The Warrior cops are out of control

[boutons_deux]

look boutons, if you want to take these videos... thats up to you. but when you post them online you just look stupid

look spurraider, if you want to "accuse" me of taking police videos, that's up to you, but you're a stupid asshole.

[boutons_deux]

Racist Posts on NY Cop Blog Raise Ire at Time of Tension


Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; a Middle Eastern cab driver berated by an officer is termed a “third worlder” who should have his “head split open.”
And week after week, the department’s top officials are, at once, embarrassed and powerless.


“It’s very disturbing stuff. Outrageous stuff,” said Stephen Davis, the chief spokesman for the NYPD. “We see it. It’s a problem.”
At the heart of the problem are the limits the department faces in what it can do.
“Monitoring these things is challenging,” Davis said. “There are privacy issues involved. We can’t go and peel back email names and tags and try to find out who these people are.”
The issue of the blog, started by former NYPD officer Ed Polstein in 1999, has gained notoriety most recently after a white South Carolina police officer shot a black man to death. Shortly after a video of the officer appearing to shoot the fleeing man in the back went viral on the Internet, Thee Rant blew up with comments.
“Cop looked good in his stance,” read one post.
Polstein, who did not respond to requests for an interview, has said previously that anyone wishing to post on the blog has to provide proof that they are a current or former member of the NYPD. But whether they are, and how many have signed up, are among the many mysteries surrounding Thee Rant. The blog says it garners 120,000 page views daily.
Leonard Levitt, a respected former Newsday reporter who runs the website NYPD Confidential, said he has stopped assigning much significance to Thee Rant.
“To be honest, I don’t read it,” Levitt said. “I’d say these guys represent the worst elements of the department. I don’t think they speak for the average cop. I have a feeling it’s four or five guys doing most of the yowling.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/ra...ent=&utm_name=

Cops ing about citizens being fat?

[boutons_deux]

The Orwellian Police Tactic that Targets Black Americans Just for Existing

'No Trespass Letters' allow police to decide who looks like they're trespassing. Guess who they choose.

Kirk McConer was arrested and jailed while talking to a friend outside a convenience store, where he had just purchased a soda.

Tyrone Hightower was arrested and jailed after sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nightclub, as he waited to make sure his friends were admitted to the club.

And Jacob Manyong was stopped and placed under arrest after the back tire of his car barely crossed the property of a private business, as he drove out of an adjacent public lot.

The charges against McConer, Hightower, and Manyong? Trespassing.Although the charges against each of them were eventually dropped, memories of the experience still linger—so much so that each of them remains fearful that he could be victimized again at any moment.

And they’re scared for good reason. Their respective ordeals were the product of a practice introduced by the Grand Rapids Police Department decades ago, which relies on the use of generalized “No Trespass Letters” to justify arrests for criminal trespassing on commercial property. But more to the point, the policy gives police in Michigan’s second-largest city an excuse to stop and search people immediately based on nothing more than a gut reaction to the way someone looks or acts—without bothering to determine whether the person is actually trespassing.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/orwellian-police-tactic-targets-black-americans-just-existing?akid=13013.187590.M6Fykf&rd=1&src=newslet ter1034933&t=5

Surprised? Police in USA originated as slave patrols at the behest of the 19th century 1%.

[Nbadan]

Marana police chief Terry Rozema claims the violent takedown by officer Michael Rapiejko likely saved Valencia’s life.

[boutons_deux]

"So if he ends up dying in that situation, (then) he ends up dying, and that's unfortunate, (but) that's not the desire of everybody," the chief added.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/arizona-police-run-over-suspect/

"unfortunate"

"not the desire of everybody"

but killing people is the number one burning desire of the cops!

Plus the chief cop get his talking head on national teevee.

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Cops murdering unarmed, kids, running away, is an OLD STORY

A Police Shot to a Boy’s Back in Queens, Echoing Since 1973




It was 1973, long before anyone could imagine hashtag declarations of solidarity and protest, the kind of message to the world that today might read, #IamCliffordGloverInTheFourthGrade.

No one could pull out a phone to make a video of Clifford Glover, a 10-year-old running from a plainclothes police officer with a gun who had just jumped out of a white Buick Skylark in Jamaica, Queens, on a spring morning in 1973.

“I am sure a camera would have helped, but the ballistics were clear,” Albert Gaudelli, a former Queens prosecutor, said this week. “The bullet entered his lower back and came out at the top of his chest. He was shot T-square in the back, with his body leaning forward. He was running away.”

That bullet killed Clifford Glover. Its trajectory — through a family, a neighborhood, a generation — can be traced to this day, in injuries that never healed, in a story with no final word.

