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    Quote Originally Posted by debk589 View Post
    So, legit question here, about this:

    Why is it wrong? Does race literally come before everything? Regardless of what he believes or what happened, he's just 'supposed' to 'side' with the black victim because he's black too? And if he doesn't, that's 'wrong'?? I'm just wondering here where the line is drawn.
    Boom.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron_NYC View Post
    Oh, so you're new. Well welcome to Earth.

    Off duty is a different ballgame, but at least they found him guilty. Amazing.
    Be nice. I just was a bit surprised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by foreverintheflux View Post
    Be nice. I just was a bit surprised.
    Ron isn't nice. He's a soulless sociopath soon-to-be murder.
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    Listen, if no one cares when a crazy noodle walks in and executes children with a gun, no one cares about anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    Fixing

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    lol at Nestle being some vicious smiter, she's the nicest person on this site besides probably puzzld. Or at least the last person to resort to smiting.
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    I was clicking & clicking & swearing at my stupid nonresponsive tablet. But then oohhhhhhhh. Derp.

    It's the orange areas that have the weapons. Silly me.




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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    I was clicking & clicking & swearing at my stupid nonresponsive tablet. But then oohhhhhhhh. Derp.

    It's the orange areas that have the weapons. Silly me.



    I can understand the night vision equip., the pistols, the rifles, hell even the armored vehicles but wth does anyone need with a grenade launcher? I realize the say they can be used for tear gas, but even so...
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    lol at Nestle being some vicious smiter, she's the nicest person on this site besides probably puzzld. Or at least the last person to resort to smiting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by puzzld View Post
    I can understand the night vision equip., the pistols, the rifles, hell even the armored vehicles but wth does anyone need with a grenade launcher? I realize the say they can be used for tear gas, but even so...
    Also I wish they'd varied the color. My county bought 4 rifles and some night vision stuff. Not too worked up about that. Other counties (Maricopia for one) bought almost 600 weapons, 5 helicopters, half a dozen vehicles and a couple of planes... Sheriff Joe Arpaio is packing some serious heat. The whole state of New Mexico on the other hand has 21 rifles and assorted other pieces.
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    Quote Originally Posted by puzzld View Post
    Also I wish they'd varied the color. My county bought 4 rifles and some night vision stuff. Not too worked up about that. Other counties (Maricopia for one) bought almost 600 weapons, 5 helicopters, half a dozen vehicles and a couple of planes... Sheriff Joe Arpaio is packing some serious heat. The whole state of New Mexico on the other hand has 21 rifles and assorted other pieces.
    Sheriff Joe is getting a fair bit of 'international human rights violation' kind of attention. Be reasonable, he needs all that hardware to crush dissent.

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    My county was donated a bomb-sniffing dog. Then we saw the bill for all the "equipment" he needed. WTF! A drug-sniffing dog would have useful around here anyway. I don't know what happened to poor Sniffy, we just couldn't afford to keep him in the manner to which he had become accustomed.

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    a young woman with FAS and groceries in her arms was arrested at a bus stop at 5 pm in my town the other day as part of a 'SMASH' gang sweep. the cops decided that her eyes were red and so she was probably on drugs. they took her in, despite her saying that she had a disability and forced her to drug test. they put her in the back of the car and drug her around while they continued the sweep, making fun of people they passed and others they stopped.

    sounds like kidnapping to me.

    apologists in full force in the comments.

    http://www.vvdailypress.com/article/...NEWS/140829916

    gang member!!!

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    A police officer in San Berando was shot yesterday I literally fist pumped and said "yes!"

    This whole Michael Brown case, and reading comment sections filled with bigots, is turning me into someone I don't like. I need to take a break.
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    Quote Originally Posted by songbirdsong View Post
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    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/2...efore-he-died/

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    A Georgia man died after police shocked him with a Taser as many as 13 times because he said he was too tired to walk due to a foot chase, his attorney said this week.

    At a press conference on Tuesday, attorney Chris Stewart said that police records showed that East Point officers had discharged their Tasers 13 times to make Gregory Towns, who was handcuffed, get up and walk.

