The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

So, what is your point? He shouldn't have posted it?

My point, only that I knew he was going to post it as part of his cops are evil series. Nothing else.

Again, so what if he did, he is right, some of the cops today do seem to be evil, or at least poorly vetted and trained. Or do you think the cop was right, the protestors deserved to be run down by cars for exercising their constitutional rights to assemble?

I don't see what Drew Peterson has to do with poorly vetted and trained. He sure seems to fit the evil category.



Not sure what this has to do with what I posted.

How dare anybody post something factual that backs up a point. The truth really is a bitch isn't it?

Family asks cops to check on 74-year-old vet after surgery, and they break in and kill him
David Edwards
09 Feb 2015 at 10:57 ET

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State officials in North Carolina have launched an investigation after a police officer in Gastonia shot and killed a 74-year-old man while performing a welfare check.

Gastonia police Chief Robert Helton explained at a press conference on Sunday that a family member had asked officers to check on James Howard Allen on Saturday afternoon, The Charlotte Observer reported.

Helton said that Allen’s family had asked for the welfare check because the 74-year-old veteran had recently undergone surgery.

An officer first visited Allen’s home at 10:20 p.m. on Saturday, but there was no answer.

Gastonia police then contacted the Gastonia Fire Department and Gaston Emergency Medical Services at 11:30 p.m. and a “decision was made to enter the house, concerned that he may be inside in need of emergency assistance,” Helton said.

According to the chief, Gastonia police Officer Josh Lefevers announced himself before coming through the backdoor of the home, but Allen was pointing a gun at officers when they entered.

“He was challenged to lower the gun down,” Helton insisted. “The gun was pointed in the direction of the officers, and a shot was fired that fatally wounded him.”

The shooting left Allen’s family demanding answers.

“(He) probably woke up, someone’s breaking in on me, so when you’re by yourself you try to protect yourself,” Allen’s brother-in-law, Robert Battle, told WSOC.

Otis Thompson, a friend of Allen’s, said that his first reaction would have been to “grab a gun too.”

“You kicked the man’s door in,” Thompson remarked. “He’s disoriented and he’s in his own house, privacy of his own home.”

Sister Mary Battle said that she understood that police were probably frightened, but she pointed that her brother “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

Helton told reporters that the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation had been asked to investigate the shooting. The Gastonia Police Department followed its standard procedure for officer involved shootings and placed Lefevers on administrative leave.

Watch the video below from WSOC,.

NYPD Officer Indicted in Death of Unarmed Brooklyn Man
Akai Gurley, 28 Years Old, Was Shot and Killed in a Brooklyn Housing Project
By
Pervaiz Shallwani
Updated Feb. 10, 2015 11:29 a.m. ET

A New York City police officer was indicted Tuesday on multiple charges, including manslaughter, in the November shooting death of an unarmed black man in the darkened stairwell of a housing project, a senior law-enforcement official said.

The indictment by a Brooklyn grand jury follows widespread protests after the decision by a grand jury in the borough of Staten Island not to indict a city police officer in the death of Eric Garner, another unarmed African-American man who died in July after a confrontation with that officer that was recorded.

The decision by that grand jury and another in Ferguson, Mo., not to indict a police officer in the death of teen Michael Brown have sparked a national public debate about prosecuting police officers involved in civilian fatalities.

In the Brooklyn case, the grand jury, which began meeting last Wednesday, handed up a total of six charges against Officer Peter Liang in the Nov. 20 death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, the official said.

Officer Liang’s gun accidentally fired one shot as he and his partner were preparing to walk down a staircase at a public housing complex in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, authorities have said.

Along with the top count of second-degree manslaughter, Officer Liang is charged with criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of official misconduct, the official said.

Officer Liang is expected to surrender on Wednesday and be arraigned that afternoon, the official said. His attorney, Stephen Worth, couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office declined to comment Tuesday. District Attorney Kenneth Thompson has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon where he is expected to formally announce the decision.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he spoke with Mr. Thompson Tuesday and that the district attorney told him “the evidence led to where it did.”

“I think this just shows there is a difference in DAs,” Mr. Sharpton said. “I do not see how a DA in Brooklyn can get an indictment in a dark stairwell and a DA in Staten Island can’t get one when there is a video.”

Neither the offices of Mr. Thompson nor Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan would comment on Mr. Sharpton’s statement.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged “everyone to respect the judicial process as it unfolds.”

Patrick Lynch, the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the union that represents New York Police Department officers, said Officer Liang “deserves the same due process afforded to anyone involved in the accidental death of another.”

