Cops....To Protect and Serve

[luns101]

Unfortunately, we are policed by human beings who are fallible. There will be some bad cops who go too far. The world is not perfect, and those who abuse their power should be held accountable. Police deal with so much garbage is it any wonder that after awhile some do "snap"? I'm not excusing their behavior, but it's just a reality of life.

So if we're not willing to be policed by humans then what's the alternative?

[xtratabasco]

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Police settle excessive force suit with 71-year-old woman


PORTLAND, Ore. - The city of Portland has agreed to pay $145,000 to an elderly blind woman after police pepper-sprayed and shocked her with a stun gun.

The altercation began as an attempt to remove shrubs and appliances from 71-year-old Eunice Crowder's yard, and ended with police citing her for harassment and disobeying an order.

"This case goes to show that police misconduct and excessive force can happen to anybody outside the mainstream," said Ernest Warren Jr., Crowder's lawyer. "It does not have to be an African American; it can be someone who is elderly and white."

The June 9, 2003, incident began when Ed Marihart, a city employee, showed up at Crowder's home. He served her with an administrative search warrant to remove an accumulation of trash and debris.

According to Crowder and her lawyer, the woman told him she was blind and hard of hearing, and asked him to read the entire warrant to her, but he refused. She said he placed it in her hands, walked outside and ordered others to start removing items from her yard.

The woman followed the city employee outside. She was concerned that he and his co-workers had removed a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon with rhododendrons in it. She asked to enter a trailer, where items from her yard were being placed, to feel
around for the wagon.

Marihart told her she couldn't enter the trailer and said the wagon was not inside. He then called police.

When Portland Officers Robert Miller and Eric Zajac arrived at the house, Crowder acknowledged she had one foot on the curb and one foot on the bumper of the trailer. She felt someone step on her foot and asked, "Who are you?"

Moments later, she felt someone strike her in the head, which dislodged her prosthetic right eye from its socket, and was knocked to the ground, she claimed in her lawsuit.

Officers said Crowder ignored their commands not to climb into the trailer and tried to bite Miller's hand.

They acknowledged she was "pushed onto the dirt next to the sidewalk," according to the city's legal brief filed in court.

While on the ground, Crowder asked the officer what he thought he was doing and kicked Miller. She said the officer kicked her back, then pepper-sprayed her in her eyes.

"While she's still on the ground, on her stomach, they tased her in the back and in the breast," her lawyer said.

Police said they pepper-sprayed Crowder after she refused to stop kicking them. They admit that Crowder's prosthetic eye fell out at some point, and that Zajac stunned Crowder with a Taser, an electric stun gun, twice in the lower back and once in the upper back after ordering her to stop fighting and resisting.

Warren said the city's argument is bogus. He said, "To kick the crap out of old folks seems a little bit much to me in the name of law enforcement,"

(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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hear the interview

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/042704warren.htm

[xtratabasco]

Unbelievable video of American citizens getting arrested for reading the Constitution. When the videographer asked the police why they are not honoring their oath to protect the Constitution, the officers remained silent and became uncomfortable with embarrassment. This is more evidence the U.S. has become a police state where the Constitution and Bill of Rights are nothing more than a dead letter.

http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/392

[Dancing Mustard]

You get that prosthetic eye video yet?

I'm so excited about seeing it that I drew a little cartoon of what it might be like and hung it on my bedroom wall in anticipation.

[unriggable]

Kids arrested for riding a skateboard...

[xtratabasco]

Kids arrested for riding a skateboard...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6AYVn2yw4

[unriggable]

Kids arrested for riding a skateboard...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6AYVn2yw4

Video I was referring to. If you haven't already seen it, do so. It's disturbing.

[Iz Man]

wow, that was funny.

Slammed.

Anyone got some good pepper spray vids?

[xtratabasco]

Kids arrested for riding a skateboard...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6AYVn2yw4

Video I was referring to. If you haven't already seen it, do so. It's disturbing.

Hot Springs officer who stopped skateboarders cleared by board
http://ap.thecabin.net/pstories/sta...181907704.shtml

Hot Springs officer who stopped skateboarders cleared by board

JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK — A Hot Springs police officer who appeared to choke a skateboarder and put two others into a headlock in a video posted online used the proper amount of force when making his arrests, an internal investigation by police found.

The report, signed by five officers, found Officer Joey Williams confronted a situation that "would have overwhelmed any single officer" when he stopped those breaking city ordinance by skateboarding on a downtown sidewalk June 21. However, the investigation faulted Williams for leaving a handcuffed suspect unattended while chasing another youth in the resort town's historic Bathhouse Row.

"I think it was fair," City Manager Kent Myers said. Witnesses "consistently supported the actions of the officer and his efforts to control the situation."

Video of the incident from a business' security cameras show 10 skateboarders rolling down the city sidewalk at a good clip, followed by Williams, who sprints past the last skater. A video taken by skateboarders and later posted to YouTube shows Williams on top of one of the skaters, apparently choking him. The video also showed Williams putting another two skateboarders in a headlock and the officer can later be heard threatening to use pepper spray on a skateboarder lying on the ground.

What remains unclear is what led up to Williams chasing one of the skateboarders down the sidewalk. Myers said it was "premature" to discuss what provoked the incident, saying it would be part of an upcoming court case against those charged in the incident.

