Police abuses

**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-23-2009, 01:02

Sad news from Yonkers, NY.

In 2007, a woman's niece was hit with a beer bottle in a car. Cops arrived, and the woman was distraught. But she didn't assault officers.

Wayne Simoes, thug-with-badge, decided she needed to be subdued, so he walked over, picked her up and threw her onto the ground, breaking her jaw and doing this to her face:
GRAPHIC IMAGE!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

His excuse was that he slipped on the floor. Watch the video and see for yourself.

The cop was acquitted of violating the woman's civil rights. Fellow cops applauded him, his lawyer, and the jurors.

And a 2000 study on the Police Code of Silence: http://www.aele.org/loscode2000.html

Conclusions

1. The police Code of Silence exists.

2. Some form of a Code of Silence will develop among officers in virtually any agency.

3. The American criminal justice system and in particular law enforcement, has been negligent by not attempting to resolve the negative impact the code.

4. The Code of Silence breeds, supports and nourishes other forms of unethical actions.

5. Because the code is an essentially natural occurrence, attempts to stop it all together will be futile.

6. The Code of Silence in law enforcement is more dominant and influential than most other vocations or professions.

7. It is virtually impossible for a law enforcement agency to effectively determine how extensively the Code of Silence exists within its own organization.

8. It is now possible to identify the specific assignments and units that are most at risk to the harmful aspects of the Code of Silence.

9. Whistle-blowers are generally not supported by the administration of law enforcement agencies.

10. The use of state-of-the-art ethical dilemma simulation training can be an effective way to prevent the code’s injurious ramifications.

Out of 55 total conclusions.
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**Megas Methuselah** · 06-23-2009, 07:31

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Regina...272/story.html

Here's another one, Rabbit. Guy was probably late for his donuts and coffee or something. Ran over a bunch of ducks.

**Husar** · 06-23-2009, 10:04

I agree with the woman, quite frankly he should lose his job over this at the very least, I mean here I thought policemen were meant to rescue little kittens out of trees and close roads for little ducklings to walk across safely and that

just rolls over them.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-23-2009, 18:15

A cop pulls his gun out at McDonald's because he thinks his order is taking to long.

He's been placed on paid leave. Any normal person would have been arrested. Of course, normal people wouldn't point a firearm at somebody because they thought the food was slow - what kind of person would do that?

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**Fragony** · 06-23-2009, 18:30

freaky indeed

**Lord Winter** · 06-23-2009, 18:58

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

A cop pulls his gun out at McDonald's because he thinks his order is taking to long.

He's been placed on paid leave. Any normal person would have been arrested. Of course, normal people wouldn't point a firearm at somebody because they thought the food was slow - what kind of person would do that?

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A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said they plan to present the case -- now classified as a felony menacing incident -- to the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office Thursday for possible filing of criminal charges.

It's not like they're doing nothing.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-24-2009, 19:33

Yes. But a normal person wouldn't get such nice treatment.

Anyway, here's an update on a Chicago cop who viciously assaulted a small female bartender off duty, after assaulting two other people earlier that same day;

A Chicago police officer avoided jail time today for pummeling a woman who was tending bar, even though prosecutors produced a previously unseen video showing him beating someone else at the bar hours earlier.

Anthony Abbate was sentenced to two years probation for beating Karolina Obrycka in February of 2007. He could have gotten up to five years for the attack, which was captured by the bar's security camera and shown around the world.

Judge John Fleming said he decided against jail because he did not believe the crime was serious enough and throwing Abbate behind bars would not be a deterrent to others.

Yup. No time in jail. Not one single day for this 'man' who still has his job as a police officer.

Some testimony from the trial:

In testifying Tuesday, Abbate, who stands 6 foot 1 and weighs more than 250 pounds, contended he retaliated against the bartender, Karolina Obrycka, after she threw him into a shelf, causing him to hit his head. He had stepped behind the bar without permission at Jesse's Short Stop Inn.

"She tried to stop him, and she used reasonable force," Fleming said of Obrycka, who is 5 foot 3 and 125 pounds.
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Abbate slammed Obrycka against the bar, then violently threw her to the floor. He repeatedly kicked and punched her on the floor as she struggled to evade the blows. He held her by one hand as he took full swings at her head with his right fist.

Abbate testified he felt threatened when he fell into the wall.

