The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

So you would rather close your eyes and ears and pretend bad things don't happen. Than you accuse Hawkeye for hiding behind mama's skirt. I guess your ok as long as you have your chinese whispers. Your such a nancy boy.

I'm not closing my eyes at all. I'm disregarding anything from a dubious source. You and hawkeye with your championing of the n word are as dubious as it gets.

After your platitudes about being opposed to rape you're quite happy to cosy up to a nonce like hawkeye whose definition of consent is so broad it's meaningless.

You really don't let anything get in the way of your racism.

I didn't make the videos, and I didn't star in them either. Regardless of what you think of anyone, it's not hard to click a button or open your eyes. I made it really easy for you. Click, open. Tell me what you think. Too hard on your gash?

I'm not interested in your videos from your fellow racists. I'm not interested in anything you say. I've wasted too much time on you as it is. You're on ignore. Goodbye.

No but you really, really like them.

Florida sheriff claims there is ‘Absolutely no evidence’ man in mug shot was beaten
Florida sheriff claims there is ‘Absolutely no evidence’ man in mug shot was beaten

by theGrio | August 25, 2015 at 1:23 PM



(Martin County Sheriff's Office)

fter pictures of a bloody mug shot began to circulate, a Florida sheriff claimed that there was “absolutely no evidence” that the man in the picture had been beaten by a police officer.

According to the report filed by Martin County Deputy William Jaques, 31-year-old Jamell Adamson did not immediately pull over when Jaques tried to stop him for expired tags, and when Adamson did pull over, Jaques tried to grab him but was pushed away, at which point Adamson tried to flee.

According to the arrest report, Jaques warned Adamson to stop before he deployed his Taser to stop him, at which point Adamson fell, and the bloody injuries to his face occurred when he hit the ground.

“He made it clear he wasn’t going to surrender peacefully,” Sheriff William Snyder said on Monday. “So the deployment of that taser was 100% within our guidelines.”

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Godspeed 😁 ignorantly ignoring anything that isn't liberal. Can't think about what you can't see, and you can't see what you ignore. You are a coward. Oh well down to Bobsal.

Off out to see this. It will be chav free, unlike this thread.

1. What people do not understand is that victims are usually made before the cops show up.

2. The activists in this subject are way more racist than the police. We are talking about Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, NAACP. Police officers are ALL colors.

3. The "protesters" are armed with assault rifles, yes our police need to be well equipped.

4. The people getting robbed and looted during these "peaceful protests" NOTHING to do with the "cop brutality"

5. The people who the cops are using force on do not have their hands in the air giving cooperation. "don't shoot" happened during the protests, not during the situation.

Exonerations in Brooklyn highlight a national problem
Many confessions in the US are turning out to have been faked or coerced
August 26, 2015 5:00AM ET
by Jenifer Fenton
Exonerated convicts
Some of the Brooklyn prisoners whose convictions were vacated in 2014 and 2015 after investigations by the Conviction Review Unit.Brooklyn District Attorney's Office

For the last month, Joel Fowler has been living life as a free man. After spending more than seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit — second degree murder — on Aug. 4 he became the 14th person to have a wrongful conviction vacated in Brooklyn since Kenneth Thompson became district attorney there in January 2014.

An investigation by the Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) found that Fowler had inadequate legal defense and that the case relied on unreliable witness testimony, false identification and a false confession by Fowler, who was only 17 years old at the time.

There is a presumption that if “someone confessed, then they were guilty, and what more was there to think about?” said his attorney, Lynn Fahey. But that is not always true, especially in cases involving young or mentally ill defendants or others who might believe that a confession offers the best chance of escaping life in prison, she added.

Fowler’s case illustrates a national concern, since reforms to assist prisoners who claim postconviction innocence are lagging. The CRU under Thompson is dedicating significant resources to look into alleged miscarriages of justice. Many legal advocates believe that others should follow his example, because as a 2014 report by the National Registry of Exoneration points out, there is no reason to believe that the problem of wrongful convictions is limited to Brooklyn.

