Daily Police Misconduct 12.24.14

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 12-20-14 to 12-22-14

 

 

 

 

 

” Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 20 to Monday, December 22, 2014:

• New York, New York: A police officer was suspended after a video that showed him repeatedly striking a 16-year-old in custody went viral.  http://ow.ly/GfVie 
• Sierra Vista, Arizona: An officer was fired after causing a chain-reaction traffic accident under the influence of alcohol. Two other vehicles were damaged but no injuries were reported after the 7 A.M. fracas.   http://ow.ly/GfVPb 
• Update: Atlanta, Georgia: A now-former police officer was sentenced to five years in prison, with another five suspended, after being found guilty on four of five counts related to excessive force allegations.http://ow.ly/GfWNw 
• New York, New York: An officer was arrested for allegedly stealing and then pawning her boyfriend’s mother’s jewelry. She faces charges of possession of stolen property and petty larceny. http://ow.ly/GfX7
• San Francisco County, California: A deputy was charged with assaulting a hospital patient and filing a false report to cover it up. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the victim had been sleeping in a chair when the deputy approached him and began to question him. When the victim attempted to walk away with the help of a cane, the deputy grabbed the man’s throat and choked him. Authorities say they have video of the incident. http://ow.ly/GfXws 
• Denver, Colorado: A sheriff’s deputy was arrested and accused of assaulting her wife in a dispute over lost car keys. http://ow.ly/GiFCM 
• Dallas, Texas: A 26-year veteran officer was arrested and accused of coercing prostitutes to perform sexual acts.  http://ow.ly/GiR8S 
• Derry Township, Pennsylvania: A now-former police officer was charged with stealing prescription drugs from the evidence room at the police station. He admitted to taking and consuming the drugs as a result of a substance abuse problem.  http://ow.ly/GiRDe
• Update: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: A now-former police officer will not face charges in fatal shooting of mentally ill black man he encountered in a park. The officer was fired after the incident for initiating a pat-down of the victim against policy that preceded the shooting.  http://ow.ly/GiUeo

 

 

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Daily Police Misconduct 12.18.14

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 12-16-14

 

 

 

 

 

” Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday December 16, 2014:

• Update: Oldham County, Kentucky (First reported 10-14-14): A now-former police officer was sentenced to nine months in jail for sending lewd text messages to a teenager he met during a traffic stop. http://ow.ly/FWfGR
• Update: Woonsocket, Rhode Island (First reported 08-22-12): A now-former police officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all but six months suspended, for choking his 9-year-old sister while she was in his custody.http://ow.ly/FWjWa
• Update: Berkeley, New Jersey (First reported 06-11-14): The police department settled an excessive force lawsuit for $110,000 from an incident in January 2013. Video evidence shows an officer punch a handcuffed man in custody. The offending officer had been involved in another excessive force lawsuit in 2008 that also resulted in a $110,000 settlement.http://ow.ly/FWlpY 
• Colfax, Louisiana: A now-former police chief was sentenced for one count each of malfeasance in office, obstruction of justice, and theft of a firearm for pawning seized police evidence. He received five year sentences, suspended, on both the malfeasance and obstruction charges. He was sentenced to seven years hard labor, with five suspended, on the gun charge. http://ow.ly/FWoCz 
• Update: Alton, Illinois (First reported 08-14-14): An evidence officer is accused of destroying forensic evidence, including a rape kit and clothing. The discovery was made during an investigation into missing evidence in 130 cases. It is unclear whether this officer is responsible for the other missing evidence. http://ow.ly/FWvnC 
• Update: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (First reported 04-01-14): The department settled a lawsuit by a teacher for wrongful arrest. The teacher was arrested outside a public meeting that had been discussing police/community relations. http://ow.ly/FYGZw 
• Suffolk, Virginia: A female officer was arrested for assault after confrontation with another officer’s wife. The wife had filed charges against her husband but subsequently dropped them. Both officers are currently under investigation. http://ow.ly/FYE4d 
• Update: New York, New York (First reported 12-10-11): A now-former police officer was sentenced to 12.5-14.5 years in prison for grand larceny, robbery, and drug possession. This conviction was the latest in a string of cases that originally stemmed from a ticket fixing scandal that uncovered a drug ring and other corruption in the NYPD. http://ow.ly/FYQ1d 
• El Paso, Texas: A police officer was fired after the investigation into the fatal shooting of a handcuffed man who was sitting on the ground outside the local jail. The officer had been on leave since the incident in March 2013. The victim’s family has filed a civil suit, but the district attorney declined to file criminal charges. http://ow.ly/FWAu2 
• Starr County, Texas: A sheriff’s deputy was indicted for smuggling 77 pounds of marijuana across US-Mexico border. The deputy and her brother were arrested November 10 at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol checkpoint with bundles of marijuana hidden in their vehicle’s floor.http://ow.ly/FYS2T  “

