COPS behaving badly
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:28 pm
And medical examiners?
I think with medical examiners it's different. The person is already dead so can't be harmed or feel pain. The medical examiner job is to find the cause-of-death -- which may springboard into an investigation by LE if the medical examiner suspects/has evidence of foul play.
‘All Because I Wanted My Money’: Retired Florida Teacher Demanded Credit Union to Put Money She Deposited Into Her Account and Ended Up Naked In Jail with a Broken Nose
Posted byBy Niko Mann
| Published on February 5, 2023
A 70-year-old Black woman alleges she was accused of having a gun, arrested, left inside a hot patrol car and jailed after she confronted a Florida credit union about money missing from her account.
Retired teacher Linda Stephens was a customer of the MidFlorida Credit Union for the past 50 years, when she deposited $600 in the ATM in Bartow, Florida, on April 13, 2021. Stephens needed the money to pay her mortgage, according to a lawsuit obtained by Atlanta Black Star. She received a receipt and returned home, but when noticed the funds weren’t reflected in her balance in the morning, Stephens went to back to the branch for assistance.
However, the woman and her attorneys allege she was met with “hostility and disdain” because of her race. The lawsuit filed on Feb. 3. accuses MidFlorida of “blatant discrimination” and “flagrant indifference.”
“They discriminated against, neglected, and caused emotional distress to Stephens when they called the police on her after she expressed concern about a deposit for her mortgage not appearing in her account due to an error on the bank’s end,” said attorney Benjamin Crump during a Feb. 3 press conference.
A credit union employee told the retiree that he did not see her deposit and said the ATM was being worked on due to mechanical issues by a technician. The teller told Stephens to return in several hours and fill out a dispute form to resolve the discrepancy with her deposit.
Stephens did as she was instructed and returned to the MidFlorida branch where she was told by another employee that the deposit had still not been posted. The employee accepted the dispute form and reassured her the funds would appear in her account within two to three hours. After waiting the rest of the day and the following morning, Stephens went back to the bank on April 14 after the funds did not show up in her account.
When she arrived, the tellers told Stephens they were unable to help her or tell her the status of her deposit, and she was shown to an office. In the office, Stephens explained to another employee what had transpired previously, the lawsuit alleges.
The employee called the ATM maintenance technician who had serviced the machine. The technician confirmed that he had found the missing $600. Stephens was “distraught” by then and vocally showed her concern about the $600, noting that she needed it to pay her mortgage, the lawsuit says. The branch manager came into the office and demanded that Stephens calm down as she pleaded with the employees for access to her funds. Instead, the branch manager called the police.
A police officer arrived on the scene and stood behind Stephens before another officer arrived with his hand on his firearm stating somebody called 911 and claimed Stephens had a gun. According to the lawsuit, Stephens was afraid for her life by this time and told the police officers that she just wanted access to her ATM deposit. She also told them she did not have a gun, but the officer placed her in handcuffs and left her inside his vehicle in 90-degree heat for 20 minutes.
Once at the police station, Stephens, who had never before been arrested before, was dragged out of the police vehicle and thrown down on the ground and placed in a holding cell. She was later handcuffed, dragged across the floor by four male police officers, thrown face-first into a police vehicle and transported to the Sheriff’s department. Her nose was broken in the process.
At the Sherriff’s department, Stephens was stripped nude before being transported to the jail annex where she spent 24 hours completely naked on a cement floor of a jail cell before being released, the lawsuit alleges. She had been charged with disorderly conduct, a charge prosecutors subsequently dropped.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/02/05 ... d-deposit/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/t ... haley.htmlMemphis Officer Texted Photo of Tyre Nichols After Beating, New Documents Show
The revelation came in Memphis police documents related to the firing of five officers who have been charged with murder in Mr. Nichols’s death.
As Tyre Nichols sat propped against a police car, bloodied, dazed and handcuffed after being beaten by a group of Memphis police officers, one of those officers took a picture of him and sent it to at least five people, the Memphis Police Department said in documents released by the state on Tuesday.
Sending the photograph to acquaintances, including at least one outside of the Police Department, violated policies about keeping information confidential, according to the documents. But police officials said it was also part of a pattern of mocking, abusive and “blatantly unprofessional” behavior by the officers that also included shouting profanities at Mr. Nichols, laughing after the beating and “bragging” about their involvement.
(original: Business Insider)All 5 officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death removed or failed to activate their body-worn cameras. They were caught by a 'sky cop' camera installed to monitor crime hotspots.
Erin Snodgrass,Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert,Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
Wed, February 8, 2023 at 3:45 AM GMT+1
All five Memphis Police officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols failed to capture the entire encounter on their body-worn cameras, and three of the five fully removed their body-worn cameras during the still-active scene, according to newly-released police documents obtained by Insider.
- All 5 officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death failed to capture the entire incident on body cameras.
Three of the five removed their cameras during the still-active scene, according to new police docs.
All 5 officers were fired and have since been charged with second-degree murder.
Following Nichols' death, the police department released portions of responding officers' body-worn camera footage, as well as CCTV video of the encounter. The most thorough accounting of the deadly confrontation, however, came from controversial "sky cop" cameras that are installed throughout Memphis in crime hotspots and have cost the city more than $10 million.
