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Phoenix Police officer under investigation for allegedly making porn while working from home

Phoenix police officer Christian Goggans is facing an internal investigation, according to the department. Multiple sources told Arizona’s Family Goggans was making and distributing pornography while he was assigned to work from home and on the clock.

Our sources have confirmed it is Goggans in extremely graphic porn videos he had been uploading to a public Twitter page. Sources said while he was on home duty, he had also been traveling to and from Las Vegas producing, starring, and then posting many pornographic videos to a public Twitter page under the name ‘Rico Blaze.’

Phoenix police told us in a statement Monday:

“We can confirm there is an open internal investigation underway involving Officer Goggans. Officer Goggans was on home assignment prior to the start of the investigation for unrelated and non-disciplinary reasons.”

Their public information officer said home duty required him to call in once daily. However, they would not go into the investigation or why he was on home assignment.
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This is really bizarre:

https://www.kcra.com/article/chp-yuba-s ... e/42235110

A 50-something CHP captain, Julie Harding, was found dead at her home in Tennessee a few days ago. Officials do not suspect foul play.

In September, she reported her husband missing from their Tennessee home. He was found killed in rural Kentucky a couple days later. More recently, this CHP captain was charged in Tennessee with stalking and trespassing by her estranged husband's lady friend. (They were going through a divorce, apparently.) She was arrested, booked, and released. She was found dead the next day.

She was the commander of the Sutter-Yuba CHP station (about 60 miles north of Sacto on highway 99). She must have obtained some sort of leave of absence to be out in Tennessee the past 90 days or so.

A suspect was apprehended at the Sacto Airport yesterday who is the person of interest in the killing of her husband.

I think she hired this guy to off her husband, and she felt the walls closing in on her.
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Meanwhile, back in Marin County:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ti ... r-AA15fITn

A newly-minted police sergeant from Tiburon committed suicide with his service weapon while on duty at the police station.
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She tried to return a lost credit card. Why did police accuse her of stealing it?

WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
16 Dec 2022

A Detroit mother says she was wrongfully arrested after trying to return a lost credit card. What happened next, she says, ruined her life.

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RTH10260 wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:33 am
She tried to return a lost credit card. Why did police accuse her of stealing it?

WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
16 Dec 2022

A Detroit mother says she was wrongfully arrested after trying to return a lost credit card. What happened next, she says, ruined her life.

https://youtu.be/aG5B8yUWYns
Well, my previous #1 rule was shut up, don't talk to the fuzz. That jacked her up. My new rule is #2, if you see a credit card or ID on the ground, LEAVE IT. If it isn't yours, serious negative consequences can await your altruistic intent. Those prosecutors should be brought up on charges.
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WOW: Nashville airport cop threatens to arrest stranded passengers who are standing in line at a Southwest counter to rebook their cancelled flights (1/2)

A lawyer asks the cop to cite the law he was threatening to arrest them under. He cannot. (2/2)
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My take after looking at the same video but in a single piece on Youtube: the officer was speaking about people leaving the "secured area" cause they no longer "have valid travle documents" --> the passengers had already passed the TSA check with valid tickets when their flights got cancelled. It seems that the ticket desk inside the TSA controlled area is the one where transit passengers usually get their tickets, so when many flights were cancelled the ticket counter was overwhelmed. It seems that the airline asked the police to clear the area, without properly communicating with the waiting and queuing passengers. With the long waiting times it is likely that they anyhow would need to leave the airside facilities.
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Maybe Sugar can weigh in on this:

From anecdotes and limited personal experience, the police are generally poor at articulating what they want. Whether it is their training or whether it is because they have power, but they frequently cannot support their words (or orders) with the law or with departmental policy. And to challenge an officer is akin to some level of criminality in their minds, no matter how peaceful and how respectful we citizens are.

Anyway, I guess he requested that the people would have to exit the gate areas and return outside the TSA screening only to have to reenter the gated areas and once again be subject to the interminable BS that one needs to go through if and when their flights were available. It was hard to hear exactly why this action was requested. Did Southwest ask law enforcement to herd the passengers away? If so, then there needed to be a spokesperson from Southwest making this announcement with the officer by his/her side.

I don't know if this order was good or bad; I haven't been aboard an airplane since 2005. But something tells me that very little thought was put into this decision. And my personal belief (barring exigent circumstances) is that if a police officer cannot cite the statute they are trying to enforce, then the officer is just making things up on the fly. We have been conditioned over the years that this is pretty typical for law enforcement.
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humblescribe wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:16 pm Maybe Sugar can weigh in on this:

From anecdotes and limited personal experience, the police are generally poor at articulating what they want. Whether it is their training or whether it is because they have power, but they frequently cannot support their words (or orders) with the law or with departmental policy. And to challenge an officer is akin to some level of criminality in their minds, no matter how peaceful and how respectful we citizens are.