Police said they arrested four juveniles and Matthew Jon McCormack, 21, and Skylar Nalls, 19, both of Hot Springs. McCormack faces a misdemeanor battery charge accusing him of pushing or striking a 67-year-old city employee during the melee. Nalls was cited for skateboarding and faces misdemeanor charges of fleeing and obstructing governmental operations.

YouTube shows the video has been viewed more than 1.4 million times since it was posted June 25. Since the YouTube video hit the Internet, Williams has been on administrative leave. Police said he would return Thursday to active duty in the city's downtown.

In their report, the officers described the June 21 event as being "part of a planned participation in a nationwide anti-authority demonstration." However, organizers of Go Skateboarding Day describe the event organized by skateboarding companies as an effort to encourage more people to take up the skateboarding.

Those around the country who took part brought video cameras to record their tricks to win contest prizes, said John Bernards, executive director of the International Association of Skateboard Companies, based in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

Myers acknowledged the investigation wouldn't have happened without the YouTube video, but said the city had no immediate plans to post its own video response on the site.

"I think it shows the power of the Internet," Myers said.

[xtratabasco]

wow, that was funny.

gee funny doesnt come to my mind. but heres another "funny" one for you




High School Security Guards Attack Teen With Cell Phone Camera Then Frame Him
Incident provokes national outrage

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Saturday September 29, 2007


High School security guards in Palmdale CA have reacted viciously to an incident that was caught on camera last week, creating false charges against school children to detract from their own excessive actions which have since hit the headlines.

The incident at Knight High School, which received national attention yesterday, blew up after security thugs assaulted a 16 year old school girl and broke her arm after she dropped some cake and did not clean it up to the satisfaction of the guards.

The Guards then viciously assaulted a 16 year old boy who captured video of the incident on his cell phone. After the guards noticed the boy was filming them they forcefully tackled him, pushing his head into the ground and twisting his arm behind his back. The boy's sister attempted to intervene as other students began to film on phones.

After initially letting the boy go, the security guards had him and his sister arrested a day later on assault charges after angry parents hit out and demanded the firing of the guards in question. The school also had the girl who dropped the cake arrested for littering and the girl's mother arrested on a separate fabricated assault charge.

While the mainstream media has played down this terrible incident merely referring to it as a "scuffle", and Knight High School has refused to condemn the actions of the guards, public reaction has been heated.

This incident represents another example of how police and security personnel believe they can simply invent charges against innocent people they clash with. Two weeks ago we featured a story on a motorist who caught a St. George Police Sergeant named Kenline stating that he had the power to invent charges that would put the man behind bars.

[Norse]

Police state here we come.

Fair play to the Brummie film maker, he stood his ground and made that officer look like the fool he is.

[Iz Man]

wow, that was funny.

gee funny doesnt come to my mind. but heres another "funny" one for you.....

You're right.
I meant hilarious.......

Sounds to me like the girl should've picked up her cake. Wouldn't have a problem if she did, hmmm?

[Dancing Mustard]

Bitch got lucky in my opinion. If I were that security guard I'd have forced her to strip, then lick every last creamy morsel of cake off of the pavement while I filmed her on a cam-phone.


That'd teach her a lesson she won't forget in a hurry.

[xtratabasco]

Bitch got lucky in my opinion. If I were that security guard I'd have forced her to strip, then lick every last creamy morsel of cake off of the pavement while I filmed her on a cam-phone.


That'd teach her a lesson she won't forget in a hurry.

hey mustard, take it to the flame area.

[Dancing Mustard]

But I'm not flaming a CC player or an aspect of the site; I'm merely stating my political views as per the forum guidelines.

Remember Xtra:
"If we don't believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, then we don't believe in it at all" - Noam Chomsky

Now don't get all 'thought police' on me and start whinging about my views just because they don't mesh well with your own. This is a civilised debate about real issues and I'm entitled to my say just so long as I'm not being abusive to you, or using offensive racist language.



In my opinion those whinging little anti-Bush brats need a taste of the tear-gas. Daily. f*ck the constitution in the eyeball, them police officers have a job to do.

[xtratabasco]

Bitch got lucky in my opinion. If I were that security guard I'd have forced her to strip, then lick every last creamy morsel of cake off of the pavement while I filmed her on a cam-phone.


That'd teach her a lesson she won't forget in a hurry.

hey mustard, take it to the flame area.

[Dekloren]

Cops are just as corrupt as the cc mods!!

FREE TABASCO!!!!!!

[Dapper Tom]

Bitch got lucky in my opinion. If I were that security guard I'd have forced her to strip, then lick every last creamy morsel of cake off of the pavement while I filmed her on a cam-phone.


That'd teach her a lesson she won't forget in a hurry.

hey mustard, take it to the flame area.

Good Quote...

[Frigidus]

I think that we can all agree that police brutality is Pretty Cool.

[soka]

"dont taze me bro" haha

id rather be tazed then shot ...lol


like on Jim Carrey "lier lier"
" stop breaking the law asshole " lol

[Tyr]

did anyone read the prison planet article? security thugs? is that a serious website?

[DaGip]

Videos of cops just doing their jobs


http://prisonplanet.com/articles/septem ... tality.htm

KILL COPS!