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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:51 am

Hideous.
Yeah, I'm not big on "eye for an eye" justice, but someone should be allowed to kick that cop like he kicked that poor dog.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:24 pm

A Tucson police officer shot a man in a wheelchair 9 times, killing him. The department is moving to fire him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... -shooting/
On Monday evening, Richard Lee Richards rolled his motorized wheelchair toward the entrance of a Lowe’s in Tucson as a police officer trailed behind with his gun drawn.

Moments earlier, an employee at a Walmart that shares a plaza with Lowe’s had alerted the officer that he saw Richards make off with a toolbox without paying, according to police. The employee and the police officer, Ryan Remington, followed Richards through the parking lot toward Lowe’s. At one point, Richards brandished a knife at the employee, police said.

“Do not go into the store, sir,” Remington yelled as Richards moved toward the Lowe’s entrance and another police officer, Stephanie Taylor, arrived at the scene with her gun drawn, according to body-camera footage of the incident.

Then, seemingly without warning, Remington closed in from behind Richards and fired nine shots at the 61-year-old at close range, the video footage shows.

Richards was struck in the side and back, police said, and was later pronounced dead.

On Tuesday, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus told reporters that the department had “moved” to terminate Remington. He added that the Pima County Attorney’s Office is reviewing the incident.


Richard Lee Richards, 61, was paraplegic and in a motorized wheelchair. An off-duty cop working security at a Walmart claims that Richards shoplifted a toolbox. The cops also claimed that Richards "brandished a knife" even though no knife is seen in any of the video. When Richards (who had left Walmart and crossed the parking lot to a Lowe's) was about to enter that building, Tuscon cop Ryan Remington dumped nine rounds into his back, killing him. Even assuming that Richards did have a knife, have we reached the point where a cop thinks that the only way one can neutralize a 61-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair is to shoot him nine times in the back? Apparently we have, because that's what the cop here did.

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Postby Shyster » Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:34 am

What happened to Stephen Lara was literally an act of highway robbery. Armed men waylaid his car and seized his life savings. For anyone else, the perpetrators would be criminals who would be headed to jail for years. But because they were wearing shiny badges, their actions were legal.

It is absolutely sicking and insane that we allow cops to literally rob people on the side of the highway.


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Postby skullman80 » Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:58 am

What happened to Stephen Lara was literally an act of highway robbery. Armed men waylaid his car and seized his life savings. For anyone else, the perpetrators would be criminals who would be headed to jail for years. But because they were wearing shiny badges, their actions were legal.

It is absolutely sicking and insane that we allow cops to literally rob people on the side of the highway.

He did everything right...respectful, had receipts... none of it mattered one iota. Sickening.

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Postby Troy Loney » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:07 am

Absolute psychopath.


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Postby Shyster » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:17 am

Duquesne Police Chief Thomas Dunlevy Charged With Witness Intimidation Related To Alleged Sexual Assault Case
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/du ... ar-AARCzHD
DUQUESNE, Pa. (KDKA) — The Duquesne police chief has been charged with witness intimidation related to a case of alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

Chief Thomas Dunlevy turned himself in to authorities on Wednesday after being charged with intimidation of witnesses or victims, intimidation, retaliation or obstruction in child abuse cases, obstructing the administration of law or other governmental function and official oppression, the Allegheny County Police Department said.

County police said Bethel Park police responded to a report of a statutory sexual assault involving 20-year-old Nathan Beck, who is accused of engaging in sexual acts with the teen girl inside a Bethel Park home.

County police said the assault was reported by the victim’s father, who is a witness in the case. Beck was a volunteer firefighter in Duquesne and a friend of Dunlevy, authorities said.

On Oct. 19, according to the criminal complaint, the victim’s dad told police that Dunlevy showed up at his job with a manilla folder, saying he had potential evidence that Beck could use in the trial. Dunlevy alleged the man provided alcohol to his underage daughter and Beck, and that he could lose custody of his children, getting child protective services involved if the case went to trial.

Court paperwork shows the victim’s dad told police that Dunlevy said he was there on behalf of Beck and claimed he and his daughter’s mother “enabled” Beck’s relationship with the girl.

Three days later, Bethel Park police asked county police to help investigate, and an arrest warrant was issued for Dunley on Wednesday.

No one from the police or fire department would talk to KDKA on Wednesday. Duquesne’s mayor referred KDKA to Mayor-elect Scott Adams.

“A lieutenant was put in charge of the department for the next 30 days. Come Jan. 3, that will be my decision who is running the department,” Adams said.

So a 20-year-old "friend" of the Duquesne police chief is having sex with a 15-year-old girl (that's a felony in PA), and the chief decides to approach the girl's father and threaten them to shut up.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:19 am

Former Montana police chief pleads guilty to distributing child porn on social media
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
A former police chief in Montana is facing up to 20 years in prison for sharing child pornography through social media.

