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Cop Fired

Posted in Police Brutality, Videos on February 21st, 2008

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This cop was fired after the suspect was found in a bloody mess.

Cop has to pay $18,000 for arresting firefighter trying to help an accident victim

Posted in Police Stupidity, Videos on February 19th, 2008

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A police officer in Hazelwood will have to pay $18,000 dollars for getting into it with a firefighter while he was trying to help an accident victim.

His attorney says he’s disappointed and that his client’s conduct was not malicious in any way.

Police dash cam video shows the Hazelwood police officer arresting a fire captain while he’s trying to move an injured driver.

It happened on Interstate 270 back in May of 2003.

Officer Todd Greeves wanted a fire truck moved to open up another lane of traffic.

The Robertson Fire Protection District Captain wanted the truck there to protect emergency workers.

Deputies dump paralyzed man from wheelchair on video

Posted in Uncategorized, Police Brutality, Police Corruption, Videos, Questionable Actions, Florida PD on February 15th, 2008

TAMPA – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that one of their own deputies is in trouble after she was caught on tape dumping a paraplegic man out of his wheelchair while he was being booked into jail, and three supervisors were nearby at the time but did nothing.

Investigators say Deputy Charlotte Marshall Jones is suspended without pay after the January 29 incident, which involved 32-year-old Brian Sterner, who is paraplegic.

Video shows Deputy Jones dumping Sterner out of his wheelchair and onto the floor while she is booking him into the Hillsborough County Jail. The tape also shows the deputy then searching Sterner as he lay on the floor.

Sterner reportedly suffered a spine injury during a wrestling accident when he was 18, and that left him bound to his wheelchair. Records show his arrest was due to charges of fleeing and attempting to elude a law enforcement officer from an incident on October 25, 2007. Those same records show Sterner was cited at that time for blocking an intersection.

On Tuesday, Chief Deputy Jose Docobo spoke to the media about the incident. He said after looking at the video himself, he was astonished.

“I was appalled,” said Docobo. “Obviously the actions are indefensible at every level.”

Docobo also said that the supervisors who were in central processing at the time of the incident have been suspended with pay. They include Corporal Decondra Williams, Corporal Steven Dickey, and Sergeant Gary Hinson. Docobo says none of the supervisors filed a report or told anyone about the incident, even though they were nearby and witnessed the incident.

While an investigation into the incident is still to come, Docobo said he feels all those involved in the incident should be held responsible for their actions—or their lack of actions. The video shows several people in the room at the time of the incident, and none of them came to Sterner’s aide.

“Certainly all the personnel are entitled to due process under the law, but I can tell you that based on what I saw, anything short of dismissal would be inappropriate,” said Docobo.

Deputy Jones is a veteran deputy who has been employed with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office since 1986.

Docobo explained that though Sterner was in a wheelchair, deputies are used to dealing with this type of situation. He said there are currently more than 30 wheelchair patients in the county’s jails, and this is nothing new for deputies.

“What this boils down to is just treating an individual correctly,” he said. “You don’t need a policy to tell you that you don’t treat someone like this.”

According to Docobo, the department will do whatever it can to make the situation with Sterner right.

“The best I could do is offer him our apologies,” said Docobo. “There’s no excuse. This is indefensible. To the extent that we can make it right for this gentleman, we’ll attempt to do so.”

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGb7_g4Aso

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Cop roughs up teenage skateboader on video

Posted in Uncategorized, Police Brutality, Videos, Questionable Actions on February 15th, 2008

Baltimore police officer Salvatore Rivieri was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video turned up showing him roughing up a teenage skateboarder. The unknown boy, who claimed to be 14, was apparently skateboarding in a no-skateboarding zone. The police department has launched an internal-affairs investigation into the incident. From the Baltimore Sun:

On the video, the officer… puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to “smack” him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as “man” and “dude.”

At one point, Rivieri, a 17-year veteran of the force, says:
“Obviously, your parents don’t put a foot in your butt quite enough, because you don’t understand the meaning of respect. First of all, you better learn how to speak. I’m not ‘man.’ I’m not ‘dude,’ I am Officer Rivieri. The sooner you learn that, the longer you are going to live in this world. Because you go around doing this kind of stuff and somebody is going to kill you.”

Youtube link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc

BaltimoreSun link:http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-te.md.officer12feb12,0,3045988.story

Police disciplinary files might be sealed!! WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS

Posted in Utah Police on February 15th, 2008

A police officer could break a lot of rules, and nobody would know about it if a new law passes legislative muster.SB260 would make private all formal charges and disciplinary actions against a peace officer. The only way the public could see them is if the officer agrees.

Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, crafted the bill after a man sent public records requests to multiple police departments across the valley asking for disciplinary records for every police officer.

The chiefs believe the man is trying to set up a Web site and charge defense attorneys to set up a database of disciplinary actions. The Deseret Morning News was unable to track down the man.

“We do not want the disciplinary actions by our police departments to be used against them by an enterprising young attorney,” said Dave Spatafore, a lobbyist representing the Utah Chiefs of Police Association.

Public watchdogs worry the bill will allow police officers to get away with bad behavior.

“If a police officer does something wrong, the public has a right to know,” said Joel Campbell of the Utah Press Association. Campbell also pens a column for the Deseret Morning News.

Spatafore said he heard the chiefs are willing to work with public watchdog groups to broaden the proposed law.

Legislators are considering a few other bills that would restrict the public’s access to public information.HB321 would classify certain records of the Utah Educational Savings Plan Trust.

