The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

Not sensitive at all. You just keep on saying it. It's as bad as Izzy calling someone racist after saying he never met a black he didn't like but white people can be assholes or something like that. You two are hypocrites.

Oh a young man/nerd middle schooler dares to bring a home make alarm clock with a circuit board/display and some batteries to school to show off his engineering skills and some idiot teacher decided it look like a bomb even those he kept telling every one it was a damn alarm clock and never even imply it was anything else.

Results they had him arrested and taken out of school in handcuffs for creating a fake bomb!!!!!!!

Keep reading Izzy.One of the cops kept asking why he made the clock. What he was going to use it for. In Texas cops go to school in order to learn to follow orders. They cant conceive of a kid building a clock or a soda machine changer or an airplane without some sinister motive. Most of them are too dull to understand kids just want to learn. Hell the kid took it to his teacher I guess to get instructions in how to make explosives. If the cops in this example are stupid what about the principal who gave him a three day suspension. Texas wants to secede, I say let them.

See even this I'm ok with. The kid got arrested big whoop. He got a day off of school. It's not like he went to jail, faced time, or even got abused. Sure the teacher was a dumbass, but I would rather it get looked into and not have another bombing rather than miss big things like 9/11 because we want to be racially sensitive.

Look into??????????????????/

What is there to look into as the kid who have a history of creating electronic projects and winning prices for doing brought and ID the "bomb" as a damn clock from the beginning and a digit clock only look like a bomb to complete fools..

Are we really hiring complete fools as teachers and police officers now?

Zero tolerance school policies, mandatory arrest laws, and mandatory minimums ARE DESIGNED to not give the authorities options when dealing with individuals, because of a fear that people will be too forgiving and nice, a fear that citizens will not be hit hard enough. America has no grounds to complain about the foreseeable results of our long standing policy. We for instance wrote laws demanding that people be locked up for long durations, and then we are surprised that so many people end up in jail, that our prison costs go through the roof, and we end up with an entrenched underclass of broken families??!! Come on now, are no brain cells firing?

As a kid younger then him I once read a novel "The Gun Powder God" that contained all the compounds of gun powder " and after it hit me that I have all the materials needed I mixed some up the VERY next day.

Never even dream of harming anyone or anything and just set it off to see if the novel was correct.

Funny as to be on the safe side I set it off in a large metal container that rang like a damn bell so loudly that it was days before my hearing return to normal.

Thank god when I was that young man age being a nerd was far less likely to get you send to prison.

Hmm once before 911 I was taking a tour of Hoover Dam and the tour guide cover the concerns the government have over protecting the dam during WW2.

I of course engaged my engineering brain and started to tell my wife all the means of attacking a large dam including the Brits mean of attacking German dams during WW2 and how that mean could likely be used attacking even the Hoover Dam successfully.

She hit me and told me to shut up<grin>. My bet is that after 911 had occur even my wife cutting me short would not had work and I would never have gotten to fly again.

This don't look like a bomb to me!!!!!!

Let see a computer switching power supply, a nine volt battery connection to maintain the time when it is not plug in, and a circuit board, with a display not shown from that view and a buzzer.

Nothing that would look like explosives not even D cells!!!!!!

After Watching These Cops Bully an Innocent Combat Vet, You’ll Know Why People are Upset with Cops

The two men said they were simply sitting on a curb outside of a cellphone store after business hours, waiting for a ride, when approached by the officer.

By Jay Syrmopoulos / The Free Thought Project
September 15, 2015



Apopka, FL – Six Apopka police officers are under investigation after video was posted online showing cops roughing up and berating two men who were simply waiting for a ride to work.

A video of the incident shows extremely aggressive and unnecessary actions by the officers involved, which are indicative of the increased calls for police oversight and accountability by the American public.

The two men said they were simply sitting on a curb outside of a cellphone store after business hours, waiting for a ride, when approached by the overly aggressive officer. Now one of the men has spoken out, claiming that he feels he was racially profiled.

“If you’re African-American, you’re going to be profiled,” Niblak said.

Initially, one of the men can be heard politely explaining to the officer that he is waiting for a ride, stating,

“I understand that ma’ am. I’m just sitting here waiting for my boss. I just wanna go to work. That’s it.”

When one of the men tells the cop that she needs to “follow the law.” The officer seemingly takes this comment as a personal affront.

