The Behavior Of US Police Officers - Part 3

[Gulliver Foyle]

That Massey video was one of the worst I've seen--a blatant execution with zero justification. Only positive is that it will be an easy conviction, I can't even imagine what the defense would be (insanity?)

"Massey was a dangerous habitual criminal who engaged in a series of actions that made the police justifiably in fear of their lives" (translated into normal speech: "blacks ain't real people and it's ok to kill them").

 

[shemp]

'He had everyone fooled': Former FBI agent sentenced to life for child rape in Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former FBI agent was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper.

Alabama's state police hired Christopher Bauer even after he was kicked out of the FBI amid earlier claims he raped a co-worker at knifepoint.

An Associated Press investigation showed Bauer, 45, moved from one law enforcement job to another with the help of a forged letter making it appear he was “eligible for rehire.”

The forgery prompted an FBI investigation but federal authorities held off charging Bauer as the state proceedings played out.

A jury convicted Bauer in June of first-degree sodomy and sexual abuse of a child under 12 following a weeklong trial in which defense attorneys claimed the girl made up the allegations.

Alabama State Police background check:

"Should we check with the FBI to see if this letter is legit?" "Nah, hire him."

Bauer's defense attorneys argued the disgraced lawman deserved leniency following his own abusive childhood in foster homes and orphanages. He was removed from his parents at the age of 5 and later diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder.

Well, I guess that's a license to rape little girls!

Bauer, who was arrested in 2021, faces similar child sex abuse charges outside New Orleans. Louisiana State Police said they intended to extradite him following the Alabama case.

I don't care which state ends up jailing him for life as long as one of them does.

 

[bruto]

I hadn't heard of "oppositional defiant disorder," but it sounds a bit like a qualification for certain police jobs.

 

[Checkmite]

Early last month, police in Oklahoma body-slammed and handcuffed a man for not having ID while out walking with his 6-year-old son at a time they deemed "suspiciously early". Not unsurprisingly, the officer most actively involved is a department-surfer with a history of behavioral complaints.

 

[shemp]

‘It Was Very Humiliating’: Black Ohio Restaurant Owner Wrongly Arrested and Taken to Jail In Front of Customers Because He Had Same First Name as Drug Trafficking Suspect

A Black restaurant owner in Ohio is considering pursuing legal action after he was caught up in a case of mistaken identity that almost landed him in jail for a crime he never committed.

Bodycam footage caught the moments when Darnell McCloud was taken into custody by police officers in Fremont, Ohio, on July 11. The cops entered Fremont Coney Island, McCloud’s restaurant, and told him he had a warrant out for his arrest for two felony drug charges.

One major problem: McCloud wasn’t the suspect police were looking for. In fact, the only thing McCloud had in common with the suspect was that they shared a first name.

Police were looking for a man named Darnell Smith and detained McCloud instead.

The arresting cops didn't even bother to look at his ID, they didn't show him a warrant, they just hauled him off to the county jail for booking. Once there, somebody with a brain realized there was a mistake, and he was soon freed. The mayor and chief of police have publicly apologized.

“I’m of course, disappointed. We didn’t live up to the standards that our community expect us too,” Police Chief Derek Wensinger told WTVG. “We can’t do this alone. We need community support with community support, we are exponentially better at doing our job as police officers. We have been talking amongst ourselves on ways we can do better. It’s not just with interactions like this. There’s other things that we can do better.”

“I would encourage residents from the community to support (McCloud’s) business. It’s unfortunate that this situation happened, and it’s unacceptable,” Mayor Danny Sanchez told the Fremont News-Messenger. “I was sick to my stomach when I found out this happened to him. I could not imagine what it felt like for him.”

As for the arresting officer:

In the weeks since the wrongful arrest, Fremont Police started an internal disciplinary process to penalize the arresting officer, Chevy Farmer, for official misconduct. Farmer was suspended from his job for three days without pay and will have to undergo additional training in serving arrest warrants.

