[BartSimpson]

You should have seen Holtzclaw crying as the verdict was read. He was genuinely surprised that he got the book thrown at him.

[BeaverFever]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You should have seen Holtzclaw crying as the verdict was read. He was genuinely surprised that he got the book thrown at him.

Actually that's how I found out about this story. A TV in the lunchroom at work was on CNN and they were pretty much just playing footage of him blubbering on a continuous loop. I hear the guy is on suicide watch now

[2Cdo]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You should have seen Holtzclaw crying as the verdict was read. He was genuinely surprised that he got the book thrown at him.

Lets face it, he got a death sentence. He's both a sex offender and a cop which ranks right at the top of the hit list inmates have on other inmates..

[BeaverFever]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You should have seen Holtzclaw crying as the verdict was read. He was genuinely surprised that he got the book thrown at him.

Lets face it, he got a death sentence. He's both a sex offender and a cop which ranks right at the top of the hit list inmates have on other inmates..

He'll be in protective custody for sure. Even in the US prison system, he;ll probably live out his natural years in jail.

[BeaverFever]

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Missouri police chief resigns after caging family’s lost puppy at a gun range and shooting it




Police Chief Andrew Spencer resigned this week after it was revealed that he shot and killed an innocent dog that was in a cage and meant no one any harm. To make matters even worse, he took the puppy to a firing range and killed it there because he did not want to deal with finding its home.

Spencer found the dog and managed to get it into a cage using a catcher pole. He then wrote in his report that he had planned to take the dog to a shelter where it would be “destroyed,” but then he got another call about a car accident so he decided to do it himself.

The report said that he had planned to go to “the cheapest vet to destroy the dog at the cost of the city.” However, the report continued “Due to the higher priority call and the imminent destruction of the dog, I decided it was best to destroy the dog and respond to the accident.”

After the fact, Spencer claimed that the dog was charging at people in the neighborhood. However, he said that he did not believe that the dog bit anyone, otherwise he would have had it taken to the vet and tested for rabies.

Also, at the time the dog was shot, it was in a cage and thus not a threat to anyone. If Spencer just had a little bit more patience and compassion, he would have found that the family of the lost puppy was looking all over the town for him. Owner Elizabeth Womack said that her puppy Chase was extremely peaceful and friendly animal.

Womack wrote on her Facebook page how she attempted to contact the police and was lied to on several occasions about the incident. Eventually, she was told by the police Chief that he shot and killed her dog, and that they would be free to identify him if they wanted to go dig him up.

Womack said:

“I was told by a police officer that they didn’t catch any dogs that day. He said they got a call about Chase, but responded to an assault call instead. So we called for a whole week trying reach chief Andrew Spencer. He did nothing but give us a run around for days. So we called all dog pounds and shelters and rescue one where we got Chase from. A few days later we get a call from chief Spencer, saying he had shot a pit bull chow mix that he picked up in the trailer park down the road from us. He told us He buried him in the sludge field if we wanted to make sure it was him. We didn’t find any freshly dug holes anywhere. So we tried the Sparta shooting range but we only found a pile of burnt meth pipes, cell phones and pill bottles. Then we found out from our neighbor on Friday evening that Chase had been picked up from an unmarked police car in front of our house. So we call and call and call trying to get a hold of chief Spencer again. To pick up our dog. Finally, 5 days later, chief Spencer contacted us saying he dug him up and left him at the police station. We picked him up that night after work. He was wrapped in a garbage bag, no traces of dirt on him or the trash bag anywhere. We got the police report. It never showed who he supposedly bit. So we took our fur baby home after searching for him for a week and laid him to rest.”

The excuses Spencer gave for his actions are not acceptable. The dog was in a cage and could have been easily transported while Spencer responded to his other call. The dog could have remained in the car and in the cage as it would be highly unlikely that the entire car would be needed for an accident. If Chase was able to live just a few more hours he would have likely been reunited with his family.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/missour ... ed-for-it/


Another report noted that the "Chief" is Sparta's only police officer, so now the town of 1,700 is now cop-less. Probably for the best; a town that small should just contract with the county Sheriff dept or State police anyway. When there's only one cop in town, it's probably going to be a bad situation one way the other.

[BartSimpson]

Google the term "puppycide". Seems that shooting dogs is a virtual sport in some jurisdictions.

[DrCaleb]

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Cop who wanted to photograph teen’s erection in sexting case commits suicide

The Virginia police officer who wanted to photograph a 17-year-old boy's erect penis in connection to a juvenile sexting case committed suicide Tuesday as authorities went to arrest him on pedophilia-related charges. Those charges were not connected to last year's sexting case that received global media coverage.

Authorities planned to chemically induce an erection in a 17-year-old boy.