More than 40 percent of exonerated defendants who were younger than 18 at the time of the alleged crime gave a false confession, according to the report from the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the University of Michigan Law School. The number jumps to 69 percent when the accused is mentally ill or deficient, compared with just 8 percent of adults with no known mental disabilities who confess to a crime they did not commit.

False confessions have been a contributing factor nationwide in about 13 percent of exonerations, according to another report by the project.
Conviction Review Unit

Last year Brooklyn was one of three offices (along with Dallas and Harris counties in Texas) that, combined, were responsible for three-quarters of 125 total nationwide exonerations — an annual record.

The number can been attributed to the impact of review units, said Samuel Gross, the editor of the National Registry of Exonerations. In Brooklyn in a very short time, there have been an extraordinary number of exonerations in cases involving serious violent crimes, he said. On the basis of his research, he said, he sees no reason to doubt that other large urban areas with high homicide rates in the past also made wrongful convictions.

Thompson campaigned on reviewing cases in which defendants claimed they were innocent. After being elected, he beefed up the CRU, which was created by his predecessor. There are 10 prosecutors and three investigators assigned to review cases. The office has has an independent review panel of three lawyers and dedicates $1.1 million annually in resources. “The establishment of CRUs will help restore the public faith in our criminal justice system that has been lost and … rectify the tremendous damage done to individuals who were wrongfully convicted,” Charisma L. Troiano, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, wrote via email.

The office has accepted more than 100 cases for review, with decisions made in more than 40 of them, according to Troiano.
‘The establishment of [conviction review units] will help restore the public faith in our criminal justice system that has been lost and … rectify the tremendous damage done to individuals who were wrongfully convicted.’

Charisma L. Troiano

spokeswoman, Brooklyn district attorney

Seventy-two of the cases being examined are linked in some way to retired New York City Police Detective Louis Scarcella, whose work has been scrutinized for allegations of misconduct. Scarcella has denied wrongdoing.

So far, the Brooklyn CRU has reviewed 35 of those cases. In 29 the conviction stood. However, six convictions were vacated, Troiano wrote.

One of the cases tied to Scarcella was Derrick Hamilton’s. In 1991, Hamilton was accused of shooting to death a 26-year-old man. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. When his case went to trial, neither of his alibi witnesses was called. One of the witnesses even alleged that the police threatened to arrest him if he testified on Hamilton’s behalf. Additionally, the first person to point the finger at Hamilton was Jewel Smith. She recanted her testimony before sentencing. Smith said she blamed Hamilton because Detective Scarcella told her that unless she did so, she would be charged with the crime. Hamilton was exonerated in January after 21 years behind bars. The contributing factors to his release included perjury and false accusations, misconduct and inadequate legal defense. The re-investigation also found that medical evidence did not support witness testimony.

“Louis Scarcella is not the problem. Louis Scarcella is a symptom of the problem,” Gross said. “Louis Scarcella did terrible things…but there were a lot of people around who either should have known better or did know better and did not stop him,” he added. “And there is no reason to believe that that is unique [to Brooklyn].”

David McCallum and Willie Stucky were also exonerated by the work of the Brooklyn CRU late last year. They were 16 years old when arrested in 1985. A year later, the two were convicted of second-degree murder They were both sentenced to 25 years to life. McCallum is now a free man. However, Stucky died of a heart attack while in prison in 2001. Half of his life was spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

Stucky was one of two men exonerated posthumously under Thompson’s office. Darryl Austin died in prison after spending 13 years incarcerated for a murder he did not commit. All but one of the men vindicated in Brooklyn had been accused of murder.
No crime occurred

Michael Waithe was 22 years old he was convicted and imprisoned for a burglary that, it turns out, never occurred. He fought for nearly 30 years to clear his name. An examination of his case revealed that his accuser Delores Taylor fabricated a story about Waithe being one of three men to break into her apartment because she believed he might have stolen her car months earlier. Waithe had not.

There had been no forensic or physical evidence linking Waithe to the burglary for which he was sentenced – not even a fingerprint. And Waithe had witnesses who could testify that he was elsewhere, according to his lawyer Matthew Smalls.

