Man shot dead in scuffle with NYC cop on his stoop
• APA man who told an undercover policeman to get off his family's stoop punched the officer and struggled over the officer's gun before being shot dead, police said.
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Gay couple detained in Mormon plaza after kiss
• SalonThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that the men
became argumentative and refused to leave after being asked to stop
their "inappropriate behavior." The men say they were targeted because
they are gay.
Three Officers and Woman Hit by Gunfire Aimed at Dog
• NY TimesThe woman who let the dog out was arrested. The dog died in the [police] shooting.
Mr. Browne said the police found five other people in the apartment but no gun. He said all five were being questioned.
DUI Checkpoint Cop Fabricates Probable Cause
• YouTube VideoWe are approaching a time in our country where people are
detained and forced to take chemical tests because they refuse to
answer police questions. This officer lied about smelling alcohol and
seeing red and watery eyes. He did this to compel a breathalyzer while
refusing to allow a blood test as required by law.
Police Taser Pastor 'Helping' Driver in Traffic Stop
• APPolice used a Taser on a pastor and
pepper spray to disperse his congregants after the pastor
allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot.
Tape of Alleged Assault on Officer Reviewed
• Washington PostPrince George's County police are reviewing the actions of an officer
who arrested a motorist on charges of slugging and tackling him during
a traffic stop. A police video shows the officer yanking the man out of his car, slugging him
twice and tackling him.
Police raid at gay club in Texas stirs ugly memories
• LA TimesCamp remembered looking across the bar, packed with gay and some straight couples, and marveling how much times had changed since Stonewall -- the spark that ignited the gay rights movement. And then the police came.
Officer claims retaliation for blowing whistle on SWAT team
• KVALA Eugene police officer says he was pulled from K-9 duty in retaliation
for blowing the whistle on how the SWAT team used firearms -- use that
the officer said put officers and the public in "extreme danger."
Dell launches digital forensics service for police
• Reuters[Governments] remotely accessing criminal evidence in parallel from such datacenters could gain a crucial time advantage, for example when legally constrained as to how long they could hold terrorism suspects without evidence.
LAPD: No Officers Fired for May Day Rally Beatings
• APOfficials say none of the Los Angeles police officers who pummeled
protesters with batons and opened fire with rubber bullets at a 2007
pro-immigration rally will be fired.
Lawsuits Filed After Individuals Wrongly Suspected/Convicted Based On False Dog Alerts
• USA TodayTwo federal lawsuits are casting a harsh spotlight on an investigative tool long beloved by American law enforcement: a bloodhound's nose.
Much like in traditional lineups, the dogs (allegedly) link human scents left at crime scenes to samples from suspects.
In each case, the suits allege, Pikett's dogs called attention to the wrong person. Both former suspects have been cleared.
A Tale of Two Killings
• Skip OlivaLet's consider two cases. In the first case, a driver with an elevated
blood-alcohol level accidentally strikes and kills a pedestrian who was
jaywalking. The driver enters a guilty plea for manslaughter and
receives a sentence of 30 days in jail, two years house arrest, 1,000
hours of community service, eight years probation, and permanent
revocation of his driver's license. The driver also reaches a financial
settlement with the victim's family.
Washington Officer Indicted in Man's Death
• Officer.comA police officer was indicted on federal civil rights charges over a fatal confrontation with a developmentally disabled man who was struck and Tasered in 2006 at a Spokane, Wash., convenience store.
Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number
• Blog of BileThe Guardian has obtained this police footage of Emily Apple and Val
Swain being arrested by surveillance officers after asking for their
badge numbers at the Kingsnorth climate camp last year. The two women
speak to Paul Lewis about their arrest, imprisonment and official
complaint.
The Police Beat
• RadGeek[#3 my favorite] Common ground. Chicago, Illinois; London, England; Tehran, Iran; and Ramat Gan, Israel. It turns out there’s one thing the governments in Iran, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S.A. can all agree on: massive police brutality against political protesters.
No jail time for cop who pummeled bartender
• WGN-ChicagoA Chicago police officer avoided jail time today for pummeling a woman who was tending bar, even though prosecutors produced a previously unseen video showing him beating someone else at the bar hours earlier. Anthony Abbate was sentenced to two years probation for beating Karolina Obrycka in February of 2007. He could have gotten up to five years for the attack, which was captured by the bar's security camera and shown around the world.