Considering that at that instant she has already ascertained that these men were sitting on the curb as they waited for a ride, there should be no reason to continue with the investigative stop. But, as is all too common the case, this officer’s ego has taken over, and she has decided to show theses men who has the “authority.”

While the officer’s initial reasoning for the contact is valid, once ascertaining that the men were simply waiting to be picked up, the situation should have been a non-incident.

As we all too typically see in these types of situations, rather than accept that these men were simply sitting waiting for a ride, the officer decided to escalate the incident.

The video, recorded by one of the men, begins only minutes after the initial contact by the officer and runs for a few minutes after.

“Whoa, I’m just trying to go to work,” one of the men can be heard saying as a number of officers pull up and get out of their vehicles.

Keith Niblak, a U.S. combat veteran who served two tours in Iraq and a tour in Afganistan, said he was treated extremely unprofessionally by a ranking officer at the scene.

“He was like, ‘No, you’re not a vet. You’re a punk. You’re a (expletive), you’re a coward,'” Niblak said.

The video shows Niblak being thrown to the ground and cuffed by cops after complaining that he felt he was being racially profiled.

“The police are paranoid of us because we are terrified of them,” Niblak said.

The video ends as one of the cops violates the civil rights of the men by taking and throwing his camera, effectively forcing the man to stop exercising his First Amendment right to film.

“They grabbed his phone and threw it,” Niblak said.

When the officer stopped these gentlemen, they should have politely refused to give their names and then asked, “Am I being detained?” If the officer said “no,” they should have then calmly walked away. Incident over.

Or, if the officer says, “you are being detained,” they could have invoked their 5th amendment right to remain silent.

If you are ever arrested and the officer continues to question you, then use the magic words “I’m going to remain silent. I would like to see a lawyer.” If the officer is persistent in continuing the questions, repeat those words again. They are your best protection if the unfortunate situation arises in which you are arrested.

In this incident, police claim that there has been an increase in cellphone store burglaries, which led to the investigation. However, the issue isn’t with the initial investigation but the utter disrespect and contempt that these men were shown by police for simply questioning the actions of “authority.”

Perhaps if cops began to treat people as human beings, they would find less resistance amongst a large segment of the population.

“I would love for them to just train better,” Niblak said.

The instant storm trooper reaction seen in this video is the problem.

Until police decide to fix this authoritarian element within their own ranks, the calls for increased transparency and accountability for law enforcement will continue to grow louder.

You Wouldn't Believe the Reason This Man Is About to be Executed

In a case that has drawn the attention of Sister Helen Prejean, attorney says man was sentenced to death ‘because he’s poor.'
By Kristen Gwynne / The Guardian
September 14, 2015

Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip may be running out of time before Wednesday, when he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, but the attorneys fighting tooth-and-nail to convince Governor Mary Fallin to grant him a 60-day stay of execution announced this week that they have uncovered new information adding doubt to his already widely contested conviction.

In several new statements from sources with knowledge of the case, Glossip’s attorneys on Friday challenged the narrative of the prosecution’s most important witness and, days before he is to be executed, put new fuel on a fire that has been carried by several of Glossip’s high-profile supporters, including activist Sister Helen Prejean and actor Susan Sarandon.

At issue are several competing narratives of what happened one night in early January 1997, when Barry Van Treese was bludgeoned to death at his Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City. At trial, the prosecution claimed Glossip hired maintenance worker Justin Sneed to kill Van Treese, his boss, before he discovered money they say Glossip had embezzled. He and Glossip then split about $4,000 Sneed stole from Van Treese’s car, and covered up a window broken during Sneed’s struggle with Van Treese.

Glossip’s original defense argued that physical evidence placed only Sneed at the scene of the murder, and that shortages used to prove Glossip’s embezzlement were insignificant, as Van Treese’s brother, who took over the hotel after Van Treese’s death, testified in court.

Now, nearly 20 years later, a new legal team is arguing that the case against Glossip was built on the testimony of the actual murderer, whose account of the night grew more and more elaborate with each retelling and was not adequately disputed in trial as he cast blame on Glossip.

Glossip’s attorneys said “exonerations of death-sentenced inmates are common under similar circumstances”, in which testimony but no physical evidence ties them to the crime.

“Richard is sentenced to death because he’s poor,” Glossip’s new attorney Donald Knight told the Guardian. “Not very many people can afford a death penalty defense. That should scare everyone.”

With 60 more days, his attorneys say they could gather more evidence to present a petition allowing them to litigate in a court that could grant a new trial or a clemency review.

