Police abuses

[PanzerJaeger]

Valiant men go over to fight for our country on the other side of the world, and the reward a few of them get is to be killed by cowards given automatic weapons and a license to kill.

Pretend soldiers with bloated budgets and no accountability. Of all the tragic ridiculousness surrounding the Guerena case, I wonder how many Pima County residents are aware that their tax dollars paid for an armored personnel carrier. What the **** does local PD need with an APC?

[a completely inoffensive name]

The war on drugs is what spurs these police abuses due to the power they have from prohibition laws. The war on drugs is to a large extent solely due to Americans wanting to regulate their morals on other Americans.

There was a chance for marijuana to be legalized in California last election, to have the madness end for California. It was well written, prohibited driving and everything else you can't do while drunk but now applied for pot. Regulations to make it only for adults just like tobacco.

But California decided to keep the police abuse 54% to 46%, an 8 point difference. Too many people are so uncomfortable with what others do with their body that they clamor to the government to stop it all.

Police abuses ultimately are the fault of the American public not the government. It is moral pushers who want these actions continued because they feel that as long as they stay away from the stuff, they don't care how reckless the government gets with them "druggies".

[Fragony]

One more for the CR diaries http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1504...verboten_.html

Geez.

[InsaneApache]

I'd fro him to the fwoor as well dancing like that. Bloody Romans!

[Crazed Rabbit]

One more for the CR diaries http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1504...verboten_.html

Geez.

I'd heard about that (it went to the Supreme Court, who decided in favor of the police arresting people for dancing) but not seen anything. Figures the cops need to shove their knee into the back of a guy's neck while he's on the ground while yelling 'stop resisting'. Trying to breath? That's resisting!

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[Crazed Rabbit]

In China, the secret police shove you around a couple times if you try to record them with a videocamera.

In the police state of Illinois, a man faces up to 75 years in prison for having a tape recorder in a courtroom during his traffic citation trial.

Yay.

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[Louis VI the Fat]

In China, the secret police shove you around a couple times if you try to record them with a videocamera.

In the police state of Illinois, a man faces up to 75 years in prison for having a tape recorder in a courtroom during his traffic citation trial.

Yay.

CR

..the heck?


People worldwide protest in front of Burmese embassies over this sort of stuff.

Where's my membership card of Amnesty, I'm going to write to them.

[Crazed Rabbit]

And that's why I never considered getting a job in Illinois.

A Priest is falsely arrested by police as he tries to film them harassing poor minority immigrants.

The video, taken by Father Manship (pictured), shows the seconds leading up to his arrest.

The footage appears to contradict a claim made by the East Haven police department in a police report that was withheld until 13 days after the incident. The police report, David Cari, one of two arresting officers, states that he didn’t know what the New Haven priest was holding. He wrote that he saw an “unknown shiny silver object” that Manship had “cupped” in his hands, and was afraid for his safety. Read the police report here.

The footage clearly shows that the arresting officers knew that Manship was holding a camera, not an “unknown shiny silver object.”

In the video, the Officer Cari twice refers to the object as a camera.

“Sir what are you doing? Is there a reason that you have a camera on me?” says Cari, in the video.

...

Asked to respond to the allegations that police harassment has increased, Keefe said, “I have a very simple question: when was the last time anyone filed a complaint with any town official in East Haven” regarding police harassment of Latinos?

“None. Ever. No. None,” said Keefe, answering his own question.

“It’s one thing to have Father Manship slander the people of East Haven… It’s another to produce evidence of that,” Keefe said.

Manship has said that he was in the process of compiling evidence of police harassment before he was arrested by the police.

Ain't that a great way to prevent people from filing complaints?

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[InsaneApache]

I bet you wish we'd stayed in charge now.

[Crazed Rabbit]

So several days ago a bunch of cops in Miami shot at a car they said tried to run down some cops:


They claim he was shooting at police, but it took them two days to find the gun in his car (planted, likely, or unfired). They ended up shooting a lot of bullets recklessly, and injuring four other people in the downtown area with their reckless shooting.