William Harrington, who served more than 12 years with the East Helena Police Department, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to distributing sexually illicit images starting in 2019, the same year he was promoted to chief.

The FBI launched an investigation into Harrington in September 2020 after an FBI agent received a tip from Facebook, alleging his account shared a graphic photo of a girl who was about 10 years old. Further probing revealed the ex-chief shared several images of pornography with another Facebook account, later determined to belong to his girlfriend, between November 2019 and August 2020.

More than a dozen of the images appeared to feature minors in their early teens, according to court records.

Investigators also found additional photos on Harrington’s cellphone.

Harrington was placed on leave in February after the city learned of a sexual assault allegation against him, and he resigned a month later.

District Judge Brian Morris released Harrington on Tuesday pending sentencing, which is slated for April 13. He faces anywhere between five and 20 years behind bars as well as a $250,000 fine and a lifetime of supervised release.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:26 am

FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police participation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-la ... ting-data/
In an attempt to create a definitive database on how often police officers use force on citizens, the FBI launched the National Use-of-Force Data Collection program in 2019, imploring police departments to submit details on every incident, not just fatal shootings. But the failure of police and federal agencies to send their data to the FBI puts the program in jeopardy of being shut down next year without ever releasing a single statistic, a new report by the Government Accountability Office says.

The program was required to obtain data representing 60 percent of law enforcement officers, to meet a standard of quality set by the Office of Management and Budget, or else stop the effort by the end of 2022. In 2019, the data covered 44 percent of local, state, federal and tribal officers, and last year the total increased to 55 percent, according to the program’s website. So far this year, the data represents 57 percent of all officers, the FBI said Wednesday.

“Due to insufficient participation from law enforcement agencies,” the GAO wrote, “the FBI faces risks that it may not meet the participation thresholds” established by OMB, “and therefore may never publish use of force incident data.”

The Justice Department said in its response to the report that “the FBI believes the agreed upon thresholds will be met to allow the data collection to continue, and is taking steps to increase participation in data collection efforts.” The response by Assistant Attorney General Lee J. Lofthus also said that Justice “sent a letter to federal law enforcement agencies encouraging their participation.”

On Wednesday, the FBI said in an emailed response to questions that “each day is a new snapshot in time,” and that as of Oct. 18, the data represented 54 percent of officers. But by Wednesday, the “participation rates are at 57.15 percent for 2021,” the FBI said.

“I’d be surprised if they didn’t make 60 percent,” said Bill Brooks, chief of the Norwood, Mass., police and a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police board of directors. He said a key problem is that many agencies that have no force incidents are failing to input “zero reports” each month, so the agency is counted as not participating. The IACP has long supported the data collection, and low participation numbers “make us look like we’re hiding something, when in reality I don’t think that’s the case.”

As of Sept. 30, 81 percent of federal officers were represented in the data, even though only 43 of 114 federal agencies, or about 38 percent, had participated by then, according to the FBI’s website. Two of the largest federal agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have been sending in data this year but the Justice Department’s largest agency, the Bureau of Prisons, had not.

The GAO report also says the Justice Department has largely ignored a requirement included in the 1994 crime bill to “acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers” and “shall publish an annual summary of the data acquired.” No such summary has been published in at least the past five years, the GAO found. Justice Department officials suggested to the GAO that the national use-of-force program could provide that data, but the program does not differentiate between incidents involving reasonable force and those involving excessive force.

Color me totally shocked—shocked!—to learn that both state and federal cops don't want the public to know just how often they shoot, beat, tase, pepper-spray, or otherwise use force against the citizens of this country.

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Postby Ad@m » Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:27 am

Los Angeles police fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was inside a clothing store dressing room Thursday as they fired at a suspect who had assaulted a woman earlier, authorities said.

Police also killed the male suspect, authorities said. He and the girl have not been named. The woman who had been assaulted was taken to the hospital with moderate to serious injuries.

The shots were fired around 11:45 a.m. at a Burlington store — part of a chain formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory — in the North Hollywood area of the San Fernando Valley.

Police initially responded to reports of a person being assaulted with a deadly weapon as well as reports of shots being fired, said Los Angeles police Capt. Stacy Spell at a news conference. Spell said officers opened fire when they saw the suspect assaulting another person.

The suspect was struck by the officers’ bullets and killed, Spell said.

One of the bullets went through a dressing room wall and struck the 14-year-old girl, according to LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi. Officers later found her inside.

“You can’t see into the dressing rooms and it just looks like a straight wall of drywall,” Choi said at a second news conference.

Investigators do not yet know whether the teenager was in the dressing room before the violence began or ran in there to hide, he said.

Choi said authorities do not yet know the man’s motive or whether he knew the woman he initially assaulted in the store.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Nicholas Prange said that woman had moderate to serious injuries and was transported to a hospital. It wasn’t immediately known if she’d been shot but Choi said she had injuries to her head, arms and face.

Police found a heavy metal cable lock near the suspect that they say may have been used in that assault.

