u.t.c.o.l.

This is what 54-year-old Tomas Torres looked like after Connecticut State Police served a drug warrant on his home. From the New Haven Independent:

A state police raid on a Winthrop Avenue apartment netted no drugs or arrests—but it left Tomas Torres hospitalized and his apartment in tatters.

Torres, who’s 54, said state cops broke down the door of his first-floor Winthrop Avenue apartment Wednesday afternoon, punched him in the face, stomped on his head, and then laughed at him as they tossed his apartment looking for drugs.

Police said he tried to jump out the window, then resisted their efforts to detain and handcuff him.

They had the wrong guy, said Torres. The police found nothing in his apartment and released him to go to the hospital, where he said he was told he has a fractured arm, he said.

Full story and pictures here:

http://www.theagitator.com/2011/12/27/another...

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Fresh off a federal report which found that 20 percent of the times Seattle police use force, they violation the Constitution ... comes this:

A local man called the cops on Seattle officers when he felt a traffic stop was spinning out of control – and the entire incident was captured on a police video that shows the man being yanked from his car and thrown to the ground ...

The video shows Seattle police pulling a car over for speeding, then one officer walking up to the driver who was pulled over.

Although the dashboard camera captured the incident, the officer did not wear his microphone – a violation of department policy.

Once stopped, the driver, Amanuel Gebreselassie, says the talk went bad from the beginning.

“He’s using profanity. He’s not acting professional. He’s just not acting like an officer,” says Gebreselassie.

In their report, police said the driver was “extremely verbally aggressive.” But Gebreselassie denies it – and says the stop seemed so out of line, he called 911.

An audiotape of the 911 call recorded the conversation between Gebreselassie and the 911 dispatcher.

“911. What are you reporting?” the dispatcher says.

“Uhh, an illegal stop by an officer – you know, I just want to make sure he’s a real officer.… There’s an officer here, but he’s talking crazy to me, and I’m not really dealing with this guy.”

The conversation was cut short when a group of officers returned to the car.

“Get out of the car,” one officer can be heard saying on the 911 tape.

“For what?”

“Get out of the car, man.”

Police say Gebresellassie resisted, so they yanked him to the ground.

In the video, one officer appears to deliver a sharp kick – but it’s unclear where it lands.

Video at the link. The cops then conducted an illegal search of Gebresellassie’s car. An internal review “reprimanded” three cops for profanity and the illegal search, but found nothing wrong with the use of force. Two of the cops were already under investigation for other incidents.

I propose a rule for cases like these: Any time a police officer inappropriately turns off his dash cam, turns off his uniform microphone, or illegally confiscates other audio or video of an incident which then ends up missing or destroyed, the courts will begin considering any disputed facts about the incident with a presumption that the citizen’s account is the correct one.

http://www.theagitator.com/2011/12/28/new-rul...

Ex-Cop Expert Witness Says Unarmed Black Teen Who Had Committed No Crime Was “Illogical” To Run Away From the Three Cops Who Nearly Beat Him to Death

Go to the link and read the entire article. BUT BE WARNED, the pictures are graphic. This is standard operating procedure for certain police departments - including ours.

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Lucy Steigerwald has an update on the beating of Jordan Miles, a case I wrote about in January. Miles was beaten nearly to death by three Pittsburgh police officers who say they mistook a bottle of Mountain Dew in Miles’ pocket for a gun.(The Mountain Dew bottle disappeared after the beating.)

The cops claimed they confronted Miles because a neighbor had complained that the music student with no criminal record was skulking about her property.

That neighbor denies ever making such a complaint. The cops also say Miles should have known they were cops, and say he’s responsible for his own beating for fleeing them. Miles is suing.

http://www.theagitator.com/2011/12/30/ex-cop-...

Maybe you could ask your doc for a three month script.

Saturday, December 31, 2011
Haskell cop who planted drugs at traffic stop target of civil suit

A police officer from Rick Perry's hometown of Haskell pleaded no contest two weeks ago "to fabricating physical evidence ... and was sentenced to seven years probation" for planting meth on a suspect at a traffic stop, the Abilene Reporter-News reported (Dec. 31). Now, another man has filed a civil-rights lawsuit claiming the same officer planted drugs on him, resulting in the loss of his job as a car salesman after his arrest and photo were published on the front page of the Haskell weekly paper.

The officer told a judge he had supporting information from an unnamed confidential informant in order to obtain a search warrant before allegedly planting the drugs, according to the suit.[OF COURSE HE DID......]

The officer, William "Bill" Glass, sounds like your typical, Tom-Coleman style gypsy cop: "Apart from working at the Haskell Police Department, public records show Glass has been employed with at least seven law enforcement agencies" since 1995.

This could get (even more) ugly. Will more people come out of the woodwork to claim Officer Glass set them up? Once may be an outlier; twice (if allegations are true) would make a pattern.

