Continuation The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

[ponderingturtle]

Originally Posted by Random

That was the case where the guy the police were looking for was in a different apartment in the same building under house arrest and wearing a tracking anklet.

But cops find apartment numbers so confusing they never know which one to break down.

[SuburbanTurkey]

Originally Posted by Checkmite

This Idaho sheriff has been charged with aggravated assault. The victims are a group of kids - members of a Mormon youth group - and their adult leader.

On the night of the assault, which took place in early November, the group was engaged in an activity where they were taping Thanksgiving-themed greeting cards to people's doors, then knocking and quickly running off, leaving the home's occupants to discover the cards.

They were unlucky enough to undertake this at the house of Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland, who answered the door in his long underwear with a gun. His own Ring door-camera video shows him finding the card and reading it, but he nevertheless became verbally angry anyway, spotted the youth group's car a short distance away and ran up to it, opening the door and yanking the adult leader out of the car by her hair and holding his gun to her head while screaming expletives at all of them, demanding to know who they were and what they're doing. The adult leader was in fact a neighbor and longtime personal friend of the sheriff's family, but he was too enraged in the moment to recognize her and continued his tirade threatening to shoot her for a time before finally going back to his own home.

By way of excuse, Sheriff Rowland told local police that he lives just outside a Native reservation where he is surrounded by "a lot of reservation people who are not good people", and that "drunk Indians" have come to his door before. It was not reported if he mentioned how many of them had left him Thanksgiving cards.

Bonus bastard in this situation is the local LDS church who tried to hand-wave away the whole thing as a "misunderstanding"

Quote:

A confrontation between Bingham County’s sheriff and female members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being called a “likely misunderstanding” by local church officials.

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/ne...6c54cb07e.html

I guess hierarchical, unaccountable groups like to stick together.

[Darat]

Originally Posted by ponderingturtle

But cops find apartment numbers so confusing they never know which one to break down.

Numbers - you mean complete floors and city blocks!

[SuburbanTurkey]

Quote:

A former Orange County sheriff's deputy is accused of throwing scalding water on a mentally ill inmate who didn't receive medical treatment for his burns for more than six hours, the county district attorney's office announced Monday.

Guadalupe Ortiz, 47, was charged with felony counts of assault or battery by a public officer and battery with serious bodily injury and could face up to four years in prison if convicted, the DA's office said in a statement.

Ortiz allegedly filled a cup from a hot water dispenser on April 1 and poured it on the hands of an inmate who had refused to take his hands out of a hatch door in his cell at the sheriff's Intake Release Center in Santa Ana, prosecutors said. The DA's statement described the inmate as mentally ill.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guadalu...ly-ill-inmate/

[Checkmite]

Originally Posted by Darat

One of his medications makes him racist and anti-religious and unable to act in a reasonable manner?

They really should be putting warning labels on those things, I'm just sayin'.

[tyr_13]

Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey

Bonus bastard in this situation is the local LDS church who tried to hand-wave away the whole thing as a "misunderstanding"



https://www.idahostatejournal.com/ne...6c54cb07e.html

I guess hierarchical, unaccountable groups like to stick together.

The guy is still working as the sheriff. He took a short leave but went back to active duty.

Accountability right there, American style.

[Darat]

Originally Posted by tyr_13

The guy is still working as the sheriff. He took a short leave but went back to active duty.

Accountability right there, American style.

Perhaps they changed his medication?

[SuburbanTurkey]

Originally Posted by tyr_13

The guy is still working as the sheriff. He took a short leave but went back to active duty.

Accountability right there, American style.

It's an elected position, nobody can fire him. Arrest and prosecution are really the only accountability method available here.

[SuburbanTurkey]

Dallas pig finally charged for brutalizing people during protests:

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A Dallas police officer alleged to have used excessive force during a downtown George Floyd protest in 2020 faces an assault charge in connection with the incident.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot’s office obtained an arrest warrant Friday for Senior Cpl. Melvin Williams on a misdemeanor count of assault, police announced in a Facebook post late Friday.

Williams is accused of shooting 23-year-old Vincent Doyle in the face with less-lethal ammunition.

A grand jury declined last month to indict him in connection with the case. Williams’ attorney, Robert Rogers, said Friday that Creuzot’s move to bring charges despite the grand jury’s decision was unprecedented.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Rogers said.

Williams, 40, was expected to turn himself in to authorities, police said.

This is the second charge brought against Williams this year. Last month, Williams turned himself in to DeSoto police on an assault charge after he was caught on video repeatedly punching a man in the face in Deep Ellum over the summer.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crim...ssault-charge/

His victim has permanent partial blindness after being shot in the face with a "less lethal" munition. For some reason, permanent maiming with a weapon is a misdemeanor crime when cops do it.