To cover it up, they went after nearby civilians who had recorded the event and grabbed cellphones and smashed them;


The only reason you can see the video above is because the cameraman hid the SIM chip from the phone in his mouth before police took the phone, smashed it on the ground, pointed guns at him, then arrested him.

That's smuggling-video-out-of-North-Korea ballsy.

Cops have adapted to the brave new world of video of cellphone videos by increasing their level of violence against civilians and destroying evidence.

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[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

How about we just let cops do there jobs? Sometimes I wonder if you people would want to get murdered,raped,mugged....

[Louis VI the Fat]

To cover it up, they went after nearby civilians who had recorded the event and grabbed cellphones and smashed them;


The only reason you can see the video above is because the cameraman hid the SIM chip from the phone in his mouth before police took the phone, smashed it on the ground, pointed guns at him, then arrested him.

That's smuggling-video-out-of-North-Korea ballsy.

Brave man. It is marvellous to see that people are willing to risk so much for liberty, are willing to stand up to brutally repressive governments such as in Iran, China and the United States.


It is 2011. Governments need to understand you can't arrest us all, can't supress all evidence. Somebody will always film today's Neda's, somebody will get a videos out there, for the entire world to see.

[Crazed Rabbit]

How about we just let cops do there jobs? Sometimes I wonder if you people would want to get murdered,raped,mugged....

Warman, you have no idea what's going on here, do you?

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[Shibumi]

How about we just let cops do there jobs? Sometimes I wonder if you people would want to get murdered,raped,mugged....

I do not really get what you are aiming at here, explain please?

What you wrote could be read as - "it is important to let the police have whatever way they please or you might get raped" - which would come off as rather unlucky thinking.

[Papewaio]

How about we just let cops do there jobs? Sometimes I wonder if you people would want to get murdered,raped,mugged....

Sarcasm? You believe that police can abuse the law however they wish rather then uphold it?

My sentencing regime would go like this:

Commit a crime do the time
Commit a crime (other then self defence) against an on duty officer in uniform then do the time plus extra.
Commit a crime as a government official including police officers, then do double time and have all your accounts audited, and pention revoked if it was a violent crime.

Cops should be supported, criminals in uniform should have the book thrown at them.

There are far worse things then terrorists, one of them is a police state.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A off-duty (and out of uniform) cop in Philadelphia saw a man peaceably (and legally) carrying his gun from his car into a house. The cop confronted the man when he came out, then chased him back inside and shot him dead;

The officer told investigators he was helping a relative move into a house on Worth Street about 4 p.m. Monday when he saw Taylor, carrying a handgun, walk in and out of a house across the street.

The officer said he identified himself as a police officer and demanded that Taylor drop his weapon but said Taylor tried to escape by going into his home. In the process, police said, Taylor pointed the gun at the officer. At that point, the officer fired and hit Taylor in the chest.

But Britton said Taylor's gun was legal, registered, and unloaded when he took it next door to a friend's house. Taylor, a member of the roofers union, was planning a trip to the shooting range later in the day for his friend's birthday, she said.

After a few minutes, Taylor returned to his own house, which he shares with Britton and their two young children. It was during those moments that he and the officer apparently got into a confrontation.

Britton said she heard no voices coming from the street. All she knew was that Taylor burst back into their home, as if someone was chasing him, and shut the door. She said the officer followed close behind.

The officer opened the door, walked into the home, and shot Taylor there, in view of the couple's 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter, she said.

"He came in my own house, looked at me, and shot him," Britton said. "I don't understand why this happened. Even if he felt threatened by Josh for some reason, why couldn't he warn him that he was going to shoot?"

Mary Thompson, who lives next door to the couple, was home when Taylor dropped by to show her boyfriend his gun. When Taylor left, she never heard any words exchanged between Taylor and the officer on the street outside.

"Then I heard a boom, and I saw [the officer] just run across the street to his house," she said.

After the shooting, when the officer ran back across the street to his relative's home, Britton ran after him.

"I chased him out the door because I didn't want him to get away with it," she said. "I ran in front of his house and shouted, 'You're not coming out. I'm calling the police.' "

Britton did not learn that the officer was a police officer until uniformed officers arrived.

