With one of the worst reputations in the country for violating the rights of citizens with
cameras, the Baltimore Police Department is being sued for attacking a
woman and smashing her camera, marking the second time in two years it
has been sued for destroying footage.
The first suit earned them a federal reprimand. The second will hopefully earn them a federal investigation.
In
that suit, which was filed last week, Makia Smith says she was stuck in
stand-still rush hour traffic in March 2012 when she saw a group of
cops beating up a man.
She stepped out of her car, stood on the door sill and began recording.
She
was quickly confronted by an aggressive cop named Nathan Church, who
grabbed her phone, threw it on the ground and smashed it with his foot.
“You want to film something, bitch? Film this,” he yelled.
He then proceeded to beat her.
According to Courthouse News, which is charging $35 to access the lawsuit attorneys have since sent me a copy of the suit:
“Officer
Church pulled plaintiff out of her car by her hair and beat her.
Officers Pilkerton, Ulmer, and Campbell then ran to plaintiff’s car and
joined Officer Church in beating plaintiff and arrested her using
excessive force. At all times described herein, plaintiff’s two year old
daughter witnessed her mother’s beating and arrest by the Officers, as
did others.” Smith claims the cops taunted her and threatened to
take her daughter away. She says they refused to call her mother to her
toddler.
“The officers, despite the pleas of plaintiff, refused to
call plaintiff’s mother. Instead, the officers tormented plaintiff by
telling her that her daughter would be taken from her and sent to Social
Services. Seeing plaintiff’s distressful reaction to these tormenting
threats, they continued,” the complaint states. Smith says claims
she was arrested and taken to jail on bogus charges that she assaulted
Church and resisted arrest. She claims Church failed to appear for
her trial – twice, and prosecutors dropped the charges, but she had to
hire a lawyer and spend more money recovering her impounded car.
The
Baltimore Police Department has been under federal scrutiny since 2010
when it deleted footage from a man’s camera during the Preakness Stakes
horse race, who was recording them aggressively arresting a woman.
Christopher Sharp filed a lawsuit over the incident at the Preakness, which prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to issue a set of guidelines outlining the laws when it comes to dealing with camera-wielding citizens.
But that didn’t stop Baltimore police from embarking on a campaign to intimidate and harass Sharp.
Homeowner to cops: “Martial law has not been established in this country” Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
May 15, 2013
In perhaps one of the most shocking police brutality videos of recent
years, police in Cotati, California respond to a call about “domestic
violence” by kicking down the door of a man’s home before tazing him and
his wife as they scream in agony.
The video begins with the cops standing on the man’s
front lawn looking in through the window having responded to a report of
a noise disturbance called in by neighbors. Despite the fact that the
couple are obviously not at loggerheads and no harm is coming to
anybody, the police announce that they are going to break into the house
without a warrant.
“Why are you guys not coming out?,” asks one of the officers, bemused at the fact that someone wouldn’t follow orders.
“Because we don’t live in a police state, sir. Martial law has not been established in this country,” responds the homeowner.
The officer then orders the couple to get down on the
ground and put their hands behind their backs, adding, “We’re gonna kick
in the door.”
The cops kick down the door and enter the home with guns drawn as the homeowner exclaims, “You have no right to be in here!”
Despite the fact that the woman clearly has her hands in
the air, a cop tazes her as she screams out in pain. The man is then
also tazed.
The video clip has caused shockwaves across the Internet
and has already gone viral along with an outpouring of support for the
family.
However, others have expressed support for the police,
claiming that the cops couldn’t see the children at the home and
therefore didn’t know that they weren’t in danger. Under this scenario,
the 4th amendment and probable cause are non-existent and the police can
just break into your house and attack you in the name of “protecting
the children” at any time.
“The police are allowed to kick in your door when they
request you come outside to talk and you refuse and they were called to
the residence because of domestic abuse,” wrote one respondent.
