Gangsters in Blue

MAN WITH BADGE: “Why are you not coming out?”
MAN FILMING IN HOUSE: “Because we don’t live in a police state sir!”

Cotati residents – are you happy with this level of “service” provided?

Cotati Police Department
(707) 792-4611
http://www.ci.cotati.ca.us/sections/police

RAW VIDEO: http://liveleak.com/view?i=8ed_1368536550

Thanks to my bud, Keene-based activist Jason Repsher for putting this on my radar.

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AZ: 13-2904 a 1 Disorderly conduct; classification

TX: TITLE 9 CHAPTER 42 Sec. 42.01.

CAL. PEN. CODE § 647 : California Code – Section 647

New York Penal – Article 240 – § 240.20 Disorderly Conduct

Title 2C The New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice – 2C:33-2 Disorderly conduct

Julio case: http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/…

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In an incident reminiscent of the Kelly Thomas tragedy, an unarmed Bakersfield man was killed during an attempted arrest by local law enforcement.

Kern County Sheriff’s deputies were investigating David Sal Silva for public intoxication. In total, nine officers of the Kern County Sheriff’s department and the California Highway Patrol beat Silva to death, as they claimed he resisted arrest. Several witnesses apparently captured footage of the beating on their cell phones. But, the cell phones were confiscated by deputies as evidence.

The Kern County Sheriff’s department released the following names of involved officers:

Ryan Greer
Tanner Miller
Jeffrey Kelly
Luis Almanza
Brian Brock
David Stephens

The CHP has not released the names of its officers involved in the arrest. More details here.

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Cop Block reader D. Thompson reports that he was approached by an Agent Schmidt (badge #1014) of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office while he was in a doctor’s office. Agent Schmidt told Mr. Thompson that he was investigating some sort of red flag in the state’s prescription drug monitoring system, and that apparently he’d visited the physicians of record, and had already swindled (or blackmailed?) them into disclosing what Mr. Thompson would think should be HIPAA-protected health records. Mr. Thompson doubts any warrant was issued for obtaining any records.

Agent Schmidt then purportedly offered to take a cash payment in exchange for telling his office that there was nothing to investigate and to (supposedly) make the case go away. Mr. Thompson advised the agent that he had no interest in paying him cash in exchange for his “service.” Schmidt then told Thompson that he was “an asshole” and that Thompson would be prosecuted for obtaining prescription medications from two providers at the same physician’s office.

In a time where the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, mostly over drugs, this is disturbing to say the least. There have already been numerous crackdowns on medical marijuana patients and dispensaries. People continue to have their lives senselessly inconvenienced or destroyed over the war on drugs, and now the police are seeking to crack down even on legal drugs.

The intrusion, or even worse, mutual partnership, of law enforcement with healthcare is utterly atrocious. This is not only a moral abomination – the entanglement of government officials, bureaucracy, and violent enforcement, with that of private medical decisions and healthcare essentially amounts to fascism. The reality is that although HIPAA purports to protect patient “privacy,” and warrants are “required” for certain investigations, there are various systems currently in place that record and compile data regarding people’s prescription medications, so that when certain parameters are met, or “red flags” are triggered such as in this case, law enforcement can either crack down on physicians, or their patients.  The DEA and various federal enforcement agencies pressure, or even force physicians to monitor, and essentially criminalize their own patients.

Drug addicts are jailed instead of rehabilitated. Women have had their children seized for eating poppy seed bagels and refusing certain surgical procedures. William Reddie was shot and killed over an incident wherein CPS tried to take his son away over a marijuana incident.

Anna and Alex Nikolayev of California recently had their infant seized by Child Protective Services, purportedly because they sought to obtain a second medical opinion on their son’s condition. The police showed up at their door and smacked Mr. Nikolayev to the ground. Mr. Nikolayev is originally from Russia, and noted that the ridiculous situation reminded him of a “communist regime.”

