Hell, that guy is lucky. According to the S&S twins, if he allegedly swung the golf club as a weapon, he should have been shot. For the officer’s safety, of course. I mean, how could she know what kinda golf handicap the guy had.
I saw a couple of recent (Sept 2015) YouTube videos about this story. In fact, the incident occurred in 2014.
Snopes
This would be an outrageous story, if things were as stated. However, the one year gap makes me wonder about that.
This story has a short interview:
Huffington Post
I searched the NY Times, Newsday, and NY Daily News with the term Kamilah Brock and got no hits.
Thanks for the update. I presumed the story was more current; but then again, it’s the Internet–Caveat emptor still applies.
The Kamilah Brock story is current because her legal action is in progress right now, today. The fact that it happened a year ago is kind of insignificant, other than the fact that it apparently got negligible coverage at the time.
But the thing that perplexes me about it is that she claims that they would not believe she owned a twelve year old BMW. I mean, those things hold their value for about half that long, a well-used BMW is not worth a whole lot more than a comparable Taurus, AFAIK. She must have been keeping that thing spit-polished.
I guess this isn’t controversial anymore, unless someone wants to argue that the cop was justified in shooting at random people:[
43% accuracy? Sounds like he needs a bit of firearms training.
Did you see the part about 10 alcholic beverages? I’m surprised he could hit anything.
But yeah, he can get remedial training once he leaves prison…
From an incident in 2013 (it was apparently a prostitution sting), Independent Police Review Authority only recommended a 25 day suspension for one officer and an 8 day suspension for another. Even though it looks like the reaction of the cops to the idea that they might be filmed is mainly working out how they can get rid of the evidence. So I would say the Chicago police should think the IPRA is on their side, but apparently not. They pull him over, apparently find this (black) guy’s IPRA badge, turn off the camera, and assault him. He was charged with DUI (and acquitted at a bench trial - the cops wouldn’t even admit to having the video they recorded before they turned it off until discovery). Well, at least the beating wasn’t just because Roberts was black.
It’s amazing how quickly cops change their behavior when they realize they are on record.
This is exactly why cops hate being recorded. They are used to being free to do and say pretty much anything, and having to control themselves isn’t part of the training.
From VICE: [Video Shows Cops Pulling Guns on Indiana Couple Driving to Hospital to Give Birth
](Video Shows Cops Pulling Guns on Indiana Couple Driving to Hospital to Give Birth)The video includes profanity and name-calling by the officers, including threats to kill the husband. It includes directives from he police that are clearly punitive.
And…
The arresting officer was shown in court to have lied on his incident report; the video he didn’t care about was what proved his deceit.
His chief later characterized the officer as a model employee who “should not be demonized for one unfortunate incident.”
:dubious::rolleyes:
Model. Scuffed up, marked down, no returns.
When you look at the number of shots fired in some other incidents with no hits, 43% makes this guy a candidate for firearms instructor.
What, no one has noticed that the police let an inmate die in jail over a traffic ticket? Here is a Reason Magazine article which has the facts: Man Jailed for Traffic Ticket Dies in Cell After 17 Days of Torture. Officers Watched It Happen. Apologies if people are allergic to libertarian publications.
This is par for the course in our current pseudo-capitalistic justice system. Don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer in capitalism and the free market, but any system that sets up an economic incentive to jail your own citizenry is an abomination under any political ideology. Even Smapti’s. At least I would hope so. I am also a firm believer in justice and I believe we should try to reform and even punish criminals, but the current system is not set up to do that. John Oliver had a good summary of these issues back in March after the whole Ferguson flare up. The system is set up to prey financially on those who are least defended. Justice seems to be a rare thing in our justice system.
Seems he had a gun in his waistband, was told to put it down and when he removed it from his waistband, the cops opened fire. Not sure how he was supposed to put it down without touching it, but that’s what the AP article says.
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No finger gun story yet? Do not stick your hand into your waistband, pull out your finger, point at the police and go pew pew pew.
It was probably cops. Because everybody knows they are the ones to worry about.
If the police version of events is accurate, I’m laying the blame on the dead guy for this one. "If"s are pretty huge these days, though.
Phone video clears man charged with assaulting cop — even after phone disappears.
Man is accused of assaulting a cop and the cops manage to “lose” his cellphone, containing a recording of the interaction. Luckily, the guy realized his phone auto upload video to the cloud and the subsequent video revealed that it had actually been the cops assaulting the man and then deliberately lying about it.
The guy is lucky he was able to catch cops in a lie but you have to wonder how many people exactly like him are caught in this circumstance every day and don’t have the evidence to exonerate them?
Aye, he’s not the first person to find himself in that situation; that’s why I keep my phone set to upload all photos and videos to the cloud: just in case.