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Organizers of the protests at the North American leaders’ summit in Montebello, Que., say they have video that shows police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence on Monday.

The YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.
(CBC)

About 1,200 protesters were in the small resort town near Ottawa as Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at a two-day summit to discuss issues under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America pact.

The video titled Stop SPP Protest — Union Leader stops provocateurs, posted on YouTube Tuesday, was shown at a news conference held Wednesday in Ottawa by protest organizers, including Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, who appears in the video.

In the footage filmed Monday afternoon, three burly men with bandanas and other covers over their faces push through protesters toward a line of riot police. One of the men has a rock in his hand.

As they move forward, Coles and other union leaders dressed in suits order the men to put the rock down and leave, accuse them of being police agents provocateurs, and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.

In the end, they squeeze behind the police line, where they are calmly handcuffed.

In this handout photo provided by CUPE, police and protesters clash in Montebello on Monday. Union leaders say photos and video taken by protesters raise troubling questions about police actions during the summit.
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“The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union believes that the security force at Montebello were ordered to infiltrate our peaceful assembly and to provoke incidents,” Coles told reporters. “I think the evidence that we’ve shown you today reinforces the view.”

Coles showed photographs of the masked men’s and police officers’ boots taken during the handcuffing, in which they appear to have identical tread patterns on their soles.

He also questioned why other activists have been unable to identify the three men whose images have been broadcast worldwide and demanded to know who the masked men were.

“Do they have any connection to the Quebec police force or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or are they part of some other security force that was at Montebello?” Coles asked, adding that he wants to know how the Prime Minister’s Office was involved in security during the protests.

He suggested that the government might want to provoke violence in order justify its security budget for the summit and discredit protesters.

“They want to defuse our questions … by trying to make it look like some radical group trying to create a confrontation,” he said.

The RCMP has refused to comment, while Quebec’s provincial force has flatly denied that its officers were involved in the incident.

It said it is not releasing any names as no charges were laid.

Retired police officer believes masked men were cops

Meanwhile, a retired Ottawa police officer who was formerly in charge of overseeing demonstrations for the force said he questions who the masked men really are, after viewing the video.

“Were they legitimate protesters? I don’t think so,” said Doug Kirkland.

“Well, if they weren’t police, I think they might well have been working in the best interests of police.”

He added that if the situation was as it appeared, he did not approve of the tactic. “It’s pretty close to baiting,” he said.

On Wednesday, the mayor of Montebello thanked police and protesters, praising the fact that there wasn’t a single report of damage during the two-day summit.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership pact, signed in 2005, is intended to forge closer trade and security links between the countries.

Opponents say negotiations about the agreement are secretive and undemocratic, and the treaty itself erodes Canada’s control over its natural resources, security and defence.

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Two Pittsburgh detectives, one of them the son of Allegheny County police Superintendent Charles Moffatt, were charged with assaulting Hanover Township police officers at a country music concert over the weekend.

Detectives Patrick Michael Moffatt, 38, of the homicide squad, and Joseph Mark Simunovic, 39, of the sex assault/family crisis division, are accused of fighting several township officers at a Toby Keith concert at the Post-Gazette Pavilion.

Both were charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, resisting arrest, harassment, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

Detective Moffatt was additionally charged with obstruction of the administration of law and Detective Simunovic was charged with additional aggravated and simple assault charges. They face a preliminary hearing in Washington County next Wednesday.

Detective Moffatt’s sister, Bridget Moffatt, 31, of Coraopolis, was also involved in the altercation, police said. The Moffatts are Superintendent Moffatt’s daughter and son.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper said the two detectives have been temporarily reassigned to uniformed street duty pending the outcome of their cases. He said internal affairs will investigate the incident.

Chief Harper said the two detectives did not have previous disciplinary problems.

“We expect our officers, even when off duty, to conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times,” Chief Harper said. Departmental charges can follow the adjudication of their case, the chief said.

According to an affidavit filed in Washington County, the incident began when Hanover officers responded to a disturbance in the parking lot after the show.

“The defendants became very hostile and began to ridicule the on-scene officers and said they did not have to listen to the officers,” the affidavit states.

Detective Simunovic tried to assault Hanover police Officer Jacob Stevenson by moving toward him and saying, “I will show you something,” the report says.

When Officer Stevenson pinned Detective Simunovic to a vehicle in an attempt to arrest him, Detective Moffatt charged at another Hanover officer, tackled and then choked him. That officer was able to break free and another officer grabbed Detective Moffatt to restrain him.

As this was happening, Sean Patrick Foley, who was with Detective Moffatt and Detective Simunovic, threw punches at another officer’s face, the affidavit says.

While Hanover officers attempted to restrain the men, Bridget Moffatt reached across Lance Cpl. Sean Conn’s back and placed “her hands on his duty weapon and waist area.” Ms. Moffatt was restrained and charged with trying to disarm a law enforcement officer.