Spell said the injured woman was the victim in the first assault report. It was not immediately clear what weapon was involved in that assault.

He added that police had received calls about the suspect acting erratically before the incident.

Imelda Garcia said her sister works in the store and was on break when she heard gunshots and everyone started running. Garcia said she spoke to her sister on the phone and that she’s OK but sounded “really nervous.”

Police escorted people out of the store nearly two hours after the shooting.

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Postby dodint » Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:05 am

Going by those facts it sounds like police coming in hot after another exaggerating 911 caller or dispatcher. Tough to have 'shots fired' from a bike lock.

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Postby Shyster » Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:41 am

Torrance [CA] police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... s-of-cases
The caption read “hanging with the homies.”

The picture above it showed several Black men who had been lynched.

Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having an affair with a Black man. The answer, according to the caption, was to break “a tail light on his car so the police will stop him and shoot him.”

Someone else sent a picture of a candy cane, a Christmas tree ornament, a star for the top of the tree and an “enslaved person.”

“Which one doesn’t belong?” the caption asked.

“You don’t hang the star,” someone wrote back.

The comments represent a sliver of a trove of racist text messages exchanged by more than a dozen current and former Torrance police officers and recruits.

Through interviews with sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, public records requests and a review of district attorney’s office records, The Times examined some of the contents of the until-now secret texts and identified a dozen Torrance police officers under investigation for exchanging them.

The broad scope of the racist text conversations, which prosecutors said went on for years, has created a crisis for the Torrance Police Department and could jeopardize hundreds of criminal cases in which the officers either testified or made arrests. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Wednesday his office will investigate the department in the wake of the scandal.

The officers’ comments spared no color or creed: They joked about “gassing” Jewish people, assaulting members of the LGBTQ community, using violence against suspects and lying during an investigation into a police shooting, according to district attorney’s office records reviewed by The Times.

Frequently, hateful comments were targeted at Black people. Officers called Black men “savages,”and several variations of the N-word, according to documents reviewed by The Times. The officers also shared instructions on how to tie a noose and a picture of a stuffed animal being lynched inside Torrance’s police headquarters, according to the documents.

While no officers currently face criminal charges in direct relation to the text messages, the racist exchanges have led to the dismissal of at least 85 criminal cases involving the officers implicated in the scandal. County prosecutors had tossed 35 felony cases as of mid-November, and the Torrance city attorney’s office has dismissed an additional 50, officials said.

In total, the officers were listed as potential witnesses in nearly 1,400 cases in the last decade, according to district attorney’s records The Times obtained through a public records request. The officers did not necessarily testify in each case, so it’s unclear how many of those cases could be affected.

Still, in the span of one week in November, the Los Angeles County public defender’s office received about 300 letters from prosecutors disclosing potential misconduct by officers implicated in the scandal, said Judith Green, an office spokeswoman.

. . .

The most controversial incident involving officers linked to the racist text scandal is the 2018 shooting death of Christopher DeAndre Mitchell. The incident sparked significant protests — including one inside Torrance’s City Council chambers that led demonstrators to file excessive-force lawsuits against several of the officers The Times identified in this article — and remains under review by Gascón.

Mitchell, who was Black, was suspected of driving a stolen vehicle when he pulled into a Ralphs parking lot in Torrance in December 2018, according to a district attorney’s office memo clearing the officers of wrongdoing. Concannon and Chavez pulled in behind him, exited their vehicle and yelled “police!” Mitchell initially placed his hands on the steering wheel, according to the memo, but when the officers approached him, they noticed his hands move toward his lap where Concannon saw what he believed to be a firearm.

The officers repeatedly ordered Mitchell to get out of the car, but he did not comply, according to the report. The officers described the weapon, later determined to be a “break barrel air rifle,” as “pinched” between Mitchell’s legs, though neither alleged he grabbed it or pointed it at them before they opened fire.

Lacey cleared the officers of wrongdoing in all three deaths, but Gascón has reopened the investigation into Mitchell’s killing . He declined to offer a timetable on that review and would not say whether the officers involvement in the text scandal would affect that probe.

Katz said the text messages call into question the credibility of the officers’ accounts of any past use-of-force incidents involving Black or Latino suspects.

In the Mitchell case, that could be especially concerning. According to district attorney’s records reviewed by The Times, Concannon once sent a troubling text message referring to a deposition he gave in an “officer-involved shooting.”

“They believed our lies. Good job sticking to the script,” he wrote. “LMAO, that’s what they call a W.”

According to a Times review of public records, Concannon has shot only one person during his career: Christopher DeAndre Mitchell.

So dozens of Torrance, CA, police have been caught exchanging racist texts in which they also appear to be discussing lying about cases (remember, cops lie so often in court, on reports, and in sworn statements there is a specific term for it: testilying). And—surprise, surprise—when one reads the full article, most of the same cops have long histories of complaints and misconduct. Yet:
From 2016 to 2019, Torrance police upheld just three citizen allegations of police misconduct and zero allegations of racial profiling made against officers, according to data submitted to the California attorney general’s office. Katz, the former independent police auditor, described those statistics as “concerningly low.”

