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[Phatguysrule]

Cops KILL Man for Driving ATV in Neighbor’s Yard!
Posted on May 28, 2024
A federal lawsuit was filed after a man was shot and killed by a Princeton (West Virginia) Police Officer inside his own house, following allegations from his neighbor that he had been riding his ATV through the neighbor’s yard. The officers were captured on bodycam footage engaging in an investigation within the curtilage of the man’s yard, and ultimately kicking in the door and shooting him. The officer who shot and killed the man claimed that the man had a baseball bat and refused to drop it. Conveniently however, he wasn’t wearing a bodycam, despite a department policy mandating that he do so. Some of the shooting was captured on another officer’s bodycam. It was recently released by the family’s lawyers.

It's okay. They have a thousand reasons for killing people.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Gang of Cops Bully & Arrest 17-year-old Girl on the Drive Home From School

Posted on June 10, 2024

This footage was documented by The Real News Network in a great video, where they interviewed the family involved. It’s a perfect illustration of these “gangs” of drug task force type cops, who like to wear backward ball caps, cover their bodies with tattoos, and otherwise attempt to NOT look like cops. Often that causes problems when they go to do cop things, like pull people over for traffic stops. This footage shows just one instance of that. Then, when they don’t find what they were looking for, they often resort to lying and fabricating charges.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

“Anabolic” Cop Pulls Man From Car AFTER Stop was Over

Posted on June 13, 2024

This video shows a very recent police interaction that occurred in Barbour County, West Virginia. It shows Barbour County Sheriff’s Deputy Christian Mayle violently pulling a man named Vince out of a car. Vince is a nurse and was on his way to the nursing home where he works. His longtime girlfriend was driving him. They were pulled over on an allegation of the car going “left of center.” The traffic stop actually ended and a warning citation was issued to the girlfriend/driver. But then, suddenly Deputy Mayle ordered both occupants out of the vehicle. When Vince questioned his authority to do so, the officer cited Pennsylvania v. Mimms and quickly lost his temper, macing Vince and pulling him violently from the car.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Guy Posted About Local Cops on Facebook – They Arrest Him For it!

Posted on June 21, 2024

Paul O’Brien, who lives in Grafton, West Virginia, observed a Taylor County Sheriff’s Deputy running a speed trap across the road from his residence. He posted on Facebook about it, joking that he WISHED he had an M-80 (firecracker) so that he could set it off and cause the deputy to have a heart attack. In the same post, he criticized the department for the deaths of three individuals over the years. Deputy Cody Mayle of the TCSD then paid Paul a visit at his home. He had no warrant, but rather just wanted to “talk.”

When Paul decided he didn’t want to talk with Deputy Mayle, Deputy Mayle suddenly grabbed him and arrested him. Paul spent two nights in jail. Around three months later, the frivolous charge of “obstruction” was dropped, since it was admittedly frivolous, according to the prosecutor. Paul submitted a complaint to the department, but heard nothing back.



This is Deputy Cody Mayle, who is seen on bodycam laughing as soon as Paul was thrown in the holding cell:


My last West Virginia based video coincidentally, was from Barbour County, which is only the next county over, and that deputy also has the same last name – Mayle. Here’s a link to that video. I’ll have more information soon about that situation…

This is the location of the incident:


Here’s the police report / charging document:



Here’s the dismissal order:

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

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[SlyPokerDog]

City Pays $250,000 for Abusing Elderly Man for Looking at a Police Car

Posted on July 3, 2024

A 70 year old man in Ada County, Idaho was arrested by police officers at a police station, after he dared to look into a police cruiser window. The charges were later dismissed. He filed a lawsuit, which just settled for $250,000, along with mandatory additional training for sheriff’s deputies in that county.



Here’s Sherriff Matt Clifford’s troubling statement, as discussed in the video:

Earlier this week, we settled a lawsuit with Mr. Heikkola, stemming from an incident in January 2023. It wasn’t our best day. It is the expectation that Ada County deputies perform to the best of their abilities every day — while keeping people’s constitutional rights in the forefront of their minds, while also keeping our community safe.

For anyone to claim we are trampling on someone’s constitutional rights simply isn’t true.The reality is, we have hundreds of contacts every day with people of all different backgrounds, religions, ethnicities and socioeconomic standings. While the vast majority of those interactions go well, occasionally we fumble and miss the mark.

