The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

Autopsy: Milwaukee cop shot mentally-ill black man from above and behind, 14 times
Source: Raw Story

Autopsy: Milwaukee cop shot mentally-ill black man from above and behind, 14 times
David Edwards
03 Dec 2014 at 17:17 ET

A lawyer representing the family of an African-American mentally ill man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in Milwaukee said this week that the autopsy report had called the shooting into question.

Earlier this year, then-Officer Christopher Manney had confronted 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton for sleeping in a park, even though other officers had determined that Hamilton had done nothing wrong. Police said at the time that the confrontation escalated into a struggle when Hamilton grabbed Manney’s baton and began hitting the officer with it.

Police Chief Edward Flynn fired Manney for ignoring department rules about dealing with emotionally disturbed people, but refused to prosecute the officer for “making mistakes” after he shot Hamilton 14 times.

On Monday, Hamilton family attorney Jonathan Safran revealed details of the autopsy for the first time.

“Dontre did have blunt force trauma injuries to his head and face,” Safran said. “We wanted there to be more evidence about the 14 shots that were fired. Seven of those would appear to be in a downward direction based upon the medical examiner’s report. One of the shots being into Dontre’s back.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/autopsy-milwaukee-cop-shot-mentally-ill-black-man-from-above-and-behind-14-times/

Ferguson Prosecutor Indicted Black Cop For Hitting Man's Hand

In July of this year, Bob McCulloch charged a black police officer, Dawon Gore, 44, with second degree assault for "striking a MetroLink passenger on the hand with his expandable baton," according to a CBS Local news report.
Gore, a 13-year veteran of the force, was placed in jail on a $3,500 cash-only bond.

Bob McCulloch is the St. Louis County prosecutor who decided to put the decision of whether or not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown to a grand jury — a decision his spokesman acknowledged was strange, as in cases like these, the prosecutor will usually ask a jury to endorse a charge, rather than leaving it entirely up to them.

I'm not going to pretend that I'm a legal expert and that I in any way have a full understanding of the ins and outs of these two cases, but the side-by-side comparison of the charges these two officers faced seems to speak for itself.

Darren Wilson, a white man, fires multiple shots at an unarmed 18-year-old black teen, killing him, and receives no charges. Dawon Gore, a black man, hits a 24-year-old subway passenger with his baton, and is charged with second degree assault, placed in jail on a $3,500 cash-only bond and is suspended with no pay. If convicted, Gore faces up to seven years in prison.
http://ie.askmen.com/news/power_money/ferguson-prosecutor-indicted-black-cop-for-hitting-man-s-hand.html

it seems the Ferguson DA CAN indict a cop. when he wants to. i am sure the fact that the ONE cop he indicted is black is just another ******* coincidence. sure.

Goes to show that this this prosecutor is willing to consider use of force charges against cops. He sounds like he is better than most.

Hawkeye if is interesting all this postings of white and black cops and you have to wonder if the poster theory is that if it was a black cop in the place of officer Wilson if the black cop would not have fired on a 300 pound man charging him after he had already hit the cop a number of times and try to seized his gun.

Next if Mr. Brown had been white and Wilson black I can not see any great calls by the white community to have the cop charge with any crime less alone days of rioting and looting over the matter.

Unarmed black man killed by white Phoenix officer
Source: USA Today

PHOENIX — The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the racially charged police incidents in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and elsewhere.

In Phoenix on Tuesday evening, a white police officer who was feeling threatened used lethal force on an unarmed black man. The incident left the officer unharmed and Brisbon, 34, dead with two bullet wounds in his torso at a north Phoenix apartment complex.

Phoenix police quickly released a detailed account of the killing for the media on Wednesday morning in what officials said was an effort to promote transparency, especially in light of the unrest that has played out in Ferguson and New York City following the deaths of unarmed Black men at the hands of White officers. But portions of that account have already been challenged by some witnesses and community activists who say that the officer's use of force was excessive and that Brisbon's death was unwarranted.

Shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, officers were in the area of Interstate 17 and Greenway Road for a burglary investigation when a resident of an apartment complex told them that men inside a black Cadillac SUV were engaged in a drug deal, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/04/phoenix-police-unarmed-man-killed-by-officer/19878931/

Road-raging off-duty cop shot woman in the head because she honked at him
Scott Kaufman

30 Nov 2014 at 12:36 ET

A Houston woman was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer after she honked at him for cutting her off, KHOU 11 reports.

The victim — who did not wish to be identified for fear of retaliation — said that she was driving on the 610 Loop when Kenneth Caplan cut her off.

“He was about to hit me,” she said, “so I switched to the other lane, got in front of him and cut him off. I guess that pissed him off,” because he pulled alongside her, rolled down his window and opened fire.

“He was aiming at me and I thought he was going to cuss me out. It didn’t register that I was, you know, going to get shot. I just started crying because I knew I was going to die,” the victim said. “I wanted to call my mom to tell her ‘I love you.’”

One bullet grazed her head, opening a gaping wound that would not stop bleeding.

“I was like ‘oh my God, he just shot me.’ I was applying pressure to my head because it wouldn’t stop bleeding,” the victim said. “The blood was in between my nails, just crazy blood, and all over my cellphone, just covered.”

She was, however, able to pull over to the side of the road and call 911.

Investigators would not say what evidence led them to identify Caplan as the shooter, but his home district released the following statement:

“Kenneth Caplan was not on duty at the time of the incident in which he was involved nor was he displaying any article connecting him to the Harris County Constable’s Office – Precinct 6. The Harris County Constable’s Office – Precinct 6 neither condones nor tolerates the actions taken by Kenneth Caplan that connected him to this incident, and the necessary measures were taken to collect his credentials and remove him from our status.”

