Bullies With A Badge

Here's another case of "Bullies with a Badge".
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_e...

Man Ticketed for Dropping Money on the Ground

Posted on: 10:08 pm, May 22, 2012,
by Suzanne Stratford,
updated on: 10:29pm, May 22, 2012

CLEVELAND — A random act of kindness lands a man in trouble with police.
Last Monday, May 14th John Davis was exiting I-90 at the West 117th ramp when he saw a man in a wheelchair. The man was pale, thin and holding a sign that had a religious sentiment and also a request for help.

John thought to himself,“I think we’re all to help the less fortunate.”

The middle class family man from Elyria works hard for a living and enjoys giving back especially to people who are physically challenged.

“I have a brother that’s paralyzed,” said John,“My brother’s in that same situation and struggles.”
continued..........

http://fox8.com/2012/05/22/man-ticketed-for-d...

Florence family accuses police chief of shooting 2 dogs

by ASHLEY GOUDEAU / KVUE News and Photojournalist JUSTIN TERRY
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 5:58 PM
Updated Sunday, Jun 3 at 1:04 AM
continued..........

http://www.kvue.com/home/Florence-family-says...

Wednesday, June 06, 2012Last Update: 10:20 AM PT
Police Overkill
By ROBERT KAHN
ShareThis
BALTIMORE (CN)- When an architect crashed his car while suffering a diabetic reaction on the way home from Bible study class, state and county police pepper sprayed him in the face and clubbed and Tasered him to death, his wife claims in court.
Linda Johnson sued the Maryland State Police, Baltimore County Police, their top commanders and six officers who allegedly beat and Tasered to death Carl D. Johnson on May 27, 2010.
Johnson suffered a diabetic attack sometime after 8:15 p.m. that night, after calling a friend to tell him he was leaving his Bible class, according to the complaint in Baltimore County Court.
He suffered a diabetic attack, crashed on the I-795, and his car came to rest against the guardrail in the median near the merger with I-695.
According to the complaint, when State Trooper Davon Parker arrived and tapped on the window, and Johnson managed to lower the window, Parker pepper sprayed him in the face.
Johnson then got out of his car and Parker clubbed him at least once in the knee. Defendant Officer Loss (fnu) then arrived and whacked Johnson at least twice with his club, the complaint states.
Baltimore County Police Officer Nicholas Wolferman then arrived, whacked Johnson "at least three times" with his own baton, then he and Officer Loss "grabbed Mr. Johnson and threw him over the guardrail," Johnson's widow says.
She claims the very first officer on the scene knew or should have known that her husband was suffering from a medical problem.
Nonetheless, after throwing him over the guardrail, the cops applied pressure points to his ears and armpits, she says. Three more cops arrived, including Baltimore County Officer Andrew O'Neill, who Tasered Johnson twice. Officer Loss then punched him in the face and the six officers managed to handcuff him, the widow says.
Eight more cops arrived, and someone took his wallet, which included a medical alert card about his diabetes. Nonetheless, the cops forcibly held him down, though he was not resisting, and was handcuffed, his wife says.
"Upon information and belief, there were approximately 52 individuals that responded to the scene," according to the complaint.
The widow claims Johnson was Tasered at least three times, while he was lying on his back, helpless, surrounded by police. He became "motionless and speechless" and was pronounced dead within an hour of cardiac arrest.
He was the 10th person to die since 2004 after being subjected to police electroshock in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reported in a story about Johnson's death.
Linda Johnson seeks more than $10 million in punitive damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium, false imprisonment, false arrest, battery, gross negligence and other charges. She is represented by Mark Millstein and David Silbiger, both of Baltimore.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/06/4716...

dollop wrote:

