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I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Bump.
This needs to be a permanent sticky
I agree
Thank you, brotha!
Oh most definitely!This needs to be a permanent sticky
doint know if this counts,here in Phoenix just recently
PHOENIX - Frances Garrett says she just wanted to get her daughter, 50-year old Michelle Cusseaux, some help when she called a mental health facility to pick her up last Thursday.
RELATED: Mother speaks out after Phoenix police shoot, kill daughter
"It started to snowball. Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia," said Garrett.
But Phoenix police say they were the ones who eventually had to serve an emergency mental health pickup order for her daughter after the facility failed to do so following threats from Cusseaux.
Three officers tried to get Cusseaux to come out of her home and eventually had to bring in a sergeant.
Phoenix police say she opened the door and charged at the sergeant with a hammer. The sergeant shot her and she later died at a nearby hospital.
RELATED: Woman shot after charging officer in west Phoenix dies from injuries
"I did not ask for Michelle to become another statistic here, another homicide. I did not call them for that reason," said Garrett.
And now Garrett, along with local civil rights leaders, want more than the standard internal investigation by Phoenix police.
They are calling on Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to carry out an independent investigation with other police agencies too.
"They are responsible for the shooting death of Michelle Cusseaux, so it is unfair and unreasonable," said Garrett supporter Rev. Jarrett Maupin.
During a meeting with Mayor Stanton Monday morning, they asked for a decision on that independent investigation by Thursday.
But an assistant to the Chief of Phoenix police, who was at this private meeting, said no such deadline was set by the mayor.
"He has to wait to find out additional information. He's only received an initial briefing and we'll go from there," said Assistant Police Chief Gerald Richard.
Garrett and civil rights leaders at Monday's news conference said if a decision on an independent investigation is not made by Thursday, they plan on taking the case to the FBI after the internal investigation wraps up.
PHOENIX - Frances Garrett says she just wanted to get her daughter, 50-year old Michelle Cusseaux, some help when she called a mental health facility to pick her up last Thursday.
RELATED: Mother speaks out after Phoenix police shoot, kill daughter
"It started to snowball. Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia," said Garrett.
But Phoenix police say they were the ones who eventually had to serve an emergency mental health pickup order for her daughter after the facility failed to do so following threats from Cusseaux.
Three officers tried to get Cusseaux to come out of her home and eventually had to bring in a sergeant.
Phoenix police say she opened the door and charged at the sergeant with a hammer. The sergeant shot her and she later died at a nearby hospital.
RELATED: Woman shot after charging officer in west Phoenix dies from injuries
"I did not ask for Michelle to become another statistic here, another homicide. I did not call them for that reason," said Garrett.
And now Garrett, along with local civil rights leaders, want more than the standard internal investigation by Phoenix police.
They are calling on Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to carry out an independent investigation with other police agencies too.
"They are responsible for the shooting death of Michelle Cusseaux, so it is unfair and unreasonable," said Garrett supporter Rev. Jarrett Maupin.
During a meeting with Mayor Stanton Monday morning, they asked for a decision on that independent investigation by Thursday.
But an assistant to the Chief of Phoenix police, who was at this private meeting, said no such deadline was set by the mayor.
"He has to wait to find out additional information. He's only received an initial briefing and we'll go from there," said Assistant Police Chief Gerald Richard.
Garrett and civil rights leaders at Monday's news conference said if a decision on an independent investigation is not made by Thursday, they plan on taking the case to the FBI after the internal investigation wraps up.
I posted this a lil bit ago...
Damn
doint know if this counts,here in Phoenix just recently
PHOENIX - Frances Garrett says she just wanted to get her daughter, 50-year old Michelle Cusseaux, some help when she called a mental health facility to pick her up last Thursday.
RELATED: Mother speaks out after Phoenix police shoot, kill daughter
"It started to snowball. Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia," said Garrett.
But Phoenix police say they were the ones who eventually had to serve an emergency mental health pickup order for her daughter after the facility failed to do so following threats from Cusseaux.
Three officers tried to get Cusseaux to come out of her home and eventually had to bring in a sergeant.
Phoenix police say she opened the door and charged at the sergeant with a hammer. The sergeant shot her and she later died at a nearby hospital.
RELATED: Woman shot after charging officer in west Phoenix dies from injuries
"I did not ask for Michelle to become another statistic here, another homicide. I did not call them for that reason," said Garrett.
And now Garrett, along with local civil rights leaders, want more than the standard internal investigation by Phoenix police.
They are calling on Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to carry out an independent investigation with other police agencies too.
"They are responsible for the shooting death of Michelle Cusseaux, so it is unfair and unreasonable," said Garrett supporter Rev. Jarrett Maupin.
During a meeting with Mayor Stanton Monday morning, they asked for a decision on that independent investigation by Thursday.
But an assistant to the Chief of Phoenix police, who was at this private meeting, said no such deadline was set by the mayor.
"He has to wait to find out additional information. He's only received an initial briefing and we'll go from there," said Assistant Police Chief Gerald Richard.