“The fact the he was assigned to patrol one of the most dangerous housing projects in New York City must be considered among the circumstances of this tragic accident,” he said in a statement.
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New York City Police Officer Accidentally Shoots, Kills Unarmed Man(Nov. 21, 2014)
The NYPD Shooting of Akai Gurley – The Short Answer

Officer Liang, who had less than 18 months on the force at the time of the shooting, has been on modified desk duty and has had his badge and gun taken away, pending the outcome of the criminal case and a separate probe by NYPD Internal Affairs.

Scott Rynecki, an attorney representing Mr. Gurley’s girlfriend and mother of the couple’s 2-year-old son, called the grand jury decision a “first step in the fight for justice in this wrongful and reckless shooting of Akai Gurley.”
Mourners observe a moment of silence after they lay a wreath and briefly pray in honor of Akai Gurley. ENLARGE
Mourners observe a moment of silence after they lay a wreath and briefly pray in honor of Akai Gurley. Photo: Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal

Officer Liang had his gun drawn when he and his partner entered an eighth floor stairwell in the housing complex, according to an NYPD investigation. Mr. Gurley and his girlfriend had entered the stairwell 14 steps below on the seventh floor and Officer Liang fired a single shot, authorities said. The bullet hit Mr. Gurley in the chest. He was pronounced dead shortly afterward at a hospital.

A police probe found that there were no words exchanged between the officer and Mr. Gurley. Police Commissioner William Bratton has said the officer had “no intention to strike anybody.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Garner case to determine if his civil rights were violated, and a Staten Island judge is expected to rule soon if grand jury minutes from the case should be released.

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Alabama policeman charged with assault after Indian man thrown to ground, injured
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Sureshbhai Patel is seen at Huntsville Hospital, in Huntsville, Alabama in this undated family handout …

By Rich McKay

(Reuters) - An Alabama policeman has been charged with assault after a man recently arrived from India said he was left partially paralyzed when an officer threw him to the ground during a morning walk, authorities said on Thursday.

Sureshbhai Patel, 57, sued the city and two officers in a civil rights complaint filed on Thursday, alleging race factored into his treatment, his attorney said. The FBI said it was also investigating.

Police officials in Madison, Alabama, apologized to Patel and his family at a news conference on Thursday afternoon. They said one of the officers involved in the incident last Friday had been arrested on an assault charge, and officials had recommended he be fired.

Patel, who speaks no English, moved from India to northern Alabama about two weeks ago to help his son's family care for a 17-month-old child, said his lawyer, Henry Sherrod.

He was walking on the sidewalk outside his son’s home around 9 a.m., when police said they received a call about a suspicious person, according to the lawsuit in the U.S. Northern District of Alabama.

Patel told police officers who stopped him: “No English, Indian,” and gave the house number for his son, the suit said.

A police officer then tossed Patel, who weighs about 130 pounds, to the ground, according to the complaint.

He was severely injured, requiring surgery to relieve pressure on his spinal cord, the complaint said. He has regained some movement in his arms and legs but remains weak, his attorney said.

“I just can’t believe what they did to this very gentle man who wanted nothing more than to go out for a walk,” Sherrod said.

The police said in an earlier statement that Patel put his hands in his pockets and tried to pull away as officers patted him down.

Police on Thursday released video of the incident, recorded from inside a patrol vehicle. It showed Patel standing with his hands behind his back with two uniformed officers in a residential neighborhood.

Then an officer abruptly flipped him to the ground.

Police also shared a recording of the suspicious person call, which had been questioned by Patel's attorney.

The officer involved "did not meet the high standards and expectations of the Madison Police Department," Police Chief Larry Muncey told reporters.

The federal probe results will be turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice, said an Alabama FBI spokesman.

(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Additional reporting by Letitia Stein in Tampa, Fla.; Editing by Letitia Stein and Peter Cooney)

Shocking Video: Homeless Man Throwing Rocks Killed by Hail of Police Bullets

Witnesses claim the suspect was trying to run away.
By David Edwards / Raw Story
February 12, 2015



Police in Washington state said they were forced to kill a man who was armed with rocks, but witnesses claim the suspect was trying to run away.

The Bellingham Herald reported that “more than a dozen witnesses” watched Pasco police officers confront a man outside Vinny’s Bakery and Cafe on Tuesday. The man was observed throwing a rock at a passing vehicle before police arrived.

According to the witnesses, the suspect was holding a rock, and appeared to threaten officers.

Ben Patrick said that he was just yards away when he saw officers try to shock the man with their Tasers. “The guy was trying to pull the Taser [prongs] out of his arm,” Patrick said.

Cellphone video posted to YouTube shows the man confronting police before the officers fire three shots and then begin chasing the suspect. The officers appear to corner the man in the blurry video, and about 10 more shots are fired.

