Police abuses

[Crazed Rabbit]

More women in Philadelphia speak out about the cop who sexually assaulted them. He hasn't been charged with a crime.

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[Crazed Rabbit]

A Texas cop tasers a 72 year old great grandmother because she refused to sign a speeding ticket she received (which may not be against the law anyway).

A traffic stop for speeding in Travis County, Texas, led to the Tasering of a 72-year-old great-grandmother by a deputy. Feisty Kathryn Winkfein apparently so frightened the law-enforcement officer when she "used some profanity" and "got violent" that he felt it necessary to subdue her with a potentially dangerous jolt of electricity.

Winkfein was reportedly doing 60 in a construction zone where the posted speed limit was 45 when she was pulled over. She was ticketed but declined to sign the ticket, leading the police officer to place her under arrest lest civilization collapse for want of the surrender of a penny's worth of ink.

At this point, the stories diverge. According to Precinct 3 Constable Richard McCain, Winkfein cursed and refused to cooperate. She says nothing of the sort occurred. "I wasn't argumentative, I was not combative. This is a lie," the woman told a news reporter for Fox 7.

Either way, it's difficult to see how the issuance of a speeding ticket to an elderly woman devolved to the point where a grown, trained law-enforcement officer could be considered justified in subjecting the speeder to an electric jolt intended to disrupt her nervous system -- no matter what command of profanity she displayed.

Given that the speeding ticket had already been issued, it's also difficult to understand what purpose was served by prolonging the encounter and demanding a signature. A similar incident in Utah in 2007 between a state trooper and a motorist also resulted in a Tasering after the driver declined to sign a speeding ticket. In that case, the officer escalated the matter to a violent conclusion even though Utah law doesn't actually require a signature. Texas law apparently follows the same reasoning, considering the signature merely a promise to appear in court, not a necessity for the validity of the ticket itself.

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After being Tasered along the road for failing to put pen to paper, Kathryn Winkfein was taken to jail and booked for resisting arrest and detention. Not surprisingly, she's hired a lawyer.

A different cop at a traffic accident demands a photographer not shoot the accident, then knocks his camera to the ground, causing $1000 worth of damage and handcuffs him when he doesn't obey. An hour later he's released without charge.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The incident occurred near midnight Friday. Travis Washington, a photographer with Channel 3 for about three years, was sent to the scene of a fatal accident on Interstate 485 near Beatties Ford Road.

Washington and a photographer for WSOC (Channel 9) were shooting video of the scene from an embankment overhead, next to the Beatties Ford Road bridge, said Dennis Milligan, news director of Channel 3.

“A couple CMPD officers started shouting orders at him to stop shooting. And they approached and continued to shout orders to take his camera down.

“He felt like he was doing his job. He asked them why. A female officer stepped up and started to grab the camera out of his hands, and it fell to the ground. She told him, ‘Because you're not showing proper respect to people in the accident.'”

Washington was then handcuffed and put into a cruiser, where he was held for about an hour before being released without charges. He was treated afterward at an emergency room for a minor back injury related to the confrontation, said Milligan, who went to the scene after the station's assignment desk alerted him.

Police took no action against the Channel 9 photographer.

Milligan said the dialogue during the confrontation was recorded by the camera, but he wouldn't release a copy because it hadn't yet been made available to investigators.

Police declined Tuesday to give an account of the incident.

“It would be inappropriate for us to comment right now because there's an internal affairs investigation,” said spokesman Rob Tufano.

Washington is on vacation this week and couldn't be reached for comment.

“We have a difficult situation here because it's not up to the Police Department or any police officer to decide what a newspaper or television station or radio station gathers at the scene of an accident,” Milligan said. He said the photographers were not creating a safety hazard to motorists or lingering close to the area where emergency crews were working.

“I'm hoping this is a limited situation with a police officer who, for whatever reason, had a lapse of judgment. We're concerned about our First Amendment rights being compromised in this situation.”

