Please post all of the completely insane COPWATCH stories here

[MonkeyPuppet]

While reading this, I was sure I'd seen the story here before...

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=125536.0



Great news on the dismissal, though!!

[agentbluescreen]

I smell a big lawsuit. Once it was reported the cops had to immediately move it and choose a new location. This is entrapment, dereliction of duty, malicious prosecution, defamation and harassment. (not to mention the physical assaults)

An open vehicle parked with the keys left in it is negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Any neighbor kid could have killed themselves or someone else with it.

[charrington]

While reading this, I was sure I'd seen the story here before...

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=125536.0



Great news on the dismissal, though!!

I found some older stuff today that goes back to 2001 - just as bad. It's like they are looking for the cruelest way possible to make people submit.

[charrington]

Around noon on Saturday, Rector Place erupted in a frenzy of activity by Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP) officers, Fire Department emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and police officers as Battery Park City resident Adam Pratt was handcuffed and bundled into an ambulance while a small crowd of witnesses watched incredulously. According to Mr. Pratt's account, he was walking his dog near Kaijou Japanese restaurant at South Cove when he was approached by a female PEP (whose named has not been released) and ordered to produce identification.


"She asked for ID," Mr. Pratt says, "and I told her I didn't have any, but I've lived here a long time and I'm well-known in the neighborhood. My dog was sitting on the ground, not doing anything. She kept harassing me for ID and then hit me in the head several times with her walkie-talkie. I took her picture after she hit me and she followed me up South End Avenue, and kept hitting me in the arm with her baton and walkie-talkie. I was holding my dog in that arm, so she was hitting my dog too," he recalls.


As the officer followed him, Mr. Pratt ducked into the Regatta condominium on South End Avenue, south of West Thames Street to ask the concierge to call 911. After crossing West Thames Street, Mr. Pratt continued along South End Avenue, walking past Le Pet Spa and the Vince Smith Hair Experience in Battery Pointe condominium. At that point, he says the first, uniformed PEP was joined by another PEP in plain clothes.

Mr. Pratt says that both officers continued to jostle him while the female PEP repeatedly hit him in the arm. As he reached the corner of Rector Place and South End Avenue, Mr. Pratt turned toward home (on Rector Place, near the Esplanade), when several more PEPs joined the first two. He recalls that the entire group continued bumping and hitting him, one of them asking, "you want to resist arrest, don't you?" Finally, he said the plain clothes PEP kneed him in the back, pushed him to the ground and handcuffed him.


After Mr. Pratt was handcuffed, New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers appeared on the scene, but left once they determined the matter was being handled by the PEPs. The PEPs at the scene refused to comment to a Broadsheet reporter who arrived as the incident was in progress, and referred all inquiries to the BPCA's operations office on West Thames Street, which is closed on weekends. This reporter heard one of the PEPs tell the EMTs who took Mr. Pratt to the ambulance that "the perp [perpetrator] attacked one of my officers."


The PEP officers in Battery Park City are employees of the New York City Parks Department, and patrol this neighborhood under a contract with the Battery Park City Authority...
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http://web.me.com/broadsheet/Broadsheet/Home/Entries/2011/1/31_January_31_2011.html

[charrington]

Man that is this system of things... It's only going to get worse.

[Dok]

"She asked for ID," Mr. Pratt says, "and I told her I didn't have any, but I've lived here a long time and I'm well-known in the neighborhood. My dog was sitting on the ground, not doing anything. She kept harassing me for ID and then hit me in the head several times with her walkie-talkie. I took her picture after she hit me and she followed me up South End Avenue, and kept hitting me in the arm with her baton and walkie-talkie. I was holding my dog in that arm, so she was hitting my dog too," he recalls.

That sounds about the right way to ask for ID. 

[charrington]

That sounds about the right way to ask for ID. 

yeah lol.