“It was just a rock!” one of the witnesses yells at the officers.

In the video, a motionless body can be seen lying next to a building with officers standing over it.

“He’s already dead!” a witness says, as the officers handcuff the suspect.

Patrick told the Bellingham Herald that the man’s back was turned to officers when he was shot to death. “I really thought they were just going walk up and tackle or tase him,” he explained. “But they opened fire. His back was turned.”

Patrick’s wife, Shannon, witnessed the shooting, and told a similar story. “He turned around to take off running and the cops just shot him,” she said. “All he was trying to do was walk away.”

But police spokesperson Capt. Ken Roske insisted in a statement that the officers were forced to open fire because they had been threatened.

“He [didn’t] comply with their commands as far as we know right now,” Roske said.

In at statement released later in the evening, the Pasco Police Department said that “officers were assaulted by the suspect and a Taser was used but not successfully.”

“The suspect continued to not comply with the officers and at one point threatened them, forcing the officers to fire their handgun,” the statement continued. “The male died at the scene.”

The Tri-City Special Investigative Unit, a special task force that handles officer-involved shootings, has reportedly taken over the case. The Pasco Police Department said it followed standard procedure and placed the officers in the case on administrative leave. Pasco police declined to release the name of the officers or the name of the suspect.

Warning: The video below is disturbing. It shows the shooting, and the suspect’s body.

Police officer draws his weapon to end snowball fight.

Facing one of those dangerous situations we hear about all the time. The Police in New Rochelle New York were called to a neighborhood because the young people were having a snowball fight. Recognizing the danger inherent in the situation, the officer quickly drew his weapon and secured the suspects in this heinous crime spree.



You can see the officer holding the scofflaws at gunpoint in this picture. Than God the cops had sufficient firepower to protect the decent and law abiding citizens from these hooligans.

http://www.talkofthesound.com/content/new-rochelle-police-draw-guns-black-youths-over-snow-ball-fight-nsfw

Here's the video. Warning NSFW. The officer appears to use inappropriate language while he threatens the teenagers with death for having a snowball fight.

Penn. state trooper won’t face manslaughter charge for shooting his colleague dead
Arturo Garcia
Arturo Garcia
13 Feb 2015 at 20:01 ET
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A Pennsylvania state trooper will not be charged with manslaughter or homicide for shooting and killing a colleague during a firearms training exercise, prompting heavy criticism from the victim’s family, KYW-TV reported.

Instead, 42-year-old Cpl. Richard Schroeter was charged with reckless endangerment in the shooting death of 26-year-old Officer David Kedra.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Schroeter, a 20-year-veteran, was arrested more than four months after shooting Kedra in the abdomen while explaining trigger mechanics on his department-issued gun. Kedra was in first year as a trooper at the time of the September 2014 shooting in Plymouth Township. He was pronounced dead at a Philadelphia hospital.

Ten out of 18 members of a grand jury refused to charge Schroeter with manslaughter. Thirteen members of the jury voted to charge him with five misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment instead, one count for each trooper in the class at the time of the incident. If convicted, Schroeter could face between five and 10 years in prison.

But the victim’s sister, Christina Kedra, has denounced prosecutors for pursuing the lighter charge She and her family have demanded that an independent prosector address the case.

“For some reason, ’cause of how the grand jury was manipulated — and we all know how grand juries work in this country; they don’t — they didn’t see it that way,” she said of the panel rejecting the involuntary manslaughter charge against Schroeter.

Schroeter’s attorney told KYW that his client was “wracked” with guilt over the fatal shooting.

“I am terribly sympathetic about the matter, but we have to follow the law,” Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said in a statement. “The case was put in front of the grand jury which thoughtfully evaluated the evidence and did not recommend harsher charges. I realize the family is not pleased, but we have to apply and follow the law. Again, I am terribly sympathetic to the family.”

Watch KYW’s report, as aired earlier this week, below.

Unarmed teen mistakenly shot in back by police wants apology from officer
Joanna Walters, The Guardian
13 Feb 2015 at 13:06 ET
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Los Angeles police admit mistake but warned that people put themselves at risk of being shot if they display fake guns yet injured boy was a bystander

A Los Angeles police officer shot an unarmed teenager in the back as he stood with a group of friends, one of whom was carrying a fake pistol.

Jamar Nicholson, 15, was on his way to school with some friends on Tuesday. As they clustered in a residential alleyway, police officers from the city’s Criminal Gang Homicide Unit spotted the teens and reported that one was pointing a gun at another, according to the LA Times .

The boys and some neighbours insist no warning was given, according to news reports, even though officers said they shouted “Freeze!” and demanded the supposed weapon be dropped.