"I didn't know he was a cop, and now that I know, I really don't care," she said. "What he did was wrong."

More murders and lies.

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[Crazed Rabbit]

Canton, Ohio, cop tells a man, legally carrying a gun - that he should have shot him ten times and executed him for his stupidity, and that his fellow officer would have been a good witness:


Also threatens to beat a woman if he sees her again that night.

The same police department that had one cop kill his girlfriend and mother of his child; the police didn't consider him a suspect - the FBI made the arrest.

An article on the video; http://www.cantonrep.com/topstories/...d-carry-arrest

Note the comments. The mouth breathing morons defending the cops -
"All of you 'cowboys' that want to bash the cops ought to try going into the neighborhoods these guys police. Most of you couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag without your Glock. We expect these officers to bust their behinds to protect us yet we condemn them when they do their jobs.

As for me, I'm grateful to officers like Dan Harless and the rest of the officers of the Canton Police Department. If you're going to hang out with drug dealers and prostitutes, then you don't deserve a CCW permit, PERIOD!!!"
- are why it's so very hard to stop police brutality.

Also note the entitled attitude of cops towards other people carrying guns - the cops think they are better.

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[Major Robert Dump]

Heh, I have had that happen on more than one occassion, over-zealous cop won't give me the chance to claim, then tries to turn it around on me for being reckless when I finally get to tell him. Always on tape, and never had one act like that.

[Major Robert Dump]

You may have already posted these:

Man legally open carrying in Philidelphia held at gunpoint by ignorant Philly cops who don't know the law, won't listen to reason, and then when realizing they are wrong hold him in hopes of digging up something to arrest him on. This is the first part of 4 audio clips, the subsequent 4 are uneventful as its mostly just him sitting in a car. Notice when they find the recorder on him they accuse him of "Setting them up."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vUYeJXSrA


Woman filming arrests happening in front of her house is arrested because some douchebag cop who doesn't know the law "feels threatened" by the 50 year old woman in a night gown with a video camera. They let the people they were arresting go, by the way, and ended up arresting her. Just once I would like to see a video where a dumb cops partner steps in and says "no...lets not do this."

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=340_1308755859


This one is more humorous than disturbing, but very indiciative of police mentality in places like OKC.

Cops cracking down on kids violating curfew catch teens at movie theater 20 minutes before curfew and arrest them. Except they were at the movies with their parents, and their parents had gone to the parking lot to wait in the car. Or their parents were en route to pick them up. Things that would have easily beens olved with a phone call or, ya know, a walk to the parking lot. Kids are loaded inot a paddy wagon and held overnight in a detention facility, meanwhile parents are scrambling to find their missing kids because the cops took their phones.

Whats even funnier is that the curfew law was the result of certain things happening in very specific types of neighborhoods involving very specific deomgraphics of youths, not white bread suburban teens in a nice suburban theater/resturant hub going to see the latest Natalie Portman movie. Oddly enough, while this was going on, there were teenagers shooting each other 5 miles away.

http://www.newsok.com/oklahoma-city-...rticle/3587106

[ICantSpellDawg]

Police are infuriating in too many instances. I wish more bleeding heart sissy liberals would become P.O.'s. We could use a few officers who didn't enforce stupid laws just to get authoritarian jollies. As a police officer, I would most likely be one of those sissy bleeding hearts.

It has been 7 months since I applied for my sportsman pistol license and it hasn't even been submitted to the board yet. That will take another 12 months. NY sure protects its citizens from people like me, even though that semi-auto mini 14 can be purchased within 5 days.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Kansas City SWAT team members charged with stealing money from a house they raided in an FBI sting.

The sting was set up after another victim of the SWAT team complained of them stealing thousands of dollars from her home.

KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -
A federal grand jury indicted three members of the KCK SWAT team this week, sources tell KCTV5.

The indictments, which include conspiracy charges, won't be unsealed before next week, the sources say.

The three were part of an investigation into whether money and property were taken from a family during a raid. A sting operation was set up by the FBI after a resident complained about the officers' conduct.

Surveillance cameras were planted throughout the home and furniture was installed in the vacant house to convince officers that they were serving an actual warrant.