[charrington]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJkMuEMqjL4

[Newtype]

This is horrible the way police are allowed to do kidnappings such as this one.  They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[Letsbereal]

Paul Craig Roberts: Police brutality increases in US
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TalvTj-vmLw

See Also:

“Without A Revolution, Americans Are History.”
16 August 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100816_americans_are_history.htm

Americans Are Oppressed, Too
3 February 2011, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/110203_oppressed.htm

America Has Gone Away
29 December 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/101229_america.htm

TSA Gestapo Empire
22 November 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/101122_tsa.htm

America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship
10 November 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/101110_dictatorship.htm

It’s Official: The US Is A Police State
24 September 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100924_police_state.htm

The Collapse Of Western Morality
23 September 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100923_collapse.htm

The Nazification of the United States - death of the First Amendment
26 August 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100826_nazification.htm

The Year America Dissolved
26 July 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100726_dissolved.htm

Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It - Good-bye
24 March 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100324_truth.htm

The Rule of Law Has Been Lost
20 January 2010, by Paul Craig Roberts (VDare)
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100120_rule_of_law.htm

[charrington]

The two www.wpbpolice.org West Palm Beach Police officers arrested on charges of vandalizing two cars in a drunken rampage four months ago in Jupiter are back on patrol today, and they will not be prosecuted.

The officers, Christopher Clark, 26, and Timothy Pike, 30, aren’t out of trouble just yet. They’re still being investigated by WPBPD’s Internal Affairs on whether they broke department policies when they were arrested by www.jupiter.fl.us/jpd/ Jupiter Police Sept.2.

The felony vandalism arrests came when staff from an www.abacoa.com/ Abacoa bar going home about 2 a.m. witnessed the off-duty lawmen ripping side-view mirrors and scratching doors of two cars in a parking garage — for no apparent reason.

According to court records, www.sa15.state.fl.us/stateattorney State Attorney Mike McAuliffe’s people negotiated a deal with the cops’ attorney that called for the policemen not to be prosecuted if they fulfilled two conditions: that they pay for the damages, a total $2,700 according to the incident report, and enter alcohol treatment.



The program, called “deferred prosecution,” is offered mostly to first-time offenders involved in property crimes, according to a State Attorney spokeswoman.

“Everybody makes mistakes,” said the owner of one vandalized car, Stephen Murphy. “They paid for the damages. It’s all good.

MORE
http://www.page2live.com/2011/02/03/vandal-west-palm-beach-cops-wont-get-prosecuted-and-return-to-patrol/

[Dok]

WOW, thats normally a death sentence. Good thing its the cops that caught these 2, if it was just your average citizen theyd just been shot on site. Good Job Florida!!

[kerrymti]

What ever happened to Rodney King...?  'Back in the day' police beatings caused massive riots and a media blitz...now, we have been conditioned to where it is not even mainstream news (only local)...I am getting scared.

[Dok]

We need a National day of Rage against Police brutality. This crap is getting way out of hand.

[Georgiacopguy]

They sure spent a lot of time and effort to keep that video suppressed. All the way up top a Federal Lapdog, I mean Judge trying to keep it suppressed. Its one thing to be amped up with adrenaline after a chase, I get that, I've been there. But to behave like a brutal savage to a man who is obviously giving up once he is cornered??? Savagely, and repeatedly. It's like they never even had their mental faculties 'return', or they realized what they were doing was wrong. which tells me that what we saw them doing wasn't due to adrenaline, or being amped up, or agitation due to the chase. They just wanted. What we saw was their true inner desires and wants, and they wanted to punish that kid. They wanted to forget about due process, and inflict their own punishment. Cops who think like that, even if for a moment should never be allowed to be a cop again, and in the case of those pigs, they should be finding themselves firmly in prison.

[charrington]

Standing with Greg Diez (left), Alfredo Pena and police Col. Arley Knight, Mayor A C Wharton apologizes Thursday for two incidents involving city police. One case involves an officer accused of stealing from a Latino driver during a traffic stop.