In the Dallas fake-drug cases, where informants helped police set up defendants using doctored pool chalk, investigators found two dozen defendants who'd been convicted and/or deported based on false allegations.

How many more, one wonders, were victims of this fellow's frame-up jobs before he was finally caught?

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2011/12...

Dallas man held for 30 years on rape conviction to be released
By JENNIFER EMILY

Published: Jan 3, 2012 11:18 PM

A 56-year-old Dallas man is expected to be released Wednesday after serving more than 30 years in prison for rape after prosecutors withheld evidence in his case, according to the Innocence Project in New York.

Rickey Wyatt was convicted in a 1980 sexual assault in which a woman was grabbed.....

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news...

(Surely the DA's office/bar association will see to it that the criminal (literally) DA's in this case will be punished.......... ;(

How do you pay a man back after stealing 31 YEARS of his life?

Via The Agitator:

•It was all just a misunderstanding!

Cop pleads guilty after shooting himself, blaming the shooting on a 17-year-old girl, having sex with the girl, illegally buying the girl Xanax, and having the girl’s house shot up.

Full Story Hre:

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-former-mpd-offi...

U.S. Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring

Published: January 9, 2012

WASHINGTON — American drug enforcement agents posing as money launderers secretly helped a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his principal Colombian cocaine supplier move millions in drug proceeds around the world, as part of an effort to infiltrate and dismantle the criminal organizations wreaking havoc south of the border, according to newly obtained Mexican government documents.

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The documents, part of an extradition order by the Mexican Foreign Ministry against the Colombian supplier, describe American counternarcotics agents, Mexican law enforcement officials and a Colombian informant working undercover together over several months in 2007. Together, they conducted numerous wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars at a time, smuggled millions of dollars in bulk cash — and escorted at least one large shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Dallas to Madrid.

The extradition order — obtained by the Mexican magazine emeequis and shared with The New York Times — includes testimony by a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent who oversaw a covert money laundering investigation against a Colombian trafficker named Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, also known as “The Rabbit.” He is accused of having sent some 150 tons of cocaine to Mexico between 2000 and 2010. Much of that cocaine, the authorities said, was destined for the United States.

Last month, The Times reported that these kinds of operations had begun in Mexico as part of the drug agency’s expanding role in that country’s fight against organized crime. The newly obtained documents provide rare details of the extent of that cooperation and the ways that it blurs the lines between fighting and facilitating crime.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/world/ameri...

Hilarious! The entire MPD SWAT has resigned from the McKinney Police Association it appears.

Why? Because they are mad that they got caught lying about how they shot/framed a county citizen and then lost their frame up case in court. And each member is getting sued in federal court - and one jury has already declared the MPD SWAT story bogus and exonerated their victim.

So, like the brave and honorable heroes these guys are (lol) they've taken their ball and gone home to mommy.

You are not getting away with it again this time boys....

Cop Punches Woman: Bus Passenger Tapes LA Sheriff's Deputy Hitting Rider (SHOCKING VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/la-c...

I heard they all resigned because they needed "down time".

Where's all the smart *ss cops making comments on this thread now ?

After a Pot Raid:“It looks like a terrorist attack on my house.”

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

So who is the bigger threat to the community in this story?

Eric Stevens and cousin Henry Dondle, both longtime Homewood residents, woke this morning along with many of their neighbors to the sound of explosions and shattering glass.

It wasn’t long before scores of officers clad in military fatigues and brandishing assault rifles ordered Stevens and Dondle to the ground where they were restrained, according to Stevens.

Now, more than 10 hours later, bits of shattered glass lay strewn about the living room and outside perimeter of the residence that Stevens shares with his 74-year-old father.

The front door is splintered and at least 17 windows were broken.

Heat from the stun grenades left char marks on the walls and burned through a hanging curtain.

Stevens’s father, a retired Chicago police officer, was returning home from security duty when the event unfolded.

“It looks like a terrorist attack on my house,” Stevens said.

Dondle said police confiscated 20 grams of marijuana and several water pipes. He claims they had a gathering the night before and that the marijuana was for recreational use.

http://www.theagitator.com/2012/01/14/after-a...

So police use an unprovoked assault using deadly force (for example multiple stun grenades), started a house on fire and ransacked a man's home.

Think about that..........

At least no one got shot or killed.

It really IS a good question - who are the terrorist and agravated "assault-ers"?

Take the Quiz

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Here’s a little visual quiz I put together to illustrate the way cops and soldiers are increasingly difficult to tell apart.

There are 21 images.

All police photos are from domestic U.S. police agencies. A couple of the “soldier” photos are from foreign military.

I blurred or blacked out insignias that would give away the answer.

http://www.theagitator.com/2012/01/16/take-th...