Detective David Edward Abbott, a member of the Northern Virginia-Washington DC Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, last year had obtained a warrant to inject a young boy with a drug that would cause an erection. Abbott wanted to photograph that erection and compare it with photos found on a 15-year-old girl's phone. Amid a public outcry, the Manassas City police eventually decided against doing that. The 17-year-old boy got a year of probation for sexting his teen girlfriend.

Abbott then sued the boy's attorney. He claimed Jessica Foster caused him "severe emotional distress" when The Washington Post reported that "Foster said Detective Abbott told her that after obtaining photos of the teen's erect penis he would use 'special software to compare pictures of this penis to this penis. Who does this? It's just crazy.'"

The story only gets more twisted.

. . .

When a group of detectives converged Tuesday on the officer's Gainesville, Virginia, home to arrest Abbott, he refused to surrender. Instead, he pulled out a gun and shot himself, police said.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015 ... s-suicide/

[BartSimpson]

A pederast with a badge? Good riddance.

[DrCaleb]

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Cop Who Threatened To Kill Ferguson Protesters Says His Life Is ‘Ruined’

Ray Albers pointed an assault rifle at demonstrators and said, “I will f**king kill you.”

A former police lieutenant forced out of his department after he pointed a semiautomatic rifle at protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, and threatened to kill them testified this week that his life was “ruined” during the subsequent fight to keep his law enforcement license.

Ray Albers' attorney argued that the former lieutenant “showed great restraint” while policing demonstrations in August 2014 following the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.

Albers was a lieutenant in the city of St. Ann, a city near Ferguson best known for an infamous and lucrative speed trap. On Aug. 19, 2014, Albers was part of a disorganized police response to protesters, one that involved officers from a number of agencies. During that confrontation, he pointed his weapon at people in a crowd and said "I will fucking kill you" and "Go fuck yourselves" when they asked for his name.

Another officer from the St. Louis County Police Department had to come over and calm Albers down and lower his weapon. Later, when a Huffington Post reporter took photos of Albers from the sidewalk, he said "Get that camera out of my fucking face.” Videos of Albers’ threats spread online, and his career in St. Ann quickly came to an end.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ray ... f=politics

[BartSimpson]

I heard about this one today. I'll be very surprised if he gets barred from getting another job as a cop.

[BartSimpson]

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015 ... taliation/

Los Angeles Deputy Shoots Partner, Blames Suspect; Both Kill Suspect in Retaliation (Updated)

This one is MURDER and the SOB's are going to get away with it, too.

$1:

A disturbing video emerged Friday showing two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies killing a man after they had chased him for riding a bicycle while wearing headphones.

The incident took place more than a year ago with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department initially telling the media that they shot and killed 23-year-old Noel Aguilar, a “known gang member,” after he pulled out a gun and shot a deputy.

But now a video shows the two deputies struggling to arrest Aguilar when one deputy pulls out his gun and shoots the second deputy before placing his gun back into its holster, then placing the blame on Aguilar.

“Where’s the gun?” Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Jose Ruiz asked Aguilar seconds after his partner announced he had been shot.

“I don’t have any,” Aguilar said.

“I’ve been shot,” yelled Albert Murade for the second time.

“I didn’t shoot nobody,” responded Aguilar.

“I got shot in the stomach,” Murade continued.

“I didn’t shoot nobody,” Aguilar insisted.

Ruiz then pulled his gun back out and pointed it at Aguilar in an obvious attempt to shut him up.

“C’mon man, why you pulling a gun on me,” Aguilar asked.

Ruiz shoots him in the stomach, prompting Murade, who is already angry at having been shot, to fire three bullets into Aguilar’s back.

That sparks angry shouts of protest from witnesses, in English and in Spanish, saying Aguilar did nothing illegal.



“I’ve been shot,” Murade kept repeating now that the struggle was subsiding.

“I’m dying,” Aguilar said, fading away.

“Go sit down,” Ruiz told Murade, pushing his partner away while standing over Aguilar, comfortable he was now handcuffed and facedown, the life slowly slipping out of him, keeping his knee on his back just to be sure.

Murade took his advice and walked off-camera as the shouts of anger became more intense, demanding Ruiz remove the knee from Aguilar’s back.

But Ruiz went from keeping a single knee on Aguilar’s back to plopping his entire body on his back, remaining there for several minutes in a suffocating manner while furious witnesses ordered him off.

It was almost as if he was deliberately trying to squeeze the life out of Aguilar, whom he knew would never shut up about not having shot Murade.

Ruiz is eventually pried off Aguilar’s body by the swarming deputies who enter the scene with their guns pointed at witnesses, ordering them all back inside their homes, running up stairwells to chase people all away.

Or maybe even seize cameras. They had that familiar arrogance we have seen so many times before that they are above the law.

