Some More Cops Who Need to Be Fired

[The Sisko]

On 1/30/2023 at 12:28 PM, Cooked Crack said:

This dude wouldn't last ten minutes in prison. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the issue with Nichols Netflix and chillin' with women that are exes of one of the cops make this look a lot more like premeditated murder? Yeah, Chunk, you better cut that deal dude.

Edited February 16, 2023 by The Sisko

[China]

Wheelchair-bound Tennessee woman, 60, slurs as she pleads with cops while being arrested for refusing to leave hospital - shortly before she died of STROKE in back of police cruiser

 

Horrific footage released by police shows a wheelchair-bound woman slurring and pleading with police as she is arrested for refusing to leave hospital, just moments before she died from a stroke in the back of a cop car.

 

Knoxville Police have released their body camera video of the harrowing incident which happened at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, in Tennessee, on February 6.

Lisa Edwards, 60, had been refusing to leave the hospital and was arrested on trespassing charges when she died in the back of the police cruiser – minutes after telling cops 'you're going to kill me'.

 

The footage shows Lisa being taken into custody, gasping and wheezing before she tells officers that she 'can't breathe'. Her skin becomes grayer, and her voice more slurred as the footage continues. The latter is a well-known symptom of a stroke. 

 

Authorities released the hour and 16-minute video with a warning that some of the video may be distressing.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video

[Larry]

Kind of thinking the real outrage should be directed at the hospital who called the cops to remove a dying patient.  

 

[dfitzo53]

10 hours ago, Larry said:

Kind of thinking the real outrage should be directed at the hospital who called the cops to remove a dying patient.  

 

Why not both?

[China]

'Wheel of Fugitive' suit: Ivey can say whatever he wants, even if 'false or malicious,' lawyers say

 

Attorneys defending Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey against a defamation suit over his popular "Wheel of Fugitive" show argue the sheriff is allowed to say whatever he wants, however he wants, in the course of his duties — even if it's "false or malicious," according to a recent court filing.

 

In a motion to dismiss the case filed last week with the Brevard County courts, Ivey's attorneys argued that public officials are "absolutely immune" from defamation claims for statements made in the course of their official duties under Florida case law, regardless of whether the statements are true or harmful.

 

"(A) sheriff is absolutely immune from suit for defamation if he chooses to make public statements accusing a community member of committing a crime, even if those statements are alleged to be false or malicious," attorneys wrote in a Feb. 14 filing.

 

David Austin Gay is suing Ivey and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office after he was falsely included in four episodes of "Wheel of Fugitive" in 2021 while he was either already in jail or legally released from custody.

 

In the social media show, patterned off the "Wheel of Fortune" gameshow, Ivey spins a wheel with pictures of people he says are on the run from the law and picks a "fugitive of the week," encouraging them to turn themselves in and citizens to call in tips that could lead to their arrest.

 

A FLORIDA TODAY investigation found Gay was one of 60 non-fugitives included on the wheel between February 2020 and February 2021 who were either in jail at the time the episode aired, already free or had no active arrest warrant.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

Gang Members Hold Positions at ‘Highest Levels’ of LA Sheriff’s Department, Investigation Reveals

 

A BLISTERING NEW official investigation decries violent, lawless “deputy gangs” that continue to wield extraordinary power within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. The report delivers a call to action for new Sheriff Robert Luna: “It is time to eradicate this 50-year plague upon the County of Los Angeles.” 

 

The report identifies at “least a half dozen” active gangs and cliques — and names them: the Executioners, the Banditos, the Regulators, the Spartans, the Gladiators, the Cowboys, and the Reapers. 

 

These groups pose a threat to the general public — deputies hoping to prove themselves worthy of gang membership routinely seek out violent encounters with the public, the investigation reports — as well as to the internal command-and-control structure of LASD. The gangs “undermine supervision, destroy public trust, are discriminatory, disruptive, and act contrary to … professional policing,” the report concludes.

 

Perhaps most alarming, the investigation reveals that in recent years “tattooed deputy gang members” have risen to “the highest levels” of department leadership. It calls out recent former Sheriff Alex Villanueva (who lost his 2022 reelection bid) for betraying promises of reform by installing gang members as his right-hand men. Villanueva, the report says, “at minimum tolerated, if not rewarded deputy gangs.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

Louisville police use excessive force, invalid warrants and discriminatory stops, DOJ review finds

 

The Louisville Metro Police Department and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro government engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional behavior by routinely using excessive force, conducting searches based on invalid warrants and unlawfully discriminating against Black people in enforcement activities, a wide-ranging federal investigation found.