Clifford, a black boy, had been shot by Officer Thomas Shea, a white man, who said he had tried to question him and his stepfather because they fit the descriptions of cab robbers. They ran. The officer said he fired when Clifford, in flight, pointed a gun at him, which the mortally injured boy had then managed to toss or hand to his stepfather.

In the hours and days that followed the shooting, armies of investigators scoured the streets and sewers, pored over court records and arrived, without warrants, to search the homes of Clifford’s family and relatives.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/17...ates.html?_r=0

[boutons_deux]

Dying On Tulsa Time: The Ballad Of Robert Bates

Last night, I chatted with Chris Hayes on the electric teevee machine about the sad saga of Robert Bates, the septuagenarian lawman who shot Eric Harris to death in Tulsa. If the consequences of Bates's actions weren't so awful, I'd almost feel sorry for the guy. As the smarter member of the firm put it the other night, this is the firearms equivalent of the elderly driver who "hits the accelerator instead of the brake" and T-bones a McDonald's. Even though I'm still wondering how in the nobody's been fired behind this nonsense yet, I'd like to be able to give this story a good leaving alone, except that it keeps getting better, which is to say, it keeps getting horribly worse. On Thursday, we learned that the local sheriff's department fudged Bates's qualification do ents. Now, Bates has emerged from seclusion to make his own case and, well, wowser.

"First and foremost, let me apologize to the family of Eric Harris," Tulsa reserve deputy Robert Bates said of the 44-year-old black man he fatally wounded. "This is the second-worst thing that's ever happened to me or the first that ever happened to me in my life. I had cancer a number of years ago. I didn't think I was going to get there… I'd rate this as number one on my list of things in my life that I regret." Asked by Matt Lauer how he could make the fundamental mistake of grabbing his gun instead of the taser, Bates replied, "This has happened a number of times around the country. I have read about it in the past. I thought to myself after reading several cases, I don't understand how this can happen."

Please stop helping yourself. Listen to your lawyer.

Lauer took the opportunity to grill Bates on several stories that have come out about his relationship with the Tulsa police: Allegations that he was allowed to "play cop" because of his financial support of the sheriff's deputy; and claims that the sheriff's department falsified Bates' training records to give him unearned credit for firearm certification. Of the former, Bates said, "That is unbelievably unfair. I have donated equipment as I saw fit."

He added that his main motivation has been to assist the department in fighting a local drug problem.

And on the latter accusation, Bates asserted that he has it "in writing" that he completed the required firearms training.

His lawyer jumped in to dismiss the credibility of the report, noting it originates with records from seven years ago and comes from a source he says was recently charged with first-degree murder and is being represented by a firm also representing the Harris family.

Wait, what?

"...comes from a source he says was recently charged with first-degree murder..."

That's what I thought you said.

This is going to get very, very weird.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ter-and-worse/

[Trill Clinton]

NYPD OPENS FIRE ON DOG AT POINT BLANK RANGE AROUND CHILDREN AND MISSES SMH

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pretty damn reckless if you ask me.

[Trill Clinton]

COP ACCUSED OF DRIVE BY SHOOTING OF ELDERLY COUPLE



Sticks and stones may break your bones, but for one Detroit police officer, words allegedly led him to shoot at a Ray Township couple's home.

Officer Clifford Gullion, 32, was charged Thursday with two counts of discharging a weapon into a building and two counts felony firearm during a video arraignment in 42-2 District Court of Romeo.

Bond is set at $250,000. He is being held at the Macomb County Jail. He faces possible jail time of 10 years for discharging a weapon and an additional two years for the felony firearm charges.

Gullion of Ray Township was arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly firing five shots from a .40 caliber handgun after his wife was involved in a dispute with the homeowners, Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said during a press conference. No one was injured.

Wickersham added it is not known if the handgun was department issued.

"It is extremely bizarre," Wickersham said of the crime. "It sounded like someone's feelings got hurt. He took it upon himself that he was going to send a message to those individuals ... that being firing into the house.

According to Wickersham, Gullion's wife provides in-home medical care to the 62-year-old female who lives with her 61-year-old husband in a house in the 16000 block of 29 Mile near Romeo Plank.

The sheriff said a third party told Gullion's wife the husband made disparaging remarks about her. When Gullion was told of the comments, he began texting and calling the older couple Wednesday evening.

Wickersham said they received a call about the shooting at 2:12 a.m. Thursday. After investigating, deputies went to the officer's home, where he agreed to go to the sheriff's office for an interview.

The officer indicated to deputies he was on a leave of absence from the Detroit Police Department.

