Calvon Reid died in police custody in Cocunut Creek, Florida, last Wednesday after being tased repeatedly to force compliance—witnesses now say he was yelling out that police were going to kill him, and at point complained that he couldn't breathe as officers tried to subdue him.
One of their neighbors inside the Wynmoor Village complex told them that Reid had approached one of the residents in the parking lot of the gated community asking the man to take him to the hospital. Reid had been injured, but it's not certain how he was hurt. The condo resident called 911 and asked that paramedics come and check on Reid. But when the paramedics arrived, Reid reportedly became belligerent with them. The police were summoned and as many as five officers confronted Reid.
He is agitated because he is low on oxygen. The police are called because he is agitated. There will be no further need for oxygen.
Problem solved.
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Ferguson Mayor James Knowles says one police department employee was fired and two others are on administrative leave over racist emails uncovered in a Justice Department investigation into the city's law
The Justice Department report said police work was focused on generating revenue from black residents from fines and fees, rather than protecting the community.
Ferguson City Manager John Shaw Resigns
John Shaw, the city manager of Ferguson, Missouri, who oversaw city agencies that the Department of Justice accused of systematically discriminating against African-American residents, has resigned.
Shaw's resignation was announced at a meeting of the Ferguson City Council Tuesday evening. The council voted 7-0 to approve a mutual separation agreement , according to a statement distributed at the meeting.
A scathing Justice Department report last week accused Ferguson of using local police and courts to generate revenue instead of safeguarding citizens, a practice the investigators said fell heaviest on African-Americans. The department probe began after unrest in the wake of a Ferguson police officer's killing of unarmed Michael Brown, 18, in August.
The report details numerous instances in which Shaw seemed thrilled that revenue from court fees and fines was rising. When Shaw was told that gross revenue for 2012 had exceeded $2 million for the first time, the report said he responded by saying, "Awesome! Thanks!"
Shaw is the fifth person named in the Justice Department report to lose his job.
Ferguson Municipal Judge Ronald Brockmeyer, who allegedly turned Ferguson's municipal court into a city cash cow, resigned Monday. Ferguson Municipal Court Clerk Mary Ann Twitty was fired last week over racist emails. In addition, two police department officials resigned last week, including one who supervised Darren Wilson, the officer who killed Michael Brown.
Isolated incidents all I am sure...just as I am "sure" the Ferguson situation doesn't have its analogues all over the United States.
hanelyp wrote:The biggest criminal in the Ferguson case is Eric Holder.
He knew it was happening and did nothing until the public uproar?
Actually the criminal is Nixon. A covert Wilson.
“The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.” - Nixons chief political strategist Kevin Phillips
Nixon WANTED the Republicans to be known for racism. Clever boy.
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Shot by police and left to die. A woman says that’s what happened to a father of four who died after being shot by a Grapevine police officer. Police are already countering her story – calling it “absolutely false.”
Driver Patricia Murphy lives in Euless and says what she saw last month isn’t what she would expect from a police officer. Murphy admits she did not witness the shooting, but says she saw the body of Mr. Villalpando on the side of the road.
Murphy said she thought the man laying motionless needed help, but she didn’t have a cell phone to call 911. She said it wasn’t until later that she learned it was a police shooting.
Murphy also claims that when she drove by there were no police officers at the scene.
“Why didn’t the policeman stand by the scene until more people arrived?” Murphy questioned at a Thursday press conference. “There was just a dead body lying on the ground.”
Family members who have seen police dash cam video claim Villalpando had his hands up in the air and was not armed.
Attorney Domingo Garcia represents the Villalpando family and he believes he knows exactly what happened. “If you shoot an unarmed man, with his hands in the air and you’re in a different jurisdiction… you’re not in Grapevine, you’re in Euless. I think the officer panicked and left.”
Of course he panicked. He was in fear for his life.
Good shoot.
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A Pennsylvania police officer was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide after investigators concluded she shot an unarmed motorist in the back as he lay facedown after a traffic stop over an expired inspection sticker.
Authorities accused Hummelstown police Officer Lisa J. Mearkle of shooting 59-year-old David Kassick twice on Feb. 2 without legal justification. She was released on $250,000 bail.
Her attorney, Brian Perry, said Mearkle acted in self-defense, and he warned the case could cause police officers to hesitate in high-pressure situations.
"She felt like she had to do what she did," Perry said. "This person was being commanded, begged, 'show me your hands,' and he kept going to his waist."
I'd like to see the video. And what does it mean "kept going to his waist" ? Well she feared for her life. Good shoot.
The moral of the story? Don't let your inspection sticker expire. It can mean death. And do not under any circumstances be afraid of the police. That is a death warrant too.
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When this sort of thing happens, it's always terrible, but do note the officer is being prosecuted. It's the cases like this where they're not prosecuted that are of deeper concern to me.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Police say Dent disregarded stop signs and refused to pull over, then resisted arrest and threatened them. They also say they found a bag of crack cocaine in his car.
Dent, who said he spent three days in the hospital with broken ribs, blood on his brain and other injuries, told reporters at a news conference that he was defending himself as an officer was "nearly choking me to death."
