Some More Cops Who Need to Be Fired

[China]

For Black drivers, a police officer's first 45 words are a portent of what's to come

 

When a police officer stops a Black driver, the first 45 words said by that officer hold important clues about how their encounter is likely to go.

 

Car stops that result in a search, handcuffing, or arrest are nearly three times more likely to begin with the police officer issuing a command, such as "Keep your hands on the wheel" or "Turn the car off."

 

That's according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examined police body-camera footage of 577 routine car stops involving Black drivers.

 

Eighty-one of these stops ultimately involved searches, handcuffings, or arrests. That kind of outcome was less likely when a police officer's first words provided a reason for the stop.

 

"The first 45 words, which is less than 30 seconds on average, spoken by a law enforcement officer during a car stop to a Black driver can be quite telling about how the stop will end," says Eugenia Rho, a researcher at Virginia Tech.

 

Amid the recent high-profile killing of Tyre Nichols and other Black motorists after traffic stops, the findings offer a grim sketch of how police stops can escalate and how Black men recognize the warning signs.

 

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[China]

NYPD officer cites 'courtesy cards,' used by friends and family of cops, as source of corruption

 

A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of his colleagues on the force, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that lets people with a connection to law enforcement avoid traffic tickets.

 

Though not officially recognized by the NYPD, the laminated cards have long been treated as a perk of the job. The city’s police unions issue them to members, who circulate them among those who want to signal their NYPD connections — often to get out of minor infraction like speeding or failing to wear a seat belt.

 

In a federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan this week, Officer Mathew Bianchi described a practice of selective enforcement with consequences for officers who don’t follow the unwritten policy. Current and retired officers now have access to hundreds of cards, giving them away in exchange for a discount on a meal or a home improvement job, he said.

 

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[Larry]

Cop should be fired for putting that weapon in the same compartment as the prisoner.  

 

 

[GhostofSparta]

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Indiana Police Officer Fired Over Racist George Floyd, Martin Luther King Memes Posted on Facebook Just 2 Days After Being Sworn-In

 

An Indiana police department has fired an officer after only two days on the job for racist social media posts he made before getting hired, according to local news reports.

 

Chaz Foy started working for the Marion Police Department on Monday, according to a Facebook post by the department, but was fired on Wednesday, Police Chief Angela Haley said in a statement.

 

Haley said "some racist posts" on the officer's personal Facebook account were brought to her attention on Tuesday. After she reviewed them, she said, she determined they were "not in keeping with the standards of the Marion Police Department."

 

"I do not condone this type of behavior and will not tolerate it," Haley added.

 

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[China]

Florida police officer drives off after he’s stopped for speeding

 

An argumentative Orlando police officer was fired after authorities said he fled from a traffic stop in his police cruiser.

 

Seminole County deputies say Officer Alexander Shaouni was on his way to work at the Orlando Police Department around 12:15 p.m. when he was caught going 80 mph in a 45 mph zone Tuesday, June 6. Deputies said they had to drive over 90 mph just to catch up with Officer Shaouni as he blew past them.

 

After several failed attempts to stop the officer, deputies pulled alongside Shaouni’s cruiser and ordered him to pull over through the passenger-side window.

 

“What? I am going into work, my man,” Shaouni can be heard shouting in a body camera video. “Why are you trying to pull me over as I am going into work?”

 

“Because you are going 80 in a 45,” one deputy responds. “Let me see your driver’s license.”

 

“No,” Shaouni fires back before climbing back into his cruiser and driving off.

 

Deputies easily identified Officer Shaouni via his badge and police cruiser number. Shaouni was charged with reckless driving, fleeing or eluding police with lights and sirens active, and resisting an officer without violence. His bond was set at $9,000.

 

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[TheGreatBuzz]

AG MG just made a statement about the Minneapolis PD investigation.  It's bad.  I notice he did not announce any arrests.