Gullion was arrested after the interview.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Gullion has been with the department since 2009 but has been on medical leave for several months. The officer most recently worked in the 9th precinct on the city's east side.

The Macomb County Sheriff's Office is handling a criminal investigation into the incident, Craig said. The Detroit Police Department will complete its own internal investigation.

The officer, Craig said, will be placed on unpaid suspension.

Wickersham said: "I truly believe that in law enforcement we all should be held to a higher standard and we have to be able to control our emotions."

Gullion is scheduled to appear in 42-2 District Court on April 28.

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"I truly believe that in law enforcement we all should be held to a higher standard and we have to be able to control our emotions."



believe? faith-based policing!

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Keep the faith, baby! For you "believin" racist, cop suckers:

Officer Bill Melendez charged with three felonies in brutal beating, planting evidence on Floyd Dent




After being fired from the Inkster Police Department, Bill "Robocop" Melendez has officially been charged three charges including felony assault, mistreatment of a prisoner and misconduct in the brutal beating of Floyd Dent, an upstanding grandfather and Ford Motor employee, outside of Detroit, Michigan.

A drug possession charge against the man, Floyd Dent, 57, will be dropped, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. Dent's treatment by Inkster police during a Jan. 28 traffic stop sparked outrage after the video was released by NBC affiliate WDIV."We cannot turn our heads when the law enforcer becomes the law breaker," Worthy said during a news conference Monday. "The alleged police brutality in this case cannot and will not be tolerated."

Melendez is one of the most corrupt police officers in America. It's important to note that 12 years ago he was charged by the federal government as the ringleader of a band of corrupt officers in the Detroit Police Department, but he was able to beat the charges. He has been accused in wrongful deaths, planted evidence, and false reports over a dozen other times.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_cam paign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29#

Melendez years long corruption didn't exist in an innocent vacuum, he wasn't the single bad apple.

[boutons_deux]

Judge finds Chicago police officer not guilty in fatal shooting

Prosecutors said Servin was in his car when he shot Boyd with an unregistered semiautomatic handgun after an argument with a group of young people in an alley.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...e=domesticNews

off-duty, but still policing and killing blacks, killing with an unregistered gun.

[Trill Clinton]

NORTH CAROLINA MAN ATTACKS OFFICER WITH KNIFE.

[Trill Clinton]

OFFICER SHOWS ULTIMATE RESTRAINT WHEN HE IS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH MAN WHO JUST KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND AND EX GIRLFRIEND

[CosmicCowboy]

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

[spursncowboys]

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

the very example of justice.

[Trill Clinton]

PIECE OF COP IS BACK ON DUTY AFTER KILLING 7 YEAR OLD CHILD

Weekley was originally charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and misdemeanor careless discharge of a firearm causing death after young Aiyana took a fatal bullet to the head during a botched raid on her home.

The officer has already been on trial twice for this crime, both ending with deadlocked jurors and mistrials. The judge in the second trial shockingly dropped the manslaughter charge due to a motion by the defense. The same motion had been denied by a judge during his first trial.

[boutons_deux]

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

99% of them are acquitted, even fewer jailed.

charging them is a sop to the aggrieved, outraged.

[boutons_deux]

Feds probe video showing officer slamming woman's phone in South Gate



In the 53-second video, a woman is shown standing on the sidewalk aiming a cellphone toward two men standing a short distance away in black shirts with tactical vests reading “Police” across the back.

As the men stand with their backs to the woman, she can be heard saying, “I do not feel safe with you” and “You are making me feel unsafe and I have a right to be here” and “You need to stay away from me, I don’t feel safe with you closer to me,” among other statements.

The two men don’t appear to face the woman or make any movement toward her. The incident appears to be recorded by a person across the street from the woman.


About 27 seconds into the video, a third man wearing a tactical vest and carrying a rifle walks across a front lawn toward the sidewalk where the woman is standing. The woman appears to point her handheld device toward the third man as one of the other men motions toward her with his arm. What everyone says in the video at that point is unintelligible.

At 32 seconds, the woman takes a couple of steps away from the men. The officer crossing the lawn then rushes toward her and grabs the device from the woman’s hands as she gasps.

“Oh! No! Don’t do that!” the woman is heard yelling as the man wrestles the device out of her hand and smashes it to the ground. He then kicks it down the street and the three men walk way.

“Did you record that?” she shouts to the person filming the incident.

