Cops with no respect for the law or citizens’ rights shouldn’t be cops. Some cops have adopted a new tactic to prevent citizens from legally recording their activities, and then posting the videos online: Playing copyrighted music. Their purpose: To thwart citizens from doing what they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad Cops’
June 16th, 2015 - 9:34 pm § in Misc.
Some people shouldn’t be cops.
“Neptune Township police Sgt. Phil Seidle had his 7-year-old daughter in the front seat of his vehicle while he chased after a car driven by his ex-wife, Tamara … moments after the chase ended, he got out and fired his .40-caliber Glock service weapon several times into her vehicle R[...]
March 17th, 2015 - 1:29 am § in America
St Patty Day: Do You Find the Flag of the NY Police Offensive?
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February 25th, 2015 - 2:05 pm § in Misc.
Today’s police abuse report
There’s so much police abuse of citizens in this country, it’s easier to stack the incidents in a pile on my desk than write separate stories about them. In this video of a traffic stop, cops in the Florida Keys are recorded by a tourist tasering an elderly man with his hands up and not [...]
February 22nd, 2015 - 5:22 pm § in Misc.
Jury acquits detective of trying to beat confession from suspect
The recent acquittal of a fired Milwaukee cop demonstrates how hard it is to criminally sanction violent cops in this country. On Feb. 13, 2015, a jury acquitted ex-detective and police union official Rodolfo Gomez of beating a handcuffed suspect, Deron Love, during an interrogation. Here is a link [...]
February 20th, 2015 - 2:44 am § in Misc.
Innocent Seattle man shot 16 times by cops gets $5.5 million
Dustin Theoharis is damned lucky to be alive. In 2012, he was shot 16 times at point-blank range in his own bed by a King County cop and a Washington state corrections officer. He wasn’t a criminal, hadn’t done nothing wrong, the cops busted into the boarding house where he lived looking[...]
February 17th, 2015 - 2:40 pm § in Uncategorized
$25 million lawsuit against Pasco police alleges “racial animus” against Hispanics
Last week brought America’s latest high-profile police slaying of a minority person, in this case a Hispanic man killed by Pasco, Washington, police — a department whose officers have killed several people in just the past few months. Antonio Zambrano-Montes wasn’t innocent. Distra[...]
January 4th, 2015 - 1:23 pm § in America
NYPD Officers Bring Shame on Themselves
For a second time groups of police officers attending a funeral for Officers Rafael Ramos, left, and Wenjian Liu turned their backs on New York City mayor Bill de Blasio as he read a eulogy for a fallen officer. The officers, a smaller group then at the funeral for Officer Ramos, acted despite a r[...]