The LEO thread

[Vrede too]

Hero and cop both did exactly the same thing, and using the same thought process/instinct: See dead guy(s) and live guy holding a gun. Shoot the live guy holding the gun.

Hero witnessed a murder, killer cop did not. Killer cop took a 50/50 chance and blew it, and he still had a duty to ID himself and to not shoot unless a gun was pointing at him.

[O Really]

"“During the encounter, Campbell made threatening comments and gestures toward the officers. He also exhibited signs of being intoxicated and refused to obey officers’ orders. Campbell continually struggled and kicked at the rangers, resisting arrest, and later injuring himself while banging his head in the patrol car.”

So how is it this guy is still alive? Oh yeah, white guy.

Yet once again, these cops show it is still possible to subdue and arrest an obnoxious, non-compliant drunk without taser, baton, firearm, or significant damage to the jerk.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/man-gets-j ... 59242.html

[O Really]

More detail. Read what this guy did and try to say if he'd been black and back in Indiana or somewhere he'd still be alive. Homie don't think so.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/06/24 ... s-charged/

[Ulysses]

More detail. Read what this guy did and try to say if he'd been black and back in Indiana or somewhere he'd still be alive. Homie don't think so.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/06/24 ... s-charged/

Speaking of Yellowstone, there's a three hour PBS series on Yellowstone being re-run today on local station. Got the DVDR set up for that. I imagine the main topic will be nature, not nurture.

[O Really]

"'Depraved' female prison guard sentenced for sex with inmate"

A "depraved" former correctional officer in California will serve 210 days in prison, followed by two years of probation, after she had sex with an inmate in full view of 11 others.

"Depraved" guard here... Kinda gives a new meaning to the term "screw' used for guards.



So what was so "depraved"?

Spoiler:

"Cutting a hole in your pants to make it easier to have sex with an inmate and having intercourse in full view of 11 other inmates is something only a depraved mind could come up with," he said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/deprav ... HOYSTTC3Y/

Assistant Sheriff McComas maybe needs to get out more.

[Ulysses]

"'Depraved' female prison guard sentenced for sex with inmate"

A "depraved" former correctional officer in California will serve 210 days in prison, followed by two years of probation, after she had sex with an inmate in full view of 11 others.

"Depraved" guard here... Kinda gives a new meaning to the term "screw' used for guards.



So what was so "depraved"?

Spoiler:

"Cutting a hole in your pants to make it easier to have sex with an inmate and having intercourse in full view of 11 other inmates is something only a depraved mind could come up with," he said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/deprav ... HOYSTTC3Y/

Assistant Sheriff McComas maybe needs to get out more.

I guess she won't be available for parties for a couple of years...

[neoplacebo]

As a long time advocate and supporter of depravity, I feel 210 days and 2 years probation isn't so bad. Besides, this will give the guard the chance to engage in further depravity from a different angle. After all, a hole in one's pants can be utilized as an offensive or defensive device.

[Vrede too]

"'Depraved' female prison guard sentenced for sex with inmate"

A "depraved" former correctional officer in California will serve 210 days in prison, followed by two years of probation, after she had sex with an inmate in full view of 11 others.

"Depraved" guard here... Kinda gives a new meaning to the term "screw' used for guards.

So what was so "depraved"?

Spoiler:

"Cutting a hole in your pants to make it easier to have sex with an inmate and having intercourse in full view of 11 other inmates is something only a depraved mind could come up with," he said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/deprav ... HOYSTTC3Y/

Assistant Sheriff McComas maybe needs to get out more.

There's something depraved about sentencing a prison-depraved person to prison and thinking that it will somehow prevent further depravity.

Pigidiot:

Deputy said playing a Taylor Swift song would keep a video of him off YouTube. It didn't.

A California sheriff's deputy has attracted national attention after video shows he played a Taylor Swift song on his phone in a failed attempt to trigger censorship of an activist's video. Instead the footage was successfully published and went viral.

On Tuesday morning in Oakland, Calif, James Burch and several activists went to the Alameda County courthouse and recorded a confrontation with a deputy, according to The Washington Post. As they recorded, the deputy reached into his pocket for his phone and started playing Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit single “Blank Space," according to a YouTube video uploaded by Anti Police-Terror Project.

The video shows a confrontation between Burch and the officer over the placement of a banner.