Prince George’s Co. Sheriff’s Dept. Clears Its Officers of Wrongdoing in Cheye Calvo Raid
• The AgitatorPolice and county officials have since admitted that Calvo and his
family are innocent. But they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge any
wrongdoing, such as not doing the least bit of investigation before
sending the SWAT team to take down Calvo’s door, not knocking and
announcing before entering, or slaughtering Calvo’s two Labrador
retrievers.
Report: DHS to end use of satellites for domestic spying
• Raw StoryDepartment of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano plans to end domestic law enforcement’s access to spy satellites, a government source told the Associated Press on Monday night.
UAVs for Airborne Law Enforcement
• Officer.com[I love this quote!]: "If you are Joe Citizen, you can go down to the hobby store and buy a remote control airplane that you can fly in a park. But if you put a police uniform on, the feds want to step in and get in the way," he said.
Facebook Postings Cost Indiana Trooper
• Officer.comINDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana state trooper has resigned following an investigation into postings on a social networking Web site in which he referred to himself as a "garbage man," called those he arrests "trash" and bragged about heavy drinking.
Federal Gun Police Visiting Homes of Gun-Owners in SouthWest, asking "May we look at your guns?
• NRA
NRA-ILA has recently received several calls from NRA members in
border states who have been visited or called by agents of the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In some cases, agents
have asked to enter these people's homes, and requested serial numbers
of all firearms the members possess.
In each case, the agents
were making inquiries based on the number of firearms these NRA members
had recently bought, and in some cases the agents said they were asking
because the members had bought types of guns that are frequently
recovered in Mexico.
Some of the agents have used heavy-handed tactics.
New secret MI5 “North” operations center location leaked
• WikileaksThis document has evidence that the new secret MI5 “North” operations centre is located at Park 66, Pilsworth Road, Bury, Lancashire.
Running the Gauntlet
• Tucson WeeklyCall it déjà vu all over again.
It was Dec. 20, 2008, and Terry Bressi found himself idling through a remote Border Patrol checkpoint on State 86. He was simply returning from his job at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, on the Tohono O'odham Reservation west of Tucson. But minutes later, he possessed a newly minted citation for impeding traffic. One might be forgiven for assuming that traffic impediment is the actual purpose of these checkpoints, which are popping up with increasing regularity across the Southwest. But when it comes to Terry Bressi, the Border Patrol and the Tohono O'odham Police Department have a little score to settle.
Cop pulls gun on slow McDonald's workers
• CBS-4 Denver TVA Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing
his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too
long to fill.
Mass. Police Gets Grenade Launchers . Federal program donates surplus weapons
• WWLPThis is insane!!I don’t trust these assclowns with Tazers & you’re gonna give them grenade launchers?
UK police probed after video shows repeated Tasering of suspect
• RawstoryThe British Independent Police Complaints Commission said it will investigate complaints of brutality after several officers were filmed punching and using a Taser multiple times on a man who was on the ground and appeared to be compliant.
The incident, captured early morning outside a Nottinghamshire nightclub, was given to a local radio station and published to YouTube.
Attorney defends trooper in Okla. ambulance stop
• APBothered that an ambulance driver failed to yield to him as he raced to provide backup on a call [first lie] — and angered further when he thought the driver flipped him an obscene gesture — state Trooper Daniel Martin decided [later] to stop the ambulance and give the driver a piece of his mind.
What Martin didn't know then, his lawyer said Monday, was that there was a patient in the back of the ambulance.
Card fraud probe targets 300 detectives
• GuardianMore than 300 elite Scotland Yard detectives are suspected of defrauding the taxpayer of million of pounds by abusing their corporate credit cards, the Observer can disclose. Auditors who have examined the American Express accounts of 3,500 officers
Police K9 Handler Fabricated False Dog Alerts To Get Convictions
• The AgitatorPolice and prosecutors were apparently convicting people of violent crimes based almost exclusively on the “testimony” of a police dog whose handler claimed has extraordinary powers. Judges and juries apparently bought this crap for years. It finally came to an end when Judge Gilbert Goshorn ordered the dog to perform a basic tracking test after Preston claimed the dog had alerted to a suspect’s scent at a crime scene six months after the murder. The dog failed.
Officer gets 40 months after beating 60-year-old man in wheelchair
• RawstoryA Chicago police officer has been sentenced to 40 months in federal
prison for beating a 60 year old man who was handcuffed and shackled to
a hospital emergency room wheelchair.
Randy Miles had been brought in drunk and with stab wounds when Officer William Cozzi was called to investigate. In an attack that was caught on videotape, Cozzi shackled Miles and hit him eleven times with a sap. Cozzi then claimed that Miles had attacked him and even had him charged with resisting arrest before the existence of the videotape became known.
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