In reality, under Florida v. J.L. (March 28, 2000),
“the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that anonymous tips are not sufficient
grounds to constitute probable cause for a search. Judge Ginsburg,
writing for the Supreme Court, stated, “Such an exception would enable
any person seeking to harass another to set in motion an intrusive,
embarrassing police search of the targeted person simply by placing an
anonymous call.…”
“Who is the victim in this case? It’s not the children,
who were peacefully playing in the front yard and in the home. And
neither homeowner had raised a hand to the other,” writes Mac Slavo.
“In fact, the victims were the residents of the home,
whose private property had been violated. The individual recording the
video was reportedly tazed, detained and then arrested by police. For
what?”
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
Two stories about life in "this state." "This state" a
non-constitutional/ commerce system of being i. e. state of mind. It
is psychopathic in nature. The system is never wrong in it's own
eye. It's main goal is to maintain this illusion. It judges itself
based upon its "intent" Intent is always positive - it's ok if I
beat you or kill you I'm enforcing the law. It's ok if I fund
alcohol in your gas, so what if it runs up the price of food,
shortens the life of your car, cuts your gas mileage. I'm saving the
earth. If it works or not is unimportant my intent is pure therefore
it is good. All others are judge by their results. With the added
bonus of having the honor to fund one's own abuse.Truth is
irrelavant - the illusion must be maintained.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie --
deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent,
persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of
opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy
Those that are having a hard time stepping away from "this state"
are addicted to it. Many/Most are trauma bonded to it and are
playing the victim role in a abusive relationship as in "Drama
Triangle" where both parties get to play "victim, prosecutor and
rescuer." Each blaming the other.
The criminalization of political dissent in America
Posted on May 14, 2013 by # 1 NWO Hatr
RINF
In a series of prosecutions, precedents are being established for
the criminalization of political dissent in America.
Last week, Massachusetts high school student Cameron D’Ambrosio was
arrested and charged under “terrorism” laws merely for posting
lyrics on Facebook that make reference to the Boston Marathon
bombings. He faces 20 years in prison. A string of similar “terror”
prosecutions around the country take aim at the First Amendment
protection of free speech and political expression.
The authorities have already branded select participants in Occupy
Wall Street and anti-NATO protests as “terrorists.” Last year,
heavily-armed “domestic terrorism” commandos raided Occupy Wall
Street protesters’ homes in Washington and Oregon, using battering
rams and stun grenades. The commandos were authorized to seize all
“anti-government or anarchist literature or material.”
As with freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, also guaranteed
under the First Amendment, has not been officially repealed. The
reality, however, is that political assembly is already a
semi-criminal activity in America. Political protests are routinely
met with vastly disproportionate police mobilizations, confinement
to oxymoronic “free speech zones,” “kettling” (in which protesters
are surrounded and forcibly moved in one direction or prevented from
leaving an area), beatings, tear gas, pepper spray, stun grenades or
rubber bullets. The standard government response to a political
protest is a massive show of force, complete with police snipers on
rooftops.
The drive towards the establishment of an American police state,
initiated under the Bush administration, has shifted into high gear
under Obama. For nearly twelve years, the phony “war on terror” has
been used as the overarching pretext for illegal imperialist war
abroad and a methodical assault on democratic rights at home. The
basic structure of authoritarian rule is now emerging into plain
view.
Over the recent period, the government has vastly expanded its
warrantless surveillance of the population. The Obama administration
has constructed a massive data center in Utah big enough to store
the contents of every personal computer in the country. Already at a
government agent’s fingertips–without a warrant–are all of a
person’s Internet browsing activity, telephone conversations, text
messages, credit card transactions, mobile phone GPS location data,
travel itineraries, Skype and Facebook data, medical records,
criminal records, financial records and surveillance camera footage.
NYPD Sergeant Says 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Is Just The Price
We Pay For A 'Free Society'
from the nothing's-more-'secure'-than-a-jail-cell dept
We've been dealing with the New York police department lately,
thanks to the mayor and the police chief using the recent Boston
bombing as an excuse to increase surveillance efforts and
enact other policies to further encroach on New Yorkers' civil
liberties. Whenever something terrorist-related occurs, it
seems as though the NYPD's reps can't keep their opinions to
themselves, even as the department itself drifts further and further away from being a
sterling example of How Things Should Be Done.