Mayor A C Wharton issued apologies to two groups Thursday over the conduct of Memphis police officers in recent days.

The first apology was addressed to those targeted by officer Lorenzo Couch, who was arrested Tuesday after allegedly robbing two Hispanic men of nearly $500 during a traffic stop Jan. 27.

Couch was charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and is being held on $150,000 bond.

In the news conference at City Hall, Wharton said neither he nor Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin, who was out of town Thursday, would tolerate such conduct.

"When any person singles out another individual because they feel that victim may be particularly vulnerable, that is animalistic and predatory," Wharton said.

"When a man or woman in blue wearing the badge of the Memphis Police Department uses that shield and blue uniform to take advantage ... that is the scum. That is the worst of the worst. We are not going to tolerate it," he added.

MPD Col. Arley Knight added that Couch may have robbed at least one more victim, asking that anyone with information come forward.

The second apology was to the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, whose members were still fuming over what they feel were intimidation tactics employed by local law enforcement during an incident Jan. 25.

MSPJC members were at their offices at the First Congregational Church in Cooper-Young, filling out requests to discover if the FBI or MPD had been keeping surveillance files on them...
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http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/feb/03/memphis-mayor-c-wharton-apologizes-recent-conduct/

[Letsbereal]

Teen Hit By Police Car & Then Beaten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwh_aDbDpeg

[Dok]

Teen Hit By Police Car & Then Beaten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwh_aDbDpeg

That just gets your blood boiling. Hiow would they like it if 15-20 of us took turns kicking them in the head.

[Dok]

"When any person singles out another individual because they feel that victim may be particularly vulnerable, that is animalistic and predatory," Wharton said.

"When a man or woman in blue wearing the badge of the Memphis Police Department uses that shield and blue uniform to take advantage ... that is the scum. That is the worst of the worst. We are not going to tolerate it," he added.

Hope they through the book and some steel tipped boots at them then.

[charrington]

I’ve written quite a bit about the cops vs. cameras issue over the last couple years. I can’t recall a story as egregious as this one, from the Miami New Times. It’s about four men who suffered the wrath of Miami police after they filmed a frightening confrontation with a cop who nearly killed them by cutting them off in traffic, then pulled them over, then screamed at them for filming the encounter.

    That confrontation, filmed in 2009, was the first of dozens that Hammonds and three friends caught on tape. They’ve paid dearly, spending thousands on legal fees and tickets, and sleeping multiple nights in county lockup. They’ve even seen their faces plastered on a warning flyer sent to departments around Miami-Dade County…

    They never planned to become police agitators. But when Bredwell tried to retrieve his seized Sony camera the day after that first incident, he says Miami Beach police claimed not to have it in the evidence room.

    A week later, the friends returned to police headquarters to try again. This time, they brought a full assortment of cameras and mics. They shot footage of the cops stonewalling Bredwell again. When officers noticed the cameras, they arrested Hammonds and charged him with obstruction of justice, loitering, and trespassing. He says an officer grabbed him by his hair in an interrogation room and then locked him in a sweltering van for two hours in 90-degree heat…

    Miami Police Department officers, meanwhile, say they only arrest camera-toting civilians like Hammonds when they harass cops and break the law. “When you go beyond filming to trying to piss off an officer, you’re subject to arrest,” says Delrish Moss, a department spokesman.

Sorry, but while “pissing off an officer” isn’t advisable, it also isn’t a crime. And if you arrest someone who merely pisses you off but has committed no underlying crime, you’re violating his rights and you’re violating the law.

It gets worse.

    The day after Hammonds’s arrest, Miami Beach police printed a flyer with mug shots of Hammonds, Bredwell, and a friend, Christian Torres. Headlined “FYI Officer Safety,” it warned that the trio “were seen filming the Miami Beach Police Department” and were “extremely hostile” and “looking for a confrontation.” Anyone who spotted them “should use extreme caution.”