Garrett and civil rights leaders at Monday's news conference said if a decision on an independent investigation is not made by Thursday, they plan on taking the case to the FBI after the internal investigation wraps up.
Sticky this shit!!!
Yep! C/s
I had a thread about this a few years ago......
Subbed.
Sent this to LBOP and he did his thing:
http://www.bluntbit.com/news/cultural/police-willing-act-like-recorded-imagine-theyre/
"black police showing out for the white cop....."
- "fuck tha police," ice cube
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Sent this to LBOP and he did his thing:
http://www.bluntbit.com/news/cultural/police-willing-act-like-recorded-imagine-theyre/
"black police showing out for the white cop....."
- "fuck tha police," ice cube
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Drunk driving cop,a repeat offender....kills a young man.
But I'm sure the victim was 'no angel'
A Lowell police officer was charged with motor vehicle homicide and drunken driving after a crash early Saturday morning in Methuen left a young Lawrence man dead and his sister injured.
Methuen police say Officer Eric Wayne, 41, from Lowell, was driving a 2013 Land Rover westbound on Riverside Drive when he crossed the double yellow line and struck a 1998 Mercury Mountaineer at approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extricate the driver of the Mountaineer, 26-year-old Briant Paula, from the car. He was pronounced dead at Lawrence General Hospital after suffering massive trauma, police say.
His sister, Lois Paula, 24, who was in the passenger seat, was also taken to that hospital. She was expected to survive.
Wayne refused medical treatment at the scene at 868 Riverside Drive, according to police.
He was arrested and taken to the Methuen police station, where he was charged with driving under the influence of liquor, having an open container of alcohol in the car, negligence, and marked lanes violation, in addition to vehicular homicide.
He is being held on $500,000 cash bail awaiting a Monday arraignment in Lawrence District Court, according to Essex District Attorney spokeswoman Carrie Kimball Monahan.
Wayne had been arrested in July 2013 in Lowell on charges of operating under the influence of alcohol, according to a report in the Lowell Sun.
After the 2013 case, Wayne was placed on paid administrative leave, then reinstated in June, Lowell Police Superintendent William Taylor told the Sun on Saturday.
Because that charge and Saturday’s are still pending, Wayne has not been formally disciplined, Taylor told the Sun.
Neighbors in Briant Paula’s Lawrence apartment complex remembered him Saturday as an easygoing, cheerful friend.
“He was a happy, lovable person and always looked out for everybody around here,” said neighbor Freddy DeJesus, 21. “He was always even-keeled and happy. You never saw him sad, ever.”
DeJesus’ grandmother Ana Belen, 63, said Paula was a good son and a hard worker. She and a neighbor used to joke around with Paula, calling him their husband.
“I treated him like my son,” she said. “I can’t even speak because I loved him so much and he was such a nice guy.”
Paula shared an apartment with his mother and sister, DeJesus said, and had an “awesome” relationship with them, as well as other building tenants.
“It was always a welcoming, mutual kind of friendship,” DeJesus said.
Paula said those in the apartment will have to help each other move past the shocking loss.
“The best thing I can say is, he will forever be missed,” he said. “He was the biggest piece in keeping everybody together and happy as a whole in this community.”
Wayne has an open case in Lawrence following his 2013 arrest on charges of operating under the influence, Kimball Monahan said.
The Lowell Sun reported that he was arrested and charged by Lowell police on July 4, 2013, with driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police found an open bottle of beer in his car, and Wayne failed a field sobriety test that day, the Sun reported.
The Lowell Police Department referred all questions Saturday to the Essex district attorney’s office.
In a May profile, the Globe dubbed the officer Lowell’s “vegan mayor” for his love of vegan food.
The Lowell organic restaurant Life Alive, where Wayne was a regular, named a dish for him: “the 5-0.”
“I feel like I haven’t aged in seven years,” he said then, touting the benefits of healthy eating.
The chief operating officer of Life Alive, Steve Anderson, said the company’s thoughts are first and foremost with the Paula family.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to the family,” Anderson said. “It’s such a tragic thing to lose such a young person.”
Wayne, the son of a decorated Lowell police detective who died in 2009, ran the Boston Marathon this year after meeting Kevin Corcoran, whose wife, Celeste, lost her legs in the bombings.
Wayne’s run benefited MyTeam Triumph, a nonprofit that pairs able-bodied runners with the disabled.
According to a post on the Internet Movie Database, Wayne had a small role as a Lowell police officer in the 2010 movie “The Fighter.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/23/lowellcop/CXyLUKi2W6j54MYZMEZpWO/story.html
But I'm sure the victim was 'no angel'
A Lowell police officer was charged with motor vehicle homicide and drunken driving after a crash early Saturday morning in Methuen left a young Lawrence man dead and his sister injured.