Officers who work events at the concert venue are certified as Hanover police officers, but do not patrol the community.

In 2003, Joseph Trone, a captain with the Aliquippa Fire Department, attended a Toby Keith concert with his wife and 9-year-old son and claimed he was assaulted by a police officer as they waited for the singer’s entourage to step off stage.

The township settled a lawsuit filed by Mr. Trone for $180,000. Officers had charged him with disorderly conduct. The charge was later dismissed.

In January 2005, the township agreed to pay a Pittsburgh police officer $50,000 after he said police falsely arrested him after a Brooks & Dunn concert. Lt. Kevin Kraus said he was manhandled by township officers at the July 2002 concert when he stopped his sport utility vehicle to speak to other city officers.

Narcotics detectives have arrested the wife of the Wendover police chief after she allegedly sold drugs at the club where she strips.

Sylvia Tripp, 39, whose stage name is “Ecstasy,” was booked Friday morning into the Elko County, Nev., jail on suspicion of two counts of drug distribution and one count of possessing medication without a prescription. She was released the same day after posting $15,000 bail. Formal charges have not been filed.

Tripp is the wife of Wendover, Utah, police Chief Vaughn Tripp, who did not immediately return a phone message left Tuesday.

Craig Ronzone, commander of Elko County’s drug task force, said Sylvia Tripp was one of three people arrested early Friday in a drug sting. Sylvia Tripp works as a stripper at the club Southern X-Posure in West Wendover, Nev., and sold drugs there to undercover officers, Ronzone said. Sylvia Tripp allegedly sold prescription pain relievers including oxycodone and morphine tablets, Ronzone said.

“She was a drugstore,” Ronzone said.

Detectives also found her in possession of pain relievers for which she did not have a prescription, Ronzone said.

A bouncer at the club and a card dealer at a local casino were also arrested on suspicion of drug distribution. The task force is pursuing arrest warrants for other suspects in the case, Ronzone said, including more employees of Southern X-Posure.

“They all knew about one another,” Ronzone said. “Sylvia seemed to be able to arrange things and then produce things to other people, so she was kind of in the middle of it.”

Ronzone said Vaughn Tripp is not under investigation at this time.

CANTON, Ohio –

A grand jury indicted a former police officer on murder charges Thursday in the death of his pregnant girlfriend, whose 2-year-old son was left alone in an apartment to tell police: “Mommy was crying … Mommy’s in rug.”

Bobby Cutts Jr. could receive the death penalty if convicted in the June death of Jessie Davis and her unborn child.

The murder indictments allege that Cutts killed Davis, terminated her pregnancy, and caused the death of a viable unborn child, “baby Chloe.” Cutts, 30, also faces two counts of gross abuse of a corpse and one count each of aggravated burglary and endangering children.

His attorney, Myron Watson, said he would comment after he had a chance to review the indictment.

Myisha Ferrell, a high school classmate of Cutts, was indicted on charges of obstructing justice and complicity in helping dispose of Davis’ body.

The indictments alleges that Cutts killed Davis at her home on June 14, and that his actions put their son, 2-year-old Blake Davis, in danger. Davis’ family says Cutts was also the father of the baby girl due July 3.

Davis was reported missing after her mother went to her home and found Blake in a dirty diaper, the bedroom furniture toppled and a pool of bleach on the floor.

Blake provided authorities with the first clues, saying: “Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy’s in rug.”

Davis’ disappearance drew national attention as thousands of people searched the area surrounding her northeast Ohio home. Her body was found nine days later in a remote park about 25 miles away. She was still carrying a nearly full-term fetus, authorities said.

Earlier this month, Summit County medical examiner Lisa Kohler said she was unable to determine how Davis was killed. Kohler ruled that the manner of death a homicide but offered no other details, listing the cause as “unspecified homicidal violence.”

Investigators had previously stated that the advanced decomposition of the body would make determining a cause difficult. They provided no further details in announcing the indictment Thursday.

Cutts and Ferrell are to be arraigned Friday in Stark County Common Pleas Court. Cutts is being held on a $5 million bond.

For years, we’ve spent an enormous amount of money and police manpower targeting street gangs in Milwaukee.

But for some reason we’ve heard very little about one of the deadliest street gangs of all. It’s a gang we know is armed with deadly weapons because we buy them their guns and bullets.

It’s not as if we haven’t been able to identify some of the gang members, either. Their names show up regularly in news stories about fatal shootings and acts of violence.

But for years members of the Milwaukee Police Department involved in deadly shootings were routinely exonerated by citizen inquest juries. Historically, inquests ruled every police shooting justifiable even if the victims were unarmed and facing in the opposite direction from the officers who shot them.