Remember, there is nothing more important to the vast majority of cops than toeing the "Thin Blue Line" and upholding the Blue Wall of Silence. Does anyone think that the other cops in the Torrance police department didn't know the true nature who they were working with? They sure as hell did, and they looked away and said nothing.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:07 pm

Remember that back in the Before 5AF days when Christopher Dorner was on the lam from LAPD, Torrance cops rammed the pickup of a random guy because his pickup truck 'matched the description' of Dorner's vehicle, and they discharged an unconfirmed number of shots hitting the truck 9 times.

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Guy driving truck that 'matched the description' of Dorner's
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This was the same manhunt that resulted in LAPD officers firing, again, an undisclosed number of rounds on a truck entering the neighborhood of a protectee's home with its lights off. It was driven and occupied by two female newspaper delivery women who used that truck every day to deliver the Times and kept their lights off so as to not wake the residents. The truck was hit by 109 rounds, and an unknown number of rounds went errant and struck neighboring houses, include the house of the protectee.

In both instances, the trucks were each different makes and models, and different colors to Dorner's.

No charges were filed against any of the officers involved.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Jan 03, 2022 8:34 pm

DC Police Tried to Fire 24 Current Officers for ‘Criminal Offenses.’ A Powerful Panel Blocked Nearly Every One, Documents Show.
https://revealnews.org/article/dc-polic ... -offenses/

Early in 2021, the Washington DC police department was the victim of one of those scumbag ransomware computer attacks. But in this case the scumbags actually did something positive: they handed over the department's data to an independent journalist group. And that data reveals that nearly all of the time, a panel called the "Adverse Action Panel," which comprises a three high-ranking DC cops, overruled the department’s decision to fire dozens of police officers accused of serious crimes.
Internal records show that MPD’s Disciplinary Review Division sought to terminate at least 24 officers currently on the force for criminal misconduct from 2009 to 2019. In all but three of those cases, the records show, the Adverse Action Panel blocked the termination and instead issued much lighter punishment – an average of a 29-day suspension without pay. These officers amassed disciplinary records for domestic violence, DUIs, indecent exposure, sexual solicitation, stalking and more. In several instances, they fled the scenes of their crimes.

The disciplinary files, obtained by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and WAMU/DCist, provide a rare glimpse into how police officers avoid accountability and remain on the force, even after the department’s own internal affairs investigators have determined they committed crimes. The records have never before been made public.

They show:

- The department’s internal investigators concluded that at least 64 people who currently serve as MPD officers committed criminal misconduct.
- The department sought to terminate 24 of those officers. In 21 of the 24 cases, the Adverse Action Panel reduced their sentence to a suspension or acquittal.
- The department did not seek to terminate the other 40 officers, more than half of whom the Internal Affairs Division believed had been driving either drunk or recklessly. Other criminal conduct the department did not try to fire current officers for included recklessly handling a firearm, harassment, property damage, stalking and theft.

We know that cops commit domestic violence at a rate much higher than the general population, and this data confirms that. Cops who committed brutal assaults against their partners kept their jobs:
Of the 24 criminal misconduct cases, the department believed that at least seven officers had committed domestic assault. All of them stayed on the force, six as a result of the panel’s decision. For instance, in November 2015, a pastor brought a woman to a crisis center to report that she had been repeatedly assaulted by her husband, a current police officer named Bai Bangura, according to the disciplinary files. “I know that he is going to try to kill me if I cause problems at his work,” she wrote in a note at the bottom of paperwork filed at the crisis center. In spite of statements from an internal affairs agent who testified that, based on her years of experience working domestic cases, she believed the victim to be caught up in a cycle of abuse, the panel unanimously agreed to override the department’s attempt to fire the officer. Instead, Bangura was suspended for 10 days and is still an officer with MPD.

Other personnel files show that an internal investigation concluded that Officer Steven Ferris was arrested for simple assault in 2012 after Internal Affairs reported he confessed that he punched his wife so hard that he fractured a bone around her eye socket. Another officer, Jonathan Goodman, allegedly hit two women at a restaurant in 2010; when one of them said she was calling the cops, he pulled out his badge and replied, “dodint, I am the police,” according to the files.

Officer DeVon Goldring allegedly ran over the mother of his child with his white Chevy Tahoe in 2009, according to the files. A hospital report describes black streaks on the inner part of the left side of her foot, ankle and calf: tire marks, an officer on the scene concluded. The department wanted to fire him, but a panel offered him a 21-day suspension instead.