Methuen police say Officer Eric Wayne, 41, from Lowell, was driving a 2013 Land Rover westbound on Riverside Drive when he crossed the double yellow line and struck a 1998 Mercury Mountaineer at approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extricate the driver of the Mountaineer, 26-year-old Briant Paula, from the car. He was pronounced dead at Lawrence General Hospital after suffering massive trauma, police say.
His sister, Lois Paula, 24, who was in the passenger seat, was also taken to that hospital. She was expected to survive.
Wayne refused medical treatment at the scene at 868 Riverside Drive, according to police.
He was arrested and taken to the Methuen police station, where he was charged with driving under the influence of liquor, having an open container of alcohol in the car, negligence, and marked lanes violation, in addition to vehicular homicide.
He is being held on $500,000 cash bail awaiting a Monday arraignment in Lawrence District Court, according to Essex District Attorney spokeswoman Carrie Kimball Monahan.
Wayne had been arrested in July 2013 in Lowell on charges of operating under the influence of alcohol, according to a report in the Lowell Sun.
After the 2013 case, Wayne was placed on paid administrative leave, then reinstated in June, Lowell Police Superintendent William Taylor told the Sun on Saturday.
Because that charge and Saturday’s are still pending, Wayne has not been formally disciplined, Taylor told the Sun.
Neighbors in Briant Paula’s Lawrence apartment complex remembered him Saturday as an easygoing, cheerful friend.
“He was a happy, lovable person and always looked out for everybody around here,” said neighbor Freddy DeJesus, 21. “He was always even-keeled and happy. You never saw him sad, ever.”
DeJesus’ grandmother Ana Belen, 63, said Paula was a good son and a hard worker. She and a neighbor used to joke around with Paula, calling him their husband.
“I treated him like my son,” she said. “I can’t even speak because I loved him so much and he was such a nice guy.”
Paula shared an apartment with his mother and sister, DeJesus said, and had an “awesome” relationship with them, as well as other building tenants.
“It was always a welcoming, mutual kind of friendship,” DeJesus said.
Paula said those in the apartment will have to help each other move past the shocking loss.
“The best thing I can say is, he will forever be missed,” he said. “He was the biggest piece in keeping everybody together and happy as a whole in this community.”
Wayne has an open case in Lawrence following his 2013 arrest on charges of operating under the influence, Kimball Monahan said.
The Lowell Sun reported that he was arrested and charged by Lowell police on July 4, 2013, with driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police found an open bottle of beer in his car, and Wayne failed a field sobriety test that day, the Sun reported.
The Lowell Police Department referred all questions Saturday to the Essex district attorney’s office.
In a May profile, the Globe dubbed the officer Lowell’s “vegan mayor” for his love of vegan food.
The Lowell organic restaurant Life Alive, where Wayne was a regular, named a dish for him: “the 5-0.”
“I feel like I haven’t aged in seven years,” he said then, touting the benefits of healthy eating.
The chief operating officer of Life Alive, Steve Anderson, said the company’s thoughts are first and foremost with the Paula family.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to the family,” Anderson said. “It’s such a tragic thing to lose such a young person.”
Wayne, the son of a decorated Lowell police detective who died in 2009, ran the Boston Marathon this year after meeting Kevin Corcoran, whose wife, Celeste, lost her legs in the bombings.
Wayne’s run benefited MyTeam Triumph, a nonprofit that pairs able-bodied runners with the disabled.
According to a post on the Internet Movie Database, Wayne had a small role as a Lowell police officer in the 2010 movie “The Fighter.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/23/lowellcop/CXyLUKi2W6j54MYZMEZpWO/story.html
Compton to District Security Guards: Go Ahead, Bring Your AR-15s to School
—By Alex Park| Fri Aug. 22, 2014 6:00 AM EDT
When students in the Compton Unified School District return to classrooms on Monday, some of them will have new pencils or notebooks. Their teachers will have new textbooks. But this year, the district's campus police will be getting an upgrade, too: AR-15 rifles.
The board of the Los Angeles-area school district approved a measure to allow the campus cops to carry the new guns in July. The district's police chief, William Wu, told the board that equipping school police with semi-automatic AR-15s is intended to ensure student safety.
"This is our objective—save lives, bottom line," Wu told the board.
Crime is a serious problem in Compton, an independent jurisdiction south of downtown Los Angeles. In the 12 months preceding July, the city of nearly 100,000 experienced 28 murders, making it the 11th-deadliest neighborhood in the county, according to a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times.
But the choice to make Compton school police the latest local law enforcement agency to adopt military-style weapons was less about dealing with street crime than it was about preventing more exotic incidents like mass shootings. At the board meeting, Wu cited an FBI report released in January that found that 5 percent of "active shooters"— or shooters which are conducting an ongoing assault on a group of people—wore body armor, which can stop most bullets fired from handguns. To make his case, Wu cited a range of examples, including the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the University of Texas shooting in 1966, in which a student killed 16 people from the campus clock tower, out of range of police sidearms. (The student was eventually killed when a group of police climbed the tower and shot him at close range.)
"They will continue until they are stopped," Wu said, at which point a board member interjected.