    ?This is a direct violation of their own rules,? Stewart explained, according to WSB-TV. ?You cannot use a Taser to escort or prod a subject.?


    ?They used their Tasers as a cattle prod on Mr. Towns.?

    Stewart said that he pieced together what led up to Towns? April 11 death using official city records and eyewitness accounts.

    ?He wasn?t cursing. He wasn?t being abusive. He was saying, ?I?m tired,?? the attorney pointed out.

    Taser logs showed that Sgt. Marcus Eberhart fired his Taser 10 times, and officer Howard Weems pulled the trigger three times. However, the logs did not indicate how many times the Taser made contact with Towns.

    In all, records indicated a total shock time of 47 seconds. Stewart called the situation ?indefensible.?

    Autopsy results obtained by WSB-TV showed that Towns? death was ruled a homicide because the Taser shocks ? combined with physical activity and heart disease ? contributed to his death.

    But Police Benevolent Association lawyers representing Weems continued to insist that the officer?s actions did not cause Towns to die.

    Attorney Dale Preiser issued a statement saying that the ?use of drive stun to gain compliance is permitted under federal and Georgia law.?

    Stewart said that he would file a lawsuit against the city this week.

    Watch the video report below from WSB-TV, broadcast Aug. 26, 2014.

    *** not the pic run with the original articles. I'm not playing their game anymore. If I can find photos the family released in these cases, I'm switching them.

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    Does anyone think we should maybe have a sticky post in this thread where we can link every MDS thread that's a police-involved death? Right now they're spread through more info needed, non-MDS deaths, article discussion, missing persons, weird & bizarre, social networking criminals etcetcetc

    Opinions? Better ideas? Anyone ...?


    Lol, & there's sure to be better ideas - I've had a fever over 38C since saturday so I'm probably delirious (scratch that, I know I'm delirious. The kids are home from school because they're sick too & they've been watching Adventure Time & Uncle Grandpa. Both are now making total sense to me. So I know I'm fucked.

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    Minnesota nice: you get tazed instead of shot.
    As a person more likely to be shot, I consider this progress. ‪#‎takewhatyoucanget‬ ‪#‎America‬

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/2...redirect=never
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    If no-one will enforce mandatory cop cams across every dept, then people need to get their own


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron_NYC View Post
    Minnesota nice: you get tazed instead of shot.
    As a person more likely to be shot, I consider this progress. ‪#‎takewhatyoucanget‬ ‪#‎America‬

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/2...redirect=never


    I dunno, if they're just going to keep tazing you until you die anyway, I think I'd rather be shot & meet my death without the longwinded electrical torture session beforehand. I really don't like electricity.


    ETA someone linked the dept fb for the cops in your article - they're getting a little more traffic than usual just now

    https://m.facebook.com/stpaulpolice?...ter=2&refid=17
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    Charges filed against Oklahoma City cop who allegedly targeted black women for on-duty rape, sex assaults
    Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, faces more than a dozen charges, including forcible oral sodomy, stalking, sexual battery and rape after at least eight victims came forward alleging misconduct over a four month period earlier this year. He allegedly targeted black women and would assault the victims during on-duty traffic stops.


    The alleged Oklahoma rapist with a badge targeted at least eight different black women to rape and sexually abuse while patrolling Oklahoma City during a four month period this year, police said.
    A slew of charges, including rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and stalking were levied Friday against Daniel Holtzclaw, who’s been jailed on $5 million bond since his arrest last week.
    The 27-year-old former college football player attacked at least seven women, between the ages of 34 and 58, during a period of time between February and June, police said.
    Holtzclaw, a three-year veteran of the force, stopped his victims while on his patrol shift, between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m., police said. Sometimes, he attacked at the scene of routine traffic stops. Other times, he led his victims away to remote spots before assaulting them.
    The accused officer threatened to arrest his victims if they did not comply, Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty said at a press conference last week.


    Holtzclaw’s attorney argued for a lower bond earlier this week, claiming the man is not a flight risk, but the request was denied by a judge who deemed the man a “threat to the community,” saying he “not only knew his victims private information” but he’d also “even did research on them and tracked the women down,” KWTV reported.
    The first victim to come forward was a 57-year-old grandmother who claimed Holtzclaw forced her to perform oral sex in June.
    Holtzclaw was placed on leave after that woman complained.
    “She was so afraid that no one was going to believe her because she’s African-American,” the woman’s attorney, Aletia Timmons, told KFOR-TV.