All of these cops were protected by the department's "Adverse Action Panel":
When the department learns of an officer’s potential criminal misconduct, investigators with MPD’s Internal Affairs Division procure court records, conduct interviews and gather scores of pages of documentary evidence. Under department policy, if internal investigators find that an officer has likely committed a crime, whether or not they’ve been convicted in a court of law, the Disciplinary Review Division has the authority to recommend that they be removed from the force. Facing dismissal, accused officers may formally appeal their terminations to the Adverse Action Panel, a rotating three-person board made up of other officers typically holding the rank of captain or higher.

D.C. isn’t alone. Many law enforcement agencies have some version of this system, typically known as trial boards. Because the records are usually secret, it’s difficult to compare D.C.’s system to the inner workings of other departments. For MPD, these hearings are trial-like, administrative proceedings in which officers, usually represented by their lawyer, plead their case to the panel.

At the end of the hearing, the panel decides whether to reject the appeal or issue its own judgment and disciplinary recommendations. A panel’s decision not to fire an officer leaves the police chief with few options. The chief can send the case back to another panel but cannot dole out any punishment more severe than what the panel recommends.

This appears to be somewhat atypical for many of the nation’s largest police departments. For example, in New York, the head of the department, by law, makes the final disciplinary determination and penalty finding, regardless of the outcome of a departmental hearing. The same is true in Houston, Dallas, Phoenix and other departments around the country.

Mike Gottert, who served as the director of MPD’s Disciplinary Review Division from 2016 to late 2019, said he and many within the department’s management were frustrated by how infrequently officers ended up being fired after a panel hearing. “Obviously, when we recommend people to be terminated, we think they should be terminated,” he said. “We’d go through this whole process, and the panel would say no for whatever reason.”

Gee, I wonder why a panel made up of three cops doesn't want to fire other cops working for that very same police department? It's almost as if the police have some sort of unofficial thing where they all stick together no matter what they do? [/sarcasm]

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Postby Ad@m » Tue Jan 11, 2022 10:10 am

Documents detail alleged fight that led to off-duty state trooper's arrest in Cambria Co.
State police say the arrest of an off-duty trooper on aggravated assault charges over the weekend started with a fight between the trooper and another man over a woman.

According to a criminal complaint, 34-year-old Scott Myers is facing charges related to felony aggravated assault, as well as simple assault and making terroristic threats.

State police say they were called to Conemaugh Miners Medical Center early Saturday morning for an injured man who’d been physically assaulted.


The man told troopers that he had some friends, including Myers, over Friday night and they were all consuming alcohol at his Summerhill Township home, the complaint says.

According to the criminal complaint, Myers and the man began fighting over a woman at which point Myers began punching the man in the face until he fell unconscious.

As Myers walked away toward his vehicle, he said, “if you report this, I will come back and burn your house down,” the complaint says.

State police say the man who was injured told them he had a fracture to the right side of his face and was being referred to a plastic surgeon for possible surgery.

Myers was arraigned Saturday afternoon and his bail was set at $30,000 unsecured, authorities say.

PSP Troop A in Greensburg is investigating the incident and Myers has been suspended without pay.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:34 pm


The early Pokémon Go frenzy apparently led to poor choices from two police officers. As Axios' Stephen Totilo and BBC News report, the LAPD is now known to have fired officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell for ignoring a robbery on April 15th, 2017 to play Niantic's augmented reality blockbuster. Rather than respond to a radio call demanding backup for a theft at Macy's in the Crenshaw Mall, the policemen reportedly spent the next 20 minutes driving around to catch a Snorlax (an uncommon find in the game) and a Togetic.

Lozano and Mitchell denied playing Pokémon Go and insisted they were only "having a conversation" about the game, but the in-car camera revealed they discussed the robbery call and chose to ignore it. Another officer also witnessed the cruiser leave the area after the call. The details came to light when the ex-cops lost an appeal that would have tossed out the damning footage over alleged rights violations.

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Postby Shyster » Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:24 am

A home surveillance camera captured a Miami-Dade police officer discharging his weapon six times on a dog, killing him while responding to a call. It happened in Miami Gardens on January 12, at around 7 p.m.


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Postby Shyster » Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:34 am

Moment Florida cop grabs female officer by the throat and shoves her into patrol car after she tried to pull him off a suspect
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... leave.html
A police sergeant in Florida has been demoted to desk work after he was seen on video grabbing a fellow officer by her throat.

Authorities in Sunrise, Florida shared body camera footage of an incident that took place November 19.

Everyone in the video had their face blurred except for Sergeant Christopher Pullease, 46, a 21-year veteran of the force.

Sunrise police were detaining a suspect who was 'verbally and physically resistive' when Pullease came on the scene and got aggressive, Chief Anthony Rosa said in a statement.

Pullease then got into a verbal altercation with the suspect, who was already sitting inside a police car.

Body camera footage shows Pullease ducking his head inside the car to talk to the suspect while holding a can of pepper spray.

Rosa said that Pullease was 'inappropriate and unprofessional' in the situation and added that he 'unnecessarily elevated the demeanor of the suspect.'