Robin Whitmeyer, Channel 9 news director, said it's common for officers to tell photographers to back up if they're too close to a scene, but she'd never heard of police ordering cameras shut off. “We control the content, and they control the scene,” she said. “It's not their choice to tell us what to shoot or not to shoot.”

Apparently they think they are the law.

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[Crazed Rabbit]

Well, here's another doozy out of New Jersey, complete with video:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/06/...ml#cnnSTCVideo
Some cop just attacks, unprovoked, a man standing on a street corner. He gets out of his car and throws the man to the ground, whaling on him with a metal baton.

Surveillance video shows a Passaic, New Jersey, police officer beating a 49-year-old man standing idly on a street corner.
The beating was captured on surveillance cameras outside Lawrence's Grill and Bar in Passaic, New Jersey.

The beating was captured on surveillance cameras outside Lawrence's Grill and Bar in Passaic, New Jersey.

Surveillance tape from Lawrence's Grill and Bar in Passaic on May 29 shows a police car pull up to Ronnie Holloway, who is standing still on the curb outside the restaurant. After a few moments Holloway zips up his sweatshirt -- because the female officer in the car instructed him to do so, Holloway said.

At that point, the other officer in the vehicle, Joseph R. Rios III, exits the car, grabs Holloway and slams him onto the hood of the police car. He then pummels Holloway with his fist and baton.

Holloway said he had exchanged no words with the officer before he pounced on him.

After the incident, police locked Holloway in a holding cell for the night and did not provide treatment for his injuries, according to Holloway's attorney, Nancy Lucianna. Those injuries included a torn cornea and extensive bruising to the left side of his body, she said.
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The Passaic Police have filed three charges against Holloway: resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and wandering for the purpose of obtaining controlled dangerous substances.

You have to wonder just what the **** is wrong with these cops. The cop attacked a peaceful man for no reason and then they tried to ruin his life further by lying and saying he committed a crime.

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[Crazed Rabbit]

Two grown men, wait I'm sorry - not men but cowards with guns, childish cowards in adult bodies, shoot a five pound Chihuahua.

And then there's this one, where cops shot a barking dog.

And this one, where cops shot a seven month old puppy - the cops were 'in fear for their lives'.

In Alabama, more cowardly men - amazing how cops practically wet their pants when they see dogs, and need to open fire to save themselves from any dog they see - shoot unprovoked at dogs, then arrest the owners for "disorderly conduct" because the owners were cursing at the cos and wouldn't shut up when told.

Here, cops order a man to release a dog on a leash, saying they'll tase him if he doesn't, and refuse to let him tie off the leash to something. He finally drops the leash, the cops rush him, the dog bites a cop, and the cops shoot it. Then the cops lie profusely about the whole thing.

Here, an unleashed K9 cop dog gets in a fight with a leashed dog. Cops shoot the leashed dog.

These cops are trigger happy and without regard for the rights of others. None, of course, received any punishment.

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[Fragony]

Another one for your collection CR, after tasering didn't calm down the chihuaha he saw no other option then shooting it. Took 3 bullets before the threat was neutralized.

http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/r...de_chihua.html

[Major Robert Dump]

I love this thread. It will never die. Comanche County Sheriffs Department can rot in hell. Parents will bring my bullet hole pics in july when they come visit me in Virginia and I will post the transcript of my "interview" with Deputy Dawg. Will prove to be a laugh riot, this I promise.

[Crazed Rabbit]

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]

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]

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]

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]

freaky indeed

[Lord Winter]

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]

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]

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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[Vladimir]

Good. They should have got all three.

[Lemur]

Here's one for you, CR, complete with pictures:

Woman Says Cop Arrested Her, Punched Her, Grabbed Breasts for Carrying Pug in Subway

Greenpoint resident Chrissie Brodigan says she was riding on the L train between Bedford and First Avenue when her pug, who has health problems, overheated and began vomiting in the tote bag she was carrying him in. As she was leaving the subway station with the dog in her arms, she says a police officer's attempt to issue her a ticket turned ugly, and when she became upset the cop began saying, "If you're going to act like a woman I'm going to treat you like a woman."

