Some More Cops Who Need to Be Fired

[China]

Spotsylvania deputy arrested, fired, after picking up a DUI charge in the county

 

A Spotsylvania deputy was arrested and fired after wrecking his vehicle Thursday while allegedly driving intoxicated in the county, police said.

 

William Nathaniel Campbell, 30, is charged with DUI and refusing to take a breath test. He was placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail before being released on a personal recognizance bond.

 

According to Sheriff’s Maj. Liz Scott, a resident called the Sheriff’s Office about 8 p.m. to report a single-vehicle accident on Leavells Road in the area of Battlefield Elementary School. Scott said the driver hit the median several times, disabling his vehicle.

 

Responding deputies found their off-duty colleague unsteady on his feet with a strong odor of alcohol. He was subsequently arrested.

 

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[China]

Yeah, if you can't put kids in a choke hold, best not to police at all...

 

Police departments pull school officers due to Minnesota restraint law

 

A week before most Minnesota students head back to school, local police departments are removing officers from schools because of a new state law limiting physical restraints that can be used on students.

 

On Tuesday, sheriffs in Clay and Hennepin counties, along with Coon Rapids police, announced that they would pull school resource officers from local schools. And the Champlin Police Department said on Wednesday that it would follow suit.

 

The moves come after Anoka and St. Louis counties, along with Moorhead police, said they would also remove school resource officers due to concerns about the law change. And others planned to weigh whether to pull officers or alter their strategies in coming days during city council and county commission meetings.

 

State lawmakers this year approved a broad education bill that bans some physical holds, including prone restraints of students. The law says that school employees and school resource officers can’t physically restrain students in a way that impacts their ability to breathe or voice distress — including holds that put students face down on the ground.

 

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[GhostofSparta]

57 minutes ago, China said:

Police departments pull school officers due to Minnesota restraint law

 

A week before most Minnesota students head back to school, local police departments are removing officers from schools because of a new state law limiting physical restraints that can be used on students.

[TheGreatBuzz]

Nothing about this one yet?

 

I'm still not sure what they were stopping her for.

 

 

[Captain Wiggles]

39 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Nothing about this one yet?

I'm still not sure what they were stopping her for.

 

News story I saw last night said suspicion of shoplifting. 🙄

 

She definitely shouldn't have tried to drive off with the cop standing right in front of her car. Cop will just say they were in fear for their life and that she was trying to run the officer over. 

 

 

[TheGreatBuzz]

Edit:  And she was pregnant.

 

Bodycam footage shows moments before pregnant woman's fatal shooting by Ohio police officer

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bodycam-footage-shows-moments-pregnant-womans-fatal-shooting-ohio-poli-rcna102982

 

 

Edited September 2, 2023 by TheGreatBuzz

[Ball Security]

49 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Nothing about this one yet?

 

I'm still not sure what they were stopping her for.

 

 

A lot going on here. 
 

Pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting alcohol. 
 

Are police trained to stand in front of a car while they are trying to get someone to exit? Does not seem like best practice.

[Cooked Crack]

 

[stoshuaj]

On 9/2/2023 at 7:37 PM, Ball Security said:

Pregnant woman 

 

Are police trained to stand in front of a car while they are trying to get someone to exit? Does not seem like best practice.

not sure it would be easy to determine if she was pregnant from that vantage point. 

 

short answer: no. Longer answer:  even if they aren’t trained to do that, it doesn’t give you immunity to flatten them.

 

don’t disagree that it’s best practice either, but I’m not much in making my well being dependent on another’s decisions. 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Polk County deputy accused of driving 130 mph in a 45-mph zone

 

A deputy sheriff has resigned after being arrested for driving more than 100 mph near Lakeland, the Polk County Sheriff's Office explains in a news release.

 

According to a statement from the sheriff's office, deputies clocked 22-year-old Jakob Kite driving on U.S. Highway 98 South at 105 mph in a 60-mph speed zone. Other deputies reportedly clocked Kite's car, a Subaru Impreza, going even faster as they tried to catch up to it, ultimately reaching 130 mph in a 45-mph zone.

 

 

Deputies say they tried to get Kite to pull over using their emergency lights and siren, but he wouldn't stop and ran through a stop sign as he veered onto the Highway 540A westbound lane, damaging the Impreza's front tires as he hit a concrete median.

 

Deputies then pursued Kite on the Highway 540A. They say he aggressively swerved toward one of the patrol cars. After several attempts to chase him down, one of the deputies successfully pushed Kite's car into a 180-degree turn, disabling the car and causing him to stop.

 

According to the statement, Kite initially refused to get out of his car, and he appeared to be impaired and intoxicated.

 

Deputies arrested Kite and charged him with aggravated assault on an officer, resisting arrest, fleeing law enforcement, leaving a crash with property damage, reckless driving and DUI. He was also given four citations for speeding and two for running a stop sign.

 

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What's with the Friar Tuck haircut?  Did he get a friend with a bowl to do that for him?

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Santa Fe Police officer will not face charges after child fatally shoots brother

 

A four-year-old got ahold of his father’s gun and shot and killed his two-year-old brother in 2021. Now, News 13 has learned that the father, a Santa Fe Police Department officer, will not face criminal charges. Prosecutors said they might have made a case had the laws been different.