Wednesday, June 06, 2012Last Update: 10:20 AM PT
Police Overkill
By ROBERT KAHN
ShareThis
BALTIMORE (CN)- When an architect crashed his car while suffering a diabetic reaction on the way home from Bible study class, state and county police pepper sprayed him in the face and clubbed and Tasered him to death, his wife claims in court.
Linda Johnson sued the Maryland State Police, Baltimore County Police, their top commanders and six officers who allegedly beat and Tasered to death Carl D. Johnson on May 27, 2010.
Johnson suffered a diabetic attack sometime after 8:15 p.m. that night, after calling a friend to tell him he was leaving his Bible class, according to the complaint in Baltimore County Court.
He suffered a diabetic attack, crashed on the I-795, and his car came to rest against the guardrail in the median near the merger with I-695.
According to the complaint, when State Trooper Davon Parker arrived and tapped on the window, and Johnson managed to lower the window, Parker pepper sprayed him in the face.
Johnson then got out of his car and Parker clubbed him at least once in the knee. Defendant Officer Loss (fnu) then arrived and whacked Johnson at least twice with his club, the complaint states.
Baltimore County Police Officer Nicholas Wolferman then arrived, whacked Johnson "at least three times" with his own baton, then he and Officer Loss "grabbed Mr. Johnson and threw him over the guardrail," Johnson's widow says.
She claims the very first officer on the scene knew or should have known that her husband was suffering from a medical problem.
Nonetheless, after throwing him over the guardrail, the cops applied pressure points to his ears and armpits, she says. Three more cops arrived, including Baltimore County Officer Andrew O'Neill, who Tasered Johnson twice. Officer Loss then punched him in the face and the six officers managed to handcuff him, the widow says.
Eight more cops arrived, and someone took his wallet, which included a medical alert card about his diabetes. Nonetheless, the cops forcibly held him down, though he was not resisting, and was handcuffed, his wife says.
"Upon information and belief, there were approximately 52 individuals that responded to the scene," according to the complaint.
The widow claims Johnson was Tasered at least three times, while he was lying on his back, helpless, surrounded by police. He became "motionless and speechless" and was pronounced dead within an hour of cardiac arrest.
He was the 10th person to die since 2004 after being subjected to police electroshock in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reported in a story about Johnson's death.
Linda Johnson seeks more than $10 million in punitive damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium, false imprisonment, false arrest, battery, gross negligence and other charges. She is represented by Mark Millstein and David Silbiger, both of Baltimore.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/06/4716...

you need a life

the problem with people in this county is that there are so many that don't want to work they just want to sit at home and draw a monthly check.

WARNING! Video compilation of vicious brutality from around the Country.

video continued..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch... #!

Rhode Island Cop Still Employed Despite Conviction of Kicking Woman to Head

Carlos Miller
Pixiq.com
July 9, 2012
A Rhode Island cop who was convicted of a felony after he was caught on video kicking a handcuffed woman to the head is still employed as a police officer.
Lincoln police officer Edward Krawetz kicked the woman in the head in 2009 claiming self-defense because apparently he was in fear for his life. He didn’t go to trial until March of this year.
He was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison but because he is a cop, the judge suspended the sentence, meaning he didn’t serve a day in jail, even though he already had a prior conviction for assaulting a jogger.
continued..........

http://www.infowars.com/rhode-island-cop-stil...

Deputies Knock On Wrong Door At 1:30AM, Shoot & Kill Man Who Answers With Gun

Chris
Information Liberation
July 16, 2012

Sheriff’s deputies who failed to identify themselves when knocking on a man’s door at 1:30AM at night immediately shot and killed the homeowner after he allegedly opened his door with a gun in hand.

The man who was murdered, 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott, was described by neighbors as a good person and “very nice guy.”
The deputies realized later they got the wrong house, but for good measure they searched the man’s apartment and found drugs, which apparently justifies their murdering him randomly.

The police are entirely unapologetic. Lt. John Herrell said of the incident,“The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you’re going to get shot.”

For police who refuse to identify themselves to point their guns at you is A-OK, yet for you to do the same in self-defense is grounds for summary execution.