Police documents obtained by Insider on Tuesday paint a picture of repeated missteps by responding officers, one of whom admitted to taking and then sharing a photo of Nichols, bloodied, bruised, and handcuffed on his personal cellphone in the aftermath of the confrontation.
The Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission, a state board agency, received the police documents late last month as part of five decertification requests made by the Memphis Police Department for the five officers involved.
Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., Justin Smith, Demetrius Haley, and Tadarrius Bean were all fired and have since been charged with second-degree murder in Nichols' death.
On the evening of Jan. 7, Memphis police officers stopped Nichols on suspicion of "reckless driving," though police officials have since said they haven't found evidence that Nichols was driving erratically. An initial confrontation between Nichols and several officers ensued as they pulled him out of his vehicle and pushed him to the ground.
A second confrontation occurred after Nichols got up and ran away as an officer tried to Tase him. Body-camera footage showed several officers beating Nichols while he was on the ground.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-officers-c ... 58939.html
(original: Business Insider)Demetrius Haley didn't tell Tyre Nichols why he'd been pulled over. The Memphis cop was talking on the phone during the stop, documents show.
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
Wed, February 8, 2023 at 8:53 PM GMT+1
When Tyre Nichols was pulled over at E. Raines and Ross roads in Memphis on January 7, a Memphis officer wearing a black hoodie jumped out of his unmarked car and approached him yelling profanities while talking on the phone, according to a police decertification record provided to Insider.
- Former Memphis officer Demetrius Haley never told Tyre Nichols why he was pulled over.
Department records say Haley approached Nichols while talking on the phone in a black hoodie.
He yelled profanities, despite no evidence that Nichols ever swore at or threatened officers.
Then-officer Demetrius Haley, who has since been fired and charged with Nichols' murder, never told the 29-year-old driver why he stopped his car, according to the records, which were provided to Insider in response to a public records request.
"You exited your unmarked vehicle stopped in an opposing traffic lane and you forced the driver out of his vehicle while using loud profanity and wearing a black sweatshirt hoodie over your head," a statement of charges sent to Haley on January 14 reads. "You never told the driver the purpose of the vehicle stop or that he was under arrest."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/demetrius-ha ... 21770.html
Arkansas Cop Caught in Viral Arrest Video Now Accused of Deleting Evidence
Justin Rohrlich
Mon, February 13, 2023 at 8:29 PM GMT+1
An Arkansas cop accused last summer of viciously beating a handcuffed man—the shocking scene caught on video by a horrified bystander—wiped his department-issued phone to destroy evidence that further implicated him, an FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast alleges.
Then-Crawford County Sheriff’s Deputy Levi Garrett White “performed a factory reset that erased all data” on his department-issued iPhone 11 Pro Max after he brutally assaulted a shackled Randal Ray Worcester, states the affidavit. White deleted a series of incriminating text messages roughly 90 minutes before department brass arrived to pick it up two weeks after the incident, it claims.
The feds say White, 32, was worried the bystander’s video, which showed him punching Worcester in the head and slamming his skull into the pavement, would “ruin his life and cost him his job.” On the evening of the incident, White allegedly texted a former colleague from his personal phone, “I’ll fight back with someone trying to do that stupid shit every time. I don’t care.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-cop ... 24178.html
Is that look part and parcel of living in Arkansas?
Mom calls Visalia, CA police to help stabilize her son. Instead she get this...
California626
4 Feb 2023
Visalia police were called by a caring, loving mom to help her mentally ill son, instead deescalating the situation, they callously used hard tactics.
It is now.
In the US, an estimated one in 20 gun homicides are committed by police, as law enforcement killings have failed to decrease despite years of nationwide protests.
Law enforcement officers killed at least 1,192 people in 2022, the highest number recorded in a decade, according to Mapping Police Violence, a prominent non-profit database of police killings. More than 1,100 people were killed by the police in both 2020 and 2021. The vast majority of these deaths were police shootings.
There were more than 25,000 total homicides in the US in 2020 and 26,000 in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National data for 2022 is not yet available.
Police shooting deaths represented 5% of all gun homicides in 2020 and 2021, and total police killings represented nearly 5% of all homicides, according to the best available public data.
Because only a small number of deadly incidents each year receive wide media attention, many Americans may not realize that “a meaningful fraction of homicides in the US are police killings”, said Justin Feldman, a researcher at the Center for Policing Equity.
Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA wrote: Power tripping cop arrests a guy because his feelings were hurt.
https://tiktok.com/t/ZTRtC5KLo/
Interesting, thx! I wonder if they ended up paying him the $150k he sought.Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:40 pm The above scene apparently happened 2 1/2 years ago.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/at-evere ... ot-gunman/
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:07 pmInteresting, thx! I wonder if they ended up paying him the $150k he sought.Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:40 pm The above scene apparently happened 2 1/2 years ago.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/at-evere ... ot-gunman/
Another $21,000 settlement went to an 18 year old who claimed he was a victim of assault, racial discrimination and unlawful detention. He was arrested in July 2020 after taunting deputies with a doughnut at a pro-police rally in downtown Everett.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/county-p ... isconduct/