So, another example of the late cop on the scene shooting first and finding out the situation after the fact.
Any videos on YouTube or anywhere of other police speaking out against this horrible showing by a cop? I saw a lot of videos of police speaking out against silently kneeling, I hope they have the same level of outrage against someone being murdered by a cop.
Unfortunately, its not a rare occurrence, even President Obama got caught up with one at the Mandela ceremonyin South Africa in 2013
I’m not sure this belongs in the thread as it is more stupid than controversial, but how about this story from the Allentown, PA newspaper The Morning Call:
State police settle N.Y. man’s false arrest claims for $150k
A Hispanic man from New York who had been arrested for a DUI in Pennsylvania reached a settlement with the PA state police for false arrest.
Karoly is Ramos’ lawyer. The article also details how the events unfolded, but I am going to paraphrase them here:
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[li]Officers pulled over Ramos and said they smelled alcohol.[/li][li]Ramos said he had not been drinking.[/li][li]Officers questioned him about his ethnicity (Hispanic) and origin (New York) and stated “we know you have drugs, just tell us where they are.”[/li][li]Ramos maintained his innocence.[/li][li]Officers performed a Breathalyzer with negative results.[/li][li]Officers performed a field sobriety test which Ramos passed easily.[/li][li]Officers searched his Ramos’ car even though it could be argued they lacked probable cause. They found nothing.[/li][li]Officers arrested Ramos for a DUI and took him to the county DUI center for blood tests (Ramos consented to the tests, but continued to maintain his innocence).[/li][li]The Officers requested a $10,000 cash bail even though standard procedure is to release individuals suspected of a DUI on their own recognizance if there has not been an accident and the suspect has no prior arrests.[/li][li]Over the next 2 weeks, the state laboratory tested the Ramos’ blood twice, both times not finding any drugs or alcohol.[/li][li]The officers requested that his blood be tested a third time for a broader range of of substances (remember, he passed the field sobriety tests easily; it is unclear what the officers were looking for).[/li][li]Four weeks later, the test came back negative.[/li][li]The same day the test results came back negative (6 weeks after the arrest), the officer testified in court that tests were still pending and requested of the court that Ramos remain incarcerated. The officer knew about the third (negative) result when this request was made.[/li][li]Fifteen weeks later the case was transferred to the county court where he was found not guilty and released.[/li][/ul]
Ramos spent 158 days in jail. Ramos lost his car; it was towed from the street where police arrested him and eventually sold at auction as the impound could not reach him at home. Ramos lost his job. Ramos lost his house and all his possessions when they were moved to the curb during his eviction.
Personally, I would not have settled for $150,000.
Ok, kind of old-ish but the Trey Sims story hurts my head in many ways.
… an ongoing sexting investigation into the then-teen, Trey Sims, who had exchanged explicit messages with his then-15-year-old girlfriend. Her mother reported the incident to the Manassas City Police Department in January 2014.
I understand that sexting between your teenage daughter and a teenage boy is upsetting, but where does “get the police involved” make sense there? Get his parents involved, yell loudly at him, take her phone away, but calling the police seems like a stupid plan to me.
Eventually, the detective assigned to the case, David Abbott, obtained a signed warrant to take photographs of Sims’ naked body—including “the suspect’s erect penis”—so that he could compare them to Sims’ explicit messages. When this bizarre effort was unsuccessfully attempted, Abbott then obtained a second warrant authorizing police to escort Sims to a hospital for an “erection-inducing injection.” This injection ultimately never took place after massive public outcry.
So the court ordered that he “… be photographed while masturbating in the presence of armed police officers.” Sick Bastards. In fact, so sick that
(Detective) Abbott committed suicide in December 2015 when officers came to arrest him on separate charges relating to pedophilia.
Sigh.
This part gets to me though:
Ultimately, Sims served one year of probation. By early 2016, Sims sued Abbott’s estate, alleging violations of the Fourth Amendment, among other accusations. Lawyers representing the Abbott estate argued that their client was shielded by “qualified immunity,” the notion in American law that generally protects law enforcement officers in [COLOR=“Black”]gray-area situations from legal liability.[/COLOR]
Gray area? What the fuck is gray about that? Ogdammit on a stick.
In January in St. Louis, Maleek Coleman-Chambly was arrested. He had been in trouble with the law before and had gone to jail before. And, this time he went to jail again.
Coleman-Chambly had a seizure disorder, which he controlled by taking a medication called Keppra twice a day. His family says that he informed the guards about his condition and requested that he be allowed to take the medication. The guards refused to provide it. According to Coleman-Chambly’s girlfriend, Coleman-Chambly said on the phone that a jail guard told him that she (the guard) didn’t care if he had his medication and that he would be “shaking like a fish out of water”.
The next morning, Coleman-Chambly was found dead in his cell.
A bit of a bright spot this morning:
I’ll update as soon as his sentence is announced if no one else posts it first.
This is pretty horrifying:
The police had shot dead a dog who had bitten someone and, according to the police, lunged at them. Then, they forced the owner to cut the dogs head off, or else get arrested. I guess they were worried that the dog had rabies(?) so they wanted to get the head to a vet(?), but it seems to me that if you’re worried about rabies, you probably don’t want blood everywhere. And, the city animal control person agreed that the dog should have been left there (especially with a threat of rabies!) so it could be properly handled and tested by a vet.
Anyway, regardless of why the dog was shot, this owner just had his dog shot dead and then had to cut its head off.
Holy Fucking Shit! Accountability! About fucking time.
I bet if the guy had refused and gone to jail, morons on this message board would have said “If he had just complied with the officer’s wishes, he wouldn’t be in jail!”
Also, that story is horrifying 
I think I would have been arrested in that situation.
To be honest, I’d have a hard enough time not being arrested for assaulting a cop if they shot my dog, but I think I’d be able to hold myself back, maybe.
Not cutting off my dog’s head. Maybe if they threatened to shoot me, but probably not then.
I get that that is standard procedure for rabies, but it should be done by animal control or a vet. Doing a home job may very well ruin the specimen anyway, making it useless for the tests.
I would have thought you’d find this problematic, given your user name.
Right, cutting off the head should definitely have been done in a lab, so there’s not possibly-rabies-infected blood everywhere.
(Re: The Slager case.)
Story at WaPo:
Former South Carolina police officer who shot Walter Scott sentenced to 20 years
Brief history: He was tried last year, jury deadlocked. Prosecutors vowed to re-try him. Instead, he copped a plea deal. As best I can understand the story as told here, the deal didn’t include his blatant obstruction of justice (putting the taser next to Scott), but it looks like maybe the judge did consider that in setting the sentence. The planting of the taser is only barely mentioned in this story.
He was the second pathologist to resign, citing the same reasons.
Among them:
Why do you have to cut a dog’s head off to test for rabies?
Actually cutting off the head is not requisite, per se. The test is on the brain tissue, where rabies is easiest to discover. They really only need to crack the skull open. But if you have, say, a ninety pound chow, it is a fair bit easier to work with less of the animal.
They can’t crack the skull open of a dead animal without cutting it’s head off?
Controversial encounters meet freedom of the press: