The Warrior cops are out of control

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Michigan family sues after son slain during traffic stop for flashing brights

An internal investigation concluded he followed department regulations and training

but recommended the department "re-emphasize" training.

Guilford was stopped for flashing his bright lights. They began to struggle when Frost tried to pull Guilford from his vehicle.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...016-story.html

the isolated "bad apple" bull is proven to be bull . the cops.

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This White Couple Got Away with Something That Would Likely Put Black Couples in Danger

I challenge you to imagine how different the outcome would have been if all the players were black. Because really.

Even neighbors describe a scene where the cops gave everyone involved a pretty remarkable number of chances. Speaking to News4Jax, one neighbor described hearing the SWAT team’s announcements: “Constantly saying, 'It's the last warning!' So I thought, what's going to happen? We kept hearing the sirens and everything. All we knew was that it was going to be a big bust because there was a lot of them."

The SWAT team finally forced its way into the mobile home, presumably after Bautista and Hunn finished their post-coital cigarette. Forte, Bautista and Hunn were apprehended around 4:30am. Forte is reportedly charged with “murder, armed robbery with a firearm or other deadly weapon and possession of a weapon by a felon.” Hunn and Bautista were charged with “resisting arrest without violence and false imprisonment.”

No one was shot, tased or even roughed up, apparently. After an almost seven-hour standoff.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ter1044207&t=4

if only they had flashed their high beams, they'd be dead.

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Cops Kill Many More Americans Than the FBI's Data Shows


A new investigation from the Guardian gives a detailed look at the deep flaws in the FBI's database on fatal police shootings.

The inadequacy of the federal data, which is built from information voluntarily reported by police departments, has come into view as the Guardian and the Washington Post have tracked officer-involved killings in 2015.

FBI Director James Comey recently called the federal data "embarrassing and ridiculous," and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced a new program aimed at better tracking civilian deaths at the hands of police.

The Guardian examined the FBI's justifiable homicide data for the decade spanning from 2004 to 2014 and found:

• In 2014, only 244—or 1.2 percent—of the nation's estimated 18,000 law enforcement agencies reported a fatal shooting by their officers.
• Several high-profile deaths, including those ofEric Garner in New York, and Tamir Rice andJohn Crawford in Ohio, were not included in the FBI's count, as the police agencies involved did not submit their data for those years or report those incidents to the FBI. The NYPD, for example, did not submit data for any year during this period except for one, in 2006. Still the FBI's count did not match up with the NYPD's own data from that year, which the NYPD publishes in a separate annual report.
• The FBI lists 32 ways of classifying the incidents based on the cir stances—but only one denotes killing by a police officer: "felon killed by police." There is no category for cases where an officer killed someone who was not a felon. (See Mother Jones' previous reporting on the FBI's classification of justifiable homicides.)
• Some police departments reported unjustified killings by cops as killings between civilians. Other deaths in which officers were charged or convicted, such as that of Oscar Grant, Rekia Boyd, Malissa Williams, and Timothy Russell, did not show up at all in the FBI database.
• A rise in the number of police shootings corresponded with a rise in agencies reporting their figures, obscuring any potential trends over the decade reviewed.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...missing-errors

[cd021]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b08589ef47943f

Cops acquitted of manslaughter after killing an bi polar man in a jail.

[boutons_deux]

For men in prison, child support becomes a crushing debt

Earl L. Harris did not owe child support when he was sent to prison in 1997 for selling marijuana. He now concedes that dealing drugs may have been a stupid move for a new father.

But Harris, then 19, had grown up poor and dropped out of school, and the only legitimate work available to young, black men like him, he says, was a temp job without benefits.

“Nobody was hiring,” he said. “I got into hustling because I wanted to support my baby.”

The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonville, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter. His girlfriend moved on, later marrying someone else. After just two months in prison, Harris started getting the letters.

Child support. You owe: $168.

They came once a month, piling up debt.

Child support. You owe: $168. Arrears: $336. Arrears: $504. Arrears: $672. Plus interest and other fees.

Of the 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, about half are parents, and at least 1 in 5 has a child support obligation. For most, the debt will keep piling up throughout their imprisonment: By law or by practice, child support agencies in much of the country consider incarceration a form of “voluntary impoverishment.” Parents like Harris, the logic goes, have only themselves to blame for not earning a living.



