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Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2 wrote: WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ A sergeant in Indiana was indicted by a federal grand jury for stomping on the face of Jermaine Vaughn, a man who was handcuffed and posed no threat. Sergeant Eric Huxley faces 2 state felony charges for this brutal assault as well. May he rot in prison.

"Body camera footage captured Sgt. Eric Huxley stomping on the face of Jermaine Vaughn, who had been handcuffed with his hands behind his back, on Sept. 24, 2021."
A Cop Was Charged By The Feds For Stomping On A Handcuffed Black Man's Face
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Somebody just lost their qualified immunity.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1 ... iral-video
'We keep us safe': Minneapolis police award recipient calls out cops in viral video

A Minnesota resident’s award acceptance speech has gone viral after he called out the police department that recognized him. Alex Mingus was honored by the St. Paul Police Department for performing “an act of gallantry and valor” in response to a shooting. But while he accepted the Chief's Medal of Valor award, Mingus called out the lack of police action on the scene. His award acceptance has since become an act of viral political protest for calling out the same department that awarded him for its failure to protect Black lives.

The ceremony began with St. Paul Interim Police Chief Jeremy Ellison welcoming Mingus and applauding him for his action during the shooting last year on Oct. 8. According to Ellison, Mingus responded to the incident after hearing gunshots while driving to work with his wife. He then followed a van that “left at a high rate of speed” from what looked like the direction of the shooting. When the van pulled over, a man who was “bleeding profusely” asked for help.

According to Ellison, Mingus then wrapped a shirt around the shooting victim’s arm “to try and slow the bleeding,” as an artery in the victim’s wrist had “been severely damaged by a bullet.”

“Doctors stated that the aid provided by Alex prevented this man from dying,” Ellison said.

Mingus was then given a chance to speak, but before doing so he removed the sweatshirt he was wearing to reveal a bright red T-shirt reading “SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY.”

He recalled what he witnessed that night, noting that he saw at least nine squad cars racing past him as he tried to help the victim, but none stopped despite him trying to flag them down.

“That was a potential of 18 people, 18 people could’ve stopped to help preserve life but 18 people chose to go to a potential threat—and I recognize the man had a pistol and we didn’t know what he was doing,” Mingus said.
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I loved her understated 'facts' as he was talking about himself. That's how you know she's really his niece, either by blood or in the way my goddaughters call me 'uncle'. That's family. :grouphug:
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Former Maine police officer to be sentenced on 14 felony charges
By Tom Henry - October 22, 2022

A former police officer who was arrested for dealing drugs less than a week after he retired from the Calais Police Department will be sentenced next month on more than a dozen criminal charges.

Jeffrey Bishop, 55, pleaded guilty last month to drug trafficking and furnishing, stealing drugs, and multiple counts of receiving stolen property.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on 14 felony charges in Machias at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 17.

Bishop was arrested in February 2021 after he was seen giving drugs to a 17-year-old girl in the parking lot of Narraguagus High School in Harrington. The drugs, which were inside an unmarked prescription pill bottle and were intended for the girl’s mother, included 27 acetaminophen and hydrocodone pills and three baggies of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than heroin, police have said.

When police executed a search warrant at his home a few days later, they found and seized 15 guns that had been reported stolen in Hancock and Washington counties over the previous four years. Two of the recovered guns, both of them police-issued Glock pistols, had been stolen in a 2016 burglary at the Gouldsboro Town Office, where Bishop was previously employed as a police officer.
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"rearended while black"


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Yeah - a Florida man :cry:
Florida Sergeant Allegedly Believes Black People Are One of 'America's Three Biggest Problems'

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Thu, October 27, 2022 at 4:45 PM

The Sheriff’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, has launched an internal investigation looking into accusations that one of its sergeants had been tweeting racially insensitive comments. An account tied to Sgt. Douglas Howell, one of the city’s gang task force, allegedly made several derogatory posts about anti-racism efforts, Mexican people, and the LGBTQ+ community, according to First Coast News. The outlet points out the Twitter account was locked soon after the story was published.