"No, they will continue until we stop them," he said. "Compton Unified School Police…holding it down."
"These rifles give us greater flexibility in dealing with a person with bad intent who comes onto any of our campuses," Wu said in a statement. "The officers will keep the rifles in the trunks of their cars, unless they are needed."
Compton is not the first district in the Southern California to allow AR-15s on its campuses. At the meeting, Wu said that Los Angeles, Baldwin Park, Santa Ana, Fontana, and San Bernardino all allow their officers to use the same weapons.
Compton school police last made news in May 2013, when a group of parents and students filed a suit against the department, alleging a pattern of racial profiling and abuse targeting Latino students. The complaint said that officers beat, pepper-sprayed, and put a chokehold on a bystander who was recording an arrest with his iPod. The group also claimed that Compton school police used excessive force against students and parents who complained that English-as-a-second-language programs were underfunded. (The case is ongoing.)
Wu said at the board meeting that seven officers have already been trained to use the new weapons. He said all officers would be purchasing their own weapons. The guns will be the officers' personal property, but they could be bringing them to work as early as September.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/compton-schools-allow-ar-15-rifles-security-guards
—By Alex Park| Fri Aug. 22, 2014 6:00 AM EDT
When students in the Compton Unified School District return to classrooms on Monday, some of them will have new pencils or notebooks. Their teachers will have new textbooks. But this year, the district's campus police will be getting an upgrade, too: AR-15 rifles.
The board of the Los Angeles-area school district approved a measure to allow the campus cops to carry the new guns in July. The district's police chief, William Wu, told the board that equipping school police with semi-automatic AR-15s is intended to ensure student safety.
"This is our objective—save lives, bottom line," Wu told the board.
Crime is a serious problem in Compton, an independent jurisdiction south of downtown Los Angeles. In the 12 months preceding July, the city of nearly 100,000 experienced 28 murders, making it the 11th-deadliest neighborhood in the county, according to a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times.
But the choice to make Compton school police the latest local law enforcement agency to adopt military-style weapons was less about dealing with street crime than it was about preventing more exotic incidents like mass shootings. At the board meeting, Wu cited an FBI report released in January that found that 5 percent of "active shooters"— or shooters which are conducting an ongoing assault on a group of people—wore body armor, which can stop most bullets fired from handguns. To make his case, Wu cited a range of examples, including the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the University of Texas shooting in 1966, in which a student killed 16 people from the campus clock tower, out of range of police sidearms. (The student was eventually killed when a group of police climbed the tower and shot him at close range.)
"They will continue until they are stopped," Wu said, at which point a board member interjected.
"No, they will continue until we stop them," he said. "Compton Unified School Police…holding it down."
"These rifles give us greater flexibility in dealing with a person with bad intent who comes onto any of our campuses," Wu said in a statement. "The officers will keep the rifles in the trunks of their cars, unless they are needed."
Compton is not the first district in the Southern California to allow AR-15s on its campuses. At the meeting, Wu said that Los Angeles, Baldwin Park, Santa Ana, Fontana, and San Bernardino all allow their officers to use the same weapons.
Compton school police last made news in May 2013, when a group of parents and students filed a suit against the department, alleging a pattern of racial profiling and abuse targeting Latino students. The complaint said that officers beat, pepper-sprayed, and put a chokehold on a bystander who was recording an arrest with his iPod. The group also claimed that Compton school police used excessive force against students and parents who complained that English-as-a-second-language programs were underfunded. (The case is ongoing.)
Wu said at the board meeting that seven officers have already been trained to use the new weapons. He said all officers would be purchasing their own weapons. The guns will be the officers' personal property, but they could be bringing them to work as early as September.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/compton-schools-allow-ar-15-rifles-security-guards
1st thread ill ever be subbed to
All of those are SICK. The last of those stories is almost unbelievable... if I hadn't actually seen the video. Scary.
All of those are SICK. The last of those stories is almost unbelievable... if I hadn't actually seen the video. Scary.
They need a forum of its own. Really. A sticky wont be good after a few weeks.
Black TV Producer, Charles Belk, Arrested By Beverly Hills Cops Who Thought He Robbed A Bank
Huffington Post | By Brennan Williams
Posted: 08/26/2014 3:57 pm EDT Updated: 08/27/2014 11:59 am EDT
As the nation continues to grapple with police discrimination in America, a number of incidents are now surfacing more than ever thanks to the power of social media.
One recent encounter took place in Beverly Hills Friday, Aug. 22, during Emmy Award weekend between local authorities and television producer Charles Belk who said police arrested him as he was walking from a restaurant where they reportedly accused him of “armed bank robbery and accessory to robbery of a Citibank.”
Belk penned a post on Facebook describing the “life altering experience,” saying his only crime was fitting the description of a “tall, bald head, black male.”