But that may be about to change. The Obama administration has authorized a new set of regulations that would reclassify incarceration as “involuntary,” giving parents the right to push the pause button on child support payments. The regulations are set to be published early next year and implemented by states by 2017.

Congressional Republicans oppose the new policy. They argue that it would undercut the 1996 welfare reform act, which pressed states to locate missing fathers and bill them for child support so taxpayers wouldn’t bear the full burden of their children’s welfare.

“I am fundamentally opposed to policies that allow parents to abdicate their responsibilities, which, in turn, results in more families having to go on welfare,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)


When he got out in 2001, the unpaid amount was listed on his credit report — and pursued by an agency with the power to garnish 65 percent of his wages, intercept his tax returns, freeze his bank account, suspend his driver’s license and, if he failed to pay, lock him up again.

By then, his debt had surged to more than $10,000.

Harris entered barbering school but soon returned to drug dealing and was thrown back into prison for nearly a decade. Meanwhile, his child-support debt swelled to more than $25,000.



The Marshall Project interviewed nearly three dozen noncustodial parents in 10 states; they all left prison owing between $10,000 and $110,000 in child support. Mostly fathers who are disproportionately black and poor, these parents faced prosecution for not repaying the debt, even after their children were grown.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ushpmg00000003

Old White racist "Christian" men ing over the poor, demanded life-destroying observance to a law they wrote to over the poor.

America, esp the Repugs/conservatives, s its own citizens much worse that Muslim terrorists.

[Trill Clinton]

[boutons_deux]

Kentucky Prosecutor: Being Hispanic Is Good Enough Reason For Police To Pull You Over

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/19/3713641/kentucky-prosecutor-being-hispanic-is-good-enough-reason-for-police-to-pull-you-over/

[boutons_deux]

How Chicago Police 'Disappeared' 7,000 People in an Off-the-Books Interrogation Warehouse

Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed, the Guardian can now reveal.

From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than twice the proportion of the city’s population. But only 68 of those held were allowed access to attorneys or a public notice of their whereabouts, internal police records show.

The new disclosures, the result of an ongoing Guardian transparency lawsuit and investigation, provide the most detailed, full-scale portrait yet of the truth about Homan Square, a secretive facility that Chicago police have described as little more than a low-level narcotics crime outpost where the mayor has said police “follow all the rules.”

The police portrayals contrast sharply with those of Homan Square detainees and their lawyers, who insist that “if this could happen to someone, it could happen to anyone.” A 30-year-old man named Jose, for example, was one of the few detainees with an attorney present when he surrendered to police. He said officers at the warehouse questioned him even after his lawyer specifically told them he would not speak.

“The Fillmore and Homan boys,” Jose said, referring to police and the facility’s cross streets, “don’t play by the rules.”

According to an analysis of data disclosed to the Guardian in late September, police allowed lawyers access to Homan Square for only 0.94% of the 7,185 arrests logged over nearly 11 years. That percentage aligns with Chicago police’s broader practice of providing minimal access to attorneys during the crucial early interrogation stage, when an arrestee’s cons utional rights against self-incrimination are most vulnerable.

But Homan Square is unlike Chicago police precinct houses, according to lawyers who described a “find-your-client game” and experts who reviewed data from the latest tranche of arrestee records obtained by the Guardian.

"Not much shakes me in this business – baby murder, sex assault, I’ve done it all,” said David Gaeger, an attorney whose client was taken to Homan Square in 2011 after being arrested for marijuana. “That place was and is scary. It’s a scary place. There’s nothing about it that resembles a police station. It comes from a Bond movie or something.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...tion-warehouse

[Winehole23]

backscatter x-ray vans keep us safe in NYC:

For more than three years, ProPublica has been fighting to force the NYPD to disclose the details of its fleet of X-ray vans. Earlier this year, New York State Supreme Court Judge Doris Ling-Cohan ruled that the NYPD couldn’t shield itself from Freedom of Information requests simply because disclosing fleet details could interefere with ongoing investigations. The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefing arguing against the NYPD’s position, but New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton continues to stonewall reporters.