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Daily Police Misconduct 12.17.14

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 12-03-14 to 12-15-14

 

 

 

 

” Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday December 3 to Monday, December 15, 2014:

• Corpus Christi, Texas: A police officer has been disciplined after dash cam video showed he asked woman to delete video of chokehold by county official. ly/FUGrY
• Colcord, Oklahoma: A police chief has been arrested for driving under the influence in his police cruiser. It’s his third DUI since 2004. ly/FUNb4
• Pittsfield, Massachusetts: A man claims he was arrested for recording a traffic stop with his cell phone. He is challenging the arrest at his trial for disorderly conduct. ly/FV3fJ
• Memphis, Tennessee: A police officer resigned and pled guilty to a charge of misconduct. He was accused of coercing a fugitive to perform sex acts.ly/FV6u4
• Riverside County, California: A sheriff’s sergeant was charged with battery on a spouse, false imprisonment, assault, and illegal possession of controlled substances. ly/FVn0f
• New Straitsville, Ohio: The police chief was indicted for records tampering for second time in the past two years. The newer charges are related to complicity in his wife’s alleged food stamp and Medicaid fraud charges, for which he faces up to seven years. A former Perry County Sheriff’s deputy, he was already slated for a trial for tampering with records and unlawful use of a law enforcement database. He faces up to 14 years in that case.http://ow.ly/FVplR
• Update: Los Angeles, California (First reported 8-30-12): The police department settled excessive force suit for $550,000. The plaintiff had video showing officers body slamming her to the ground twice after she talked back to one officer. One officer involved in the case was suspended and the other was fired. http://ow.ly/FVvdU
• Update: Los Angeles County, California (First reported 9-13-13): A now-former sheriff’s deputy pled no contest to charges related to a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl. The highly decorated 22-year veteran was sentenced to three years in prison. http://ow.ly/FVCjn
• Update: Eutawville, South Carolina (First reported 8-16-13): A now-former police chief was indicted for murder stemming from 2011 shooting of unarmed man in parking lot. He had been charged in relation to the case with misconduct in office, but a judge recently ruled he could not use a Stand Your Ground defense and subsequently a grand jury indicted him for murder. http://ow.ly/FVHJy
• Carbon County, Utah: A county sheriff was charged with misuse of public funds and equipment. He allegedly used department funds to pay for $2000 worth of gasoline for his personal use. He also used the department’s search and rescue trailer to move into his new home in a neighboring county. http://ow.ly/FVQJj
• Clewiston, Florida: A police officer was arrested for assaulting a Hendry County sheriff’s deputy at a gas station. Both officers were off duty but the assaulting officer was still wearing part of his uniform at the time of the alleged attack. http://ow.ly/FVXmK “

 

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Symbolic Pumpkin Smashing Protest Results In Arrests , Pumpkin Confiscation

 

Smashing Pumpkins In Clayton Leads To Three Arrests For Littering, Assault

 

 

 

 

 

” Three people were arrested Monday afternoon during a protest that briefly linked the unrest in Ferguson to the violence that erupted last Friday at a New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival.

  The arrests occurred after approximately 10 demonstrators approached the St. Louis County Justice Center with a red wagon filled with pumpkins scrawled with slogans denouncing “RACISM,” “WHITE PRIVILEGE,” and “HATE.”

