Some More Cops Who Need to Be Fired

[JSSkinz]

whoops

 

 

Edited July 3, 2019 by JSSkinz

[Kosher Ham]

That's a video game.  Strange post. 

[JSSkinz]

On 7/3/2019 at 11:49 AM, Kosher Ham said:

That's a video game.  Strange post. 

Are you serious? Fooled me, here's the Twitter thread, I don't see anyone mentioning its a video game.

 

Edited July 5, 2019 by JSSkinz

[Chew]

Oh boy. 

 

 

 

[China]

Red Oak Man Wins Settlement After Being Arrested for Criticizing Police

 

ADAMS COUNTY, Iowa -- The Adams County Sheriff's Office is paying a Red Oak man $10,000 after wrongfully arresting him for criticizing officers.

 

Jon Goldsmith was arrested last year and charged with a simple misdemeanor harassment after he criticized the actions of a deputy at a festival in Corning.

 

At the festival, Goldsmith said he saw Adams County Sheriff's Deputy Cory Dorsey body slam someone and pull over a motorist for a brake light and conduct a drug dog search of the man's car. No drugs were found, and Goldsmith felt the man was mistreated.

 

Goldsmith shared the mugshot of the man he said was body slammed and criticized the deputy on Facebook. The post contained a lot of curse words, but the ACLU says no threats were made.

 

Goldsmith and the ACLU filed a lawsuit in May accusing the sheriff's department of violating his first amendment rights.

 

“It's not a fine line between protected free speech and harassment. There is strong protection under the First Amendment to criticize police or other government officials and to do that even in ways that are annoying, offensive, vulgar, use curse words; all of that is protected by the First Amendment,” said Rita Bettis Austen, legal director for the ACLU of Iowa.

 

This week the sheriff's department agreed to pay Goldsmith $10,000 in damages as well as his attorney fees. The department must also take part in a free speech training and adopt a social media policy that will be approved by the ACLU.

[Dan T.]

A Florida cop planted meth on random drivers, police say. One lost custody of his daughter.

by Meagan Flynn, Washington Post

 

 

The meth seemed to appear out of thin air.

 

Benjamin Bowling couldn’t figure it out. He had been clean ever since his release from prison on a DUI conviction, but now a Jackson County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy was accusing him of possessing a minuscule amount of methamphetamine.

 

It was October 2017 and Bowling was on his way to the store to pick up diapers with his friend Shelly Smith when they saw the flashing lights swirl in the rearview mirror. He had been out of prison for less than a year, doing everything he could to get his life back on track. He passed all his drug tests. He had recently been awarded custody of his daughter. But deputy Zachary Wester was escalating a traffic stop for swerving over a white line into a search for illicit drugs.

 

Bowling and Smith, confident they had nothing to hide, told Wester to go ahead and search the car after he claimed to smell marijuana, assuring him he wouldn’t find any.

 

He emerged with meth.

 

Now, nearly two years after Bowling lost custody of the daughter he had just gotten back, after he was convicted of felony meth possession, he knows exactly how it got there. Wester, state investigators now say, planted it himself — and Bowling was far from the only victim.

 

Wester, who was fired last September, was arrested Wednesday and charged with 52 counts of racketeering, false imprisonment, official misconduct, fabricating evidence and possession of controlled substances, among other charges. He’s accused of indiscriminately targeting innocent drivers and hauling them off to jail after planting meth or marijuana in their vehicles while feigning a “search."

 

Bowling, who has since been cleared, is just one of 11 known victims named in the affidavit, although the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Wednesday that there may be more victims who have not yet been identified, and the case remains under investigation. At least 119 cases involving Wester have been dropped, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. In addition to the dropped charges, Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson ordered at least eight inmates released from correctional facilities last fall, as 263 cases remained under review.

 

“There is no question that Wester’s crimes were deliberate and that his actions put innocent people in jail,” Chris Williams, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s assistant special agent in charge, said in a news release.

 

More here,  including an account of him stopping a couple with small children in the car and arresting the woman for meth, who had never done drugs in her life.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/11/florida-cop-meth-drugs-arrests-scandal/?utm_term=.92ba6cc5edc4

 

 

Video that got him busted.  He's palming something in his hand at 4:53 as he starts the search.

https://www.tallahassee.com/videos/news/2018/09/20/watch-it-body-camera-video-zachary-wester-traffic-stop-full-length-video/1364399002/

 

Edited July 11, 2019 by Dan T.

[Destino]

There is no more dangerous criminal than a dirty cop.  You can’t so much as raise a hand towards them even while they’re destroying (or ending) your life.  They are the worst of the worst. 

[Dan T.]

1 hour ago, Destino said:

There is no more dangerous criminal than a dirty cop.  You can’t so much as raise a hand towards them even while they’re destroying (or ending) your life.  They are the worst of the worst. 

 

 

They damage the very foundation of justice.

[visionary]

 

[thegreaterbuzzette]

Knew it was only a matter of time til Pensacola made the list.

 

Shockingly it was a white kid.