Officer Won't Face Drug Charges

The DA said Josh West won't be prosecuted because his admission of drug use to investigators couldn't be used against him in a criminal case.

A police officer who resigned this month was so addicted to hydrocodone he was acquiring the drugs in uniform and snorting the crushed pills in his cruiser, an investigation report shows.

Officer Josh West resigned Jan. 6 during an internal affairs investigation in which he admitted he was addicted to hydrocodone, a morphinelike painkiller, the report states.
Steve Bebb, district attorney for the 10th Judicial District, said Tuesday that West will not be prosecuted because his admission of drug use to police investigators couldn't be used against him in a criminal case.

Police Department Chief Wes Snyder said in an email that a Bradley County deputy first raised suspicions about West, who was suspended with pay while an investigation was started.

West admitted to investigators that he had been taking prescribed hydrocodone for back and neck pain since January 2011, the report stated. Asked why he had not informed his supervisor about the drug use, he said he didn't know he was required to do so.

He said he sometimes took a higher dosage than prescribed, and admitted he sometimes crushed the pills and snorted them. Authorities say snorting increases a pill's effect.

Sometimes he ran out of pills, West said, and "borrowed" more from a friend, Brad Delk, the report stated. According to the report, Delk's criminal history includes charges of possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia. West admitted that he sometimes "borrowed" pills while on duty and in uniform, according to the report.

"Officer West would make regular visits to Brad Delk's residence on duty and off duty to trade hydrocodone. Officer West would perform these transactions while other people were present at Delk's residence as well," according to the report. A search of West's city police cruiser turned up suspected hydrocodone pills, other pills and straws used to snort the crushed drugs, the report states.

He was found to have violated departmental policies against alcohol and narcotics use and addiction, unlawful conduct, improper association and failing to comply with policy and procedures. West had worked for the department since November 2007 and was on medical leave from June 7, 2010, to Aug. 15, 2010, according to records with the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission.

Snyder said West had passed a drug test months earlier, and that West had good evaluations except for a three-day suspension some months ago for mishandling a call on a domestic situation.

West's case isn't the first instance of officers misusing prescription drugs.

In late 2008, an off-duty officer who was high on pills shot another officer in the hand. Eventually, three officers admitted abusing hydrocodone while two of them also were prosecuted and jailed for having sex with teenage girls.

http://www.lawofficer.com/article/news/former...

In Shreveport, Louisiana, a Shreveport police officer was arrested last Wednesday for peddling drugs and soliciting prostitutes.

Officer Jeffrion Smith, 30, went down after the department got information that he was looking for hookers, and an undercover investigation resulted in his arrest.

He is charged with solicitation of prostitution, distribution of a Schedule I narcotic, and possession of a firearm with a controlled dangerous substance. He is now on administrative leave after being booked into the Caddo Parish Jail.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...

(Lots more fun coming ... stay tuned..... ;)

American wrote:

Where's all the smart *ss cops making comments on this thread now ?

They are hiding under rocks ... but those rocks are about to be turned over.

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant !"

Another SWAT Lawsuit

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

In Dallas, TX:

According to the complaint, which made its way to Courthouse News yesterday, Cantu, a diesel mechanic, was making his lunch January 22, 2010, when he saw a few cops streaking across his yard.

A deafening explosion shook the room as a stun grenade bomb shot through the door. Nearly 20 officers crashed in.

“Get on the ground!” they allegedly ordered him. Cantu, according to the complaint, obliged and was zipcuffed. Inexplicably, the filing claims, the officers kicked and punched him until he was unconscious, lying in a pool of his own blood on the kitchen floor.

Meanwhile, they searched his house and allegedly didn’t find what they were after.

Cantu’s butcher’s bill: a broken orbital bone, a broken nose, a concussion, traumatic brain injury, a loss of vision in his left eye and loss of hearing in his left ear. According to his complaint, the “injuries required surgical intervention and caused significant scarring and disfigurement.”

Cantu was arrested but never charged with a crime.

This one gets stranger, in that there seems to be no record of the incident anywhere. http://www.theagitator.com/2012/02/03/lawsuit...

U.S. District Court [LIVE]
Eastern District of TEXAS
Notice of Electronic Filing

The following transaction was entered on 2/6/2012 at 5:00 PM CST and filed on 2/6/2012
Case Name: Citizen v. Guerrero et al

Filer:
Document Number: 52


Docket Text:

ORDER SETTING HEARING,( Status Conference set for 4/11/2012 01:30 PM in Ctrm 108 (Plano)- Bush before Magistrate Judge Don D. Bush.) Signed by Magistrate Judge Don D. Bush on 2/16/12.(cm,)

( You can run, lie on the stand, file false reports, commit assaults with deadly weapons and conspire to cover it all up boys ..... but you can't hide.

You are not getting away with it this time or ever again boys..... ;-))