Burch asked the deputy, "are we having a dance party right now?" The deputy said no and continued to blast the music, the video shows.

When questioned about the music, the deputy said “You can record all you want, I just know it can’t be posted on YouTube.”

YouTube has an automated copyright system, which detects and removes unauthorized protected material from being uploaded.

Burch and his organization, the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, which says it aims to hold local law enforcement accountable, posted the video to Twitter and later YouTube. The video has been viewed over 800,000 times on Twitter and over 400,000 times on YouTube....

:confusion-scratchheadblue:

[Ulysses]

As a long time advocate and supporter of depravity, I feel 210 days and 2 years probation isn't so bad. Besides, this will give the guard the chance to engage in further depravity from a different angle. After all, a hole in one's pants can be utilized as an offensive or defensive device.

Holy Smoke!

[GoCubsGo]

Pigidiot:

Deputy said playing a Taylor Swift song would keep a video of him off YouTube. It didn't.

A California sheriff's deputy has attracted national attention after video shows he played a Taylor Swift song on his phone in a failed attempt to trigger censorship of an activist's video. Instead the footage was successfully published and went viral.

On Tuesday morning in Oakland, Calif, James Burch and several activists went to the Alameda County courthouse and recorded a confrontation with a deputy, according to The Washington Post. As they recorded, the deputy reached into his pocket for his phone and started playing Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit single “Blank Space," according to a YouTube video uploaded by Anti Police-Terror Project.

The video shows a confrontation between Burch and the officer over the placement of a banner.

Burch asked the deputy, "are we having a dance party right now?" The deputy said no and continued to blast the music, the video shows.

When questioned about the music, the deputy said “You can record all you want, I just know it can’t be posted on YouTube.”

YouTube has an automated copyright system, which detects and removes unauthorized protected material from being uploaded.

Burch and his organization, the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, which says it aims to hold local law enforcement accountable, posted the video to Twitter and later YouTube. The video has been viewed over 800,000 times on Twitter and over 400,000 times on YouTube....

:confusion-scratchheadblue:

It actually wasn't a terrible effort. At least he was polite.

[Vrede too]

It actually wasn't a terrible effort. At least he was polite.

Ignorant and smug would be my description. There are no 'Get Out of Jail Free' cards from public accountability.


Officer’s gun discharges during arrest and hits suspect, NC cops say. He’s now on leave

Opps.

(Two) Deputies accidentally shot while training at North Carolina gun range, sheriff says

Opps. Opps.

[Vrede too]

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Need bail $$$?

Chicago crowd sets fireworks, dances on cop cars; at least 61 arrested: report

Happy Independence Day!

[GoCubsGo]

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Need bail $$$?

Chicago crowd sets fireworks, dances on cop cars; at least 61 arrested: report

Happy Independence Day!

Nah, had an attorney on retainer.

[Vrede too]

Nah, had an attorney on retainer.

Smart. I forget which one is the attorney.

Al Sharpton to eulogize Arkansas teen fatally shot by deputy

he Rev. Al Sharpton and (a Black) attorney for George Floyd's family are speaking at the memorial Tuesday for a white Arkansas teenager shot dead by a deputy, a case that civil rights activists say highlights the need for interracial support to address police shootings.

Seventeen-year-old Hunter Brittain was shot and killed by a Lonoke County sheriff's deputy, Sgt. Michael Davis, during a traffic stop June 23 near Cabot, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Little Rock.

Brittain's memorial at Beebe High School in Beebe will also feature remarks by Ben Crump who — along with another Floyd family attorney, Devon Jacob — is representing Brittain’s family. Floyd died in May last year when a white Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin the handcuffed Black man's neck to the ground.

Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley last week fired Davis for not turning on his body camera until after he had shot Brittain. Staley said the only footage police have is from the aftermath. Arkansas State Police are investigating Brittain's death.

The shooting in predominantly white Lonoke County drew the attention of Sharpton and other civil rights activists and follows nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice last year. Davis is white.

A release by the National Action Network, which was founded by Sharpton, said the civil rights leader planned to “highlight the need for inter-racial support against police brutality in America” with his eulogy.

Authorities have released few details about the shooting. Brittain's family has said the teenager was unarmed and was holding a jug of antifreeze when he was shot. Brittian's family and friends have held protests nightly outside the Lonoke County sheriff's office and have complained about the lack of information released....