 

Officers responded to the Rio Rancho home to find the boy had been shot and learned it was his brother who pulled the trigger. Their father, Santa Fe Police Officer Jonathan Harmon, later explained to police how he stored his personal gun while he was at home. “Take it off my body when we get home. I put it on the very highest top shelf in the kitchen. It’s the third shelf and it’s behind the coffee mug,” said Harmon.

 

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[Ball Security]

17 minutes ago, China said:

Santa Fe Police officer will not face charges after child fatally shoots brother

 

A four-year-old got ahold of his father’s gun and shot and killed his two-year-old brother in 2021. Now, News 13 has learned that the father, a Santa Fe Police Department officer, will not face criminal charges. Prosecutors said they might have made a case had the laws been different.

 

Officers responded to the Rio Rancho home to find the boy had been shot and learned it was his brother who pulled the trigger. Their father, Santa Fe Police Officer Jonathan Harmon, later explained to police how he stored his personal gun while he was at home. “Take it off my body when we get home. I put it on the very highest top shelf in the kitchen. It’s the third shelf and it’s behind the coffee mug,” said Harmon.

 

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Oh, it’s behind the coffee mug. Everyone should be safe. ****ing loser.

[Long n Left]

12 hours ago, Ball Security said:

Oh, it’s behind the coffee mug. Everyone should be safe. ****ing loser.

Guns aren’t the problem, it’s those pesky 4-year olds getting into every-damn-thing!

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Ball Security]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/investigation-launched-into-tape-of-seattle-police-guild-leaders-downplaying-death-of-woman-struck-by-officer/?amp=1
 

Some great guys here. True heroes.

[China]

 

[China]

Trial begins for two Aurora police officers charged in Elijah McClain’s death

 

lijah McClain’s fatal encounter with police began on a summer night in 2019 when a 911 caller reported that the young Black man looked “sketchy” as he walked down the street wearing a ski mask and raising his hands in the air in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

 

In reality, McClain, who was often cold, was just walking home from a convenience store, listening to music.

 

But moments later, police stopped him and after struggling with him, put the 23-year-old in a neck hold. Then paramedics gave him a sedative that officials eventually determined played a key role in his death days later. McClain, a massage therapist known for his gentle nature, was unarmed and hadn’t committed any crime.

 

Four years after his death a trial for two of the officers was set to begin Friday with jury selection. Trials for a third officer and two paramedics are scheduled to start later this year.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[GhostofSparta]

2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

Ah, good old Civil Asset Forfeiture. What a great country where cops can legally steal from you (with the "right" justifications), and then YOU have to sue THEM and prove your innocence to MAYBE get your stuff back.

[Cooked Crack]

23 minutes ago, GhostofSparta said:

Ah, good old Civil Asset Forfeiture. What a great country where cops can legally steal from you (with the "right" justifications), and then YOU have to sue THEM and prove your innocence to MAYBE get your stuff back.

Nah, these guys were straight up robbing without some pretext.

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Four months later, on Nov. 8, 2020, Sims swiped $1,300 from a car belonging to a 34-year-old victim. The victim said in court that Sims "made every excuse" for stopping him and ordered him out of the car. When the victim returned to his vehicle, he noticed that the money was missing. The victim told the judge that he did not report the stolen money because he had drugs in the vehicle. 

 

The victim said Sims pulled him over again two other times. During the second incident, Sims didn't steal from him, the victim said. "I didn't have anything to take, so he left," he told the court. 

 

The third incident occurred July 8, 2021. The victim said Sims stopped him at a gas station and ordered him out of the vehicle. When he refused, Sims "roughed me up a little bit," the man said. He told the court that he was placed in the back of a police car while Sims and other officers "ransacked" his vehicle. Prosecutors said the Sims took $781 and suspected marijuana edibles from the car.

 

[GhostofSparta]

6 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

Nah, these guys were straight up robbing without some pretext.

 

In reality: yes, you are correct.

 

In cop land: dude had drugs, he deserved whatever happened to him, because we said so. He even admitted to having drugs, so we are, in fact, completely within our authority to stop him every time he's out (you know, just in case he has drugs on him) and take whatever possessions he has (because those possession are either from selling drugs, or going to buy more drugs).

 

Like Qualified Immunity, Civil Asset Forfeiture is a wonderful Blank Check handed to law enforcement to abuse whoever they want, whenever they want, as long as they have the thinnest fig leaf of an excuse. And sometimes they don't even need that, as is the case here where the guy admitted he didn't want to report the theft because of drugs.

[TheGreatBuzz]

1 hour ago, GhostofSparta said:

In reality: yes, you are correct.

 

In cop land: dude had drugs, he deserved whatever happened to him, because we said so. He even admitted to having drugs, so we are, in fact, completely within our authority to stop him every time he's out (you know, just in case he has drugs on him) and take whatever possessions he has (because those possession are either from selling drugs, or going to buy more drugs).

 

Like Qualified Immunity, Civil Asset Forfeiture is a wonderful Blank Check handed to law enforcement to abuse whoever they want, whenever they want, as long as they have the thinnest fig leaf of an excuse. And sometimes they don't even need that, as is the case here where the guy admitted he didn't want to report the theft because of drugs.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.