A fellow officer - who has not been identified but has been on the force two and a half years - ran toward Pullease and pulled him by the back of his duty belt.

Video shows Pullease turn around while backpedaling as he was pulled, then momentarily putting his hand at the other officer's throat and pushing her backward until she hits a nearby police car. Pullease then walks away.

According to Rosa, the second officer was following Sunrise police's own policies and procedures for a situation where there's 'imminent fear of engagements escalating' between officers and suspects.

. . .

Pullease has been taken off his supervisory duties since the incident. Internal affairs is investigating, with Rosa calling his behavior 'disgusting.'

He has no contact or supervision over subordinate personnel, according to Rosa.

'I am very proud of the officer involved in this incident and believe that the actions taken were definitive and demonstrative of good leadership during a tense situation,' Rosa said.

He noted that Sunrise officers are told to 'de-escalate emotionally charged situations' and intervene if one of their own appears to lose control or display inappropriate conduct in interacting with the public.

So a sergeant who is escalating an arrest and is about to pepper-spray a handcuffed suspect who is already in the back of a police car is pulled away by a female officer, who then gets a choke-shove to the throat for her efforts (in sumo that move is called a nodowa (喉輪)). Note that there are multiple other cops standing around, and none of them do anything either to stop the sergeant's initial escalation or his attack on the female officer. Chief Rosa seems to be saying the right things, calling the sergeant's behavior "disgusting" and lauding the female officer, but then here comes the bullcrap:
In an interview with local TV station, Rosa was asked why Pullease hasn't already been charged in the three months since the incident, with a reporter pointing out that any civilian who put their hands on an officer's throat would face charges.

'So there's some details of the investigation that I've not disclosed, that I'm unable to disclose right now, and if any of the information that comes up during the investigation rises to a level of criminal behavior or criminal conduct, then we'll address it appropriately,' Rosa responded.

This happened three months ago (the body-cam footage was just released now), it's on video from multiple angles and multiple body cams, and no charges have been filed. Under Florida law, the crime of battery, which is defined as when one "Actually and intentionally touches or strikes another person against the will of the other," is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in jail when done against a police officer. Does anyone think that if a non-cop had choke-shoved a police officer, that person would not be facing any charges three months later?


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Postby Shyster » Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:10 am


US prosecutors have charged three policemen with an eight-year-old girl's death, dropping a murder case against two teenagers who were initially held.

The officers opened fire on a vehicle outside a high school football game near Philadelphia on 27 August 2021 after hearing gunshots a block away.

The police thought armed suspects were in the car, but it was Fanta Bility.

Prosecutors had argued the tragedy was caused by two teens who fired at each other nearby moments beforehand.

The district attorney filed first-degree murder charges against the two young men in November.

Prosecutors said the pair - aged 16 and 18 - had "initiated the deadly events" and therefore bore responsibility for Fanta's death.

Those charges have now been withdrawn.

Instead, Sharon Hill police officers Devon Smith, Sean Patrick Dolan, and Brian James Devaney are facing charges of voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the officers had been monitoring the crowd when they heard the gunfire about 140ft (42m) away and turned to see a car heading towards them.

The policemen fired 25 bullets, striking four people including Fanta and her 12-year old sister. The girl died in her mother's arms.

"We are now sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers not only shot but killed Fanta Bility, but they also wounded three other young people," Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer told CBS News.

"They returned fire at the wrong target, in the wrong direction, and into a group of people. That is what they are being held accountable for," he continued.

Mr Stollsteimer said his office had been aware since September that the fatal bullets were fired by officers.

Police officers at a high-school football game near Philly hear shots. So they turn in the wrong direction and pump 25 rounds into a car that had nothing to do with the shots, wounding four people, including 8-year-old Fanta and her 12-year old sister. Fanta Bility died in her mother's arms, and three other people were hurt, because three cops didn't bother to verify their target and didn't ensure that they were not shooting into a crowd.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:34 pm

More on Brookside, Alabama.


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Postby Shyster » Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:51 pm


Because the continued federal prohibition of marijuana makes banks and payment processors leery of serving state-licensed cannabis suppliers, many of those businesses rely heavily on cash, which exposes them to a heightened risk of robbery. As a new federal lawsuit shows, that danger is not limited to garden-variety criminals. It includes cops who use federal civil forfeiture laws to steal money earned by state-legal marijuana businesses.

Five times since last May, sheriff's deputies in Kansas and California have stopped armored cars operated by Empyreal Logistics, a Pennsylvania-based company that serves marijuana businesses and financial institutions that work with them. The cops made off with cash after three of those stops, seizing a total of $1.2 million, but did not issue any citations or file any criminal charges, which are not necessary to confiscate property through civil forfeiture. That process allows police to pad their budgets by seizing assets they allege are connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is never charged, let alone convicted.

Empyreal, which is represented by the Institute for Justice, argues that the seizure of its clients' money violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. In a complaint it filed last Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Empyreal says it is "entitled to protection from highway robberies, regardless of whether they are conducted by criminals or by the Sheriff and federal law-enforcement agencies acting under color of law."