“Those are issues I’d prefer not to divulge to the public at this time,” Bratton said. “I will not talk about anything at all about this — it falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.”

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/2...8Mw-k.facebook

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Alabama judge accused of telling debtors to give blood or face jail time

An Alabama judge told defendants who could not pay court fines that they could donate blood or go to jail, a civil rights legal group has charged in an ethics complaint filed against the official.

Judge Marvin Wiggins presented that choice to dozens of people who showed up in his Perry County courtroom on Sept. 17 for a hearing on court fees, fines and res ution they owed in criminal cases, the Southern Poverty Law Center said a complaint filed on Monday with the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama.

"If you do not have any money and you don't want to go to jail, consider giving blood today and bring me your receipt back," Wiggins told defendants, according to the complaint.

"Or the sheriff has enough handcuffs for those who do not have money."

“People who couldn’t pay their court debt with cash literally paid with their blood,” she said on Tuesday. “I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s a total disregard not only for judicial ethics, but of the Cons ution.”

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

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The FCC Aims to Lower Cost of Prison Phone Calls in Historic Vote

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to make a decision this month that will overhaul the industry that for decades has been making millions from phone calls made by incarcerated people throughout the United States.

Once run by jails and prisons themselves, phone services in the age of mass incarceration are outsourced to private companies. Today, this is a $1.2 billion business. The two main industry giants, Securus Technologies and Global Tel-Link (GTL), have become so profitable that they have been bought out by large investment firms.

Within the prison industrial complex, phone companies are perhaps the best example of capitalism run amuck. They are reaping huge profits from what is, literally, a captive audience.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...-still-on-hold

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This Minnesota police department says drinking coffee while driving is illegal

A St. Paul woman is dumbfounded after getting pulled over for doing something everyone who drives a car has done — taking a sip of coffee.Lindsey Krieger said she was merging onto I-94 when she was pulled over on Monday. The officer asked her if she knew what she was doing wrong, and she said no. The officer informed her she had taken a sip from her coffee cup, and that doing so is against the law, Fox9 reports.

“I thought it was a joke,” Krieger said.

The police department sided with the officer. Sgt. Mike Ernster of the St. Paul Police Department told the station he couldn’t comment on the specifics of the case, but said, “Inattentive driving relates to anything that takes your attention away from those obligations of every driver, which is to pay attention.”

She plans to contest the ticket.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/this...e+Raw+Story%29

[boutons_deux]

Unarmed marijuana dealer shot in face and killed by cop who won’t face charges




DDerek Cruice was a kind and loving young man who was murdered in cold blood by state agents because he allegedly sold a plant that is legal in five states.In March, a heavily militarized police SWAT team, knowing that Cruice had never been convicted of a crime, descended on his home on Maybrook Drive in Deltona.

Police did not knock. Instead, they used a battering ram to bust down the door, sending multiple heavily armed storm troopers into the house.

Friends who were inside the home explained that police fired their weapons without hesitation. They described how it was blatantly obvious that Cruice was unarmed, as he was wearing basketball shorts and no shirt.

Cruice was shot in his face and died on scene.

The friends were also quick to point out that there were no weapons. In fact, a police search of the property revealed that there were no weapons at all.

The entire assault on private property and subsequent murder was carried out to “protect” society from a person who had harmed no one,

“After two days of testimony and in deliberation, the grand jury declined to indict Deputy Raible on a manslaughter by culpable negligence charge,” said State Attorney R.J. Larizza.

"investigator Raible and the other deputies in that fateful moment ... their lives were in danger.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/unar...e+Raw+Story%29

[boutons_deux]

California officer sued for copying photos of woman he arrested


A California Highway Patrol officer copied photos of a scantily clad woman from her phone after arresting her for driving under the influence last year near San Francisco, the woman alleges in a lawsuit brought against the officer and the agency.

Natalie Sramek filed the suit in federal court in the Northern District of California on Thursday, accusing the officer and the highway patrol of conducting a warrant-less search of her phone and of denying her right to due process.

California Highway Patrol Officer Sean Harrington pulled over Sramek on su ion of driving under the influence on Aug. 29, 2014, on a highway in San Ramon, about 20 miles (40 km) east of San Francisco, according to the lawsuit.

He took her purse and cell phone and convinced her to give him the pass code for her phone, the lawsuit said.