[SuburbanTurkey]

Retired cop gets silk glove treatment from local PD after beating a postal worker unconscious in the street

Quote:

“Being a retired police officer, I don’t think you’ll be going to jail. Okay?” an officer said in lapel video.

However, federal investigators disagree. Surveillance video taken on December 3 shows Gutierrez punching the postal worker in the face, the first time, as he turned around from reaching into his truck. He told officers the worker was the one being threatening.

https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/vide...l-carrier/amp/

Unfortunately for the former cop, attacking a postal worker is a federal crime, so the local pig-pen couldn't protect him from prosecution

Quote:

Robert F. Gutierrez, of Las Vegas, is charged with one count of assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury following a Dec. 3 incident outside Gutierrez’s home in Las Vegas. Gutierrez is accused of punching the mail carrier multiple times, causing the man to lose consciousness at one point, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court Dec. 5.

Following an investigation by LVPD and federal law enforcement officers with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, investigators viewed surveillance video that captured a portion of the incident and determined Gutierrez violated federal law by striking the mail carrier, a federal employee.

https://www.lasvegasoptic.com/news/c...e508e8168.html

Oops all bad apples yet again.

[shemp]

Ex-California deputy sentenced for throwing out urine test that exonerated detainee

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A former California deputy was sentenced on Wednesday for throwing away a urine test that proved a detained driver wasn’t on drugs – before trying to have her jailed anyway on suspicion she was high on methamphetamine.

Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, an ex-deputy with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, will spend a year behind bars for the stunt at his police station in November 2019, according to prosecutors.

He pleaded guilty in November to destroying physical matter.

The bizarre chain of events unfolded after Barrios pulled over the driver for a traffic violation and suspected she was on meth, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

Quote:

The woman supplied the deputy with a urine sample.

Barrios was caught on surveillance footage at the police station testing the sample and viewing the results before tossing the urine in the trash.

The deputy refused to reveal the test results to the woman and tried to have her booked into jail, but she complained to another deputy who found the discarded sample and test kit in the garbage, prosecutors said.

The kit showed the woman’s urine sample was negative for all controlled substances. She agreed to another test, which yielded the same results.

Deputies released the woman and afterward Barrios was later charged.

[Darat]

Originally Posted by shemp

Ex-California deputy sentenced for throwing out urine test that exonerated detainee

How on earth do people think the police can do their job if they can't destroy evidence showing someone is innocent or plant evidence on the scumbag they have decided must be guilty of something serious, like disrespecting a police officer. Sure a few shortcuts are taken but these scumbags need to learn their place.

[pgwenthold]

Originally Posted by shemp

Ex-California deputy sentenced for throwing out urine test that exonerated detainee

"Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, an ex-deputy with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, will spend a year behind bars for the stunt at his police station in November 2019, according to prosecutors."

The stunt?

THE STUNT!!!!????

It wasn't a friggin "stunt" like Super Dave Osborn or something, it was destroying evidence.

[JoeMorgue]

Cop Who Pulled Gun On Black Teen Delivering Newspapers Reinstated Because He 'Learned His Lesson'

https://www.comicsands.com/cop-gun-t...6eCkzhCdSYj6Pk

[Darat]

Originally Posted by JoeMorgue

Cop Who Pulled Gun On Black Teen Delivering Newspapers Reinstated Because He 'Learned His Lesson'

https://www.comicsands.com/cop-gun-t...6eCkzhCdSYj6Pk

Presumably the lesson was to not be caught?

[JoeMorgue]

Originally Posted by Darat

Presumably the lesson was to not be caught?

.... but Justin Smollet.

[lobosrul5]

So, I assume everyone's seen the Miami airport incident where it appears a police officer intervened in a massive brawl... well he's the one who started it because a guy put his hand on him to get his attention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...airport_fight/

[Checkmite]

Originally Posted by Darat

Presumably the lesson was to not be caught?

The lesson was to just shoot him and claim you thought he might be reaching for a weapon.

[Delphic Oracle]

Originally Posted by lobosrul5

So, I assume everyone's seen the Miami airport incident where it appears a police officer intervened in a massive brawl... well he's the one who started it because a guy put his hand on him to get his attention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...airport_fight/

When the officer used the carotid restraint and the look of absolute horror comes across the other man's face, things changed very quickly.

We learned with George Floyd that making impassioned pleas for a moment of humanitarian consideration doesn't work with jack-booted thugs. I suspect we will see more such examples of people physically interposing themselves in "police business" in the future.