"I think we are sick. The reaction yesterday was sick to our stomach," said Police Chief Rick Armstrong

The three officers had been placed on unpaid leave after the January raid and they remain on unpaid leave after the indictments were handed down by the federal grand jury in Wichita.

Ten officers initially were detained in early January. Three have returned to work while four remain on paid leave.

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[Major Robert Dump]

On a related link to the story that started it all -- the initial incident where the woman complained about the SWAT team, the raid was conducted because -- are you ready for this --

COPS WERE SEARCHING FOR STOLEN ELECTRONICS LIKE A STOLEN XBOX, AND KICKED TE DOOR IN AND USED FLASH GRENADES. OVER AN XBOX

[Ironside]

Police are infuriating in too many instances. I wish more bleeding heart sissy liberals would become P.O.'s. We could use a few officers who didn't enforce stupid laws just to get authoritarian jollies. As a police officer, I would most likely be one of those sissy bleeding hearts.

Of course not, they need to always carry their guns and use then a lot more. It's how they make you safe.

Care to guess the amount of police abuse in Norway?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Police in California beat a homeless man to death with their flashlights.

Removed picture of victim in line with forum policy. The picture is in the above report, so doesn't need to be shown again anyway. BG

http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-...sered-officers

Ron Thomas, a former Orange County Sheriff's Department deputy, spoke to members of the media Wednesday afternoon at the site of the fight with his wife Cathy at his side.

After seeing his son's injuries and talking with witnesses, Thomas said his son "was brutally beaten to death."

"When I first walked into the hospital, I looked at what his mother described as my son ... I didn't recognize him," Thomas said. "This is cold-blooded, aggravated murder."

Witnesses told Thomas that his son was sitting on a bench when first approached by police, Thomas said.

Witnesses added that officers hit him on the back of a leg with a baton and Tasered him, he said.

Thomas tried to run away but only made it a few feet before being caught by two officers and "then that is when it all happened," said Ron Thomas, based on what he was told by witnesses.

Witnesses told Thomas his son wasn't moving but was still hit with the butt ends of flashlights and Tasered, he said.

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[Crazed Rabbit]

More reason to stay the out of Chicago:

Michael and Adrian Ayala were closing up the 7911 Food and Liquor Store on South Archer early Wednesday morning when they said a bunch of Chicago police officers, mistaking them for robbers, beat them up.

Officers were driving by around 1 a.m. as Michael Ayala, 23, was grabbing his keys from inside and his brother waited outside by his bicycle.

Police were apparently not interested in listening to Adrian Ayala’s explanation, and they handcuffed him. That’s when Michael Ayala went outside to find out what was going on.

“I seen them roughing up my brother,” Michael Ayala said. “I was telling them, ‘Could you please stop doing that to my brother.’ When I said that, a cop came around, opened the door and he hit me a couple times.”

The video does not show that, but it clearly shows what happens after the cops let the two men go without charges. An angry Michael Ayala yelled at one of the cops that he had them on video tape, and he wasn’t going to let it go.

“That’s when the sergeant just flipped out on me,” Michael Ayala said.

The officer, who Ayala says was a sergeant, bashed his head against the store window. The impact cracked the glass outside the doorway to the store.

The security camera video shows the officers manhandling the two men to the floor inside the store. Adrian Ayala, 18, was pinned to the ground on and beaten by a one group of cops, while Michael was being roughed up too.

"They bum-rushed me and threw me to the floor, they bashed my head in with their hands and they bashed my head in with their knees, as well as with their feet. I felt someone kicking my ribs," Adrian Ayala said.

Video of the brutal attack - retaliation for daring to say they had evidence of the first attack, is at the link.

It shows a half dozen police officers attacking men they knew to be innocent. A half dozen cops all joined in on beating innocent citizens, and not one tried, or even cared most likely, to stop them.

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In Cedar Rapids, what does the SWAT team do after they raid a house for drugs and find nothing? Well the innocence of the peasants is an insult to them, so they charge their victims with a "Disorderly House".

No one was taken to jail, but the tenants of the house, Justin Davis, 28, and his girlfriend, Erica Lewis, 26, were charged with disorderly house and signed a promise to appear in court, police said. No one was injured during the raid.