 

The review, conducted by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, also found that police violate the rights of those "engaged in protected speech critical of policing" and that some officers used racial slurs about Black citizens. The city has reached an agreement in principle to resolve the constitutional violations found by federal investigators, the Justice Department said.

 

The report is similar to those issued in several other cities, including Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown in 2014. The Trump administration backed away from federal investigations into unconstitutional policing, and the investigation into Louisville was announced early in the Biden administration, in 2021.

 

The Louisville investigation came in the aftermath of the botched police raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor in March 2020. Four Louisville officers were federally charged in August in connection with Taylor's death. DOJ's pattern-and-practice investigation was not a criminal probe, but rather looked at broader, systemic issues in the police department.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

Iron County Sheriff, other department members accused of helping man in alleged parental kidnapping scheme

 

The Iron County Sheriff and two deputies have been charged with multiple crimes including street gang activities, misusing 911, stalking, making a false report, looking up criminal records under false pretense and attempted kidnapping.

 

According to the charging documents, they were helping Rick Gaston, an Iron County resident, with a scheme to kidnap Gaston's children from their mother after a domestic dispute.

 

The Missouri Highway Patrol is now assisting with policing duties in the county about 95 miles south of St. Louis, and all of men have been booked into the Washington County jail.

 

Sheriff Jeff Burkett, Deputy Chase Bresnahan, Deputy Matt Cozad and Iron County resident Donald “Rick” Gaston are among those charged.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

7 Virginia Deputies Charged With Murder in Death of Man at Hospital

 

Seven sheriff’s deputies in Virginia have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black man with a history of mental illness who died after the officers smothered him as he lay on the ground in handcuffs and leg shackles at a hospital, his family’s lawyer and a county prosecutor said on Wednesday.

 

The man, Irvo Otieno, 28, of Henrico County, Va., whose family emigrated from Kenya when he was 4 years old, appeared to have died from asphyxiation, or oxygen deficiency, on March 6 at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County, his family’s lawyer, Mark Krudys, said in an interview. His family says Mr. Otieno was deprived of medication while in jail that he needed for his mental illness.

 

Three other people who were employed at Central State Hospital at the time of Mr. Otieno’s death have also been charged with second-degree murder, the Dinwiddie County prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Thursday.

 

The seven deputies from the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office “have been placed on administrative leave” until the case is closed, Sheriff Alisa Gregory of Henrico County said in a statement.

 

“The events of March 6, at their core, represent a tragedy because Mr. Otieno’s life was lost,” Sheriff Gregory said, noting that her office was cooperating with the investigation of the Virginia State Police.

 

The Dinwiddie County prosecutor, Ann Cabell Baskervill, said in court on Wednesday that Mr. Otieno had suffocated from the weight of the seven deputies smothering him, CBS 6 News reported.

 

“There is video footage of exactly what happened, and he was not agitated and combative,” Ms. Baskervill said of Mr. Otieno. “He was held down on the ground, pinned on the ground for 12 minutes by all seven of our defendants charged here.”

 

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[China]

San Diego County deputy arrested for driving vehicle through gate of military base, officials say

 

A San Diego County Sheriff's deputy has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he drove through the main gate of a military base Friday night without stopping, the sheriff's department said. The incident occurred at Naval Base Coronado. 

 

Sgt. Michael Cruz, who has been working for the sheriff's department since 2006, was off-duty at the time of the incident, the sheriff's department reported in a news release.

 

Cruz has been placed on administrative leave, the sheriff's department said, while the Coronado Police Department and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigate the incident.     

Naval Base Coronado was put on lockdown Friday night after the vehicle went through the facility's main gate without stopping, a military spokesperson said.

 

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[China]

On 3/18/2023 at 10:42 PM, China said:

7 Virginia Deputies Charged With Murder in Death of Man at Hospital

 

Seven sheriff’s deputies in Virginia have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black man with a history of mental illness who died after the officers smothered him as he lay on the ground in handcuffs and leg shackles at a hospital, his family’s lawyer and a county prosecutor said on Wednesday.