According to Brodigan, the arresting officer's name is Witriol (badge number 942838). After seeing a photo, she identified him to us as Joel Witriol, who in 2006 became New York's first Hasidic cop. Brodigan, 32, says Witriol would not accept her explanation that she was carrying the pug because it was sick, and she believes that the disturbed crowd that gathered to witness the arrest only made him angrier. She tells us, "He punched me in the back (there are bruises), he handcuffed me, and in the scuffle grabbed my breasts and pinched them."

Melissa Randazzo, a speech language pathologist who lives in Williamsburg, witnessed the arrest and tells us, "something about it seemed very wrong. The cop's tone seemed really inappropriate and he kept saying things like, 'Are you going to act like a woman?' She tried to walk away, and then he grabbed her and pushed her against the wall outside the turnstile." Randazzo ran up to the street level to call 911 to, as she says, "call the cops" on Witriol, and soon some 20 officers had descended into the Bedford station. They then ordered the witnesses to disperse. Brodigan describes what happened after she was arrested:

They took my pug and he told me he was taking him to the pound where he would be "put down." I was taken to the J stop headquarters. I wasn't allowed to call a lawyer and I was put in a cell with handcuffs on with two other women who spit on me and hit me in the head, because they weren't in handcuffs and I was crying so much it bothered them. I was given 3 tickets: failure to produce ID, disorderly conduct, and failure to have dog in a container. I have a court date in August. I asked for a pen to write the badge numbers down before I left and they refused to give me a pen and covered up their badges. My pug was returned. They had him behind their desks and were playing with him."

The NYPD press office declined to verify any information about the arrest; the spokesman told us that because these are misdemeanor charges, they "usually don't hear anything about that." Brodigan adds that, "So many people saw what happened that I just would really like for everyone to submit complaints, because this man shouldn't be able to do this to women—to anyone."

[Crazed Rabbit]

Good. They should have got all three.

Aww, I hear you can still get into North Korea if you hurry.

Anyway, here's a story where a cop pulled a guy out of his car, punched him twice, then threw him to the ground, because he didn't get out of his car fast enough. You can see in the video how he's holding his hands out to not resists as he's thrown down. To top it off, he lied in the police report, saying the driver assaulted him and getting charges filed against him. The prosecutor dropped the charges. The police say the cop's actions were appropriate and the charges should not have been dropped.

This is the same cop who killed an unarmed man in a park. His alleged crime? An open container of alcohol.

And here we have the same cop escalating a stop into a violent situation.

Will he face any charges for lying and blatantly calling an innocent man guilty? Nope! His fellow cops defend him?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Prince George's County police are reviewing the actions of an officer who arrested a motorist on charges of slugging and tackling him during a traffic stop in Hyattsville. A police video of the encounter last year shows the officer yanking the man out of his car, slugging him twice and tackling him.

"Step out of the car now, or I'll have you out of the car," Cpl. Steven Jackson says after the motorist does not comply with three rapid-fire demands to exit the car.

"You yelling, but you have to give me a reason to step out of the car," Shawn M. Leake, 24, replies.

Jackson opens the driver's side door and pulls Leake out of the car. Almost immediately, Jackson makes a fist and slugs Leake in the face, then quickly slugs him again in the face, the video shows. Leake does not hit or appear to try to punch Jackson.

After the second punch, Jackson grabs Leake around his neck and tackles him onto the street, and the two tumble out of camera range.

In a charging document, Jackson wrote that once Leake was out of the car, "he immediately took a combative stance and struck me with a closed fist uppercut to my face." As he tried to arrest Leake, Jackson wrote, "the defendant continued to fight me and even tackled me to the ground into the next lane of oncoming traffic."

County prosecutors dropped charges against Leake in January after defense attorney Douglas I. Malcolm subpoenaed the video of the encounter, which was recorded by a camera mounted in Jackson's police cruiser. Malcolm provided a copy of the video to The Washington Post.
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Maj. Andy Ellis, a police spokesman, said that an internal investigation of the incident has been completed and that police supervisors are reviewing the findings. Ellis declined to elaborate but said that, after reviewing the video, he thinks Jackson's actions were appropriate.

