December 1, 20213 yr Author https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucson-police-officer-shooting-mobility-scooter/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=142539192&s=09 Quote Surveillance footage from the Walmart showed Remington and an employee slowly trailing Richards through a parking lot while Richards is in a mobility scooter. Police said an employee told Remington, who was off-duty and working security at the store, that Richards stole a toolbox. Remington asked Richards for a receipt but Richards brandished a knife and continued toward another store, according to Magnus. According to the Walmart employee, Richards said, "If you want me to put down the knife, you're going to have to shoot me," Magnus said. Another officer arrived as Richards made his way toward the entrance of a Lowe's Hardware Store. In one of the videos, Remington is heard asking Richards to stop. When Richards refused to stop, Remington opened fire, with nine rounds hitting Richards before he fell to the ground. Surveillance video shows Remington using handcuffs on Richards right after the shooting. Video is much worse than what can be put into words. Officer only fired, should be criminally charged.
December 3, 20213 yr Author Problem Philly cop, once fired for alleged sexual assault, is hired by Sheriff’s Office as deputy chief Quote Michael Paige’s Philadelphia police personnel file was filled with red flags. Within five years of joining the force in 1990, a supervisor twice recommended that Paige be dismissed for violating departmental rules. Suspensions piled up, 100 days in all, for offenses that ranged from sleeping on the job to lying during an investigation into the death of a man named Moises DeJesus, court records show. In 2007, Paige was fired, and charged with forcing another man, James Harris, to give him oral sex in Fairmount Park. Despite DNA evidence, Paige was acquitted, and regained his police job through arbitration, with the help of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5. Harris filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Paige, and in 2012, a jury ordered Paige to pay Harris $165,000 for "invasions of [Harris’] bodily integrity.” According to Harris’ attorney, Brian Humble, Paige still has yet to pay a dime. And now Paige has landed a new job — with the Sheriff’s Office. As a deputy chief.
December 14, 20213 yr Author https://www.kark.com/news/working4you/arkansas-state-police-settle-pit-maneuver-lawsuit-which-injured-pregnant-woman/
December 16, 20213 yr Author Long video but you get the gist of it in the first 3 minutes: 3 separate DUI arrests by the same officer for driving under influence of marijuana, 3 cases dismissed due to negative drug screens.
December 17, 20213 yr Author https://www.krem.com/article/news/crime/idaho-sheriff-craig-rowland-charged-youth-group-gun-bingham-county/277-01e39a94-4c82-4fd2-a61a-05dcca5b9920 In summary: There is footage of this man from his own Ring doorbell stepping outside, seeing and reading the "thank you turkey” stuck to his door, and then calling for his wife to bring him his gun. His initial response to seeing the *thank you note* was to say "F this” and get his gun. He then stood in the middle of the road to flag down the vehicle with the youth group, and very clearly saw that the car was filled with a group of young girls, ages 12-16. Even knowing this, and being clear of mind and fully aware of what he was doing (according to his *own* words), he then grabbed the youth pastor by her hair, *dragged* her out of the car, and put his gun *right* to her head while repeating that he would "Fing shoot her.” Oh the youth group is from his own church and the youth group leader who he held a gun to her head was his own neighbor. His excuse for doing this? He lives next to a Native American reservation and reported to have had "drunken Indians” coming up and knocking on his door in the past. So not only is he a racist ass, but none of the people involved were from the reservation or even of Native descent in the first place. What he did was completely unprovoked. All the girls in that poor youth group wanted to do was spread some positivity and say thank you to their community, and this man traumatized them for life, not to mention literally *threatening the life* of their group leader. All for nothing. The worst part? He was not fired, nor does he have any intentions of stepping down aside from taking a short "leave of absence.” Quote The sheriff of Bingham County is facing felony charges after investigators say he pulled a gun on a group of girls, dragged their youth group leader out of her car by her hair, and threatened to shoot her while holding a gun to her head. The Idaho Attorney General's Office on Tuesday charged Sheriff Craig Rowland with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, and exhibition of a deadly weapon. Rowland told Blackfoot Police Chief Scott Gay that he had "really screwed up" during the Nov. 9 confrontation, which happened after a youth group came to his door. According to a probable cause affidavit, the seven girls, ages 12 to 16, were delivering paper "thankful turkeys" to people around the neighborhood as part of a youth group activity. The girls would deliver the turkey thank-you notes by taping them to a recipient's door, ringing the doorbell, and running away before the person inside could see who had left the note. Rowland told investigators that at about 8 p.m., his Yorkie began to bark so he went outside and saw two people running away from his house. According