"I wasn't resisting arrest," he said. "When someone is beating your face, you're going to protect yourself."
Found a bag of crack? They were probably saving the gun in case they had to shoot him.
It took 20 years after the end of alcohol prohibition for the police to to get rid of the bad habits they had acquired from that misadventure. I seem to recall the colonists had a problem with how the Brits policed contraband.
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A Nevada prison inmate was handcuffed when was shot and killed by a guard last November, according to a lawyer who said Wednesday that her client was wounded in the same shooting but survived.
Carlos Manuel Perez Jr. was slain with his hands cuffed behind his back, attorney Alexis Plunkett said. Inmate Andrew Jay Arevalo was also handcuffed and "miraculously survived three shotgun blasts to the face," Plunkett said.
"This is what I clearly consider to be an excessive use of force," she said in an email to The Associated Press. Plunkett said she represents Arevalo, not Perez, and plans to sue the guard, prison officials and the state.
"This is a terribly tragic and completely unnecessary shooting," Plunkett said.
Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said Wednesday that he ruled Perez's death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, neck, chest and arms.
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Police say Dent disregarded stop signs and refused to pull over, then resisted arrest and threatened them. They also say they found a bag of crack cocaine in his car.
Dent, who said he spent three days in the hospital with broken ribs, blood on his brain and other injuries, told reporters at a news conference that he was defending himself as an officer was "nearly choking me to death."
It's not especially unusual that a criminal has a different story than those who arrested him. Anyone who runs a stop sign, refuses to pull over when signaled to by the police, leads them in a chase, physically resists arrest and threatens the officers, deserves to get the shit kicked out of him. I have no sympathies here, especially now that all police cars are equipped with cameras to verify whatever story gets told.
Here are some easy tips on how to avoid getting your ass kicked by the police:
1) Obey the law.
2) Use common sense.
3) Stop immediately.
4) Turn that shit off.
5) Be polite.
6) Stay in your car with your hands on the wheel.
7) Shut the fudk up. Get a white friend.
9) If your woman is mad at you, leave her at home.
If you follow these simple pointers, you probably won't get your ass kicked by the police.
The adamantly anti-gun-rights Jews are bowing to:
1. A desire for utopian moral purity
2. A disproportional incidence of hoplophobia 3. A quest for power through victimization of peers
4. A utopian delusion that if guns would just “go away,”
crime would end and the world would be a peaceful safe place
5. Self hatred and a wish to be helpless, acting out guilt-based
behavioral problems that develop in childhood
6. The Ostrich Syndrome
7. Garden-variety hypocrisy
8. Adulterated religion -- Jews In Name Only (JINOs)
9. Feel-good sophistry
10. Abject fear that yields irrational behavior
Blacks have been largely convinced by their leaders to avoid guns (rap “music” notwithstanding) leaving them reliant on police who are, historically, often perceived poorly by the black community. Who among American blacks trusts police implicitly? Such trust may be irrational, but no one claims humans act rationally all or even most of the time. The people know instinctively they cannot trust government agents for their safety, yet they are left to wish for such illusory protection.
Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
In addition, Colombian police officers allegedly provided “protection for the DEA agents’ weapons and property during the parties,” the report states. Ten DEA agents later admitted attending the parties, and some of the agents received suspensions of two to 10 days.
The stunning allegations are part of an investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general into claims of sexual harassment and misconduct within DEA; FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals Service. The IG’s office found that DEA did not fully cooperate with its probe.
The congressional committee charged with federal oversight is already promising hearings and an investigation into the allegations.
There is one sure way to win a Prohibition War. Don't fight it.
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Fresno Deputy Police Chief Keith Foster Busted on Drug Charges
Well wadya know? Prohibition corrupts police. Who could have ever imagined such a thing? Any body who studied alcohol prohibition. I suppose prohibition supporters were hoping for a repeat. Don't they like police?
The deputy police chief of Fresno, California, was arrested Thursday on charges of possession and intent to distribute heroin and other drugs, federal and local law enforcement officials said.
Keith Foster, 51, was named by the Justice Department as one of four people nabbed in a year-long investigation by the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer confirmed that Foster is the department's deputy chief, who has commanded patrol operations for the city of a half-million people for the past eight years.
Foster was charged with conspiracy to distribute and/or possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, heroin and marijuana. Three other people — at least one of them described as a relative of Foster's — were also arrested, and two more were being sought, the Justice Department said.
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A Colchester, Vermont, police officer accused of stealing drugs and a gun from his department's evidence locker may have been motivated by his own heroin addiction, new court documents indicate.
At a federal court hearing Wednesday, Tyler Kinney, a detective corporal with the Colchester Police Department, was ordered held by the U.S. Marshals Service until the initial appearance hearing continues Friday. His attorney will use that time to locate drug treatment options for Kinney, the lawyer said.
Kinney, 38, of Jericho, is accused of stealing and re-distributing heroin and possessing a stolen firearm. He also allegedly stole medications from the voluntary drop-off box for unused medicines that sits in the police department's lobby. Kinney did not enter a plea at the court hearing.
Treatment? Why isn't he in jail? Ah. He is a police officer. That explains a lot.
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Get a white friend.