Watch a report on the incident via KHOU 11 below.

http://newsone.com/2264773/christopher-simmons-forest-park-georgia-cop-saves-mans-life/

Georgia Cop Saves Man’s Life After He Stops Breathing
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Mar 5, 2013
By NewsOne Staff

A Georgia man is alive today because of the quick thinking of his mother and the heroic actions of a local police officer, WXIA-TV reports.

On Tuesday night, 41-year-old Keith Haynes, of Forest Park, Ga., woke up complaining of breathing problems. Lynda Tyler said her son called her and she picked him up and immediately rushed him towards Southern Regional Medical Center. “He said mom, please drive fast,” she said. “He said mom, I can’t breathe.”

Her son collapsed against the dashboard before she could get to the hospital.

“While I was driving he got stiff, he seized and he just went limp,” she said. “He stopped breathing on me.” Tyler was still miles away from the hospital and was unsure of how to help her dying son. But she saw a parked police car at a BP gas station. She pulled into the BP station and ran inside where she found Forest Park officer Christopher Simmons who happened to be on his coffee break.

He followed Tyler and her brother, who also was in the vehicle, out to her pick up truck where Haynes was found passed out. It was raining heavily outside, so officer Simmons, Tyler and her brother brought Haynes inside of the station. At first, the officer tried to wake Haynes up because he thought he was asleep. After he got nothing, Simmons began CPR on the man. His mother is seen on surveillance video walking around hysterically, praying to God that her son would eventually wake up.

“You see on the file, I was just walking up and down saying, ‘Jesus! Jesus, help him,'” she said. “And I kept asking the officer, ‘is he breathing yet, is he breathing.'”

After several minutes, the officer was able to get a good pulse on Haynes. A police officer in the right place, at the right time, was able to son a dying man. “I think him so much from the bottom of my heart for helping him,” Tyler said. “I really do. I really do.”

Officer Simmons is equally touched by the experience.

“It’s an incredible feeling I can’t describe to be able to help someone, to save a human life. Absolutely humbling.

Personally, instead of calling my mom to come over and drive me to a hospital, I'd call 911 and request an ambulance.

He is lucky that his mother came across the police officer when she did.

Still molesting children? Better hope someone's mom doesn't call the cops on you when you're choking on some kid's dingaling. Drop dead.

APD officer fired after shooting death of suspect...




On April 21 cops in Albuquerque shot and killed 19-year-old Mary Hawkes, who was suspected of auto theft. It was the third fatal shooting by officers from the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) in a month and the first since the Department of Justice (DOJ) had announced the results of its review of civil rights violations and abuses by the APD. The assistant attorney general who made that announcement insisted that even though the DOJ found a likely pattern and practice of civil rights abuses, it wasn't singling out any individual officer or questioning the character of the department's members.

"We recognize that many of you are dedicated public servants who wear your badge with distinction," said Jocelyn Samuels, the assistant attorney general. "We do not intend our findings today to mean that you must needlessly risk your lives or safety. You must come home safely to your family and loved ones."

The feds may have declined to target any specific officer that may be contributing to the pattern and practice of abuse but at least in the case of the shooting of Mary Hawkes the APD showed it might be interested in actually disciplining officers contributing to the department's problems. Officers of the APD are equipped with body cameras. Footage from such cameras has helped bring attention to questionable police shootings like that of a knife- or brake pad-wielding man in December or that of a homeless camper in March that sparked protests across New Mexico.

The officer who shot and killed Hawkes did not have his lapel camera turned on. He insists he turned it on prior to the encounter but it was off and the manufacturer said they couldn't determine if the officer was being truthful. Now the officer, Jeremy Dear, has been fired.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/03/albuquerque-pd-fires-cop-for-not-turning

What in the world is going on with cops now-a-days? It seems like every day a fresh murder cop story emerges. I think Obama has the right idea, there does need to be some kind of reform in the police force nation wide.

For a while I couldn't stand to come back to this thread, but now I have more than half the posters on ignore so I don't have to read their idiotic defenses of these issues. I personally think some day they are going to be on the wrong side of history, I mean this situation can not continue unaddressed.

This reply is distastefully over the line.

Read some of his and get back to me.

Oralboy has openly fantasised about killing Italian babies on the Amanda Knox thread. Don't you think killing babies is worse than what Bob accused him of?

A Grand Jury Did Indict One Person Involved In Eric Garner's Killing -- The Man Who Filmed It
Source: Huffington Post

On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to return an indictment for the police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold shortly before his death. A different Staten Island grand jury was less sympathetic to Ramsey Orta, however, the man who filmed the entire incident.

In August, less than a month after filming the fatal July 17 encounter in which Daniel Pantaleo and other NYPD police officers confronted Garner for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes, a grand jury indicted Orta on weapons charges stemming from an arrest by undercover officers earlier that month.

Police alleged that Orta had slipped a .25 caliber handgun into a teenage accomplice's waistband outside a New York hotel. Orta testified that the charges were falsely mounted by police in retaliation for his role in documenting Garner's death, but the grand jury rejected his contention, charging him with single felony counts of third-degree criminal weapon possession and criminal firearm possession.

In Garner's case, on the other hand, jurors determined there was not probable cause that Pantaleo had committed any crime. A medical examiner ruled Garner's death homicide in part resulting from the chokehold, a restraining move banned by the NYPD in 1993.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/ramsey-orta-indictment-eric-garner_n_6264746.html