If I'm the police chief, that's not worth a suspension, that's worth a firing.

 

[pgwenthold]

‘It Was Very Humiliating’: Black Ohio Restaurant Owner Wrongly Arrested and Taken to Jail In Front of Customers Because He Had Same First Name as Drug Trafficking Suspect



The arresting cops didn't even bother to look at his ID, they didn't show him a warrant, they just hauled him off to the county jail for booking. Once there, somebody with a brain realized there was a mistake, and he was soon freed. The mayor and chief of police have publicly apologized.



As for the arresting officer:



If I'm the police chief, that's not worth a suspension, that's worth a firing.

Hey, he was on the lookout for a black*** guy named Darnell! I mean, how many of them can there be?

**Actually, that's an assumption on my part. For all I know, the guy with the warrant could have been white.

 

[Checkmite]

**Actually, that's an assumption on my part. For all I know, the guy with the warrant could have been white.

It's happened before, after all.

 

[bruto]

Obviously the fact that the victim was black and named Darnell is significant here, since it would be preposterous if there were an arrest warrant for someone named John and the cop just went into a crowd of people and arrested the first one who answered to the name John. So this case does not pass the sniff test. The officer in question does not need training in how to make arrests. He needs training or something else, like firing perhaps, in not being a bigoted *******. But even if we let that slide, I would suggest that if his non-additional training did not include making sure the person arrested actually has the same name as the one in the warrant, then either he is hopelessly stupid, or whoever is in charge of training the cops to do their job had better review what's in the training.

 

[pgwenthold]

To be fair, this guy was a _former_ reserve police officer.

That means that this murder/suicide doesn't count toward the domestic violence statistics for LEO.

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-new...-domestic-disturbance-on-indys-southwest-side

 

[jimbob]

https://f24.my/Acww

US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – Bumbling US cops who raided a medical diagnostics center thinking it was a cannabis farm got a gun stuck to the powerful magnets of an MRI machine, a California lawsuit has alleged.

The cops decided that THE ******** MRI FACILITY was using more electricity than the surrounding shops so must have been a cannabis farm

 

[plague311]

US cops doing what US cops do, again!

Newly released bodycam footage shows two Phoenix police officers shouting orders to a Black man as he’s lying face-down on the ground – with one officer repeatedly punching him and another officer tasing him.

The problem with shouting orders at the guy was...he was ******* deaf:

As McAlpin walks across the parking lot, one officer calls out to the deaf man from his police car, the bodycam footage shows.

Don't worry, the cops were totally telling the truth about the altercation this time...jk:

“His hands raised to deliver targeted punches at my face/head, and multiple swings with closed fists at my head,” the first officer who confronted McAlpin wrote in an incident report.

Surveillance footage from a nearby business shows the police car driving up to McAlpin. Within seconds, an officer gets out of the car and lunges toward McAlpin.

Body camera footage shows the officer was the first to outstretch his arms toward McAlpin while McAlpin’s arms remained by his side.

Well, I mean, at least he wasn't beat unnecessarily...er, dammit:

When McAlpin doesn’t comply and lifts his head slightly, the other officer punches his head down.

One officer tases McAlpin several times before he is handcuffed and taken away. At one point, the officers describe their injuries from the confrontation.

The cops go on to cry about their injuries. Don't be concerned though, they're being properly disciplined given that everything was caught on video...er wait, no they're not!

The two officers have not been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation and are actively working, the Phoenix Police Department told CNN Tuesday.

The best news of all is that at least they had training on how to deal with people with disabilities that guide their decisions. For instance:

During a preliminary hearing on McAlpin’s case, both officers involved in the scuffle said they don’t recall much training on how to handle hearing-impaired subjects, KNXV reported.

“That’s about seven years ago. I don’t really remember much of it,” the first officer testified.

“Have you received any training in dealing with members of the public who have disabilities?” McAlpin’s attorney asked the second officer.

“Maybe briefly, but nothing that I recall,” he replied.

