Your Helpful Police

[JackLuis]

Maybe all you good folks should ride with the bad guys some night on the south and west sides of Chicago amount the poor picked on nice black boys and girls.

Stockton CA is not even close to the shit hole of South Chicago, there are hardly even that many black folks there.

BUt here is a case of folks helping the police in Boston. THey shamed him into holstering his weapon after trying to arrest a petty thief.

Boston cop arresting black woman holsters weapon after witnesses beg him ‘drop the gun’

 

[phelon]

What all these tend to show is that Law Enforcement needs to have better and continual training and retraining.

It always amazes me that as a call center employee I had more hours annually for training for customer service and interacting with people than a police officer.

 

[JackLuis]

Sacramento ‘hero cop’ faces third federal lawsuit for brutally beating suspects with flashlight

A River City cop joins in the fun.

According to the Sacramento Bee, this is the third lawsuit that Pfeifer has faced since 2009 in which he is accused of brutally beating suspects with his duty-issue flashlight.

Reyes alleges that in December of 2009, Pfeifer “tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat plaintiff in the middle of the street, in broad daylight, with his department-issued flashlight. The wrongful attack was witnessed by many citizens who were appalled by the conduct, some of whom recorded the deputy’s illegal conduct.”

The beating left Reyes with a “broken nose, broken ribs, a concussion and a large gash above his left eye.”

Another case of excessive violence involving Pfeifer was the arrest of Mickey Donohue on Sep. 14, 2014. Donohue was apprehended while fleeing from police in a stolen vehicle.

When he came to a stop, Pfeifer was the first to the vehicle, where he began clubbing Donohue with the flashlight. Donohue’s injuries left him with a $12,989 hospital bill. His case is currently pending.

Prior to both of those incidents, Pfeifer was one of four deputies charged in an excessive force complaint filed by a 25-year-old woman who was hit, dragged, punched and pepper-sprayed when the deputies arrived to break up a party.

“He basically threw me on the ground,” said Solomia Treshchuk. “They hogtied me, they pepper-sprayed me and hit me.”

Maybe it should be three strikes, You're Out'a Here!

 

[JackLuis]

New York cop facing drunk driving charges after recording .43 blood alcohol level following crash

An NYPD officer if facing drunk driving and other charges after a blood sample taken following a crash showed him with an astounding .43 blood alcohol level, the New York Daily News is reporting.

Officer John Finley, 45, has been suspended after the blood test came back so high that one investigator said, “At that level of toxicity he shouldn’t have been walking, let alone driving.”

Holy Shit! 0.43 on a blood alcohol test!

 

[JackLuis]

Delaware cop shoots black man in wheelchair bleeding from self-inflicted wound

This should say 'cops' as there were more than one pulling the triggers

The Delaware Department of Justice said on Thursday it would review the case of what has been described as police killing a wheelchair-bound black man who officers said had a gun.

The man’s hands appear empty throughout the video.

Family and friends of McDole, who gathered at the scene after the killing and again on Thursday morning, said he never owned a gun and questioned the police account that he was armed and shot himself, according to the News Journal.

 

[JackLuis]

Police Investigator: Cops Beat Me Up

CHICAGO — A man who investigates the Chicago Police Department for a living was beaten by officers once they discovered what he did, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.

George Roberts is a supervisor at the Independent Police Review Authority, the agency responsible for investigating claims of police misconduct and officer-involved shootings. On New Year’s Day 2015, Roberts was pulled over after he left a bar. One of six officers who stopped Roberts found his IPRA identification badge.

Immediately afterwards, the police dash cam recording the traffic stop cuts to black; Roberts alleges in his federal lawsuit against the police this is because another officer intentionally turned off the camera. Roberts’s attorney claims police paperwork did not even note any footage existed. In fact, police only admitted to its existence when Roberts’s criminal counsel discovered it during his trial for driving under the influence.

 

[Tehalelu]

Youth coach accused of cursing may end up in jail

No violence but certainly an abuse of power

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...-police-arrest-Curs-Jessica-Texas-6525037.php

 

[JackLuis]

Was the Delaware man in the wheelchair armed or not?

It seems that there is a controversy about this. Did a cop drop a gun at his feet after he was dead, or did he really have a gun?