    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...#ixzz3BpbfGDLt


    A round of applause for the Judge for keeping this asshole's bond at 5 million to keep his ass in jail. Fuck this dude.
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    In all fairness, we have no idea how big this dude's cock was.

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    A round of applause for the Judge for keeping this asshole's bond at 5 million to keep his ass in jail. Fuck this dude.
    Well, innocent until you're proven guilty........ but EIGHT accusers?? EIGHT?!?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron_NYC View Post
    Well, innocent until you're proven guilty........ but EIGHT accusers?? EIGHT?!?
    & one was a 57 yr old grandmother?? What a revolting bag of shit this guy is.

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    Atlanta - Officer Tahreen Zeus Rana Arrested For Rape, Murder & Burning His Victim's Body







    http://m.ajc.com/news/news/report-at...-charge/nhBGj/



    An Atlanta police officer arrested Thursday on charges that he killed a woman a week ago in Hapeville and set her body on fire will remain behind bars after he waived his first court appearance Friday afternoon.

    Rana will remain jailed without bond until his preliminary hearing, which is scheduled for Sept. 12 in Fulton Superior Court.

    Investigators linked the gruesome homicide to APD Officer Tahreem Zeus Rana through the woman’s phone records, Hapeville Police Chief Richard Glavosek said Thursday.

    Glavosek told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Vernicia Woodard’s phone records led to Rana. Detectives then located Woodard’s posting on Backpage.com, a classified and hook-up website, where investigators believe the couple met, Glavosek said.

    The fact that it was the 23-year-old Rana shocked officers, not only because he was a lawman but because some officers remember him as a kid growing up in Hapeville, Glavosek said.

    “They remember him walking to school with his mother,” the chief said.

    Officers arrested Rana around 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, according to Channel 2 Action News. They say he was headed to Monterrey, Mexico, which may have been a stop on the way to India. Rana was on the no-fly list.

    Hapeville police booked Rana into the Fulton County jail Thursday on charges of murder, arson, kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the killing of 26-year-old Woodard. He is accused of shooting her multiple times last Friday.

    A city worker found Woodard’s body burning along Elm Street in the south Fulton town. GBI was brought in to assist and investigators believe the body was set on fire to destroy evidence.

    The lead Hapeville detective on the case, Stephen Cushing, told Channel 2 Action News that investigating Rana was almost surreal because of the young man’s long ambition to become a cop.

    “I’ve been a police officer in the city of Hapeville for 15 years and actually saw this young man grow up and heard him say, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a police officer,” Cushing said.

    Rana pursued the ambition with an associate degree in criminal justice at Atlanta Metropolitan State College, according to his APD personnel file. The file’s paperwork said he earned a dual degree with honors in 2011.

    Over past the three years on the force, his evaluations rated him as effective to highly effective in performance of his duties. He faced little disciplinary action, according to APD documents.

    The internal affairs file on Rana obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed three vehicle accidents. He had been exonerated in one and admonished in a second. One from July was still unresolved.

    Atlanta police moved to relieve Rana of his duties on Thursday. Spokesman Carlos Campos described the department as “shocked and saddened.”

    “We must allow the justice system to run its course,” Campos said. “But these clearly are very disturbing allegations.”

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    http://www.lohud.com/story/news/crim...ified/6829249/



    Man Falls To His Death During Drug Raid

    YONKERS ? City police Monday identified a 45-year-old man who fell to his death from a third-floor window over the weekend as police raided the apartment on a drug investigation.
    The man is identified as Dario Tena, who is also know as "Dario Pena," Lt. Joseph Solicito said.
    The victim's relatives have been notified, Solicito said. Police did not release just where they reside.