There is a glimmer of hope that may have changed with the federal conviction of three Milwaukee police officers and guilty pleas by four others in the beating of Frank Jude Jr.

A week after the verdicts, two of the officers convicted — Jon Bartlett and Andrew Spengler — were identified in federal court as members of a gang within the Milwaukee Police Department that calls itself the Punishers.

The gang’s hero is a violent, vigilante comic book character, and there’s nothing funny about vigilante law enforcement. That’s not an accepted approach to policing in any community.

Unfortunately, the group’s literary taste is not limited to comic books. A search of Bartlett’s apartment turned up a copy of the white supremacist manifesto “The Turner Diaries,” the light reading of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

The existence of the Punishers was made public in a sentencing hearing last week on another in a string of charges against Bartlett.

A year ago, after an all-white Milwaukee jury acquitted Bartlett, Spengler and Daniel Masarik on state charges in the beating and torture of Jude and Lovell Harris, two black men, Bartlett also was acquitted by a jury in a federal civil trial brought by the family of Larry Jenkins, an unarmed black man Bartlett fatally shot in a traffic stop.

That was the end of Bartlett’s lucky streak. Apparently, even in Milwaukee, if a police officer goes to trial again and again on a mountain of criminal charges, his behavior will eventually catch up to him.

First, Bartlett was convicted of calling in a bomb threat after being fired from the department to the police district station where he used to work. Then he was convicted on federal gun charges.

Incredibly, Bartlett, while he was out on bail between trials, tried to buy a civilian semiautomatic edition of the P90 military rifle used by the comic book Punisher to wreak violence on the streets.

In addition, Bartlett tried to buy a semiautomatic pistol, 875 bullets and larger than standard magazines for the two weapons to allow them to fire 50 rounds and 20 rounds without reloading.

Buying all that deadly firepower, costing more than $4,500, required Bartlett to sign a background purchase form swearing he did not have any pending felony charges. Bartlett was awaiting trial on two felonies at the time.

The gun charges led to the search of Bartlett’s apartment that uncovered a stockpile of other weapons, six more guns and 300 more rounds of ammunition.

Bartlett’s defense was as frightening as the charges. His attorney said Bartlett wanted to relieve all the stress he was under from his trials by taking a little target practice.

Police officers didn’t wear their hats sideways to signify gang membership, but Bartlett, and who knows how many others, sported Punisher tattoos. Spengler had a Punisher decal on his car.

Bartlett’s Punisher gang tattoo has some other disturbing elements. The central symbol is a long-toothed skull worn on the body armor of the comic book avenger. Other symbols are a black spade and the number 7.

Bartlett worked out of the 7th Police District, which serves an African-American neighborhood. The citizens who live there want Milwaukee police to protect their homes, not consider their neighborhood a target to be punished by vigilante officers who stockpile racist literature and deadly weapons.

The possibility of a violent, racist gang within the Milwaukee Police Department requires not only the next police chief, but current leadership — Police Chief Nan Hegerty, the Fire and Police Commission and Mayor Tom Barrett — to immediately investigate and start rooting it out.

Vigilante violence is illegal. Police officers who encourage vigilante violence, condone it or engage in it are not upholding the law. Public officials aware of such attitudes on the Police Department have a responsibility to act.

Punishment is not the job of a police officer. Any police officer who thinks it is should be considered armed and dangerous.

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POMPANO BEACH, Fla.

Sheriff Ken Jenne mapped out how investigators believe a Broward Sheriff’s Office sergeant was shot and killed early Friday morning in a Walgreens parking lot in Pompano Beach.

Investigators believe that Sgt. Chris Reyka spotted an automobile with a stolen license plate and approached the car before being shot around 1:30 a.m.

“He looked at the car and saw that the car’s license did not belong to that car,” said Jenne at an afternoon press conference Friday.

As Reyka got out of his car, Jenne said they believe the passenger in the car got out and shot the sergeant “in very rapid succession.”

“My detectives tell me that there were 10 casings found,” said Jenne. He also stated that Reyka’s weapon was not drawn and that he did not use his police radio at any time, he added.

“At least five of those shots hit him. We believe the shooter came forward in an aggressive manner. The last shots came within 2 to 4 feet because of the powder burns that were there,” said Jenne.

The shooter got back into the car and then the car drove off. Surveillance from the Isle of Capri casino captured a white, four-door sedan with tinted windows and Florida license plate F16-8UJ, the BSO said. The video captured the vehicle traveling north on Powerline Road within minutes of the shooting, and investigators believe it might be the vehicle that was involved in the shooting.

Reyka, 51, was pronounced dead at North Broward Medical Center about 4 a.m.

Meanwhile, Jenne said a massive manhunt is under way to find the vehicle and the people responsible for killing Reyka.

“Every inch of Broward County is going to be searched. We’re not going to give up our streets to these thugs,” said Reyka.