Harrington later scrolled through the pictures on it and copied six photos of Sramek in "various states of undress" by sending them to his own phone, the lawsuit said.

He then shared the photos with at least one other highway patrol officer,

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

[Trill Clinton]

COP POSES AS WOMEN TO GIVE 60 MEN ORAL SEX THROUGH GLORY HOLE :PUKE



Chesterfield, MO – A Missouri police officer has recently been exposed as a sexual predator who terrorized his community, and this week he has pleaded guilty to the first of the charges against him. Although a recent investigation has revealed that former Chesterfield police officer David E. Cerna is connected with a number of different sex crimes, the first charges against him stem from a scam that he ran on craigslist where he pretended to be a woman and lured straight men to his home for anonymous oral sex.

On the website, the 34-year-old police officer would offer free oral sex and send them a picture of a woman that he claimed to be, but when the men arrived at his home, he said he would only perform the act anonymously, through a hole in the door. At least 60 straight men were coaxed into this situation and were recorded by Cerna, who later posted the videos on pornography websites. He was later charged with invasion of privacy for recording and publishing the sex acts and plead guilty this week.

However, the resulting investigation uncovered even more evidence of wrongdoing on the part of officer Cerna, including at least one cir stance where an underage boy was arrested and sexually assaulted on camera. The investigation also showed that Cerna had placed a spy camera in the bathroom of a local convenience store and posted those recordings on porn sites as well. It was suggested in some reports that the sites were actually owned by Cerna, meaning that he was profiting from them as well.

After the investigation was made public, Attorney Gonzalo Fernandez pointed out that there were likely many underage victims that were directly assaulted by Cerna while he was on active duty.

“In fact the contact would often be initiated by him performing some sort of traffic stop. Some of these people are minors… I know one of them was as young as 16,“ Fernandez said.

“David Cerna kind of took it upon himself to walk through various bedrooms of the house by himself, which at the time seemed strange to the family and now knowing what they do about his propensity for clandestine filming, you wonder,” he added.

The mother of the victims reportedly said, ‘It`s messed my son up horribly. He is paranoid all the time, thinking that someone is watching him, all the time. He won`t sleep alone. He thinks people are after him all the time.”

The investigation into the full extent of Cerna’s crimes is still ongoing, and it is unclear exactly how much time he will be facing.

[Quetzal-X]

COP POSES AS WOMEN TO GIVE 60 MEN ORAL SEX THROUGH GLORY HOLE :PUKE



Chesterfield, MO – A Missouri police officer has recently been exposed as a sexual predator who terrorized his community, and this week he has pleaded guilty to the first of the charges against him. Although a recent investigation has revealed that former Chesterfield police officer David E. Cerna is connected with a number of different sex crimes, the first charges against him stem from a scam that he ran on craigslist where he pretended to be a woman and lured straight men to his home for anonymous oral sex.

On the website, the 34-year-old police officer would offer free oral sex and send them a picture of a woman that he claimed to be, but when the men arrived at his home, he said he would only perform the act anonymously, through a hole in the door. At least 60 straight men were coaxed into this situation and were recorded by Cerna, who later posted the videos on pornography websites. He was later charged with invasion of privacy for recording and publishing the sex acts and plead guilty this week.

However, the resulting investigation uncovered even more evidence of wrongdoing on the part of officer Cerna, including at least one cir stance where an underage boy was arrested and sexually assaulted on camera. The investigation also showed that Cerna had placed a spy camera in the bathroom of a local convenience store and posted those recordings on porn sites as well. It was suggested in some reports that the sites were actually owned by Cerna, meaning that he was profiting from them as well.

After the investigation was made public, Attorney Gonzalo Fernandez pointed out that there were likely many underage victims that were directly assaulted by Cerna while he was on active duty.

“In fact the contact would often be initiated by him performing some sort of traffic stop. Some of these people are minors… I know one of them was as young as 16,“ Fernandez said.

“David Cerna kind of took it upon himself to walk through various bedrooms of the house by himself, which at the time seemed strange to the family and now knowing what they do about his propensity for clandestine filming, you wonder,” he added.

The mother of the victims reportedly said, ‘It`s messed my son up horribly. He is paranoid all the time, thinking that someone is watching him, all the time. He won`t sleep alone. He thinks people are after him all the time.”