to the affidavit, the girls returned to their youth leader's car giggling, and told her they had tried to leave the turkey, but had nearly been caught by Craig Rowland so had been unable to deliver it. The group delivered another "thankful turkey" to a house nearby, then returned to the sheriff's home to try again. Rowland told police that a few minutes after he had seen people running away from his house, his Ring doorbell activated and he heard his front door rattle. The sheriff said he got his gun, and stepped outside wearing long johns and socks. The woman supervising the youth group told investigators that the girls returned to her car after leaving the turkey, and she was driving away past the sheriff's home when she saw Rowland standing in the road waving her down. The youth group leader stopped and opened her car door, illuminating the inside of the car where the seven girls were sitting, and told Rowland that they had just been dropping something off for his wife. She said Rowland looked into the car, pointed his gun at her, then pointed it at two girls sitting in the front passenger seat. The sheriff then aimed the gun back at her, the woman said, and told her to "get the f-- out of the car," the woman reported. As she moved to put the vehicle in park, the woman said, Rowland grabbed her by the hair, yanked her from the car, and aimed his gun at her face, holding it just inches from her forehead. Multiple girls inside the car reported hearing the sheriff ask the woman who she was and say "I will f----shoot you," according to investigators. The youth group leader, who grew up in the house next to Rowland and considered him a family friend, said she told Rowland her name and that she was his neighbor, but added that the words did not seem to register. "That's when I really got scared because the gun was still at my head and he didn‘t know who was," she said, according to the affidavit. Rowland told police that he did not recognize the woman but she was "terrified," and that he ultimately told her to "get the f--- out of here." The sheriff admitted to investigators that he had pulled the woman out of her car by the hair and pointed a gun at her, demonstrating aiming it at her head or neck, according to the affidavit. Rowland said he had had one alcoholic drink earlier in the night, but was not drunk or impaired. "I had all of my facilities with me, I was clear as a freakin bell," he told investigators.
December 23, 20213 yr Author 2 hours ago, toolg said: Cops are in the klan. It has been known for awhile: https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/White_Supremacist_Infiltration_of_Law_Enforcement.pdf
January 10, 20223 yr Police officers fired for failing to respond to a robbery call, too busy playing Pokémon Go.
January 19, 20223 yr Small town in Alabama decides to incentivize policing by profit, in a bid to increase town's revenue. It goes as just as expected. Crazy. In a small town of 1,253 people, police made over 2,000 arrests in one year (2020)!
January 20, 20223 yr The small borough I used to live in had speed trap set up that all locals knew about. Was always someone pulled over. Nothing like the aforementioned article.
January 20, 20223 yr 18 hours ago, toolg said: Small town in Alabama decides to incentivize policing by profit, in a bid to increase town's revenue. It goes as just as expected. Crazy. In a small town of 1,253 people, police made over 2,000 arrests in one year (2020)! It's always the small southern towns that scream about freedom from government that end up extorting their population with over policing. And no one ever sees the irony.
February 4, 20223 yr Author Fresh of the presses: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/04/minneapolis-police-shooting-amir-locke/ Quote MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police released body-camera footage late Thursday that captured the fatal shooting of a Black man by a SWAT team officer this week in a case that is likely to spark new questions about the use of no-knock warrants and increase tensions in a city still reeling from the police killing of George Floyd. Police said they shot and killed 22-year-old Amir Locke in a downtown Minneapolis apartment early Wednesday as members of the department’s SWAT team executed a warrant related to a homicide investigation in neighboring St. Paul. Amelia Huffman, the interim Minneapolis police chief, said the man had pointed a loaded gun "in the direction of officers,” prompting one of the officers to shoot and kill the man. In a news conference Wednesday, Huffman said the officers "loudly and repeatedly announced ‘police search warrant’ before crossing the threshold into the apartment.” But the footage released Thursday raised questions about that initial account, showing several officers rushing into the apartment at the same time that they announced their presence, giving Locke little time to react before he was shot. ..... In a news conference Thursday night, Huffman defended her description of the scene, insisting that the body-camera footage shows officers announcing the warrant before they crossed into the apartment. When a reporter said the video did not show that, Huffman insisted it did and urged the public to view the footage and "make their own assessment.” My assessment....these POS cops are FOS.
February 4, 20223 yr Quick KKKz, do a background search on him to make sure he wasn't arrested for smoking weed in a parking lot when he was 16. I need to know if it's okay to be mad at these cops or if this was entirely justified.