Waithe, an immigrant from Barbados, served 18 months. Upon his release he was listed as a convicted felon. Years later when Waithe was returning to the U.S. from his daughter’s wedding in Barbados he was detained at the airport. Because of his convicted felon record – and new regulations that were put in place post 9/11 – the government began deportation proceedings against him, Smalls said.

At Waithe’s request, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s CRU agreed to look into the case. The stigma of the convicted felon tag stuck with Waithe until February, when he was exonerated.

“Mr. Waithe is the victim of a wrongful conviction. I won’t let him be the victim of a wrongful deportation,” said Thompson.

“Looking back the case just looked absurd,” Smalls said. The country has to prevent this type of injustice going forward, he added, saying that prosecutors, in particular, need to think about delivering justice – not just winning their cases.

Sadly, Waithe’s case is par for the course. Nationwide from 1989 through June 2015, 1,614 people have been exonerated. In the 125 known exonerations in 2014, no crime took place in almost half (46 percent) of them, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.

For example in Harris County, Texas, 33 people had been convicted of drug possession in what turned out to be “no-crime cases,” said Gross, the law professor who oversees the national registry. These defendants pled guilty, but when the lab tests came back, there was no evidence of controlled substances. Those are much simpler cases than the murder cases in Brooklyn, although the fact that so many occurred in Harris County is very disturbing, Gross said.

Gross said the lack of funding in the criminal justice system is a key problem. “One thing that is necessary is simply being willing to pay for the quality of justice we claim to have. We're not. We have a system of justice that depends on getting people to plead guilty and take whatever punishment is offered to them so they can get it over with as soon as possible. And that is how we do business,” he said.

TWO King County deputies fired after body camera worn by bus driver catches them in a huge lie!

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/26/1415635/-Two-Seattle-police-officers-fired-after-body-camera-worn-by-bus-driver-catches-them-in-a-huge-lie?detail=email




Maybe we all need to be wearing body cameras



On November 14, 2014, Kelvin Kirkpatrick, an African-American Metro bus driver with over 20 years of experience in Seattle, requested that sheriff's officers remove sleeping homeless men from his bus, per company policy. The officers weren't helpful and even lied to Kirkpatrick about why they weren't being helpful. He got back on his bus and got back to work.

Little did he know that two of the officers involved would flat out lie about the entire encounter in a report that they completed, stating that he dropped f-bombs and berated them. The thing is, that never happened—and a body camera, worn by the bus driver himself, captured the entire ordeal as you can see below the fold.

FULL story at link.



Published on Aug 25, 2015
King County Sheriff John Urquhart has fired a second deputy over an incident in which a bus driver produced a video recorded on his personal body camera to refute allegations he used a profanity during an argument over bus security.

The video showed no profanity was used during the Nov. 14 argument between the King County Metro Transit driver, Kelvin Kirkpatrick, and the two deputies.

Urquhart sent a termination letter last week to Sgt. Lou Caballero, citing the video captured by Kirkpatrick as proof of misconduct that had cast the Sheriff’s Office in a “negative light” and undermined public trust.

Caballero’s firing was effective Aug. 20. Urquhart’s letter to Caballero was released to The Seattle Times on Monday under a public-disclosure request.

Earlier this month, Urquhart fired deputy Amy Shoblom, who had alleged she witnessed the driver using the profanity.

Urquhart upheld recommendations to terminate Caballero, 50, and Shoblom, 34, concurring with internal findings that Shoblom and Caballero engaged in dishonesty and that Caballero also retaliated against Kirkpatrick.

State prosecutor will seek indictment against Virginia cop who shot and killed William Chapman
Jon Swaine, The Guardian

27 Aug 2015 at 20:19 ET


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Virginia state prosecutor will seek indictment from grand jury over death of unarmed black 18-year-old, who was shot dead by a white police officer in April

A state prosecutor in Virginia will seek to prosecute a police officer who shot dead an unarmed black 18-year-old outside a supermarket in the city of Portsmouth earlier this year, it was announced on Thursday.
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Stephanie Morales, the commonwealth’s attorney for Portsmouth, will request an indictment against the officer who fatally shot William Chapman, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said in a statement. The officer has been identified by the Guardian as Stephen Rankin.