In contrast with this gang of criminals, a 92-year-old Toledo woman who found herself in the same situation just the other day actually shot an officer in the side of his head, yet the Toledo police chose not to press any charges against her, as Police Sgt. Joe Heffernan said,“I don’t think it meets all the culpability standards for felonious assault on a police officer.”

Indeed, 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott had every right to open his door fully armed, and, at least if he was in a state where the Castle Doctrine was recognized, he may have even had the right to use deadly force in defending himself from the police’s illegal armed invasion.

See additional video report here.
continued..........

http://www.infowars.com/deputies-knock-on-wro...

* Here is a prime example of "adding insult to injury". The older generation would have considered the article below a lesson learned and a prime example to everyone else. But no, not the modern day bureaucrats who have no common sense. They have to go ahead and make themselves look petty and in the process ridiculous as well. Which in the end will cause hard-feelings from the public.*

Man who had hand bitten off by gator charged with feeding it

Wallace Weatherholt was giving an airboat tour in Florida when he allegedly dangled a fish to make an alligator leap. It’s illegal to feed the giant reptiles because they can lose their fear of humans.

BY CHRISTINE ROBERTS /
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2012, 4:08 PM

Read more:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012Last Update: 3:53 PM PT

Family Says Police Raid Was Wrong and Vile

By DIONNE CORDELL-WHITNEY

MINNEAPOLIS (CN)- After breaking down doors and shooting the family dog, a drug task force forced handcuffed children "to sit next to the carcass of their dead and bloody pet for more than an hour," and kept searching even after they knew they were raiding the wrong house, the family claims in Federal Court.

All nine occupants of the home, including three children, sued the officers, the state and Ramsey County in Federal Court.

Defendants include members of the Dakota County Drug Task Force, the St. Paul Police force, and a DEA agent.

Lead plaintiff Roberto Franco claims the task force raided the wrong house: that they should have gone next door.

Franco claims that Task Force Officer Shawn Scovill, who orchestrated the raid, "provided false information to a Minnesota District Court judge in order to obtain a search warrant. Defendant Scovill lied when he informed the District Court judge who reviewed Scovill's search warrant application that Scovill had obtained information from the confidential informant that the plaintiffs' home was the properly targeted house and that the address and the identity of the individuals who resided therein were the plaintiffs."

The complaint adds: The search warrant specifically named Rafael Ybarra as the intended target suspect. Plaintiff Roberto Franco was not named in the search warrant, nor was any person who lived in the raided house named in the search warrant.

"There was never a mention of plaintiff, Roberto Franco, in any documents related to the raid search warrant.

"Plaintiff, Roberto Franco, had never been discussed or considered a suspect by law enforcement, Scovill or any of the defendants directly involved or indirectly involved in the raid, relative to any alleged involvement by Franco in any distribution of contraband prior to the wrong house raid."

Ybarra lived next door, Franco says. He says Ybarra's name, not his, was on the warrant.

But on the night of July 13, 2010, the task force broke down the Francos' doors, "negligently raided the home of plaintiffs, by raiding the wrong home and physically brutalizing all the above-named occupants of said house," the complaint states.

Even after learning that they were in the wrong house, the complaint states, the drug busters stayed in the Francos' home and kept searching it.
continued..........

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/07/18/4848...

Charles wrote:

There are severalocal deputys that are state certified for being a deputy. We paid to send them to school and get certified for the job. When the sheriff changes a lot of them aren't rehired for deputys.

The deputies in Jamestown really strut their stuff Also like their skirt friends

* Looks like an accidental shooting. But at the scene the poor performance, lack of empathy, refusal to render aid and then the afterward attempted lies and cover-up makes this an egregious act towards the innocent.*

California Woman Shot in Her Own Backyard by a Cop

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
August 22, 2012

A California woman was shot in her own backyard by the most unlikely of assailants, a cop.

