The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

that pretty much says it all

A cop is responsible for seeing that justice is done, not your therapy.

just got this from occombill

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-body-camera-study_561d2ea1e4b028dd7ea53a56

I just bet they are looking the other way far more often when it come to minor crimes.

As far as downsides not enforcing the laws for fear of careers ending problems might be consider a downside.

And no mention of the possible changes to arrest and crime rates. Wake me when you have the whole story.

EDIT: And we need force morale numbers too. I am so ******* sick of simpletons.

Georgia grand jury examines police killing of unarmed, naked man
Source: Reuters

Georgia grand jury examines police killing of unarmed, naked man
Reuters
By David Beasley
6 hours ago

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia grand jury on Thursday reviewed the shooting death of an unarmed, naked black man by a white police officer at a suburban Atlanta apartment complex last March, prosecutors and the family's attorney said.

The death of Anthony Hill, 27, came as a spate of killings in the United States have raised questions about excessive use of force by police, particularly against black men.

No charges have been brought so far against the officer, Robert Olsen of the DeKalb County police department.

Hill was a U.S. Air Force veteran who suffered from bipolar disorder, according to his relatives. He was shot on March 9 after police found him crawling naked, knocking on apartment doors and "acting deranged," DeKalb County police said.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/georgia-grand-jury-examines-police-killing-unarmed-naked-145702113.html

VIDEO: Family Assaulted by Cops for 'Suspicion of Breastfeeding,' Dad Arrested for No Reason

The family was getting gas when their world was quickly turned upside down by badged agitators.
By Matt Agorist / The Free Thought Project
October 22, 2015

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Family Assaulted by Cops for "Suspicion of Breast Feeding," Dad Arrested for No Reason
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Charles County, MD — A video posted to Facebook this week shows the grim and infuriating reality of incompetent and power tripping cops in police state USA.

Local artist, DC Prophitt was doing nothing wrong when he was approached by multiple Charles County Sheriff’s deputies. The deputies mistakenly thought that Prophitt’s girlfriend was breastfeeding their baby in the vehicle, so he decided to ruin their year.
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The family was getting gas when their world was quickly turned upside down by badged agitators.

When the video begins, Prophitt is understandably aggravated by the stop and he was unafraid of voicing this emotion. As a deputy attempts to cite the couple for the non-existent “breastfeeding violation,” Prophitt becomes even more upset.

“You say one more curse word, you’re going to jail,” says the deputy.

“Can we just get the ticket and go?” asks Prophitt’s girlfriend. “My daughters are in there.”

At this point, the deputy then grabs the woman and forces her to the other side of the vehicle. He then begins to threaten her with arrest too.

When Prophitt gets upset that the deputy is assaulting his girlfriend, he voices his concern to which the deputy replies, “Now you’re under arrest.”

When the couple asks why Prophitt is being arrested, the deputy asserts his authority, claiming that he is responsible for regulating how people should act in public. “There’s a certain way to act in public my friend, and that is not it,” spouts the deputy.

When his girlfriend protests again, she is told to “Sit in the car! Or you will be arrested too!”

The video ends abruptly. According to Prophitt, however, his girlfriend did not stop recording. After police put Prophitt in the patrol car, they approached his girlfriend, assaulted her, took the camera, and confiscated her phone.

The phone was given back to them only days before the court date on Wednesday and the subsequent assault and camera snatching was deleted.

According to Prophitt, On Wednesday, he was found guilty of all charges and police are blaming him for the negative calls to the department from people who’ve seen his ridiculous arrest.

In the video below, a man was arrested, a woman assaulted, and state violence threatened — for what? There were no victims, no property had been damaged, and no one was harmed. This is the type of behavior by police that is driving a wedge in society between the state and everyone else.

Of course, people will say that Prophitt should have just been quiet, accepted the ticket, and he would have avoided the arrest. This is probably true. However, Prophitt’s anger is entirely understandable. He had harmed no one, yet he was surrounded by multiple armed state antagonists, who could and would have killed him with impunity.

Watch the incident, as posted online, below.

