Police Behaving Badly

[Bromontana]

Found this interesting. Don't agree with some rulings in SLC on deadly force but have to give some credit for the policy change. This case looks justified. Few relevant things, nobody died, witnesses align with police version, and the cop shot twice rather than 10+ as is often the case.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...ng.html?pg=all

Because of a new law passed by the Utah Legislature calling for more transparency and not allowing law enforcement agencies to investigate their own officers in use of deadly force situations, the shooting investigation for this incident was handled by the Unified Police Department who then handed their report over to the district attorney's office.

[frorider]

Good read: http://gawker.com/50-years-after-the...arn-1723326136

'Community policing on steroids' can work. Not rocket surgery.

[digitaldeath]

mindblowing ineptitude

https://www.thedodo.com/woman-preven...ampaign=buffer

[TomCrac]

UnFucking believable. What a Fucking TOOL.

[snoqpass]

CHiPs
California Highway Patrol officers, others eyed in killing
http://www.komonews.com/news/nationa...321932221.html

[TomCrac]

I hope this story gets some traction.

"Police decline to release video of shooting of unarmed teen during marijuana bust. Police allegedly planted evidence and high-fived the dead victim."

The cops shoot and kill a 19 year old for having 10 grams or so of pot on him. He was shot and killed in his car. Cop claimed he feared for his life as the driver was driving at him. Parents have their own autopsy done that shows the kid was shot through his open window, in his back. Now a witness claims he saw what happened and the cops refuse to release the dashcam video....

"The denial under the state’s open records act comes amid new allegations from a witness who said a Seneca officer placed something underneath the body of Zachary Hammond, 19, immediately after the shooting.

Quoting a letter from Hammond’s attorney to the FBI, FOX Carolina 21 in Greenville reported that a witness saw an officer pull Hammond’s body from the car and go to the trunk of his police cruiser to pull something out. The officer then reportedly returned to Hammond’s body, rolled it on the side, placed the object under his body, and then rolled it back.

Hammond’s attorneys also wrote that the witness stated that “After Zachary had been shot and killed, members of the Seneca Police Department lifted his dead hand and ‘high fived’ Zachary Hammond,” the television station reported."

http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...olice-shooting

[Benny Profane]

Holy shit, full female body cavity search in public.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/texa...adies-lawsuit/

[babybear]

^yikes- that's fucked up

also saw that they stepped up police presence at theaters showing straight outta compton this w/e
my first thought was that only crazy white guys are shooting up movie theatres these days
Enhanced Security at Straight Outta Compton is Straight Outta Racist Playbook
http://www.theroot.com/articles/cult..._playbook.html

[digitaldeath]

^yikes- that's fucked up

also saw that they stepped up police presence at theaters showing straight outta compton this w/e
my first thought was that only crazy white guys are shooting up movie theatres these days
Enhanced Security at Straight Outta Compton is Straight Outta Racist Playbook
http://www.theroot.com/articles/cult..._playbook.html

never forget New Jack City

mad shooting during this flick

real G shit

[jmerrey]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...819-story.html

So basically the dude gets shot (justifiably) and then put in handcuffs. Another cop comes around the corner and the guy, who is lying there with bullet wounds, gets smart with him, so the cop shoots him in the nuts.

Only in Bodymore, Murderland

[frorider]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...y_stewart.html

[old goat]

Only in Bodymore, Murderland

Unfortunately, you're wrong.

[snoqpass]

Just when you run out of excuses to pull a man over
Officer: 'Eye contact' a reason for pullover
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/30/us/eye...cer/index.html

[snoqpass]

Whoopsie...
Mass. Police: Officer shot his own patrol car
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/us/mas...hot/index.html

[PNWbrit]

Just when you run out of excuses to pull a man over
Officer: 'Eye contact' a reason for pullover
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/30/us/eye...cer/index.html

I have had an (off duty) SPD cop threaten me with a ticket for

giving him stink eye

.

He was working as private traffic control, stopping street traffic to allow vehicles from underground parking lot onto street.

[babybear]

This is pretty funny
Cop accidentally leaves voicemail for reporter containing a lengthy discussion of her boobs.

