Some More Cops Who Need to Be Fired

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Deputy arrested after 6-hour standoff in Wildlight community ‘no longer employed’ by Nassau County Sheriff’s Office

 

A Nassau County deputy who was barricaded in a home in the Wildlight community for six hours earlier this month is “no longer employed” by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office, a spokesperson told News4JAX.

 

News4JAX is working to get access to public records that show whether Earice “Ray” Rhoden Jr., 49, was fired or resigned, and when.

 

Rhoden is facing several charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and use of a firearm while under the influence.

 

According to his arrest warrant, during the six-hour standoff, Rhoden pointed his pistol at a fellow deputy, fired multiple shots over the top of his marked patrol vehicle and aimed two shots at the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office drone.

 

No one was injured during the standoff, which ended peacefully around 5 a.m. Sept. 1 when the Rhoden was taken into custody.

 

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According to his arrest warrant, during the six-hour standoff, Rhoden pointed his pistol at a fellow deputy, fired multiple shots over the top of his marked patrol vehicle and aimed two shots at the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office drone.

 

No one was injured during the standoff, which ended peacefully around 5 a.m. Sept. 1 when the Rhoden was taken into custody.

Amazing how that happens when it's a Cop on the other end.

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Video of unmarked cruiser sparks fake cop concerns, but Miami-Dade police say he was real

 

Video taken in the aftermath of a threatening encounter with a Miami-Dade police officer sparked concerns over whether the officer might have been an impostor, but authorities confirmed Thursday that he was real.

 

There are still questions about what exactly happened at a southwest Miami-Dade apartment complex Monday.

 

A woman who only wanted to be identified as “Yarny” described her husband’s encounter with the officer.

 

She said the officer pulled behind her husband in an unmarked SUV and activated his lights. It happened as he arrived at their apartment complex near Southwest 89th Court.

 

The officer later got out of his vehicle and pointed his gun at her husband, she says.

 

“He was saying through the PA, through the speakerphone, ‘If you don’t drop your windows, I’m going to drop you,’” Yarny said. “The energy felt like the officer was going to shoot; he was already aiming at my husband’s head.”

 

Celia Corrales, a neighbor, was sitting outside her first-floor apartment and corroborated the couple’s story.

 

A Miami-Dade police spokesperson said in a statement, “MDPD wants the community to know this is not a false officer, the community is safe, and there is an open investigation to see what led to this situation.”

 

Miami-Dade police said they are looking into why the officer may have been attempting to pull the man over and why he may have pulled his gun.

 

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A Miami-Dade police spokesperson said in a statement, “MDPD wants the community to know this is not a false officer, the community is safe, and there is an open investigation to see what led to this situation.”

If that man is an officer, the community is less safe than if he was an imposter.  He should be in jail right now facing charges for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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Decision to halt program analyzing Seattle police bodycam video under scrutiny

 

Civil libertarians, police accountability advocates and government officials are questioning a decision by the Seattle Police Department to cancel a contract with a firm that analyzes body-camera video, just weeks after a police union official was inadvertently recorded laughing and joking following the death of a young woman killed by another officer.

 

The Seattle Police Department had renewed a two-year, $400,000 contract with the Chicago firm Truleo on Jan. 15, after the department found a two-year trial showed promise. The company’s software uses artificial intelligence to analyze body-camera video and audio for cues and patterns to monitor officer behavior.

 

While still in a pilot stage, the SPD’s director of analytics and research believed the project “had sufficient promise” to continue on with a pilot program, according to a statement issued by the department.

 

However, the contract was canceled on Feb. 7 by SPD Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxey, according to Truleo CEO and co-founder Anthony Tassone.

 

The cancellation came after Seattle’s use of the software was publicized, raising privacy concerns from civil libertarians and sharp criticism from Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan, who publicly accused the department of “spying” on officers and violating its collective bargaining agreement.

 

The decision is being scrutinized after reports earlier this month that the guild’s vice president, Daniel Auderer, was inadvertently recorded by his body camera on Jan. 23. In the video, he is heard laughing and joking on a phone call with Solan after a young woman was struck and killed by another officer hours earlier.