[China]

Here’s the statement from DOJ:

 

Justice Department Finds Civil Rights Violations by the Minneapolis Police Department and the City of Minneapolis

 

Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and the City of Minneapolis (City) engage in a pattern or practice of conduct in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal law. The Department also announced that the city and MPD have agreed in principle to resolve the Department’s findings through a court enforceable consent decree with an independent monitor, rather than through contested litigation.

 Specifically, the Justice Department finds that the MPD:

• Uses excessive force, including unjustified deadly force and unreasonable use of tasers;
• Unlawfully discriminates against Black people and Native American people in its enforcement activities, including the use of force following stops;
• Violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech; and
• Along with the city, discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to calls for assistance.

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And Biden’s response:

 

 

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[China]

2 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

 

Fired or resigned?  Why haven't they been arrested themselves?

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

I guess he doesn't need to be fired now...

 

Pennsylvania cop overdoses and dies from drugs he stole from evidence locker

 

An investigation has been launched after a Pennsylvania police officer died from a drug overdose, WYMT reported.

 

West Hills Police Sergeant Michael Beblar died on June 13. After an autopsy was performed, fentanyl, hydrocodone and xylazine were found in his system.

 

Hero behind the badge, or heroin behind the badge?

 

According to Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees, Beblar, 40, took the drug from an evidence locker within the department. When going through Beblar’s personal items, investigators found drugs that were entered as evidence from current and past cases.

 

“I think it’s safe to say this wasn’t a one-off occurrence. How long it was going on? Frankly, we’ll never know,” Neugebaur said.

 

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[China]

Oklahoma sheriff connected to audio with racist comments can’t be removed from office, AG says

 

An Oklahoma sheriff who allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and comments about killing journalists will not face criminal charges and cannot be removed from office, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.

 

In a letter to Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Friday, the state’s Attorney General Gentner Drummond said his office completed an investigation and found “no evidence” that McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy committed any criminal act in the audio, which caused nationwide outrage. Drummond, a Republican, said state law doesn’t allow elected officials to be ousted “merely for saying something offensive.”

 

McCurtain County is in southeastern Oklahoma, about 200 miles from Oklahoma City.

 

In April, Stitt, who is also Republican, asked Gentner to conduct an investigation after the McCurtain Gazette-News newspaper published audio it said was recorded following a Board of Commissioners meeting on March 6.

 

The paper said the audio of the meeting was legally obtained, but the McCurtain County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that it was illegally recorded and was investigating. The sheriff’s office also said it believed the recording had been altered.

 

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[China]

Deputies accused a Texas sheriff of corruption and dysfunction. Then came the mass shooting

 

Sheriff Greg Capers was the classic picture of a Texas lawman as he announced the capture of a suspected mass killer: white cowboy hat on his head, gold star pinned to his chest, white cross on his belt and a large pistol emblazoned with his name on his hip.

 

For four days, Francisco Oropeza had evaded hundreds of officers after allegedly killing five neighbors when they complained that his late-night shooting was keeping their baby awake. The sheriff said his deputies arrived in 11 minutes, but Oropeza was gone. With the search over, Capers had a message for the victims’ families.

 

“They can rest easy now,” Capers told a row of television cameras in May. The burly sheriff later personally hauled the “coward” across a town square into court.

 

But an Associated Press investigation led the sheriff’s office to disclose that deputies took nearly four times as long as Capers initially said to arrive at the mass shooting.

 

The AP also found Capers’ turn in the national spotlight belied years of complaints about corruption and dysfunction that were previously unknown outside the piney woods of San Jacinto County.

 

Capers did not directly respond to requests for comment.

 

What has played out under his watch is indicative of challenges police face across rural America, where small staffs must patrol vast jurisdictions. It also reveals the difficulty in holding powerful law enforcement officials accountable in isolated areas with little outside oversight.

 

Former deputies said Capers’ office has long neglected basic police work while pursuing asset seizures that boost its $3.5 million budget but don’t always hold up in court.

