COPS behaving badly
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:06 am
Officer Fired After Being EXPOSED! Charleston County, SC
Missouri Transparency
7 Dec 2023 CHARLESTON
In a video released by the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, we witness the animalistic and brutal actions of Deputy James 'Hank' Carter Ill, as he relentlessly punches a man in the head after a high-speed car chase. The victim, a 32 unnamed male, is left unconscious, while Carter callously asks if he enjoyed his 'little nap.' This incident, caught on officers body worn camera, has sparked outrage and intensified scrutiny of the sheriff's department and the deputy involved.
The incident happened in the city’s Carondelet neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. today, when a police SUV traveling northbound on South Broadway swerved across multiple lanes of traffic and into Bar:PM just as the LGTBQ bar was closing up.
The police probable cause statement associated with the charges against Bar:PM co-owner Chad Morris (who also goes by Chad Wick) alleges that Morris began to "scream obscenities" in the wake of the collision. The officer writes that Morris "struck me hard in the chest with an open hand, causing me to temporarily lose my balance." Morris then allegedly tried to flee into a gangway between the bar and another building, closing a gate on an officer as he did, according to the statement.
Morris is now facing a charge of felony assault on an officer and misdemeanor resisting arrest.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/ba ... s-41479575Bar:PM Owner Arrested by St. Louis Police Was Beaten 'Terribly,' Attorney Says
Chad Morris has been released from the St. Louis jail after his arrest in the early hours of December 18
The Carondelet bar owner arrested and charged with assault after a St. Louis Police SUV smashed through the front of his business has now been released from jail — sporting a black eye and what his attorney says are bruises “all across” his body.
Police originally filed felony assault charges against Chad Morris, but prosecutors with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office have reduced those to misdemeanor assault.
Morris was scheduled to have a bond hearing this afternoon, but his attorney Javad Khazaeli was able to go in front of a judge this morning and, with the help of video evidence that seems to contradict what police said in a probable cause statement, get Morris released on his own recognizance.
Morris had been in the city jail for approximately 36 hours. Around 12:30 a.m. Monday a police SUV traveling north on South Broadway crashed into the front of Bar:PM, the LGTBQ bar owned by Morris and his husband James Pence, just as it was closing up. RFT has obtained video of the crash.
"Very quickly it became obvious in the videos that instead of being apologetic for what happened, the police became aggressors and tried to cover up for what happened," Khazaeli says, adding that he thinks an outside entity needs to investigate the matter. "Internal affairs in this police department is not going to do what it needs to do.”
"There is a history of St. Louis police officers driving around drunk," he adds.
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The original probable cause statement that led to the felony charge against Morris alleges that he "struck" an officer with an open hand and then fled into a gangway.
However, the bystander video seems to show the entire duration of the incident between when Morris begins interacting with police up until he went into the gangway. At no point does he shove or strike an officer.
The video does show the aftermath of Morris going in the gangway, followed by police.
Morris is pulled from the gangway and placed under arrest. “You’re the one who fucking hit me in the face,” he yells.
When Morris was released from jail this morning, he had a visibly black eye and scratches on his face. “As you can see, they beat him pretty terribly,” Khazaeli said. “He’s got bruises all across his body. This is for the offense of asking why they handcuffed his husband.”
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https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... ffa19.htmlKhazaeli has claimed the SUV was "flying" before the crash, but Kriesmann said Wednesday the SUV was traveling 40 mph before the crash and 20 mph when it hit the building, according to the car's black box that records key data points related to crashes.
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:11 pm What’s the speed limit there? If it is 20 or 25, I’d qualify 40 as flying. 15mph over is criminal speeding in many localities.
35mph, according to a sign up the street and others who commented on the Tweet.W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:14 pm "Flying" is subjective, but 40 in a 25 zone may very well count.
I am not one to push the 5 over issue because I may be doing that myself sometimes.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:24 pm Thanks, yeah, I would say that if he was doing 40 in a 35, he was speeding but not flying.
Same. But for me there's another reason. When there's multiple vehicles moving down a stretch of road, the same speed looks normal even to those standing still; when you're the only moving vehicle, you may look faster just for lack of anything else in the visual frame that's moving. I've watched vehicles roll down the entry driveway into my condo complex and would have judged them doing 10 mph faster than they were doing just because I had no frame of reference and to a slow middle-aged fat dude on foot, 20mph can look like 30mph.northland10 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 6:43 pmI do understand how they could think he was flying.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:24 pm Thanks, yeah, I would say that if he was doing 40 in a 35, he was speeding but not flying.
For some reason it brought to mind these lyrics.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:24 pm Thanks, yeah, I would say that if he was doing 40 in a 35, he was speeding but not flying.
Good idea, I was just thinking about putting on a record when I read this.Reddog wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:24 pmFor some reason it brought to mind these lyrics.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:24 pm Thanks, yeah, I would say that if he was doing 40 in a 35, he was speeding but not flying.
And me, I'm flying in my taxi
Taking tips and getting stoned
I go flying so high when I'm stoned
School resource officer's gun missing after leaving it in middle school bathroom, MPD says
Memphis Police said they're looking for two Kirby Middle School students after they were seen leaving school with a school resource officer's missing gun.
Author: Jackson Brown
Published: 2:09 PM CST December 20, 2023
Updated: 2:13 PM CST December 20, 2023
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are trying to figure out who took a school resource officer's gun from the girl's bathroom at Kirby Middle School Tuesday after the officer said she left it there.
According to Memphis Police, officers responded to Kirby Middle School around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday after school staff said a gun was stolen out of the girl's bathroom.
The school resource officer for the school said she left her gun in a bathroom stall before noticing - an hour and 15 minutes later - that it went missing.
School staff saw a student leaving the bathroom 10 minutes after the officer left, trying to conceal something underneath a hoodie. This student and another student were identified, and seen leaving school together from an unauthorized exit without permission.
Memphis Police are still investigating the incident.