The Questionable Police Conduct Thread

[Os Cangaceiros]

Thought it might be good to have a thread dedicated to, well, questionable police conduct. :closedeyes:

woman shot in her home for the crime of holding a cell phone (http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20111114/NEWS01/111114025/Holli-Holbrook-Ontario-County-Sheriff-s-deputy-shot)

[Sasha]

84 year old peppersprayed at Occupy Seattle: http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2296597&postcount=20

[Parvati]

G20 in Toronto :
-A 75 years old comrade got detained for 5 days with only two cheese sandwich (a slice of yellow on two slices of cheap breads) a day and no right to take any medication

- Strip Search on 16 years old girl in front of man officers...

[Os Cangaceiros]

occupy cincinatti activist arrested after photographing "covert" police car (http://www.pixiq.com/article/occupy-cincinatti-activist-arrested-for-photographing-cop-car)

[Os Cangaceiros]

major class-action lawsuit against Arlington CPS (http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/11/federal-judge-should-hear-arlington-cps-case)




The list of serious accusations contained in the lawsuit against DJR Judges George Varoutsos and Esther Wiggins, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jason McCandless, and various Arlington CPS officials is long: perjury, RICO violations of civil rights, fraud upon the court, obstruction of justice, unconstitutional "ex parte" hearings, court orders that were never served, depriving parents of their due process rights, "missing" court orders, illegal searches and seizures, and felony removal of documents from court files, to name just a few.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Iowa:



Matthew Spaulding says he and his family were terrorized at their own home by police who slammed his grandmother to the ground and shot his dogs-- missing his head by less than an inch. "Told us to get on the ground. I got on the ground they put me in handcuffs," Spaulding recalls, "Then they threw my dad to the ground and my dog Sadie was right here sniffing my head. She was next to me. They shot her. The blood got on my face and then she took off running behind me and they shot her like three more times."

Tuesday morning, Greene County Sheriffs Deputies and Perry Police officers arrived at Spaulding's Jefferson farmhouse to deliver a search warrant. The Spauldings say they were immediately ordered to the ground.. even Matthew Spauldings' disabled father, Chris. "My son hit the ground I hit the ground but I didn't make it too fast so (the officer) jumped on the middle of my back, shoved his knee in and held a gun to the back of my head and handcuffed me. After they shot my first dog my mom come out"

"They had taken me to the ground," Chris Spauldings' mother Susan Mace says, "So I was laying with my face in the ground. And I asked them why they shot the dog because the dogs weren't close to them"

The Spauldings say after the first dog was killed, a second dog running away from the shots --- and away from police--- was also shot. "They weren't barking. They weren't attacking nobody." Matthew Spaulding says, "They didn't even give us a chance to put them in the kennel. We have a big kennel outside our house we could have put them in but they wouldn't give us a chance."

Perry Police are not commenting. And they're refusing to turn over any paperwork or reports about the incident saying it's part of an ongoing investigation. But we were able to get copies of the search warrants. One warrant shows police were looking for any kind of legal or illegal drugs. The other shows police were looking for a stolen X-Box video game system. No drugs and no stolen games were found--and no one was arrested. Chris Spaulding says he's furious his dogs were killed--his mother was ruffed up and his son was almost killed by police---all over a missing video game system. "Some of these officers should be fired because they kinda took their job too far. No common sense. No public safety when you got a kid on the ground," he says, "That's messed up man. Right beside his head. You could have shot my son."

http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-police-brutality-claim-111811,0,2429621.story

[Agent Equality]

Iowa:



http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-police-brutality-claim-111811,0,2429621.story

This kind of story makes me want to hurt every single police officer I see, regardless. If Police came into my house and did this to me and my family and killed my pets all over a supposed stolen video game I would first A.) go beat the shit out of the person who called the cops and burn their house down and then second B.) find the cops that did this and secretly try and find ways to end their miserable lives. I mean I'm all for peace and equality but Police are the enemy and should not be treated as anything but.

