Some More Cops Who Need to Be Fired

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[PeterMP]

On 7/14/2023 at 5:02 PM, Ball Security said:

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

 

It is a pretty stupid comment even given the basic facts.  What were the police supposed to do?

 

Let them continue driving without car seats?  They get in an accident and kids get hurt/killed.  People are mad at the police, and the government likely gets sued.

 

Let them walk home in LA late at night?

 

It isn't like the cops have car seats.  And yeah, it takes a long time get a kid out of CPS.  Because if they don't dot every i and cross every t, the government gets sued.

 

Hitting the woman was stupid, wrong, and bad.  They had time.  They can just wait it out.

 

But sometimes the government/police don't have any real good options.  Come up with solutions for those situations and not criticism.

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

[China]

Federal judge blasts Kansas Highway Patrol stop policy, saying it 'waged war' on drivers

 

A federal judge ruled Friday that a practice used by the Kansas Highway Patrol to detain motorists and, possibly, search their vehicles for drugs and other items is unconstitutional.

In a blistering 79-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil said the practice "exploits fundamental precepts of the American legal system, along with the ignorance and timidity of the motoring public."

 

The order found former KHP Superintendent Herman Jones was responsible for implementing the so-called "Kansas two-step" in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.

 

Moreover, Vratil ordered the highway patrol to show the court by early August why it should not apply its ruling to Acting Superintendent Erik Smith and issue a thorough order banning the practice, requiring better documentation of traffic stops and more thoroughly inform motorists of their constitutional rights.

 

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[Larry]

 

[China]

Ohio police chief accused of attacking homeless man in Key West for ‘no apparent reason’

 

Key West officers arrested an Ohio police chief early Friday morning after they accused him of attacking a homeless man near Duval Street.

 

Chad McArdle, 40, who leads the police force in Boston Heights, was booked into the Monroe County Jail just before 3 a.m. on a misdemeanor battery charge, according to jail records.

 

Boston Heights is a village of about 1,400 people, located about 20 miles southeast of Cleveland.

 

Police said McArdle told them an apparently bogus story claiming he was the one who had been attacked before officers found the actual victim.

 

According to a report from the Key West Police Department, authorities responded to Southard and Duval streets just after 1 a.m. after a taxi driver called 911 to report that a man, later identified as McArdle, was banging on his door and telling him that “some people wanted to kill him and that he got stabbed in the face and chest.”

 

The taxi driver told police that McArdle was then “lying on the sidewalk and crying.”

 

Police responded and said the “stressed out” and apparently “lost” McArdle couldn’t give a clear story about the supposed attack or attackers and had no injuries that were consistent with being stabbed, just a few minor scratches.

 

He claimed he had gotten pushed and dragged into a vehicle outside Durty Harry’s bar, located at 202 Duval St., by two white men, then was stabbed with a stick. McArdle told authorities he then stabbed one of the alleged attackers with the stick, likely killing him, the report states.

 

McArdle claimed the attackers then dragged him to an alleyway on Southard Street and told police he kept fighting with the men, but couldn’t describe what happened next. He also reported losing his blue “Hey Dude” shoes, police said.

 

The report states that police checked surveillance footage and couldn’t find any video evidence that matched McArdle’s statements.

 

They did, however, find a homeless man, who told them that McArdle had kicked him in the back in the alleyway, then kicked him several more times after he fell to the ground, police said.

 

An officer wrote in a watch report that the attack happened for “no apparent reason.”

 

Officers took the victim over to their cruiser and shined the spotlight in McArdle’s face, at which point the man identified McArdle as the suspect.

 

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[dfitzo53]

I would love to know the story behind that. 

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On 6/27/2023 at 7:17 PM, China said:

 

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

 

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[China]

WATCH: Arkansas deputy shoots at Pomeranian but hits woman standing on porch instead

 

A lawsuit has been filed against a Columbia County deputy, the sheriff, and the sheriff's office after the deputy shoots at a dog, but strikes a woman standing on her front porch instead.

 

Tina Hight, the woman who was shot in August 2022, still has the bullet lodged in her shin. She's now not only dealing with anxiety but also continuous doctor's appointments.

 

She initially called 911 for help, but instead was shot on her own front porch she told Seven On Your Side.

 

In the video, Columbia County Deputy Brian Williams is heard shouting at the dog: “Get back, get your dog, I’ll kill this ************. Get your God**** dog."

 

Williams then fires a warning shot, but that quickly escalates.

 

“You better get back. I’ll kill this” and then he shoots at the dog.

 

You just shot me,” Hight screams.

“I shot who?” the deputy asked.

