Absolutely. Our cops don't care about people. We need to do something about who we put in law enforcement. These cops deserve to be put behind bars for the rest of their lives. I'd say worse but I don't want to promote violence, but these guys deserve awful for the rest of their lives.
I couldn't even listen to the lawyers keep talking about that. The comments on the video are just spot on. Even if these cops are the exception, this happens too much, and no one wants to hold them accountable even in obvious cases like this. There's no care in doing their job and no compassion or remorse afterward. These cops are like psychopaths.
They need to focus on de-escalation and keeping the peace... And they need to get rid of any cops who have a problem with that. As I understand it, they need to completely change their training. They see us as cattle.
They need to completely change the training and they also need to change the vetting process. There are certain professions that just require more stringent standards. I know too many people -- including a lot of friends -- who I can't believe are allowed to be teaching kids. Police officer is even more so. These guys are able to use lethal force and qualified immunity makes them almost entirely unaccountable. You have to be exceptionally sure you aren't putting loose cannons in these positions. And I've seen firsthand how the DA's office and bad cops and other people in the justice system abuse their positions and protect each other. The entire policing, prosecutorial and prison systems probably need overhauled.
Man has a Seizure, Cops Arrive to Help (he doesn’t make it) Posted on October 2, 2024 Rhyker Earl, 26, suffered a seizure on the night of Sunday, Sept. 8, at a home in DeMotte, Indiana, about an hour and 15 minutes south and east of Chicago. His grandmother called 911 for help, and Jasper County sheriff’s officers came to the home. Earl suffered from epileptic seizures. Having just had a seizure, he was agitated and noncompliant with attempts by EMS personnel to take him to the hospital. One of the deputies took Early to the ground, whereupon other deputies, as well as EMS personnel, forcibly held him to the ground. He was handcuffed and restrained in a prone position on the floor of his grandmother’s kitchen. They repeatedly injective him with powerful sedatives, as they held him down. A short while later, he would be dead.
When Cops Ask to Come Inside, DON’T do what This Guy Did! Posted on October 4, 2024 This involves the Moweaqua Police Department and happened in Macon County, Illinois. This man was being investigated for allegedly making a threat on social media. Police officers showed up at his door without a warrant. They asked to speak with him. He was apparently lawfully armed at the time. He invited them in. Once inside, they wanted to disarm him. Not being agreeable, he asked them to leave. They refused. It all went downhill from there. This all could have been easily avoided.
Road Workers Assaulted by Drunk Driving Cop, then THEY were Arrested 10 days later Posted on October 17, 2024 Road construction workers are facing felony assault and kidnapping charges after claiming they were the ones assaulted by a mystery driver. Even though the workers told the responding officers they believed the perpetrator was drunk, they let him drive away without a DUI investigation. It’s a secret case sealed by the courts, and authorities won’t say the name of that driver. As it turns out, the mystery driver was an off-duty police officer. Ten days after the incident, the workers were scheduled to have a TV news interview about the assault by the mystery off-duty cop. But instead, police officers arrested them prior to the interview. Media report here.
Road workers arrested after claiming cop attacked them ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Contracted road workers say they are facing felony assault and kidnapping charges after claiming they were the ones assaulted by a mystery driver. It’s a secret case sealed by the courts, and authorities won’t say the name of that driver, who turns out to have been an off-duty police officer. FOX 2 was trying to determine that driver’s identity when two of the road workers were arrested. The incident happened in south county Thursday, Sept. 26, where road crews are repaving sections of Lindbergh. The reported assault was at the corner of Lindbergh Boulevard and Lemay Ferry Road, where a left turn lane was coned off and there was a temporary sign in the middle of the road saying “no left turn” due to paving work. A safety worker said an angry driver assaulted him in that blocked lane, yet he was arrested right before our interview and charged as the aggressor. 23-year-old Garrett Gibbs was working for a different contractor nearby. “I noticed the argument for probably 10 to 15 seconds, and then I noticed the door was open and the guy was outside his vehicle, and that’s pretty hefty—you know, a guy getting out of his vehicle in a work zone like somebody coming into your office and causing a problem,” Gibbs said. “He wanted to turn, and he kept saying that he was a police officer so he could make that turn.” Gibbs snapped a picture of the driver’s car with a temp tag that appears to have expired a few days prior. The picture shows the car inside their work zone. You can see the “no left turn” sign to the right of the car. “You know, in case this dude does something crazy, drives through the work zone, hits somebody…I’ve got something,” he added. Allegedly, the off-duty officer “took a swing at one of the workers” when he missed him and hit Gibbs instead. He described he and two other workers holding the driver until police arrived. “He caught me right in the mouth here,” Gibbs said. Gibbs said arriving officers then, “cuffed him and proceeded to—we had to go back to work, but they proceeded to–talk to him in our work zone because this happened around 10:30 p.m. They kept him inside of our work zone until 3 a.m., whenever we picked it up.” After four and a half hours waiting in that work zone, Gibbs said St. Louis County Police let the man drive off. “I don’t believe he was breathalyzed. I don’t know if the car was searched or anything, so the police officers were informed that we believed he was drunk,” he said. Police won’t say who that off-duty officer was—or if he was breathalyzed. Gibbs says he and his co-workers were never questioned. Ten days after the incident, police arrested two of the workers—Matt Devlin and Donnie Hurley. They’re now charged with assault, kidnapping, and armed criminal action. The record is sealed, despite the fact two road workers are now in the St. Louis County Justice Center facing decades in prison. The