Was Jeremy McDole armed? Did he shoot himself first? And where is the gun police claim the African-American man in a wheelchair was wielding when they fired several rounds into the suspect, killing him instantly?

Perhaps on Monday the truth will come out, but I doubt it.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Brings up those old, worn out phrases-

Who are you going to believe ?

Me, or your own lying eyes ?

 

[JackLuis]

ATF agent arrested at Texas high school football game for assaulting man and waving gun at crowd

An agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) was arrested on Friday after he assaulted one man and held his gun on a crowd of people at a high school football game in Houston, Texas.

According to KHOU Channel 11, Special Agent Marc Delpit was taken into custody after an altercation in the parking lot of St. Thomas High School during halftime between a football game between the St. Thomas and Angleton High Schools.

Delpit’s son is reportedly a player on the St. Thomas team, as is the son of the man Delpit is accused of assaulting.

Witnesses say the two men were arguing when Delpit knocked the other man to the ground and continued to viciously beat him. When bystanders attempted to intervene, Delpit reportedly drew a gun and waved it at them.

“ATF takes these allegations very seriously,” said ATF spokesperson Senior Special Agent Nicole Strong of the Houston Field Office to Channel 11.

“Pending the outcome of the investigation, the agent in question has been placed on administrative leave with pay and has been relieved of his firearms, badge and credentials,” she said.

 

[RjThoughts]

ATF agent arrested at Texas high school football game for assaulting man and waving gun at crowd

High school football in Texas is above religion in seriousness.

 

[JackLuis]

Delaware cops beat mentally ill man when his quadriplegic wife was unable to follow order to stand up

Officers with the Special Operations Response Team found the disabled couple, who were staying with Lisa Hayes’ mother for two weeks while their daughter attended an ice skating camp, in a back bedroom of the home, according to a lawsuit.

Five family members had already told police that Lisa Hayes, a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, was unable to use her legs, and the lawsuit claims officers should have seen her wheelchair in the bedroom where her husband bathed her.

But state troopers pointed their guns at the disabled woman and “shouted at her to do that which she could not: stand up,” the lawsuit claims.

Ruther Hayes tried to cover his partially nude wife with a sheet, but the lawsuit shows that police shoved him to the ground and repeatedly punched him before shocking the mentally ill man twice with a stun gun.

State police detained Ruther Hayes and charged him resisting arrest, although the charge was later dropped.

Any bets on if the cops are disciplined?

 

[JackLuis]

Missouri deputy took woman to hotel, drugged and raped her while threatening to arrest husband: lawsuit

federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against a Missouri sheriff and a former deputy over allegations that a woman was drugged and raped against her will.

The case filed on Sept. 28 in the U.S. Eastern District Court claims that former Gasconade County Deputy Marty L. Rainey harassed the woman, who was named in the lawsuit as “Jane Doe,” by sending 1,288 text messages — many of which were said to be “sexually explicit in nature” — and calling her 87 times in July and August of 2012, the Gasconade County Republican reported.

The lawsuit alleges that Rainey went to the woman’s home, tried to kiss her and threatened to arrest her husband using a fictitious warrant.

Rainey told Doe that he could “make this all go away” if she agreed to “engage in sexual intercourse,” according to the complaint. The deputy was reportedly in uniform and carrying a gun when he picked Doe up on Aug. 4 and took her to a hotel.

Doe said that she began to feel “drugged” after accepting a soft drink from Rainey.

“Defendant Rainey used the apparent an inherent authority of a deputy sheriff to coerce Plaintiff into having non-consensual sexual intercourse with him,” the lawsuit noted.

 

[JackLuis]

The deep, ugly, and nearly unbelievable rabbit hole of violence and corruption within the Chicago PD

In 2007, the city of Chicago created an "independent" review board to monitor fatal shootings by police. Those quotation marks are around independent because the boards are often stacked with retired police officers who are often anything but independent in their views of their comrades. Of the 400 cases they reviewed, only one shooting of the 400 was found to be unjustified.

Lorenzo Davis was the supervising investigator for the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), and the facts in many of the cases just weren't adding up to him. He had been a Chicago police officer for 23 years and served as a commander, the head of a detective unit, then the head of an entire district, and eventually oversaw the entire public housing unit until he retired and joined the review board.