Beverly Hills Police Department sent The Huffington Post a statement regarding Belk's arrest:
Huffington Post | By Brennan Williams
Posted: 08/26/2014 3:57 pm EDT Updated: 08/27/2014 11:59 am EDT
As the nation continues to grapple with police discrimination in America, a number of incidents are now surfacing more than ever thanks to the power of social media.
One recent encounter took place in Beverly Hills Friday, Aug. 22, during Emmy Award weekend between local authorities and television producer Charles Belk who said police arrested him as he was walking from a restaurant where they reportedly accused him of “armed bank robbery and accessory to robbery of a Citibank.”
Belk penned a post on Facebook describing the “life altering experience,” saying his only crime was fitting the description of a “tall, bald head, black male.”
Beverly Hills Police Department sent The Huffington Post a statement regarding Belk's arrest:
Read more of Charles Belk’s Facebook post on his arrest here.
There will always be content. It needs to be stickied in THIS forum, because this something that effects us all... And in that sense, it should be "mainstream" on BGOL - rather than tucked away.
A sticky in the main forum gives it the proper gravity and priority.
So, mods'll sticky some bullshit about junkie ass Robin Williams killin' himself but not this???
Already started
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=811763
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=811763
Another drunk pig from Mass...
CHELMSFORD, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) – FOX 25 has learned that a Mass. State Trooper was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol after a crash.
The 48-year-old trooper was arrested at a Chelmsford intersection after his off-duty SUV hit a car head on. In a police report, a witness and the driver of the other car both say Sergeant Sean Gately ran a red light before the crash
“And I was so scared and I was screaming, it all happened so quickly,” the woman involved said.
She did not want to be identified, but said that right away she could smell alcohol on Gately’s breath.
“I smelt a very strong odor when he was trying to talk to me,” she said. “All he wanted to do was exchange info and walk out from there, that’s all he wanted to do.”
In the police report, the responding Chelmsford officer says he noticed alcohol on the trooper’s breath. When asked if he had been drinking, the trooper said he did not wish to answer. He refused a field sobriety test but later during the booking process he agreed to a chemical test.
Test one says he had a blood alcohol level of .257, while Test two said .255. That’s more than three times the legal drinking limit.
“I was more in shock than when the accident happened, knowing this was a police officer,” the woman involved said.
The woman says her car is totaled and she suffers from neck and shoulder injuries. State police have suspended Gately without pay.
Gately earned $ 125,000 last year as a trooper and has been on the force since at least 2004.
State police are not commenting, but say they're conducting their own investigation.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/25892640/trooper-arrested-suspended-without-pay-after-allegedly-driving-drunk
CHELMSFORD, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) – FOX 25 has learned that a Mass. State Trooper was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol after a crash.
The 48-year-old trooper was arrested at a Chelmsford intersection after his off-duty SUV hit a car head on. In a police report, a witness and the driver of the other car both say Sergeant Sean Gately ran a red light before the crash
“And I was so scared and I was screaming, it all happened so quickly,” the woman involved said.
She did not want to be identified, but said that right away she could smell alcohol on Gately’s breath.
“I smelt a very strong odor when he was trying to talk to me,” she said. “All he wanted to do was exchange info and walk out from there, that’s all he wanted to do.”
In the police report, the responding Chelmsford officer says he noticed alcohol on the trooper’s breath. When asked if he had been drinking, the trooper said he did not wish to answer. He refused a field sobriety test but later during the booking process he agreed to a chemical test.
Test one says he had a blood alcohol level of .257, while Test two said .255. That’s more than three times the legal drinking limit.
“I was more in shock than when the accident happened, knowing this was a police officer,” the woman involved said.
The woman says her car is totaled and she suffers from neck and shoulder injuries. State police have suspended Gately without pay.
Gately earned $ 125,000 last year as a trooper and has been on the force since at least 2004.
State police are not commenting, but say they're conducting their own investigation.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/25892640/trooper-arrested-suspended-without-pay-after-allegedly-driving-drunk
Not the same kind of thread.
Compton to District Security Guards: Go Ahead, Bring Your AR-15s to School
—By Alex Park| Fri Aug. 22, 2014 6:00 AM EDT
When students in the Compton Unified School District return to classrooms on Monday, some of them will have new pencils or notebooks. Their teachers will have new textbooks. But this year, the district's campus police will be getting an upgrade, too: AR-15 rifles.
The board of the Los Angeles-area school district approved a measure to allow the campus cops to carry the new guns in July. The district's police chief, William Wu, told the board that equipping school police with semi-automatic AR-15s is intended to ensure student safety.
"This is our objective—save lives, bottom line," Wu told the board.
Crime is a serious problem in Compton, an independent jurisdiction south of downtown Los Angeles. In the 12 months preceding July, the city of nearly 100,000 experienced 28 murders, making it the 11th-deadliest neighborhood in the county, according to a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times.