Anyway, I guess he requested that the people would have to exit the gate areas and return outside the TSA screening only to have to reenter the gated areas and once again be subject to the interminable BS that one needs to go through if and when their flights were available. It was hard to hear exactly why this action was requested. Did Southwest ask law enforcement to herd the passengers away? If so, then there needed to be a spokesperson from Southwest making this announcement with the officer by his/her side.

I don't know if this order was good or bad; I haven't been aboard an airplane since 2005. But something tells me that very little thought was put into this decision. And my personal belief (barring exigent circumstances) is that if a police officer cannot cite the statute they are trying to enforce, then the officer is just making things up on the fly. We have been conditioned over the years that this is pretty typical for law enforcement.
Actual legal and law training in academies I am aware of consists of learning what the law is in practice, not actually memorizing chapter and verse. A lot of the morons cops run into have committed "section 43" or whatever they're spouting to memory and when the cop can't instantly come back with "but what about section 43 sub H?" the morons think cops don't know the law.

We had more Constitutional law in the classes at one of the academies I attended and more statutory law classes at another.
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Thank you, Sugar.

I guess that police make "judgment" calls, and it is up to the prosecuting attorneys to decide if, indeed, a law is broken. I guess further that it is up to other lawyers to decide whether the officer overstepped his bounds by making arrests and then filing civil suits. This just seems like a colossal waste in many situations.

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humblescribe wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:39 pm Thank you, Sugar.

I guess that police make "judgment" calls, and it is up to the prosecuting attorneys to decide if, indeed, a law is broken. I guess further that it is up to other lawyers to decide whether the officer overstepped his bounds by making arrests and then filing civil suits. This just seems like a colossal waste in many situations.

And HNY to you and your family!
That's true of everything from traffic citations to murder. The cops make the arrest, then the lawyers and judges and juries take over. And even in cases where a guilty verdict has been reached there are appeals on top of appeals. It's a feature, not a bug. Not a whole lot of leeway to arbitrarily decide what is consequential and what isn't.

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re the cop speaking about "cancelled tickets", that was where he was wrong. I believe there will be a general rule in the airport regulations that presence airside past TSA is only permitted with a valid ticket. Passengers that get kicked off planes might have their ticket cancelled and need to leave. In above situation, all passengers had valid tickets, only their flight had been cancelled.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1 ... the-credit
When the police put out a picture of an officer with a rescued baby, always ask more questions

When 5-month-old Kason Thomass was found in a car in Indianapolis just before Christmas, which was just days after the car he and his twin brother Kyair Thomass were in was stolen, the Indianapolis police had a moving story to tell about the rescue. Kyair had already been found and the suspect had been arrested, but baby Kason was missing with temperatures about to plunge. According to reports—two Indianapolis police sergeants out on the hunt for the baby happened to find him in a car outside the pizza place they had stopped at to eat. Pictures of one of the sergeants holding the baby spread quickly, a nice heartwarming moment of the police at their best.

The next day, a different story emerged. The women who had already led police to the car thief/kidnapper had kept up their search for Kason, the Indianapolis Star reported. Armed with a bus schedule left in their car by the kidnapper, they searched along the bus route for vehicles covered in snow, suggesting that they hadn’t been moved for a couple of days. Those women, Shyann Delmar and her cousin Mecka Curry, saw a snow-covered Honda, looked into it, saw a baby, and went and located the officers in the nearby pizza place.

"We've been alerted that the missing child may be located over here at the vehicle at 10th and Indiana,” an officer said over police radio. And then, “We have custody of the child that's missing.”
Quote from one of the police officers. “It was time for us to decompress because we were disappointed that we could not find him,” Sgt. Shawn Anderson of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told CNN affiliate WISH-TV. “And then God opened up the heavens to us and almost took him and put him right in our hands.”
The police sergeants got a tip and responded to it immediately and got into the locked car and got the baby. There’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. Their joy and relief at finding him was likely real and heartfelt. But then the police hype machine went to work and suddenly they just found that baby on their own—“God opened up the heavens”—which was not true, unless Delmar and Curry were God and/or the heavens.