 

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LAPD releases video of officers ignoring robbery calls to play Pokémon Go

 

The Los Angeles Police Department recently released video that captured two on-duty officers talking about the mobile video game Pokémon Go while also ignoring a robbery call in 2017.

 

The video was released on Oct. 5 and sheds light on the incident, which was only described in department records and court records before, the L.A. Times reported.  

 

The video captured former LAPD officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell discussing how to catch a Snorlax and trying to capture the rare Togetic in the game while ignoring a report of several people who were in the process of robbing a Macy’s in the Crenshaw Mall, the Associated Press reported.

 

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Murphey, who sees himself as a righteous renegade in St. Louis’ beleaguered law enforcement system, wishes other officers had taken similar stands against prosecutors like Gardner. But he said he understands why they haven’t. “They have wives, they have kids, they have tuition, medical bills,” he said. “But me — it’s just me and my wife, and my wife is like, ‘Go for it.’” 

 

At least 10 other officers refused to cooperate with Gardner’s team, according to interviews and court records. But Murphey stood apart because of his crucial role in some of the city’s most significant, and most violent, cases.

 

 While expressing some sympathy for the family of the victim whose fatal beating Vincent was tried for, Murphey stood by his decision not to cooperate.

 

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Doctors group calls its 2009 ‘excited delirium’ paper outdated and withdraws its approval

 

A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police.

 

The American College of Emergency Physicians in a statement called the paper outdated and said the term excited delirium should not be used by members who testify in civil or criminal cases. The group’s directors voted on the matter Thursday in Philadelphia.

 

“This means if someone dies while being restrained in custody … people can’t point to excited delirium as the reason and can’t point to ACEP’s endorsement of the concept to bolster their case,” said Dr. Brooks Walsh, a Connecticut emergency doctor who pushed the organization to strengthen its stance.

 

Earlier this week, California became the first state to bar the use of excited delirium and related terms as a cause of death in autopsies. The legislation, signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, also prohibits police officers from using it in reports to describe people’s behavior.

 

In March, the National Association of Medical Examiners took a stand against the term, saying it should not be listed as a cause of death. Other medical groups, including the American Medical Association, had previously rejected excited delirium as a diagnosis. Critics have called it unscientific and rooted in racism.

 

The emergency physicians’ 2009 report said excited delirium’s symptoms included unusual strength, pain tolerance and bizarre behavior and called the condition “potentially life-threatening.”

 

The document reinforced and codified racial stereotypes, Walsh said.

 

The 14-year-old publication has shaped police training and still figures in police custody death cases, many involving Black men who died after being restrained by police. Attorneys defending officers have cited the paper to admit testimony on excited delirium, said Joanna Naples-Mitchell, an attorney and research adviser for Physicians for Human Rights, which produced a report last year on the diagnosis and deaths in police custody.

 

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Chicago police with extremist ties have troubling records

 

An investigation by WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found some have troubling backgrounds that include allegations of excessive force, improper searches and racist comments on the job.

 

At least nine of them remain on the police force, even after newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed to rid the department of extremists.

 

The Chicago Police Department has resisted taking action against officers for their ties with the Oath Keepers — once again placing a spotlight on a troubled disciplinary system as police leaders struggle to make sweeping, court-ordered changes to policies and practices.

 

Investigators closed a probe into officers’ ties to the Oath Keepers last year without finding any wrongdoing or investigating most of the police officials who appeared in the leak. The inaction drew a sharp rebuke from the city’s top watchdog, who says just joining an extremist group violates the police department’s rules of conduct.

 

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Deeply divided: What’s next for Baton Rouge and the BRPD?

 

The brawl broke out during the summer of 2019 on a hunting trip in East Texas among a mix of current and former members of the Baton Rouge Police Department.

 

The trip was a tradition that stretched back generations. It was common in the “good ol’ days” for decisions about promotions and appointments to be hashed out by some of the leadership while shooting quail or reeling in redfish.

 

But that outdoorsy backroom dealing had come to an end when a new chief took over more than a year earlier with a raft of policy changes that weren’t sitting well with everybody in the department.

