"Good Cop" Praised After Video Showed Him Kick Surrendering Man's Head Like a Football. Baltimore, MD — (RT) A Baltimore jury found police officer Christopher Spivey not guilty of assaulting a suspect in an incident caught on police helicopter cameras.
Baltimore County officer Spivey was found not guilty of four counts of second-degree assault on Thursday in a case built around infrared police helicopter footage. The camera captured the stolen car chase and foot pursuit on January 25. After suspect Diamontae Tyquan Farrar, 20, had surrendered and was on the ground Spivey began kicking him. The officer was accused of excessive assault in the incident. Video footage played in court on Tuesday shows Farrar running from the crashed car to a parking lot. The footage shows Farrar running in a carpark, where he stops and lies on the ground before the officers reach him. Spivey was also accused of spitting on Farrar. The jury acquitted the officer within half an hour, and thanked the officer for his service after the trial, CBS Baltimore reports. Inhumane-ways-baton-rouge-police-treated-protesters-they-locked-after-police-murder-alton?akid=15869.1217547.
Photo Credit: Photo by Patrick Melon Participating in a civil rights march – in 2016 – shouldn’t result in being jailed in inhumane conditions, denied medical care, and deliberately humiliated.
But that is exactly what happened in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last July and it bears an uncanny resemblance to the treatment of those fighting for civil rights over half a century ago. A year ago today, thousands of people protested the police murder of Alton Sterling, a local Black entrepreneur and father, in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Approximately 180 individuals were arrested and detained over the course of these protests.
Over 67 percent of these arrestees were Black, and nearly 90 percent of those arrested were charged with obstruction of a highway, a misdemeanor. A new report released by the Promise of Justice Initiative details the conditions of the prison, the experiences of a dozen arrested protesters, and the governing legal standards for detention of arrestees. 1. Graphic Body Cam Footage Shows Killer Cop as He Murders an Innocent Unarmed Man. Salt Lake City, UT — On August 11, 2014 Dillon Taylor was gunned down in broad daylight by Officer Bron Cruz.
The confrontation happened because Cruz confused Taylor with a possible criminal in the area. Taylor, his brother, and his cousin were exiting a 7-Eleven in an area where police were searching for a suspect who had allegedly been waving a gun around. These uninvolved young men allegedly matched the description. When the three men exited the convenience store they were surrounded by officers and ordered to show their hands. Two of the men stopped and complied, Dillon Taylor, listening to music, kept walking. Police Dept Wanted a Cop to Kill a Suicidal Dad, He Chose Not To, So They Fired Him. Weirton, WV — Former Weirton police officer Stephen Mader is suing the city after he was fired for not killing a suicidal man who needed help.
As we reported last year, on May 6, 2016, Mader responded to a domestic call about a suicidal person. When he arrived on the scene, Mader confronted 23-year-old Ronald D. Williams who was armed and mentally distraught. Madar said that he began talking to the young man in his “calm voice.” A look at high-profile police shootings. CHARLESTON, S.C. — A lawyer for the family of a black motorist shot to death by a white South Carolina police officer says justice has been done with the fired officer’s guilty plea.
But attorney Chris Stewart also said Tuesday that verdicts are rare in officer-involved killings. Prosecutors are recommending that Michael Slager serve decades in prison for violating the civil rights of Walter Scott by shooting him in the back as he fled, a crime captured on cellphone video and seen worldwide. The possibility of such a stiff sentence in killings by police is even more unusual. Cop Actually Charged for Shooting Small Dog Who Made Him 'Fear for His Life' Purcell, OK — An allegedly inebriated officer — who fell from his motorcycle and proceeded to shoot a tiny dog with his service weapon for no reason — has now been charged in the incident.
“They said that he fell over on his motorcycle and that he had shot my dog, Champion,” the dog’s owner told KFOR in October. “It caught this leg, and hopefully if I can keep the infection out of his joint, he won’t lose his paw,” the owner added hopefully of where a bullet from Purcell Police Officer Richard Kyle Glasgow’s service revolver entered the beloved pet’s body. Glasgow has now been charged with ‘one count of reckless conduct with a firearm’ — for which the officer ‘demonstrated a conscious disregard for the safety of others and created a situation of unreasonable risk and probability of death or great bodily harm to others.’ Neighbors noted Glasgow, who lives in the area, had been known to complain about Champion running loose in the streets — but that had not happened on October 8. Parents Sue After Video Shows Officers Execute Their Son in Firing Squad Fashion. The parents of a man who was shot and killed by Santa Maria police officers have filed a lawsuit against the department, the city and a number of officers involved in the shooting, seeking monetary damages and increased crisis training for the police department following the deadly altercation.
As previously reported, Javier Garcia Gaona Jr., 31, was shot by police officers last July during a standoff outside of a gas station in Santa Maria. The standoff ensued when police were dispatched to Gaona’s location following a report of a man “shouting obscenities, holding a knife and making slicing motions to his throat and chest,” according to the Lompoc Record. Cops Turn Off Body Cams Before Killing 50yo Homeless Man, But A Citizen Filmed It. “He’s not gonna die.”
Those were the tragically unprophetic words of the person who filmed Los Angeles cops gunning down a 50-year-old homeless man on Saturday, March 4. The local ABC7 station reports that an altercation broke out at midday at an intersection in downtown LA, with two “gentlemen, angry and antagonizing each other down the street,” according to a nearby business owner. The homeless man was carrying a large pipe, and someone called 911.