And while, again, the picture of the sergeant holding Kason was innocent enough until it was used to promote a false account of how the baby was found, there is a disturbing recent history of police using pictures of an officer holding a baby for overt propaganda purposes. In 2020, following the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr., police promoted a photo of an officer appearing to comfort a Black toddler, describing the child as “lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness.” In reality, video showed that the police had pulled the child and his mother from her vehicle, separated them, and assaulted the mother. Then claimed to have been comforting a poor lost child.
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Here's video of former Tampa police officer Gregory Damon dragging a female into the Orient Road Jail. He was fired on Tuesday.

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like above
Florida police officer fired after video shows him dragging handcuffed woman into jail

DECEMBER 29, 2022 / 6:01 AM / CBS/AP

A police officer in Tampa, Florida, who was videotaped dragging a handcuffed woman into jail has been fired, authorities said.

An internal investigation determined that former officer Gregory Damon violated department policies during the Nov. 17 incident, the Tampa Police Department announced Tuesday in a news release.

The woman was being arrested for trespassing, according to the release. A body camera video shows her refusing to leave Damon's vehicle while parked at the Orient Road Jail and telling the officer, "I want you to drag me."

Damon then removes the woman from the vehicle and pulls her by the arm across a concrete floor, stopping once to tell her to get up but the woman refuses. Damon drags the woman to a doorway then buzzes for additional officers to assist him before the body camera video released by the Tampa Police Department cuts off.


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I'm okay giving the dragging dude a mulligan if we can get TFG in trade.
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p0rtia wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:19 am I'm okay giving the dragging dude a mulligan if we can get TFG in trade.
The poor guys at the police station that will need to clear the garage floor from all the blubber :biggrin: :twisted:
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City to Pay $135K to Homeless Man Dragged Off Subway by Cops
Police claimed that Joseph T. assaulted them in the May 2020 incident, but body camera footage published by THE CITY showed otherwise.

BY REUVEN BLAU RBLAU@THECITY.NYC
JAN 4, 2023, 11:00AM CET

A homeless man punched and dragged off a subway by cops for allegedly taking up more than one seat on a near-empty train has settled his federal lawsuit against New York City for $135,000 — and one of the officers involved is facing discipline, THE CITY has learned.

The May 25, 2020 incident had initially led to Joseph T. being arrested and charged with felony assault after police officers alleged he’d kicked one of their hands while they tried to cuff him on the platform of a Midtown train station.

But in body camera footage first published by THE CITY weeks after the incident, cops could be seen punching Joseph in the face twice and kicking his belongings off the 6 train at 51st Street at around 12:30 a.m.

NYPD Officer Adonis Long was also seen hitting Joseph with pepper spray and putting one hand around his neck.

Joseph, a hair stylist by trade, said the incident occurred after he left a Manhattan homeless shelter with his belongings in a few tote bags. He did not want his full name published out of fear of retaliation.

In the body camera footage, Joseph was seen crying and pleading “Stop!” as he was being held against the wall, surrounded by police and appearing to bleed from the side of his head.

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“I’m having a panic attack, please,” he says, cuffed on the floor of the station. He calls out for his older brother, who was not there.

He later told THE CITY, “I felt like my heart was going to fall out.”

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Former Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance dropped the cop-assault charges against Joseph just days after THE CITY reported the case and published the body camera footage.

Last March, Joseph sued New York City, NYPD officer Long and his partner, Officer Shimul Saha. The filing in Manhattan federal court argued that the officers falsely claimed Joseph tried to run away from the cops, and shoved Long and kicked his right hand.

Long actually cut his right hand by repeatedly punching Joseph, while the cops used excessive force, made a false arrest, and fabricated evidence, according to the complaint.




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Akron police faces lawsuit after former officer packed snow in the mouth of a man during arrest
Lawsuit claims the constitutional rights of 28-year-old Charles Hicks II were violated during his Feb. 2021 arrest

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Posted at 11:01 PM, Jan 05, 2023 and last updated 5:13 PM, Jan 06, 2023

AKRON, Ohio — The City of Akron and seven current and former members of its police department are now facing a civil rights lawsuit concerning the Feb. 7, 2021 arrest of 28-year-old Charles Hicks II.

The ten count lawsuit filed in federal court on Jan. 2 seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and claims Hicks was the victim excessive use-of-force when he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.

The attorney for Hicks, Eddie Sipplen, told News 5 the lawsuit was filed when Akron Police body camera video clearly showed officer John Turnure packing three handfuls of snow into the mouth and nose area of Hicks face while he was subdued and on the ground during his arrest. Sipplen said the Hicks was left choking and gasping for air and fearing for his life during the arrest.