 

One night, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the incident, the dinner conversation turned toward the initiatives and mandates the new chief, Murphy Paul, had begun implementing: audits of body cameras, cleaning up Internal Affairs and meting out discipline for behavior like excessive use of force that records show had often been ignored or even rewarded.

 

One of the captains who worked under Paul came to his defense. He said that Paul was an honorable guy who wanted to do the right thing. The captain said the new chief was trying to do his best to restore order in the department and make it fair for the people who work there. Not just that, he added, but fair for the people that they police.

 

That assessment infuriated some in the anti-Paul camp.

 

“When did you start drinking the Kool-Aid?” one man shouted, rising to his feet. “I thought you were with us?”

 

Then he asked the question that sent fists flying: “Since when did you become a n***er lover?”

 

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Cop who tased suspect several times as man begged him to stop charged with cruelty

 

A police officer has been charged with third-degree assault for cruelty against a person after he fired his Taser several times at a suspect in an Oct. 14 incident in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

 

The officer, Nicholas Kehoss, was arrested on Monday after the Naugatuck Police Department released body camera video showing the incident in which Kehoss deployed his taser after a brief pursuit of 33-year-old Jarell Day, who police say was being arrested for stealing $200 worth of beer.

 

The six-minute, 43-second body camera video, which was provided to ABC News by Naugatuck Police Department, shows the moment Kehoss and fellow Naugatuck officer John Williams first encounter Day in his car with several cases of beer in the back seat. As Williams attempted to open the passenger door, Day drove off.

 

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Sheriff’s office ‘bragged’ about nurse’s false child porn arrest, publicly broadcasted name and address: Lawsuit

 

A county sheriff in Florida and one of his deputies are being sued by a father alleging he was arrested — and had his face broadcast across social media platforms — after being charged with possession and distribution of child pornography based solely on a cellphone number that had not been used in more than two years.

 

In a complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Edgardo Acevedo Cancela accused Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Deputy Sean Jones of false arrest and malicious prosecution. He also claimed that Jones lied under oath about the data authorities obtained from his cellphone before the charges were dropped.

 

The complaint further asserts the only reason Jones arrested Cancela was because the deputy was angry that after Cancela was placed under arrest and asked for the code to unlock his cellphone, he asked to speak to his lawyer rather than immediately obeying the request.

 

“Defendant, Deputy Jones, a government employee (Deputy Sheriff of Polk County, Florida) wrote down false and misleading statements about the Plaintiff, a — private citizen,” the complaint states. “He did so knowing that his statements were false and that they would lead to the arrest and prosecution of a married man with children for the most heinous of crimes, child pornography and that the false accusations would be made public. He published these falsities to the public and the world at large when he filed it in the public record on May 22, 2020.”

 

The suit claims there was “no evidence of child pornography found by investigators” at any point that gave weight to the claims brought by authorities.

 

Even after his release from detention, Cancela was prohibited by court order from staying in the same home as his family or even seeing them in person and was ostracized by the community following his highly publicized arrest as part of the sheriff’s office’s “Operation Guardians of Innocence V,” the complaint states. 

 

At the close of the investigation, no illegal material was found on any of the devices seized from Cancela’s home. The complaint states that the basis for targeting them was a phone number, which the couple “abandoned” when they moved from Puerto Rico to Florida in February 2018.

 

“[Deputy Jones] had done no investigation into what person had actually been using that phone and phone number when the alleged offenses occurred in October 2019,” the complaint says.

 

In a 2020 press conference, Sheriff Judd referred to Cancela as “a deviant” and called him “dangerous,” which the complaint says constitutes defamation because the sheriff made “the lies all the more public with his press conferences and public pronouncements.”

 

“In fact, Sheriff Judd did publicly brag about his  Operation’s success, including the names and addresses of the arrestees (including Plaintiff, Mr. Acevedo Cancela) and holding press conferences covered by local media,” the complaint states.