Police said that there were no drugs inside the house but there was evidence of drug use. 23-year-old Jose Perry was cited for a disorderly house. Perry signed a promise to appear in court and was not taken to jail.

***

Another Cop Rapist in NYC:

NEW YORK (AP) -- A drunken off-duty police officer grabbed a teacher off a residential street, showed her a gun and forced her to a deserted backyard where he raped her, authorities said.

Wonder if he'll get off like the last NYC cops accused of rape.

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Virginia Police pull over a funeral procession to harass people:

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WUSA) -- Fifty-three-year-old Timmy Hall was being laid to rest Thursday when the hundreds of mourners in his funeral procession were pulled over by Fairfax County police. Timmy Hall lost his life in a motorcycle crash a week ago.

I've been a reporter for 25 years and I have never seen a story like this. Not only did police pull over the entire funeral procession, according to numerous witnesses, they threatened to use a taser on the dead man's brother.

What began as a funeral procession along the Fairfax County Parkway to honor 53-year-old Timmy Hall spiraled into a confrontation between Fairfax County Police and the bikers who were mourning his death.

"They showed him no respect. I don't think any family during this time should have to go through what we went through yesterday," said sister Teena Hunter.

With lights and sirens, the family says police pulled over the hearse and the rest of the procession, threatening to arrest some mourners.

Sister Bonnie Boyer told 9NEWS NOW, "They worked very hard to give Timmy a send-off showing their love. And to have this happen is an insult."

Timmy's brother, Rusty, admits he was exasperated and was blunt with police.

"I looked at one officer. I said, 'Thank you for pissing on my brother's funeral.' And then another officer pulled up. I said to him, 'Thank you for pissing on my brother's funeral.' He goes, 'Have you got a problem?' I said, 'I'm upset, this is wrong,'" said Rusty Hall.

Rusty Hall says he turned to walk away.

"My two nephews came up from behind and said 'stop, stop, don't do it!' And I looked back over my shoulder and the officer pulled a taser," said Hall. "Was getting ready to tase me, as I was walking away."

Electric torture sounds like a standard response to someone talking back to you.


Want to sexually assault and molest underage girls and not get charged? Be a cop!

A Glendale police officer who worked off-duty at Mountain Ridge High School resigned this spring after he was accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to teenage girls and sexually abusing one of them.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has yet to decide whether Christopher Balmaceda, 25, will face criminal charges. Glendale police have recommended the former patrol officer be charged with one count of sexual abuse and four counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation.

The same County with America's toughest sheriff, so tough he keeps pregnant women chained to hospital beds while they give birth.


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[Louis VI the Fat]

Thank you Rabbit, I am much obliged to you.

Want to sexually assault and molest underage girls and not get charged? Be a cop!

I couldn't agree more. There are an alarming number of nasty men who would abuse any power invested in them to prey on the vulnerable.

The common theme in all the sexual abuse of women cases in both the 2002 and 2003
UNO reports is police officers using their law enforcement authority to take advantage of
vulnerable people. These include persons stopped for traffic violations, prostitutes, and teenage
girls.

[...]

In some other cases, the other officers retaliated against a victim who complained about
sexual abuse.

** Two Corcoran, California officers retaliated by interrogating the victim,
searching her school locker, and detaining her without her parents’ knowledge.
http://www.unomaha.edu/criminaljusti...f2003final.pdf

[Shibumi]

I will have an eye on this thread. I know of a lot of swedish police "missteps", might aswell put them up here henceforth.

Good digging Crazed Rabbit, but do bear in mind that you are not exactly on a secure link. It is fine(ish) now, but this is the sort of posts that might come back and bite you in a few years.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Criminal mobsters in Philadelphia beat innocent people on the street, seize and destroy video evidence, or intimidate people into deleting it.

Oh wait, those aren't mafiosos, they're cops, backed to the hilt by a DA who'll bring charges against people who post videos on youtube.

TAMERA MEDLEY begged the police officer to stop slamming her head - over and over - into the hood of a police cruiser.