Another bill, HB166, would keep the minutes of public meetings private for 14 days after the meeting, or until the next scheduled meeting, whichever is later.

Minutes of public meetings are often available to the public shortly after the meeting is over, even if the clerk hasn’t finished the final draft. Campbell said the bill, sponsored by Rep. Mel Brown, R-Coalville, would give public officials “an excuse to withhold minutes.” And, in the worst of cases, public officials could use that time to change the minutes to reflect what they want

Cop gets in gun fight with ANOTHER Cop from different Police Department!!

Posted in Police Stupidity, Georgia Police on February 4th, 2008

BUFORD, GA

What would drive an officer of the law to open up gunfire on another cop?

That’s the question Gwinnett County police are now trying to answer after a Duluth officer exchanged gunfire with a Fulton County policeman near North Gwinett High School Feb. 1.

Both men are expected to recover from their injuries.

Officer Jay Daily, 42, of Sugar Hill, a five-year veteran of the Duluth department and the alleged shooter, has been suspended pending a Gwinnett County Police investigation into the case. He is in Gwinnett County Jail, charged with four counts of aggravated assault after allegedly shooting a uniformed Fulton County Police officer.

“At this time a motive has not been established,” said Illana Spellman of the Gwinnett County Police Department. “The investigation is still underway and could take a month or up to several months.”

Gwinnett police said Paul Phillips, a Fulton County police officer, was driving a marked police car on Level Creek Road while on his way home when he was flagged down by a citizen just after 1 p.m. The citizen said there was an altercation up the road.

When Phillips approached the suspects, he saw a man standing next to a stopped vehicle. Then the man, later identified as Daily, began shooting at Phillips.

Phillips returned fire and struck Daily.

Both men, as well as an unidentified person in the stopped vehicle, were taken to Gwinnett Medical Center and treated for non-life threatening injuries. Phillips required surgery for his injuries and, at press time, remains at the hospital.

“Everyone around here is stunned and shocked,” said Donald Woodruff, a spokesman for Duluth Police. “In my 30 years of law enforcement I have never seen anything like this.”

Woodruff said Daily never had any disciplinary action during his five years serving Duluth, and that this was a “total shock.” Duluth Police will conduct an administrative investigation once Gwinnett Police’s investigation is complete, he said.

“We cannot investigate this case now because Daily was off-duty and thus treated like any other citizen, and because this case happened outside of the city,” Woodruff said.

A 15-year veteran of the Fulton County Police force, Phillips is currently assigned to the evening watch traffic unit. He mainly works in Johns Creek.

If convicted of charges, Daily could face 20 years in prison.

Police Raid Utah’s Happy Valley Tattoo and Steal Artist’s Art Off the Walls

Posted in Uncategorized, Police Stupidity, Police Corruption, Questionable Actions, Utah Police, User Submitted on February 4th, 2008

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This painting along with my art & tattoo portfolio spent four days locked up in the evidence room at the American Fork Police Station. The search warrant gave them permission to only take photographs of pierced or tattoo genitals. As this painting is neither of these items of interest, they have illegally seized my personal property.

Upon the return of this painting my husband was warned that he should not let me display this art publicly again in Utah.

I am not one to comply with an unfair and illegal mandate by anyone - So it went back up into public view - As seen here, two days later. However, some pieces of my portfolio are still locked up in the evidence room after 15 days. I am not being investigated for or being charged with any crime. I just happened to have had my art in the studio the day they raided us.

Why did they raid us?

To make a long story short, a vindictive teenager lied about us.

We do not know all of the details but we suspect it was to get her out of some fix she had gotten into around Christmas time and to get revenge on our piercer who refused her service. All we know for sure, is that her father made a complaint that she had been allowed access to clinical photographs of genital piercings in our studio. Which could only have happened when his estranged wife brought her here to get her lip pierced in April of 2007. (Even if their allegations were true, this is still not and illegal act based on the descriptions of what are obscene materials set by the Utah State Attorney Generals Office.)

To read the full story of The Happy Vally Tattoo Massacre’ go here - http://docloco.com/2008/01/11/the-happy-valley-tattoo-massacre/

The complaint was really only an excuse, as they took everything before they had even opened an investigation. In essence, my art has been taken because the local police believe that they have the right to do anything they want to, anyone they want… They are the judge, jury and executioner. There is no innocent until proven guilty - There’s just guilty and more guilty… And my husband, Doc has a tape of them telling him so.

This is not the first unfair dealings we have had with the American Fork Police Department. A detailed summary of these situations is posted here - http://docloco.com/2008/01/14/happy-valley-tattoo-massacre-part-3/

Mean while in a Salt Lake City Weekly article I read that Utah has the highest rate of online porn use in the United States. Which only confirms my suspicions, that I am a victim of American Fork’s Police Departments idea of what Utah’s “community standards” are; which is literally HYPOCRICY!

I know that there are plenty of members of the community who would disagree with their actions. Some have stopped by the shop to tell us so and some have called the police and voiced their objections.

  • City of American Fork 1-801–763-3000
  • Police Chief – Lance Call 1-801–763-3020
  • City Attorneys - Kasey Wright (Civil) 1-801-763-3031
  • Tucker Hansen (Criminal) 1-801-224-2273

Here are thumbnails of the two pieces being held captive.

You be the judge… Take a look and tell me…

Should prospective tattoo clients be subjected to such “inappropriate” pieces of art as these? Would seeing these pieces “damage” a minor?

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posted by : KitaKaZoo