Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

[TurkeysGhost]

Ohio cop that was fired for stomping on a restrained man's head is getting his job back and back-pay.

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) – An East Cleveland officer who was fired after he was caught on video stomping on a man’s head is scheduled to return to the police department in 10 days.

The Fox 8 I-TEAM received a copy of the ruling on Nicholas Foti’s case. The ruling was issued by attorney Bruce B. McIntosh, of Cincinnati, that was sent to East Cleveland officials Friday.

The letter dated July 9 also orders the city to pay Foti back pay. Foti was fired in March. Officials with the Fraternal Order of Police, who represent Foti, filed an appeal. The arbitration hearing was held last week.

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/east-cleveland-officer-fired-for-stomping-mans-head-to-return-to-force/

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Power cycling a cop to see if it fixes the racism bug.

A Knoxville Police Department officer attending a wedding reception while off duty was knocked unconscious after allegedly making racist remarks.

“I didn’t know they let Black people into the reception,” 22-year-old KPD officer Tanner Holt reportedly told a Black man just moments before he was knocked unconscious.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/knoxville-officer-knocked-unconscious-wedding-party-racist-remarks_n_60e76583e4b0639661bcea78

 

[Belz...]

Power cycling a cop to see if it fixes the racism bug.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/knoxville-officer-knocked-unconscious-wedding-party-racist-remarks_n_60e76583e4b0639661bcea78

Forcing the cop to reboot might remove the bug, but I think it's an issue with the ROM.

 

[Thermal]

“I didn’t know they let Black people into the reception,” 22-year-old KPD officer Tanner Holt reportedly told a Black man just moments before he was knocked unconscious.

Appearing in new textbooks explaining correlation v causation.

Plus, did you get a load of his pic, all in black in front of the flag with a **** eating grin and Hitler youth haircut?

 

[JoeMorgue]

"'I didn’t know they let Black people into the reception,' 22-year-old KPD officer Tanner Holt reportedly told a Black man just moments before he was knocked unconscious."

And the Officer Tanner was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on finding the most efficient route possible form "**** around" to "Find out."

 

[Andy_Ross]

"The last words Michael Chad Breinholt heard were, “You’re about to die, my friend.”

...

With his hands cuffed behind his back, he briefly wrestled with two officers. One screamed that Breinholt was grabbing his holstered gun. Sgt. Tyler Longman rushed into the room, made his declaration and fired.

“He took the time to think about that, to say those words,” Neese said in a recent interview. “And then aim and shoot. And kill Chad.”
...

It was his third."


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michael-chad-breinholt-west-lake-city-police-shooting-video/

Good job it's not an epidemic!

 

[Aridas]

Here's a bit of an aside.

Judge maintains children who saw George Floyd's murder possibly not traumatized because they smiled

*sigh*

Back to the police, though.

My City Invited Citizens to Speak Out Against Racism. The Cops Turned Our Names Over to the FBI.

That sure looks like abuse of power, to say the least.

 

[erlando]

My City Invited Citizens to Speak Out Against Racism. The Cops Turned Our Names Over to the FBI.

That sure looks like abuse of power, to say the least.

"Land of the free". Well... Not all y'all. Just some of you..

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Journalist that witnessed a cop accidentally run over a pedestrian describes how they respond.

Whole thread, but he summarizes here:

Anyway, long story short, a cop drives recklessly and hits a pedestrian, breaking her leg, 3 cops fail to render aid, try to intimidate us away from the scene where my partner was rendering aid, and escalated every opportunity they could. I’ll have a clearer report soon.

https://twitter.com/PeterKayReports/status/1415494295339945985

Cop that hit the pedestrian made 200k in 2019.

The "cover your ass" attitude of police is automatic. A fairly minor screw-up has them refusing to render aid, trying to prevent an EMT from rendering aid, attempting to conceal their identities, and trying to intimidate and run off witnesses.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Cop speak is wild.

When officers arrived in the area they saw a male matching the description armed with a handgun. At that time there was an officer involved shooting. The man was struck by gunfire and transported to a local hospital where he has died.

There is a replica handgun at scene. No officers were injured. A female who was nearby was transported to a local hospital for an injury sustained during the incident.

FID Detectives are interviewing witnesses and people who may be the victims of assaults by the suspect.

https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1415794126906281985

Cops shot and killed a man brandishing a replica firearm in public. Is that so hard to say? Press releases by cops seem to always avoiding laying out plain cause and effect of actions. Officers don't shoot people, they are "involved" in shootings in which people are transported to a hospital after and die.