  Authorities took protest organizer Derek Laney into custody after he held a pumpkin overhead and decried the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police before smashing it at the feet of officers stationed about 10 feet from the Justice Center door.

  The pumpkin bore the words “POLICE BRUTALITY.”

” We are going to smash (pumpkins) symbolically at the foot of someone who can bring (the Brown) case to justice,” Laney said prior to his arrest in a reference to St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, whose office is in the building. “It’s another way to let people know we will be heard.” “

   While it is becoming more evident that the shooting of Michael Brown was a “justified” use of force , these protesters still had a right to their free speech . Since when is it illegal to smash your own pumpkins ?     

   As to the littering charge , if the “litterers” hadn’t left the scene leaving a mess behind then who is to say they weren’t going to clean up after themselves . The assault charges are also easily trumped up as anytime a police officer grabs you and you pull away , as is a natural reaction , you are liable to be charged with resisting arrest and assault . We cry Bulls**t on this one .

From St Louis Today with a tip of the hat to Filming Cops

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Video Purports To Show Ferguson Cop Threaten To Shoot Reporters

#Ferguson Cops To Media: GET THE F**K OUT OF HERE

 

 

 

Published on Aug 17, 2014

” “Get the fuck out of here or you’re getting shot with this” – full 2:40 clip from Argus Radio livestream, Sunday 17 Aug, 2014

  Reportedly Captain Todd returned a bit later with info about the threatening officer. Didn’t catch that because I was editing the video.

  This isn’t me in the clip. I’m just watching the livestream and tweeting at @xor. “

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Teens Create “Five-O” Police Abuse Smartphone App

Three Teenagers Created An App To Document Police Abuse

 

 

 

 

 

” The unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, is posing some new questions about law enforcement and the militarization of the police.Three teenagers from Georgia have decided to take the issue into their own hands.

  Caleb Christian, 14, and his two sisters — Ima, 16, and Asha, 15 — are about to roll out an app called “Five-O,” which will let users document police abuse and join together as a community to problem-solve.

  Five-O lets users submit the details of any incident of police abuse and rate the specific officer. The app also has community boards for different counties so that users can communicate and plan responses to any difficulties with local police.

  The idea is to collect data that users can then bring to community activists, the media, and other forms of law enforcement. That way, it’s not just “he said, she said,” Caleb said.”  

 

 

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There Is Nothing “Odd” About Wanting To Avoid Police Interactions Chief

Police Chief: Not Wanting To Talk To Police Officers Is ‘Odd’

 

 

 

” This insight into how police think the public should interact with them is certainly enlightening. (via this tweet and Amy Alkon’s Advice Goddess blog)

  The backstory is this: a woman was walking down the street when a motorcycle cop approached her, asked her if she lived in the area and if she would talk to him. She says his approach made her feel uncomfortable, so she refused and continued on her way.

” I thought that maybe he was flirting,” she said. “I just thought it was odd, I thought it was odd. I wasn’t really sure but I felt uncomfortable because there wasn’t anyone around.”

She says she was worried he might not even a real cop, so she refused to stop and began jogging away from him.

” He just crept along beside me on his motorcycle and he started saying, ‘Hey ma’am! I want to talk to you. Hey stop, ma’am! I want to talk to you.’ Then my anxiety rose even higher,” she said.

  This was followed shortly thereafter by the cop dismounting, chasing her down, tackling her and placing her under arrest. The police chief claims this arrest was for “walking on the wrong side of the road,” (as well as “evading arrest” and “resisting arrest”) despite the fact that the woman wasn’t ultimately charged with anything.

  Even if the preceding events could possibly be dismissed as hearsay, or something tainted by false impressions and emotions, there’s the police chief’s responses to questions about this interaction.

Whitehouse Police Chief Craig Shelton says this:

  Shelton says by law you’re not required to stop and talk to an officer if there’s not a lawful reason for them to be stopping you.

But then he says this:

” Normally if a police officer pulls up, in my opinion, it’s awful odd for somebody just to take off and not want to speak to the police officer,” Shelton said.”