 

 

[China]

NYPD Used Deadly Force to Stop Cyclist Suspected of Running Red Light

 

I'm running you over to protect you!

 

An NYPD officer used his SUV squad car as a battering ram to stop a earbud-wearing Citi Bike rider who had allegedly run two red lights and ignored an order to pull over— and then the NYPD justified the deadly force by saying the agency “vigorously supports Vision Zero,” which is supposed to champion safe driving and the protection of the city’s most vulnerable road users.

 

How you view the bizarre sequence of events likely depends on how dangerous you believe cyclists are. Statistics show that virtually every road fatality has been caused by drivers of cars and trucks — but the NYPD continues to enforce traffic laws in a manner that suggests cops often see bicycle riders as a more-serious threat to the public.

 

This much is certain: At around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, a Ninth Precinct officer used his squad car to cut off a southbound-pedaling cyclist in a painted bike lane on Avenue A near E. Seventh Street. The cyclist was not injured but the incident was violent and sudden enough to cause the Citi Bike to become lodged inside the squad car’s rear wheel well.

 

When the unprotected cyclist objected to how he was run into by the cop, the unidentified officer explained his use of deadly force with a monologue reminiscent of the passage from “1984”: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (video below).

 

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Cooked Crack]

 

[ClaytoAli]

Oops

Edited July 15, 2019 by ClaytoAli

[Cooked Crack]

The police aren't your friend.

[Llevron]

14 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

This **** right here is crazy. Not only did he hold a police office in full uniform at gun point. But he called the police saying that the man (not officer) had a gun and that he wouldnt leave (as he help the elevator open to keep him there and at gun point. 

 

[JSSkinz]

I hope that police officer owns that security company when its all said and done.

 

You shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun when you're that stupid.

 

 

[Mr. Sinister]

You shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun when you're that racist

[ClaytoAli]

On 7/13/2019 at 5:23 PM, thegreaterbuzzette said:

Knew it was only a matter of time til Pensacola made the list.

 

Shockingly it was a white kid.

 

Dunno man on this one, he tried to do a push up with the cop on his back. Caught a combo for it, I’d feel the same if he was a melinin man. 

On 7/13/2019 at 10:08 PM, China said:

NYPD Used Deadly Force to Stop Cyclist Suspected of Running Red Light

 

I'm running you over to protect you!

 

An NYPD officer used his SUV squad car as a battering ram to stop a earbud-wearing Citi Bike rider who had allegedly run two red lights and ignored an order to pull over— and then the NYPD justified the deadly force by saying the agency “vigorously supports Vision Zero,” which is supposed to champion safe driving and the protection of the city’s most vulnerable road users.

 

How you view the bizarre sequence of events likely depends on how dangerous you believe cyclists are. Statistics show that virtually every road fatality has been caused by drivers of cars and trucks — but the NYPD continues to enforce traffic laws in a manner that suggests cops often see bicycle riders as a more-serious threat to the public.

 

This much is certain: At around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, a Ninth Precinct officer used his squad car to cut off a southbound-pedaling cyclist in a painted bike lane on Avenue A near E. Seventh Street. The cyclist was not injured but the incident was violent and sudden enough to cause the Citi Bike to become lodged inside the squad car’s rear wheel well.

 

When the unprotected cyclist objected to how he was run into by the cop, the unidentified officer explained his use of deadly force with a monologue reminiscent of the passage from “1984”: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (video below).

 

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

This is one of those “I f’ed up but I can explain it and it makes sense to me”.

[Passepartout]

One bad apples ruins the whole entire seed or so they say with cops these days. But not all of them are bad. Just the bad ones make the news.

[visionary]

 

[Cooked Crack]

Just Republican things

 

[visionary]

 

 

 

[China]

Laquan McDonald: Chicago officers fired for alleged cover-up of shooting

 

The Chicago Police Board has fired four officers for allegedly covering up the 2014 fatal police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.

 

Sgt Stephen Franko and officers Daphne Sebastian, Janet Mondragon and Ricardo Viramontes were dismissed on Thursday after a vote by the nine-member board.

 

The board determined the officers had exaggerated the threat level of the 17-year-old to justify the shooting.

 

Jason Van Dyke, who killed McDonald, was convicted of murder last year.

 

The police board on Thursday voted unanimously to dismiss three of the officers, with one member dissenting in the decision to fire Ms Sebastian as she was not found to have lied.

 

The officers may appeal the firings in court.

 

The four were accused of making false statements about the shooting, which saw Van Dyke fire 16 shots at the teenager in a span of 15 seconds.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Grumpy Vet]

I'm curious how everyone feels about this:

 

People throwing water on NY Cops

 

I get there are a lot of problems with the public vs. the police, but I can't imagine doing something like above.

Edited July 23, 2019 by Grumpy Vet

[Cooked Crack]

People are angry but not the best way to go about it. The police reps not helping though. Instead of blaming policies and anti-police rhetoric maybe focus on why people pissed off in the first place. Just turning off people who might be sympathetic on this occasion.