Police abuses

[a completely inoffensive name]

Man tried to exercise his rights at DUI checkpoint, and guess what the cops decided to do.....they let him go.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=053_1329365345

[Crazed Rabbit]

Follow up on the Seattle Cop who said he'd make stuff up:

We showed Seattle Police Sergeant Sean Whitcomb the arrest video, and he admits the 'make stuff up' comment was inappropriate. But he says the department's Office of Professional Accountability investigated the complaint and exonerated the officer.

"I can tell you we take (complaints) seriously but people have to believe that and they have to trust the system they have to trust the process," Whitcomb said.

Because if we begin not trusting the process, we just might see what sort of people they really are.

This same news channel has had to sue the SPD to get public dash cam videos.

The SPD has destroyed and hidden video evidence for quite a while.

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[Vladimir]

Man tried to exercise his rights at DUI checkpoint, and guess what the cops decided to do.....they let him go.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=053_1329365345

That's funny. Awkward, but funny.

[Crazed Rabbit]

What to do if you're a fat cop and a handcuffed 20 year old woman is running away?

Taser them in the back so their head smacks onto concrete and they go into a permanent coma.

This week, two state agencies cleared Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Daniel Cole of any wrongdoing in the September incident, which occurred as Maudsley tried to escape from an FHP station in Pinellas Park.

But several experts and researchers who reviewed reports and video of the incident said the case raises questions.

They are troubled that Cole tasered Maudsley, a suspect in two hit-and-run crashes who had drugs in her system, while she was handcuffed. They also noted that Cole was just steps behind Maudsley when he fired the Taser.

"It just doesn't make any sense," said Greg Connor, a professor at the University of Illinois Police Training Institute who specializes in use of force. "I don't see where it's going to be that hard to apprehend her."

Cole, who at 267 pounds weighed about three times as much as Maudsley, told investigators he used his Taser because he was concerned one or both of them would be injured if he tackled her. He worried she was headed toward heavy traffic on U.S. 19.

Disturbing video of the incident.

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[Vladimir]

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[CountArach]

Berkeley police chief sends armed Sergeant to reporter's home

Minutes after reading a late-night news story online about him that he perceived to be inaccurate, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered a sergeant to a reporter's home insisting on changes, a move First Amendment experts said reeked of intimidation and attempted censorship.

Meehans's actions were "despicable, totally despicable," said Jim Ewert, general counsel of the California Newspaper Publisher's Association. "It's the most intimidating type of (censorship) possible because the person trying to exercise it carries a gun."

Bay Area News Group reporter Doug Oakley said he was shaken by the 12:45 a.m. Friday knock on the door of his Berkeley home. He said at first he and his wife thought something was drastically wrong or perhaps that a relative had died.
[...]
Oakley changed two paragraphs in his story, but Ewert and Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, said it wasn't that Meehan wanted the article altered, it was that he sent an armed police sergeant to Oakley's home to ask for changes.

"Ordering a police officer to a journalist's home in the middle of the night to demand changes to a story is an attempt at 'censorship by intimidation,' Scheer said. "It definitely crossed the line. It's a violation of the First Amendment, let's be perfectly clear." It "goes to such an extreme it's hard to imagine."

Ewert said the chief should have just called the newspaper the next day or written a letter to the editor.

Even after Oakley made initial changes to the story Meehan early Friday continued to phone and email Oakley asking for additional changes. Oakley declined, saying he stood by his story.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,1385441.story

Oakley's story was posted online just before midnight Thursday. About an hour later, his wife woke him to say a police officer was at the door, Oakley said. He thought at the time that something might have happened to his sister, who lives nearby.

Sgt. Mary C. Kusmiss, who regularly works with the media, was apologetic about her visit, Oakley said. She told him the chief took issue with the story's characterization of an apology he made during the community meeting.

"My first reaction was more mortified that I got something wrong on a big story," Oakley said. "But something deeper down just started bothering me. My wife and I were both thinking, 'This is really inappropriate and unprofessional and scary.'"

How can you whine about being scared by an apologetic officer from a police chief who is obsessed about his pr, when your first reaction wasn't even fear? I would bet he's not really that much of a chicken, he just decided he was intimidated later so he could feel victimized.

This should be an amusing story about a police chief obsessed with a guy who as far as I can tell is just a blogger, but instead they went with some 1st amendment "experts" who find it "unimaginably extreme"

[Major Robert Dump]

I may have my own police abuse post on the near future....

I have been paying a Good Ole Boy cop to house sit for me while away, 200 dollars per month. In September, I paid him 1100 dollars to go pick up some equipment in another town that I bought in an online auction. This stuff cost me 1700 and would require a flatbed. He volunteered for the job. I find out a few days ago the wrecker company auctioned this stuff off due to a non-pickup at their storage yard, so now I am out 2800

I have been tracking this guy disreetly, and it appears he is off work due to an injury and from my correspondence with him he may be abusing pills. I have not let him know I am upset about the 2800 because he is still my "housesitter" and I have 10 grand worth of new appliances. I have a terrible feeling I am going to go home and find my house empty and this guy gone.

Either way, I am taking him to court when I return. All our correspondence was done on official government email, so I have the agreement on record. At the bare minimum, I want my 1100.

Needless to say, I am concerned about confronting him when I return because this is a sparsely poulated county where there are a lot of unsolved crimes that involve likely nepotism, and the entire police department and sheriffs department are related one way or another.

[Vladimir]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,1385441.story



How can you whine about being scared by an apologetic officer from a police chief who is obsessed about his pr, when your first reaction wasn't even fear? I would bet he's not really that much of a chicken, he just decided he was intimidated later so he could feel victimized.

This should be an amusing story about a police chief obsessed with a guy who as far as I can tell is just a blogger, but instead they went with some 1st amendment "experts" who find it "unimaginably extreme"

You missed it. For clarification: Berkeley police chief sends armed Sergeant to reporter's home