 

The man, Irvo Otieno, 28, of Henrico County, Va., whose family emigrated from Kenya when he was 4 years old, appeared to have died from asphyxiation, or oxygen deficiency, on March 6 at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County, his family’s lawyer, Mark Krudys, said in an interview. His family says Mr. Otieno was deprived of medication while in jail that he needed for his mental illness.

 

Three other people who were employed at Central State Hospital at the time of Mr. Otieno’s death have also been charged with second-degree murder, the Dinwiddie County prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Thursday.

 

The seven deputies from the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office “have been placed on administrative leave” until the case is closed, Sheriff Alisa Gregory of Henrico County said in a statement.

 

“The events of March 6, at their core, represent a tragedy because Mr. Otieno’s life was lost,” Sheriff Gregory said, noting that her office was cooperating with the investigation of the Virginia State Police.

 

The Dinwiddie County prosecutor, Ann Cabell Baskervill, said in court on Wednesday that Mr. Otieno had suffocated from the weight of the seven deputies smothering him, CBS 6 News reported.

 

“There is video footage of exactly what happened, and he was not agitated and combative,” Ms. Baskervill said of Mr. Otieno. “He was held down on the ground, pinned on the ground for 12 minutes by all seven of our defendants charged here.”

 

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Video Shows Virginia Man’s Death in Custody

 

Surveillance video from a state psychiatric hospital in Virginia shows a group of sheriff’s deputies and medical staff piling on a handcuffed man, Irvo Otieno, and pinning him on the floor for around 11 minutes, until his death on March 6.

 

The video shows at least seven deputies from the Henrico County sheriff’s office entering a room at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County and dragging Mr. Otieno, who is in handcuffs and leg shackles. The deputies set him up against a small seat and then, when he appears to make a movement, swarm around him and force him to the floor, where they pinion him until his death, the video shows.

 

The Dinwiddie County prosecutor, Ann Cabell Baskervill, has charged seven sheriff’s deputies and three employees of the hospital with second-degree murder. On Tuesday afternoon, a grand jury in Dinwiddie County formally indicted the 10, confirming the prosecutor’s charges.

 

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[China]

South Carolina deputies disciplined after 1 shot during ‘horseplay’ while training

 

Three Greenville County deputies have been disciplined following an investigation after friendly fire left one deputy with a foot injury.

 

The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation on Feb. 22 after a deputy shot another deputy during a training exercise in Abbeville County. The sheriff’s office said the deputies were training with blank rounds during a controlled exercise near Industrial Park Drive.

 

After the training exercise, deputies were securing equipment when one of the deputies fired a blank round from a simulation gun at another in an act of “horseplay.” The second deputy responded by firing back, forgetting he had already switched back to his duty weapon, and struck the first deputy in the foot.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Uh huh "forgot". 

 

[China]

Kansas City police officer files lawsuit alleging forced discrimination in minority neighborhoods

 

The lawsuit alleges that Kansas City police officers were told it would be easier to write up multiple citations during traffic stops in minority neighborhoods.

 

A white Kansas City, Missouri, police officer has filed a lawsuit with a slew of complaints against the Kansas City Police Department, including accusations that some in the division regularly used racist language and forced badge bearers to use racist policing tactics.

 

The lawsuit — which was filed mid-March in Jackson County Court by 21-year police force veteran Edward Williams, 44 — alleges that KCPD officers were told to only respond to distress calls from predominately white neighborhoods and to target minority neighborhoods for issuing tickets.

 

According to NPR, officers were told it would be easier to write up multiple citations during traffic stops in minority neighborhoods. They were allegedly threatened with unfavorable shifts or told they would be kicked out of the traffic unit if they were unable to meet ticket quotas — which are illegal, according to Missouri law.

 

Rick Smith, the former Kansas City police chief who retired in April 2022 after five years, was allegedly the ringleader of this behavior, according to the complaint, per NPR. The current chief, Stacey Graves, said last week the squad does not enforce the law based on demographics.

 

Williams says that he was retaliated against for being a whistleblower and was discriminated against after an injury. He is seeking monetary damages, per NPR.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Conservative sheriff federally indicted in scheme to illegally purchase machine guns and let political supporter rent them out

 

A longtime sheriff in Frederick County, Maryland faces a multi-count federal indictment in connection with an alleged scheme to lie to the government on sheriff’s office paperwork so a gun store owner who promised political support would be able to acquire and rent out machine guns to members of the public.