[TomCrac]

I hope this story gets some traction.

"Police decline to release video of shooting of unarmed teen during marijuana bust. Police allegedly planted evidence and high-fived the dead victim."

The cops shoot and kill a 19 year old for having 10 grams or so of pot on him. He was shot and killed in his car. Cop claimed he feared for his life as the driver was driving at him. Parents have their own autopsy done that shows the kid was shot through his open window, in his back. Now a witness claims he saw what happened and the cops refuse to release the dashcam video....

"The denial under the state’s open records act comes amid new allegations from a witness who said a Seneca officer placed something underneath the body of Zachary Hammond, 19, immediately after the shooting.

Quoting a letter from Hammond’s attorney to the FBI, FOX Carolina 21 in Greenville reported that a witness saw an officer pull Hammond’s body from the car and go to the trunk of his police cruiser to pull something out. The officer then reportedly returned to Hammond’s body, rolled it on the side, placed the object under his body, and then rolled it back.

Hammond’s attorneys also wrote that the witness stated that “After Zachary had been shot and killed, members of the Seneca Police Department lifted his dead hand and ‘high fived’ Zachary Hammond,” the television station reported."

http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...olice-shooting

^This story should pick up again now that the girl sitting next to the kid killed is telling her side of the story. Not surprisingly, it's different than the cops acoounts. Interesting side note, rumors going around that the girl was possibly involved with police chiefs son getting in trouble?

“We’re Going to Blow Your Heads Off” Hammond’s Date Describes How Police Killed this Unarmed Teen
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wer...JAYJ8ZDBBIX.99

[TomCrac]

On a lighter dumber note from Denver...

"Man ticketed for broken windshield while trying to fix it"

"The ticket was issued in the parking lot of Absolute Auto Glass at Broadway and West 64th Avenue on Aug. 19."

http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/...x-it/71866074/

[digitaldeath]

On a lighter dumber note from Denver...

"Man ticketed for broken windshield while trying to fix it"

"The ticket was issued in the parking lot of Absolute Auto Glass at Broadway and West 64th Avenue on Aug. 19."

http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/...x-it/71866074/

ha

reminds me of this gold nugget - dude gets a ticket while paying parking meter that is hundreds of feet from parking spot

techno fascism

http://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/tr...112827249.html

[Harry]

Mentally ill guy voluntarily checks into hospital. Docs have a hard time restraining him. Instead of using a muscular orderly in a white coat, they call Houston PD who shoot him in his hospital bed. Dude lived, now charged with assaulting cops.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/hous...-with-assault/

[Tye 1on]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mo...3983?cid=bitly

[Bobby Stainless]

^This story should pick up again now that the girl sitting next to the kid killed is telling her side of the story. Not surprisingly, it's different than the cops acoounts. Interesting side note, rumors going around that the girl was possibly involved with police chiefs son getting in trouble?

“We’re Going to Blow Your Heads Off” Hammond’s Date Describes How Police Killed this Unarmed Teen
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wer...JAYJ8ZDBBIX.99

I'd be getting ready for prison, if I was the cop who shot that kid.

[old goat]

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Oli...&view=ZW50aXR5

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article35680763.html

Wonder how the officer deals with his own kids when they're defiant. CPS needs to look into that.

[TBS]

14yo Ahmet Mohamed gets arrested for building a digital clock - 'inventing while Muslim'

Handcuffed "for his safety" and questioned for an hour-plus without his parents or legal counsel, because he would only tell police "it's a clock"

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/tex...im-clock-bomb/

Happily, this situation ended with Ahmed getting offers to visit MIT & White House, plus internship offers with several tech companies.

[TomCrac]

I love that the bumbling incompetence of the school admins/teacher and the rediculous overbearing power hungry cops all have egg on their faces. It's cool for the kid to get an invite to the whitehouse but kind of ironic that this culture has been created by our government and then Obama wants to pat the kid on the back. The problem with suing the school and suing the police department is that neither of them will suffer monetarily. It's the tax payers that will get hit, but in this case I really hope they aggressively sue the shit out of both.