    “They make us sound like terrorists for filming a protest,” Hammonds complains.

    Sanchez, the Miami Beach Police Department spokesman, says the trio acted suspiciously. “[They] were claiming they were filming in part for a documentary, [but] they had no credentials,” Sanchez writes in an email statement. “Post 9/11, and in keeping with homeland security, the filming of any possible location which could be considered a target… arouses suspicion.”

    Either way, the flyer was effective, the friends believe. In the months t...
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http://www.theagitator.com/2011/02/03/miami-police-vs-citizens-with-cameras/

[Scarbo]

Our cops shaking people down the way Mexican cops do, all part of the incremental implementation of the NAU.   

I think cops who break the law should get much longer sentences than civilians, as they're violating an oath they took to uphold the law. 

[Wicked Jester]

Is that Sisco's daddy???

[kerrymti]

That just gets your blood boiling. Hiow would they like it if 15-20 of us took turns kicking them in the head.

I totally agree.  My ex was a state trooper and I remember when the Rodney King stuff went on...he was actually angry at the people that go around with video cameras (there weren't any cell phone recorders)!

[Georgiacopguy]

Because cops want to hide the dirty deeds or bad decisions they make. Which is why a long time ago, I undertook the effort to always comment on cops I see in the course of their duties. I do it in writing, and I usually send it to the Chief and the mayor simultaneously. I comment on what they did right, or what they did wrong as the case may be. If need be, I cite policy or statute. But I always end it whether it's good or bad, that I just want the officers to know that there are always people watching what they do. If we remind them of this as often as possible, they will be too scared to put any less than their best foot forward. If more people would do this, rather than just write in complaints, or worse, just complain on message boards, then there might be significant change.

[agentbluescreen]

Looks just like how they do it in Egypt. Peaceful arrest, suspect was rude to officers.

[rabblevox]

I've both worked with our local Cop Watch organization, and served on community/police negotiating teams. The problems isn't that all police are monsters and thugs.  To the contrary, most are really decent people who went into the job for the right reasons, i.e, to "Serve and Protect".

Many of the officers I've know I'd be proud and pleased to have as neighbors and friends.  They are  the good ones.

Then there are the others.  The minority on any force, probably, but they are there and they are scary.  Some "juiced" on steroids, some fresh from the war, where they are already used to seeing civilians as the enemy.  And some are just pain and fear junkies, they like hurting and controlling people.

The real, insidious problem is the wall of silence that keeps the good cops from speaking out against the bad.  It's both professionally and personally dangerous for a cop to speak up about abuse.

Maybe what we need is a Wikileaks for police?

[kerrymti]

The real, insidious problem is the wall of silence that keeps the good cops from speaking out against the bad.  It's both professionally and personally dangerous for a cop to speak up about abuse.

Maybe what we need is a Wikileaks for police?

Great idea!

[Georgiacopguy]

Profound idea my friend.

I've both worked with our local Cop Watch organization, and served on community/police negotiating teams. The problems isn't that all police are monsters and thugs.  To the contrary, most are really decent people who went into the job for the right reasons, i.e, to "Serve and Protect".

Many of the officers I've know I'd be proud and pleased to have as neighbors and friends.  They are  the good ones.

Then there are the others.  The minority on any force, probably, but they are there and they are scary.  Some "juiced" on steroids, some fresh from the war, where they are already used to seeing civilians as the enemy.  And some are just pain and fear junkies, they like hurting and controlling people.

The real, insidious problem is the wall of silence that keeps the good cops from speaking out against the bad.  It's both professionally and personally dangerous for a cop to speak up about abuse.

Maybe what we need is a Wikileaks for police?

[rabblevox]

Profound idea my friend.

It IS a good idea, isn't it?  It was very much an "off-the cuff" thought, but it's got merit.  I've got a very serious question for the more tech-oriented folk on the board.

