exchange of gunfire” when no gunfire was exchanged at all. What’s more, the deputy didn’t address the fact that Arlo’s own handler took to social media — in a now deleted post — to state that Arlo had been shot by a suspect.

According to the facts of the matter, as properly reported by the Olympian, the only people to fire any rounds off that day were the cops. What’s more, the suspect was brought down by the gunfire before Arlo ever reached him — meaning cops recklessly kept shooting at the man, hitting their dog in the process.

As the Olympian reports, investigators did not find a shell casing from Oritz Bucio’s handgun at the scene and the gun itself did not contain any bullets.

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Postby willeyeam » Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:51 pm

**** them but it's still great Arlo got his care

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Postby Shyster » Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:44 pm

Vacaville, CA, police officer attacks a 17-year-old with autism who is riding his scooter after mistaking him for a suspect.


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Postby Shyster » Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:33 am

DC cop cars totaled after officers drag race in NE, says commander
https://www.q13fox.com/news/dc-cop-cars ... -commander
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Two D.C. police cars were totaled after officers decided to drag race each other, according to an internal email obtained exclusively by FOX 5’s Lindsay Watts.

"Yesterday two 6D scout cars were totaled because officers decided instead of fighting crime, patrolling their beats, or engaging the community – they decided to drag race each other on Anacostia Avenue at 5 pm in the evening," reads the email from 6D Commander Durriyyah Habeebullah.

Sources say the email was sent to command staff following the crash Thursday.

"What does this say to all the members of MPD who are passionate about their job and work hard every day to make a difference. This is not fair to any of us," the email goes on to say.

DC Police would not provide the incident report Sunday because the department only provides traffic reports through FOIA.

Sources tell FOX 5 the officers involved, who are new to the department, started racing each other on Anacostia Ave. NE near Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Garden and reports indicate they were traveling at least 60 mph.

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Postby dodint » Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:58 am

Did you delete and repost that? I know for a fact I read that exact thing here yesterday, I even mentioned it in a group chat, and now the other post is missing. Had a serious Matrix'y deja vu glitch going on this early in the week.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:21 pm

:?: Nope. I didn't post that before.

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Postby Shyster » Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:02 am

The story of the arrest of 73-year-old dementia sufferer Karen Garner gets worse:

US police mock dementia sufferer during arrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56897186
US police officers are seen mocking a 73-year-old dementia sufferer as they watch video of her shoulder going "pop" during her forcible arrest, according to footage released by her lawyer.

Karen Garner was detained on 26 June last year after she walked out of a Walmart in the state of Colorado without paying for $13 of items.

Her elbow was fractured and shoulder dislocated, says her attorney.

An investigation has been launched into the Loveland Police Department arrest.

In the footage released on Monday from the booking area of the police station on the day of the arrest, officers are seen fist-bumping one another as they review body camera video of the incident.

Video from inside Ms Garner's nearby holding cell shows the frail-looking grandmother slumped handcuffed to a bench while the officers joke about the incident, says her lawyer.

"Ready for the pop? Hear the pop?" one of the officers says at one point, referring to Ms Garner's shoulder.

As they continue to watch the footage, the same officer says: "I love it."
These cops should all be fired yesterday. Not only were they joking and laughing about hurting a 73-year-old woman, at the time they were laughing over the video, Garner was still in a cell and hadn't been given any treatment. They knew they'd hurt her and were doing jack about it. This video is absolutely sickening.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:50 am

Sociopaths

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Lolol

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Postby mikey » Thu Apr 29, 2021 10:55 am

Apparently there was another incident yesterday...so I'll put this here because the political thread could use a break.

Re: the last police slaying. I don't know anything about this...or anything, really. But I think it's pretty safe to say that police have no serious interest in policing themselves. It's a profound lack of self-awareness or another union run amok or a mix of those two, but either way, it's asking to be restrained by a higher authority now.

See, in one of the industry sectors that I work in, there is some occasional mild interest in having people with no knowledge (in our industry or otherwise) start making rules about things...let's call them, "Congress".

So, like relatively smart or, perhaps, Machiavellian people that we are, we decided to get ahead of it and police ourselves. We created a trade organization, with organized sub-committees, a standardization of best practices, even an accreditation process. All to show, "hey, we know we're handling a lot of sensitive data and we understand the impact that we can have...so we're gonna hold ourselves accountable so that you don't have to be involved."

So far, so good.

Police, who ought to be held to a higher standard in general, have decided to take the "Who? Us?!?!" pathway...this passive resistance makes it more difficult, but ultimately, they will have invited a bunch of non-cops to police cops, which I know they'll hate...

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Postby Shyster » Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:56 pm



You'll need to sign in to YouTube see it, but this is a longer video of multiple Loveland, CO police officers joking and laughing at their arrest of 73-year-old Karen Garner, during which they dislocated her shoulder and broke her arm. Garner was still shackled in the cell across the hall (with her broken arm behind her back) and could hear them the entire time. The officers come across as excited that they just forcefully arrested an old woman. There's a palpable sense of pride and achievement. Only the female officer shows the slightest bit of remorse, but that is fleeting.

The video also proves that the cops subsequently lied about this event. Not only did the Loveland cops not get Garner any medical treatment for her injuries, they delivered her to the local jail and told the jail she wasn't injured and was fine. But the cops almost gleefully talk about the "pop" they heard from Garner's shoulder, and Garner was also bloodied during the arrest. The subsequent assertion from the Loveland police department that "We had no idea Garner was hurt" was a clear lie.

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Postby nocera » Wed May 05, 2021 9:28 am

More mild than others but still... why??


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Postby count2infinity » Wed May 05, 2021 10:56 am

Because his brain is wired in a way that others pain gives him gratification. What a prick.

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