Police Behaving Badly

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Charleston, SC — An audio recording leaked to the Guardian on Monday, captures Michael Slager laughing about the adrenaline rush that he felt as he murdered Walter Scott.

This callous laughing provides a glimpse into the mindset of this murderous cop. He just shot a man in the back over a brake light, and he’s laughing about the rush he’s getting from it.

According to the Guardian, Slager made the remarks during a discussion with a senior officer after fatally shooting Scott in North Charleston on 5 April.

“By the time you get home, it would probably be a good idea to kind of jot down your thoughts on what happened,” the senior officer said. “You know, once the adrenaline quits pumping.”

“It’s pumping,” Slager said, laughing. The senior officer replied: “Oh yeah. Oh yeah.”

His superior then replies, “Probably once they get you there, we’ll take you home. Take your crap off, take your vest off, kind of relax for two or three.”

“It’ll be real quick. They’re gonna tell you you’re gonna be out for a couple of days and you’ll come back and they’ll interview you then,” he said. “They’re not going to ask you any kind of questions right now. They’ll take your weapon and we’ll go from there. That’s pretty much it.”

This senior officer tells Slager, who just killed someone, to simply go home and relax and reassures him that he’ll not have to talk about it for several days.

If a normal citizen shot someone in the back would they be given this same treatment? “Hello average citizen, did you just killed someone? Well, I’m sure you’re feeling a little adrenaline. Go home, relax, get your fabricated story straight, and we’ll talk about it in a few days.”

No, that would not happen.

A cellphone call that Slager, received about five minutes before his conversation with the senior officer was also partly recorded, reports the Guardian.

“Hey. Hey, everything’s OK, OK?” Slager said after an iPhone ringtone was heard. Following an inaudible section, Slager then appeared to say: “He grabbed my taser, yeah. Yeah, he was running from me.”

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/lea...lGudMHsdxLD.99

[TomCrac]

So much trash needs to be taken out. These people are disgusting. Only hope the tides are turning.

[snoqpass]

A 73 year old cop is chasing down perps? WTF?

Just another rich guy giving the cops stuff, gets a badge and gun in return
http://www.tulsaworld.com/newshomepa...3aefe2504.html

[Bromontana]

They'll place nice and tickle your feet. Once you're dead.

22-year-old Ramiro Villegas was killed after a car chase [...] the trainee reported that while examining the body without coroner's permission, Stringer touched the feet and said "tickle, tickle," told her he loved playing with dead bodies and laughed.

Stringer couldn't be reached for comment.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/...be-6197635.php

[digitaldeath]

http://gawker.com/ex-philly-drug-cop...g-e-1697799118

group would target "college-boy, khaki-pants types" because they were "easy to intimidate."

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Former Prosecutor Says Cops Planting Guns On People They Shoot Is ‘Standard Operating Procedure’
April 14, 2015 9:33 am·


Former District Attorney Arthur Aidala has appeared on Fox News many times as an expert they call in to discuss legal matters. But recently, the former Senior Assistant District Attorney for Kings County, New York said something the network didn’t like very much.

Aidala said that through his dealings with the New York Police Department in the 1990s, he has concluded that the planting of a taser on Walter Scott, in a recently-released video of the controversial South Carolina police shooting, is not at all unusual. In fact, Aidala says that this is something of an “open secret” among law enforcement and is “standard operating procedure.”

When I was in the DA’s office in the 80s and 90s, that was standard operating procedure. Police officers — I hate to say this — would keep a second gun that nobody knew about on their ankle, so if they ever killed someone they shouldn’t have they would take that gun out.

Speaking to the South Carolina shooter – Officer Slager, Aidala added the following:

There’s going to be no sympathy for this police officer, except for the fact that it’s a 33-year-old human being who is getting paid $40,000 to protect his own life and protect everyone else’s life. Nobody thinks this cop woke up that morning and said let me go kill somebody. He made split second decisions and they were wrong. Obviously he made wrong decisions. It’s going to be about, in my opinion, how much jail time does he serve.

It is clear to most that if the shooting of Walter Scott had not been captured on camera then the media and police would have colluded to present the victim as though he were guilty, and even aggressed against the violent officer who fatally shot him in the back.

But the video footage that was taken shows an officer who was very comfortable to shooting an unarmed man, and even more comfortable covering it up. It also showed a partner who did not miss a beat in covering for the shooter, and a department that scarcely questioned anything written in their police reports.

Aidala tells us we should not be surprised. This is the norm in policing – the rule, not the exception.

Watch the video from Fox News below…




http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/0...nce-on-people/

[digitaldeath]

^^^ just like da hollywood moviez

[Bromontana]

ya but that was before the iPhone, so that's not allowed now!

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[Bromontana]

(CNN)Police in Arizona said Tuesday that an officer who intentionally used his car to run into a suspect with a rifle probably saved lives.

Video of the incident has stirred debate about what type of force police should have used to detain a man with a gun.

"Everything in the video seems to point towards an obvious excessive use of force. It is miraculous that my client isn't dead," said attorney Michelle Cohen-Metzger.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/us/ari...-over-suspect/

[powdork]

So much for arizona's open carry law. I would assume the NRA will have this guy's back and cover his legal fees.

[Bobby Stainless]

http://gawker.com/ex-philly-drug-cop...g-e-1697799118

[doughboyshredder]

So much for arizona's open carry law. I would assume the NRA will have this guy's back and cover his legal fees.

NRA doesn't support criminals.

This guy robbed a convenience store, then lit a church on fire, then stole a car, then stole a gun from Wal-Mart, then pointed said gun at cop, then refused to drop gun and fired a round into the air.

Truth is the cop may have saved lives.

[guroo270]

NRA doesn't support criminals.

