Stop resisting will ya.

[Prick]

A former Milwaukee sheriff's deputy will spend 18 months behind bars for beating a man in the back of a squad car.

The attack happened more than 4 months ago, after former deputy Scott Krause gave the handcuffed Ray Calderone a warning for kicking the window of the squad car.

Calderone was asking to use the bathroom, and continued kicking the window. The tape then shows Krause yelling at Calderone and slapping and punching him in the head repeatedly.

More than four months later, Calderone asked a judge to make an example out of his attacker.

"I haven't been the same psychologically or physically," Calderone said in court on Friday.

Prosecutors admit Calderone was unruly that night, but said that was no excuse for losing control.

Krause's attorney says his client suffers from PTSD after four years in the army, and has zero history of violence.

The former deputy tearfully apologized to his victim, his family, to the community and co-workers.

"I'm also sorry to other law enforcement officers that may have gotten a bad name from what I did," Krause said.

The judge recognized Krause's contrition and clean record, but sentenced him to a year and a half in prison, saying the shock from this abuse of power is too great to ignore.

Calderone did not want to talk after court, but said through his attorney the sentence was fair.

 

[papasmerf]

make me happy the cameras there.

Protects everyone

 

[WhiteLion]

18 months for hitting a person handcuffed=d is way to lenient.

 

[Fullthrottle]

I can't believe with all the cameras around cops don't know any better.

 

[Wanker]

Saying sorry just isn't enough anymore. Good call Judge.

 

[Curly]

And the good guys gets sued again.

A California man was allegedly beaten and tasered multiple times by four police officers while attempting to signal that he was deaf. Now, he's suing local law enforcement.

The suit was filed on behalf of Jonathan Meister by the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, and claims police used excessive force and violated Meister’s civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The incident took place on February 13, when Meister visited a friend to pick up snowboarding equipment that was stored in his home. Suspecting a burglary, a neighbor called out to the man, who didn’t respond because he cannot hear.
When two officers arrived at the scene shortly after, Meister reportedly put his boxes down and tried to use hand gestures to tell them he was deaf. As he approached police, though, the officers supposedly grabbed his hands, turned him around, and attempted to handcuff him.

“Because he is deaf, Mr. Meister depends on using his hands while facing a person to communicate,” the lawsuit states, according to a local publication called the Daily Breeze. “The officers’ sudden aggression, which both caused pain and interfered with his ability to communicate, caused Mr. Meister reflexively to pull his hands away, hop back over the fence and step toward the gate ... to create some space so that he could communicate.”

Police then became more physical with Meister, taking him to the ground with a stun gun. Two other officers had arrived at the scene by this time, and helped the other officials by striking Meister with their fist and feet. The Courthouse News Service reported that in the lawsuit, Meister said police then subjected him to multiple "punishing shocks" with tasers and were purposely "burning his flesh."

Meister was eventually knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital, where he was charged with assault. Police described him as “aggressive and violent” in their report, but ultimately ended up dropping the charges and releasing him.

According to Courthouse News, Meister’s lawsuit claims the entire confrontation could have been avoided if Hawthorne police were trained to properly communicate with deaf individuals.

“We’re really concerned about the problem of law enforcement and people who are deaf,” said Meister’s attorney, Paula Pearlman, to the Daily Breeze. “He wasn’t doing anything other than trying to get away from people who were hurting him.”
The Hawthorne Police Department declined to comment on the situation.