 

Charles “Chuck” Austin Jenkins, 66, and Robert Justin Krop, 36, face counts of conspiracy to interfere with a government function and to violate federal law regulating machine guns, false statements during the purchase of firearms, false statements in records maintained by a federal licensee, and false statements to the ATF. Krop is additionally charged with knowingly and unlawfully possessing a FN Herstal SCAR 17, a FN Herstal SCAR 16 CQC, a FN Herstal SCAR 16, a KRISS USA Vector SMG, a Remington ACR, a FN P90 Tactical, and a FN M249 SAW.

 

Jenkins is accused of conspiring to illegally buy machine guns through the use of his office’s letterhead so Krop, a political supporter and owner of The Machine Gun Nest, could obtain and rent out the aforementioned firearms to private citizens, according to the indictment.

 

Click on the link for the full article 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Why New Mexico has one of the highest rates for killings by police

 

Last week, officers with the Farmington, N.M., Police Department responded to a call of a domestic violence incident. Police mistakenly arrived at the wrong house and shot and killed Robert Dotson after he opened his door armed with a handgun.

 

New Mexico State Police are still investigating the incident, but the fatal shooting of the 52-year-old is just the latest example of police using lethal force against civilians in a state where this happens too frequently, critics say.

 

Home to about 2.1 million people, New Mexico has one of the highest rates of police killings per capita in the country.

 

Last year, 32 people — around 15 people per million — were killed by police in the state, according to data from MappingPoliceViolence.org. The project is part of Campaign Zero, a nonprofit focused on policing reform.

 

New Mexico is second to Wyoming, with a population of about 581,000, where around 17 people per million were killed by police.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

'Evil comes in many forms': Georgia sheriff fires, arrests deputy on child sex crime charges

 

A Georgia deputy is behind bars after being charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

 

According to Jones County Sheriff Butch Reece, Deputy Kevin Harden was fired and arrested Thursday.

 

"Personally I am disgusted by this behavior and wish to convey my prayers to any child or parent who have been victims of Sexual Exploitation," Reece said in a Facebook post. "Evil comes in many forms and anyone involved in sexually exploiting or harming a child should realize there is a special place in hell for them."

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

911 dispatcher busted sexting 7 cops, having sex w/ two of them

 

‘I miss your lips!’ A married Texas 911 dispatcher is alleged to have sexted seven police officers and having sexual affairs with two of them after her husband found sordid text messages on her phone.

 

Krystle Perez, a 38-year-old overnight dispatcher at San Antonio’s Bexar County Sheriff’s Department, was placed on leave following the discovery of the ‘graphic’ messages authorities said. 

 

Perez’s husband Giancarlo Perez, 41, found the inappropriate text messages the female dispatcher is alleged to have exchanged with a sergeant, a deputy and four other officers employed by the force, including a cop at a nearby department.

 

One of those officers, Deputy Juan Leal, has been placed on unpaid leave as a result of the recent revelation, whereas another, Deputy Jason Jarvis, has been hit with a proposed suspension of 30 days.

 

Sergeant Renaldo Salinas has also been placed on leave without pay, as the department continues to vet the salacious text messages. Messages sent to Salinas suggest he and Perez met up for sex, while Jarvis’s wife – who’s now divorcing him – said he admitted an affair to her.

 

Many of the messages leaked to the department by Perez’s jilted husband are extremely sexual in nature, while others recount Perez’spast exploits with two of the officers in overt detail. News 4 San Antonio on Friday shared screenshots  of some of the messages sent out from Perez’s phone.

 

‘I feel so Hot and Sexy when I’m in you,’ reads a message sent by Salinas to Perez.

 

‘I can feel it all of it and I love it,’ the 911 dispatcher responded.

 

Yes kids, fun and games have arrived at your San Antonio local police station.

 

Other messages revealed similar texts, with several others sent between Perez and Salinas indicating the pair had been engaging in extramarital affairs.

 

‘We need another hotel day,’ a sext from Salinas sent in response reads, suggesting a previous illicit tryst. The message garnered a show of affirmation from the dispatcher, whose prospective termination is currently under review by the department’s internal affairs office.