Twice convicted

Glossip was convicted in twice – in 1998 and at a retrial in 2004 – of murder. He came within a day of execution in January before being granted a stay, as his name was attached to a landmark supreme court appeal over the lethal injection drug midazolam, which has been used in several botched executions, including one in Oklahoma last year. In June, the court ruled the drug’s use to be constitutional, and Glossip’s date with death was set in July.

There is no DNA or nor any fingerprints linking him to the 1997 murder of Van Treese in the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City. His lawyers this week noted that the prosecutors themselves admitted in 2004 that “the physical evidence doesn’t directly implicate Mr Glossip”.

Rather, Glossip was convicted based on the testimony of Justin Sneed, a 19-year-old maintenance worker who, at various points during his police interrogation a week after the murder, said he didn’t know Van Treese, then that he didn’t kill van Treese, then that he had killed him accidentally, and then that he had killed him intentionally, under Glossip’s instruction. Eventually, Sneed agreed to a plea deal in which he would testify against Glossip to save himself from the death penalty.

Transcripts of the police interrogation show Sneed first denied any knowledge of the murder. “I don’t really know what to say about it,” he told investigators, stumbling over a story about his brother before admitting that he robbed Van Treese but “I only meant to knock him out”.

“The thing about it is, Justin, we think – we know that this involves more than just you, okay?” Detective Bob Bemo said to Sneed, later introducing Glossip as a snitch. “You know Rich is under arrest don’t you? … [H]e’s putting it on you the worst.”

Sneed’s story shifted.

“Actually, Rich asked me to kill Barry, that’s what he’d done,” Sneed said, and investigators took the conversation off-camera, where Sneed signed a plea deal.

In a version of events on which he would later elaborate even further, Sneed claimed Glossip woke him up and sent him into Van Treese’s room to get the keys to Van Treese’s car, where he stashed the cash profits he obtained during his bi-monthly visits to check up on his motel. Sneed said the two split the roughly $4,000 he found in the front seat.

‘Selling a product to the jury’

As the police and prosecutors began to build their case against Glossip, he says now, he began to realize how powerless he was to tell his side of the story. His new attorneys say the conviction is the result of an aggressive prosecution unmatched by a meek defense.

In 2001, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously and without oral argument overturned Glossip’s first conviction due to the inadequacy of his first and since disbarred counsel, Wayne Fournerat. The state retried Gosslip in 2004, but his public defenders grappled with the same problem of how to overpower the prosecution’s narrative.

“Basically, you’ve got prosecution trying to sell their product to the jury” – their product being the idea that Glossip offered to pay Sneed for Van Treese’s murder, Knight, Glossip’s new attorney, said of the trials. “Now, to be effective, you need a counter-narrative.” The juries didn’t get that counter-narrative, and Glossip was convicted of capital murder, twice.

At both trials, Glossip’s attorneys did not introduce the videotape of Sneed’s interrogation, which showed leading questions from investigators coaxing Sneed into implicating Glossip. Without the video showing how Sneed’s story changed, Glossip’s defense struggled to discredit Sneed’s evolving theories, the prosecution’s most influential testimony.

In its new reports, Glossip’s defense points out how Sneed’s testimony at trial became even more elaborate than it was in statements to investigators. While he had first claimed that Glossip called him in the middle of the night with instructions to kill Van Treese, Sneed at trial suggested premeditation. Glossip had been hounding him to commit the murder, he said, and even instructed him to “pick up some trash bags, a hacksaw, and muriatic acid” to dispose of the body after the fact.

Sneed’s daughter, O’Ryan Justine Sneed, attempted to save Glossip’s life by tarnishing her father’s credibility. In a letter to the Oklahoma Parole and Pardon board that arrived too late to be presented at Glossip’s October clemency hearing, she wrote: “I am sure that Mr Glossip did not do what my father originally said, that he did not hire my father to kill Mr Van Treese, and he doesn’t deserve to die over my father’s actions.”

She said her father implicated Glossip out of fear of the death penalty, and still fears recanting his testimony at the risk of losing his life.

In a statement released by the defense, Richard A Leo, a professor at the San Francisco University School of Law, says the tactics used by the investigating officers “are substantially likely to increase the risk of eliciting false statements, admissions, and confessions”. It was not Sneed who initiated the accusation that Glossip orchestrated Van Treese’s murder, Leo said, but investigators who “presumed the guilt of Richard Glossip from almost the start and sought to pressure and persuade Justin Sneed to implicate Richard Glossip”. To ensure Sneed’s testimony would support their theory, Leo said, investigators lied about witnesses testifying against him and implied that by failing to incriminate Glossip, he would face a harsher punishment for killing Van Treese.