36-year-old Jennifer Orey was in her backyard this past Sunday night when she bumped into a “person holding a flashlight.” The next thing she knew she was leveled to the ground after being shot at point blank range, asking a police officer,“Why did you shoot me?”
continued..........

http://www.infowars.com/california-woman-shot...

Video: Albuquerque officer beats surrendered man, conducts illegal entry

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
August 22, 2012

The incident happened on May 31 and has led to a criminal summons being issued to Officer Rice.
Local TV station KRQE.
The damning video begins with bike cop Connor Rice conducting a search in which a suspect admits to having marijuana in his pocket and in his backpack.

Officer Rice and another officer prepare to handcuff the suspect after lecturing them when the accused flees on foot leading officers on a foot and bike chase through a neighborhood.
Officer Rice next comes upon two average-looking citizens walking a dog with knowledge of the incident and proceeds to frisk them.

After leading officers to their apartment, which held the man police were looking for, police kick down the apartment door and officer Rice uses a stun gun on the first person he sees. That person is heard yelling in pain at the 24 minute mark in the video.

One resident, probably familiar with the dog-killing that has become standard protocol for police, asks Rice if he can secure his dog, to which the officer replied,“Get down on the ground, no! Stay right there!” The resident continues to insist that his dog needs to be secured when police decide to taze the resident into submission.

While the officers were busy tazering the apartment occupants, the man they were looking for sneaks out the back and runs off.

After another bike pursuit, officer Rice and about two other officers find the suspect.
While being tackled to the ground, the suspect is heard saying,“I surrender,” to which officer Rice asks “You surrender?” Next a howling scream is heard as the victim is visibly forced into compliance by officers beating him and stomping on his head with their feet.

The ABQ Journal notes that officers also jumped on that man’s back.

According to the Journal, Rice’s tasering in the apartment led to his aggravated battery charge, which means he had intent to injure, and his subsequent strikes at the “surrendered” man were the basis for his battery charge.

The other officers involved, Shad Solis and Ronald Surran, have not been charged and, according to the police chief, remain on desk duty.

Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz publicly denounced Rice’s invasion of the apartment, saying,“Obviously, that’s a violation…You do have to have a warrant to enter.” He also expressed his anger at the false reports filed by the three officers, stating,“I am very disappointed and angry in the differences between the reports and the videos.”

The Journal reports that the tasered dog owner was charged with harboring or aiding a felon, and the man who was chased and beaten was charged with possession of marijuana and conspiracy.

The Supreme Court has stated that “hot pursuit,” or “fresh pursuit,” can override the Fourth Amendment and gives police the authority to enter someone’s property in “the need to circumvent the destruction of evidence, and the need to prevent the loss of life or serious injury,” neither of which applied to this case.

Now, Rice faces 18 months for his conduct and the entire department faces a possible federal civil rights investigation for their overuse of force.

In the past we’ve seen Albuquerque police “protect citizens” from extreme threats such as a 13-year-old boy who burped, and more recently a 6-year-old girl who was handcuffed and charged with assault for throwing a tantrum. In June they jailed a mother for an overdue Twilight book.
The sad extent police go to in trying to control our lives is an epidemic. More frequently, we’re bogged down with infuriating police state news that feeds the public’s growing perceptions that police are not working in “our best interests.” People are becoming accustomed to recoiling in fear anytime a police car is seen.

http://www.infowars.com/video-albuquerque-off...

Cop Tasers 10-Year-Old Boy For Refusing to Clean Patrol Car

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Oct 30, 2012

A state police officer in New Mexico is being sued after he allegedly tasered a child in a school playground for no reason other than he refused to clean the cop’s patrol car.

The boy’s legal guardian, Rachel Higgins, claims that Officer Chris Webb shot the boy, referred to as “R.D.”, with a 50,000 volt stun gun while visiting on a “career day” at Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School on May 4.