 

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The FBI is investigating a Texas sheriff’s office, a woman interviewed by agents says

 

The FBI is investigating a Texas sheriff who faced complaints of corruption from his own deputies for years before drawing broader scrutiny for his agency’s response to a mass shooting, according to a woman interviewed by federal agents.

 

The woman said she’s twice met with a pair of FBI agents in recent months after contacting them about what she feels was the sheriff’s botched investigation of her brother’s killing. Jenifer Jones told The Associated Press the agents gathered records accusing San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers and his staff of wide-ranging misconduct and told her they were looking for potential civil rights violations. During hourslong interviews, Jones said they asked specific questions about cases and events well beyond her brother’s death.

 

Federal investigators’ interest in the rural sheriff comes after an AP investigation found longstanding accusations that Capers has ignored deputies’ misconduct and neglected basic police work while pursuing asset seizures that boost his office’s $3.5 million budget but don’t always hold up in court.

 

It’s unclear how far along the FBI investigation is or when it might be concluded. Many federal investigations never result in criminal charges. An FBI spokesperson said the agency neither confirms nor denies investigations.

 

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Cops be shooting cops.

 

This pisses me off because it’s inside an apartment complex and someone innocent could have been hurt just because these guys wanted to circle jerk and dry shoot each other.

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On 4/20/2023 at 2:45 PM, China said:

'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.

 

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Fifty-seven ‘Cop City’ protesters arraigned on racketeering charges

 

Nearly five dozen people indicted on racketeering (Rico) charges related to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility near Atlanta appeared in court on Monday as their supporters rallied outside the courthouse.

 

Protests against the proposed training center – dubbed “Cop City” by opponents – have been going on for more than two years.

 

The Georgia attorney general, Chris Carr, obtained a sweeping indictment in August, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to target the protesters and characterizing them as “militant anarchists”.

 

Demonstrators and civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have condemned the indictment and accused Carr, a Republican, of levying heavy-handed charges to try to silence a movement that has galvanized environmentalists and anti-police protesters across the country.

 

All 61 people indicted were scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, that is to have the charges against them formally read in court. Fifty-seven of them appeared, called in small groups before the Fulton county superior court judge Kimberly Esmond Adams over a three-hour period, and each waived arraignment.

 

A couple of hundred supporters of the “Stop Cop City” effort rallied outside the courthouse in downtown Atlanta on Monday morning singing, chanting and waving signs.

 

The Atlanta mayor, Andre Dickens, and other supporters say the 85-acre, $90m facility would replace inadequate training facilities, and would help address difficulties in hiring and retaining police officers.

 

Opponents have expressed concern that that it could lead to greater police militarization and that its construction in the South River Forest will worsen environmental damage in a poor, majority-Black area.

 

Protests against the project, which have at times resulted in violence and vandalism, escalated after the fatal shooting in January of a 26-year-old protester, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as Tortuguita.

 

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D.C. Police Officer John Bewley Arrested for DUI, Resisting, and Obstruction While Off Duty

 

D.C. Police Officer John Bewley was arrested around 3:30 a.m. Saturday and charged with driving under the influence, obstruction of justice, and resisting arrest, according to an affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court and confirmed by the Metropolitan Police Department.

 

Bewley was off duty and driving his take-home cruiser when he arrived at 1645 Connecticut Ave. NW, north of Dupont Circle, according to MPD Officer Hugh Carew. Bewley’s girlfriend had been pulled over and was being investigated for drunk driving, according to the affidavit. The woman told officers she was on the phone with Bewley when they stopped her.

 

The cruiser’s overhead lights were activated when Bewley arrived at the scene, according to the affidavit. His fellow officers were conducting a field sobriety test on his girlfriend. He “made multiple attempts to interfere and obstruct Ofc. Griffin and her DUI suspect … by approaching and yelling at the suspect and telling her to leave the scene with him,” the affidavit says. “[Bewley] repeatedly walked past officers and up to Ofc. Griffin and the DUI suspect after Ofc. Griffin and other officers told him to stay away from the scene.”

