I've been on a grand jury.
You really don't need much evidence to indict. It's up to the DA.
The problem is you don't want to indict too soon, because it can fuck up your criminal case.
Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)
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I've been on a grand jury.
You really don't need much evidence to indict. It's up to the DA.
The problem is you don't want to indict too soon, because it can fuck up your criminal case.
Money doesn't matter when it becomes a federal investigation. That money is going to somebody else's pocket.
Might be??! Ain't no doubt about it that they will.
I'll be really surprised if nothing happens to that precinct!!!!
Ferguson Police Officer Justin Cosma Hog-Tied And Injured A Young Child, Lawsuit Alleges
Ryan J. Reilly, Ashley Alman 08/24/14 05:48 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- A Ferguson police officer who helped detain a journalist in a McDonald's earlier this month is in the midst of a civil rights lawsuit because he allegedly hog-tied a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mail at the end of his driveway.
According to a lawsuit filed in 2012 in Missouri federal court, Justin Cosma and another officer, Richard Carter, approached a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mailbox at the end of his driveway in June 2010. Cosma was an officer with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office at the time, the lawsuit states. The pair asked the boy if he'd been playing on a nearby highway, and he replied no, according to the lawsuit.
Then, the officers "became confrontational" and intimidated the child, the lawsuit claims. "Unprovoked and without cause, the deputies grabbed [the boy], choked him around the neck and threw him to the ground," it says. The boy was shirtless at the time, and allegedly "suffered bruising, choke marks, scrapes and cuts across his body."
The 12-year-old was transferred to a medical facility for treatment, but the lawsuit says Cosma and the other officer reported the incident as "assault of a law enforcement officer third degree” and “resisting/interfering with arrest, detention or stop."
Jefferson County prosecutors "refused to issue a juvenile case" against the young child, the suit says.
The allegations against Cosma were made in September 2012, shortly after he was introduced as a new officer at a Ferguson City Council meeting. Jefferson County is just south of Ferguson.
Captain Ron Arnhart of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, who is a candidate for sheriff, did not respond to The Huffington Post's request for comment on the circumstances of Cosma's departure. Neither Ferguson police spokesman Tom Zoll nor Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson responded to requests for comment.
A dispatcher at the Ferguson Police Department said she would relay a message to Cosma, who was out in the field on Sunday afternoon.
Richard R. Lozano, the lawyer representing the young man in the lawsuit, declined to be interviewed due to the pending claims against Cosma and the other officer. He said he anticipates a trial date early next year. However, Lozano did provide a statement.
"The lawsuit alleges that Justin Cosma and Richard Carter, two deputies with the Jefferson County, Missouri sheriff's department in 2010, assaulted my client during an encounter on my client's driveway while his mother was inside their house. My client was 12 years old at the time, shirtless and was not suspected of any criminal behavior. He was checking the mail. The deputies approached my client and the encounter quickly escalated. My client was restrained, choked, thrown to the ground and hogtied by the two deputies. He suffered scrapes and choke marks to his neck. No charges were ever brought against my client. It is my understanding that Justin Cosma is currently an officer with the City of Ferguson," Lozano wrote.
Cosma was also one of the officers who detained journalists from HuffPost and The Washington Post earlier this month in a local McDonald's. He declined to give his name or badge number at the time, and has subsequently refused to identify himself to the press. A reader tip allowed HuffPost to match his name and face after the altercation.
While still at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Cosma received an award for dealing with a person in psychiatric crisis, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Cosma isn't the only officer whose past has received new attention in the wake of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson. Eddie Boyd III, an officer who faced allegations of hitting children while serving under the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, quietly resigned and sought employment with the Ferguson Police Department. Boyd faced three complaints of physical abuse against children between 2004 and 2006, two of which were dropped. Internal affairs sustained the third complaint against Boyd, saying there was sufficient evidence to support the allegation that he struck a 12-year-old girl in the head with a pistol, and recommended Boyd be fired. The St. Louis police chose to demote him.
Less than a year later, a teenage boy alleged that Boyd hit him in the nose with a gun, and the officer quietly resigned from his role at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. His license was not revoked in the ensuing lawsuit. Boyd was hired by the Ferguson Police Department sometime between July 2009 and December 2010.
St. Louis County officer Dan Page, who has been on the force for 35 years, was suspended from duty for inflammatory comments made while addressing the Oath Keepers of St. Louis and St. Charles. Page made racist and sexist remarks, called President Obama an “illegal alien,” denounced hate crime laws and spoke flippantly about violence and killings. The video, uploaded to YouTube in April, was uncovered by CNN after Page pushed anchor Don Lemon on Aug. 18 during demonstrations in Ferguson.
St. Louis County Lt. Ray Albers was also suspended from duty after he threatened civilians in Ferguson, pointing his gun at them and shouting, “I will fucking kill you.” Reporter Joe Biggs was among the group being threatened.
“I can’t believe that that happened in America,” Biggs told HuffPost of the confrontation. “That’s something I’ve seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. In our country? Mind-blowing.”
Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, joined the Ferguson police after the city council in nearby Jennings disbanded the police department and brought in new officers over three years ago because of the poor relationship between cops and residents, the Washington Post reported.
Read the lawsuit laying out the allegations against Cosma below.
http://www.scribd.com/document_down...source=embed&uahk=E73E4KBMjqBX3g8882HaJjDXZVY
Justin Cosma
Ferguson Police Officer Justin Cosma Hog-Tied And Injured A Young Child, Lawsuit Alleges
Ryan J. Reilly, Ashley Alman 08/24/14 05:48 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- A Ferguson police officer who helped detain a journalist in a McDonald's earlier this month is in the midst of a civil rights lawsuit because he allegedly hog-tied a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mail at the end of his driveway.
According to a lawsuit filed in 2012 in Missouri federal court, Justin Cosma and another officer, Richard Carter, approached a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mailbox at the end of his driveway in June 2010. Cosma was an officer with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office at the time, the lawsuit states. The pair asked the boy if he'd been playing on a nearby highway, and he replied no, according to the lawsuit.
Then, the officers "became confrontational" and intimidated the child, the lawsuit claims. "Unprovoked and without cause, the deputies grabbed [the boy], choked him around the neck and threw him to the ground," it says. The boy was shirtless at the time, and allegedly "suffered bruising, choke marks, scrapes and cuts across his body."
The 12-year-old was transferred to a medical facility for treatment, but the lawsuit says Cosma and the other officer reported the incident as "assault of a law enforcement officer third degree” and “resisting/interfering with arrest, detention or stop."
Jefferson County prosecutors "refused to issue a juvenile case" against the young child, the suit says.
The allegations against Cosma were made in September 2012, shortly after he was introduced as a new officer at a Ferguson City Council meeting. Jefferson County is just south of Ferguson.
Captain Ron Arnhart of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, who is a candidate for sheriff, did not respond to The Huffington Post's request for comment on the circumstances of Cosma's departure. Neither Ferguson police spokesman Tom Zoll nor Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson responded to requests for comment.
A dispatcher at the Ferguson Police Department said she would relay a message to Cosma, who was out in the field on Sunday afternoon.
Richard R. Lozano, the lawyer representing the young man in the lawsuit, declined to be interviewed due to the pending claims against Cosma and the other officer. He said he anticipates a trial date early next year. However, Lozano did provide a statement.
"The lawsuit alleges that Justin Cosma and Richard Carter, two deputies with the Jefferson County, Missouri sheriff's department in 2010, assaulted my client during an encounter on my client's driveway while his mother was inside their house. My client was 12 years old at the time, shirtless and was not suspected of any criminal behavior. He was checking the mail. The deputies approached my client and the encounter quickly escalated. My client was restrained, choked, thrown to the ground and hogtied by the two deputies. He suffered scrapes and choke marks to his neck. No charges were ever brought against my client. It is my understanding that Justin Cosma is currently an officer with the City of Ferguson," Lozano wrote.
Cosma was also one of the officers who detained journalists from HuffPost and The Washington Post earlier this month in a local McDonald's. He declined to give his name or badge number at the time, and has subsequently refused to identify himself to the press. A reader tip allowed HuffPost to match his name and face after the altercation.
While still at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Cosma received an award for dealing with a person in psychiatric crisis, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Cosma isn't the only officer whose past has received new attention in the wake of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson. Eddie Boyd III, an officer who faced allegations of hitting children while serving under the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, quietly resigned and sought employment with the Ferguson Police Department. Boyd faced three complaints of physical abuse against children between 2004 and 2006, two of which were dropped. Internal affairs sustained the third complaint against Boyd, saying there was sufficient evidence to support the allegation that he struck a 12-year-old girl in the head with a pistol, and recommended Boyd be fired. The St. Louis police chose to demote him.
Less than a year later, a teenage boy alleged that Boyd hit him in the nose with a gun, and the officer quietly resigned from his role at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. His license was not revoked in the ensuing lawsuit. Boyd was hired by the Ferguson Police Department sometime between July 2009 and December 2010.
St. Louis County officer Dan Page, who has been on the force for 35 years, was suspended from duty for inflammatory comments made while addressing the Oath Keepers of St. Louis and St. Charles. Page made racist and sexist remarks, called President Obama an “illegal alien,” denounced hate crime laws and spoke flippantly about violence and killings. The video, uploaded to YouTube in April, was uncovered by CNN after Page pushed anchor Don Lemon on Aug. 18 during demonstrations in Ferguson.
St. Louis County Lt. Ray Albers was also suspended from duty after he threatened civilians in Ferguson, pointing his gun at them and shouting, “I will fucking kill you.” Reporter Joe Biggs was among the group being threatened.
“I can’t believe that that happened in America,” Biggs told HuffPost of the confrontation. “That’s something I’ve seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. In our country? Mind-blowing.”
Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, joined the Ferguson police after the city council in nearby Jennings disbanded the police department and brought in new officers over three years ago because of the poor relationship between cops and residents, the Washington Post reported.
