Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread #2

When Staab spoke to the owner of the stolen vehicle, the man said he’d used the “Find My” app to track his phone, which had “pinged” at Johnson’s address at approximately 11:30 a.m. and 3:55 p.m. the day it was stolen, according to an sworn affidavit submitted by Staab.

However, in a screenshot from the “Find My” app actually indicated that the phone “pinged” somewhere in the vicinity of Johnson’s home and did not give a precise location. Despite this, Staab allegedly swore that the screenshot from the app “signified the phone being inside of [Johnson’s] house.”

[This is unpaywalled MSN repost]

And in a jail which specifically detains arrestees who have mental and physical disabilities, as well as those with mental health problems.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has put on hold the policy authorizing killer robots. Though it’s just temporary for now.

Former FBI agent, whilst hawking a book, speculates for the general public and ought to know better.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/idaho-college-murder-suspect-may-have-killed-before-unlikely-to-be-a-student-former-fbi-special-agent-says/ar-AA151GUj?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=46b25c6f1e7c4279a72992c3dbd9afb8

I can guarantee you that the behavior that we see exhibited in this murder was most likely an escalation," Jonathan Gilliam

Guarantee and most likely should never be in the same sentence.

A guarantee based on pure speculation is most likely bullshit.

A California Highway patrol veteran and her husband moved to Tennessee, where they broke up and her ex husband moved to Kentucky, where he was found dead. A guy was arrested in Sacramento for the murder, but speculation is that the former CHP officer had hired the guy to kill her ex. Two days ago, the former CHP officer was arrested for trespassing at the home of the ex’s girlfriend, where a Ring camera showed her stealing the dog that had belonged to her and her husband. The former CHP officer was just found dead.

Violence is the language of the police.

So what happened to the dog? Did the girlfriend get Charlie back?

From the article:

The woman told officers she was willing to give the dog to Julie if they met at a nearby police department. Julie grabbed the dog by the collar and left the home, which is when the woman filed a warrant for Julie’s arrest for trespassing.

Yabbut Julie’s dead now, so where’s the dog?

Your summary does not quite line up with the copy. For starters,

which is not the same thing as a “former CHP officer”. Also, it says that her husband disappeared and was later found dead in Kentucky, not that he moved there (and his girlfriend lived in Tennessee, so he probably did not move to Kentucky).

It does not say that she commited suicide by shooting herself several times in the back, but the way the story goes, I would not be surprised.

Would it be too tasteless to observe that now she is?

I’m eager to watch the Dateline episode they eventually do on that story.

Deckard might use some sort of euphemism, like “retired”.

According to court documents Bradley Wendt, 46, allegedly exploited his position as Adair Chief of Police to obtain approximately 90 machine guns for the department and gun stores – including his own – and resold several of the firearms for a large profit.

Adair has about 800 people…

https://news.yahoo.com/nightmare-warehouse-fire-erases-evidence-124027765.html

Aside from the questions about how the fire may have started, and why there wasn’t better fire suppression in a facility storing such critical material…

It is unconscionable that a police department with an eleven billion dollar budget* hasn’t been able to establish a better storage system, especially more than a decade after they promised to do so when hurricane flooding previously destroyed a bunch of evidence and revealed the gross inadequacy of the warehouse.

This goes beyond negligence and qualifies as malicious incompetence.

* Yes, eleven billion. You can look it up.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/louisiana-officers-charged-in-black-motorist-s-deadly-arrest/ar-AA15l5Ia?ocid=EMMX&cvid=fa193b1facd9464dbfc7b365ffdbe516

Facing the most serious charges from a state grand jury was Master Trooper Kory York, who was seen on the body-camera footage dragging Greene by his ankle shackles, putting his foot on his back to force him down and leaving the heavyset man face down in the dirt for more than nine minutes. Use-of-force experts say these actions could have dangerously restricted Greene’s breathing, and the state police’s own force instructor called the troopers’ actions “torture and murder.” York was charged with negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance in office.

Negligent?

TBF, leaving his body camera on while murdering someone was definitely an oversight.