 

Williams appeared to aim at a Pomeranian, but instead hit Hight who is standing right next to another deputy.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video

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[dfitzo53]

Well in the officer's defense, dog scratches are so similar to gunshot wounds that even doctors usually can't tell the difference. 

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[skinsmarydu]

^^^ Great article.

 

And you can't have it both ways, you morons.

[China]

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones

 

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.

 

Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”

 

The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.

 

The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting last week with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s lack of a driver’s license and conviction for drunken driving.

 

Meyer said he had never heard of police raiding a newspaper office during his 20 years at the Milwaukee Journal or 26 years teaching journalism at the University of Illinois.

 

“It’s going to have a chilling effect on us even tackling issues,” Meyer said, as well as “a chilling effect on people giving us information.”

 

The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid.

 

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Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up

 

On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

 

The deputy, Christian Dedmon, informed his colleagues Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke they were going to a property in Braxton, roughly 30 miles south of Jackson, to handle a complaint received by the office’s chief investigator, Brett McAlpin. The details of what prosecutors say happened that night were shared in a federal charging document.

 

McAlpin’s White neighbor had told him several Black men were staying at a White woman’s home there and reported seeing suspicious behavior.

 

Dedmon warned the deputies there might be surveillance cameras on the property. If they spotted any cameras, the officers should knock on the door instead of kicking it down. But if not, he told them they had free rein to barge in without a warrant.

 

“No bad mugshots,” Dedmon added in another text. The other deputies understood what he meant: They had the green light to use “excessive force” on areas of a person’s body that would not be captured in a mugshot, prosecutors said.

 

Dedmon told the others over the radio another man, off-duty Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, would also accompany them. In four separate cars, the five men pulled into the driveway of the four-bedroom, ranch-style home. McAlpin was already in the neighborhood, watching the property from down the street, and followed behind.

 

The deputies avoided a surveillance camera above the front door. Dedmon, Opdyke and Elward broke open the carport door and Hartfield kicked open the back door.

 

Entering the home without a warrant, the officers encountered two Black men: Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins. Parker was living there to help take care of the woman who owned the property. Jenkins, his friend, was staying there temporarily.

 

Over the next two hours, Parker and Jenkins were subjected to grueling violence at the hands of the six White law enforcement officers, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth.

 

The horrors the two men endured—as well as the text messages and other details in this report—were included in the federal court document filed on July 31. The six officers were charged with a combined 13 felonies in connection with “the torture and physical abuse” of the two men that night, the Justice Department said in a news release. The officers, who had been fired or had resigned after the incident, pleaded guilty to all charges against them in federal court last Thursday.

 

Some of the officers involved even called themselves “The Goon Squad” because of their willingness to “use excessive force” and not report it, according to the federal document.

 

The former officers are also facing state charges – all six are facing a charge of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, four with obstruction of justice in the first degree, two are charged with home invasion, and one with aggravated assault – and are expected to plead guilty on August 14 as part of the plea deal, according to Mississippi Deputy Attorney General Mary Helen Wall.

 

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Edited August 14, 2023 by China

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Texas police bar disabled vet from bathroom, joke after he soils himself

 

A police oversight committee in Dallas is investigating four police officers after video shows them laughing at a disabled veteran that urinated on himself. The committee watched police body cam footage on August 8 that took place after two off-duty police officers at a Dallas restaurant denied him use of the bathrooms, the Dallas Morning News reports.

 

Dynell Lane told the oversight committee that the two uniformed, off-duty officers refused to see his medical paperwork after the restaurant, Serious Pizza, refused to let him use the restroom around 2:15 a.m. on June 10. The U.S. Army veteran said he has a urine and bowel leak issue, so he called 911 but the officers didn't arrive in time. 

 

"Two Dallas police officers discriminated against me and declined to assist me in bridging the gap between myself and the Serious Pizza manager," Lane told the oversight committee at the August 8 meeting.

 

In the body cam footage, two on-duty Dallas officers walk into the restaurant and approach the two off-duty officers.

 

"So you guys made a guy pee himself?" One of the on-duty officers, a woman, asks the other officers in the video before putting a fist over her mouth as she laughs. 

 

One of the off-duty officers says "yeah" with a smile. The other off-duty officer then slaps his knee as he laughs out loud after learning Lane called 911. 

 

"He got mad you guys wouldn’t let him use the restroom and then he calls back and said it’s OK he doesn’t need to pee anymore because he soiled —" said one of the on-duty officers before apparently cutting off the body camera.

 

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[China]

East Bay police officers arrested in FBI raid

 

Nine current and former police officers in the East Bay face federal charges after a raid Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

 

The FBI's roundup of officers from the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments come after an 18-month investigation into an alleged criminal network.