Part of the settlement was to include additional constitutional policing training; fortunately, we had already implemented this training prior to the settlement. We will now also include a scenario similar to Mr. Heikkola’s in our scenario-based training. We are one of few law enforcement agencies across the country with routine built-in training time. Every patrol deputy receives 9.5 training hours per month. These blocks of training include topics such as firearms training, scenario-based training, legal updates, EVOC, de-escalation techniques, arrest and control techniques, CPR and first aid, and more.

Part of our culture at the Ada County Sheriff’s Office is to always strive to be better – and learning from this incident will help us to do just that.

– Matt Clifford, Ada County Sheriff​

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Country Singer Writes Song About Arrest by Idiot Cop | Charges now Dropped

Posted on July 11, 2024

This 18 year old country music singer from Montana was pulled over for speeding by a state trooper who is looking for reasons to accuse him of driving intoxicated. Even though he blew a 0.0 showing he had no alcohol in his system, and even though he did all the stupid human tricks he was asked to do, and even though he was 100% polite and cooperative with the officer, he was still wrongfully arrested and charged. A blood test taken after the arrest showed what any rational police officers should have known: that the kid was completely sober. Yet this happened to him. He wrote a song about it.

 

[PCmor7]

The State Police in a very rural county adjacent to mine have been hit with multiple criminal and civil cases in the last few months.

The worst was a wrongful death claim. They tried to pull someone over for a problem with their license plate. Apparently the driver and passenger had probation violations and fled. The police used a PIT maneuver to smash the car into the tree.

The driver eventually died ... after they let him there for four hours before calling EMTs. The passenger has minor injuries but for some reason was life-flighted to a hospital 60 miles away rather than taken to the hospital 10 miles away. They weren't even given transportation home and had to walk for hours just to get to the home of someone they knew.

In another case, the police pulled over a woman close to 60 who runs an animal rescue in the area. She was delivering hay to another rescue at night and it was very foggy, so she was driving slowly.

The police did a U-turn in the middle of one of the county's small towns and pulled her over for a busted tail light. Then the trooper arrested the woman on suspicion of being on meth, cuffed her and took her to the hospital, where her bloodwork came back negative. At the hospital, the trooper got into a physical altercation with the woman's son.

On top of that, it turned out all her lights were operating properly. There wasn't a busted tail light at all.

The charges were dropped and the trooper's case for false arrest and defamation has just started in federal court, because, while her charges were dropped, they still were published in the county newspaper with her name and the drug charges even though she turned out clean.

There've been a few other policing irregularities over the last few years and the county is now being investigated and the findings are being reported on a podcast from someone that lives in another state. I have several friends in law enforcement and the judiciary and they talk about this county being completely corrupt.

 

[PCmor7]

I forgot to mention, when the woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of meth, I got a little curious and Googled their arrest reports for that week.

That was one of two arrests in a five-day span. The other arrest? It happened to be for the exact same thing.

What are the odds? In a county of just 80,000 people and the fourth-largest county by area in the state, that the State Police just happened to make traffic stops on consecutive days and end up arresting the driver for meth.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

This is really fucked up.

VIDEO: Cop Shoots Innocent Woman Holding a Pot in her Kitchen | FIRED & CHARGED

Posted on July 22, 2024

The bodycam footage was released this afternoon by the Sangamon county Sheriff’s Office, following an investigation by the Illinois State Police that resulted in murder charges being filed against (now former) Deputy Sean P. Grayson. Here’s my initial analysis and breakdown of the footage.



Here’s the uncensored clip of the shooting:

Some cops and pro-police activists on X are claiming that the video shows Sonya Massey “throwing” the pot at the officers. In reality, the conclusion of the Illinois State Police, as well as their police expert is that it only shows Sonya raising her hands while holding the pot. It does not show the pot being thrown. Moreover, the only view available is from the non-shooter officer (who did not fire, presumably because he didn’t feel it reasonable to do so). The shooter had his bodycam off in violation of his department policy, thus we have no footage of his point-of-view.

Here’s the language from the Indictment charging the shooter, mentioned above and in the video:

https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/20...n-holding-a-pot-in-her-kitchen-fired-charged/

 

[PCmor7]

This is really fucked up.

VIDEO: Cop Shoots Innocent Woman Holding a Pot in her Kitchen | FIRED & CHARGED

Posted on July 22, 2024

The bodycam footage was released this afternoon by the Sangamon county Sheriff’s Office, following an investigation by the Illinois State Police that resulted in murder charges being filed against (now former) Deputy Sean P. Grayson. Here’s my initial analysis and breakdown of the footage.



