Bad cops

[Hoser]

[h=1]Delaware police release dashcam video of white officer kicking black suspect[/h]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ase-video-white-officer-kicking-black-suspect

 

[Wanker]

A Sudanese refugee “carded” by police in Moss Park was randomly stopped, unlawfully arrested, and twice punched in the face by a Toronto police TAVIS officer who “took the law into his own hands and administered some street justice,” a Toronto judge has ruled.

Calling the conduct of six police officers “shocking,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Frederick Myers awarded Mutaz Elmardy $27,000 in damages stemming from a January 2011 incident that began when the then 38-year-old man — an “innocent member of the public,” Myers said — was stopped by police while walking home from a mosque.

Myers found that Elmardy — who sued Const. Andrew Pak and the Toronto Police Services Board — had endured an unlawful arrest and search, an assault by Pak, and then was left handcuffed outside in -10C weather with an unzipped jacket and no gloves for up to 25 minutes, for no apparent reason.

All details in this story are from the judge’s ruling. https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/...-27000-in-carding-lawsuit-against-police.html

 

[Boing]

When is it enough?.



https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/07/us/mckinney-texas-pool-video-police/index.html

 

[Wanker]

[h=1]Video of confrontation lands Massachusetts policeman in trouble[/h](CNN)A driver's dashcam video posted to YouTube on Sunday appeared to show an off-duty detective threatening to kill a driver during a stop in a town near Boston.

The detective in question, Stephen LeBert of the Medford, Massachusetts, Police Department, is now on administrative leave pending an investigation after the release of the video, which contains explicit language.
"I'll put a hole right through your head," said LeBert repeatedly, often swearing at the driver as well.
The incident happened Sunday night in Medford, a few miles north of downtown Boston. The driver admits he took a wrong turn at a traffic circle, and LeBert pulled him over.
The driver, a 25-year-old man, who would only call himself "Michael," said he did not realize LeBert was a member of the police when the detective first confronted him. LeBert was off duty and wearing camouflage shorts and a tank top at the time of the incident. LeBert does appear to show his badge at one point, but it's not clearly visible on the video.
"He wasn't driving a police vehicle. There were no lights. There was nothing," said the driver in an interview with CNN affiliate WHDH.

After LeBert stood in the street yelling, the driver pulled in behind LeBert's truck. The detective continued yelling.
"You're lucky I'm a cop because I'd be beating the f***ing p*** out of you right now," said LeBert.
The driver told LeBert about the dashcam recording their interaction. LeBert called in on-duty police officers. The video showed the officers speak calmly with the driver and LeBert before advising the driver he was free to leave. LeBert continued to berate the driver, who LeBert said almost hit his car head-on at the traffic circle, and says he almost hit him, too.
"It was definitly nerve-wracking -- when someone is like, hey, I'm going to shoot you," Michael told WBZ.
The driver's dashcam recorded the entire interaction with the detective and the video was posted later that day. It's not known if video exists of the traffic incident that led to the stop. Medford Police Chief Leo Sacco said his department had not received video.
Sunday's incident is not the first time LeBert has drawn scrutiny from the public and the police department, Sacco said.
In 2012, a different video showed LeBert in a police uniform at the scene of an incident where a man is being questioned about drug activity. He's smiling and attempting to smear the lens of a camera. In the video, LeBert talks with the man recording him, and asks if he is the brother of the man the police are dealing with.
"What they should do is take him up to the railroad tracks and tell him to lay down," said LeBert in the video.
Sacco said that after the video of the 2012 incident emerged, LeBert was counseled and given a verbal reprimand.
LeBert has been a police officer for 30 years, and a detective since 2007, according to Sacco. "He is a very effective officer, he does good work. Just two weeks ago he solved seven housebreaks."
"If you work hard you do step on people's toes, which generates complaints," Sacco said.
The Medford Police Department has said it has begun investigating the latest incident.
"That's not proper behavior, but we only know about it when people tell us," Sacco told CNN affiliate . "And unfortunately, we had to get up this morning to see it on a YouTube video."
CNN was unable to reach LeBert for comment.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/us/massachusetts-detective-dashcam/index.html

 

[DannyDeVito]

Why don't we rise up when people attack police?

From FBI stats in 2013.

According to statistics collected by the FBI, 76 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2013. Of these, 27 law enforcement officers died as a result of felonious acts, and 49 officers died in accidents. In addition, 49,851 officers were victims of line-of-duty assaults.

50K assaults on police in one year....how many did you hear about?

Not to be an ass but it comes with the job. If I enroll to the police academy and get hired. There will be one day that I may not come home.

 

[Anonymous69]

SAN ANTONIO - The unedited version of a video obtained by KSAT 12 News showing the fatal shooting of a man by two Bexar County sheriff deputies will now be made available for online viewing.
The video will include the actual moment the 41-year-old suspect, Gilbert Flores, was shot outside a home in the 24400 block of Walnut Pass. The video also shows what deputies Greg Vasquez and Robert Sanchez did moments after the shooting. Vasquez and Sanchez are on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

 

[Valid]

When three female Florida teens drowned in a stolen car last month after driving into a what looks like a typical Florida lake or marsh, cops that arrived on the scene claim they walked into the water, looking for them in an attempt to save them before they died, that’s probably not the case.

In the video up above, you can hear cops talking about the sinking car and screaming voices, but that’s all they do — they talk. You never see or hear the cops jump to action.

“They’re done. They’re done. They are 6-7, dude,” one cop says after another cop comments on the screaming.

“I thought I heard yelling,” the first repeats.

“As it was going down,” the other responds. “But now, they’re done. They’re done.”

Now the teen’s families allege camera footage is raising questions about the night the car sank in a swamp. It’s another slippery slope: parents are mad at the cops for not saving the three female est friends that committed grand theft auto.

Did these Florida cops do as much without putting their own lives at risk? The cops knew this was a 4am grand theft situation, and from reports, the cops were following the car, but not in a high-speed chase, as Florida doesn’t allow their cops to do that.

 

[Upsideup]

We need a good cops thread.





































Don't laugh.

 

[Creepy]