The complaint notes that the officer approached a group of boys and asked which of them wanted to clean his car. When R.D. said he had no desire to clean the patrol vehicle, Officer Webb is claimed to have stated “‘Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.’”

He then pointed his taser at the boy, according to the report, and fired two barbs directly into the 10-year old’s chest, electrifying him and causing him to blackout.
Webb then extracted the barbs from the child’s chest, leaving scarring ” that look like cigarette burns”.
“Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal’s

office,” the complaint states.
The complaint claims that the boy has suffered mental trauma and night terrors and is now afraid of going to sleep at night for fear he will not wake up again.

Ms Higgins stated in Santa Fe County Court that “No reasonable officer confronting a situation where the need for force is at its lowest, on a playground with elementary age children, would have deployed the Taser in so reckless a manner as to cause physical and psychological injury.”

Higgins is suing on the grounds of battery, failure to render emergency medical care, excessive force, unreasonable seizure, and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention.

Police guidelines on tasers state that the weapons must only be used as a last resort when an officer is under direct threat. The idea that a 10-year old boy weighing less than 100lbs poses any form of danger to a police officer is a joke.

Numerous studies over recent years have proven that Taser stun guns can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.

Webb’s alleged remark to the boy sums up the way many police officers see themselves, as grand overlords that cannot be questioned or challenged. To these people, anyone who reacts in a way they find disagreeable is a viable target for attack, no matter if they are a child, a pregnant woman or a person with a disability.

Earlier this month, two police officers in Texas tasered a man who was having a seizure, causing the 50-year-old to suffer a heart attack and permanent brain damage. The cops were so ill equipped to deal with the situation, that they broke out tasers and shocked a man who was already convulsing on the ground.
As we reported on Infowars Nightly news, it took paramedics 11 minutes to revive the man and bring back his pulse. It is a miracle he is still alive, though he will now have to live with severe disabilities for the rest of his life.

It is endless amounts of these kind of incidents that show cops are not being trained to use tasers only in situations when they are threatened. They are using the weapons on anyone who does not immediately respond to orders.
continued..........

http://www.infowars.com/cop-tasers-10-year-ol...

Man tasered by police calls it "brutal"

Submitted by Isabel Mascarenas, Reporter
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012, 9:04am

Pinellas Park, Florida -- Daniel Jensen wasn't running from the law, he was trying to protect his home from burning up. Yet, Pinellas Park Police tasered him in the process. Jensen and his attorney say it's an excessive use of force.

The 42-year-old father of two recalls his wife waking him around 6 in the evening, saying there's a big fire at his neighbor's house.

"I could hear it, I could feel it," he explained.

He ran outside and grabbed a fire extinguisher. He sprayed it until it was empty.

"I was calling for my daughter and getting no response. I came out, grabbed the hose and sprayed her room until I heard she was out. I was always taught to help when you can; help is what I tried to do," said Jensen.

He continued to recount the events. He said he then took the garden hose and started watering down his fence and the back corner of his rooftop, trying to prevent the fire from spreading to his property. But with each attempt, Daniel said Pinellas Park Police kept pulling him back... even though firefighters were not in sight.

"They kept telling me,'Let it go, that's what insurance is for.' That's not acceptable to me," said Jensen.

Captain Sanfield Forseth with the Pinellas Park Police Department said officers could have charged him with obstruction for not listening to an officer's orders.

"I wasn't doing that. What I was doing was what any home owner would do to protect a family and home," said Jensen.

Captain Forseth said the department will not be charging him.

When Jensen saw the fire jump on to his back roof, he again grabbed the hose. That's when he said -- unknown to him -- a police officer pulled out a taser and fired it at his back.
continued..........

http://pinellaspark.wtsp.com/news/news/151640...