Here’s the uncensored clip of the shooting:

Some cops and pro-police activists on X are claiming that the video shows Sonya Massey “throwing” the pot at the officers. In reality, the conclusion of the Illinois State Police, as well as their police expert is that it only shows Sonya raising her hands while holding the pot. It does not show the pot being thrown. Moreover, the only view available is from the non-shooter officer (who did not fire, presumably because he didn’t feel it reasonable to do so). The shooter had his bodycam off in violation of his department policy, thus we have no footage of his point-of-view.

Here’s the language from the Indictment charging the shooter, mentioned above and in the video:

https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/20...n-holding-a-pot-in-her-kitchen-fired-charged/

I heard about this but hadn't seen the video until you posted it.

This is scary and insane.

We really need to do a better job of vetting and training police.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I heard about this but hadn't seen the video until you posted it.

This is scary and insane.

We really need to do a better job of vetting and training police.

The cop who shot her has 2 DUIs and according to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, has worked at six different law enforcement agencies in Illinois since 2020.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/l...GZGx-vuaNtGorpp7S4_aem_lZ7cOryb6HzA3trnV4MHBA

 

[PCmor7]

The cop who shot her has 2 DUIs and according to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, has worked at six different law enforcement agencies in Illinois since 2020.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/l...GZGx-vuaNtGorpp7S4_aem_lZ7cOryb6HzA3trnV4MHBA

Nor surprising. The police is a fraternity that watches out for and helps its own in a way that is so forgiving compared to the way a lot of them are with the public.

The younger sister of one of my best friends recently started dating a cop. When he first started working in the police, he repeatedly beat his pregnant wife and the police had to come. Finally got arrested for that and trying to intimidate her. He lost his job ... then a year later they hired him back.

Same county ... they fired a police officer for essentially being crooked/corruption, and then the very next day the DA's office quietly hired him as its investigator. Same county ... one of the police is currently on trial for false arrest for pulling a 60-year-old woman over for a broken tail light (which turned out not to be broken) and arrested her for being on meth. Took her to the hospital for bloodwork and it turned out she was clean. What makes that even worse is that he arrested someone else the day before in the very same way for the very same thing, In a county of 80,000 people, what are the odds the same police officer would pull over two people on consecutive days on routine traffic stops and arrest both of them for suspicion of being on meth?

The thing is, there probably are about 15% of police that are this brazenly bad. More might be militaristic bullies, but they don't act on it. But the problem is about 80% of the rest of them won't do anything about the 15% that abuse their position, and they already have so many protections like qualified immunity behind which to hide.

I have friends in the field but I've run across enough corruption to think we need a major overhaul in law enforcement. Right now, it's like used car sales with the law.

 

[bulls_with_booz]

First time I saw the video, it looked like the cop just randomly shot a woman fucking around in the kitchen, not a threat to anyone. On a second look, you can see her raise the pot, but by this point the cop is getting closer to her for reasons beyond me. It reminds me of those cases where a cop jumps onto a moving vehicle as an excuse to kill someone. You can see in the longer video that when he goes outside post shooting, he's not doing a great job selling it to the 20 other cops. They seem skeptical to me, which is a bad sign for his case.

 

[PCmor7]

It looked to me like she held up the pot to shield her face. It was a defensive move.

 

[bulls_with_booz]

It looked to me like she held up the pot to shield her face. It was a defensive move.

And by that point, the cop already made the situation more dangerous for himself by getting within range of the water.

 

[PCmor7]

And by that point, the cop already made the situation more dangerous for himself by getting within range of the water.

And even at that, she'd have to have been some kind of liquid ninja/waterbender to scald him from 15 feet away over a countertop with the warm water she took off the burner a minute earlier.

 

[bulls_with_booz]

And even at that, she'd have to have been some kind of liquid ninja/waterbender to scald him from 15 feet away over a countertop with the warm water she took off the burner a minute earlier.

I thought the first time she was putting cold water in the pot to cool it off before getting shot. It was only on the second viewing that I saw the steam rising next to her body. To clarify, it's not like I think the woman did anything wrong, I just couldn't understand what the pro cop narrative here would even be.

 

[PCmor7]

I thought the first time she was putting cold water in the pot to cool it off before getting shot. It was only on the second viewing that I saw the steam rising next to her body. To clarify, it's not like I think the woman did anything wrong, I just couldn't understand what the pro cop narrative here would even be.

I don't think either of them knew what "rebuke" meant, either.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm going to start off by saying not all cops are bad. This thread is not about that. It's about knowing and learning your civil rights. Especially if you have kids or older citizens in your circle of family and friends. She called for help about a possible prowler. That does not give the police the right to demand ID and to enter her house and "sweep it."