Using a zero tolerance approach to track domestic
terrorists online is the only reasonable way to analyze
online threats these days, especially after the Boston
Marathon bombing and news that the suspects had subsequently
planned to target Times Square in Manhattan, Mullins says.
The way law enforcement agencies approach online activity
that appears sinister is this: “If you’re not a
terrorist, if you’re not a threat, prove it,” he says.
"Zero tolerance" is never
"reasonable." It never has been and it never will be. In fact,
it's the polar opposite. Zero tolerance policies simply absolve
the enforcers of any responsibility for the outcome and grant
them the privilege of ignoring mitigating factors. It allows
them to bypass applying any sort of critical thinking skills
(the "reason" part of "reasonable") and view every infractions
as nothing more than a binary IF THEN equation.
Mullins goes even further than this, though, asserting that the
burden of proof lies with the person charged, not the person
bringing the charges. This flips our judicial system on its head
(along with the judicial systems in many other countries) and,
if applied the way Mullins views it, puts accused citizens in
the impossible position of trying to prove a negative. This is
just completely wrong, and it's a dangerously stupid thing for
someone in his position to believe, much less state
out loud. (Mullins also heads the Sergeants Benevolent
Association, the second-largest police union in New York City.)
Believe it or not, Mullins is not done talking. What he says
next doubles up on the "dangerous" and "stupid."
“This is the price you pay to live in free society right
now. It’s just the way it is,” Mullins adds.
No. It isn't.
This is the price Mullins is charging to live in the
NYPD's severely stunted version of a "free" society. The NYPD
has been harassing young minorities at the rate of 500,000
impromptu stop-and-frisks per year for the better part
of the last decade. For the past 10 years, the NYPD has been
regularly trampling citizens' civil liberties simply because
they attend a mosque. The NYPD and Mayor
Bloomberg have worked ceaselessly to make New York the
most-surveilled city in the U.S.
That's the price New Yorkers are paying. It has nothing to do
with living in a free society. The NYPD takes liberties away and
high-ranking cops like Mullins have the gall to suggest there's
some sort of equitable exchange occurring. Mullins doesn't seem
to understand (or just doesn't care) that if you take away
freedom you no longer have a free society.
It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,
but "eternal vigilance" isn't shorthand for oppressive
surveillance and zero tolerance policies that make freedom less
"free." "Eternal vigilance" isn't treating the Constitution like
a relic too worn and tattered to serve any purpose in these
"dangerous" times. And being an officer of the law isn't an
excuse to shut your intellect off and allow your brain stem and
broad policies to "work" in concert in order to treat loudmouth
teens on Facebook like a guy with a trailer home full of
explosives.
This "vigilance" is supposed to be put to use by citizens
in order to prevent authorities like Mullins from encroaching on
our liberties. It's not solely limited to a united military
effort against foreign powers. There are plenty of people
apparently willing to attack our freedom from the comfort of the
home front.
Raymond
Michael Rodden was bored this week, so he drove to downtown Phoenix and
began walking around, snapping photos of the federal courthouse and the
state capitol with his iPhone.
The 33-year-old man ended up jailed, unemployed and homeless; his iPhone, iPad and Macintosh laptop confiscated as “evidence.”
All because they found it odd he was taking photos at 3 a.m.
“They
told me they’re going to keep my computer because they want to see my
search history,” he said Saturday evening in a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime.
“They
wanted to know if I belonged to any extremist groups like the national
socialist movement or sovereign citizens. They wanted to know what kind
of books I checked out of the library.”
However, the only charges
pending against him, if you even want to call them charges, are
citations that he walked into an alley – a bogus charge that applies
only to motorized vehicles – and that he neglected to change the
address on his driver license after moving to Phoenix from Tucson last
August.
They couldn’t even keep him jailed on the initial charge
of an outdated warrant out of California because the San Obispo County
Sheriff’s Office did not want to bother extraditing him from Phoenix.
“The
warrant was not even valid in Arizona,” adding that it was over a
probation violation for unlawful use of a vehicle, stemming from a 2001
incident in which he took his roommate’s car without permission after a
heated argument.
That old roommate is still one of his best
friends, allowing him to stay in his Tucson home after he was kicked out
of the Phoenix home that was part of his employment.