Soon, Davis determined that six shootings were unjustified. That may not seem like a lot, but it's a 600 percent increase from the one shooting that was deemed unjustified in the previous eight years. His supervisors demanded that he reverse the rulings. He refused, and on July 9, 2015, he was fired. The city of Chicago doesn't even deny that this is why they fired him. Here's the official statement:

Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of “a clear bias against the police” and called him “the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to OIS,” as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.

Mind you, the man they are saying has a clear bias against the police is a decorated officer from the department with nothing but glowing reviews.

 

[JackLuis]

Justice Department says St. Louis County police must reform

Police in St. Louis County, Missouri, who have been wrestling with racial unrest in the region for more than a year, must bring more minorities into their ranks and undertake a series of reforms, according to a federal report issued on Friday.

The report cited “abusive policing” as a cause for strained relations between a large minority population and mostly white police forces, and specifically laid out 109 recommendations for the St. Louis County Police Department (SLCPD), which serves roughly 407,000 area residents.

Among the actions recommended, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services said the SLCPD should address minority under-representation in the department; enhance training with a specific focus on fair and impartial policing and community engagement; improve the way it handles protests and mass demonstrations; reduce use of force; and work to ensure racial profiling does not occur.

Yep, sounds right.

 

[JackLuis]

Kentucky cop saves pet shop owner from 20-foot python because he knew better than to shoot

Police officers arrived Monday afternoon at Captive Born Reptiles in Newport to find the 20-foot python coiled around shop owner Terry Wilkins, reported WLWT-TV.

Wilkins was cleaning the python’s cage when the snake latched onto his arm and then coiled around his body.

Officers said the man was lifeless and blood was splashed on the walls from an apparent bite wound to the shop owner’s neck, reported WCPO-TV.

One of the three officers who responded, Lt. Greg Ripberger, was familiar with snakes and knew better than to shoot the animal — which would have caused the snake to constrict even tighter and likely kill the man.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Pythons are moody.

 

[phrodeau]

Pythons are moody.

http://cdn.chud.com/3/39/39d09144_gumbys.jpeg

 

[JackLuis]

Florida cop cleared of rape charges after defense uses old photo of victim posing in ‘similar’ position

Floriduh!

former Florida police officer walked out of court a free man after a jury cleared him Tuesday of raping a woman on the hood of his patrol car, the Sun Sentinel reports. The defense had presented a photograph of the woman in high school posing with a car and argued it was a “strikingly similar position” to her alleged rape.

Stephen Maiorino, 36, a former Boyton Beach police officer, had been accused of forcing the woman to have oral sex with him then taking her to an abandoned field where he raped her on the hood of his car while on duty. The jury deliberated for 10 hours before clearing him, prompting the victim to leave the court room in tears, saying, “No, no!”

The Sentinel reports the case hinged on the credibility of the 21-year-old woman. Maiorino’s defense said he simply had the bad judgment to have consensual sex with the woman while on duty. Maiorino is married with two small children and had been on the police force for eight years before resigning.

Michael Salnick, Maiorino’s attorney, used as evidence a picture of the woman in high school, where she posed bent over the hood of a car with her hands behind her back which he said was “strikingly similar” to the one the woman found herself in at the alleged crime scene. The woman said the photo didn’t have any sexual overtones and didn’t hint at any cop car sex fantasy, the Sentinel reports.

Do we really need Florida all that bad?

 

[JackLuis]

‘You hate the police, right n*****?': NYPD cop hurled slurs at black man before bogus arrest, lawsuit claims

A New York Police Department sergeant repeatedly hurled a racial slur at an African-American man, saying: “You hate the police, right n*****?” before he and other NYPD members arrested him on bogus charges, a new federal lawsuit alleges.

Diquan Fedee says he was walking home from work at approximately 11 p.m. on July 10, 2014, when a plainclothes member of the NYPD yelled “yo” from an unmarked police car. Fedee, who is 21, was on the phone. Fedee didn’t know the person who yelled was a cop, so he kept walking on the sidewalk, he claims in the lawsuit. The civil suit was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York against the City of New York and several members of the NYPD.

The unmarked car stopped, and four plainclothes NYPD members got out. One grabbed Fedee’s throat and wrists, he alleges. Another searched his bag. Two “positioned themselves so as to block plaintiff in,” the lawsuit alleges.