On May 17, Dickinson County Sheriff's Deputy Kalen Robinson pulled over one of Empyreal's vans on Interstate 70 in Kansas, ostensibly because the Colorado tag number was partially obstructed by the license plate frame. Robinson grilled the driver, who explained that she planned to pick up cash from licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Kansas City, Missouri, the next day, then take it to a credit union in Colorado, which would entail traveling through Kansas again on the same highway. Robinson let the driver proceed on her way without issuing a citation, but the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) kept an eye on the van the following morning as it visited the Missouri dispensaries.

Later that day, Robinson stopped the van again as it traveled west on Interstate 70, seizing more than $165,000 in cash from its vault. In September, the Justice Department filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to keep the money. If the government prevails, the Dickinson County Sheriff's Department will get up to 80 percent of the loot under the Justice Department's "equitable sharing" program.

In the affidavit supporting the federal forfeiture complaint, DEA Special Agent Bryson Wheeler noted that "marijuana is a controlled substance and illegal under both federal and Kansas state law." But Empyreal argues that the DEA's participation in this scheme ran afoul of the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment, a spending rider that bars the Justice Department (which includes the DEA and the FBI) from using any of its funds to interfere with the implementation of state laws authorizing the medical use of marijuana. Because the DEA violated that restriction, the company says, it also violated the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. And because the seizure was motivated by the prospect of financial gain, the lawsuit says, it violated the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process.

The stops and seizures in California raise additional legal issues, because that state, unlike Kansas, allows the sale of marijuana for medical or recreational use. It also explicitly protects companies like Empyreal from harassment by local or state law enforcement agencies. A 2020 law says a business that "transports cash or financial instruments, or provides other financial services does not commit a crime under any California law…solely by virtue of the fact that the person receiving the benefit of any of those services engages in commercial cannabis activity as a licensee pursuant to this division." Despite that law, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies stopped Empyreal vans three times in November, December, and January, seizing more than $1 million.

On November 16, Sheriff's Deputy Jonathan Franco pulled over one of the company's vehicles, supposedly because it was following a tractor-trailer truck too closely. Like Robinson, Franco did not issue any citations. But after the driver told him the van was carrying cash, the lawsuit says, Franco "asked many questions about the nature of Empyreal's business." Even though it should have been clear that Empyreal was not violating any state laws, the cops seized about $700,000. The sheriff's office later told the company's lawyer the money "was transferred to the FBI for civil forfeiture."

On December 9, Empyreal says, the same deputies pulled over the same vehicle, driven by the same employee, ostensibly because he "slightly exceeded the speed limit and prematurely activated his turn signal." But once again, no citation was issued. According to the lawsuit, "the driver's operation of the Empyreal vehicle was completely lawful." The company says "the deputies had planned the stop in advance and would have pulled over the driver and the Empyreal vehicle regardless of how carefully or lawfully it was driven."

The deputies claimed a drug-sniffing dog alerted to the van, which Empyreal says also is not true: "Video footage from the vehicle does not show the dog alert on the vehicle. Instead, it shows the dog is barely interested in the vehicle."

This time the cops seized about $350,000. The deputies, who were audibly excited about the $700,000 haul, were somewhat disappointed by the relatively small size of the second seizure. Based on an audio recording by the van's security system, the lawsuit describes this exchange: "One of the deputies said, 'That's it?' and chuckled. He then said: 'You set the bar too high.' When another deputy remarked that he thought they'd get 'a million or two,' the [first] deputy responded, 'At least we got over a million'"—apparently referring to the combined take from the two seizures. The FBI later told Empyreal's lawyer it had also taken possession of the money seized on December 9, pending federal forfeiture proceedings.

From San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus' perspective, involving the feds has clear advantages. Money earned by state-legal marijuana businesses is not subject to forfeiture under California law. Even if it were, law enforcement agencies would be entitled to just 65 percent of the proceeds, compared to as much as 80 percent under federal law. And for cash forfeitures involving $40,000 or more, California requires "clear and convincing evidence," while federal law says "a preponderance of the evidence" is good enough.

Recognizing the allure of those terms, California legislators have prohibited federal "adoption" of seizures initiated by state or local law enforcement agencies. But that restriction does not cover seizures by anti-drug task forces that include federal as well as local agencies. Empyreal suspects the California stops involved such a task force: the Inland Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team.

Federal participation still implicates the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment. Empyreal says three of the four businesses whose money it was transporting on November 16 had medical marijuana licenses, while all of the money seized on December 9 came from businesses with such licenses. The company also argues that Dicus, one of the defendants named in the lawsuit, exceeded his own authority by allowing or instructing his deputies to stop, search, and rob the company's vans without any evidence of state crimes.