The investigation into the full extent of Cerna’s crimes is still ongoing, and it is unclear exactly how much time he will be facing.

He didnt need to go through all that trouble. He could have just put some ad out offering bjs from a real live cop. There is plenty of copsuckers left , ready at a moments notice in 'murica to return the favor .

[boutons_deux]

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Guardian lawsuit exposes fullest scale yet of detentions at off-the-books interrogation warehouse, while attorneys describe find-your-client chase across Chicago as ‘something from a Bond movie’

Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed, the Guardian can now reveal.

From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than twice the proportion of the city’s population. But only 68 of those held were allowed access to attorneys or a public notice of their whereabouts, internal police records show.

The new disclosures, the result of an ongoing Guardian transparency lawsuit and investigation, provide the most detailed, full-scale portrait yet of the truth about Homan Square, a secretive facility that Chicago police have described as little more than a low-level narcotics crime outpost where the mayor has said police “follow all the rules”.

The police portrayals contrast sharply with those of Homan Square detainees and their lawyers, who insist that “if this could happen to someone, it could happen to anyone”.

A 30-year-old man named Jose, for example, was one of the few detainees with an attorney present when he surrendered to police. He said officers at the warehouse questioned him even after his lawyer specifically told them he would not speak.

“The Fillmore and Homan boys,” Jose said, referring to police and the facility’s cross streets, “don’t play by the rules.”

“If you’re laboring under the assumption that your client’s at Homan, there really isn’t much you can do as a lawyer. You’re shut out. It’s guarded like a military installation.”

“Often,” Futterman continued, “prisoners aren’t entered into the central booking system until they’re being processed – which doesn’t occur at Homan Square. They’re supposed to begin that processing right away, under CPD procedures, and at Homan Square the reality is, that isn’t happening or is happening sporadically and inconsistently, which leads to the whole find-your-client game.”

Police took a substantial amount of marijuana and what Jose said was about $10,000 in cash. The arrest report listed the cash at $4,670. Jose said he never got his money back.

“Are you going to help yourself?” Jose remembered the officer telling him.

“What do you mean, help myself? ‘Are you going to talk to me?’ ‘Nah, my lawyer was just here. You could have just said this in front of my lawyer. I know my rights’ … He wasn’t trying to hear it. He was just blabbing away, like ‘Oh, you think you’re a smart-ass,’ this and that.

“That’s what they do, man: they get people who don’t know their rights,” Jose continued. “That’s probably how they came upon me and my house – probably someone ended up talking to them and they dry-snitched on me. All they knew was that I lived there.

“They squeeze people, and then they go get somebody else. That’s what they do.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...bf869-66503933

[Trill Clinton]

COP CAUGHT UPLOADING CHILD PORN ON KIK MESSENGER :PUKE
http://heavy.com/news/2015/09/michae...wife-children/

Officer Michael Harding, left, receives an award while with the Fort Pierce Police Department in 2010. (Fort Pierce Police/Facebook)

A former police officer of the year in Florida has been arrested on federal child pornography charges.
Port St. Lucie Police Officer Michael Harding, 27, was charged by criminal complaint with receiving and distributing material involving sexual exploitation of minors and possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida said Wednesday in a press release.
Harding was caught uploading child pornography to the smartphone instant messenger app Kik, according to court do ents. He was held without bond after making his first court appearance Wednesday.
Here’s what you need to know:

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1. He Uploaded the Child Porn While in His Police Car, Investigators Say

(Facebook)

Federal prosecutors say that Michael Harding was identified as the owner of an account on the instant messaging app Kik that posted images of child porn on July 23.
Investigators said another image and video of “child related sexually explicit material were posted to the account.” According to the criminal complaint, investigators believe Harding uploaded some of the child pornography while working in his police car.
Read the full criminal complaint below from Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Brian Ray below:
Ray said in the criminal complaint that location data from Harding’s police vehicle shows that on the dates and times the child pornography was posted to the Kik account allegedly belonging to Harding, he was in his police car. The vehicle was “in service and stationary for approximately one hour during each of the timeframes when child pornography was psoted, with the posts to the Kik chat room occurring toward the middle of the stationary periods.”
Ray wrote in the affidavit, “The vehicle being in use, coupled with the lack of vehicle movement and the posts occurring using cellular date, is consistent with the child pornography uploads taking place while Harden [sic] was working in his PSLPD vehicle.” Records show that Harding was working on an off-duty detail at traffic construction sites during both time periods.