Walking while Black, obviously!

 

[JackLuis]

Baltimore mayor likens police-community relations to struggling marriage

The relationship between U.S. police and the communities they serve is like a struggling marriage in need of better communication, the mayor of Baltimore, a city rocked by anti-police rioting, said on Wednesday.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who is also president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said in a speech to the group it was up to both cities and police to determine what kind of interactions they would have.

“For better or worse we are stuck together,” she said. “It’s up to us whether it’s going to be a healthy relationship or an unhealthy relationship.”

She added that she knows “people married for 20 years, and haven’t talked in 10. It happens. We have to keep talking.”

 

[JackLuis]

‘Shoot her *ss’: Crowd urges NC cops to ‘manhandle’ woman ranting about Jesus after bizarre crash

A woman suffering an apparent mental health episode was arrested Thursday afternoon in North Carolina as bystanders laughed and encouraged police to use violence against her.

The woman, whose name was not released, started driving in circles in an intersection shortly before 4:30 p.m. in Gastonia, and several witnesses recorded video of the incident on their cell phones, reported the Gaston Gazette.

The videos show the woman, who is white, waving her arm out of the driver’s side window as she drives repeatedly around the intersection of Ozark Avenue and North New Hope Road, striking at least one car that tried to drive past her.

The woman stopped when a Gastonia police officer arrived, and the officer said she told him her name was “Faith, hope and love.”

The officer said he attempted to calm the woman, but instead she backed up and rammed into his patrol car.

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Unarmed black woman beaten and tackled by Florida cops for filming arrest of her husband

black woman who was punched and tackled to the ground by two white Jacksonville policemen for filming the arrest of her husband claims the cops stole her phone with a recording on the incident, reports NewsJax4.

According to Kelli Wilson, she went down to a local convenience store to record the arrest of her husband and retrieve their car when she was assaulted by the two cops who demanded her name and told her to put her phone away and stop recording.

“I was beaten, and then falsely arrested, my phone was stolen, my car was taken. It was a traumatic experience. It was definitely an experience you never think you would be going through,” said Wilson.

Although police confiscated her phone, video of her arrest was captured by surveillance cameras that showed the unarmed woman talking to the police before they charged, attempting to grab her phone with one officer seen punching her while the other one held her arms.

According to Wilson, one of the policemen demanded she stop filming and she asked him “why?”

Yes, WHY?

 

[JackLuis]

This cop walked after shooting unarmed teen seven times in a road ditch — now parents are seeking justice

The family of a Michigan teen who was shot to death by an Eaton County deputy after flashing his bright lights filed a federal lawsuit this week. In February, 17-year-old Deven Guilford had flashed his lights because he believed Sgt. Jonathan Frost had not turned down his brights. Frost pulled over Guildford for flashing his bright lights within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle. The traffic stop which was partially recorded on Guildford’s cell phone shows the teen refusing to hand over his driver’s license, registration or proof of insurance. The deputy also repeatedly refused requests for his badge number. Frost pulled Guildford from the vehicle and said that he was forced to deploy his stun gun after the teen failed to comply with orders to lay on his stomach and put his hand behind his back. However, probes from the stun gun did not fully embed in the teen and an altercation ensued. The scuffle ended in a nearby road ditch with Frost shooting Guildford seven times.

 

[JackLuis]

California deputy caught on live TV brutally beating unarmed black suspect

A deputy sheriff in San Bernardino County, California got caught on video repeatedly punching a helpless suspect after a high-speed chase in Southern California on Thursday.

Huffington Post reported that officers had pursued a burglary suspect for 40 minutes from Rancho Cucamonga to Pasadena. One police cruiser collided with a tree during the chase.

Officer Monica Posada with the California Highway Patrol said the chase began around 10:53 a.m. and involved a suspect in a 1996 Lincoln Coupe.

In aerial video captured at the end of the chase by a KTLA news helicopter, a man is seen lying on the ground with his hands behind his back while one deputy holds a pistol on him and a second deputy approaches him, then begins to violently beat him.

The deputy threw at least 15 punches and kneed the suspect — identified by the L.A. Times as 25-year-old Donovan Gardner — in the head two times, said KTLA.