“I was living in my boss’s house taking care of his son,” he said. “Now he thinks I’m some crazy person.”
The
fact that the Phoenix police bomb squad tore his boss’s car apart
searching for explosives before impounding it most likely convinced him
that Rodden was not the most suitable person to care for his
six-year-old son as he worked as a long-distance truck driver.
“The most radical thing I do is read Photography is Not a Crime and Cop Block,” he said.
So like most people who read those sites, he knows his rights when it comes to dealing with police.
And that is exactly why he is going through this ordeal.
It
started Thursday at 3 a.m. when he was sitting at home, unable to
sleep. He decided to drive to downtown in his boss’s car, which he had
permission to do.
He parked the car in front of the Phoenix Police
Department and began walking around downtown, which is a ghost town at
that time.
Sandra Day O’Connor United States Courthouse
He
snapped photos of the Arizona State Capitol and the Sandra Day O’Connor
United States Courthouse, two of the city’s most picturesque buildings.
He
exchanged pleasantries with Federal Protective Service officers
guarding the courthouse, who are probably the ones who called police on
him.
He continued walking when he noticed he was being followed by
a Phoenix police patrol car. Before he knew it, he was being followed
by an additional two marked cars as well as an unmarked car, not to
mention a cop on foot.
“I kept walking around because I knew if I got into my car, they would pull me over,” he said.
They
kept trying to talk to him but he kept asking if he was being detained
and they said no, so he kept walking and they kept following, He walked
around for more than an hour as the cops kept following, waiting for him
to slip up.
That was when he walked into an alleyway, thinking he was not breaking any law.
Little did he know that Phoenix Municipal Code 36-61 states that “no person shall use an alley within the city as a thoroughfare except authorized emergency vehicles.”
“As soon as I walked into the alley, they descended upon me,” he said.
As one PINAC reader pointed out in the comments section, this code applies to vehicles, not pedestrians.
But
before he knew it, he was handcuffed and sitting in an interrogation
room at the Phoenix Police Department, fielding questions from an FBI
agent and a police detective named Darren Emfinger from the Joint Terrorism Task Force as to what organizations he belonged to and what types of books he reads.
“I
told them I was not doing anything illegal by taking photos and they
kept saying, ‘we’re not disputing that it’s illegal, we just find it
odd,’” he said.
Meanwhile, they discovered that a key in his
backpack fit a Toyota Tundra that was sitting in front of their
building, so they called the bomb squad to dismantle it in the hopes
they would find something illegal.
“It was a complete overreaction,” he said.
When
they couldn’t connect him to any terrorist activity, they jailed him on
the outdated warrant, where he remained until 2 p.m. after they
realized they had no legal grounds to hold him.
Once he left jail,
he walked back to the police department to retrieve his backpack, which
contained his laptop, iPhone, iPad and an external hard drive, but was
told that it was being kept as “evidence.”
When he got back home, his boss told him to pack his bags.
“I tried to explain what had happened but they had already talked to him,” he said.
So he headed down to Tucson where he is staying with a friend.
“I’m
afraid they are going to keep digging and digging until they find
something to nail me with,” he said. “That is why I got out of Phoenix.”
Darren
Emfinger, the Phoenix police detective and joint task force member who
has been featured in the The First 48 television show and who is
refusing to return his items, can be reached at (623) 466-1398 or on
his cell phone, (602) 377-9108.
The Arizona ACLU, whom he hopes will help him in this case, can be reached at info@acluaz.org or 602.650.1854.
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton can be reached at mayor.stanton@phoenix.gov or 602-262-7111. Send stories, tips and videos to Carlos Miller.
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Two Videos Emerge Showing San Antonio Cops Abusing Their Authority 17
By Carlos Miller
Two videos have emerged from the incident in which San Antonio city and park police left a woman with a broken nose and black eye inside a gas station.
One
of the videos had been deleted by police, according to the woman’s
brother, who was arrested along with his cousin for interfering.
But
he recovered it and gave it to a local television news station, which
only showed a few seconds of it when they ran the story earlier this month.