    The days of the citizens happily interacting with the police are over Chief . The “war on drugs” , the “war on terror” and all the corruption and heavy-handedness they have wrought have seen to that . Public trust in the “authorities” is gone . To the average citizen there is seldom anything positive to come from any interaction with the State .

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Illinois Mayor Uses Police To Shut Down Social Media Dissenter

Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist

 

 

 

 

 

” Politicians can be a thin-skinned bunch. You’d think they’d let insults roll off their backs given how much power they have over the lives and livelihoods of others. But if you have all that power, why bother letting insults roll of your back when you can use that power to disproportionately punish people? 

  Jim Ardis, mayor of Peoria, Illinois, ordered police to track down whoever was responsible for a parody Twitter account mocking him.

  As a result, police raided a West Bluff home, seized property, and detained three people for questioning. The Twitter account, @PeoriaMayor, has been suspended. According to the Journal Star, the account had all of 50 posts and an equal number of followers. The Twitter profile apparently did not initially indicate that it was a parody account, but added that label in early March.”

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“We’ve Come For Your Fourth Amendment”

You Won’t Be Needing It Any Longer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Video At July 4th “DUI Checkpoint” Demonstrates Just How Tyrannical The State Has Become

A Hidden Camera During DUI Checkpoint Exposes the Vileness of the American Police State

 

 

 

 

 

 

” “He’s perfectly innocent, he knows his rights, he knows what the Constitution says.” mutters the power tripping jackboot cop as he tears apart this innocent man’s vehicle for no other reason than to flex his “authority.”

“ It wasn’t a very good alert….” brags the other jackboot about the drug dog “giving them permission” to search this man’s vehicle. He was likely about to confess to just how arbitrary their decision was in violating this innocent person’s rights, when he spots the camera.

“ Hey Jim……” and they realize they’ve been bamboozled.

  Watching this video is incredibly grounding, we can see just how far the US has progressed into a totalitarian police state. These Stasi checkpoints are NOT for your safety, they are to condition innocent people into acquiescing to state intimidation. If you doubt that claim, research how many of these “DUI Checkpoints” actually catch people that are DUI.

Here are the numbers from the checkpoint that night:

•  250 vehicles passed through the checkpoint
•  20 vehicles were detained that required further investigation
•  Three vehicles were searched
•  One misdemeanor arrest was made
•  32 citations were issued: Two child restraint device citations, one DUI, 10 citations for violations of the registration law, four citations for violation of the light law, one revoked/suspended driver’s license, six financial responsibility (no insurance), six other driver’s license law violations, and two safety belt law violations.

  Only one DUI arrest was made. One out of 250. 250 people were stopped, questioned, their rights violated, and faced potential and real harassment so this department could be 0.4% effective at stopping drunk driving.”

 

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Police Chief Arrested For Brandishing And Assault

Cedar Grove Police Chief Arrested On Brandishing And Assault Charges

 

 

” A police chief is facing charges after an alleged confrontation with a man in a grocery store parking lot.

  Cedar Grove Police Chief Aaron Roop, 31, has been charged with misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor brandishing.

  According to the criminal complaint, on February 16, Roop confronted a man and two women in the parking lot of a grocery store in Smithers and told the man, “(Name) the next time you threaten my wife and child with a firearm, I will slice your throat and kill you.” “

 

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NJ Man Spared Jail When Prosecutors Get Hold Of Dashcam Video Withheld By Lying Cops

Exclusive: Dashcam Video Clears NJ Man

 

 

” The tale of the police dashcam video has now helped clear a Bloomfield, New Jersey man who faced a multitude of criminal charges, including eluding police and assault.

  Investigative Reporter Sarah Wallace obtained the dashcam tapes, and has spoken exclusively with the 30-year old DJ who was looking at years in prison.

  It was quite a turnabout, all the criminal charges against Marcus Jeter have been dismissed, and two Bloomfield police officers have been indicted for falsifying reports, and one of them, for assault.

  A third pleaded guilty early on to tampering. It’s all thanks to those dashcam tapes. It’s the video that prosecutors say they never saw when the pursued criminal charges against 30 year-old Marcus Jeter . In the video, his hands were in the air. He was charged with eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. One officer in the video can be seen throwing repeated punches.