But the choice to make Compton school police the latest local law enforcement agency to adopt military-style weapons was less about dealing with street crime than it was about preventing more exotic incidents like mass shootings. At the board meeting, Wu cited an FBI report released in January that found that 5 percent of "active shooters"— or shooters which are conducting an ongoing assault on a group of people—wore body armor, which can stop most bullets fired from handguns. To make his case, Wu cited a range of examples, including the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the University of Texas shooting in 1966, in which a student killed 16 people from the campus clock tower, out of range of police sidearms. (The student was eventually killed when a group of police climbed the tower and shot him at close range.)
"They will continue until they are stopped," Wu said, at which point a board member interjected.
"No, they will continue until we stop them," he said. "Compton Unified School Police…holding it down."
"These rifles give us greater flexibility in dealing with a person with bad intent who comes onto any of our campuses," Wu said in a statement. "The officers will keep the rifles in the trunks of their cars, unless they are needed."
Compton is not the first district in the Southern California to allow AR-15s on its campuses. At the meeting, Wu said that Los Angeles, Baldwin Park, Santa Ana, Fontana, and San Bernardino all allow their officers to use the same weapons.
Compton school police last made news in May 2013, when a group of parents and students filed a suit against the department, alleging a pattern of racial profiling and abuse targeting Latino students. The complaint said that officers beat, pepper-sprayed, and put a chokehold on a bystander who was recording an arrest with his iPod. The group also claimed that Compton school police used excessive force against students and parents who complained that English-as-a-second-language programs were underfunded. (The case is ongoing.)
Wu said at the board meeting that seven officers have already been trained to use the new weapons. He said all officers would be purchasing their own weapons. The guns will be the officers' personal property, but they could be bringing them to work as early as September.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/compton-schools-allow-ar-15-rifles-security-guards
I start work for them next week. Let the fun begin...
Police altered video showing what happened before cops shot WV man 23 times: lawsuit
By Reuters
Friday, August 29, 2014 6:31 EDT
Police in a West Virginia city altered video evidence in the death of a mentally ill black man who was shot and killed last year during a confrontation with officers, a lawyer for the victim’s family said on Thursday.
Sherman L. Lambert Sr., an attorney representing the estate of Wayne A. Jones, filed a legal motion on Wednesday in a $200 million lawsuit against five Martinsburg police officers. The lawsuit accuses the officers of using excessive force in the March 2013 shooting.
The officers were cleared of wrongdoing in a report from West Virginia State Police investigators in April. Last October, a grand jury found their actions to be justified.
“We question the authenticity of the DVD police provided,” Lambert said. “One of the main issues in the case was whether police used excessive force.”
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of family members in June 2013, will go to trial on Oct. 28 in the U.S. District Court of Northern Virginia.
Across the country, video evidence is playing an increasingly important role in such cases.
Two deaths this year — the shooting on Aug. 9 of a black teenager by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the July 17 death of a New York man after police used a choke hold on him — gained national notoriety in part because they were recorded on mobile phones.
Jones, a 50-year-old who took schizophrenia medication, was shot by officers 23 times, according to the autopsy report.
The motion filed by Lambert claims there were four videos of the shooting, taken from dashboard cameras of police cruisers on the scene, and none shows what occurred before Jones was shot. Only the shooting itself appears on the recording, said Lambert.
According to police, the officers struck Jones twice with stun guns after he became angry and refused to follow orders. The shocks had “little” effect on Jones, who pulled a knife and stabbed one of the officers, inflicting a minor wound.
Jones was ordered to drop the knife while he still was on the ground. When he refused and tried to get up, the officers fired multiple rounds at him “to neutralize the threat,” police said.
But there is no video evidence of the stabbing and other events leading up to the shooting. Lambert said it defied logic that police would start recording at the end of the incident, though the motion filed on Wednesday provided no direct evidence of altering.
Boyd L. Warner, who represents the five officers, filed a motion earlier this month to have the case dismissed. It argued that the lawsuit raised no fresh issues that the state investigation and the grand jury had failed to resolve.
Warner was unavailable on Thursday for further comment.
Watch this video report posted online by WHAG-TV:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/...ned-before-cops-shot-wv-man-23-times-lawsuit/
By Reuters
Friday, August 29, 2014 6:31 EDT
Police in a West Virginia city altered video evidence in the death of a mentally ill black man who was shot and killed last year during a confrontation with officers, a lawyer for the victim’s family said on Thursday.
Sherman L. Lambert Sr., an attorney representing the estate of Wayne A. Jones, filed a legal motion on Wednesday in a $200 million lawsuit against five Martinsburg police officers. The lawsuit accuses the officers of using excessive force in the March 2013 shooting.
The officers were cleared of wrongdoing in a report from West Virginia State Police investigators in April. Last October, a grand jury found their actions to be justified.
“We question the authenticity of the DVD police provided,” Lambert said. “One of the main issues in the case was whether police used excessive force.”
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of family members in June 2013, will go to trial on Oct. 28 in the U.S. District Court of Northern Virginia.
Across the country, video evidence is playing an increasingly important role in such cases.
Two deaths this year — the shooting on Aug. 9 of a black teenager by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the July 17 death of a New York man after police used a choke hold on him — gained national notoriety in part because they were recorded on mobile phones.