    A two-pronged investigation into the death is underway. The Yonkers police Internal Affairs Unit is investigating, as is the Westchester County District Attorney's office. Both are awaiting results of a Westchester County Medical Examiner's autopsy to determine the cause of death. Yonkers Det. Lt. Patrick McCormack said police are also awaiting toxicology test. Additionally, police are seeking the public's help.

    "We are asking anyone with any information about this to call us," McCormack said.
    Anyone with information may contact the Internal Affairs Division at 914-377-7332.
    Tenants of the building and adjacent ones were reluctant to discuss the incident Monday.
    Speaking in Spanish, the superintendent of the building where the victim lived said Monday he did not know Tena.

    The superintendent, who lives in the basement of the building, said he was at work when the raid occurred Friday night and did not return home until after it was over. Police said Tena lived alone on the third floor of 141 School St. At 8 p.m. Friday members of the Precinct Anti-Crime Unit and Narcotics Division executed a court-ordered search warrant there.

    Police said Tena was the target of the investigation. He attempted to flee by going out one of two windows in the apartment, police said. One of the windows has a fire escape; the other does not. Tena went out the window without an escape and fell three flights, suffering a severe head injury. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

    Police recovered drugs, a scale for measure drugs, packaging material and money from the apartment.
    There is an active arrest warrant for Tena from New York City for felony narcotics.

    http://www.lohud.com/story/news/2014...ssed/13489817/

    Officer Lied To Get Search Warrant In Case Of Man Who Fell To His Death & Has A History Of Questionable Incidents

    A Yonkers narcotics detective allegedly lied to get a search warrant targeting a suspected drug dealer who died when he fell out a window as police raided his apartment, The Journal News has learned. Detective Christian Koch and another officer involved in the search warrant, Neil Vera, are under investigation by the Internal Affairs Division and the Westchester District Attorney's Public Integrity Bureau. Several cases one or both were involved in are under review and prosecutors have dismissed charges against at least six defendants, including three who were facing serious felony drug charges.

    Hours after The Journal News asked about the probe, a police department spokesman said Friday afternoon that two officers had been "relieved of their weapons and shields" but he declined to name them or answer questions. On March 21, Koch swore to an affidavit supporting a search warrant at 141 School St. When anti-crime and narcotics officers went to the third-floor apartment, Dario Tena, the target of the investigation, tried to escape out one of the windows but fell three flights to his death. Investigators determined that details Koch swore to were not true and that he had included information from Vera.

    Tena's death remains under investigation and authorities are awaiting a final autopsy report, said Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the Westchester District Attorney's Office. Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor, said the dismissal of multiple cases indicates the prosecutors are taking the matter seriously, as they should. "Making false statements when you're getting a search warrant has serious consequences; the bottom line is you're sandbagging the prosecutor, who doesn't always check on the veracity of what leads to the warrant," Gershman said. "It throws a dark shadow over the integrity of the process if cops are going to lie to make their case."

    On Tuesday, the sentencing of three men convicted in the May 2013 armed robbery of a Yonkers car wash was adjourned. Koch had testified at a pre-trial hearing about spotting guns in the getaway car. Randall Richards, a lawyer for defendant Marc Rispers, said he asked for the adjournment so he could consider whether to file a motion to overturn the verdict. "It was best to raise it now because, if after sentencing something comes to light, it's too late," Richards said. Authorities have confirmed that a Class A felony drug case involving three defendants from March 2013 has been dismissed as part of the probe. Less serious felony drug charges against a fourth man who was waiting in a car to pick up one of the defendants were also dismissed this past week.

    Chalfen, the D.A. spokesman, confirmed those four dismissals and two others. He was unsure how many others there have been or how many cases are still under review. Chalfen said that the allegations regarding false statements on search warrant affidavits "are under active investigation." Koch, but not Vera, was involved in the September 2013 arrest of Samuel Pizarro, a 38-year-old Yonkers man accused of having more than 200 glassine envelopes of heroin. Pizarro pleaded guilty in April to a reduced drug felony and is undergoing court-ordered drug treatment before being sentenced.

    At a recent compliance hearing, a prosecutor let his lawyer know about the Koch probe. "The investigation indicated that the affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant for the seizure of controlled substances (on March 21) was found to contain material false statements," said the prosecutor, according to a transcript obtained by The Journal News. Affidavits of dismissal were provided to defense lawyers whose cases were tossed. The affidavits indicated that drugs were seized and that Koch and/or Vera were involved.