Source

I will now open the floor to the standard excuse makers to tell us how this was all actually the fault of the deaf man for insert_reason_here.

 

[bluesjnr]

I will now open the floor to the standard excuse makers to tell us how this was all actually the fault of the deaf man for insert_reason_here.

What utter nonsense. Utter nonsense.

 

[plague311]

What utter nonsense. Utter nonsense.

Thank you for your valuable input.

 

[Checkmite]

“His hands raised to deliver targeted punches at my face/head, and multiple swings with closed fists at my head,” the first officer who confronted McAlpin wrote in an incident report.

Body camera footage shows the officer was the first to outstretch his arms toward McAlpin while McAlpin’s arms remained by his side.

Every damned time, it feels like.

 

[Shadowdweller]

The cops decided that THE ******** MRI FACILITY was using more electricity than the surrounding shops so must have been a cannabis farm

....
It costs a staggering amount of money to turn those magnets off and unstick the gun.

 

[bluesjnr]

Thank you for your valuable input.

Yeah, 'cos tilting at windmills is such a useful addition to the thread.

Thinking about it, that's the kind of behaviour exhibited by many of the cops we read about here. I hope you don't have a gun and a badge.

 

[Random]

I will now open the floor to the standard excuse makers to tell us how this was all actually the fault of the deaf man for insert_reason_here.

All real Americans know that at any given moment they might be surrounded by heavily armed gunmen who will scream incomprehensible and contradictory orders at them and inflict horrible physical violence if their demands are not instantly met.

 

[plague311]

Yeah, 'cos tilting at windmills is such a useful addition to the thread.

It's a thread about the behavior of US police and I posted news about US police. That's not "tilting at windmills' and nothing I posted was hyperbolic or taken out of context. I used actual quotes made in the news story.

Thinking about it, that's the kind of behaviour exhibited by many of the cops we read about here. I hope you don't have a gun and a badge.

I'm not hungry, you can keep your word salad. If you have an actual point to make about the news I posted, then make it. If not, you can absolutely feel free to move along. No one is making you post here and you've made zero sense.

 

[bluesjnr]

It's a thread about the behavior of US police and I posted news about US police. That's not "tilting at windmills' and nothing I posted was hyperbolic or taken out of context. I used actual quotes made in the news story.

You need to re-read your finishing sentence, the one I quoted. It's a prime example of, "wasting time and energy on an imaginary or unimportant enemy or problem". You've done it before, you know the old fight looking for an argument tactic. It looks like you only posted the news to get the jibe in.

I'm not hungry, you can keep your word salad. If you have an actual point to make about the news I posted, then make it. If not, you can absolutely feel free to move along. No one is making you post here and you've made zero sense.

Say's the man tilting at windmills. There's nothing wrong with your, "news", I just wish you'd leave out the pointless accusations. Such arguments make "zero sense" in this instance.

 

[plague311]

You need to re-read your finishing sentence, the one I quoted. It's a prime example of, "wasting time and energy on an imaginary or unimportant enemy or problem". You've done it before, you know the old fight looking for an argument tactic. It looks like you only posted the news to get the jibe in.

You admit it's news, it's obviously relevant, but you're saying I posted it just to get the jibe in because of one sentence at the end? That scans.

Anyway, for the "enemy" to be "imaginary" then the event I described would have to never happen; however It happens every time. Perhaps you don't know what the definitions of words are? If you need any evidence of it happening, to prove it's not imaginary, feel free to go back to page 1 of this thread, or parts 1 and 2 and read through.

To address the "unimportant" part. Well, it might be unimportant to you, but you aren't everyone. Others might not feel the same way as you, which is what makes the phrase "tilting at windmills" outdated, and useless.

Say's the man tilting at windmills. There's nothing wrong with your, "news", I just wish you'd leave out the pointless accusations. Such arguments make "zero sense" in this instance.

I wish you wouldn't drag out a bitchfest through multiple posts over a throw away sentence at the end of it, but here we are, each of us wishing the other would just move on. Life is crazy isn't it?