Thinking they were helping, passers-by Shakir Riley and Melissa Hurling both turned their cellphone video cameras toward the melee that had erupted on Jefferson Street in Wynnefield, they said.

But then the cops turned on them.

Riley had started to walk away when at least five baton-wielding cops followed him, he said, and they beat him, poured a soda on his face and stomped on his phone, destroying the video he had just taken.

Meanwhile, two officers approached Hurling, urged her to leave and, after exchanging a few words, slammed her against a police cruiser, Hurling said. They pulled her by her hair before tossing her into the back of a cop car, she said.

Although it's legal to record Philadelphia police performing official duties in public, all three were charged with disorderly conduct and related offenses, and officers destroyed Hurling and Riley's cellphones, erasing any record of Medley's violent arrest, the pair said.

Charges against Hurling and Riley were dismissed, but Medley was found guilty last month of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, harassment and related offenses. She was fined $500 but has filed an appeal.

Echoes of the incident, which was corroborated by a half-dozen witnesses, have been reverberating nationwide in recent years as the combination of cellphone video and police officers has simmered into what is an increasingly explosive formula. A growing number of bystanders have been misled, arrested or worse for using their cellphones to record what they perceive as excessive force by cops making arrests, watchdogs say.

"I grew up in the neighborhood and I saw stuff go down but it never happened to me," Riley said recently, adding that he did nothing wrong. "They stomped my phone and said it was a federal offense."
...
Despite the department's training, Philly cops have clashed with several people trying to record them and are sometimes unaware of what the rules are.

In the Wynnefield incident, residents told the Daily News that cops went after people who were recording and confiscated or broke their cellphones. A neighbor found Hurling's phone bent, with its memory card missing.

"They're supposed to be public servants, not abusers of the people they serve," said Berusche Jackson, who witnessed the melee and said he saw a cop stomp Riley's phone. "It was surreal."

In another case last month, police allegedly began beating Darrell Holloway, who is legally blind, with flashlights and batons during a narcotics investigation on a West Philly street. There wasn't much his cousin Jamal Holloway could do but record the incident on his phone.

Jamal, 33, said that when officers spotted him filming, he was detained and taken to a police station at 55th and Pine streets. Before he was brought inside, an officer told him to delete the video.

"One female cop told me to delete the stuff and then I can walk," Jamal recalled, adding that the cop said she would confiscate his phone. "I was there close up. I can't believe it happened like - they beating my cousin like that and he's in the situation he's in."

Jamal said he opted to erase the footage.

"As part of the investigation, we're not aware of anyone brought to the station besides those that were charged," said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.

Then in July, Zanberle Sheppard, 24, said neighbors told her that police were beating her handcuffed boyfriend, Tayvon Eure, in an alley behind their home on 65th Street near Chester.

Sheppard said she peered out her back window and began to film the arrest. After officers saw her, she said, they banged on her neighbor's door. Sheppard ran outside and around to the alley with her cellphone, she said, and that's when a cop told other officers to grab her phone.

She claims that when she pulled away from the cops, one officer grabbed her by her hair and she dropped her phone. Neighbor Robin Artis, 17, said she saw a cop punch Sheppard in the face and stomp her. Sheppard had a black eye and a bruised lip.

The next time she saw her phone was when the cop who allegedly beat her boyfriend came into the police station where Sheppard was and threw it at her, she said. The back of her phone was broken, the battery was missing and the video was gone.

Evers said Sheppard was told to "back away from the patrol car that contained her boyfriend, who was arrested for narcotics. The defendant pulled away from the officer and actively resisted." Evers said Sheppard was arrested after a brief struggle.

Sheppard, a mother of three who has no criminal record, was charged with disorderly conduct.

"I never get in trouble with the law," Sheppard said. "I didn't do nothing. I was just recording."

These aren't just a few bad apples. The whole force is rotten.

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[Visor]

These aren't just a few bad apples. The whole force is rotten.

Every police officer?

[johnhughthom]

I stopped reading at this: "Thinking they were helping, passers-by Shakir Riley and Melissa Hurling both turned their cellphone video cameras toward the melee that had erupted on Jefferson Street in Wynnefield, they said." Thinking they were helping, yeah right.