The complete erasure of agency here makes it unclear how the bystander was injured. Seems likely that the cops injured her during the shooting, but it's hard to say given the impenetrable abuse of the English language.

ETA: It's understandable that the police prefer to use the exonerative tense in their press releases, but it's absolutely maddening that so many media outlets just parrot the language rather than speaking plain truth.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Cop gets 4 years for beating up a protestor that turned out to be an undercover cop.

According to the indictment against the four defendants, several officers deployed "expressed disdain" for the protesters and "excitement about using unjustified force against them."

"It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these ********* once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!" Boone said in an exchange transcribed in the court document.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-ex-cop-gets-more-than-4-years-jail-time-for-beating-undercover-black-colleague/ar-AAMcQoB?ocid=entnewsntp

Only the black UC got brutalized, imagine that

His white partner, also dressed in civilian clothing, went unscathed.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Two Maine police officers who allegedly beat porcupines to death while on duty have been fired

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/us/police-porcupines-trnd/index.html

 

[Belz...]

Two Maine police officers who allegedly beat porcupines to death while on duty have been fired

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/us/police-porcupines-trnd/index.html

What the hell?

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Two Maine police officers who allegedly beat porcupines to death while on duty have been fired

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/us/police-porcupines-trnd/index.html

Seems unusually depraved and pointlessly violent, even for cops. Or perhaps I'm just underestimating the police.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Lawsuit: unmarked police cars driven by plainclothes officers blockade and bang up woman’s car, then cops rush her with guns drawn, smash window, pull her from car, threaten to tase her, finally realize she isn’t who they were looking for and…just leave.

https://twitter.com/pebonilla/status/1415857948551794693

The police have refused to identify the 4 plainclothes cops that ambushed this lady then left her without any explanation.

The car followed her to the 1000 block of Church St. when the car suddenly swerved in front of Watson to cut her off, stopped and reversed into her car. At the same time, a second car hit Watson from behind.

A third and fourth car then pulled up on either side of her car, blocking her in.

All four cars were unmarked Delaware State Police vehicles driven by plainclothes officers.

“I thought I was about to be kidnapped,” Watson said Thursday during a press conference outside the gas station.

The four plainclothes officers got out of their cars with guns drawn and pointed at Watson through her rolled-down windows, according to the suit.

“What’s going on?” she asked.

“Stop talking and shut the ---- up,” an officer said, the suit says.

One of the officers broke the driver’s side rear window of Watson’s car, according to the suit, and another officer opened the door of her car and forcefully pulled out Watson.

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2021/07/15/police-sued-after-plainclothes-officers-blockade-wrong-womans-car/7980717002/

Gangbangers with badges.

 

[jimbob]

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021...officer-sergeant-charged-teen-violent-arrest/

I Will Choke You. I Will Kill You.’ Baltimore Police Officer, Sergeant Indicted Over Violent Arrest of Teenager; Officials Not Yet Releasing Body-Worn Camera Video

 

[Belz...]

Maybe they should stop hiring the school bullies.

 

[gnome]

Maybe they should stop hiring the school bullies.

"A job for two, who are now of job age."

 

[TurkeysGhost]

LAPD using less lethals in a way known to be highly dangerous again. Seems that deliberate abuse of "less lethal" weapons, be that shooting at close range or targeting at the face and head, is a preferred method that US cops use to maim.

Beanbag round from a shotgun at less than 10 yards, something that could absolutely kill or cause serious injury:

Woman was shot at point blank range this afternoon with a rubber bullet by police for no apparent reason. She was a counter-protestor at the anti-trans rally at WiSpa in LA.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1416519459616038915

 

[TurkeysGhost]

A stark lack of police violence for protestors shutting down an active freeway. No journalists had their eyes shot out, no close range use of less lethal shotguns, no rampaging riot cops clubbing in every direction, and not a drop of tear gas used.

#BREAKING: Large group of demonstrators march onto Palmetto Expressway in show of support for Cuban protesters: http://on.nbc6.com/yNrQH0K

https://twitter.com/nbc6/status/1415004762483961862

For context, this took place in Florida, which passed explicit laws to criminalize this type of protest. I guess it's different when it isn't people calling for cops to stop murdering black people.