 

"Today is a dark day in our city's history, as people trusted to uphold the law, allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the FBI. As our city absorbs this tragic news, we must come together as one," Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe said in a statement. "Today's actions are the beginning of the end of a long and arduous process. To those that have accused me and others of being anti-police for seeking to reform the Antioch Police Department, today’s arrests are demonstrative of the issues that have plagued the Antioch Police Department for decades. Seeking to reform the Antioch Police Department is not anti-police, it is pro our residents, and pro officers that have served and continue to serve with honor."

 

In total, nine suspects were arrested in the raid and as a result of four different indictments.

 

At least seven defendants appeared in court Thursday for their arraignments. The charges are wide ranging, including conspiring to distribute narcotics, altering and falsifying records of a federal investigation, wire fraud where officers allegedly defrauded money from the police department, civil rights violations and obstruction of justice.

 

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Ex-New York police chief who once led Gilgo Beach probe charged with soliciting sex in park

 

A former suburban New York police chief who once led the Gilgo Beach killings investigation and later went to prison for beating a suspect was arrested again Tuesday after authorities say he attempted to engage in sex with an undercover ranger at a Long Island park.

 

James Burke, Suffolk County’s police chief from 2012 to 2015, was arrested around 10:15 a.m. at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Farmingville after exposing himself to the ranger and saying he was interested in oral sex, according to an arrest report obtained by the Associated Press.

 

Burke, 58, then attempted to leverage his status as a former law enforcement official to get out of the arrest, which was part of a targeted operation spurred by complaints about people soliciting sex in the park, officials said at a news conference Tuesday.

 

As he was being taken into custody, Burke asked the rangers if they knew who he was and told them that getting arrested would be a “public humiliation for him,” Sgt. Brian Quattrini said. The ranger who arrested Burke did not recognize him, Quattrini added.

 

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[China]

Delaware state trooper suspended amid investigation into claims of assaulting teen

 

A day after a woman posted photos and a description on Facebook claiming assault by Delaware State Police troopers, the state agency issued a statement addressing the accusations.

 

In the post, the woman − who wrote it on behalf of her sister − said her 15-year-old nephew and his friends were pranking residents with "ding-dong ditch" before the reported assault occurred. It's not exactly clear where the teens were playing the game, where kids run up to a person's home and ring the doorbell, then "ditch" before someone answers.

 

The prank has been performed by kids, usually pre-teens and teens, for decades.

 

According to the woman, the boys unknowingly targeted a home owned by a state trooper. He "was not home at the time, but he was made aware by other family members in the home," she wrote.

 

Ring footage, the post said, showed the boys knock on the door and run off.

 

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The woman said as the boys walked home, two troopers stopped them. The teens were not carrying weapons, she said, emphasizing in the post the word "unarmed."

 

"The two state troopers arrested my nephews (sic) friends, then beat the living hell out of nephew," the post said. "My nephew currently has a concussion, needs surgery to repair severe eye damage (as the cops stomped on him and kicked him multiple times)."

 

She added that he is "covered in bruises, scrapes and scratches up and down his entire body."

 

"I assume that their senses kicked in and they did call an ambulance," she said before claiming that her nephew's mother wasn't told "of the beating that occurred."

 

"Internal Affairs and Detectives are currently involved, but refuse to share any information with my sister regarding the two state troopers who ASSULTED AND ALMOST KILLED my fifteen year old nephew," the post said. "All four boys have consistent stories about the events that occurred last night and any false reporting by any local news outlets about this being an attempted break in by juveniles is completely false."

 

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[GhostofSparta]

He's retired, so he can't be fired, but maybe no more pension and benefits?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shot-bar-orange-county-california-trabuco-canyon/story?id=102520201

 

 

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Retired police officer allegedly opened fire at California biker bar killing 3, injuring 6

The alleged gunman, a retired sergeant, died at the scene.

 

A retired police sergeant allegedly killed three people and wounded six others in a mass shooting at a popular Southern California biker bar, according to authorities.

 

The shooting was reported just after 7 p.m. PT Wednesday at Cook's Corner in Trabuco Canyon, and deputies responded within minutes, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

 

Dispatchers could hear the gunfire in the background as deputies tried to find the shooter, the sheriff's office said. Deputies then "contacted" an armed man and a "deputy-involved shooting involving multiple deputies occurred," the sheriff's office said.

 

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Investigators believe Snowling was targeting his estranged wife, who was injured in the mass shooting, sources told ABC News.

 

 

Police officers and domestic violence: name a more iconic duo.