[lobosrul5]

Originally Posted by Delphic Oracle

When the officer used the carotid restraint and the look of absolute horror comes across the other man's face, things changed very quickly.

We learned with George Floyd that making impassioned pleas for a moment of humanitarian consideration doesn't work with jack-booted thugs. I suspect we will see more such examples of people physically interposing themselves in "police business" in the future.

I think, but am totally not sure, that the bystanders were his extended family.

[gnome]

Originally Posted by pgwenthold

"Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, an ex-deputy with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, will spend a year behind bars for the stunt at his police station in November 2019, according to prosecutors."

The stunt?

THE STUNT!!!!????

It wasn't a friggin "stunt" like Super Dave Osborn or something, it was destroying evidence.

At this point I'm less interested in the length of the sentence than I am in finding out whether that person will still be allowed to be in law enforcement afterwards.

[Darat]

Originally Posted by gnome

At this point I'm less interested in the length of the sentence than I am in finding out whether that person will still be allowed to be in law enforcement afterwards.

Why ever not? I am sure he has learnt his lesson and will be much more careful in future when destroying evidence!

Or

He still needs to make a living.

Or

Move states.

[tyr_13]

A Propublica article on the technique of 'cover charges'.

Essentially, these are charges used to cover up police misconduct. Things such as 'resisting arrest' are levied against people, usually black men, who have done nothing wrong besides get attacked by cops. Of course these arrests then drive up the arrest rates for black men, which some in turn cite as the 'real problem' being 'black culture' and it's crime rate. Of course if the police weren't making up crimes to charge black people with, the black crime rate wouldn't be as high and black people might trust the police more to investigate the actual crime, making the black crime rate to lower even more! Then how are people supposed justify blaming black people for things, and treating them worse?

[SuburbanTurkey]

LAPD gunned down a bystander, a 14 year old girl, when they opened fire in a store crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Police bullets went through a dressing room wall and killed the uninvolved girl.

The suspect was also killed, though as of yet only seems to have been armed with a cable bike lock

Quote:

The teenager was at the store in North Hollywood trying on dresses for a quinceañera, an LAPD source confirmed.

Preliminary information released by the Los Angeles Police Department indicated that police rounds penetrated a wall, killing the 14-year-old girl in a dressing room. Authorities said that they found a metal cable next to the suspect whom police officers were confronting but that no gun was recovered.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...spect-detained

[Darat]

Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey

LAPD gunned down a bystander, a 14 year old girl, when they opened fire in a store crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Police bullets went through a dressing room wall and killed the uninvolved girl.

The suspect was also killed, though as of yet only seems to have been armed with a cable bike lock



https://www.latimes.com/california/s...spect-detained

Very bad policing - not one of them had a spare gun to drop by the body?

The police are already trying to justify the "accidental" killing of the girl and the injury of the woman (her mother?)

Quote:

"Moore said it did not appear that the officer who fired “would have known that there was anyone behind there or that he was looking at anyone other than the suspect and a wall,” but he said every aspect of what occurred and why would be analyzed by LAPD investigators.

“There’s not a police officer in America who would ever want this type of circumstance to occur,” Moore stressed.

...snip...

At a news conference, Choi said the area behind the suspect “just looks like a straight wall.”

Yeah of course we all know internal walls are bullet proof!

[shemp]

Cue the lawyers who sue the store for not having bullet-proof walls.

[JoeMorgue]

Yeah but the two people could have committed multiple murders at some point in a hypothetical future, so really the cops are heroes if you think about it.

Or well that will be the narrative if either one of them are black. If they are white it might stay a tragedy.

[Bob001]

Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey

LAPD gunned down a bystander, a 14 year old girl, when they opened fire in a store crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Police bullets went through a dressing room wall and killed the uninvolved girl.

The suspect was also killed, though as of yet only seems to have been armed with a cable bike lock

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...spect-detained

From the link:

Quote:

At the store, authorities encountered a man they said was assaulting someone, and they opened fire, according to preliminary findings by the Police Department. It was not immediately clear what prompted officers to shoot.

Shoot first, ask questions later. Maybe if nothing else, cops need better marksmanship training, so at least they will only hit what they are aiming at.

[smartcooky]

The idiot cop who "mistook" her gun for her tazer and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop for having air fresheners hanging from his rear view mirror, has been found guilty of first and second degree manslaughter.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/outcome-re...ry?id=81855781

Maybe the tide is slowly turning on cops who racially profile black people and kill them for no good reason.

[smartcooky]

Originally Posted by tyr_13

A Propublica article on the technique of 'cover charges'.