 

Deputies did not arrest Oropeza last year after he was reported for domestic violence and never contacted federal authorities to check his immigration status, although immigration officials say he was in the country illegally. Capers’ department also appears to have done little to investigate after another family’s call to 911 reporting a different man’s backyard gunfire nearly struck their young daughter.

 

The county paid $240,000 in 2020 to settle a whistleblower’s lawsuit accusing Capers of wide-ranging misconduct. Last year, county leaders hired a police consulting firm to examine the sheriff’s office but disregarded its recommendation to have the Texas Rangers’ public corruption squad investigate.

 

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[China]

Toronto police closing bar at headquarters

 

A licensed fully stocked bar inside a lounge for senior officers at the Toronto Police Service's headquarters is being closed, police confirmed to CBC Toronto on Sunday. The decision comes after CBC Toronto reported an officer entered the lounge hours before being charged with impaired driving.

 

The chief's office and Executive Officers Lounge Committee notified senior officers in May that the bar's liquor licence would not be renewed, a police spokesperson said in an email. Police have not linked the closure to CBC's reporting or the impaired driving charges brought against Supt. Riyaz Hussein.

 

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Cop who turned off bodycam before slamming man’s head into glass wall is convicted after store security footage is revealed

 

A former Delaware police officer was convicted of crimes related an excessive force incident that took place in September 2021, according to a press release from the state’s attorney general.

 

A jury found Samuel Waters guilty Monday of felony Tampering With Public Records in the First-Degree, Falsifying Business Records, Assault in the Third-Degree, and Official Misconduct. According to the state’s Department of Justice, the conviction marks “the first conviction at trial in a police use of force case during Attorney General Kathy Jennings’ tenure.”

 

Waters reportedly smashed Dwayne Brown‘s head against the wall of a convenience store and then lied about the circumstances of the incident and subsequent arrest in official reports.

 

 

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The Division of Civil Rights & Public Trust (DCRPT) first opened its investigation into Samuel Waters after discovering footage of a September 21, 2021 incident in which he repeatedly forced a man’s head against a plexiglass window, causing lacerations and bruising. The incident came to DCRPT’s attention after surveillance video of the arrest went viral.

 

Wilmington PD supervisors and investigators informed DCRPT that Waters had failed to turn his body worn camera on when he should have (and regularly failed to do so), that he had lied in official documentation of the incident, and that just 9 days prior he was involved in another excessive force incident wherein he used his nightstick to repeatedly apply downward pressure on the back of a victim’s neck, pushing their face into the back of a vehicle and causing injuries.  

 

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[China]

Texas Police Fined A Puerto Rican Man After Wrongly Claiming He Lacked A Valid Driver's License

 

A police officer in Arlington, Texas, ticketed a Puerto Rican man for not having a valid driver’s license after wrongly insisting that the man’s license was not an acceptable form of ID for drivers in the United States. During the exchange with the police officer, Puerto Rican native Luis Ángel Alvelo explained that his license was, indeed, valid in the U.S. for those operating a motor vehicle, but the police officer argued that it wasn’t, despite the license being a form of REAL ID.

 

Alvelo recorded the exchange and shared it via Tik Tok and Twitter, where CBS News correspondent David Begnaud broke down what happened during the traffic stop:

 

 

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An LA deputy punched a woman in the face as she held her 3-week-old baby, video shows

 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released disturbing body-worn camera footage of a year-old incident in which a deputy punched a Black woman in the face twice as authorities wrested her 3-week-old baby out of her arms despite her pleas.

 

It happened during a late-night traffic stop on July 13, 2022, when Palmdale deputies stopped a car that was driving without headlights and smelled alcohol coming from it. They found four women holding three infants in their laps, and decided to arrest them and the driver for child endangerment, the sheriff's office said.

 

The deputies used force on two of the women to arrest them and pry their children from their arms, as seen in the troubling 8 1/2-minute video. None of the people involved have been publicly identified. 

 

 

Sheriff Robert Luna, who took office in December, said at a Wednesday press conference that the incident had been referred for an internal affairs investigation shortly after it happened, which was months before he took office last winter — and that he only found out about it this weekend when a concerned area chief brought it to his attention.