On Tuesday, South Gate police confirmed the U.S. Marshals Service was involved in an operation within the city that day. A U.S. Marshals Service official acknowledged that the agency is aware of the video, confirmed that the operation involved the Marshals Service and was investigating whether the man seen slamming the device is employed with the Marshals Service.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-feds-probe-video-phone-in-south-gate-20150421-story.html

fatass wannabe bully, shaving his head and growing a chin beard to show what hardass he is. And of course, breaking Cons utional law, of which he is certainly ignorant

[boutons_deux]

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

Anger follows acquittal in rare trial of Chicago cop

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...ry.html#page=1

cops have WIDE LA UDE to be a brutal as they wanna be, with no fear of reprisal, usually rewarded 1 month+ of paid vacation

[boutons_deux]

‘I’ll drop your ass': Video catches LAPD cop turned GOP congressman threatening protester

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/ill-...e+Raw+Story%29

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

the very example of justice.

The issue is the extra rights cops get through the LEBOR and the processes and conflicts it creates just as much as it is ins utional racism. Charges or accusations are reprised by the not so thin blue line.

[cd021]

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

or paid vacation...

[spurraider21]

Feds probe video showing officer slamming woman's phone in South Gate



In the 53-second video, a woman is shown standing on the sidewalk aiming a cellphone toward two men standing a short distance away in black shirts with tactical vests reading “Police” across the back.

As the men stand with their backs to the woman, she can be heard saying, “I do not feel safe with you” and “You are making me feel unsafe and I have a right to be here” and “You need to stay away from me, I don’t feel safe with you closer to me,” among other statements.

The two men don’t appear to face the woman or make any movement toward her. The incident appears to be recorded by a person across the street from the woman.


About 27 seconds into the video, a third man wearing a tactical vest and carrying a rifle walks across a front lawn toward the sidewalk where the woman is standing. The woman appears to point her handheld device toward the third man as one of the other men motions toward her with his arm. What everyone says in the video at that point is unintelligible.

At 32 seconds, the woman takes a couple of steps away from the men. The officer crossing the lawn then rushes toward her and grabs the device from the woman’s hands as she gasps.

“Oh! No! Don’t do that!” the woman is heard yelling as the man wrestles the device out of her hand and smashes it to the ground. He then kicks it down the street and the three men walk way.

“Did you record that?” she shouts to the person filming the incident.

On Tuesday, South Gate police confirmed the U.S. Marshals Service was involved in an operation within the city that day. A U.S. Marshals Service official acknowledged that the agency is aware of the video, confirmed that the operation involved the Marshals Service and was investigating whether the man seen slamming the device is employed with the Marshals Service.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-feds-probe-video-phone-in-south-gate-20150421-story.html

fatass wannabe bully, shaving his head and growing a chin beard to show what hardass he is. And of course, breaking Cons utional law, of which he is certainly ignorant

i dont get how stupid these cops are... figure they'd all be on their best behavior with the recent media firestorm

[boutons_deux]

WATCH: Cop chases motorcyclist 38 miles for running stop sign — then shoots him and kicks him off his bike

The Austin American Statesman stumbled across footage of a high-speed police pursuit that lasted 38 miles and ended when the cop shot the suspect and forced him off his motorcycle with what the New York Daily News colorfully describes as a “leaping karate kick.”

Just past midnight on December 23, 2012, in unincorporated Chambers County, Texas, 25-year-old Steven Gaydos ran a stop sign on his Suzuki 750. DPS Trooper Abraham Martinez, who happened to be waiting in a nearby parking lot, pulled out in his cop car in pursuit of the scofflaw motorcyclist.

But Gaydos didn’t stop. And neither did Martinez. Hitting speeds of up to 130 miles an hour, Martinez followed Gaydos through nearly 40 miles of east Texas highway, and finally pulled alongside his target and, from the window of his vehicle, fired his .375 handgun four times. One of the bullets penetrated Gaydos’ right thigh.

Injured, Gaydos finally pulled over and sat on his motorcycle to wait for police. Gaydos had been driving with a suspended license, and he hadn’t wanted his motorcycle confiscated by police, but Gaydos’ ability to flee had suddenly become more limited, what with the cop firing at him and the gunshot wound in the leg.

Martinez approached Gaydos on foot and launched an aerial kick directly into Gaydos’ back, knocking the wounded motorcyclist onto the ground. Martinez promptly called for medical assistance, but the officer did receive three days of unpaid probation from DPS for violating excessive use of force regulations.

DPS instructors told the Statesman Martinez had received training on things like not shooting motorcyclists who run stop signs. Per DPS, Martinez would have learned that skill when studying “the agency’s ban on using tire-deflating devices on fleeing motorcycles so as not to cause a high-speed, possibly fatal crash.” But, the Statesman reports, “Martinez said he didn’t recall that part of the class.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/watc...e+Raw+Story%29