Y'all ain't doin too great dispelling those southern good ol boy cop stereotypes
"The officers initially went to the home in Braxton because a white neighbor had complained that Black people were staying with a white woman who owned the house. The court documents say [Black victim] Parker was a longtime friend of the homeowner and was helping care for her"
If you put this in a TV script for "racist cop" someone would probably say, "isn't that a little over the top?"
"Officers used racist slurs against the two men during the raid and “warned them to stay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or ‘their side’ of the Pearl River — areas with higher concentrations of Black residents,” the documents say."
"Before the raid, the officers agreed to enter without a warrant if they could avoid being spotted by the home’s security cameras. They also planned to use excessive force ahead of time — but not in the face, agreeing to “no bad mugshots,” the documents say."
And it gets worse from there, but anyway, at least those fuckers are going to jail for a long time, and the victims survived https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5ca0001c8742a
Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses against two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended when an officer shot one of the men in the mouth. The charges were unsealed Thursday as the former officers appeared in federal court. Court documents say the officers called themselves The Goon Squad “because of their willingness to use excessive force and and not to report it.” U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said the officers had "tortured and inflicted unspeakable harm on their victims.” The former officers also face state criminal charges, including assault, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Two federal criminal informations were unsealed today charging six former Mississippi law enforcement officers with a total of 16 felonies stemming from the torture and physical abuse of three Rankin County residents in two separate unrelated incidents. Those 16 felonies include civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights under color of law, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.
Meanwhile, the warrant has been rescinded, per county attorney Joel Ensey "I have come to the conclusion that insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized … I have asked local law enforcement to return the material seized to the owners of the property"
No word whether he also asked them to bring the publishers mom back to life
#GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3QHwOPt
Federal agents held a series of raids and arrested officers from Antioch and Pittsburg police departments early Thursday as part of the ongoing investigation into the embattled law enforcement agencies.
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned four separate indictments on August 17, 2023 that, collectively, charge ten current and former officers and employees from the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments with various crimes ranging from excessive force to fraud, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp
Turns out, NYPD doesn't just cover up evidence when they accidentally kill civilians, they also do it when they accidentally kill their own officers. Hurrah for equal treatment under the law!
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-mulkeen-friendly-fire-body-cam-footage
After pledging a “thorough” investigation, the NYPD cleared the officers involved in the 2019 shooting. But new records show that investigators allowed police misstatements to stand, despite having body-camera video to disprove them.
Former Chicago officer Jeffrey Kriv faces charges for perjury and forgery after getting out of dozens of traffic violations by claiming his girlfriend had stolen his car. Now, cases that stem from arrests Kriv made are in jeopardy.
The earlier story is… a lot "At the ticket hearings, Kriv often provided what he said were legitimate police incident reports as evidence of the car thefts; they had officer names and badge numbers, and he explained that he got the reports at police headquarters.
But Kriv did not let on that he, himself, was a Chicago cop."
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-chicago-cop-got-out-of-44-traffic-tickets
Chicago police officer Jeffrey Kriv used the same alibi to contest dozens of traffic tickets over the years. A deeper look at his career sheds light on Chicago’s troubled history of police accountability.
Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial charged with murdering Eddie Irizarry. Once again, body cam contradicted cops initial story: "Police said investigators are working to determine how the false account of the incident emerged."
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"no charges will be filed against a Rocky River police officer for his relationship with a female student while serving as a school resource officer at the high school"
I'm sure the people spreading panic about "groomers" will weigh in any minute now!
Capitol Police officer Thomas Smith pleaded guilty in relation to an incident where he engaged in an illegal pursuit, hit a cyclist he was pursuing, fled the scene, and falsified records to cover the incident up
Fired former Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel, questioned in a State Bar discipline proceeding about charging a bystander at a protest "testified that she still believes that [the bystander] may be part of a gang that she and Phoenix police invented to charge protesters as members"
The bystander, who was charged as a member of a completely made up gang for a protest he watched from a distance: "I’m very conservative. I’ve always been pro-police. Still am. It just kind of shook my trust in law enforcement … As much as I support the cops, I’m afraid to talk to them"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"A Brooklyn man who repeatedly filed complaints about police officers parked on the sidewalk outside his local precinct station house – prompting a menacing call from an NYPD cop posing as a 311 operator – has received a $25,000 settlement"
NYPD officer John Madera was fined $500, ordered to pay $500 toward the settlement and docked 15 days vacation. NYPD officer Samantha Sturman was also order to pay $500 for a separate call
The fact that NYPD cops hand out "get out jail free" cards to their friends and family should be a major scandal that ends with everyone involved being fired and/or prosecuted. Instead, it's a long-standing practice and cops who ticket card holders are punished
Florida Man, cop edition: "A Florida law enforcement officer [Jesse Hernandez] shot at an unarmed and handcuffed man after mistaking the sound of a falling acorn for a gunshot … he and a sergeant who shot at unarmed suspect Marquis Jackson were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, according to Sheriff Eric Aden" (they didn't hit him) https://wapo.st/3wfYTFp
Mississippi "goon squad" cop Hunter Elward (previously seen in https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110828889999813387) gets 20 years 🥳
TBH seems kinda light for an incident that included a botched mock-execution where he (non-fatally) shot the victim in the mouth but least he'll be off the streets for while
An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. The injections are given by medical personnel during police encounters. The investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths. While sedatives were mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in a dozen official death rulings, authorities often didn’t even investigate whether injections were appropriate in the 94 deaths identified by the AP over a decade. About half of the 94 who died were Black.