 

"I found the punching of the woman in these circumstances completely unacceptable," Luna said, adding that he had released the video in order to be transparent with the public.

 

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[China]

Body Cam Catches Glimpse Inside a Seattle Police Precinct and What You’ll See Will Disgust You

 

Well, well, well. The inside of the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct has been exposed for its disgraceful interior. I don’t mean that as in unclean (which it certainly could be). According to The Seattle Times, we’re talking “Trump 2020” flags and a mock tombstone of a Black man who was killed by the police.

 

Body camera footage from January 2021 was seized as a part of an ongoing lawsuit challenging the city’s graffiti laws after the arrest of protestors who wrote political statements on the precinct’s wall with chalk, the report says. Ironically, that footage exposed a whole bunch of the officer’s own political beliefs displayed on the inside. In the video a “Trump 2020 Keep America Great” flag is seen hanging on the wall of the break room.

 

That is almost to be expected but what really crossed the line was the mock tombstone sitting on a shelf displaying a Black power fist. On it was the name of Damarius Butts, a 19-year-old boy who was killed by a hail of 11 bullets at the officers in April 2017 after fleeing a robbery. The report says the officers took it from a Black Lives Matter memorial for people who were killed by the police.

 

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5 hours ago, China said:

An LA deputy punched a woman in the face as she held her 3-week-old baby, video shows

 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released disturbing body-worn camera footage of a year-old incident in which a deputy punched a Black woman in the face twice as authorities wrested her 3-week-old baby out of her arms despite her pleas.

 

It happened during a late-night traffic stop on July 13, 2022, when Palmdale deputies stopped a car that was driving without headlights and smelled alcohol coming from it. They found four women holding three infants in their laps, and decided to arrest them and the driver for child endangerment, the sheriff's office said.

 

The deputies used force on two of the women to arrest them and pry their children from their arms, as seen in the troubling 8 1/2-minute video. None of the people involved have been publicly identified. 

 

 

Sheriff Robert Luna, who took office in December, said at a Wednesday press conference that the incident had been referred for an internal affairs investigation shortly after it happened, which was months before he took office last winter — and that he only found out about it this weekend when a concerned area chief brought it to his attention.

 

"I found the punching of the woman in these circumstances completely unacceptable," Luna said, adding that he had released the video in order to be transparent with the public.

 

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Not a great quote by the mayor if the there was alcohol involved as mentioned in the first paragraph.

 

Mayor Karen Bass called the video enraging and disturbing, and said the acts shown in it must be condemned openly. 

"The idea that you would assault a mother with a child in her arms and then subject that child to the child welfare system just because the child didn't have a car seat is an abuse of power," she said in a statement shared with NPR. "When a child goes into the child welfare system, it can take months for that child to be returned. That process can result in lifelong trauma for both the mother and the child."

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Detroit Police commissioner caught in car with a prostitute: ‘This is all a big misunderstanding’

 

A member of the Detroit Police Board of Commissioners has resigned after he was caught with a prostitute in his car, The New York Post reported. 

 

District 1 representative for the DPBC Bryan Ferguson announced his resignation this Thursday.

 

“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the residents of Detroit in police oversight,” Ferguson told the Detroit Free Press in a statement. “After further consideration of the best interests of my family and the Board, I am choosing to resign as District 1 Police Commissioner effective immediately.”

 

Ferguson was spotted in the car with the sex worker by Undercover narcotics agents this Wednesday morning. When he was discovered by the agents, he told him that he was on the Board and asked him they could “help him out.”

 

“At that time, Mr. Bryan Ferguson stepped out, identified himself as a Detroit police commissioner,” Capt. Jason Bates told Fox 2 Detroit. “A title or position doesn’t make them above the law.”

 

Speaking to the Free Press, Bates said the incident was a “big misunderstanding” and he “has nothing to hide.” He claimed the sex worker hopped into his truck and “just pulled up right on me.”

 

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