employer for Gibbs and Devlin, N.B. West, wrote, “We are deeply concerned about the work zone incident that transpired on the evening of Sept. 26. In response, we initiated a comprehensive internal investigation to thoroughly understand the circumstances surrounding the events. Our commitment is unwavering to maintain a safe, respectful, and supportive work environment for all our employees and the traveling public.” “Almost every day it seems like there’s a road worker getting killed,” Celeste Malick, wife of Devlin, said. “There’s all sorts of laws that (the officer) broke prior to the altercation even happening. You know he went through all the traffic cones, all the safety devices that these people put up; he went through them.” Over the last week, she had been hoping to hear news about the mysterious driver. FOX 2 sat in on the court appearances for the two defendants. Devlin is being held on a quarter of a million dollar cash-only bond, and Hurley is being held on $100,000 cash-only. They’ll each have bond reduction hearings on Oct. 15, which are court dates in which we expect to hear more details about the secretive charges. https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/road-workers-arrested-after-claiming-cop-attacked-them/
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/c...ficer/63-920ea098-43e7-407c-972e-5976854e4a41 ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Police shared new details Tuesday afternoon about a case involving three construction workers charged with assaulting and kidnapping an off-duty St. Louis County police officer in September. Matthew Devlin, Garrett Gibbs, and Donnie Hurley II are each facing charges of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and kidnapping. All three men appeared in court Tuesday for bond reduction hearings. Devlin is being held on $250,000 cash only, no 10%, bond; Gibbs and Hurley are being held on $100,000 cash only, no 10%, bond. On Tuesday, their defense attorneys asked for these reductions: Devlin’s attorney asked for $50,000 bond with 10% Gibbs’ attorney asked for $25,000 bond with 10% Hurley's attorney asked for $20,000 bond with 10% Late Tuesday afternoon, 5 On Your Side learned a judge decided there will be no modification to their bond. In the latest update from the investigation, police said officers first responded on the night of Sept. 26 on South Lindbergh Boulevard and Lemay Ferry Road when a caller told them a drunk man, who was Black, was being held down by others, who were white. Officers arrived and placed the man in handcuffs, but they say after 10 minutes, it was determined he was not the initial aggressor. They also gave him a field sobriety test, which he passed. Meanwhile, as police investigated the case in the days ahead, they said they determined the off-duty officer was actually the victim. Police added the off-duty officer was driving in an unmarked car and in plain clothes. Witnesses said Devlin used racial slurs while screaming at the victim. He said the officer did not "belong down here" and "go back to the hood with your gold chain," according to charging documents. Police said Devlin then struck the man on the head with a hardhat. They said this led to Gibbs and Hurley holding the officer down while Devlin kept hitting him with the hardhat. Defense attorneys questioned the details of the case in court, saying the off-duty officer was the instigator. Devlin is being represented by John Rogers, who said his client was doing nothing more than working that night when an off-duty officer pulled up to the marked work zone and stopped the workers. Rogers told the judge it was the off-duty officer who was aggressive and threw the first punch at Gibbs. Scott Rosenblum's office is representing Garrett Gibbs. In court, Gibbs' attorney said Gibbs saw the fight and went over to take a picture of the man's license plate when he was punched. A fight followed. Hurley is represented by Bradley Dede. Dede told the judge his client was eager to get back to work and his employee is in high demand, which is inconsistent with the charges. Hurley and Gibbs are still employed with the same company. Rogers said his client, Devlin, was not. Rogers told 5 On Your Side, "There was some language that is reportedly used that no one should be proud of, but in this particular case, it had nothing to do with what should be a legitimate police investigation of bad acts by an off-duty member of the St. Louis County Police Department." 5 On Your Side asked Rogers about the alleged racist language used. He responded, "I'm not confirming that any poor language was used. I will say in no civilized society are racial slurs appropriate. It's also not appropriate for law enforcement to pull on to construction zones, pull out their badge, (and) jeopardize the safety of construction workers. It's a red herring." Rogers called the kidnapping charge "bizarre" saying they were detaining an individual while the construction company called law enforcement. Rogers added, "This is a case of prosecutors looking out for police officers who are conducting investigations of other police officers." He said the case overall was "overcharged" and added, "This prosecution is overly zealous." Rosenblum spoke to 5 On Your Side following the hearings. He said his client was hanging in there and anxious to get out of jail. "As the course of the case unfolds, we’ll enter a 'not guilty' in the earliest court date as we can and present this case to a jury," Rosenblum added. "Everything will play out in front of a jury at some point in time." Multiple other organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have joined the NAACP in calling this a racially-motivated incident. CAIR, along with other organizations, is calling on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this case as a hate crime. CAIR's spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said, "It's something we urge anytime there's a case like this, that everyone speak out, because when it's just one group or one minority community speaking out, there's less of an impact. But when everybody speaks out, then you can have some real change." A St. Louis County spokesperson also shared this information: "Detectives and the Prosecuting Attorney discussed the application of Missouri State Statute 557.035 - Hate Offenses, however, it was determined it could not be applied as an enhancement to the charges issued per the requirements of the statute." The officer was placed in an administrative role within the police department immediately following the incident. He has since returned to his full patrol duties. The next court date for all three men is a preliminary hearing set for Oct. 28.