The third California stop sheds some light on that strategy. On January 6, the lawsuit says, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies stopped an Empyreal driver who was "picking up an order of rolled coin boxes from Empyreal's vendor, which happens to be located in San Bernardino County, in order to replenish its rolled coin supply." After the deputies realized that the coins had nothing to do with cannabis, they decided not to seize them. "When the Empyreal driver asked a deputy why Empyreal vehicles were being stopped so frequently," the company says, "the deputy told him it was 'political' but declined to elaborate."

Whether that response alluded to Dicus' own motivation or a federal agenda, it certainly does not sound like a reason that would pass muster under the Fourth Amendment. Empyreal argues that "pretextual traffic stops" aimed at supplementing police budgets rather than enforcing state law cannot qualify as "reasonable."

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"What is happening to Empyreal potently illustrates why we call civil forfeiture 'policing for profit,'" says Institute for Justice attorney Kirby Thomas West. "Law enforcement is trying to take more than a million dollars without charging anyone with a crime. That is absurd and deeply unconstitutional. It is yet another reason why lawmakers need to eliminate civil forfeiture altogether."

Police in Kansas and California are literally stopping and robbing armored cars in order to pad their own budgets.

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Cops are liars

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Postby tifosi77 » Mon Jan 24, 2022 7:57 pm

Police in Kansas and California are literally stopping and robbing armored cars in order to pad their own budgets.
It's the literal definition of racketeering.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:10 pm

Black man sues police after he was jailed for 6 days when officers mistook him for an older white male with the same name
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Black man was not even alive when the white man police misidentified him as was first convicted of a crime.

Shane Lee Brown, 25, spent six days in two separate jails on a warrant involving a middle-aged man in a case of mistaken identity, a lawsuit filed in federal court claims.

Henderson police pulled over Shane Lee Brown, 25, on Jan. 8, 2020, the lawsuit said. Brown, who is Black, did not have his identification but provided police his name, Social Security number and Social Security card, the lawsuit said.

While performing a records check for “Shane Brown,” a felony warrant for a different Shane Brown appeared, the lawsuit said. The bench warrant for Shane Neal Brown, then-49 years old, was for a charge of ownership or possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

Shane Neal Brown is an older white man with brown hair, blue eyes and a beard. He was first convicted of a felony in 1994, the lawsuit said, indicating there were likely prior booking photos available.

Documents obtained by the I-Team show two booking photos of Shane Neal Brown in the system from 2019.

Court documents indicate Shane Neal Brown was arrested and booked on the gun charge in January 2019. He failed to appear at a court hearing in November 2019 and a judge issued a bench warrant ordering no bail if he was found.

Henderson police arrested Shane Lee Brown on the active warrant for Shane Neal Brown.

Shane Lee Brown was first detained in the Henderson jail for two days and then taken to the Clark County Detention Center, the lawsuit said.

“During his unlawful detention, Shane Lee Brown repeatedly explained to numerous unknown Henderson police officers and supervisors that he was not the 49-year-old white ‘Shane Brown’ who was the subject of the felony warrant,” the lawsuit said.

While being booked into the Clark County Detention Center, staff gave Shane Lee Brown a standard custody record identification number, noting his birthday, race and other identifying factors, the lawsuit said.

On Jan. 10, 2020, a member of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department filed paperwork with the court, indicating officers had Shane Neal Brown in custody, though in reality, it was Shane Lee Brown.

“At CCDC, Shane Lee Brown once again explained to numerous unknown LVMPD officers and supervisors that he was not the ‘Shane Brown’ named on the felony bench warrant,” the lawsuit said. “Despite being informed of this mistaken identity, none of the unknown LVMPD police or LVMPD corrections officers bothered to review its own records to determine whether Shane Lee Brown was the subject of the warrant.”

Prior booking photos are available in the custody record system.

“Had any of the LVMPD police or corrections officers performed any due diligence, such as comparing Shane Lee Brown’s booking photo against the existing mug shot belonging to the world, white ‘Shane Brown’ named in the warrant, they would have easily determined that Shane Lee Brown has been misidentified as the subject of the warrant,” the lawsuit said.

Shane Lee Brown remained in jail until Jan. 14, when, during a bench warrant return hearing, a public defender told the court the wrong person was in custody.

The public defender compared Shane Lee Brown’s booking photo to Shane Neal Brown’s photo, the lawsuit and court records said.

“[The public defender] advised that the incorrect individual had been arrested on the bench warrant in the instant case, which parties confirmed by comparing the defendant’s mug shot with the mug shot of the individual arrested on the instant bench warrant,” the court record for the hearing said.

“Additionally, [the public defender] indicated that the defendant was a 49-year-old white male and the individual who was arrested on the bench warrant was a 23-year-old African American male,” the entry said.

Judge Joe Hardy ordered Shane Lee Brown to be released immediately.

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Postby dodint » Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:25 pm

Same thing happened to a Leonardo Silva Oliveiras recently. The false arrest was his first interaction with police. He spent 5 days in what is effectively solitary.

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