COPS behaving badly

[neonzx]

Assaulting a fellow officer -- Hmm, and one wonders why there is a mistrust in the general public of the police. They need to clean their own houses first.

[Ben-Prime]

WATCH: Florida cop chokes female colleague who tried to de-escalate Black man's arrest

A police sergeant in Florida has been placed on desk duty after video showed him assaulting a fellow officer who was trying to de-escalate a Black man's arrest.

The body cam video shows Sunrise police Sgt. Christopher Pullease threatening the suspect with pepper spray, and engaging in a verbal altercation with him, after he'd already been taken into custody and placed in the back of a patrol car.

After a 28-year-old female officer grabs Pullease by the back of his belt and tries to pull him away, he turns around and briefly puts his hand around her throat, before grabbing her by the vest and pushing her against another patrol car.

Pullease then returns to the patrol car where the suspect is detained, opening and closing the door, before pointing his finger at the female officer and walking away.

https://www.rawstory.com/police-brutality-2656410384/

This is the city where my brother lives. He works just across the city limits at the library in the city where I live, but he and my sister-in-law share a lovely home in Sunrise. I'll have to ask him what the hyper-local neighborhood coverage of this is like.

[RTH10260]

[pipistrelle]

The alleged felon didn’t seem aggressive. We don’t know if he was mouthy, but in what we saw of him he seemed under control. Mouthy wouldn’t warrant pepper spray IMO.

[RTH10260]

Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants
Search warrants show that Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson is under scrutiny by state investigators, accused of illegally confiscating cash and a pickup truck from immigrants stopped by his deputies.

BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH
JAN. 10, 20225 PM CENTRAL

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A rural sheriff near the Texas border is under criminal investigation for allegedly having his deputies illegally seize money and a truck from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops.

Last month, investigators with the Texas Rangers and the Texas Attorney General’s Office raided four Real County Sheriff’s Office locations as part of an investigation into Sheriff Nathan Johnson, according to search warrants obtained this week by The Texas Tribune. The investigating Texas Ranger said Johnson admitted to regularly seizing money from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops, even if they were not accused of any state crime, before handing them over to United States Border Patrol agents.

One sheriff's deputy told investigators that “seizing currency from undocumented immigrants and the driver has been standard operating procedure for as long as he has been employed by the Real County Sheriff’s Office,” Texas Ranger Ricardo Guajardo wrote in the warrant requests.

Guajardo accused Johnson of felony-level theft by a public servant and abuse of official capacity, alleging the sheriff’s cash and vehicle seizures were in violation of the state’s relatively lenient civil asset forfeiture laws.



https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/10 ... stigation/

[RTH10260]

article in story telling mode, please read all

Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
Updated: Jan. 20, 2022, 3:00 p.m. | Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 7:00 a.m.

The town of Brookside, Alabama holds municipal court once a month. The courtroom and the parking lot are packed with people. Police must direct traffic before the 1 p.m. court session starts.




https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police- ... -hole.html

commented by Steve Lrtho

[RTH10260]

Sparks fly at city meeting after police union defends Florida cop who choked colleague
John Wright
January 26, 2022


A police union is coming to the defense of a veteran sergeant who was caught on video choking a female colleague after she tried to de-escalate a Black man's arrest.

Sunrise, Fla. police Sgt. Christopher Pullease, who was placed on administrative leave following the incident, is now under criminal investigation.

Body cam video showed Pullease, 46, threatening a Black suspect with pepper spray, and engaging in a verbal altercation with him, after he'd already been taken into custody and placed in the back of a patrol car.

After a 28-year-old female officer grabbed Pullease by the back of his belt and tried to pull him away, he turned around and briefly put his hand around her throat, before grabbing her by the vest and pushing her against another patrol car.


https://www.rawstory.com/christopher-pullease/

[RTH10260]

[raison de arizona]

Sparks fly at city meeting after police union defends Florida cop who choked colleague
John Wright
January 26, 2022


A police union is coming to the defense of a veteran sergeant who was caught on video choking a female colleague after she tried to de-escalate a Black man's arrest.

Sunrise, Fla. police Sgt. Christopher Pullease, who was placed on administrative leave following the incident, is now under criminal investigation.

Body cam video showed Pullease, 46, threatening a Black suspect with pepper spray, and engaging in a verbal altercation with him, after he'd already been taken into custody and placed in the back of a patrol car.