 

Officers put Bewley in handcuffs at that time, according to the affidavit, and also noticed “a strong odor of alcohol coming from [him].” When asked if he was willing to take a field sobriety test, Bewley replied, “no,” the affidavit says. He was arrested for resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, and driving under the influence, according to Carew. The D.C. Attorney General’s Office only charged him with DUI and operating a vehicle while impaired, according to the court docket.

 

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Portland Police investigating potential violation of state mugshot law in City Council meeting

 

In a brief presentation before Portland City Council on people committing retail theft, Portland police officers may have also violated state law.

 

The Tuesday virtual work session featured updates from a number of Portland police teams, including a 10-minute overview on retail theft prevention in North Portland from a pair of officers. Commander Robert Simon and Sergeant Jorge Mendoza explained how they work with theft prevention staff at large retailers at the Jantzen Beach and Cascade Station shopping centers.

 

To illustrate their work, Mendoza used a slideshow to walk commissioners through a few “case studies” of recent theft attempts at Dick’s Sporting Goods.

 

The first slide featured a mugshot of a Black man in his late 30s, listing his name and date of birth. Mendoza described how this man allegedly drove a stolen car to Dick’s and proceeded to steal merchandise from the store before being stopped by Portland police. The following slide featured three more mugshots – two women and one man – who allegedly used a fake check to pay for merchandise from Dick’s.

 

Like the previous slide, the suspects were all Black. Their mugshots were accompanied by names and birth dates. Mendoza noted that one of the identified women said she was a victim of sex trafficking.

 

Mendoza ended the presentation with little fanfare.

 

“That’s what we have for our slideshow,” he said.

 

The officers involved in putting the slideshow together are now under investigation by the Police Bureau’s internal affairs division for this slideshow, according to the bureau. It’s not clear if Mendoza is under investigation.

 

That’s due to a state law prohibiting law enforcement from making mugshots public, except under certain circumstances. The 2021 statute allows police to share mugshots publicly only if it is critical to help law enforcement apprehend a dangerous suspect or prompt potential victims of a criminal suspect to come forward. Mugshots can also be posted publicly if the subject has been convicted of the crime they were charged with when the photo was taken.

 

Three of the four people featured in Mendoza’s presentation have not been convicted for the crimes described. At least one of the suspects’ charges were dropped, according to public records.

 

“Putting their mugshots up in a public forum like that violated their rights under this law,” Chavez said. “From what it sounds like, their faces were only shown to do what police departments frequently used mugshots for in the past, which was to shame and intimidate community members and to act like a mounted trophy for the police. The fact that they only showed pictures of Black people further ties this act to a dangerous and sordid history of racism in this city and state.”

 

Yet that statute doesn’t include an explicit penalty for officers who violate this law. Chavez said officers could be charged with the crime of “official misconduct,” a state misdemeanor against public servants who “knowingly fail to perform a duty imposed upon the public servant by law.”

 

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‘Huge mistake’: SWAT raided wrong home looking for fugitive who wasn’t there and caused $16,000 in damages, lawsuit says

 

An Indiana woman alleges a SWAT team caused $16,000 in damages to her home in a raid searching for a fugitive they mistakenly thought was inside using the internet to get onto Facebook, a new lawsuit said.

 

Amy Hadley said police launched dozens of tear gas grenades into her South Bend home in June 2022 and ransacked it, making it uninhabitable for days until fumes dissipated enough to breathe inside.

 

The police raid destroyed family photos and childhood drawings, clothes, electronics, and furniture, she said. Insurance partially covered the damages, but South Bend and St. Joseph County government agencies rejected her pleas for compensation.

 

“Amy did nothing wrong to invite the destruction that government officials deliberately inflicted on her property,” said her attorney, Marie Miller, with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, a law firm that protects property rights nationwide, in a news release. “The public as a whole, not Amy alone, must pay for the cost of that law enforcement action.”

 

In a statement through her lawyer, Hadley said she was traumatized.

 

“The raid turned our lives and our home upside down,” she said. “The police clearly made a huge mistake, but there has never been an apology for the way we were treated or an offer to cover the damage. If one of the agencies won’t take responsibility, I hope the court will make them.”

 

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