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Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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Petty contempt for the law by police doesn't make the headlines the way that murder or other excessive force incidents do, but I think they're good illustrations of cop-brain.

In a subway station with ~hundreds of people visible on the platform and in the entrances, every single person is wearing a mask as the rules require — and as all decent people choose to do out of their care for one another. Except the two NYPD cops. The only ones.
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https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1427973554906218497

The law is for little people.
 
LMPD detective was told to resign or face demotion after he informed his supervisors that another detective was facing sex crimes allegations.

A detective with the Louisville Metro Police Department's Sex Crimes Unit is accused of sexual assault. Now the whistleblower, a fellow detective, says he's fighting to keep his job for speaking up.

"If you see something, say something," that's LMPD's motto when they investigate crimes. As Louisville attorney Tom Coffey puts it, the officer is being punished for doing just that.

According to a lawsuit filed against LMPD on Thursday, Sex Crimes Unit Detective Jason Moseley was contacted by a victim's advocate with the Governor's Human Trafficking Task Force who "expressed her concern" that Pedigo would be working human trafficking cases.

The advocate claims to have been sexually assaulted by Pedigo and "feared for other victims whom Pedigo would be in contact with" in the role.
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https://www.wdrb.com/news/lmpd-detective-claims-retaliation-for-reporting-alleged-sexual-assault/article_015f4028-0161-11ec-b335-27bc9d46b278.html
 
Police leave disabled Colorado woman with nearly $1,600 toll bill after using her stolen license plate

A 52-year-old Westminster woman with back problems faces $1,592.72 in E-470 toll charges because the president of the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, who also headed the narcotics unit of the Longmont Police Department, used a stolen license plate that comes back as registered to her.


The state has barred the woman, Debra Romero, from renewing the registration for her car, which expired in May, until she pays off the unpaid tolls she didn’t accrue. She said she’s left with no car to drive and has had to rely on her two children to drive her to her appointments with a doctor as she considers undergoing her third back surgery.
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https://gazette.com/premium/police-leave-disabled-colorado-woman-with-nearly-1-600-toll-bill-after-using-her-stolen/article_933f4010-013e-11ec-8a0b-93ae7696809a.html

Strange that the biggest scumbags always seem to get elected to leadership in cop unions.

Internal police records show Acting Police Sgt. Stephen Schulz, who headed the Longmont Police Department’s narcotics unit, took the unclaimed recovered license plate from the police department’s property and evidence room and began using the plate on an unmarked take-home police car.
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No mention of this guy getting arrested for stealing from the evidence locker.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Police leave disabled Colorado woman with nearly $1,600 toll bill after using her stolen license plate



https://gazette.com/premium/police-leave-disabled-colorado-woman-with-nearly-1-600-toll-bill-after-using-her-stolen/article_933f4010-013e-11ec-8a0b-93ae7696809a.html

Strange that the biggest scumbags always seem to get elected to leadership in cop unions.



No mention of this guy getting arrested for stealing from the evidence locker.
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"Unclaimed??" It's a license plate and returning it to its owner should be a fast, easy job.
 
Babbylonian said:
"Unclaimed??" It's a license plate and returning it to its owner should be a fast, easy job.
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Yea but they are not going to like mail it to her or anything. Or the DMV for destruction. Or punish the officer who used it to get out of paying tolls.
 
Babbylonian said:
"Unclaimed??" It's a license plate and returning it to its owner should be a fast, easy job.
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The license plate was stolen and recovered by police they contacted the owner who told the police that it needed to be destroyed. They didn't.

Romero’s saga began when her husband bought a 2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo at a police auction in Denver in the Spring of 2020. Mark Duran, her husband, registered the car in her name, and then sold the car to a used car dealership and removed the plate and stored it away.

The couple say the plate was stolen from them, and then turned up in the back seat of an abandoned car, which the Longmont Police Department seized. Duran said that when a police officer contacted him about finding the plate in an abandoned vehicle, he told the officer that he had sold the car, and that the plate needed to be destroyed.