 

‘Yes!!’ she wrote, before asking when the high-ranking officer ‘was back on nights.’ Salinas responded ‘Friday,’ with the rest of the thread purposely omitted due to its explicit nature.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

[Ball Security]

On 4/14/2023 at 7:11 PM, China said:

Why New Mexico has one of the highest rates for killings by police

 

Last week, officers with the Farmington, N.M., Police Department responded to a call of a domestic violence incident. Police mistakenly arrived at the wrong house and shot and killed Robert Dotson after he opened his door armed with a handgun.

 

New Mexico State Police are still investigating the incident, but the fatal shooting of the 52-year-old is just the latest example of police using lethal force against civilians in a state where this happens too frequently, critics say.

 

Home to about 2.1 million people, New Mexico has one of the highest rates of police killings per capita in the country.

 

Last year, 32 people — around 15 people per million — were killed by police in the state, according to data from MappingPoliceViolence.org. The project is part of Campaign Zero, a nonprofit focused on policing reform.

 

New Mexico is second to Wyoming, with a population of about 581,000, where around 17 people per million were killed by police.

 

Click on the link for the full article

I can’t get past this story. Where is the NRA on this? 
 

How ****ing dumb are those three cops? They should be in jail. I know they won’t.

[China]

'Cop City' activist Manuel Paez Terán shot 57 times in Atlanta, autopsy says

 

A 'Cop City' activist killed by police was shot 57 times, according to a state autopsy report.

 

Manuel Paez Terán, 26, had been protesting a controversial police and firefighter training site in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Police have said Terán fired a gun, injuring a state trooper in the 18 January incident.

 

Terán's family has said they will file a lawsuit to force police to release more information.

 

An environmental activist, Terán went by the name Tortuguita and used they/them pronouns.

 

Terán's body had gunshot wounds all over, including the head, torso, hands, and legs, according to the autopsy report obtained by CBS News, the BBC's media partner in the US.

Last month, Terán's family released results of their own, independent autopsy, which claimed Terán was shot with their hands raised.

 

'Cop City' activist Manuel Paez Terán's family release own autopsy

But the Dekalb County Medical Examiner noted the autopsy could not draw conclusions about Terán's body position at the time of the shooting.

 

"Since most shootings involving multiple gunshots are dynamic events, attempts to place the decedent in any particular position at a specific point in time is fraught with potential inaccuracies," the report stated.

 

The environmental activist was shot while demonstrating with other protesters at the site of a proposed 85-acre, $90m (£74m) police and firefighter training centre dubbed "Cop City" by its critics.

 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said ballistics evidence suggested the injured trooper was shot with a bullet from a gun that belonged to Terán, purchased in 2020.

 

However, the state autopsy found no "gunpower residue" on Terán's clothes or around any of the gunshot wounds, which would suggest Terán had shot a firearm.

 

There was no body camera footage of the event.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[CobraCommander]

Okla. Sheriff and County Officials Caught on Recording Discussing Lynching Black People and Killing Journalists (msn.com)

 

Okla. Sheriff and County Officials Caught on Recording Discussing Lynching Black People and Killing Journalists

Story by Corin Cesaric • Wednesday

 

"They don't have a G-- d--- clue what they're getting into," Jennings says. "Not this day and age. I'm gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when Alan Marston would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I'd run for f-----g sheriff."

"Yeah. Well, It's not like that nomore," Clardy responds.

(Marston was the McCurtain County Sheriff in the 1980s, according to The Oklahoman.)

"I know," Jennings says. "Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can't do that anymore. They got more rights than we got."

[GoCommiesGo]

It blows my mind that as a country, we don't have a single universal standard for police training. State to state we can have wildly different standards from recruitment, training and continuous learning for LEOs. 

 

In some states training requirements are set at county levels or lower. I will never understand it. Hell in some places it takes more training to be a cosmetologist then a cop. 

 

I live in Anne Arundel County Maryland. The minimum requirements to be a county cop are; 

 

 

U.S. Citizen, at least 21 years old at the time of graduation from the academy, H.S. Diploma or GED, valid driver’s license.

** No Felony or Serious Misdemeanor Convictions.

To be a teacher the minimum requirements in the same county; 

Minimum Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made on request to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education
·  Bachelor’s degree in applicable field of education from a regionally accredited college or university.