"Did you feel in danger when she grabbed you from behind, body-slammed you up against the wall and nearly took you to the floor?" asked his lawyer, Peter Hickey.

"Yes," Abbate said.

"Were you going to stand there and let her hurt you some more?" Hickey asked.

"No," Abbate replied.

Later on cross-examination, Abbate had to withstand a withering, sarcasm-tinged series of questions from Assistant State's Atty. LuAnn Snow.

"So you felt you were in physical danger from Karolina Obrycka?" Snow asked.

"Yes, when she threw me against the wall and I hit my head," Abbate huffed.

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**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-29-2009, 02:05

Another dog shot, inside a fenced property, and more lies from the cops.

According to Deputy Chief David Quillin, the incident occurred about 7 p.m. while police were chasing two suspects in the area of Carrington Court.

Witnesses have told the Times-News that police told children playing outside to get back, as they were looking for two black males suspected of breaking into a nearby home.

Quillin told the Times-News that Officer Darrell Johnson stepped over a low wire fence on Derwood Court as he was running after a suspect. He then “encountered three pit bull/bulldog-type dogs.”

“Those dogs charged at him in a very aggressive manner,” Quillin said.

“(Johnson) tried to retreat, but he did not have that opportunity. They continued to charge at him in a very aggressive manner, and that’s when he was forced to fire. As a result, one of the pit bulls died.”

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But this — among other points — is where residents of the apartment complex who witnessed Sunday’s incident disagree.

Richie Hammonds, 1005 Derwood Court, No. 4, owned “Mace” for three years, since he was a puppy. Contrary to police, he says there were not three dogs in his back yard when Officer Johnson stepped over his fence, but only Mace. His other two dogs remained on the back porch.

And while Johnson’s report on the incident states he traveled about 20 feet into the fenced-in yard when he encountered the dogs, three witnesses have told the Times-News that he only placed one foot over the fence.

“He put his foot back outside the fence, pulled out his weapon and shot him,” said Jonathan Suit, Hammonds’ neighbor. “There wasn’t a noise made, the dog wasn’t running. It was just walking toward him.”

“The officer stepped over the fence,” said Amanda Bellamy, another of Hammonds’ neighbors. “Mace came out of his doghouse, was walking up to (Johnson) to smell him. The officer stepped back out of the fence, pulled his weapon and shot that dog. That dog would not have come out of that fence. It’s an electric fence. They’re scared to death of it. The dog walked up to him wagging his tail.”

“The dogs smell the juice and stay at least two feet back from it,” Hammonds said. “Mace was 10 feet away when (Officer Johnson) shot him.”

Hammonds claims that after the shooting, Johnson said “I hate pit bulls.”

Bellamy and Suit told the Times-News that Johnson remarked he “didn’t like those damn pit bulls anyway.”

Another point of contention is that police say they were chasing a suspect.

“The cops were supposed to be chasing two black men who just robbed a place, and yet they didn’t even pursue the chase once they shot the dog,” said John Adams, landlord of the apartment complex.

“They weren’t chasing anybody,” said Suit. “They were just looking around. They weren’t after anybody. But to read the paper (police) made it sound like there was a guy in their sights they were running after. That’s not true. I was here; I saw the whole thing.”

Witnesses told the Times-News that police were called to the area to search for two black males. Quillin said the suspect Johnson was chasing was Hammonds’ neighbor, Joe Shupe, 27.

Shupe, a white male, was arrested and charged with resisting and evading arrest.

Shupe, according to the report, claimed “he was running because he was trying to hide from officers and thought there was a warrant out for him.” He was arrested and charged with resisting and evading arrest.

“They said they were chasing after two black guys,” Hammonds said. “They just arrested (Shupe) to make themselves look good.”

Bellamy says Shupe went up the hill behind his apartment where an officer then asked what he was doing.

“(Shupe) come back through his apartment and back on his front porch,” Bellamy said. “I guess they decided they better take somebody to jail. They got him for resisting and evading arrest. He didn’t resist nothing. They didn’t chase him.”

“If he was in pursuit of somebody, and the dog was going to try and bite him, he should have shot the dog and went on after who he was going after instead of standing there,” Hammonds said. “He stood there and said ‘The reason I shot him was because I hate pit bulls.’ That was his exact words. It took everything I had not to hit that guy.”

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