[Vrede too]

Video: Trooper performs Heimlich on driver who tried to swallow bag of pot

[Vrede too]

How alleged victim's notes in public bathrooms led to her rescue

... Police say the first cry for help was found Thursday, stuck to a mirror in the women's bathroom of a Walmart in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh.

The note was from a woman who said she had been sexually and physically assaulted, and was being held against her will, by 38-year-old Corey Brewer, who was armed with a knife, according to the complaint. The note also gave an address where she was being held and a description of a car, and begged the reader to call 911....

Police went to the address written on the note. Though no one answered the door, according to the complaint, officers said they could hear furniture being moved around inside.

Officers called Brewer's number and asked to speak to the victim privately, but Brewer allegedly told the officers he wouldn't take her off speaker phone, the complaint said. In the speaker phone conversation, Brewer told the officers the two were on vacation in New York, and the victim told police she was with her boyfriend.

Seriously, speaker phone never occurred to the cops?!

Two days later, on Saturday, a second note signed by the same victim was found stuck to a mirror in a women's restroom at the Fallingwater museum and landmark in western Pennsylvania, the complaint said. Police say video surveillance from Fallingwater showed Brewer and the alleged victim there.

The note said she'd been held since May 1 and was not on vacation, and again pleaded with the reader to call 911, the complaint said. The note said "she heard the police knocking at the residence, that the abuse hasn't stopped, and please don't give up."

Police executed a search warrant early Sunday, rescuing the alleged victim and taking Brewer into custody, the complaint said. The woman told police Brewer confiscated her phone and she wasn't able to escape....

Two days later!!! Lucky she wasn't dead. Thanks for almost nothing, idiot PA cops.

[Vrede too]

Alabama officer getting paid after murder conviction resigns

An Alabama police officer who remained on his city's payroll for two months after being convicted of murder has resigned from the Huntsville Police Department....

Darby has been on paid leave since his May 7 conviction for shooting a suicidal man who was holding a gun to his own head.

The city said placing Darby on paid leave was normal until its personnel policies and procedures could be completed. Huntsville's Republican mayor and police chief publicly disagreed with the jury's murder verdict.

So what?

A lawyer for the family of victim Jeffery Parker said allowing Darby to resign instead of being terminated either immediately after the 2018 killing or after his murder conviction was unacceptable and “a bizarre and unnecessary distraction.”

"The Parker family is looking forward to proceeding in the civil case and with the goal of holding Darby and the city of Huntsville responsible,” attorney Martin Weinberg said in a statement to media outlets....

He is out on $100,000 bail as he waits to be sentenced on Aug. 20. Prosecutors said he faces 20 years to life in prison.

Give him the max.

Darby shot Parker moments after joining two other officers who had responded to a 911 call from the man, who said he was armed and planned to kill himself.

One of the officers, who has since left the force, testified that Parker was upset but talking with her and posed no immediate threat despite the gun he held to his head. Jurors rejected defense claims that the shooting was justified.

A defense attorney said Darby will appeal.

:confusion-scratchheadblue: Who pays convicted murderers???

[neoplacebo]

Looks to me like the key to all this is that "....Darby shot Parker moments after joining two other officers who had responded...." It makes me (and the jury, I guess) think that Darby was a dubmass. But I wouldn't take this to mean that 2 out of 3 AL cops are competent. The other two may just have been slow on the draw.

[Ulysses]

Looks to me like the key to all this is that "....Darby shot Parker moments after joining two other officers who had responded...." It makes me (and the jury, I guess) think that Darby was a dubmass. But I wouldn't take this to mean that 2 out of 3 AL cops are competent. The other two may just have been slow on the draw.

A nearby town had an incident a while ago where two police officers showed up to subdue a deranged person who was threatening others with a baseball bat. The first cop shot the guy. Killed him. The second officer followed up with his taser.

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The first officer was kicked off the force. The second officer? AFAIK, still under review. At least he used a non-lethal weapon. Of course he might have mistaken the taser for his gun. And to be fair, the first officer might have mistaken his gun for his taser. But I think he shot the bat dude like five times.

Life in the Big City. A lesson to us all: do not attempt to practice your baseball swing in a store.

[Vrede too]

Pigs:

Video shows Colorado officer shooting 75-year-old man with stun gun
Police said Michael Clark was unarmed when he was stunned on May 30, and officer who did it has since been fired.