“The Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office has reviewed all evidence and will seek an indictment before the next grand jury,” the spokeswoman, Tamara Shewmake, said, adding Morales “will provide an update following grand jury presentment”.

Chapman was shot in the head and chest by Rankin outside a Walmart superstore on the morning of 22 April. The pair engaged in a physical struggle after Rankin tried to arrest the 18-year-old on suspicion of shoplifting, according to police. Witnesses said Chapman broke free and then stepped back towards the officer aggressively before being shot twice.

Authorities have declined to say whether Chapman was found to have stolen anything. An autopsy report obtained by the Guardian said Chapman’s body showed no signs of a close-range shot, indicating that he was shot from several feet away.

In April 2011 Rankin fatally shot Kirill Denyakin, a Kazakh cook, less than three miles from the site of Chapman’s death. Denyakin was shot 11 times by Rankin, who was responding to a 911 call about the 26-year-old aggressively banging at the door of a building where he was staying.

Rankin said he shot Denyakin because the cook, who was drunk, charged at him while reaching into the waistband of his jeans. The officer said he feared Denyakin would pull out a weapon. No weapon was found.

Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell
Source: The Guardian

A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, on the same day that one of the city’s officers fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for stealing groceries worth $5.

Jamycheal Mitchell , who had mental health problems, was discovered lying on the floor of his cell by guards early last Wednesday, according to authorities. While his body is still awaiting an autopsy, senior prison officials said his death was not being treated as suspicious.

“As of right now it is deemed ‘natural causes’,” Natasha Perry, the master jail officer at the Hampton Roads regional jail in Portsmouth, said of his death in an interview. Perry said there were no obvious outward signs of injury to the 24-year-old’s body.

Mitchell’s family said they believed he starved to death after refusing meals and medication at the jail, where he was being held on misdemeanour charges of petty larceny and trespassing. A clerk at Portsmouth district court said Mitchell was accused of stealing a bottle of Mountain Dew, a Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake worth a total of $5 from a 7-Eleven.

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SWAT Team Raids Home, Kills Man Over $2 Worth of Pot – Informant Exposes Police Cover-Up

Another day, another botched police sting.
By Jay Syrmopoulos / The Free Thought Project
August 29, 2015

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A Florida family seeks justice after their son Jason Westcott, was killed by members of a SWAT team, during a “drug raid” on his house which yielded only $2.00 worth of marijuana.

An ‘internal investigation’ absolved officers of any wrongdoing though police only found .02 grams of marijuana in Westcott’s home.
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“They have IA, they have internal investigations but when you police yourself, you have that veil of concern by the outsider,” said attorney T.J. Grimaldi.

On Tuesday, attorney T.J. Grimaldi, representing the family of Westcott, informed the city that family would be filing a lawsuit, after finding numerous “glaring inconsistencies” in police statements in the aftermath of the killing.

“We have developed and seen what we view to be significant inconsistencies with the way that the police department portrayed this case from the get-go all the way to its conclusion,” he said. “We have put the city and the police department on notice that we are going to be filing a lawsuit,” Grimaldi said.

Westcott became the target of an intense drug trafficking investigation after a confidential informant led investigators to believe that Westcott was a dealer, as opposed to the casual cannabis smoker he was in reality. The informant has since gone public and admitted that he was lying to police in the case.

According to the Tampa Bay Times report:

A 50-year-old felon and drug addict, Ronnie “Bodie” Coogle, was the principal Tampa Police Department informer against at least five suspects this year. He conducted nine undercover operations. In their probable-cause affidavits, his handlers called him reliable. Even Tampa’s police chief praised his “track record.”

Coogle said they were all wrong. He said he repeatedly lied about suspects, stole drugs he bought on the public’s dime and conspired to falsify drug deals.

“He wasn’t a drug dealer. He sold a few grams of pot to smoke pot and stay high,” Coogle said of Westcott. “If you could even label Jason a drug dealer, he was the lowest level drug dealer.”

Peter Zwolinski, Westcott’s landlord, told the Times that when a Tampa police officer told him on the night of the raid that Westcott and Reyes were drug dealers, he “basically laughed in his face.”

