Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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That was the case where the guy the police were looking for was in a different apartment in the same building under house arrest and wearing a tracking anklet.
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But cops find apartment numbers so confusing they never know which one to break down.
 
Checkmite said:
This Idaho sheriff has been charged with aggravated assault. The victims are a group of kids - members of a Mormon youth group - and their adult leader.

On the night of the assault, which took place in early November, the group was engaged in an activity where they were taping Thanksgiving-themed greeting cards to people's doors, then knocking and quickly running off, leaving the home's occupants to discover the cards.

They were unlucky enough to undertake this at the house of Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland, who answered the door in his long underwear with a gun. His own Ring door-camera video shows him finding the card and reading it, but he nevertheless became verbally angry anyway, spotted the youth group's car a short distance away and ran up to it, opening the door and yanking the adult leader out of the car by her hair and holding his gun to her head while screaming expletives at all of them, demanding to know who they were and what they're doing. The adult leader was in fact a neighbor and longtime personal friend of the sheriff's family, but he was too enraged in the moment to recognize her and continued his tirade threatening to shoot her for a time before finally going back to his own home.

By way of excuse, Sheriff Rowland told local police that he lives just outside a Native reservation where he is surrounded by "a lot of reservation people who are not good people", and that "drunk Indians" have come to his door before. It was not reported if he mentioned how many of them had left him Thanksgiving cards.
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Bonus bastard in this situation is the local LDS church who tried to hand-wave away the whole thing as a "misunderstanding"

A confrontation between Bingham County’s sheriff and female members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being called a “likely misunderstanding” by local church officials.
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https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/confrontation-between-bingham-county-sheriff-female-youth-group-called-likely-misunderstanding/article_db629141-fe0c-5d21-b596-4206c54cb07e.html

I guess hierarchical, unaccountable groups like to stick together.
 
A former Orange County sheriff's deputy is accused of throwing scalding water on a mentally ill inmate who didn't receive medical treatment for his burns for more than six hours, the county district attorney's office announced Monday.

Guadalupe Ortiz, 47, was charged with felony counts of assault or battery by a public officer and battery with serious bodily injury and could face up to four years in prison if convicted, the DA's office said in a statement.

Ortiz allegedly filled a cup from a hot water dispenser on April 1 and poured it on the hands of an inmate who had refused to take his hands out of a hatch door in his cell at the sheriff's Intake Release Center in Santa Ana, prosecutors said. The DA's statement described the inmate as mentally ill.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guadalupe-ortiz-orange-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-scalding-water-mentally-ill-inmate/
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Bonus bastard in this situation is the local LDS church who tried to hand-wave away the whole thing as a "misunderstanding"



https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/confrontation-between-bingham-county-sheriff-female-youth-group-called-likely-misunderstanding/article_db629141-fe0c-5d21-b596-4206c54cb07e.html

I guess hierarchical, unaccountable groups like to stick together.
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The guy is still working as the sheriff. He took a short leave but went back to active duty.

Accountability right there, American style.
 
tyr_13 said:
The guy is still working as the sheriff. He took a short leave but went back to active duty.

Accountability right there, American style.
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It's an elected position, nobody can fire him. Arrest and prosecution are really the only accountability method available here.
 
Dallas pig finally charged for brutalizing people during protests:

A Dallas police officer alleged to have used excessive force during a downtown George Floyd protest in 2020 faces an assault charge in connection with the incident.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot’s office obtained an arrest warrant Friday for Senior Cpl. Melvin Williams on a misdemeanor count of assault, police announced in a Facebook post late Friday.

Williams is accused of shooting 23-year-old Vincent Doyle in the face with less-lethal ammunition.

A grand jury declined last month to indict him in connection with the case. Williams’ attorney, Robert Rogers, said Friday that Creuzot’s move to bring charges despite the grand jury’s decision was unprecedented.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Rogers said.

Williams, 40, was expected to turn himself in to authorities, police said.

This is the second charge brought against Williams this year. Last month, Williams turned himself in to DeSoto police on an assault charge after he was caught on video repeatedly punching a man in the face in Deep Ellum over the summer.
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/12/17/dallas-officer-accused-of-using-excessive-force-during-george-floyd-protests-faces-assault-charge/

His victim has permanent partial blindness after being shot in the face with a "less lethal" munition. For some reason, permanent maiming with a weapon is a misdemeanor crime when cops do it.
 
Retired cop gets silk glove treatment from local PD after beating a postal worker unconscious in the street

“Being a retired police officer, I don’t think you’ll be going to jail. Okay?” an officer said in lapel video.

However, federal investigators disagree. Surveillance video taken on December 3 shows Gutierrez punching the postal worker in the face, the first time, as he turned around from reaching into his truck. He told officers the worker was the one being threatening.
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https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/video-shows-former-las-vegas-police-officer-punch-mail-carrier/amp/

Unfortunately for the former cop, attacking a postal worker is a federal crime, so the local pig-pen couldn't protect him from prosecution

Robert F. Gutierrez, of Las Vegas, is charged with one count of assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury following a Dec. 3 incident outside Gutierrez’s home in Las Vegas. Gutierrez is accused of punching the mail carrier multiple times, causing the man to lose consciousness at one point, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court Dec. 5.

Following an investigation by LVPD and federal law enforcement officers with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, investigators viewed surveillance video that captured a portion of the incident and determined Gutierrez violated federal law by striking the mail carrier, a federal employee.
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https://www.lasvegasoptic.com/news/crime/former-lvpd-officer-arrested-on-federal-assault-charge/article_dbfa5196-5e95-11ec-ada2-5f2e508e8168.html

Oops all bad apples yet again.
 
Ex-California deputy sentenced for throwing out urine test that exonerated detainee

A former California deputy was sentenced on Wednesday for throwing away a urine test that proved a detained driver wasn’t on drugs – before trying to have her jailed anyway on suspicion she was high on methamphetamine.

Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, an ex-deputy with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, will spend a year behind bars for the stunt at his police station in November 2019, according to prosecutors.

He pleaded guilty in November to destroying physical matter.

The bizarre chain of events unfolded after Barrios pulled over the driver for a traffic violation and suspected she was on meth, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
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The woman supplied the deputy with a urine sample.

Barrios was caught on surveillance footage at the police station testing the sample and viewing the results before tossing the urine in the trash.

The deputy refused to reveal the test results to the woman and tried to have her booked into jail, but she complained to another deputy who found the discarded sample and test kit in the garbage, prosecutors said.

The kit showed the woman’s urine sample was negative for all controlled substances. She agreed to another test, which yielded the same results.

Deputies released the woman and afterward Barrios was later charged.
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lobosrul5 said:
So, I assume everyone's seen the Miami airport incident where it appears a police officer intervened in a massive brawl... well he's the one who started it because a guy put his hand on him to get his attention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/rl5tfi/miami_airport_fight/
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When the officer used the carotid restraint and the look of absolute horror comes across the other man's face, things changed very quickly.

We learned with George Floyd that making impassioned pleas for a moment of humanitarian consideration doesn't work with jack-booted thugs. I suspect we will see more such examples of people physically interposing themselves in "police business" in the future.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
When the officer used the carotid restraint and the look of absolute horror comes across the other man's face, things changed very quickly.

We learned with George Floyd that making impassioned pleas for a moment of humanitarian consideration doesn't work with jack-booted thugs. I suspect we will see more such examples of people physically interposing themselves in "police business" in the future.
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I think, but am totally not sure, that the bystanders were his extended family.
 
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