Rather than the plate getting destroyed, it ended up on the unmarked police take-home truck driven by Schulz, who was the acting sergeant in the Longmont Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit, according to internal police records. The plate has amassed the tolls that weren’t paid, those records show.
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It seems like this matter should be *REALLY ******* EASY* for the city to resolve. *REALLY* ********* *EASY*. Like "Holy crap this is so wrong here we paid the bills right this second" easy. They know exactly what happened. They're really just being ******** at this point.

ETA: They did pay the bills.. It only took them about a year and a phone call from the media to do so.

Longmont City Manager Harold Dominguez and Longmont Deputy Police Chief Jeff Satur said the city intended to pay off the toll bill months ago, but a check never was issued to do so. They moved quickly to ensure the toll bill was paid off by the city after The Gazette contacted them about the license-plate situation.
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Alabama police officer convicted of murdering a suicidal man receives 25 year sentence.

A judge sentenced a former Alabama police officer to 25 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of a suicidal man who was holding a gun to his own head.

Former Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby was convicted in May of killing Jeffrey Parker in 2018. Darby shot Parker while responding to a call after the man phoned 911 saying he was armed and planned to kill himself.
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https://www.yahoo.com/now/ex-officer-sentenced-25-years-144906840.html

Darby burst onto the scene where two other cops were already attempting to talk the man down, berated his colleagues for not pointing weapons at the distressed man, and immediately opened fire, killing him. Darby was on the scene for less than 11 seconds before making the decision to murder his victim.

Of course, the city and police chief claimed Darby did nothing wrong, even after he was convicted of murder. The two other officers on the scene were ordered to attend remedial training, and neither are still with the department.

The department did not discipline Darby. But the other two officers at the scene of the shooting, Pegues and Beckles, were sent to remedial training.

The DA’s office watched the same presentation but decided to indict Darby. They have called the other officers as witnesses against him.
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https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/trial-begins-this-week-for-huntsville-police-officer-charged-with-murder-of-mentally-ill-man.html
 
Cops are determined to be super spreaders of covid

The Big Apple’s largest police union told its members Wednesday that it would sue the city if cops are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, The Post has learned.

“If the City attempts to impose a vaccine mandate on PBA members, we will take legal action to defend our members’ right to make such personal medical decisions,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch wrote in an email.

The announcement comes on the heels of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement requiring all New York City school staffers to get the jab.
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https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/pba-president-patrick-j-lynch-to-sue-nyc-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/
 
MONROE, La. — Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as "pain compliance."

"I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!" Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard screaming between blows on the footage obtained by The Associated Press. The May 2019 beating following a traffic stop left him with a broken jaw, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a gash to his head that required six staples to close.

Bowman's encounter near his Monroe home came less than three weeks after troopers from the same embattled agency punched, stunned and dragged another Black motorist, Ronald Greene, before he died in police custody on a rural roadside in northeast Louisiana. Video of Greene's death similarly remained under wraps before AP obtained and published it earlier this year.

Federal prosecutors are examining both cases in a widening investigation into police brutality and potential cover-ups involving both troopers and state police brass.

State police didn't investigate the attack on Bowman until 536 days after it occurred — even though it was captured on body camera — and only did so weeks after Bowman brought a civil lawsuit.

The state police released a statement Wednesday saying that Jacob Brown, the white trooper who struck Bowman, "engaged in excessive and unjustifiable actions," failed to report the use of force to his supervisors and "intentionally mislabeled" his body camera video.

Before resigning in March, Brown tallied 23 use-of-force incidents dating to 2015 — 19 of them targeting Black people, according to state police records.
Aside from the federal investigation, Brown faces state charges of second-degree battery and malfeasance in Bowman's beating. He also faces state charges in two other violent arrests of Black motorists, including one he boasted about last year in a group chat with other troopers, saying the suspect is "gonna be sore" and "it warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man."

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1030...-motorist-18-times-flashlight-pain-compliance
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
MONROE, La. — Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as "pain compliance."

"I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!" Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard screaming between blows on the footage obtained by The Associated Press. The May 2019 beating following a traffic stop left him with a broken jaw, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a gash to his head that required six staples to close.

Bowman's encounter near his Monroe home came less than three weeks after troopers from the same embattled agency punched, stunned and dragged another Black motorist, Ronald Greene, before he died in police custody on a rural roadside in northeast Louisiana. Video of Greene's death similarly remained under wraps before AP obtained and published it earlier this year.