“A drug dealer is paying his rent on time, and he doesn’t have me bothering him for money every week,” Zwolinski said. “You ever see a drug dealer whose phone was disconnected for a week at least every other month? I don’t.”

After seeing a news report about Westcott’s death, Coogle decided to come clean about his complicity in the situation and expose the lies that the police were attempting to forward in the case.

“They’re making statements that are lies, that are absolute untruths, that are based on shady facts,” Coogle said of Tampa police. “Everything they’re saying is based on the informant. And I was the informant.”

Coogle said he decided to step forward and reveal his identity, risking retribution from drug dealers, because of his remorse over Westcott’s death. “I’ve got morals, and I feel compassion for this guy’s family and for his boyfriend,” he said. “It didn’t have to happen this way.”

Westcott’s live-in boyfriend, Israel Reyes, 22, elaborated telling the Tampa Bay Times that he and Westcott were marijuana smokers, who sometimes sold to acquaintances, not drug dealers. He said they never kept more than 12 grams — a misdemeanor possession amount — in the house.

“We would just sell a blunt here and there to our friends or whatever. It was no crazy thing. There weren’t people coming in and out of our house every day,” Reyes said. “It wasn’t paying any bills. We were still broke . . . going to work every day.”

Nonetheless, on May 27, 2014, a Tampa Police SWAT team raided Westcott and Reyes’s home, killing Jason Westcott. Officers claim they announced the warrant and proceeded to clear the house, when they encountered an armed Westcott pointing his gun at police. Officers proceeded to fatally shoot him.

“I knew what they were saying from the moment it happened was a lie,” explained Patti Silliman, Westcott’s mother.

The stench of a police cover-up is strong in this case.

Initially, police claimed that a neighbor’s complaints led to the raid. After further investigation revealed that information to be false, police then attempted to say that the information was from an undercover officer. Finally after being pressed by a relentless investigation into the facts, police revealed they used a confidential informant.

The fact that a young man with his whole life to live was killed by police, over a $2 dollars worth of a plant, is a direct statement on the absurdity of the “War on Drugs.” The practice of trusting the word of individuals who have a vested interest in alleviating their own criminal charges is a practice that is contrary to the highest ideals of justic

Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay’s work has been published on BenSwann’s Truth in Media, Chris Hedges’s Truth-Out, AlterNet, InfoWars, MintPressNews and many other sites. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.

Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist whose work has previously been published on BenSwann.com and WeAreChange.org. Follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis.

The question is not if he was a drug dealer or if he only have a tiny amount of pot in his home , but instead did he have a gun and did he pointed that gun at the cops.

Bobsal likes to spam about police being brutal. He doesn't see this.



St. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds gathered to remember a 9-year-old girl who was killed when shots were fired into her Ferguson home as she did homework on her mother's bed.

Sobs grew audible and tissues were passed down the aisles as fourth-grade classmates of Jamyla Bolden sang in front of her casket Saturday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1fPrcwZ ) reported. The shooting Aug. 18 in the St. Louis suburb also left Jamyla's 34-year-old mother wounded. After searching more than a week, authorities charged a 21-year-old O'Fallon man with second-degree murder and several other felonies.



The pastor at Friendly Missionary Baptist Church told Jamyla's family as the funeral began that the shooting has "wounded" the whole community, region and country.

"We dare not say we experience it in the same way as you," the Rev. Michael Jones added.

Jamyla's killing brought renewed attention to Ferguson, where Michael Brown was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014.

"We say go to school, get an education ... she tried to do all of that," former Missouri Rep. Betty Thompson said after the service.

Lillie Vinson, a longtime friend of Jamyla's great-aunt, said it seemed like the community worked well with the Ferguson Police Department and its new interim chief, Andre Anderson, to try to solve the crime.

"I hope we just stop all of this senseless shooting," Vinson said before the funeral began. "Enough is enough."

Officer Greg Casem told the gathering how he held Jamyla as she was dying and told her to "hold on."

"I watched the ambulance speed away, and I felt lost," he said, overcome with emotion. "You have touched the heart of the entire nation."

The church played a video during the service that featured St. Louis Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III asking the community to pray for Jamyla and justice. He and his wife, Ira, paid for the family's funeral expenses.