Essentially, these are charges used to cover up police misconduct. Things such as 'resisting arrest' are levied against people, usually black men, who have done nothing wrong besides get attacked by cops. Of course these arrests then drive up the arrest rates for black men, which some in turn cite as the 'real problem' being 'black culture' and it's crime rate. Of course if the police weren't making up crimes to charge black people with, the black crime rate wouldn't be as high and black people might trust the police more to investigate the actual crime, making the black crime rate to lower even more! Then how are people supposed justify blaming black people for things, and treating them worse?

"73% of the time someone is arrested on a “cover charge” alone, they’re Black"

That is a pretty telling statistic!

The term "cover charges" is insufficient to properly describe what these types of charges really are. They should be called "cover my white arse charges"
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[JoeMorgue]

Originally Posted by smartcooky

"73% of the time someone is arrested on a “cover charge” alone, they’re Black"

That is a pretty telling statistic!

The term "cover charges" is insufficient to properly describe what these types of charges really are. They should be called "cover my white arse charges"
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But our racists apologist will be along to go "Oh but I don't see race, therefore I can't see when one race is being treated worse than the other, therefore you're the real racist."

[tyr_13]

Originally Posted by JoeMorgue

But our racists apologist will be along to go "Oh but I don't see race, therefore I can't see when one race is being treated worse than the other, therefore you're the real racist."

Hey, if cops can't arrest black people for false charges then the cops can't deal with the out of control crime rate in black neighborhoods. I mean, look at how many resist arrest! /s

[Aridas]

Originally Posted by tyr_13

Hey, if cops can't arrest black people for false charges then the cops can't deal with the out of control crime rate in black neighborhoods. I mean, look at how many resist arrest! /s

But, but... if it's black cops doing a disproportionate amount of such, that would make it totally not racist, right? /s

[smartcooky]

Originally Posted by Aridas

But, but... if it's black cops doing a disproportionate amount of such, that would make it totally not racist, right? /s

Dare I say such cops could be described as Oreos ? /s

[JoeMorgue]

How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody

Inside the self-reinforcing ecosystem of people who advise, train and defend officers. Many accuse them of slanting science and perpetuating aggressive tactics.

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/u...ody-blame.html

[JoeMorgue]

Tennessee cop arrests two Latino men for "hootin' and hollerin'" during his coffee break.

Officer Wes Martin (who I can only assume changed his name from Yosemite Sam) arrest of Carlos Geana and Rodriguez Escobar was filmed. After threatening to and then arresting the men on the made up doesn't exist because it's not actually a crime charge of making too much noise, you can pretty much just watch the moment where he up and invents out of thin air a "Public intoxication because I'm lying that I smell alcohol on your breath" charge.

https://www.comicsands.com/tennessee...eZnK8wIpL7puOY

[bluesjnr]

Originally Posted by JoeMorgue

Tennessee cop arrests two Latino men for "hootin' and hollerin'" during his coffee break.

Officer Wes Martin (who I can only assume changed his name from Yosemite Sam) arrest of Carlos Geana and Rodriguez Escobar was filmed. After threatening to and then arresting the men on the made up doesn't exist because it's not actually a crime charge of making too much noise, you can pretty much just watch the moment where he up and invents out of thin air a "Public intoxication because I'm lying that I smell alcohol on your breath" charge.

https://www.comicsands.com/tennessee...eZnK8wIpL7puOY

Wow, that's a messy link right there. Have you a direct link to the video?

[gnome]

I get frustrated with those sites, which is about 10% reporting and 90% mining social media for reactions.

[SuburbanTurkey]

Bodycam out of the LAPD snuffing out that 14 year old girl. It's as bad you might imagine. A cop with a rifle is champing at the bit to kill the suspect and wastes no time opening fire. Rifle rounds penetrated the interior walls, killing the bystander.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcd...ature=youtu.be

The man was armed with a cable bike lock, the victim of his attack was already crawling away and largely out of danger by the time the cop with the rifle opened fire.

[Nessie]

Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey

Bodycam out of the LAPD snuffing out that 14 year old girl. It's as bad you might imagine. A cop with a rifle is champing at the bit to kill the suspect and wastes no time opening fire. Rifle rounds penetrated the interior walls, killing the bystander.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcd...ature=youtu.be

The man was armed with a cable bike lock, the victim of his attack was already crawling away and largely out of danger by the time the cop with the rifle opened fire.

The body cam has just been shown on Sky News in the UK. The cop with the rifle pushes other cops out the way to get to the suspect, he is so desperate to fire his rifle. As you say, the suspect is no danger to anyone, there must be half a dozen cops there. It reminds me of the Daniel Shaver shooting, because the cop is clearly on a mission to use his gun.