The officer that killed her was condescending from the beginning. Her knowing and asserting her civil rights would have saved her life.

 

[bulls_with_booz]

I'm going to start off by saying not all cops are bad. This thread is not about that. It's about knowing and learning your civil rights. Especially if you have kids or older citizens in your circle of family and friends. She called for help about a possible prowler. That does not give the police the right to demand ID and to enter her house and "sweep it."

The officer that killed her was condescending from the beginning. Her knowing and asserting her civil rights would have saved her life.

We are in election season right now so people are going to see this through either an anti-police or a racial lense, but to me, this was a clear example as to why calling the police when you're going through a mental health crisis is a bad idea in America. Last year or so cops shot a white guy to death who called them during a mental health episode in Colorado. I'm making an assumption on poor Sonya here based on the rebuking Jesus stuff and the prowler call. Maybe she was in her right mind and if so, this is an irrelevant point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Christian_Glass

 

[Phatguysrule]

We are in election season right now so people are going to see this through either an anti-police or a racial lense, but to me, this was a clear example as to why calling the police when you're going through a mental health crisis is a bad idea in America. Last year or so cops shot a white guy to death who called them during a mental health episode in Colorado. I'm making an assumption on poor Sonya here based on the rebuking Jesus stuff and the prowler call. Maybe she was in her right mind and if so, this is an irrelevant point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Christian_Glass

100%. Police should definitely be better trained in de-escalation and we need to make more legitimate efforts to get rid of bullying and corruption.

We should not be putting people in prison at the rates we do, nor should we be more likely to be killed by police than terrorists.

This is not an attack on police. This is an attack on a very flawed and corrupt system.

 

[Chris Craig]

This is really fucked up.

VIDEO: Cop Shoots Innocent Woman Holding a Pot in her Kitchen | FIRED & CHARGED

Posted on July 22, 2024

The bodycam footage was released this afternoon by the Sangamon county Sheriff’s Office, following an investigation by the Illinois State Police that resulted in murder charges being filed against (now former) Deputy Sean P. Grayson. Here’s my initial analysis and breakdown of the footage.



Here’s the uncensored clip of the shooting:

Some cops and pro-police activists on X are claiming that the video shows Sonya Massey “throwing” the pot at the officers. In reality, the conclusion of the Illinois State Police, as well as their police expert is that it only shows Sonya raising her hands while holding the pot. It does not show the pot being thrown. Moreover, the only view available is from the non-shooter officer (who did not fire, presumably because he didn’t feel it reasonable to do so). The shooter had his bodycam off in violation of his department policy, thus we have no footage of his point-of-view.

Here’s the language from the Indictment charging the shooter, mentioned above and in the video:

https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/20...n-holding-a-pot-in-her-kitchen-fired-charged/

Dude murdered her. She called for help and she was shot for nothing. Terrible.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[PCmor7]

Got fired but was acquitted by a jury of his peers for punching a handcuffed woman in the face for spitting.

 

[Everything Beagle]

Pigs are pigs

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Bro on Bike Insults Cops, Makes History!
Posted on August 22, 2024

Do you remember the video I did in June of last year showing the Phoenix Police Department arresting (Kenneth) Ronald McDonald in retaliation for calling one of them a “dumbass?” Not only did McDonald single-handedly beat the corrupt City of Phoenix cops and prosecutors, representing himself pro se and winning his criminal case, but he made it into the HUGE DOJ investigation report released a few months ago. Whatever happened to the two cops from the video?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Tired Grandpa’s Terrible Roadtrip | Cop Placed on Leave
Posted on October 17, 2023

Imagine that your 62 year old father was driving late at night after 11 hours on the road. Would you worry that he would fall asleep? Hopefully he would just pull over somewhere and take a nap if he was tired. Right? Usually, yes. But not in Spokane County, Washington.



62 year old Kevin Hinton had just driven 11 hours into his road trip back from meeting his brand new baby granddaughter in Oregon. He was too tired to continue driving. He couldn’t keep his eyes open. So he pulled over into a parking lot at Terrace View Park, in Spokane, Washington, to take a nap. Shortly afterwards he would encounter Sgt. Clay Hilton with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Within three minutes, Hilton would forcibly remove Mr. Hinton from his vehicle in such a way as to leave him with 8 broken ribs, a punctured lung, severe concussion, shoulder injury, and a disfigured lip. Why? Because Sgt. Hilton thought he was being rude.

Here’s the raw use of force footage: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2023/10/17/tired-grandpas-terrible-roadtrip-cop-placed-on-leave/

 

[Hoopguru]

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