After a 28-year-old female officer grabbed Pullease by the back of his belt and tried to pull him away, he turned around and briefly put his hand around her throat, before grabbing her by the vest and pushing her against another patrol car.


https://www.rawstory.com/christopher-pullease/

That Commissioner Joseph Scuotto is sure a piece of sh*t.
Video from story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBvDpSEQp4

[RTH10260]

impaired black guy in wheelchair [

St. Pete PD chief: Officer fired for using stun gun on man who was 'not physically resisting' during arrest
By FOX 13 news staff
Published January 27, 2022 8:50AM Updated 10:34AM

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A St. Petersburg officer was fired after quickly turning to his stun gun rather than following de-escalation protocol, the chief announced Thursday. Investigators said the officer used it while the suspect was "not physically resisting," but then later wrote in his report that the suspect was resisting with violence.

Back on June 20, 2021, the owner of a Chevron gas station made a trespassing request due to a panhandler at the store, located at 4890 22nd Avenue South. Officer Matthew Cavinder and his partner arrived before 5 p.m. and he found 64-year-old Timothy Grant.

They ran his name and learned he had five active warrants, one of which was for failing to appear in court. The police department released body camera footage from the second officer at the scene, showing Cavinder explain those previous charges as being drug-related.

The officers did see Grant walking around the business, but when it came time to arrest him, he was seated in a wheelchair, explained Chief Anthony Holloway. In the video, both officers were seen attempting to lift Grant out of the wheelchair. At one point, the footage showed Grant laying on his stomach in front of the convenience store.



https://www.fox13news.com/news/st-pete- ... ing-arrest

[raison de arizona]

That one was really hard to watch.

This one could go in covidiots as well, but it's really more an indictment of the cops that are allowing him to get away with it.

[Phoenix520]

Summary? “Content not available”.

[RTH10260]

That one was really hard to watch.

This one could go in covidiots as well, but it's really more an indictment of the cops that are allowing him to get away with it.
https:// twitter.com/rx0rcist/status/1487279235450519554?s=20&t=vHjX8uNPD7Iqx-zZXO3B5A

When on public ground this is 1st amendment protected activity eg. shouting like a maniac. Just like the proverbial preacher at the street corner. Schoolchildren and children don't get special protection. I understand that harassment only comes to carry when specific individuals get targeted and followed over a period of time.

[raison de arizona]

That one was really hard to watch.

This one could go in covidiots as well, but it's really more an indictment of the cops that are allowing him to get away with it.
https:// twitter.com/rx0rcist/status/1487279235450519554?s=20&t=vHjX8uNPD7Iqx-zZXO3B5A

When on public ground this is 1st amendment protected activity eg. shouting like a maniac. Just like the proverbial preacher at the street corner. Schoolchildren and children don't get special protection. I understand that harassment only comes to carry when specific individuals get targeted and followed over a period of time.

Hmm. It seems like the school could take the step past banning him then, which I guess allows him to stand a foot off the sidewalk in the street and continue harassing children, and move onto getting an order of protection/restraining order of some sort from a court. I guess this is how abortion clinic protests work, but to see someone doing it to children is extra offensive.

[pipistrelle]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/us/nevad ... index.html

(CNN)A Black man spent six days in jail in Nevada because police misidentified him as a convicted White felon who is more than twice his age, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the police departments of Henderson and Las Vegas.

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But after a records check under Brown's name, a felony warrant for another man named Shane Brown appeared, the lawsuit said. Though the two shared the same first and last name, police did not check for their middle names, the color of their skin and date of birth, according to the lawsuit. Shane Neal Brown, 49, had an outstanding felony bench warrant for ownership or possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, records show.

[LM K]

I wrote a long post about this but FogBow was temperamental and it didn't post.

I'm posting this tweet followed by 2 links.



https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/c ... 251570002/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2 ... 260466002/

[RTH10260]

Another case where the taser was forgotten.

And another case where when one officer loses self control and fires all others empty their magazine into the subject too.

I miss the function of a officer responsible for an incident who leads the rest and commands hold your fire if he decides to shoot. Also too, train the officers to shoot and maim to subdue a subject, not to kill.

While a person brandishing a fire arm can be seen as threat to any person at the scene, just being in possession of a knife or alike instrument is not reason to kill. The person is at most a danger for a single person at any one time and needs to move for an attack. I have seen to many videos where an officer moves towards a subject with a knife and leaves his safe zone and then shoots cause he feels in danger, again where a taser would be the correct response.

[pipistrelle]

He had a box cutter.

I don’t think they needed even a taser, but a social worker.

He wasn’t hurting anyone (not a hostage situation), but inconveniencing traffic. It looked like close to two dozen cops.