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2. He Was Caught by an Undercover Agent in the Kik Chat Room ‘#Toddlerf**k’

According to the criminal complaint, an undercover federal agent found the Kik account while undercover in a chatroom called “#toddlerf**k”
Ray said in the affidavit that the child pornography was posted by a Kik user “desthfromabovee,” which was created from a WiFi access point at Harding’s Port. St. Lucie home and from a phone owned by Harding.
The images and videos uploaded by Harding included preteen and preschool age victims, federal investigators said.
Federal agents searched Harding’s Port St. Lucie home and seized his computer, cell phones, thumb drives and other materials, on September 22.
“A preliminary forensic analysis revealed that the recovered items allegedly contained hundreds of images and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
According to the complaint, a thumb drive was found in a gun case at Harding’s home with a folder called “Captain planet” that had a subfolder named “Boys” with a video called “6 yo boy suck.” Another folder was called “Man+KID” and also contained a video file. The thumb drive also included photos of Harding and photos related to his work as a police officer, according to the complaint.
Investigators also said they recovered 23 deleted child pornography images from a thum drive found in a storage bin, including “bondage images depicting prepubescent girls.”

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3. He Is Being Held as a ‘Flight Risk’ & ‘Danger to the Community’

(Facebook)

Harding, who was appointed a federal public defender at his first court appearance was ordered held as a flight risk and danger to the community. A hearing on his pre-trial detention was set for Wednesday, September 30, according to court do ents.
“These charges are very serious and I think it goes without saying that this type of behavior will not and is not tolerated in this department,” Port St. Lucie Police Chief John Bolduc told reporters.
Harding faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. He has been placed on administrative leave without pay by his department.

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4. He Was Named Officer of the Year in Fort Pierce in 2011 & Joined the Port St. Lucie Department in 2012

(Facebook)

In 2011, Harding was honored by The Hundred Club as the Fort Pierce Police Department’s Officer of the Year, according to an article on Fort-Pierce.net.
Fort Pierce Police Chief Sean Baldwin said Harding had “impressed us” during his time with the department. He issued 76 DUI citations in the year before he won the award, more than anyone else in the department.

According to records from the Fort Pierce Police released to WPTV, Harding was hired in 2008 and worked in road patrol, on the traffic unit and the crisis intervention team.
He joined the department after graduating from Indian River State College with a degree in criminal justice technology in 2008.
Harding left the Fort Pierce Police Department in 2012 and joined the Port St. Lucie Police. He was referred to as one of Fort Pierce’s “top cops” in an article about his departure.
Fort Pierce Chief Sean Baldwin cited Harding as an example for why his department should raise its salaries. Harding told the chief he felt the move to Port St. Lucie was in the best interests of him and his family, according to the WPTV report. His salary increased from $35,172 a year to $47,399.

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5. He Is Married With Young Children

(Facebook)

Harding is married and has young children, Harding said in court, according to Treasure Coast Newspapers.
He was married in June 2014, according to photos on his Facebook page.

[boutons_deux]

BUSTED: Atlanta cop releases black man stopped for doing nothing after noticing he’s being filmed




http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/bust...e+Raw+Story%29

[boutons_deux]

The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black

An examination of traffic stops and arrests in Greensboro, N.C., uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct.

Do enting racial profiling in police work is devilishly difficult, because a mul ude of factors — including elevated violent crime rates in many black neighborhoods — makes it hard to tease out evidence of bias from other influences. But an analysis by The New York Times of tens of thousands of traffic stops and years of arrest data in this racially mixed city of 280,000 uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct.

Those same disparities were found across North Carolina, the state that collects the most detailed data on traffic stops. And at least some of them showed up in the six other states that collect comprehensive traffic-stop statistics.

Here in North Carolina’s third-largest city, officers pulled over African-American drivers for traffic violations at a rate far out of proportion with their share of the local driving population. They used their discretion to search black drivers or their cars more than twice as often as white motorists — even though they found drugs and weapons significantly more often when the driver was white.