Recently, a juror from Glossip’s first trial told Oklahoma City’s Fox 25 TV station: “If the defense would have presented the case that they are presenting now in the original trial, (and dare I say in even the jurors in the second), I would not have given a guilty verdict.” Though she thinks Glossip at least helped cover up the murder, she also believes Governor Fallin should implement a 60-day stay so the new evidence can be heard.

Knight told the Guardian Glossip’s second round of defense “did a pathetically horrible job of investigating the case”. In Knight’s filings to the governor’s office, he says the lawyers did not adequately prepare for trial and did not question key witnesses like D-Anna Wood, Glossip’s girlfriend, who could have provided alibis for Glossip when Sneed said he was helping him to cover up a crime.

The new attorneys say Glossip’s earlier defense lawyers did not challenge a gruesome bit of evidence adding a layer of malice to Glossip’s role. While the prosecution’s pathologist claimed that Van Treese was left in a pool of his own blood dying for up to eight hours, a Fox 25-commissioned review of the autopsy, cited as new evidence by the attorneys on Friday, found that Van Treese died within 30 minutes. Fox 25 said jurors at the second trial cited the importance of the claim that Glossip chose to leave Van Treese to die, rather than call police for his rescue, in their decision.

A coalition of support

Pro bono attorneys and investigators paid for through donations from “thousands of supporters” spent the past several weeks “working tirelessly to conduct the investigation that was never done prior to either trial”, Glossip’s team said on Friday.

“I never thought it would get this big and make this big a difference in the world,” Glossip told the Guardian in a phone interview.

As his execution date draws near, Glossip has received letters from inmates and supporters across the world, appeared on the Dr Phil show with Sarandon and Sister Prejean in August, and this week received an endorsement from Virgin mogul Richard Branson, who penned a blog post calling for his reprieve. More than 50,000 people have signed a petition urging Fallin to stop Glossip’s execution.

Former Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn put his name to a letter on Friday signed by several high-profile legal experts urging Fallon to keep Glossip alive.

“Unless you act, the State of Oklahoma will put Mr. Glossip to death for the murder of Barry Van Treese. Justin Sneed – who, by his own admission, beat Van Treese to death with a baseball bat – will not meet that fate,” they wrote.

“The writers of this letter have a wide range of professional backgrounds and political perspectives. But we share a deep concern about the integrity of the criminal justice system in Oklahoma and throughout the United States. We are particularly concerned about the danger of executing an innocent man.”

Glossip said he has learned through his encounter with US courts how flawed the criminal justice system is. “When I was out there, I didn’t understand that was happening – out of sight, out of mind. But when it happens to you, it wakes you up,” he told the Guardian. “I think execution, period, is a mistake. I don’t think there’s a humane way of doing it.

Glossip said though he was happy to be alive, he had prepared to face death. “I don’t want to be a martyr, and I don’t want to die. Believe me, I want to live, but if my death would stop anybody else from having to go through what I went through for 18 years, I’d be more than happy to die for them.

“I just want everyone to know the truth,” he said. “If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”

While Governor Fallin has defended Glossip’s execution and pointed to his two trial convictions, Glossip’s team of supporters have vowed to keep fighting. At 1.46am on Saturday, Knight said, he received a call from a guest who had been at the hotel the night of the murder. The man did not have information useful to Glossip’s team, he said, but the call is evidentiary of “how investigation has gone”.

“Some things happen, people see reports in the media, and all of the sudden, more people are coming forward. That seems to be how it continues to roll. There is no reason to believe that’s going to stop tomorrow or the next day,” Knight said.

“We are not finished, and will not be finished before Wednesday,” he added. There simply is not enough time.”

This story was amended on 14 September to correct the spelling of former senator Tom Coburn’s name.

Hey, TonyRM:

Just for you!


http://killedbypolice.net/

I didn't. I remember being a little wary on the way to Italy on my last trip there (I forget just what exact stuff we were up to then, but I figured people would assume I agreed, which I didn't, whatever it was). I'm not interested in screening who I am anyway. No problem, that was a silly early murmur of worry that I got over fast.