(Yes, the victim had a history of domestic violence, etc.)

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Vancouver police officer mistakenly shot by Clark County deputy died of multiple gunshot wounds
Updated: Feb. 01, 2022, 6:49 p.m. | Published: Feb. 01, 2022, 5:26 p.m.
By Zane Sparling | The Oregonian/OregonLive

An off-duty Vancouver police officer fatally shot by a Clark County sheriff’s deputy who was pursuing an armed robbery suspect died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, according to the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The Saturday death of Donald Sahota has been ruled a homicide, which means his death was caused by another person. The determination is not a ruling of legal culpability.

Authorities have identified the deputy who mistakenly shot Sahota, 52, seconds after arriving at the scene as Jonathan Feller.

The 42-year-old was one of three deputies who fired more than 30 shots at a young Black man who ran away from a drug sting while armed during a 2019 case that was later criticized as excessive use of force.

Julio Segura, 20, has been indicted for first-degree attempted murder and other charges after robbing a gas station at gunpoint, fleeing in a stolen car and eventually stabbing Sahota during a scuffle outside the off-duty officer’s Battle Ground home, authorities have said.

Authorities said deputies were pursuing Segura when he ditched the stolen car and ran down a long driveway to Sahota’s home, where he knocked on the door and claimed to have been involved in a crash. Sahota’s wife called 911 and learned that Segura was fleeing apprehension, according to the Lower Columbia Major Crimes Team, which is investigating the incident.

Sahota and Segura sparred for several minutes, with the off-duty officer losing control of his firearm and then being stabbed several times by Sahota, authorities said. Segura rushed inside the home, and Sahota picked up his gun just as Clark County deputies arrived and one opened fire.



https://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county ... ounds.html

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Good guys with guns, but no judgment skills or patience.

[andersweinstein]

Minneapolis police shooting of Amir Locke while executing a no-knock search warrant looks outrageous. No plausible chance for him to react on being awakened before he got shot.



Mayor has since ordered a moratorium on no-knock warrants in the city.

[RVInit]

There should be universal moratorium on no-knock warrants.

According to right wingers collateral damage is perfectly OK because it's vitally important to arrest a person who has murdered another person off the streets immediately. But it's not possible to take any steps at all to prevent school age kids from entering a school and slaughtering possibly dozens of completely innocent people.

Right wingers just need to spare us the bullshit excuses for slaughtering Black men. Just admit that no-knock warrants are just another great way for historically racist police departments to satisfy their bloodlust.

[andersweinstein]

MN Second Amendment group sides with Amir Locke, not police, since he carried a gun legally for self-defense.

[raison de arizona]

re: Amir Locke they are protesting at the police chief's home.

Happening now: Protesters and car caravan outside home of Minneapolis Police Chief Amelia Huffman in the Lake of the Isles neighborhood #AmirLocke

[raison de arizona]

Last night, LAPD pounded on our door & demanded my partner & I step out in the hallway to be cuffed without telling us what they were even here for. Then they took us inside our apt, looked for other ppl inside, & separated us for questioning.

A call had been made saying there was domestic violence happening in our particular apt: screaming, crying, things being thrown. Didn’t matter we told them we’d just gotten home from dinner, that it wasn’t us. They told us this after we were handcuffed & inside our apt.

I was taken over by the kitchen, made to face the wall, & given a full pat down for weapons. We had to give our full info. I was questioned how long we’d been together & if there was a past history of abuse. I kept protesting they had the wrong apt.

They even played back the message from dispatch with our address. As they figured out we obviously weren’t fighting & the apt # must be incorrect, they eased & released us, & said they were going to talk to who called on us. But wtf, we didn’t ever need to be treated that way.

It was very scary for me, I’ve never been hand cuffed esp for no apparent reason! We weren’t even sure who was pounding on our door yelling at first. They came in hot, hands at the ready, yelling at us to come out & that we weren’t to shut the door on them. Wtf.

Sure the address they were given was ours but nothing was actually happening in our apt. We had just sat down with protein shakes & were literally discussing world records on holding a breath, when the door pounding & “LAPD! OPEN UP!!!” occurred.

So idk who called, but hey try getting the address right if you feel the need to call the cops, or if it was someone harassing us and trying to swat us, fuck you! I’ll be calling the station to discuss this false call & how all the extra force was completely unnecessary.

What a way to begin the week going into my birthday!!! Flushed face When I was thinking I wanted new life experiences I didn’t mean this! We’re okay now, but I’m shaken, tbh.

https://twitter.com/iamcindychu/status/ ... 6237888513