Two women CAVITY SEARCHED by Texas Police after being pulled over for littering, near Dallas
rambone5·62 videos

Published on Dec 18, 2012

ADDISON, TX -- Two women say that after being pulled over for littering, Texas State Troopers insisted that they must be carrying marijuana in their vehicle and body orifices. A female officer slipped on a rubber glove, rubbed her hands all over the womens' breasts, and inside their pants where they say that there was finger penetration into their bodies. The officer did not change her glove when probing the two women.

"I was molested. I was violated. I was humiliated in front of other traffic. I had to witness my niece go through the same thing," Angel Hobbs said. "This has been an eye-opening experience for me, okay? Never been pulled over, never searched like this. It's... I mean, I was like totally violated over there a few minutes ago. I had a finger in my *** and a finger in my ****, and this is so embarrassing to me."

Attorney Pete Shulte commented that the demeanor of the officers makes the roadside search look like a routine occurrence.
continued..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch... #!

Woman Sues Police Over ‘Flash Grenade’ SWAT Raid

Cops held woman and daughter at gunpoint over “threatening” Internet posts they had never made

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 30, 2013

An Indiana woman falsely raided by a SWAT team is suing the city of Evansville and the police department after cops smashed down her door and threw flash grenades into her home in response to “threatening” Internet posts that she wasn’t even responsible for.

“Police came up empty-handed in a search for evidence about threatening Internet posts but only after damaging the house, handcuffing the woman and her granddaughter and seizing their computers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court at Evansville,” reports the Courier Press.

Police claim the raid, which occurred back in June, was justified due to Internet posts traced back to 68-year-old Louise Milan’s house which threatened to attack the police department, but the posts had been made by a suspected gang member who had hijacked Milan’s wi-fi connection because it was not password protected.

The lawsuit states that the actions of the officers “were done with malicious intent to cause severe mental and emotional distress to Milan.”

After smashing Milan’s window and her storm door, police threw two flash grenades into the home before ordering Milan and her daughter onto the floor at gunpoint. The two were handcuffed and paraded in front of their neighbors before police seized computers and a cellphone.

The police even ensured that a news camera crew was there to document the raid in order to “memorialize” the incident.

Alleged gang member Derrick Murray, who lived nearby, later admitted to a federal court that he had used his smartphone to hijack Milan’s wi-fi connection to make the threatening posts.

SWAT raids which turn out to target the wrong houses are a routine characteristic of America’s increasing decline into a police state.
continued..........

http://www.infowars.com/woman-sues-police-ove...

Drop it big whoop they are going to do whatever they want just get the hell out of there thats what i did who cares it will not change no matter what u say on here

Police cameras quietly capture license plates, collect data

Article by: ERIC ROPER ,
Star Tribune
Updated: August 10, 2012 - 4:14 PM

Police scan our license plates daily. But what is done with data?

Police in Minnesota and across the country are increasingly using small car-mounted cameras to scan thousands of license plates and pinpoint -- in real time -- stolen vehicles, suspended drivers and criminals.

Those same cameras also record the time, date and location of every car they see and store the information. That disturbs privacy advocates, who want more details about the cameras and are calling for standards to govern how police classify and retain plate-reader data.

Without a state law, departments in Minnesota are free to set their own policies on how long they keep the information. The State Patrol deletes location data after 48 hours, St. Paul police erase it in 14 days and Minneapolis retains it for a year.

Minneapolis cops captured data on 805,000 license plates in June alone, and 4.9 million so far this year. When a Star Tribune reporter requested data on his own license plate under Minnesota's open records law, the Minneapolis Police Department responded with a list of dates, times and coordinates of his car that illustrated his daily routine.

Over the course of a year, cameras in squad cars logged him heading to work on W. Franklin Avenue at 8:07 a.m. one day, returning home on Portland Avenue S. at 6:17 p.m. on another, and parking three times late at night outside a friend's house in Uptown. Police had captured the car's license plate seven times.

"The technology that would make '1984' possible in real life exists now,"
continued..........

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/...