The scene was an all-too-familiar one from earlier in the week when Deputy Maury Hernandez was shot in the face while conducting a traffic stop in the 3700 block of Pembroke Road. The suspect in that shooting, David Maldonado, was apprehended a short time later and is being held without bond at the BSO main jail.

Jenne said that the two deputies were doing their jobs and that BSO deputies will continue to remain “proactive.”

He sent a message to those responsible for the shootings.

“We’re at war with you. We’re not going to accept this. We’re not going to accept it for a resident, for an officer. We will not take this lying down. They have a fight on their hands. . . We will not sleep until these people are in jail,” said Jenne.

Authorities are offering a $105,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

BASTROP, La.

A shootout at a hotel in the main square of this small northeastern Louisiana city left two police officers and one suspect dead Friday, and authorities were searching for another suspect, officials said.

Two paramedics were also hit by gunfire when they arrived at the scene, said Trooper Mark Dennis, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police. One was in stable condition and the other was not seriously hurt, Dennis said.

It was not immediately clear what sparked the shooting, or whether the suspect was killed in the initial shootout or by officers who arrived later, Dennis said.

Shots were first fired around 1:30 p.m., Dennis said, and police entered the hotel around 4 p.m. Buildings in and around the hotel in this city of about 12,000 were sealed off.

Police searched the hotel and surrounding areas for a 26-year-old woman linked to a stolen car from Texas found at the hotel. The woman also is being investigated in a killing in Harris County, Texas, Dennis said.

The shooting happened in the city’s main square, near the courthouse.

“I was sitting in my office about 1:30 and heard what I thought was somebody banging on a piece of tin,” said Mark Rainwater, editor of the Bastrop Daily Enterprise newspaper.

A reporter sent to investigate dropped to the ground after hearing the gunfire. “I walked outside and saw him crawling, literally, across the street,” Rainwater said.

Bastrop is about 100 miles east of Shreveport.

Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather, Jack Tracy, Friday evening when Tracy said he heard a shot and saw a bullet hit the water just a few feet in front of the boat dock where he was standing.

Moments later, a second shot was fired that hit Austin in the head.

A Noble police officer who had responded to a report of a snake in a tree apparently fired the deadly shot while trying to kill the snake, according to City Manager Bob Wade.

Tracy said he initially thought he and his grandson were under attack by someone trying to kill them, so he put the boy into the back of a 4-wheeler and drove to his daughter’s house about 200 yards away.

“Then two officers came out of the brush over there,” he told The Oklahoman. “They didn’t tell us they were the ones who had been shooting or that they had shot him. They didn’t admit a doggone thing.”

The boy was taken to an Oklahoma City hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Wade refused to identify the officer suspected of firing the shots but says the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

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Noble Police Department
115 N 2nd St
Noble, OK 73068
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FUCK THE CIA!

A federal jury has found that Chicago Police officers harassed a female colleague who dared to join an undercover unit that previously had been all men.

Ann McDermott’s fellow officers put pornography in her mailbox every day and when she complained about it, they accused her of being a “beefer” — an officer who reports fellow officers.

The jury awarded her $150,000 in damages Monday. The city also will be on the hook for around $500,000 in legal fees for her lawyers at Loevy & Loevy.

McDermott went back to work Tuesday night still feeling like a pariah among fellow officers for breaking what she called the officers’ “Code of Silence,” but she felt a measure of vindication.

“I told the jury exactly what happened and the Chicago Police Department, including one commander, one captain, two lieutenants and seven sergeants all tried to say I wasn’t telling the truth and the jury saw through it,” she said.

Based on the verdict, the Internal Affairs Department, which had dismissed most of the complaints McDermott brought, will take a second look, said police spokeswoman Monique Bond.

‘IT’S VERY LONELY’ AS OUTCAST

When McDermott first started making complaints, an old boyfriend on the force told her he took a call from someone who said, “You better get your girlfriend in check before someone gets hurt.”

“I was so scared I put my condo on the market to sell,” McDermott testified.

A former teacher, McDermott joined the force in 1997, first working just north of downtown in the 18th District, then transferring up to Rogers Park. She asked to join the undercover gang unit, becoming the only woman on an eight-officer team.

Starting the first day of her new assignment and continuing every day for six months, she found porn in her mailbox — “Females naked posing; much more graphic hard-core pornography, men and women having sex in different positions,” and a woman who had soiled herself, among other images McDermott found disturbing, she testified.

She transferred to the 17th District in Albany Park but found her tormentors had called ahead and arranged to have officers there put porn in her mailbox, she said.

The $150,000 does not make up for being an outcast for speaking out, she said.

“Five to six years later, people still don’t talk to me, still don’t trust me,” she said. “People look at you like you have five eyes. Nobody talks to you. It’s very lonely.”