Federal prosecutors are examining both cases in a widening investigation into police brutality and potential cover-ups involving both troopers and state police brass.

State police didn't investigate the attack on Bowman until 536 days after it occurred — even though it was captured on body camera — and only did so weeks after Bowman brought a civil lawsuit.

The state police released a statement Wednesday saying that Jacob Brown, the white trooper who struck Bowman, "engaged in excessive and unjustifiable actions," failed to report the use of force to his supervisors and "intentionally mislabeled" his body camera video.

Before resigning in March, Brown tallied 23 use-of-force incidents dating to 2015 — 19 of them targeting Black people, according to state police records.
Aside from the federal investigation, Brown faces state charges of second-degree battery and malfeasance in Bowman's beating. He also faces state charges in two other violent arrests of Black motorists, including one he boasted about last year in a group chat with other troopers, saying the suspect is "gonna be sore" and "it warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man."

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1030...-motorist-18-times-flashlight-pain-compliance
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Any word on where he is bravely serving as a police officer now?

I mean if this was a serious violation wouldn't the cops who already had him face down on the ground at this time have done something about this crazy guy beating someone with a metal pipe? Clearly there is more here than meets the eye.
 
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday found probable cause to charge a police officer in the 2016 slaying of a Black man who was sitting in a parked car, taking the rare step of overruling prosecutors years after they declined to charge the officer.

Milwaukee County Judge Glenn Yamahiro said probable cause existed to charge Joseph Mensah with homicide by negligent use of a weapon in Jay Anderson Jr.'s death. He ordered a special prosecutor to formally file the charge within 60 days.

Yamahiro's decision marks a victory for Anderson's family, who took advantage of a little-used provision in state law to ask the judge for a second look at the case.

Mensah, who is also Black, discovered the 25-year-old Anderson sleeping in his car at 3 a.m. in a park in Wauwatosa, a Milwaukee suburb. Mensah said he shot Anderson after Anderson reached for a gun, but Anderson's family disputes that and the judge on Wednesday said the evidence did not back up Mensah's version of events.

Anderson was the second of three people Mensah shot to death during a five-year stint with the Wauwatosa Police Department. Prosecutors cleared him of criminal wrongdoing in each case.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021...-joseph-mensah-charged-jay-anderson-wauwatosa
 
Officer Who Quit Wisconsin Police Job Under Pressure Joins Nearby Sheriff's Dept.

Joseph Mensah, who quit his job as a police officer in Wauwatosa, Wis., after shooting and killing three people in the line of duty over a five-year period, has a new job as a sheriff's deputy. Sheriff Eric Severson of neighboring Waukesha County says multiple authorities concluded Mensah's controversial use of force was both legal and in line with his training.

In announcing the hire, Severson acknowledged that "some have expressed concerns about Mr. Mensah's past uses of force." But he said Mensah had gone through "an extensive, thorough and exhaustive hiring process."
The sheriff added that Mensah's work with the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office will start with a supervised field training program.

Mensah, who is Black, was the subject of intense protests in Wauwatosa last October, after the Milwaukee County district attorney announced no charges would be filed against him in the shooting death of 17-year-old Alvin Cole on Feb. 2. The prosecutor's office concluded Mensah had acted in self-defense.

Despite that finding, Mensah resigned in November after a months-long suspension from the Wauwatosa Police Department in suburban Milwaukee.
Cole was the third person to have been shot and killed by Mensah since 2015, according to multiple reports.
"Mensah's two earlier shootings had also been found to be in self-defense, and the officer was not disciplined," as NPR's Brakkton Booker reported.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/9616...job-under-pressure-joins-nearby-sheriffs-dept
 
Captain_Swoop said:
MONROE, La. — Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as "pain compliance."
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I've mentioned it before, but back during the Rodney King trial, I saw an episode of The 700 Club in which one of Pat Robertson's co-hosts claimed with a straight face that since you can kill someone with a single well-placed blow from a baton, the fact that they hit King so many times proved that they didn't intend to seriously hurt him.
 
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