But it does not appear as if they saw the people who were recording, at least one of them appearing to be a woman, because that camera continued to record from an elevated position unmolested for at least eight minutes.

In fact, the footage probably runs longer but this is pretty much all we need to see.

[Thanos]

$1:

......hey had chased him for riding a bicycle while wearing headphones...

Heart of the problem right there. Whether it's nanny-state assholes using the cops to enforce idiotic safety rules or (far more likely) because local government has made up an unending list of fineable "offences" in order to generate revenue, the cops should absolutely not be used as collection agents for the local jurisdiction to make money off of citizens. Take away these "offences" and the number of these kind of incidents would probably be cut in half.

Here in Calgary, BTW, the city just finished off changing all the school zones into playground zones with probably a million dollars spent on changing out all the warning signs. This would be nice if it were actually being done with the safety of kids in mind. In reality though, here in Nenshi's fucked up little paradise where the cost of living only goes up, it was done in order to create fine revenue. Not that there'll ever actually be more police presence in playground zones in order to stop speeders. That's it's converting school zones that didn't apply for at least two months of the year and were generally empty of all kids by no later than 6 PM into playground zones that are enforceable all year long and are now in effect until 9 PM every night only shows one thing. This is just giving the city government another revenue grab by creating a new category of offence that didn't exist before. And that they're going to use the cops as the revenue collectors. Everyone knows it's crap because speeding complaints in playground zones still receive the smallest amount of police attention. This is a money grab and nothing else. And they got away with it because this is a town where less than 30% of citizens bother to vote in civic election and that's how we end up with these nanny-staters, including the worst mayor in the entire country, ensconced at City Hall for years on end.

[BartSimpson]

Video of San Diego police officer shooting unarmed homeless man released after 8 months (WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... ign=buffer

Fuck. Another one.

The guy had a pen and the shitwad no-hesitation-trained 'roid-rager shot and killed him. And the damned jury let him go because it's okay as long as you're a cop.

$1:

San Diego officials released surveillance video Tuesday showing the fatal shooting of a homeless man who was believed to be carrying a knife — which turned out to be a pen.

The footage comes eight months after the death of the man, Fridoon Rawshan Nehad, and one month after a judge ruled that the officer, Neil Browder, was justified in shooting him.

[DrCaleb]

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The Justice Department just shut down a huge asset forfeiture program

The Department of Justice announced this week that it's suspending a controversial program that allows local police departments to keep a large portion of assets seized from citizens under federal law and funnel it into their own coffers.

The "equitable-sharing" program gives police the option of prosecuting asset forfeiture cases under federal instead of state law. Federal forfeiture policies are more permissive than many state policies, allowing police to keep up to 80 percent of assets they seize -- even if the people they took from are never charged with a crime.

The DOJ is suspending payments under this program due to budget cuts included in the recent spending bill.

"While we had hoped to minimize any adverse impact on state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, the Department is deferring for the time being any equitable sharing payments from the Program," M. Kendall Day, chief of the asset forfeiture and money laundering section, wrote in a letter to state and local law enforcement agencies.

In addition to budget cuts last year, the program has lost $1.2 billion, according to Day's letter. "The Department does not take this step lightly," he wrote. "We explored every conceivable option that would have enabled us to preserve some form of meaningful equitable sharing. ... Unfortunately, the combined effect of the two reductions totaling $1.2 billion made that impossible."

Asset forfeiture has become an increasingly contentious practice in recent years. It lets police seize and keep cash and property from people who are never convicted — and in many cases, never charged — with wrongdoing. Recent reports have found that the use of the practice has exploded in recent years, prompting concern that, in some cases, police are motivated more by profits and less by justice.

Criminal justice reformers are cheering the change. "This is a significant deal," said Lee McGrath, legislative counsel at the Institute for Justice, in an interview. "Local law enforcement responds to incentives. And it's clear that one of the biggest incentives is the relative payout from federal versus state forfeiture. And this announcement by the DOJ changes the playing field for which law state and local [law enforcement] is going to prefer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... d-keep-it/

[BartSimpson]

I'm not going to post a link on this one as it's all over the news.

On Saturday morning Chicago Police responded to a call from a family that needed help with a mentally ill and belligerent 19 year old. When the police showed up the 19 year old was belligerent (just as advertised) so the police shot and killed him but not before killing a 55 year old woman who was in the line of fire.

Despite being more than 10 meters away from the 19 year old the cops insisted that he 'lunged at them' with a baseball bat which caused them to fear for their lives so they had to kill everyone in sight.

I am disgusted with these fucking cowards who are 'in fear for their lives' from cell phones, old black ladies, felt tip markers, small dogs, cats, and etc.

Why in fuck's name are these cowards on the police force if they're lethally afraid of things that most people don't even think twice about?