"When an officer is involved in a violent incident, he's going to use his best recollection when writing up the statement of charges," Ellis said. "If there's a discrepancy, that should be clarified in court."

Leake could not be located. A union representative said Jackson would not comment.

Jackson's encounter with Leake occurred on the afternoon of May 25, 2008, three months before Jackson, moonlighting as a security guard, fatally shot an unarmed man in Langley Park. Jackson is on paid administrative leave while police and the Justice Department review his actions in the fatal shooting of Manuel de Jesus Espina, 43, on Aug. 16.

Jackson told police that he was attempting to arrest Espina for having an open container of alcohol in a stairwell. Police have said Espina was struggling violently with the officer. Espina's son and two other witnesses have said Espina was not resisting when he was beaten and shot.

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Ellis said Jackson stopped Leake, who was driving a Cadillac, in part because the vehicle's windows were tinted. The tinted windows made the situation more dangerous for Jackson because he could not see whether other people were in the vehicle, Ellis said. Ellis said Leake had been previously arrested in Anne Arundel County for resisting arrest, a charge that was dropped. Ellis said he did not know whether Jackson knew of that charge at the time of the traffic stop.

Vince Canales, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 89, said that the videotape "clearly shows that the suspect was resisting arrest" and that Jackson's actions were justified.

Ellis and Canales said they think prosecutors should not have dropped charges against Leake. Jackson charged Leake with assaulting a police officer, reckless conduct and failure to obey a lawful order.

In a statement, State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D) said: "After reviewing the videotape and all the evidence, I decided not to prosecute [Leake]. We will continue to review the actions of Corporal Jackson in this and other cases."

Another officer can also be seen in the video. Ellis declined to identify the officer or make him available for an interview.

Ellis noted that Jackson's charging document states that the officer suffered a split lip that required several stitches.

In the video, after Jackson tackles Leake and the two tumble out of camera view, the two engage in a conversation, which is captured by the police video.
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"You hit me in my [expletive] lip," Jackson says.

"I did not hit you, man," Leake replies. "I was trying to get out of the car. My leg was stuck to the thing."

"Dude, it's all on tape," Jackson said.

Leake replies, "You hit yourself when you tried to knock me out."

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[Louis VI the Fat]

Rabbit for Preside...wait, CountArach is running too. Arach for Greens, Rabbit for GOP candidate in 2012!

Clean up law enforcement culture and put an end to these bastards.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Nah, let's make him the top cop instead.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Rabbit for Preside...wait, CountArach is running too. Arach for Greens, Rabbit for GOP candidate in 2012!

Clean up law enforcement culture and put an end to these bastards.

Well CA is in Australia, and I'm in America. So it should work out.

Nah, let's make him the top cop instead.

If only... Down with the blue wall!

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[Louis VI the Fat]

Nah, let's make him the top cop instead.

Here's what CrazedRabbit is - in his dreams.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A Police 'Alcohol Inspection' at a gay bar in Fort Worth ends up as a raid after officers saw ""sexually explicit movements", naturally assumed the dancing folks were "taunting" them, and began arresting and hitting willy-nilly, giving one patron a brain injury.

Reporting from Fort Worth -- Todd Camp and some friends had just marked the 40th anniversary of the police raid on New York's Stonewall Inn by screening a documentary on the historic gay riots and then heading for drinks at the Rainbow Lounge.

Camp remembered looking across the bar, packed with gay and some straight couples, and marveling how much times had changed since Stonewall -- the spark that ignited the gay rights movement.

And then the police came.
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Seven people were arrested, and witnesses said one man had his head slammed into a door by law enforcement officials. Chad Gibson, 26, was hospitalized with a brain injury and released Saturday.
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At the Rainbow Lounge, witnesses said, officers forced their way through the crowd and grew physically and verbally aggressive. They claim the officers arrested people at random, never asked for identification and didn't check blood-alcohol levels on site.