Sarah Wallace: “It this tape hadn’t surfaced?” 
Marcus: “I’d be in jail.”

 

    Yet another case of the police investigating themselves and , even when confronted with overwhelming video evidence to the contrary , concluding that the officers involved acted properly .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Growing Murder Culture Of Cops … A Multi-Part Essay

Badged Serial Killers

 

 

 

 

” The below was posted to ZeroGov.com by Bill Buppert on February 13th, 2014. As is noted, it’s the first of a five-part series, all of which will be cross-posted here in an effort to get the ideas shared in front of more eyes and minds – something that is needed before action happens because, as Buppert correctly notes, “Police will not ever police themselves…ever.”

See content tagged “Puppycide” for related incidents.”

 

 

 

   Part one , an excerpt of which can be read below deals with the cop’s wanton war on dogs that we have highlighted in the past. 

 

 

 

” I want you to pay particular attention to the incidents where the police laugh or joke about their maiming and killing because there is no better casual indicator of the depravity and psychopathy that is modern day policing in the USSA.

  Make no mistake – you do live in a police state. Please be sure to update me on local incidents you can call to my attention. -BB

“ He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Immanuel Kant

  Yet another dog is murdered by cops.  A service dog, no less.

  The advent of film and video footage has revolutionized the ability of the general public to see how the police behave in real life and not the sanitized Disney version that Hollywood and its sycophants in the mainstream media have portrayed.

  Sir Robert Peele’s principles are long dead and buried in US law enforcement.

  This particular one is indeed extinct:

“ The police should use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to achieve police objectives; and police should use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.”

  The American law enforcement community has experienced a sea change in the last half century that has made the police the greatest threat to individual subjects in North America. In the end, liberty and freedom can only be taken if the enforcement mechanism of bad laws and totalitarian edicts is active and engaged. The risk of death by cop is far greater than any foreign-borne terrorist threat or most natural disasters and ironically, 2013 is one of the safest yearsfor cops themselves in decades despite the silly “hero” rhetoric drummed in by the government media complex.

  Will Grigg has written eloquently and extensively on startling detailed anecdotes of the police state in action throughout the fetid plain. I have contributed some observations on the state of police misbehavior on a grand scale but not so much as other observers.”

 

 

  The essay that comprises part one of the series may be read here . Below you will find an excerpt of part two which deals with the war on children .

 

 

” Arresting is a polite government euphemism for kidnapping and the police even handcuff six-year old girls. In one such case, “The officer stated in the report that he noticed damage to school property and tried numerous times to calm the girl, who eventually “pulled away and began actively resisting and fighting with me.” “The child was then placed in handcuffs for her safety and the officer proceeded to bring her down to the police station,” said Chief Dray Swicord.”

  One overweight cop was caught on tape choking out a 13 year old boy.

“ For those of you who don’t know, Officer Joey Williams of the Hot Springs Police department was caught red handed on video tape, and with a camera choking 13 year old- Jarrod Graham.

  Jarrod Graham along with several other youths were illegally skateboarding on June 21st 2007 in down town Hot Springs, Arkansas. Jarrod Graham that day received a choking and arrest instead of a ticket, as the local city ordinance states is the fair and just punishment for such a violation. Many of the other of the “Hot Springs 6″ youths were chased, headlocked, harrased, and arrested.”

  Six year old Salicia is not the only child harmed by police. She was formally charged with assault by the way.

  In another incident, an eight year old girl was handcuffed and jailed in Illinois.

  Think about that! Hundreds of millions of parents have experienced this kind of behavior with their own children in private and public and if they were to use the same means of restraint would be subject to public humiliation, sanction or arrest for abuse. Yet this is the bottom line of thinking about police violence. They are sanctioned by the state to do what NO decent or thoughtful human being would do: use violence as a first resort for resolving all problems.”

 

 

Part three deals with the authorities an their abuse of women … Excerpt below :

 

 

” In Part Three, I address the growing acts of violence against women by cops in America.