This guy robbed a convenience store, then lit a church on fire, then stole a car, then stole a gun from Wal-Mart, then pointed said gun at cop, then refused to drop gun and fired a round into the air.

Truth is the cop may have saved lives.

Had there been any fatalities or shots fired on innocents? TRUTH is that there is a protocol for bringing these people in, and that couldn't have known if an infant was playing in the front yard of that house, which is why they have to follow that protocol. I could understand it if he had wandered through the church killing everyone inside...

In other news - Tulsa Sheriff Reportedly Falsified Reserve Deputy’s Training Records
"Robert C. Bates—a 73-year-old reserve deputy who allegedly got the job thanks to his financial contributions—was ultimately charged with manslaughter for mistakenly shooting Eric Harris. But according to the Tulsa World, authorities first tried—apparently in vain—to cover up his lack of training."

http://truthvoice.com/2015/04/tulsa-...ining-records/

[Bromontana]

Using a police cruiser as a projectile into a fenced yard is pretty damn reckless. Replicate that strategy 1,000x and you'll have a lot of dead suspects, lawsuits, dead bystanders, etc. Not a sustainable or responsible choice at a high level. Wyatt Earp sh*t.

That said, nobody died and in all likelihood the perp was spared a less favorable option of being apprehended by rightfully scared shitless cops with guns. No medal, no demotion just make sure he stops driving his cruiser into buildings.

[neufox47]

http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html...deoId=28353621

This is what happens to good cops.

[Bromontana]

Police are now detaining 11 year olds and leveraging them for search warrants.

http://www.thsintl.org/activist_s_ch...cation_program

he courageously spoke up and informed them that the information they were relating was incorrect in regards to cannabis. He was pulled from class and sent to the office for questioning by authorities without his mother present.

[frorider]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...310_story.html

[TomCrac]

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/s...-job/25983445/

Detroit cop who accidentally killed girl is back on the job

DETROIT – A Detroit police officer who accidentally killed a 7-year-old girl during a search for a murder suspect nearly five years ago has been restored to active duty.

Police Chief James Craig tells The Detroit News that Joseph Weekley is in the department's Criminal Investigations Bureau. He says Weekley "won't be in the field."

In May 2010, Weekley was a member of an elite group of officers that conducted risky missions. His gun fired, killing Aiyana Stanley-Jones, moments after he burst through the door of a home to find a murder suspect.

Weekley says he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. She denied it.

A judge cleared Weekley of involuntary manslaughter. A separate misdemeanor charge was dropped after two juries couldn't reach a verdict.

Interesting commentary:

Although I have doubt that the shooting was accidental, I am also of equal certainty that the cops conspired to lie about later to save the cop who did it.
According to the police version of the raid:
the gun went off as they were entering the house,
Weekley did not notice that his gun had fired
then Weekley ran out the back to help clear a bedroom
he then came back into the living room to discover only then that somebody had been shot.
the grandmother, along with the girls father were then detained together in the living room for several hours
AND ONLY THEN did the story of "grandmother rushed to grab the cops gun" come up, and she was taken to the police station for a few hours for fingerprinting and gun residue tests BEFORE BEING RELEASED.
I ask you, members of the jury, if the cops honestly genuinely believed that the grandmother had grabbed the gun with such force that it fired and killed someone, then
1 - why didn't the cop even notice?
2 - why didn't they arrest her right then, or even bother to handcuff her, rather than waiting for several hours?
3 - why did they let her go?

[neufox47]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...310_story.html

Why aren't these experts being charged with a crime? Am I missing something? Didn't they all conspire and lie under oath?

[Dantheman]

Why aren't these experts being charged with a crime? Am I missing something? Didn't they all conspire and lie under oath?

One man's lie is another man's overstatement of scientific certainty in the absence of established standards in the field. I think you would have a very hard time proving perjury here.

This is not surprising. Three years ago Frontline did an episode on forensics (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/real-csi/) that concluded that, with the exception of DNA, the reliability of nearly all fields of forensic science is questionable at best. They also found that it's shockingly easy to become a credentialed expert. Pay $495 to the American College of Forensic Examiners International Inc., take a 90-minute online course, pass a 100-question multiple-choice test, and you're now a "Certified Forensics Consultant".

[Bromontana]

A videotape shows Melendez apparently punching and kicking Floyd Dent, 57, who was tased after he was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign, reports CBS Detroit.

Dent sustained "severe" injuries that required treatment at a hospital, Worthy said. "We are not going to tolerate this kind of behavior, but before you can do anything, you have to do a complete investigation," she said. Melendez told WXYZ-TV last week that "there are always two sides to every story."

According to the police report, Melendez said he thought Dent was reaching for a gun, ignored orders to show his hands and threatened to kill them. Dent was initially charged with resisting arrest and possession of cocaine. A District Court judge earlier dismissed charges of fleeing police and resisting arrest after reviewing the video, which went viral, reports the station.

The cocaine possession charge has now also been dismissed, Worthy said. Police claimed they found drugs in Dent's car, but Dent claims Inkster police planted cocaine, reports the station. Melendez was accused of misconduct previously, when he worked at the Detroit Police Department.

In 2004, federal prosecutors charged Melendez and seven other officers with civil rights abuses, including planting evidence. Melendez and the other officers were acquitted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/assault-...of-floyd-dent/



note: Melendez remains employed as a part-time police officer with the Highland Park Police Department.

[frorider]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...420-story.html

[wolfelot]

I'm not a physician but how does a seemingly able-bodied 25-year old end up with a severed spinal cord during an arrest as described in the report?

Getting arrested is stressful, but I have a hard time seeing it being severing your spinal cord stressful if things took place without incident.

[PNWbrit]

To me a 73 year old policeman seems a bad idea.

Even before they shoot people by accident.