Cop Not Facing Charges After Helping His Brother Get Rid of Murdered Girlfriend’s Body

According to investigators, traces of blood were found on a blanket and trunk of a police cruiser that was registered to Nick Houck.
By John Vibes / The Free Thought Project
October 21, 2015



Bardstown, Kentucky – Police Officer Nick Houck is under investigation for helping his brother dispose of his murdered girlfriend’s body, and investigators say that forensic evidence ties him to the cover-up. Also, both Nick and his brother Brooks claim that they have temporary amnesia and can’t remember anything that happened during the time of the murder.

According to investigators, traces of blood were found on a blanket and trunk of a Bardstown Police cruiser that was registered to Nick Houck.

Detectives say that Brooks Houck confronted his girlfriend about an affair she was having and ended up killing her, then called his cop brother to help him get rid of the evidence.

During an interview after the murder, detectives told Nick about the case that they had against him.

“We all have times where something just happens. He probably found out that some other police officer or some other person in the town was cracking Crystal, and that very easily could happen … Your brother found out about it, confronted Crystal about it and when he did, he probably tried to maybe do something to her, as far as making her understand that wasn’t going to fly with him. And then after that point, maybe it went just a little bit too far. And when it went a little bit too far, he couldn’t turn back time. And when he couldn’t turn back time, who’s he going to reach out to, but the one person he trusts and knows that will help him out, and that would be you,”they said, attempting to coax a confession out of him.

“Why would your trunk look like a Smurf if they sprayed it? Why would it fluoresce?” one detective asked Nick.

“It lit up like Chernobyl,” he added.

“I don’t have any idea. There shouldn’t be any bodily fluids in the trunk,” Nick replied.

There is also video evidence that shows both of the brothers entering and leaving the family farm just after the murder occurred.

“What we need to know is why you both went down to the farm,” the detective asked Nick.

“I can’t remember,” he replied, adding that“I’m not going to cover something like this up for him. I’m just not that kind of guy. Furthermore, there’s no way he had anything to do with this. If something has happened to her, it wasn’t because of something he did.”

To make matters even more suspicious, Nick agreed to take a polygraph test after the interview but never showed up. Then after he was fired from the police department, he finally did take the test and he failed miserably. Houck was ultimately fired, but he has yet to face any criminal charges.

Below is the interview that Kentucky State Police had with former officer Nick Houck.



John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist.

Watching the video I see what the problem was. He was black and everyone knows that is against the law in most parts these days.

Cop Off the Job After Pleading Guilty to Attacking a Man and Biting His Testicles

Prosecutors dropped the second-degree assault charge while negotiating for a guilty plea.
By Andrew Emett / The Free Thought Project
October 20, 2015

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After pleading guilty to public intoxication and endangering the safety of another person, a police corporal has recently lost his job. During the incident, the officer was accused of biting a man in the testicles on Cinco de Mayo.
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Baltimore, MD — After pleading guilty to public intoxication and endangering the safety of another person, a police corporal has recently lost his job. During the incident, the officer was accused of biting a man in the testicles on Cinco de Mayo. Although the officer was originally charged with second-degree assault, prosecutors dropped the charge while negotiating for a guilty plea.

At 11:47 p.m. on May 5, police officers responded to an assault call in the alley behind a Baltimore bar called Looney’s Pub. According to the police report, off-duty Anne Arundel County Cpl. Michael Flaig was inappropriately groping the victim’s female roommate when the victim asked him to stop. After Cpl. Flaig refused, the off-duty cop waited outside the bar with another man to ambush the victim.
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As the victim began walking home, Flaig ran up from behind and tried to punch him in the face. After ducking the punch, the victim successfully fought off his assailants until Flaig pulled him to the ground. When the victim began straddling Flaig in an attempt to prevent him from escaping, the off-duty cop bit him in the testicles before fleeing.

“The bitee actually got the better of him in the fistfight. After we broke them up is when he disclosed he’d been bitten in the testicles,” witness Thomas Bourne told WBALTV. “He was upset, took him a long time to calm down. He indicated he needed medical assistance. He was bleeding in his area after what happened.”