Jones, a 50-year-old who took schizophrenia medication, was shot by officers 23 times, according to the autopsy report.
The motion filed by Lambert claims there were four videos of the shooting, taken from dashboard cameras of police cruisers on the scene, and none shows what occurred before Jones was shot. Only the shooting itself appears on the recording, said Lambert.
According to police, the officers struck Jones twice with stun guns after he became angry and refused to follow orders. The shocks had “little” effect on Jones, who pulled a knife and stabbed one of the officers, inflicting a minor wound.
Jones was ordered to drop the knife while he still was on the ground. When he refused and tried to get up, the officers fired multiple rounds at him “to neutralize the threat,” police said.
But there is no video evidence of the stabbing and other events leading up to the shooting. Lambert said it defied logic that police would start recording at the end of the incident, though the motion filed on Wednesday provided no direct evidence of altering.
Boyd L. Warner, who represents the five officers, filed a motion earlier this month to have the case dismissed. It argued that the lawsuit raised no fresh issues that the state investigation and the grand jury had failed to resolve.
Warner was unavailable on Thursday for further comment.
Watch this video report posted online by WHAG-TV:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/...ned-before-cops-shot-wv-man-23-times-lawsuit/
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Minnesota man will file civil rights suit against cops who Tased him for not identifying himself
By Arturo Garcia
Friday, August 29, 2014 21:43 EDT
A 28-year-old man who filmed his arrest and Tasing at the hand of two police officers in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this year will file a federal civil rights lawsuit as the incident continues to gain attention, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported on Friday.
The footage of Chris Lollie’s arrest this past January has been viewed more than 280,000 times as of Friday since being posted earlier this week.
“The video speaks for itself,” Lollie’s attorney, Andrew Irlbeck, was quoted as saying. “He was there to pick up his children and bring them to daycare and when I do it as a white man, that’s what it gets called. When a black man does it, it’s loitering and trespassing, and he gets arrested and force used against him by police.”
The footage was uploaded only recently because police confiscated his phone, which he used to document the arrest. Lollie was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing legal process and trespassing at the time, but the charges were dropped on July 31.
Minneapolis City Pages reported that the encounter began when a security guard approached Lollie, who was sitting on a chair in the skyway at the First National Bank building, and said he was in a private area. Lollie responded that there were no signs designated his location as being a private area.
The video begins with a female officer, identified as Lori Hayne, asking Lollie for his name, which Lollie points out he is not required to do. He also repeats his point that there were no signs marking the area where he was sitting as private, adding that he was on his way to pick his children up at their school nearby.
Minnesota does not have a “stop and identify” statue in place, meaning officers do not have the right to arrest someone solely for not identifying themselves. According to the Pioneer-Press, Hayne retired this past June after 14 years on the force without any disciplinary measures on her record.
The other officers identified in connection with the incident are Michael Johnson and Bruce Schmidt. WBBM-TV reported that none of the officers involved have been disciplined.
The video shows one of the other officers approaching Lollie, threatening to arrest him and grabbing him within seconds. The footage goes black after Lollie loses control of his phone, but the Taser can still be heard as it is used on Lollie. When Lollie asks why he is being taken to jail, no charges are mentioned, though one officer can be heard telling him charges will be “explained” to him.
“It’s like being powerless, just being powerless,” Lollie told WBBM this week. “That’s how I felt.”
On Friday, Mayor Chris Coleman ordered that the arrest be reviewed by the local Police-Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission, a group comprised of two officers and five members of the community. The commission’s findings are typically passed on to Police Chief Tom Smith, who has the final say on whether to discipline officers accused of excessive force.
“In the last several days, a video of an arrest of an African-American man has led some to question the tactics and reputation of the St. Paul Police Department,” Coleman said in a statement. “While the incident occurred over eight months ago, the video raises a great deal of concern, especially given this summer’s shooting death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo.”
Coleman’s order came a day after Smith’s department defended Lollie’s arrest in a statement posted on Facebook, saying they were concerned Lollie might try to flee the scene or fight them.
“The guards reported that the man had on repeated occasions refused to leave a private “employees only” area in the First National Bank Building,” the department’s statement read. “With no information on who the man was, what he might be doing or why he refused to leave the area, responding Saint Paul police officers tried to talk to him, asking him who he was. He refused to tell them or cooperate.”
The mayor was also criticized by Dave Titus, president of the local police federation.
“We do not choose what calls we respond to, and we do not have the luxury of all of the information prior to arrival,” Titus told the Pioneer Press. “The outcome of this arrest was determined by Mr. Lollie. He refused numerous lawful orders for an extended period of time. The only person who brought race into this situation was Mr. Lollie.”
Lollie rejected the police’s argument as “false,” telling City Pages that the charges against him were dropped because one of his daughter’s teachers supported his account of the arrest, while a woman who works near the site of his arrest told authorities she often ate lunch there without any recrimination from security guards or officers.