Now
the video has been posted in its entirety alongside a second video that
was recorded by a witness not affiliated with the woman’s family.
Both
clips show that Jason Al-Barati and his cousin were not interfering
when police moved in to arrest them around the 5:30 mark.
And
although neither clip shows police slamming Christina Oliver’s face into
a window, we can hear that is what mostly likely took place around the
1:30 mark from the reaction of witnesses and the conversation in the
ensuing minutes.
Seconds after that, we can see Oliver is being
held face down as cops start shoving witnesses away from the scene,
including one cop who walks out holding his baton over his head and
another pointing a Taser at them.
Oliver
had walked into the gas station to use the restroom, but ended up
walking into a stockroom by mistake. She said she walked back out and
was confronted by two cops, who accused her of shoplifting.
Police
say she struck one of the cops in the throat with a closed fist. She
says police punched her in eye without her ever striking him.
Either
way, police already had her handcuffed and in custody when her brother
walked up with a camera in the beginning of the video, wondering what
was going on, so there was no need to slam her face into the glass.
But police probably knew that, which is why they eventually arrested Al-Barati for holding the camera.
Realizing
they were eyeing her next, the second witness with the camera walked
back to her car where she told a passenger that police had beat up the
woman for unknown reasons before arresting the two men for absolutely
nothing.
Oliver is still facing felony assault on a peace officer
charges while her brother and cousin are still facing interfering
charges.
Call the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office and ask
them to drop the charges against the three family members. 210-335-2311. Send stories, tips and videos to Carlos Miller.
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Law
enforcement authorities in California beat a man to death with their
batons before seizing at least two cell phones from witnesses who
captured the incident on video.
One of the phones was seized
without a warrant. The second phone was seized with a warrant but only
because an attorney for the witnesses had arrived on the scene.
It doesn’t appear as if the lawyer had any sense to download the video before the phone was seized.
Or more likely, Kern County sheriff deputies would not allow it.
According to the Bakersfield Californian:
John
Tello, a criminal law attorney, is representing two witnesses who took
video footage and five other witnesses to the incident. He said his
clients are still shaken by what they saw.
“When I arrived to the
home of one of the witnesses that had video footage, she was with her
family sitting down on the couch, surrounded by three deputies,” Tello
said.
Tello said the witness was not allowed to go anywhere with her phone and was being quarantined inside her home.
When
Tello tried to talk to the witness in private and with the phone, one
of the deputies stopped him and told him he couldn’t take the phone
anywhere because it was evidence to the investigation, the attorney
said.
“This was not a crime scene where the evidence was going to
be destroyed,” Tello said. “These were concerned citizens who were
basically doing a civic duty of preserving the evidence, not destroying
it as they (sheriff deputies) tried to make it seem.”
Deputies told the witnesses they could retrieve their phones the following day after the footage had been downloaded.
Now they’re telling the witnesses it could take years.
The
law states that authorities can only seize your phone without a warrant
under exigent circumstances, meaning there is probable cause the
witness will destroy the video evidence. And they still would have to
obtain a warrant or subpoena to view the footage.
But the law does
not forbid citizens from downloading the footage before handing it
over. A judge might be able to order a citizen from posting a video
online but would have to provide a valid explanation as to why.
But
despite what the law states, nothing will stop a group of cops from
seizing your phone if it contains evidence of them violating the law.
And
in this case, it appears as if they did just that as Kern County
sheriff deputies and California Highway Patrol officers responded to a
report of an intoxicated man standing in front of a local hospital,
meaning there could possibly be video from surveillance cameras.
David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old father of four, died begging for his life, fighting up to nine law enforcement officers.
People
who say they witnessed the incident as well as Silva’s family members
described a scene in which deputies essentially were beating a helpless
man to death. They were indignant that cellphone video had been taken
away by deputies.
“My brother spent the last eight minutes of his
life pleading, begging for his life,” said Christopher Silva, 31,
brother of the dead man. He said he’s talked to witnesses but did not
see the incident himself.
At about midnight, Ruben Ceballos,
19,was awakened by screams and loud banging noises outside his home. He
said he ran to the left side of his house to find out who was causing
the ruckus.