Two LAPD cops showed up, and, according to police reports, tried to subdue the man with a Taser, although the video shows no evidence of that. Perhaps they attempted to tase him before the video started. As the video begins, the people recording see it as a comical situation. “Ninja man with a ninja stick. The man walks a short distance away, and then turns around. The cops made no effort to aid the man as he lay unmoving on the ground after being struck. Cop Allowed to Quietly Resign After Video Shows Him Body Slam a Small Girl. Roseville, NC — A Roseville police officer, who was being investigated after he was seen on video slamming a small teen girl to the ground, has quietly resigned amid the investigation.
As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, officers are all too often allowed to resign during investigations as a means of avoiding any form of accountability. It appears that is what’s happening here. Sheriff Tries to Expose List of 300 Bad Cops, Courts & Union Promptly Block Him. Los Angeles, CA — Domestic violence, bribery, theft, excessive force, brutality — these are just a few of the crimes committed by active duty sheriff’s deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
In total, there are 300 deputies with a history of misconduct whom Sheriff Jim McDonnell thinks the public should know about. However, thanks to a protectionist court system and a powerful police union, the crimes of these cops may remain secret. Having taken over one of the most corrupt sheriff’s departments in the country, McDonnell appears to be taking steps to increase transparency and foster public trust. But these steps are being met with heavy resistance along the way. Nurse Calls 911 for Help, Police Show Up, Beat & Arrest Her In Front of Her Child. Buffalo, NY — When Christine Townsend, a registered nurse in Buffalo, found her neighbor’s pit bulls jumping at her windows and doors, frightening her dog and her 9-year-old daughter, she called 9-1-1 for help.
However, when police finally showed up, more than an hour later, after multiple calls, they did anything but help her. Because of the harassment, threats, and eventual brutality and deprivation of rights Townsend experienced at the hands of police that night, she has since filed a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo, the Buffalo Police Department, Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda and two Police Officers, Mark Vara and Kelly Craig, for violating her civil rights under 42 U.S.C § 1983, known as ‘Section 1983’. The 9-1-1 calls that Townsend made that night, she now regrets as she was the one who ended up in jail.
Cop Claims He Punched Handcuffed 14yo Girl in the Face Twice in 'Self-Defense' St. Paul, MN — On Monday, a St. Paul police officer was charged with misdemeanor assault after he punched a handcuffed child in the face twice while she was getting placed in the back of his squad car. Officer Michael Soucheray II has been placed on administrative duty after punching the 14-year-old girl for allegedly spitting on him. The 14-year-old was at the East Side shelter for girls when police responded to a call of a suicidal girl. According to the criminal complaint, as reported by WCCO, officers were trying to take the girl to a hospital because she was reportedly suicidal, but she refused to go and became agitated, screaming and at one point going limp.
Cop Charged After Shooting into Car Full of Innocent People for No Reason. Minneapolis, MN — A Minneapolis police officer has been officially charged this week after he fired into a vehicle with six innocent people inside. Minneapolis police officer Efrem Hamilton was charged with second-degree assault and intentional discharge of a firearm. The charges stem from an incident on November 19, after a fight broke out in front of a bar. During the fight two people were shot and police stormed the scene.
According to the criminal complaint, Hamilton was working as an off-duty officer at The Pourhouse on 10 South Fifth Street when he heard the shots fired call. He did not communicate that he was responding to assist to the call at any time, as reported by FOX 9. Caylea Wade and her five passengers were trying to leave the chaotic scene when one of the responding police officers told her to back her car up on 3rd Avenue. Horrifying Video Shows Cops Sic K9 on Innocent Man While Filming Them. Akron, OH — Filming the police is entirely legal, in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep their authority and arrest, attack, and assault innocent people for the constitutionally protected act of documenting their behavior in public.
Although the Free Thought Project has covered many such cases in the past, we’ve never seen police release a K9 on a person filming — until now. Ohio state troopers were at the home of Dannie Oliver Monday night, to arrest his cousin. Upset at the way police treated him, as he was entirely innocent, Oliver took to Facebook live to document the actions of the police. While it was unclear as to why his cousin was being arrested, it appeared that he had just pulled up to Oliver’s home and was followed there by police.
As Oliver attempts to reach into his cousin’s car — while filming — the cop goes on a power trip. “Listen, get out of the car!” “I’m trying to get his ID for him,” Oliver responded. Video Catches Cops Jumping On, Punching Man in HANDCUFFS, as He Yells 'I Can't Breathe' New Kensington, PA — When police officers preach transparency and trust only to be caught on video beating a man who is in handcuffs, that trust is broken. Residents of New Kensington, PA, now have little reason to trust their police after a recent video uploaded to Facebook began going viral this week. Two Westmoreland County police officers and a New Kensington police officer are now on leave after a Facebook video showed them beating a handcuffed man so bad that even the police chief called it ‘disturbing.’
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Fired Deputy Ben Fields’ actions were determined to be justified after a DOJ investigation. Taxpayers Hit For $4.4mn After Cops Shot Innocent Food Delivery Man 14 Times. Philadelphia, PA — (RT) The city of Philadelphia has reached a $4.4 million settlement with a black deliveryman which 2 officers say they mistakenly shot 14 times leaving him with permanent injuries and a seizure disorder. 6yo Boy Kidnapped from School By Police, Locked in Psych Ward for 3 Days. “It felt like my child had been kidnapped,” she said. “I can’t even hug my kid and tell him it’s going to be okay.” Cop Receives Unprecedented LIFE SENTENCE for Tasering Handcuffed Man. VIDEO: Step Inside a Real SWAT Team Pot Raid. BREAKING VIDEO: Police Taser 91yo Alzheimer's Patient for Not Going to the Doctor. Cops Shoot and Kill Unarmed, Nonviolent Teen on Video. EXCLUSIVE: Good Cop Speaks Out Against Drug War, Blows Whistle on Chief. Two Entire Police Depts Shut Down During FBI Raids Over Massive DEA Drug Ring Conspiracy.
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