  It speaks to the sad state of masculine virtue in America today that the tens of thousands of women brutalized and victimized by police violence and misbehavior have not suffered a greater number of revenge incidents. This would be percolating from the husbands, fathers, brothers and uncles who have seen their female relatives savaged by out of control bullies in uniform but the future is an undiscovered country.

  Among ladies, pregnant women appear to be an especially attractive target for the thin black and blue line. Here is one of many horror stories involving women with child.

  The badged hero is Lucas Krull:

“ The video shows the officer throwing the woman against a banister and hitting her head as she cries hysterically and screams, “I’m pregnant! Get off me. You’re going to kill my baby.” He even clubs her on the head and tackles her.”

“ According to Krull’s boss, he is correct in his brutality against the woman.

  Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard told local media outlets that the officers showed “tremendous restraint” while subduing the teen and Hardaway, whose family said is six months pregnant. Krull used a distraction technique that officers are taught to employ to disorient someone who’s resisting arrest, Sheppard said.” “

 

 

   These three essays by Bill Buppert at ZeroGov.com are required reading for anyone that is concerned with Statism and the militarization of of police forces . Each essay is a well-written , thoroughly documented denunciation of the growing police state and needs to receive the widest circulation possible .

   Parts four and five will be forthcoming and we will be sure to pass those along to our readers as they become available . In the meantime do what you can to spread the word . I don’t know about you , but this is not the America I want my children to inherit .

 

 

 

 

” Publisher’s Note: This is a five-part series that investigates the growing death culture of the American cop and the predator prey relationship between badged thugs in the pay of the King and the following victim classes among the Helotry that is America:

Part I: Dogs and other Animals
Part II: Children
Part III: Women
Part IV: The Elderly
Part V: The Disabled “

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Florida Woman Assaulted , Arrested Over Recording Her Traffic Stop

Woman Thrown In Jail For Legally Recording Traffic Stop

 

 

 

” The woman, Brandy Berning, was pulled over by Broward Sheriff Deputy William O’Brien after driving in the carpool lane on Interstate 95.

  Berning immediately pulled out her cellphone and began audio recording the encounter, informing O’Brien several moments after he arrived to her driver side door.

“ Oh, I forgot to tell you I was recording our conversation,” Berning says.

  Although Florida currently has a two-party consent law, which dictates that both parties must consent to being recorded, the supreme court has upheld that police officers do not have an expectation of privacy while working in public, therefore can be recorded without prior approval.

“ Ok, well I have to tell you that you’ve just committed a felony,” O’Brien says.

  Confused at the false claim, Berning barely has time to react as the deputy begins demanding the phone, now heading towards the passenger side door.

“ You are committing a felony. Hand me the phone,” O’Brien says.

  Berning can be heard demanding O’Brien leave her vehicle as the deputy climbs in and begins physically attempting to take the device.

“ I know the law better than you, believe me,” O’Brien says as Berning refuses to comply.”

 

   Apparently Deputy O’Brien does not know the law better than Ms Berning and after assaulting her over the “felony” recording “crime” he didn’t even charge her for it …

 

 

Brandy Nicole Berning

 

Brandy Nicole Berning

” Charge(s)

RESIST OFFICER-OBSTRUCT WITHOUT VIOLENCE

IMPROPER CHANGE OF LANES

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Arrest/Booking Date

Arrested: 03/21/2013 – 47 weeks 6 days ago

Booking ID

501301882

 

 

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Name: Brandy Nicole Berning

 

 

Date of Birth: –/–/—

 

Race: White

Gender: Female

Height (ft): 5′ 5″

Height (cm): 165 cm

Weight: 115 lbs.

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Green

 

 

Booking ID: 501301882

Date of Arrest: 03/21/2013

Age when Arrested: 32

Arresting Agency: Broward Sheriff’s Office

 

 

Charge Desc: 1

Charge Description: RESIST OFFICER-OBSTRUCT WITHOUT VIOLENCE

Charge Bond: 100.00

Charge Bond USD: $100.00 USD Convert Currency

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Charge Description: IMPROPER CHANGE OF LANES

Charge Bond: 0.00

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Charge Description: IMPROPER USE HOV LANE

Charge Bond: 0.00

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Charge Description: PERS/INJ/PROT/INS REQUIRE

Charge Bond: 0.00

Charge Desc: 5

Charge Description: FAIL TO DISPLAY VEH REG

Charge Bond: 0.00

 

 

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After enduring a night in jail the Sheriff’s office had second thoughts .