Officers found an inebriated Flaig hiding on the second floor of the bar with fresh bloodstains on his polo shirt. Charged with second-degree assault and an alcohol offense, Flaig initially faced up to 10 years in prison or $2,500 for the assault charge and 90 days or $100 for the alcohol charge.

“The state agreed not to prosecute him for the assault in exchange for his agreement to plead guilty,” stated Flaig’s attorney, Peter O’Neill.

After pleading guilty to public intoxication and endangering the safety of another person, Flaig was sentenced to one year of supervised probation and ordered to pay $57.50 in court costs. As a result of the incident, Flaig was placed on administrative duty. According to Anne Arundel County police spokesman Lt. Ryan Frashure, Flaig left the department for unspecified reasons on September 23.

Although multiple people witnessed the testicle-biting incident, and the assailant was covered in blood, the prosecution dropped the assault charge for a plea bargain. But the question remains: were the prosecutors incompetent or biased due to their working relationship with law enforcement?


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I wonder has it always been this way with runaway cops doing whatever they want because they wear a badge and we only know about it because of smart phones recording their behavior?

Had she actually been breastfeeding, when did breastfeeding in a car become against the law? (Or, being black, for that matter?) We had one or more fairly long threads on breastfeeding quite a while ago now; I remember some arguing about breastfeeding in restaurants, but not the consensus.

I'm ignorant about smart phones. Does the phone company have records of how long the camera part of the phone was on?

Smart phones have cameras in them so now everything gets recorded. It's a good thing to make authorities accountable for their actions. People didn't use to just carry cameras around with them until the invent of the smart phone.

Police Murders Waiting to Happen: the Casual Use of Undercover Cops
October 23, 2015
Police Murders Waiting to Happen: the Casual Use of Undercover Cops
by Dave Lindorff

The police slaying of musician Corey Jones in South Florida highlights one of the most reprehensible aspects of law enforcement in America — the ubiquitous undercover cop.

As yourself: What was a police officer doing driving along the highway at 3 in the morning wearing blue jeans, a T-shirt and a baseball cap in the posh neighborhood of Palm Beach Gardens? He wasn’t undercover for the purpose of infiltrating a gang. He wasn’t trying to fit into some commercial or street scene where there was a lot of suspected crime going on. He was just driving around randomly on patrol in a community known for its paucity of crime. And when he stopped at the dark entrance ramp to I-95, allegedly to check on what he claims he thought was an abandoned vehicle on the side of the road (where Jones’ van had stalled out on him and he was waiting for road assistance to arrive), this cop didn’t turn on any flashing police lights, which at least would have suggested to anyone in the van that he was a almost certainly a cop.

He just walked towards the van.

Now if you were someone like Jones, a lone black musician with some valuable drums and equipment in your vehicle, and you saw someone like Officer Nauman Raja approaching you in the dark, you’d be scared — especially if Raja had his gun drawn, as he well might have, given how he was approaching the vehicle unannounced.

The last thing you’d suspect would be that he was a police officer.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/23/police-murders-waiting-to-happen-the-casual-use-of-undercover-cops/

I'm wondering re when the phone was shut off by police (I take it) and when it had continued and stopped.


I'm an old camera user but not up to date on all this stuff.. way over my head.

No, the phone co can't log that. There are apps now that stream live to cloud so police cannot delete any footage from the camera. There are a lot of people filming the police these days and hopefully it will train the police force to stop assuming guilt until proven innocent. Let's go back to the Adam-12 days when cops were people I wouldn't be afraid to have my kid talk to.

It would also be nice to go back to the days when cops could pump gas or sit in their patrol cars doing paperwork with out any concern that some nut fuel by hate generated by BLM and such anti-cop outfits shooting them in the back.

PS the overwhelming percents of cops are just people with kids of their own that is doing a thankless and needed job.

I agree that most cops are fine people. Just like most Muslims are.

It doesn't take very many bad ones though to sour the bunch.