"I've never been so terrified in my life," said Thomas Anable, the bar's accountant. "People were crying. . . . No one knew what to do."
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"You're touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar; that's offensive," Halstead, the police chief, told Dallas-Fort Worth TV station WFAA. "I'm happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that."

After at least an hour at the bar, officers had handcuffed about 20 people and put them facedown on the sidewalk beneath a "grand opening" banner, witnesses said.

People advanced in certain ways on the officers! They should be glad they weren't all shot! Which still would have been called "appropriate" and "restrained" by the police anyways.

A cop in Oregon reports unsafe firearms handling to his bosses and promptly faces retaliation and punishment:

According to the suit, while responding to police calls as part of a K-9 unit, Hagen reported several "negligent and unintended firearms discharges by SWAT team members" that put the SWAT team, other police officers and the public in "extreme danger."

Hagen says he made numerous requests for more training and equipment. Instead, Hagen alleges he was then subjected to an "ongoing campaign of retaliation and harrasment."

In May 2008, he says he was told he would lose his spot on the K-9 team in august 2008. During those months, Hagen claims his supervisor publicized his departure and ridiculed him.

In October 2008, Kerns decided to keep Hagen on the K-9 team.

The next month, Hagen was written up for insubordination. And last May, Hagen was removed from K-9 duty.

Now, he is seeking the extra salary he would received on the K-9 team and several hundred thousand dollars for emotional distress.

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[Fragony]

Another one for your collection.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ba_1246892244

All this should make the discussion on keeping guns more interesting.

[InsaneApache]

Land of the free, home of the brave.

[Adrian II]

OK, I'm officially shocked, tasered and bedazzled. I mean, police abuse happens in every country, but this sort of thing seems to be more widespread in the US. The examples given remind me of the Russian local police, the Guardia Civil in Franco's Spain, the Moroccan police in the seventies, the local cops in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In short, it is the sort of thing you would expect in a third world country or a (semi) dictatorship. The only exception maybe is France where federal cops take fascism pills for breakfast. The British police, too, seem to be taking those lately.

Have you guys ever been to Germany? They have the best, most helpful, polite and efficient sort of police you can imagine. Totally professional. I have been there a lot and I have never, ever had a bad experience with German coppers. Let's all copy their model, I say.

But what is their model? Different pills for breakfast? Enlighten us, oh eastern brothers.

[Furunculus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...in-Urumqi.html

1400+ people arrested and 156 dead, go the police!

[CountArach]

Well CA is in Australia, and I'm in America. So it should work out.

Blegh. You can have the job.

[Xiahou]

Another one for your collection.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ba_1246892244

All this should make the discussion on keeping guns more interesting.

You know, I almost get the impression that the cop knows he screwed up once he comes down from his rage-induced high. His aggressive attitude quickly fades and, although it's difficult to tell with his face blurred, he seems to give several nervous glances at his dashboard cam.

[Fragony]

You know, I almost get the impression that the cop knows he screwed up once he comes down from his rage-induced high. His aggressive attitude quickly fades and, although it's difficult to tell with his face blurred, he seems to give several nervous glances at his dashboard cam.

Could be military.

[Vladimir]

Have you guys ever been to Germany? They have the best, most helpful, polite and efficient sort of police you can imagine. Totally professional. I have been there a lot and I have never, ever had a bad experience with German coppers. Let's all copy their model, I say.

And if you refuse to submit a sample for a blood alcohol test they'll take the sample from your broken nose. They are polite and professional but try acting like a fool on meth and see how they react. Don't mess with the Polzei. =

America is a very open society and very critical about government authority. Therefore, you'll see a far greater percentages of abuses here then you'll see from other countries. Many of these stories here are initial reports. Often times these are from the alleged victims. We have a much larger and more diverse culture (set of cultures?) than most (I'd say all) European countries. Think about these facts after you have your initial emotional reaction. You're reminding me of the poor, backward people all around the world who base their perceptions of the country on movies.