According to Nicholson, a detective later told him there had been a mistake and he had not committed any crime. An LAPD captain reportedly apologised to Nicholson’s mother, although the teenager said he wanted to hear from the officer himself.

“I don’t want to see him but I do want that ‘sorry’,” he said.

While 15-year-old Jamar Nicholson was on his way to school with some friends, they clustered in a residential alleyway. Police officers from the city’s Criminal Gang Homicide Unit were passing on their way to a call when they spotted the teens and reported that one was pointing a gun at another, according to the LA Times .

Related: Boy’s fatal shooting by Cleveland police sparks call for replica guns to be marked

Shots were fired, but the boy holding the supposed weapon was not injured. Only Nicholson was hit.

Witnesses say an ambulance arrived 15 to 20 minutes after the shots were fired and Nicholson was reportedly put in handcuffs. He was released from the hospital the same day, but the bullet is still lodged in his back. According to reports, it narrowly missed hitting his spine.

The officer who shot Nicholson was not immediately named. He is expected to be identified by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as more details of the incident emerge.

Police acknowledged the mistake but warned that people put themselves at serious risk of being challenged and shot by officers if they display such replica guns on the street.

The incident raises further concerns about police officers shooting at unarmed civilians or children carrying fake or pellet guns, after a series of deaths across the US in the last year that sparked mass protests and debate at federal level about the use of force by officers and police relations with minority communities.

Last November, police in Cleveland, Ohio, shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice dead within moments of encountering him near a recreation centre, in possession of a pellet gun .

That death followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown , 18, in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer. Brown was unarmed. Also last November, New York Police Department officer Peter Liang shot dead Akai Gurley, 28, in a dark stairwell in an apartment building in Brooklyn. Gurley was also unarmed.

Related: Tamir Rice shooting: Cleveland police handcuffed sister as 12-year-old lay dying

Unlike the officer who killed Michael Brown, Liang was charged. In court in New York on Wednesday, he pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.

The fake pistol in the Los Angeles incident was black and with a realistic appearance of a semi-automatic handgun, with only a small orange plastic tip over the end of the barrel to indicate it was not real.

Last September, California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that bans the manufacture or sale of fake or pellet guns unless they have fluorescent markings on the trigger guard and body. State senator Kevin de León introduced the bill after Andy Lopez, a 13-year-old boy from Santa Rosa, was killed while carrying a replica gun that resembled an AK-47 assault rifle.

In LA in 2010, Rohayent Gomez, a 13-year-old playing “cops and robbers” with two friends, all of them carrying realistic black pellet guns, was left paralysed after being shot in the chest by a police officer who thought the guns were real.

After suing the police for excessive force, Gomez was awarded $24m .

“It’s certainly an unfortunate situation,” an LAPD spokesman, Commander Andrew Smith, told the LA Times about the shooting of Nicholson. “But because of people bringing replica weapons out like that, it certainly could have been a terrible tragedy.

“Don’t let your children carry these guns, especially don’t let them play with them outside,” he said. “We could have had a fatal tragedy here. If an officer sees a gun and it looks real and a person who is holding it does not drop it there is a realistic chance the officer will shoot.”

Commander Peter Whittingham of the Criminal Gang Homicide Unit said the teenager holding the fake gun turned towards officer in question just seconds before he opened fire.

“In trying to save a life here, unfortunately the officer shot a youth … I don’t want this compared to other shootings of young black men. This is not the situation here,” he said.

Whittingham said the officer involved felt his life was threatened.

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Oklahoma Police Officer pleads guilty to raping 15 year old girl.
While on duty, in the police car. Seriously.

http://kfor.com/2015/02/09/former-oklahoma-officer-pleads-guilty-to-raping-15-year-old-while-on-duty/

So here's the gist of the story. The girl was a part of the Police Explorers program. This for those of you who don't know, is a program similar to JROTC in which cop fanatic children learn about how to be a cop, and then theoretically they become cops later. So in other words, you have impressionable youths, who are meeting and interacting with their version of rock stars, with predictable results.

So what punishment comes from a cop who sexually abuses a Teenaged girl while on duty in his patrol car? Well, he gets five years in prison, ten years of probation, and has to register as a sex offender. Five years for such an egregious abuse of power and official position.

Read the first story about the events here. http://kfor.com/2014/09/29/former-oklahoma-police-officer-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-15-year-old/

Perhaps i'm looking at this the wrong way. Perhaps the cop was showing the girl just how individually beautiful and desirable he thought she was to boost her self esteem. Nah, he was a pervert praying on a little girl.

http://clashdaily.com/2015/02/nba-star-black-people-need-stop-looking-handout/#

You racist little twit.