February 4, 20223 yr How the hell are no-knock raids still a thing? There's virtually no support for them from the public or either political party.
March 30, 20223 yr Quote https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/crime/2022/03/28/steven-mertz-accused-raping-poconos-woman-not-guilty/65347110007/ A former Pocono Mountain Regional Police officer who had sex with a woman after he arrested her for drunk driving on Oct. 16, 2019, was found not guilty on all counts related to sexual assault. The woman’s blood alcohol content was nearly twice the legal limit by the time corporal Steven Mertz pulled her over for an expired registration. She gripped the frame of her Mitsubishi to stay upright and failed three consecutive field sobriety tests, Mertz said. The corporal handcuffed her and helped her into the back of his patrol car shortly before 3 a.m. She was pretty, he testified later. And she cried a lot. As they drove from the site of her arrest to the Pennsylvania State Police barracks, Mertz began to reassure her: "We’ll figure this out." One hour later, Mertz had sex with the 26-year-old woman against his patrol car in an empty cul-de-sac near her home. Detectives found Mertz’s DNA on a vaginal swab taken by the woman, as well as traces of her saliva on the crotch of his uniform pants. The prosecutor said Mertz compelled the young woman to have sex with him in exchange for not filing the DUI charge against her. "I just took it," the woman said in a text to her best friend after Mertz returned her home. "He told me he would make this go away.” Twelve jurors, split into six men and six women, returned the unanimous "not guilty" verdict on nine of 11 charges against Mertz after deliberating for just over twohours Monday. He was found guilty of bribery, a third-degree felony, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree misdemeanor. Assistant district attorney Michael Mancuso shook his head once the decision was read. The verdict concluded a weeklong trial that blended emotional testimony with line-by-line narration of messages shared between Mertz and his accuser. "You’re a thousand percent sure I’m not getting the DUI from last night?” the woman asked in one. "Yes,” Mertz texted back. "I’m sure. Positive.” The report would get lost among all his other reports, he said. It was their secret. Mertz testified later that he was lying to the woman. He said he planned to file the DUI charge but was "stringing her along" because he wanted to keep having sex with her. Mertz, who was 53 at the time of the incident, argued that his role as her arresting officer did not constitute as an imbalance of power, nor did her impairment preclude her from being able to consent. Brett Riegel, Mertz’s attorney, called the on-duty sex "unforgivable from a job perspective,” but insisted that no crime had been committed. After all, he argued, it had been the woman who asked Mertz if he wanted her to perform oral sex. The offer was born out of fear, the woman testified. She said Mertz drove her home after processing her blood alcohol content at the PSP barracks but didn't let her out of the car. He suggested they go somewhere private, she said, then drove to the cul-de-sac a street away. She said the expectation felt clear. When Mertz parked and blocked her exit from the patrol car again, she asked if he wanted oral sex. According to her, he responded: "That will help." Mertz, a third-generation law enforcement officer, denied ever making the comment. He was put on paid administrative leave on Oct. 17, 2019, but resigned on Oct. 21 when a detective with the DA's office filed official criminal charges against him. He will be formally sentenced for the bribery and obstruction charge at 9 a.m. on June 28.
September 28, 20223 yr Teen Girl at Center of Fontana Amber Alert Killed in Shootout With Police After Pursuit So shoot the girl reported in the Amber Alert because she was running toward you.....
September 28, 20223 yr On 3/30/2022 at 10:48 AM, mr_hunt said: Mertz, who was 53 at the time of the incident, argued that his role as her arresting officer did not constitute as an imbalance of power, nor did her impairment preclude her from being able to consent. Twice the legal limit, and barely able to remain standing, but not impaired enough regarding consent? Let alone the ridiculous notion that there was no imbalance of power. The justice system can be so stupid sometimes.
October 7, 20223 yr Rookie cop shot a teenager for eating McDonalds in a parking lot. The teen was charged with assault.
October 7, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, mr_hunt said: jeezus...is there more to the story or was the teen just sitting there eating? This one was bad. Rookie cop thought it was a car that ran from him earlier so his first instinct is to just fire away at the kid eating a burger. I would react the same way as the kid after some random guy opened the door and says get out of the car. He probably thought it was a robbery. Hope they charge the officer and kid makes a some cash
October 7, 20223 yr 6 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: jeezus...is there more to the story or was the teen just sitting there eating? Thank god the kid wasn't at a target, no telling what he may have been doing ??
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