 

 

” After being forced to spend the night in jail, all of Berning’s charges were quietly dropped, giving more credibility to the idea that O’Brien’s only goal was illegal intimidation. Berning has now filed suit against the Broward Sheriff’s Department.”

 

The lawsuit is in the works. Read more at StoryLeak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cop Executes Service Dog In Owner’s Front Yard

Officer Shoots Dog At Boy’s Birthday Party

 

 

 

” A dog is dead, and its owner is alleging trigger-happy police work after a Filer officer shot the animal Saturday outside his home.

  Police, however, say the dog was aggressive and had to be put down.

  Rick Clubb said Monday that his son’s 9th birthday party was wrapping up about 5:30 p.m. when Officer Tarek Hassani came to his home on Jacklyne Circle on complaints of dogs running at-large.

  He shot the 7-year-old black labrador, “Hooch,” Clubb said, though it showed no aggressive behavior.

  Clubb said he suffers Parkinson’s disease, and Hooch was his trained service animal.”

 

 

    While the dogs were acting a bit aggressively why is it necessary for law enforcement’s first inclination always be to pull a gun . The officer was answering a call about loose dogs for chrissakes , there was no need for anyone or anything to die .

   Why couldn’t he get back in his patrol car and have headquarters call the owner and tell him to take them into the house ? That should have been easily doable .

   Once the dogs were under control the cop could have given his warning/lecture/ticket to the owner and none would be the worse . This is purely a case of arrogance on the officer’s part and that arrogance pervades the police departments nationwide .

    Unaccountable martinets is what we have allowed to be created . The neighborhood cop who was everybody’s friend and someone the kids would admire and emulate has turned into the petty tyrant with a superiority complex . God help us . War is coming .

 

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Lodi Cop Threatens Video-Taping Bystander

I’LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO VIDEOTAPE YOU F***ING CLOWN – LODI POLICE EMPLOYEE

 

 

 

” Early in the morning of January 25th, 2014 a man saw some Lodi police employees detaining another gentleman and attempted to capture the truth of the incident with his camera. Immediately he was aggressively confronted and called a “fucking clown.” This, by someone who swore an oath to “protect the innocent against … intimidation” and to “enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear.” The videographer left the scene as he felt “very threatened,” according to the person who sent the copy of the video to Cop Block.”

CopBlock has more

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Cop’s Use Of Confidential Informants Breeds Culture Of Corruption

Cops Use Informant To Frame A Business Owner By Planting Crack In His Store

 

 

 

 

” The incentive to make busts will often lead to unscrupulous measures being taken by cops. Below, in the video, is a perfect example of how easy it is for cops to bust anyone they want. Good thing this guy had security cameras in his building, otherwise he’d be doing a five-year mandatory minimum sentence.”

 

   Bear in mind that the above perpetrator was a CI not a cop but the resulting illegal attempt at entrapment stems from the pressure brought to bear on the CI by the police . 

Read the rest at The Free Thought Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Michigan Proposes First Steps Towards Asset Forfeiture Reform

Michigan Legislators Consider Making It More Difficult For Police To Steal

 

 

 

 

” Michigan legislators have introduced a pair of bills that would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws, which currently enable law enforcement agencies to seize property from innocent people easily and profitably. Michigan police departments and district attorneys have padded their budgets to the tune of $70 million in the last three years via forfeiture, according to Lee McGrath of the Institute for Justice,* a law firm that litigates asset forfeiture.

  HB 5213 would require a criminal conviction before the police and prosecutors can forfeit property. Such a change is desirable because Michigan police and prosecutors have an unfortunate habit of taking peoples’ stuff even when the criminal charges that supposedly justify the forfeiture are dropped, dismissed, or otherwise jettisoned.

  HB 5081, meanwhile, would require seizing agencies to compile detailed reports on their forfeiture activities. Such a change is desirable because, apart from aggregates and anecdotes, information (on what is being seized, from whom, and why) is hard to come by. Also, transparency may encourage police to use funds more judiciously.