“When I got outside I saw two officers beating a man
with batons and they were hitting his head so every time they would
swing, I could hear the blows to his head,” Ceballos said.
Silva was on the ground screaming for help, but officers continued to beat him, Ceballos said.
After several minutes, Ceballos said, Silva stopped screaming and was no longer responsive.
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office
identified the officers involved as Sgt. Douglas Sword and deputies
Ryan Greer, Tanner Miller, Jeffrey Kelly, Luis Almanza, Brian Brock and
David Stephens. The CHP hasn’t identified its two officers involved in
the incident.
Although there are several methods
of being able to transmit video footage to a remote server while it is
being recorded, they all come with certain drawbacks and are not always
reliable.
That will one day no doubt change as technology keeps
evolving, but one method to keep them from deleting your footage is to
lock your phone with a password, but that still won’t keep them from
taking your phone along with the footage, then claiming they lost the phone.
If
you have any suggestions on how to save or store your footage in such a
situation, please list it below in the comments section. Send stories, tips and videos to Carlos Miller.
Olegs Kozancenko was a
long-haul trucker. Not a gang-banger or drug dealer. Not a child
molester or con man. A 58-year-old, 165 pound truck driver, finishing a
haul and on his way home. So how does he end up looking like this?
Well,
the immediate reason is pretty simple: he was beaten by CHP Officers
Andrew P. Murrill and Jim Sherman after they received "a report of a
sleepy driver at the brake check station five miles east of the scene."
Murrill gave Kozacenko a ticket for driving his truck too long, though
it was based on his truck log for driving two days earlier. It turns
out that Murrill, by his own testimony, wasn't a commercial
truck "specialist," which is code for he had no clue how to read the
truck log or what the law required. But that didn't stop him from being
a cop, so he issued the ticket, directed Kozancenko to sign it, and
then Kozancenko did the unthinkable:
Kozancenko said he first wanted to read the ticket before signing.
So Murrill was constrained to use force.
The 220-pound Murrill goes on to write in his report that
the 6’ 165 pound Kozacenko was “actively resisting ” and “exhibited
extraordinary strength” in refusing to be detained. “It was not a
standard arrest,” the officer stated on the witness stand, even with the
help of his 190-pound fellow CHP officer Sherman on the scene with
Murrill.
Suspend for the moment the concern over the
absence of any cause for a citation, no less an arrest, and focus on
the "extraordinary strength" used to prevent the arrest. Note that the
word "lawful" doesn't precede arrest, but that's just for accuracy's
sake.
“He’s punched, his arm is broken, they’re on top of him face
down, his ribs (are) fractured ,” said Katz. “They’re cutting off the
oxygen for a significant period of time, they’re trying to use a taser
on him.”
Is that it, you wonder? Well, no. That's not it.
...the truck driver suffered life-threatening injuries
including a crushed left orbital eye socket, multiple facial fractures, a
broken left arm, a concussion, unconsciousness and possible
neurological damage.
Medical records also show that he apparently
stopped breathing while lying out on the highway and had to be rushed
to Auburn Faith Hospital. But Kozacenko’s injuries were too severe for
that hospital’s emergency room and he had to be transported to UC Davis
Medical Center in Sacramento.
All for being sleepy, if only
because of a mistaken reading of his log book by a cop who admittedly
is clueless? Of course not, as the excuses mount:
In addition to being cited by officer Murrill for driving
over hours, Kozacenko was written up for DUI. However, that citation
was also dropped (along with the driving too many hours charge) when
Kozacenko’s blood alcohol came back clean at 0.00%.
After
all, it never hurts to throw in a DUI just in case, because after a
horrifically severe beating, it's best to be able to explain that he was
a drunk driver. Everyone hates a drunk driver, and is sure that he got
what's coming to him. And in the immediate aftermath of a beating, the
only spokesman on camera is paid by the police to tell the story of the
how the CHP stopped a drunken potential killer on the road.
After
all charges were dropped, after the explanations made by Murrill for
the outrageous beating and harm done by two burly cops to this guy who
drives a truck were laughed at, after the excuses were rejected and
ridiculed, one might reasonably wonder what became of Murrill and
Sherman.