One tweet from 2013 claimed that “America’s Three Biggest Problems” are “Marijuana Abuse, Marijuana Abuse, and Black people.” Another that News4Jax uncovered claimed an appearance by Boy and Girl Scouts at the Pride parade was “sick and demented.” The third tweet responding to a story titled “White Mexicans have had a role to play in white supremacy” says: ”There are different colored Mexicans?? (Inserts Sarcasm).”


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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/men-wr ... 022-10-31/
Men wrongly convicted in Malcolm X slaying reach settlement with New York City, state

Muhammad Aziz, 84, had sought $40 million after serving about two decades in prison and more than 55 years after being wrongly blamed in the case that raised questions about racism in the criminal justice system. Aziz is married and has six children.

Muhammad Aziz, 84, had sought $40 million after serving about two decades in prison and more than 55 years after being wrongly blamed in the case that raised questions about racism in the criminal justice system. Aziz is married and has six children.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/me ... -rcna54753
State, city of New York to pay $36 million to men exonerated in Malcolm X’s murder

Muhammad Aziz and the family of the late Khalil Islam will share the settlement after their wrongful convictions for Malcolm X's assassination, their attorney said.


In early 2020, as Netflix began streaming the documentary series "Who Killed Malcolm X?" Vance reopened the case files of Aziz and Islam, and late last year, his office moved to vacate the convictions and dismiss charges.

Among the office's findings was that the FBI failed to share evidence that might have exonerated the pair. It included eyewitness descriptions of the gunmen that did not appear to describe Islam. The agency also withheld the relationship it had with a witness who testified against the duo: That person was also an FBI informant.

When the convictions were vacated last year, Vance apologized to Aziz and his family and to Islam's survivors.
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may be duplicate

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add-on to above

stolen car - owner "tracked" it to this location - police made no additional investigation

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So where was the phone? Laying in her front yard where the actual criminals tossed-it while driving by?

Who is going to pay for the damages to her house???

Incompetence.
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So because he asks for their names and badge numbers, they arrest him for resisting arrest????

And he’s a white guy. Imagine what might have happened to a person of color.
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odd-on to above clip

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Local news media reports, at end reference to Twitter or Facebook, "sheriff is troubled"

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Comment: I guess this false arrest will cost the city like $20K.
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with TYT followup coverage, prior 4 clips in YT description in case of interest

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hope you don't get tired (yeah - 1AA)

this is FL

Youtuber has a intro and links to the full stories in video description

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the immediate result of the arrest of the visually impaired guy

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I think much of what he said was truthful. I don't think a two-day suspension of the female was enough. She initiated the action. She was belligerent, and she was unprofessional. You don't treat a 60-something man who clearly is minding his own business at 8:00AM the same as a punk-ass kid or DUI who dish out attitude. She really thought that his cane that was collapsed in his rear pocket was a firearm? Maybe she needs to find another line of work if her vision and hyperbolic imagination are so poor.

He made excuses for their lack of training or poor execution of policy. He just should have come out and said that those officers knew better and chose not to follow training and policy. There were no exigent circumstances here. If the patrol deputy and the sergeant still had some doubts about what to do, higher-ranking deputies are a radio call away.

My take is that it was a slow morning, and she was looking for something to do. She thought she caught a serious criminal. When it turned out to be a geriatric blind man, she did not know how to back off and let the man amble on home. And the sergeant should have had the common sense to tell her to cut him loose instead of capitulating to her.

When the sheriff mentioned additional training, do police departments train their officers how to bow out gracefully once their suspicions are determined to be in error? Yes, mistakes happen. It is how we recover from our mistakes that matter to the public. And most of us are forgiving when we sense that we are being told the truth in a contrite fashion.
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I would posit that there is no amount of training that will fix a cop that gets off hassling a blind geriatric man who is minding his own business walking home from jury duty.
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