  Of course, the law routinely ensnares innocent people. We find out about them when they go to court. But some not-inconsequential number of forfeitures involve innocent owners who opt against a legal fight to recover items worth less than the cost of a lawyer.”

 

 

Reason.com has the story

 

 

 

 

 

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Texas Court Upholds Illegal Searches … Issues Warrants After The Fact

In Texas, Search Warrants Can Now Be Based On A “Prediction Of A Future Crime”

 

 

” Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg’s home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were “fixing to” cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked through the front door, rounded up the people inside, and kept them in handcuffs in the front yard for an hour and a half. 

  The only potential problem, at least from a constitutional standpoint, was that the cops didn’t have a search warrant. They got one later … “

 “But the actions of police in the case don’t pass the smell test,” he writes. “If their informant was so credible, why not go to the judge for a search warrant in the 3-4 hours before their illegal entry? The judge was available in the middle of the night, so there’s little basis to believe they couldn’t have gotten it earlier. And why conceal the fact that they’d already swept the house and detained the suspects in the search warrant application if everything was on the up and up?”

   He has a kindred spirit in CCA Judge Lawrence Meyers, who was the only justice to dissent. As Meyers wrote, “it is obvious to me that this search warrant was obtained based upon the officers’ unlawful entry into [Wehrenberg]’s residence.”

 

 

Increasingly the courts are becoming merely another arm of the State .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cato’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project Announces November’s “Winner”

Police Misconduct: The Worst Case In November

 

Here's The Video From The Original Report

 

 

 

” Over at Cato’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project, we have named the worst case for the month of November. It was the repeated, forced cavity search of two young men—in separate incidents—in New Mexico. 

  The first victim, David Eckert, was pulled over by police for failing to make a complete stop at a stop sign. After a police K-9 who was uncertified for drug searches indicated the presence of marijuana, the officers told a judge that the victim appeared to be “clenching his buttocks” and requested a body cavity search warrant, which the judge granted. The officers took Eckert to a local hospital and requested that doctors perform the search, but the hospital doctors refused. The cops then took Eckert to a second hospital, in a neighboring county that was not covered by the warrant, where they found doctors willing to perform the search.”

 

 

   No surprise here . We reported on these horrific events here and here along with a woman in New Mexico that suffered a similar fate . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photography Is Not A Crime

Connecticut Cop Assaults Woman For Video Recording Him

 

 

” The only reason I know it took place in Connecticut is because of the bus in the background that says CT Transit.He informs her he needs to the camera to be put away to allow him to conduct his “investigation.” Then a minute into the video, he grabs it from her.”

The Last Form of Defense Against Tyranny

A Rare Entertainer That Gets It

Erika Johnsen on Ice-T’s common sense defense of the 2nd Amendment

” Huh. Quite a cogent argument from Ice-T , the self-described “godfather of gangsta rap,”
defending Americans’ gun rights following the shooting in Colorado on Friday.

  “It’s legal in the United States,” the rapper said. “The right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police.”

  “And do you see any link between that and this sort of instance?” Guru-Murthy challenged.

“No. Not really,” Ice-T responded. “If somebody wants to kill people, they don’t need a gun to do it.”

“Makes it easier though, doesn’t it?” the host pushed back.

“Not really. You can strap explosives onyour body. They do that all the time.” “

Ten Years in Jail for Taking Pictures of Police ? WTF ?

 WTF is this country coming to ? 

 ” An Iraq War veteran faces ten years in prison after snapping photos of police making an arrest.

Antonio Buehler was pumping gas last New Year’s Eve when he caught sight of two Austin, TX cops“manhandling a woman” during a DUI investigation. Buehler, a resident of Austin, pulled out his cell phone and began taking pictures of the arrest. This is where the trouble began. “

As usual the police version differs from the reality …

  ” What Officer Oborski didn’t realize, however, is that other cameras were rolling during the altercation with Buehler. And video shot by a witness standing across the street show a different scene than what was painted in the police reports “

  Film them , film them , film them and know your rights .