    Prosecutors reviewed the circumstances surrounding the seizures, the nature of the crime, the quantity and quality of the admissible evidence, the impact of the dismissal on the safety of the community and "any exceptionally serious misconduct of law enforcement personnel in the investigation, arrest and prosecution of the defendant," according to the affidavit. "The dismissal sought herein is the just result in this case and is in complete accord with the public's confidence in the criminal justice system," read one of the affidavits. No one answered the door at Koch's home Friday afternoon. Vera could not be reached and his lawyer, Andrew Quinn, declined to comment.

    Detective Lt. Patrick McCormack, a department spokesman, would not answer questions citing the ongoing investigation. "The Yonkers Police Department takes any allegations of wrongdoing by members of our workforce very seriously," he said in a statement. Koch, 39, who has two brothers who are also Yonkers officers, joined the department in 2001. Vera was hired in 2007. A decade ago, Koch was one of eight Yonkers officers recognized at The Journal News Police Honor Awards for their efforts in disarming a gun-toting suspect during a May 2003 robbery.

    Three years later he was honored for breaking up a robbery while off duty. Koch has been named in at least four federal and state lawsuits, one of which is still pending. He was among several Yonkers officers named in a 2008 police brutality lawsuit filed by Rui Florim, a Greenburgh waiter who accused the officers of beating him after he left work the night after a bar brawl involving several off-duty Yonkers officers. The city eventually settled the lawsuit with Florim for $35,000, a city spokeswoman said.

    The detective also played a role in the Virginia murder trial of Thomas Porter, who was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a Norfolk, Va., police officer in October 2005. Porter was arrested later that month at his ex-girlfriend's home in White Plains. According to news coverage of Porter's 2007 trial, Koch testified that weeks after the arrest, he and a fellow officer chased a suspect into a Yonkers apartment after seeing him make a drug sale. When they searched the apartment, they found a T-shirt stuffed into a mattress. Inside the T-shirt was a black gun that turned out to be Officer Stanley Reaves' service weapon, which Porter had taken after killing him. According to the news coverage, Koch said he had the superintendent's permission to search the apartment.

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    Unarmed man shot 26 August


    http://theantimedia.org/salt-lake-ci...ovide-details/


    Salt Lake City, Utah ? Police receive a report about a man waving a gun at a convenience store. When officers arrived, three men were exiting the store after making their purchases. The police opened fire and killed one of the men who was reportedly unarmed.

    The entire incident was captured on an officer?s body camera; however Police Chief Chris Burbank is refusing to release the video citing ?due process.? He is also withholding the officer?s name.
    Dillon Taylor received no such ?due process.? He was reportedly wearing headphones and was unable to hear the officers? commands.

    Dillon?s brother, Jerrail, who was with him at the time of the shooting said
    ?He couldn?t hear them, so he just kept walking. Then ? they had guns pointed at his face. That?s when he turned off the music. I saw them point guns at my brother?s face, and I knew what was going to happen. He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him.?


    The incident has spawned protests, and the Police Chief refused to compare the incident to Mike Brown?s death stating ?This is not Ferguson.?

    Citizens have reason to doubt law enforcement?s transparency and the ability of the current system to provide its own oversight. Salt Lake City Police recently cleared an officer after he shot and killed a dog in his own fenced yard. The department cited ?exigent circumstances? as cause for the officer failing to obtain a warrant or permission to enter the yard.

    The officer was searching for a missing three-year-old. Exigent circumstances do grant officers immunity for failing to obtain a warrant if they have probable cause and there is no time to obtain a warrant. Exigent circumstances do not grant officers immunity for conducting a search without probable cause. There was no stated reasonable belief that the child was in the yard. The child was asleep in his own basement. A petition is still circulating demanding the officer be held accountable

    I initially thought the petition referred to was for the guy who was shot & I was going to post a link. Silly me. It was for the dog shot by police & while I think it was a shitty thing to do, I can't bring myself to post that link when they're killing humans ffs

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