The case has also drawn the attention of several civil advocacy organizations. Not only are police officials reportedly scheduled to meet with members of the local Black Ministerial Alliance, African American Leadership Council and NAACP early next week, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for a federal investigation into Lollie’s arrest, calling it racial profiling.
“We believe this disturbing incident would not have unfolded as it did had the individual in question been white,” CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement. “The Department of Justice should investigate this case just as it is investigating the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri and other cases of allegedly racially motivated police brutality.”
Watch WBBM’s report on Lollie’s case, as aired on Friday, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/...ps-who-tased-him-for-not-identifying-himself/
By Arturo Garcia
Friday, August 29, 2014 21:43 EDT
A 28-year-old man who filmed his arrest and Tasing at the hand of two police officers in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this year will file a federal civil rights lawsuit as the incident continues to gain attention, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported on Friday.
The footage of Chris Lollie’s arrest this past January has been viewed more than 280,000 times as of Friday since being posted earlier this week.
“The video speaks for itself,” Lollie’s attorney, Andrew Irlbeck, was quoted as saying. “He was there to pick up his children and bring them to daycare and when I do it as a white man, that’s what it gets called. When a black man does it, it’s loitering and trespassing, and he gets arrested and force used against him by police.”
The footage was uploaded only recently because police confiscated his phone, which he used to document the arrest. Lollie was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing legal process and trespassing at the time, but the charges were dropped on July 31.
Minneapolis City Pages reported that the encounter began when a security guard approached Lollie, who was sitting on a chair in the skyway at the First National Bank building, and said he was in a private area. Lollie responded that there were no signs designated his location as being a private area.
The video begins with a female officer, identified as Lori Hayne, asking Lollie for his name, which Lollie points out he is not required to do. He also repeats his point that there were no signs marking the area where he was sitting as private, adding that he was on his way to pick his children up at their school nearby.
Minnesota does not have a “stop and identify” statue in place, meaning officers do not have the right to arrest someone solely for not identifying themselves. According to the Pioneer-Press, Hayne retired this past June after 14 years on the force without any disciplinary measures on her record.
The other officers identified in connection with the incident are Michael Johnson and Bruce Schmidt. WBBM-TV reported that none of the officers involved have been disciplined.
The video shows one of the other officers approaching Lollie, threatening to arrest him and grabbing him within seconds. The footage goes black after Lollie loses control of his phone, but the Taser can still be heard as it is used on Lollie. When Lollie asks why he is being taken to jail, no charges are mentioned, though one officer can be heard telling him charges will be “explained” to him.
“It’s like being powerless, just being powerless,” Lollie told WBBM this week. “That’s how I felt.”
On Friday, Mayor Chris Coleman ordered that the arrest be reviewed by the local Police-Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission, a group comprised of two officers and five members of the community. The commission’s findings are typically passed on to Police Chief Tom Smith, who has the final say on whether to discipline officers accused of excessive force.
“In the last several days, a video of an arrest of an African-American man has led some to question the tactics and reputation of the St. Paul Police Department,” Coleman said in a statement. “While the incident occurred over eight months ago, the video raises a great deal of concern, especially given this summer’s shooting death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo.”
Coleman’s order came a day after Smith’s department defended Lollie’s arrest in a statement posted on Facebook, saying they were concerned Lollie might try to flee the scene or fight them.
“The guards reported that the man had on repeated occasions refused to leave a private “employees only” area in the First National Bank Building,” the department’s statement read. “With no information on who the man was, what he might be doing or why he refused to leave the area, responding Saint Paul police officers tried to talk to him, asking him who he was. He refused to tell them or cooperate.”
The mayor was also criticized by Dave Titus, president of the local police federation.
“We do not choose what calls we respond to, and we do not have the luxury of all of the information prior to arrival,” Titus told the Pioneer Press. “The outcome of this arrest was determined by Mr. Lollie. He refused numerous lawful orders for an extended period of time. The only person who brought race into this situation was Mr. Lollie.”
Lollie rejected the police’s argument as “false,” telling City Pages that the charges against him were dropped because one of his daughter’s teachers supported his account of the arrest, while a woman who works near the site of his arrest told authorities she often ate lunch there without any recrimination from security guards or officers.
The case has also drawn the attention of several civil advocacy organizations. Not only are police officials reportedly scheduled to meet with members of the local Black Ministerial Alliance, African American Leadership Council and NAACP early next week, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for a federal investigation into Lollie’s arrest, calling it racial profiling.
“We believe this disturbing incident would not have unfolded as it did had the individual in question been white,” CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement. “The Department of Justice should investigate this case just as it is investigating the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri and other cases of allegedly racially motivated police brutality.”
Watch WBBM’s report on Lollie’s case, as aired on Friday, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/...ps-who-tased-him-for-not-identifying-himself/
Well I've been talking to Lexx Diamond, about a feature where the OP can update the title.
That could help somewhat, but not a complete fix to your question.
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