Sipplen said Hicks pleaded no contest to a charge of resisting arrest to move his civil right case forward, after the domestic violence charge was dropped.




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Sipplen said Hicks pleaded no contest to a charge of resisting arrest to move his civil right case forward, after the domestic violence charge was dropped.
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Whut?

I read the article at the link and it didn't have further info.

This was interesting, though:
The city prepares to finish taking applications on January 24 for its newly approved citizen police oversight board.
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Video shows L.A. County deputy threatened rapper; authorities now investigating

BY HARRIET RYANSTAFF WRITER
JAN. 7, 2023 1:25 PM PT

A New Year’s Eve incident in which a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy pulled a gun on a man in a parked car and threatened to shoot him is now the subject of an internal investigation.

“Sheriff [Robert] Luna has made it clear that he expects department personnel to treat all members of the public with dignity and respect, and that personnel who do not uphold our training standards will be held accountable,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Friday announcing the probe into the “actions and language” of two patrol deputies.

It was unclear why the deputies approached the man, who identified himself on social media as rapper Feezy Lebron, in a parking lot in the 14900 block of Crenshaw Boulevard. But they did so Dec. 31 around 5:45 p.m. and ordered him out of a BMW sedan.

Body camera video released by the department showed the man with his hands raised asking repeatedly if he was under arrest and questioning the deputies’ instructions that he get out of the car. He said at one point, “Get out for what?”

One deputy held up a pepper spray canister and threatened to use it, then, a short time later, pointed his gun at the man and said, “I’m going to make it super easy on you: You put this car in drive, you’re getting one right to the chest.”

The deputy reiterated the threat several times, according to the recording. In its statement, the department described the deputy as using “unprofessional language.”





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How Police Going to Mistake A Black PhD Student in Philly for A Robbery Suspect in TX?

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Fri, January 13, 2023 at 6:11 PM GMT+1

Gather ‘round everyone for another classic tale of racial profiling at its finest. Julie Hudson, a PhD student from Philadelphia, was arrested by the police after being wrongly profiled as a shoplifting suspect, per Click2Houston (an NBC affiliate). Hudson had gone down to the department to see why there was a warrant for her arrest and ended up behind bars with no explanation.

Hudson, 31, was applying for a new job when she noticed her background checks were reporting she had a criminal record, what she saw as an error, the report says. Jan 5. she went to the Philadelphia police station to inquire about why she had a warrant and once the officers found what she was talking about, she was placed into custody. The warrant was filed by police in Webster, Tx. who were looking for a shoplifter.

Hudson had never even been to Texas.

She was held in jail for six days until the Webster Police Department found who the true suspect was after interviewing her sister. Another Black woman with the same name was identified through surveillance footage. When the cops looked up all the Julie Hudson’s of the world, they landed on the wrong one and identified her through social media.

“When you know that you didn’t do anything wrong, it makes you feel crazy,” Hudson told NBC10.




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That happens to white guys, too also. I had a client who was arrested way up north in California because he had the same name as a guy with an arrest warrant in Orange County, for, as coincidence would have it, shoplifting.

The physical description of the guy on the warrant was a mismatch in several ways. My client had never been to Southern California before. But he had the same name as the shoplifter.

They put him in handcuffs and put him on a bus, and it took nine days on the bus and in various county jails along the road, and another three or four days for me to straighten it out and get him released, and they released him, like they always do, at 3 a.m., after the city buses stop running.

With no money. About 600 miles from home. :|

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Man who couldn’t afford bail dies after losing nearly 100 pounds in jail, lawsuit says

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Mon, January 16, 2023 at 9:39 PM GMT+1

A man arrested during a mental health crisis was put in a solitary confinement cell at an Arkansas county jail — where he died of malnutrition and dehydration after he couldn’t afford bail, his brother’s lawsuit says.

Larry Eugene Price Jr. was 50 years old, homeless and weighed 185 pounds when he arrived at Sebastian County jail and had his bail set at $1,000 in August 2020, according to a complaint filed in federal court on Jan. 13.

Over the course of a year, Price “awaited his day in court,” and was neglected by jail staff as he lost nearly 100 pounds, resembling a famine victim, the complaint says. On the day of his death, Price weighed 90 pounds with a “morbidly skeletal appearance” on August 29, 2021, according to the complaint.

Now his brother Rodney Price is suing Sebastian County, Turn Key Health Clinics, LLC, the healthcare corporation providing medical services to people at the jail, a Turn Key psychiatrist and nurse, and several other unnamed defendants over Price’s death.




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