Could the existing Wikileaks be used for local police/ government issues?  If so, how?  If not, what would be involved in creating a "local-sourced" version of Wikileaks?

(ok, I guess that's three questions)

[Georgiacopguy]

It IS a good idea, isn't it?  It was very much an "off-the cuff" thought, but it's got merit.  I've got a very serious question for the more tech-oriented folk on the board.

Could the existing Wikileaks be used for local police/ government issues?  If so, how?  If not, what would be involved in creating a "local-sourced" version of Wikileaks?

(ok, I guess that's three questions)

I reallllly wish i had the tech know how to help you. I'm not even sure how wikileaks works. I've stayed off the site for for fear they were IP sampling.

[charrington]

You'd have to get an overseas server - and have contacts outside of the US. They would get your IP and you'd be the next Asange. But it is a good idea indeed...

It would take a little thought and you'd have to make friends in non compliant countries.. like NL or Iceland.

[charrington]

Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin.

The fact that SWAT teams often go to the wrong door shows the carelessness with which excessive force is used. In one instance the police even confused the town’s mayor with a drug dealer, broke into his home, shot dead the family’s pet dogs, and held the mayor and his wife and children at gun point. But most cases of police brutality never make the news.

Most who suffer abuse from the police don’t bother to complain. They know that to make an enemy of the police brings a lifetime of troubles. Those who do file complaints find that police departments tend to be self-protective and that the naive and gullible public tends to side with the police.

However, you can find plenty of examples of police brutality on YouTube, more than you can watch in a lifetime. I have just searched google for "YouTube police brutality" and the result is: "497,000 results." There’s everything from police shooting a guy in a wheelchair to body slamming a befuddled 89-year old great grandmother to tasering kids and mothers with small children. The fat goon cops love to beat up on women, kids, and old people.

The 497,000 google results may contain duplicate...
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http://www.vdare.com/roberts/110203_oppressed.htm

[Georgiacopguy]

You'd have to get an overseas server - and have contacts outside of the US. They would get your IP and you'd be the next Asange. But it is a good idea indeed...

It would take a little thought and you'd have to make friends in non compliant countries.. like NL or Iceland.

I'm not so sure, its not like he would be printing anything that wouldn't normally be in the media under normal circumstances if it came to light, there would be obvious media protections, and protection of his sources as well as whistle blower status. And its not necessarily the federal gooberment he is after, just local cops who are up to no good, and need the whistle blown on them. Most people don't because they either do not trust the chain of command they would normally report it to, they do not trust the state if they do not trust the chain of command, and the Feds are generally obtuse on how to go about processing a complaint against local law enforcement, as are the state if you can even get them to talk to you about a complaint. The key to this is, if he gets a complaint, he should do whatever he can to verify it before printing it so as not to fall into a libel trap, and to report it to the proper chain of command, the state, then the feds. And document that, so that if they ever try to come after him, he can say "Nope nope nope, I tried to talk to you guys about it, and I got shoved off about it. I came to you as the media asking you to investigate a claim I received. And you failed to exercise ANY level of due diligence. But don't kid yourself rabble, its not about creating a website, and letting the info come in. Its going to take investigative wit and common sense to keep it going, and stay out of the wrong limelight. And keep a good anti-NWO attorney on speed dial too.

[No2NWO]

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=200311.0

[charrington]

The Miami-Dade Police Department has arrested one of their own for allegedly molesting numerous young women while on the job. 24-year-old officer Juan Carlos Rodriguez was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation stemming form an incident in which he fondled two teenage girls during a traffic stop in West Kendall, but investigators believe more young women may have been abused.


According to The Herald, Rodriguez was charged late last night two counts of of lewd and lascivious molestation and appeared in court today.

Rodriguez had been on the force for about four year, and worked out of the Hammock district station.