Acting Chief Ken Hill oversees the CHP Valley
Division, which includes the CHP Gold Run office where Murrill still
works. Hill told NBC Bay Area he could not address the specifics of the
case because of pending litigation, but assured that he reviews every
incident where force is used by one of his officers including
Kozacenko’s incident.
“It was not something that jumped out at me being ‘oh my gosh,’ we have some serious issues here,” Hill told NBC Bay Area.
But being a helpful sort, Acting Chief Hill offered these concluding words of wisdom.
“The public if they get stopped and simply comply with what
they are asked to do, they have nothing to fear, nothing to fear at all.
It is when a citizen decides to disregard the direction that they are
given, and they decide to do something different, then things escalate,
and I’m not talking about this case specifically, but sometimes a
citizen will do things that causes us to escalate our actions,” Hill
said.
Or to put it another way, do what we tell you or you'll end up like Olegs Kozancenko.
Woman’s run-in with San Antonio Park Police caught on camera
Five days after an incident with San Antonio Park Police, Christina
Oliver’s face and body show a Fiesta celebration gone horribly wrong. view full article
San
Antonio Park police violently beat a woman who had walked into the
wrong room at a gas station, then arrested her brother for trying to
video record the altercation.
They also deleted the footage from her brother’s camera while charging the woman with felony assault on a peace officer.
But her brother managed to recover the footage that contradicts the police version of the story.
Christina Oliver, who ended up with a broken nose and black eye, told her story to KENS 5:
Oliver
had stopped to use the restroom inside a inside a Shell Gas Station
late Saturday night on the her way home from celebrating Fiesta
downtown. She said she accidentally walked into a stock room at the back
of the store instead.
“When I realized it was for employees, I came back into the store,” Oliver said.
When she walked out, two Park Police officers confronted her and asked if she had stolen any items from the store.
According
to a San Antonio police report, Oliver used a closed fist to punch one
of the officers in the throat. It’s a detail Oliver vehemently denies.
“He punched me first,” she said. “He punched me in the eye.”
A witness who doesn’t appear to be related to Oliver left the following comment on the KENS 5 story:
A can of tea can apparently land you in the can Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
May 2, 2013
A recent YouTube video captured an overzealous security guard
accusing a 24-year-old man of drinking alcohol in the parking lot of a
liquor store, and then subsequently arresting him. The kicker, of
course, was that the 24-year-old was only drinking Arizona brand Half
and Half Iced Tea. Warning, video contains strong language
As rapper Xstrav
(Xstravagant), AKA Christopher Beatty, and his friend Tony Brown waited
for their friend in the parking lot of the Cumberland County ABC Liquor
Store in Fayetteville, North Carolina, an alleged plainclothes officer
walked up to them demanding to know what Beatty was drinking.
Naturally, Beatty was taken aback by the seemingly normal man
approaching him and asking to inspect his drink. He held the can at
arm’s length, allowing the man, who merely identified himself as
“police” verbally, to read the label, but refused to allow the strange
man to hold (or sip) the drink.
The man, professing to be a police officer, next asks Beatty to leave
the property for trespassing, even though Beatty explained he was there
in the parking lot waiting to make a future purchase.
The video clearly shows the supposed undercover officer did not
immediately identify himself as a policeman before he began questioning
Beatty, and only quickly flashes what may be a badge three seconds
before he demands the man put his hands on the trunk of his own car.
Without reading him his rights or divulging the charge for which he
was making the arrest, the security guard begins handcuffing Beatty in
the parking lot, while another seemingly drunk man wanders around the
parking lot violating the well-known law of public intoxication.
According to LatinRapper,
YouTube and Reddit users began suspecting the encounter was staged, but
a second YouTube upload leaves little doubt that the incident is
authentic.
A quick check on the North Carolina Court System website also shows Beatty was charged with trespassing and resisting a public officer.
Hopefully, thanks to his friend filming the event, Beatty will have
the evidence he needs to have his charges dismissed as the officer, if
it turns out he actually is one, clearly had no initial probable cause
to begin harassing him.
This article was posted: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 2:18 pm
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