My grandfather was a truck driver for years. Like 50 years. Probably around 2005. He had an off-duty police officer in his jacked up 4x4 rear-end his trailer on I-5 North heading to Seattle. The truck hit the ramps on the back of my grandfather's car hauler and severed the front axle completely from the truck. Luckily the cops who came to the scene of the accident spent quite a bit of time looking around and informed my grandfather that they weren't going to press any charges against him that day... So that was good... Didn't realize how lucky he was.
Ignorant Cops Harass Veteran Over Cardboard Sign | Enforce Law Held Unconstitutional in 2019! Posted on October 23, 2024 Cops in Little Rock, Arkansas harass a veteran holding a cardboard sign that reads, “God Bless Our Homeless Vets.” The veteran happens to be Jeff Gray, a YouTuber and legendary First Amendment activist. Like moths to the flame….
Cops Tased Autistic Son – After Making Him Participate in Father’s Arrest! (then lied about it) Posted on October 31, 2024 A Peruvian family who resides in Bradenton, Florida, was pulled over by the Holmes Beach Police Department after an automated license plate reader flagged the vehicle’s plate as possibly being driven by someone without a valid license. The driver was Orlando Diaz, who spoke very little English. The officer asked his son, who is autistic, to translate. The officer then proceeded to have the son translate to his father that he was under arrest, rather than being given a citation. The son became quickly and visibly upset after seeing his father being placed in handcuffs. Shortly afterwards, the father would be thrown on the ground and the autistic son, Francisco Diaz, would also be thrown on the ground and tased several times. https://www.gofundme.com/f/uwfz6-justice-for-francisco-diaz-help-us-fight
11 Crooked Cops Busted by 1 Video | Police Chief Resigns | Officer Indicted Posted on November 3, 2024 All hell has broken loose within the Kissimmee (Florida) Police Department. A single bodycam video showing former Officer Andrew Baseggio entering a man’s home, without a warrant, and inflicting violence on him inside his living room, has resulted in Officer Baseggio getting indicted, which has in turn taken down 10 other police officers in that department (including the police chief), found by a grand jury to have lied in an effort to coverup Baseggio’s misconduct from investigators.
Bully Cop Assaults Special Olympics Medalist (and his supervisor helps cover it up) Posted on November 17, 2024 In Clearfield, Utah, Officer Fratto of the Clearfield Police Department violently arrested (and injured) a local long-time Special Olympics medalist. Shawn was just trying to walk home from his favorite karaoke bar, but Officer Fratto thought Shawn looked suspicious, so he began to follow him (and scare him) as he was walking home. Shawn had committed no crime. No crime had been observed or reported. Fratto eventually jumped out of his police cruiser and detained Shawn, claiming he saw him illegally jaywalk. He demanded Shawn provide his “ID.” However, Shawn answered all questions asked by Fratto, who never asked Shawn his name or date of birth. Shawn knew that he was being harassed and did not want to provide his ID to Fratto, who continue to bully him and escalate the situation. Fratto chose violence and took Shawn to the ground, injuring him. Fratto’s supervisor showed up and helped coverup the misconduct. Luckily, Shawn had a friend from the bar who helped him get the bodycam footage and communicate to the prosecutor and judge in court, resulting in the bogus charge being dismissed. But unfortunately, the incident has had a lasting negative effect on Shawn.
I never knew they could take away the 10% bond condition. I mean, I've seen murderers get a 500,000 bond and get out on 10%. So, sounds like it's subjective... or, when cops are "involved" (i.e. should have been charged).