On January 11th around 10:30 p.m Rodriguez is believed to have pulled over a car in Southwest 88th Street and 157th Avenue. Using the authority of his badge he subjected two teenage girls who were merely passengers in the car to a lewd pat down behind a nearby CVS.
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http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/02/miami-dade_cop_arrested_for_al.php

[rabblevox]

I'm not so sure, its not like he would be printing anything that wouldn't normally be in the media under normal circumstances if it came to light, there would be obvious media protections, and protection of his sources as well as whistle blower status. And its not necessarily the federal gooberment he is after, just local cops who are up to no good, and need the whistle blown on them. Most people don't because they either do not trust the chain of command they would normally report it to, they do not trust the state if they do not trust the chain of command, and the Feds are generally obtuse on how to go about processing a complaint against local law enforcement, as are the state if you can even get them to talk to you about a complaint. The key to this is, if he gets a complaint, he should do whatever he can to verify it before printing it so as not to fall into a libel trap, and to report it to the proper chain of command, the state, then the feds. And document that, so that if they ever try to come after him, he can say "Nope nope nope, I tried to talk to you guys about it, and I got shoved off about it. I came to you as the media asking you to investigate a claim I received. And you failed to exercise ANY level of due diligence. But don't kid yourself rabble, its not about creating a website, and letting the info come in. Its going to take investigative wit and common sense to keep it going, and stay out of the wrong limelight. And keep a good anti-NWO attorney on speed dial too.

Damn, so many points to respond to.  I'll start from the bottom, and work my way up...

Good anti-NWO lawyer on speed-dial...check (also good antifa, Cop Watch,  and ACLU lawyers, FWIW)

Staying out of "the wrong limelight", is a separate, intense, and serious issue.  I'm actually in the process of writing a multi-page paper on this topic.  I'm not a tech genius by any means, just an ordinary guy who tries to pay attention.

I Don't think I'm kidding myself, I know the limitations of my tech skills, my budget, and my time.  Thinking it's a good idea doesn't mean I think I think I'm the right person to do it.  However, I do have some skills and a bit of disposable income.  If someone else spear-headed it, I could help.

And I have found one possibly useful platform for local whistle-blowers, it's called OpenLeaks, was created by some disgruntled former WikiLeaks staff, and can be found at:
www.openleaks.org

[HEBGB]

Great idea!

Can we PLEASE NAME IT "Piggy Sqeaks"

THAT would be so damn funny!

[HEBGB]

Great news!

I hope that the people who DO have guns use them wisely.

I also hope that those who are for gun control get "educated"

The pigs, well maybe they can beg for money and mercy from their former victims.

[charrington]

LOUISVILLE, KY. -- A Fairdale man faces charges after Louisville Metro Corrections officers said they discovered suspected crack cocaine in the foreskin of his penis.

According to the arrest report, officers asked Antoine Banks if he had any drugs, weapons or contraband on him as he entered Metro Corrections after his arrest. He told them he didn’t, police said.

During a clothed pat-down, officers said they found a small bag of suspected cocaine tied to the waistband of Banks’ boxers.

After that bag was found, a strip search was ordered, according to the arrest report. During the strip search, another small bag was in the foreskin of his penis, police said.

Police said Banks was origi...
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http://www.wlky.com/r/26729209/detail.html

[rabblevox]

LOUISVILLE, KY. -- A Fairdale man faces charges after Louisville Metro Corrections officers said they discovered suspected crack cocaine in the foreskin of his penis.

According to the arrest report, officers asked Antoine Banks if he had any drugs, weapons or contraband on him as he entered Metro Corrections after his arrest. He told them he didn’t, police said.

During a clothed pat-down, officers said they found a small bag of suspected cocaine tied to the waistband of Banks’ boxers.

After that bag was found, a strip search was ordered, according to the arrest report. During the strip search, another small bag was in the foreskin of his penis, police said.

There is, occasionally, a story where the jokes are so damned obvious that you are ashamed to go there.

This is one of those stories.