[Os Cangaceiros]

either destruction of evidence or illegal confiscation/destruction of property, take your pick (http://jonathanturley.org/2011/11/15/chicago-journalism-professor-accused-chicago-police-department-of-deleting-film-of-arrest/)


Braseth was producing a documentary on African American teenagers from the Southside that gather on Michigan Avenue on Saturday nights. He was shooting an arrest on Saturday, November 12, 2011 when he says officers spotted him and took him to their cruiser. They allegedly asked for his camera and erased the arrest footage and “told me I was lucky I wasn’t going to jail and let me go.” Notably, in the complaint below, Braseth notes that not only the other officer but the CTA camera system could supply corroboration for his claims. This account is troubling in itself, but Chicago has a history to pursuing citizens for filming officers in public(here (http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/19/posner-ridicules-right-of-citizens-to-film-police-in-seventh-circuit-oral-argument/) and here (http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/13/chicago-police-allegedly-beat-up-man-who-videotaped-them-dragging-man-outside-of-squad-car/)). The Cook County’s State Attorney Anita Alvarez and other prosecutors in the state show little concern for the constitutional rights of citizens in such taping or the obvious effort to deter citizens from recording evidence of possible police abuse. This is ironic since Chicago is one of the cities installing hundreds of cameras to film citizens in public, as discussed in this recent column (http://jonathanturley.org/2011/11/13/what-much-privacy-do-you-expect-the-death-of-privacy-in-america/).

[Os Cangaceiros]

A police video showing the arrest of a Champaign man in the University of Illinois Campustown area last June has been posted anonymously online. The footage raises questions about the use of force within the Champaign Police Department.

Taken from a police car’s dash camera, the video runs for about an hour. It shows an officer pepper-spraying a college-age African American male.

At the start of the video, the young man is shown walking with a young woman on the evening of June 5. The man claims that the woman is his sister.

A squad car pulls up near them and a police officer detains the man. The man’s
attorney said he was ultimately ticketed for jaywalking and arrested for resisting police, but the resisting arrest charge was later dropped. Within about 10 seconds, the police officer who apprehended him pulls out pepper spray and shoots it at him.

The man is then handcuffed and led into a police car. In another camera angle from within the car, the man urges officers not to touch him. A police officer then puts his hands on the man’s neck while he is still handcuffed, and pushes him down to the side of the car out of the shot of the video. After a few seconds, the officer exits the car.

“Take me to jail! Take me to jail!” the man said. “You have no reason to choke me.”

The names of the officer and Champaign man arrested have not been released. Illinois Public Media has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the city of Champaign for the arrest record of the incident.

best part:



Champaign Mayor Don Gerard said he is ‘gravely disappointed’ the police video was posted online, saying it is counteractive to anything the city is trying to achieve in terms of police-community relations. The mayor added that he is ‘very confident’ that state police will investigate the June 5 arrest.

“I hoping that despite (the video being released) that whatever actions the city and the state’s attorney take aren’t compromised,” Gerard said.

WOW.

http://will.illinois.edu/news/spotstory/video-of-champaign-arrest-leaked-online/

[Os Cangaceiros]

MADISON, Wis. -- A 6-year-old Grant County boy has been accused of first-degree sexual assault after playing "doctor" with two 5-year-old friends.


Now, a federal lawsuit has been filed against the prosecutor, who attorneys said is trying to force the boy to admit guilt.


"She (Riniker) bypassed the parents and sent a 6-year-old boy a summons, on which is a threat that the 6-year-old will go to jail for failure to appear," Cooper said.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/29827742/detail.html

[Os Cangaceiros]

Cops stealing dope from the evidence room, cops helping drug gangs, cops doing drug rip-offs to help drug gangs. Just another week of drug war law enforcement corruption. Let's get to it:

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2011/nov/22/weeks_corrupt_cops_stories

[Savage]

what police conduct would we not question?

[Smyg]

It's in Swedish, but it's been a pretty major case right now: Teenager was used as an infiltrator, first in the "extreme left" then in organised crime. Abandoned when no longer of use. Helped recruit informants from the age of 14 and upwards. (http://svt.se/ug/20111123085544/tonaring_varvades_som_infiltrator_at_polisen)