Small town Missouri cop Myron Woodson shoots non-aggressive stray pet dog, claiming he thought it was an "injured stray that needed to be put down", with his department later claiming "Believing the dog to be severely injured or infected with rabies, and as the officer feared being bitten and being infected with rabies, the SPD officer felt that his only option was to put the animal down"
https://wapo.st/3wCURYg
Fontana, CA cops torture man into falsely confessing to murdering his dad. They might have got away with it if the dad hadn't turned up alive, but he did so six years later city has to pay $900k compensation. Not reported whether cops face any consequences
Above case is Thomas Anthony Perez v. City of Fontana (5:19-cv-01623) and the cops primarily responsible were apparently Jeremy Hale, David Janusz and Robert Miller, who failed to get summary judgement on some allegations back in June 2023
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16115756/thomas-anthony-perez-v-city-of-fontana/#entry-94
WaPo with a grim story on cops charged with assaulting minors. Would have been better if they compared the stats and sentencing outcomes with other populations, but pretty clear the cop impunity complex extends here too, like the story of Alec Veatch getting 14 days despite confessing and having his crimes recorded on video
JFC. Nothing to add here except ex-South Bend Indiana cop Timothy Barber and Judge Jeffrey Sanford are pieces of shit
Four ex-law enforcement and military officers are scheduled to be arraigned today on a four-count superseding indictment that alleges they acted as a sham law enforcement team that entered an Irvine man’s home and threatened him and his family with violence and deportation unless he turned over nearly $37 million and signed away his rights in a business – worth tens of millions of dollars – that he shared with a wealthy Chinese national who secretly financed the bogus raid.
Alaska state troopers Jason Woodruff and Joseph Miller charged with misdemeanor assault for pepper spraying, tasing, siccing a dog on and beating (to the point of fracturing bones) a man because they mistook him for a cousin who had an outstanding warrant. After they realized they had the wrong guy, they also tried to charge him with assault, which the DA declined to prosecute
The two troopers pepper-sprayed, beat, stunned and used a police dog on the wrong man, authorities said.
WaPo continues their grim series on cops sexually abusing kids, this time featuring former Richland County SC school resource officer Jamel Bradley, who after years of complaints involving over a dozen victims appears on the verge of getting an incredibly lenient plea deal of probation and no time on the sex offender registry
Former Richland County SC school resource officer Jamel Bradley got the probation deal but Judge Daniel Coble did order him to register as a sex offender… while characterizing Bradley's behavior (over nearly a decade, involving more than a dozen students, including a guilty plea for assault and battery and sexual battery involving two of them) as "a mistake" 😬
NYPD cop Mathew Bianchi, who was retaliated against for ticketing people (including a friend of chief Jeffrey Maddrey) who showed police union issued get-out-of-jail-free cards gets at $175K settlement, with no one admitting wrongdoing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/nyregion/matthew-bianchi-nypd-tickets-settlement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk4.8w3r.kIAylXO37Po1&smid=url-share
(previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/111767739058456263)
The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.
Former Houston narc Gerald Goines found guilty of murder, after he lied to get a no-knock warrant for a raid that ended in the cops killing the subjects
"The probe into the drug raid also uncovered allegations of systemic corruption.
A dozen officers tied to the narcotics squad that carried out the raid, including Goines, were later indicted on other charges following a corruption probe. A judge in June dismissed charges against some of them"
I for one am *shocked* to find out there was systemic corruption in the narcotics squad!
"OFFICER FRANCO, therefore, concluded that the TARGET PREMISES was cultivating cannabis, disregarding the fact that it is a diagnostic facility utilizing an MRI machine, X-ray machine, and other heavy medical equipment—unlike the surrounding businesses selling flowers, chocolates, and childrens’ merchandise, none of which would require significant power usage"
Docket https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnostic-center-inc-v-city-of-los-angeles/
Also, WTF is happening with LASD deputies 1-3?
LA times says:
The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on whether the deputies … will be charged.
Several deputies, including a detective on the department’s notorious anti-gang unit, were recently relieved of duty in connection with a federal investigation, authorities said earlier this week. The Sheriff’s Department confirmed the move was linked to a probe “involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
Today a federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy alleging that he used excessive force when he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman during a shoplifting investigation outside a WinCo Foods in Lancaster last year.
QAnon-loving Millersville, TN assistant police chief Shawn Taylor makes another appearance*, with election-denying, failed AZ Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem bragging Taylor (illegally) provided him FinCEN data https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/qanon-comes-to-main-street/we-already-have-the-receipts-election-denier-says-his-group-gained-access-to-u-s-banking-data
* previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/112958201730428269
An election denier says his group — working through the assistant police chief in tiny Millersville — gained access to a confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions.
"Trenton [NJ] officers slammed a 64-year-old man face-first onto his own front porch and pepper-sprayed him after he refused to let them search his house without a warrant … The police searched the residence anyway and did not find any illicit drugs or weapons … the man died at a hospital 18 days later of respiratory failure caused by the confrontation"
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