It's not just that (3rd sketch in)

New video released show Cops killing a Native American
Police Murdered Native American Man, New Video Proves They Lied To Cover It Up

is dying words were “what’s wrong with you guys?” Thomas Morado was an eye-witness to the police execution of Paul Castaway, 35-year-old full-blooded rosebud Native American man.

Police initially tried to cover their tracks, saying that Castaway had “stabbed” his mother, and “charged” at officers with a knife.

“He didn’t stab me in the neck. He was drunk,” Lynn Eagle Feather explained.

“I told the cops he was mentally ill. He was schizophrenic. I called for help. I didn’t call for them to kill him,” Paul’s mother added.

Now couple her testimony that says the cops lied and she was never stabbed with the fact that she was never medically treated for a stab wound.

Now here’s the real game-changer: there is s surveillance video that shows the police were lying through their teeth. The only thing is, the manager of Capital City mobile home park has the video, but he said he is only letting media and family watch it, though police say he made them a copy that is “part of an on-going investigation.”

Now that video has been released. Take a look and see for yourself: the police executed Paul Castaway.



He doesn’t trust the police enough to turn it over to them, as he knows it will somehow conveniently “disappear” if he gives it to them.

Those who have seen it say that it “shows Paul Castaway, 35, coming up from behind a white mobile home, through a black iron fence onto the street and around a wooden fence, which is a dead end,” according to local Fox 31 Denver.

The officer shoots Paul, on the video, while Castaway has only threatened himself. No police, no family, no anyone else was threatened besides himself.

The police lied. They lied to cover up an execution.

“We will miss him. We’ll miss him,” Castaway’s cousin, Thomas Morado said.

His family gathered at the spot where Paul was murdered, to pay their respects and burn white sage to send him off in a traditional manner.

“He was probably trying to figure out a place to run. And they didn’t let him go. They trapped him like a mouse and they killed him,” Rick Morado, Paul’s cousin said.

Denver police claimed Castaway charged two officers with a knife, and they had “no choice” but to shoot him. We now know that is a lie.

“Next thing, we heard three shots. I walked outside and I saw two officers handcuffing a man,” a neighbor, Irvin told local reporters.




WARNING!!!!


GRAPHIC VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!







http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/09/paul-castaway-video/

Follow-up: Former Cuero police officer confesses to running over wife, sentenced to 8 years
Former police officer confesses to running over wife

August 13, 2015

CUERO - As the shrill sound of a metal detector echoed in a historic Cuero courtroom and shackled men shifted in their seats, a former police officer confessed to running over his wife.

Corey Tolbert stepped up to the bench Thursday before Judge Skipper Koetter and pleaded no contest to reckless assault causing serious bodily injury.

Tolbert handed Koetter a judicial confession admitting to running over his wife but not doing so intentionally.

Judge Joseph P. (Pat) Kelly will decide his punishment after hearing evidence about his crime and his character next week.

Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/aug/13/former-police-officer-confesses-to-running-over-wi/

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Ex-wives testify against former officer

August 18, 2015

CUERO - William "Butch" Tolbert has been the volunteer fire chief for four decades.

But Tuesday, he said he has never - in his vast experience of firefighting and extracting motorists from wrecked vehicles - medically assessed anyone.

With only a basic first-aid course under his belt and a flashlight, Tolbert said he found his daughter-in-law lying on the ground in rural DeWitt County sometime after 8:41 p.m. April 17, 2014. He said he didn't initially think she was injured even though his son, former Cuero police officer Corey Tolbert, admitted he had hit her.

"I tried to rouse her because I didn't know what was wrong with her," Tolbert told Senior District Judge Joseph P. Kelly. "I saw no marks on her."

Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/aug/18/trial-starts-for-former-officer-accused-of-assault/

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Assault victim testifies in husband's trial

August 21, 2015

CUERO - Former Cuero police officer Corey Tolbert walked into court Thursday morning holding his wife's hand and walked out Thursday afternoon in handcuffs.

After deliberating about one hour, Senior District Judge Joseph Patrick Kelly sentenced Tolbert to eight years in prison for running over his wife, Elizabeth Tolbert, after a drunken argument the night of April 17, 2014.

"I hope this will soon be put behind you," Kelly said, adjusting a large stack of notes he took throughout the three-day trial. "Good luck."

Elizabeth Tolbert's sisters, whom she has severed ties with, rushed afterward to shake District Attorney Michael Sheppard's hand. Some cried happy tears.

Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/aug/20/assault-victim-testifies-in-husbands-trial/

I was thinking about the story and found that the case had come to a close. This is the case where he ran over his wife and left her out in the field at their ranch with a broken hip and other injuries. Meanwhile, his father who is head of the volunteer fire department came over to make coffee and sober the son up.

Earlier thread and newspaper article:
Cuero police officer indicted on assaulting wife; defense attorney raises concerns about bias May 14, 2014
Cuero police officer indicted for assaulting wife resigns May 15, 2014

The Rude Pundit - Cops Don't Deserve Your Anger, According to Cop Leader

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/09/cops-are-never-wrong-according-to-cop.html

Bullying, power-mad New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch wants you to know that your lying eyes are meaningless when it comes to the innately good judgment of NYPD officers. Specifically, **** you, you scum, for daring to think that Officer James Frascatore might not have had a damn good reason for tackling the **** out of former professional tennis player James Blake: "If you have never struggled with someone who is resisting arrest or who pulled a gun or knife on you when you approached them for breaking a law, then you are not qualified to judge the actions of police officers putting themselves in harm's way for the public good."

Yeah, walk a mile in their motherfuckin' shoes, dicks. Lynch goes on, "In the unfortunate case of former tennis pro, James Blake, -- who was clearly but mistakenly identified by a complainant -- there certainly can be mitigating circumstances which caused the officer to handle the situation in the manner he did." So obviously, the cop thought Blake was a violent criminal capable of...oh, what? The crime was credit card fraud? You ******* kidding? Then **** that thug, Frascatore, and the mob boss, Lynch, who is trying to cover the thug's ass.

Lynch says, "(N)o one should ever jump to an uninformed conclusion based upon a few seconds of video. Let all of the facts lead where they will" and that cops should get a pass on such judgment because "of the dangers we routinely face." Attacking reporters all the way through, Lynch concludes, "Due process is the American way of obtaining justice, not summary professional execution called for by editorial writers."

Tell you what's not "due process," asshole. When cops routinely use excessive force in cases like this, like Eric Garner, like many, many other ones where people are either innocent or have committed, at best, non-violent crimes. And let's not even get into the militarization of the cops that has made **** so much worse, with entire SWAT teams beating up and degrading people based on misinformation. Officers in those moments are pretty much saying, "**** due process," and becoming judge, jury, and, in the worst cases, executioner, doing **** that, without a badge, would put anyone behind bars. The cops routinely deny people the rights that Lynch whines that his officers deserve. Respect gets respect, ******.

At one point in his pissy little screed, Lynch bitches about accusations against Frascatore, "That is irresponsible, unjust and un-American." No, that's free speech, man. We know you have a problem with constitutional rights, but, Jesus, that's an easy one.

Look, being a cop can be a suck-ass gig. We get that. You have to deal with **** that nobody not on the job would ever understand. We keep hearing that it's only a few bad apples, that most police officers are good people who want to work to make their communities better. But you gotta be willing to give up the shitheads who **** it up for you, who make you seem like you're the enemy. This Frascatore ********** should have been out of a job a long time ago.

And, frankly, Lynch looks like a total stooge for not getting out front and saying, "Yeah, this guy needs to go. He makes the rest of us look like ****."

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/09/cops-are-never-wrong-according-to-cop.html

Police Union Head Calls Criticism Of James Blake's Assault By NYPD 'Un-American'

Patrick Lynch, head of the New York City police union, unleashed a pointed letter on Tuesday, addressed to what he called “arm-chair judges” of the NYPD’s misidentifying, tackling, detaining and handcuffing of former tennis star James Blake.

“The men and women of the NYPD are once again disheartened to read another the knee-jerk reaction from ivory tower pundits who enjoy the safety provided by our police department without understanding the very real risks that we take to provide that safety,” Lynch said.

He also called the criticism of the NYPD based on the silent security camera footage “irresponsible, unjust and un-American.”

http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/09/16/3702428/police-union-chief-says-criticizing-nypd-for-james-blake-incident-is-un-american/

I know, I know. I avoid those people too. (I'm remembering some loud Texans in Mexico City..) I've talked with a hotel clerk in Lucca about the american spaghetti-eaters (groups who are taken to tourist restaurants en masse), his description. We were watching a tennis match in the small lobby at the time. We got along great (myself with sketchy italian, he with better english than my italian) for the whole match, except he clucked mild displeasure when I wanted a second ice cube in my Compari. He was impressed that I was traveling alone and re what I had been seeing/doing.