Officers were more likely to stop black drivers for no discernible reason. And they were more likely to use force if the driver was black, even when they did not encounter physical resistance.

The routine nature of the stops belies their importance.

As the public’s most common encounter with law enforcement, they largely shape perceptions of the police. Indeed, complaints about traffic-law enforcement are at the root of many accusations that some police departments engage in racial profiling. Since Ferguson erupted in protests in August last year, three of the deaths of African-Americans that have roiled the nation occurred after drivers were pulled over for minor traffic infractions: a broken brake light, a missing front license plate and failure to signal a lane change.

Violence is rare, but routine traffic stops more frequently lead to searches, arrests and the opening of a trapdoor into the criminal justice system that can have a lifelong impact, especially for those without the financial or other resources to negotiate it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us...ing-black.html

[boutons_deux]

Savannah fire captain facing charges for attacking and aiming pistol at black couple during racist meltdown



An ex-Fireman of the Year in Savannah, Georgia is facing charges that he became violent and abusive toward a black couple in an Applebee’s restaurant and then threatened them with a gun.According to the Savannah Morning News, Capt. Barry R. “Ricky” Arnold Jr. of the Savannah of Savannah Fire and Emergency Services was arrested and charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and pointing a gun at another.

Arnold and his wife were dining at an Applebee’s location last week when Arnold — who police records say was highly intoxicated — became agitated and used racist slurs toward their server, a black woman.

WSAV reported that a black man at a nearby table — identified in police do ents as “Mr. Curtis” — told Arnold to calm down, which sent the firefighter into a rage.

“Mr. Curtis told me that he then advised Mr. Arnold to relax and that Mr. Arnold then redirected his disorderly behavior towards him,” said Arnold’s arrest report.

“Mr. Curtis reported that Mr. Arnold then called Ms. Phillips a ‘n—-r’ and that Mr. Curtis asked Mr. Arnold what his problem was.

Mr. Curtis stated that Mr. Arnold replied that he did not have to explain ‘s-t’ to him at which point the altercation started after Mr. Arnold attempted to kick Mr. Curtis while seated in the seat. Mr. Curtis told me that he hurt his right eye by hitting at a table when Mr. Arnold tackled him.”

The altercation spilled out in to the parking lot, where Arnold got a gun from his car and pointed it at Curtis and his companion.

“Mr. Curtis reported hearing Mr. Arnold say that he was going to kill him and continued to use the ‘N-word,'” the arrest report continued.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/sava...e+Raw+Story%29

[Trill Clinton]

[Trill Clinton]

cop has a reckless history:

http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/ben-fields-richland-county-south-carolina-sheriff-deputy-spring-valley-high-school-photo-football-coach-bodybuilder-cop-student-desk-video-complaints/

look at this tough guy

[cd021]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2412670

Cops in a California town will replace. Batons with Nun chucks.

[boutons_deux]

So Many Facts That We’ll Never Know About Corey Jones’ Death




One true and tragic fact about the shooting of Corey Jones is that we’ll never know all the facts. Jones is dead, and the only apparent eyewitness is the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, officer who shot him at 3:15 a.m. on an off-ramp of I-95, where Jones was waiting for a tow truck.

That’s another true and tragic fact — the man was only waiting for a tow truck.

On Thursday Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Jones’ family, said officer Nouman Raja fired six rounds, hitting Jones three times. He said Jones’ body was found 80 to 100 feet from his car, suggesting he had tried to get away, and that his weapon had not been fired.

A national spotlight has been cast on the shooting because Jones, a 31-year-old black man, had no criminal record and was committing no crime at the time the officer stopped.

The handgun in Jones’ possession was legal. He’d purchased it a few days earlier, and the box with the paperwork was still in his car. He might still be alive if he’d been unarmed.

Jones was a housing inspector, a drummer, and a member of his church band. He was on his way home from a gig when his car broke down on the interstate ramp. Raja, dressed in street clothes, rolled up in a white unmarked van.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/so-many-...y-jones-death/

My guess: Jones didn't know the other guy was a cop and ran, and the murderous cop took Jones' gun out of his car and put it with his body.

I'm 100% certain: the police are LYING.