Read the lawsuit laying out the allegations against Cosma below.
http://www.scribd.com/document_down...source=embed&uahk=E73E4KBMjqBX3g8882HaJjDXZVY
Justin Cosma
Fuck that catatafish lookin ass nigga
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Story about the guy in the American Tshirt who threw the canister back. Not a bad piece, but they put where he works in there...smh...
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There is crime being committed without the police giving a fuck about it and not blasting people with six bullets:
I had the Federal Reserve and the banks before Yellen do this to me. Someone got in my computer and pulled the information, probably through backdoors relaying it to them. I tried to stop them leaving and they pushed me aside where they smoked their cigarillos/IP, releasing this trade secret to other countries. Nobody blasted them dead, after costing me millions.
They tried to coverup with some patent troll crap, which is bigger companies taking shit from startups. They tried character assassination.
Every time I drive by a bank, I feel a car is waiting for me. I went into one bank, they had a cop car outside like I am the criminal. I should have law enforcement outside hand cuffing people, who have engaged in a criminal act and don't belong at a bank handling and accounting for people money.
After observing your behavior, I don't want to provide you with shit. I don't want to collaborate or share anything. This is my gripe.
You can't always believe everything you see on the internet, but if this is true, whoever did it should have their establishment burned down.
released by anonymous:
Correct me if wrong here...whites are stopped less, have a higher contraband hit rate, and are arrested less. I'm I reading this chart correctly?
Supposedly some drunk cac wrote this as he passing by or leaving the bar. Can't remember which. The owner of the bar had nothing to do with it, supposedly
Yes.
Yes
Yeah, I think it's time for me to gon' head & put you on ignore. I've had enough of this Borne Identity, pseudo secret squirrel bullshit.
There is crime being committed without the police giving a fuck about it and not blasting people with six bullets:
I had the Federal Reserve and the banks before Yellen do this to me. Someone got in my computer and pulled the information, probably through backdoors relaying it to them. I tried to stop them leaving and they pushed me aside where they smoked their cigarillos/IP, releasing this trade secret to other countries. Nobody blasted them dead, after costing me millions.
They tried to coverup with some patent troll crap, which is bigger companies taking shit from startups. They tried character assassination.
Every time I drive by a bank, I feel a car is waiting for me. I went into one bank, they had a cop car outside like I am the criminal. I should have law enforcement outside hand cuffing people, who have engaged in a criminal act and don't belong at a bank handling and accounting for people money.
After observing your behavior, I don't want to provide you with shit. I don't want to collaborate or share anything. This is my gripe.
The news cycle is done with this.
Back to getting neck tats, smoking weed, not voting, getting handout from Obama, and not taking personal responsibility.
I'm ready for my world star hip hop and more Niki Manij and her big fake black ass
Back to getting neck tats, smoking weed, not voting, getting handout from Obama, and not taking personal responsibility.
I'm ready for my world star hip hop and more Niki Manij and her big fake black ass
The news cycle is done with this.
Back to getting neck tats, smoking weed, not voting, getting handout from Obama, and not taking personal responsibility.
I'm ready for my world star hip hop and more Niki Manij and her big fake black ass
& back to being a regular TROLL, huh?
Fox cac hoe trying to get the pastor to shit on Al Sharpton, cut off when he doesn't fall for the okie doke
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you are such an asshole i bet your only doctor is a proctologist.
WOW.
dude wasn't being manipulated, wasn't following their predetermined narrative, and subsequently got his feed cut and replaced with more sensational imagery.
fox news should be sued for calling itself news.
so blatant lol
From grade school to the board room....they don t suffer consequences for their actions...which is why they are more successful as a whole....and why they break more rules.......if they were stopped as much as blacks you d see even higher hits....
WOW.
dude wasn't being manipulated, wasn't following their predetermined narrative, and subsequently got his feed cut and replaced with more sensational imagery.
fox news should be sued for calling itself news.
yeah fox is a fraud....do they still call themselves fair and balanced?
the Ferguson residents speak, Fines punish the Black Community disproportionally:
It is above your head, I understand, plus you are trying to discredit. I ignore you and you ignore me which would be great.
I was just showing how other crimes, the police could give a fuck, but aggressively pursue and shoot down other people. It is ironic.
He may be on the video stealing but there are major companies and the government stealing also behind peoples backs without being pumped with bullets.
I am also concerned about banks that handle trillions, account, and loan out money getting involved with this. They need to purge these people out. We don't need another financial crisis from criminals getting into these companies. No criminal behavior should be tolerated.
We don't need criminal minded people at banks or the Federal Reserve looking for the right opportunity to steal without detection.
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Fucking wow.
Fox News is not real news. They're nothing more than a white supremacist media troll.
My real fear is the passive reaction afterwards
I don't even want to see it
It's gonna make me sick to my stomach
I think it's clear he won't be charged now
It's been two weeks
They are gathering evidence and shit like dude is already on trial or getting ready for trial but he has not been arrested at all
Charge him, bail him out, and let the legal process take it's course
Complete slap in the face to the family of Mike Brown