Such drastic and violent measures cannot even remotely be said to be in furtherance of anyone’s safety. Having no mother is not safer, or better for a child than having a mother who eats poppy seed bagels. Having no mother is not safer, or better, than having a mother who does not wish to preemptively consent to unnecessary medical procedures. Having a dead father is not safer, or better than having a father who smokes pot occasionally. Having no parents is not better than having parents who (god forbid) are frustrated with the level of care being provided, and wish to seek a second medical opinion.

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This is not a Rodney King level event: the torture is short duration and low level. But the perpetrator is a Captain of the Sheriff Department of one of the most corrupt counties in all California in league with those most corrupt around the nation.

Dirt Bike Rider Jason Allen Arrona “hard braked” his motorcycle as soon as he realized the people standing on the side of the road were Sheriff personnel. He overbraked the front wheel as he attempted to avoid them and ended up crashing his bike and rotating the bike 180 degrees to rest pointing towards the path he traveled.

Arrona was arrested and tortured on the scene March 13, 2013 by Yucca Valley Police (Sheriff) Captain Richard Boswell as Yucca Valley Lt. Brad Toms restrained Arrona. (Notably, Lt. Toms may not have been aware of the worst arm wrenching as he was looking North when that occurred.

I. INDEPENDENT EYEWITNESS STATEMENTS CONTRADICT ALLEGATIONS BY CAPTAIN BOSWELL

Eyewitness Robert Dean Nelson states adamantly that Jason Allen Arrona was never in proximity to any person until he had fallen off his “dirt bike” motorcycle near Captain Boswell.

Nelson also states Arrona did not assault or batter anyone and that he told a short Deputy as such at the scene during an interview of witnesses.

Robert Dean Nelson’s letter to the editor of the Hi-Desert Star newspaper posted to its website on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:15 pm, and published in the April 17, 2013 print edition states:

“I want to be sure that the Town Council is aware of the events that occurred when Mr. Nuaimi, the deputy town manager, captain and lieutenant visited me to discuss the very dangerous traffic on my road, especially:

• The claim by the captain that an off-roader assaulted him that day in front of my home. (The off-roader was charged and convicted of battery on a police officer.)

• The fact that, as a witness, I was asked for a statement and because I did not support the claim that there was an assault, I was berated by the captain and then harassed and intimidated by the captain because I had recorded portions of the incident.”

http://www.hidesertstar.com/opinion/article_282f43d6-a726-11e2-9e9e-0019bb2963f4.html

II. EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE UNDISCLOSED BY PROSECUTION

Video:

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Linda Lee Drive — 3/13/2013 — #1 < —— Boswell grabs hair, yanks head, slams head to ground, then wrenches victims arm. Victim is at all times restrained and and compliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1HWSdRQmHE

See preliminary analysis of video #1 below.

Furthermore, the video is complete unto itself and no contextualization of the events is needed to conclude that it depicts torture.  It is simply irrelevant what occurred leading up to this sequence, and it is irrelevant what Arrona did to cause the officers to touch him.

Nothing that could have happened before the first frame of this video can excuse or warrant Boswell’s actions seen on the video clip.

While Captain Boswell is heard shouting “you assaulted me, you idiot”  the videographer adamantly states and has published a Letter to the Editor (http://www.hidesertstar.com/opinion/article_282f43d6-a726-11e2-9e9e-0019bb2963f4.html) stating that no assault occurred. He also states the arrestee was not near the officers before they pounced on him and committed no action of assault whatsoever.

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Linda Lee Drive — 3-13-2013 — #2 <—- Captain  Boswell harassing Robert Dean Nelson for recording audio and video of event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux5Yw2N1p_8

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Linda Lee Drive — 3/13/2013 — #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZIQ3ZLDxnA

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#4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGeBR2fJfXg

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#5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezz9e0wEUPo

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#6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j-G3kwVqqw

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#7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8KzBeSNOU

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#8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7emPLejLD0

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#9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Vtx_u-vbw

III. PARTIAL ANALYSIS OF VIDEO #1

Video Frame rate is reported by the viewing application to be 30 Frames per second but that has not been verified by independent instrument. The capture camera is not known nor examined. Processing and enhancement of audio and video is not complete at the time of this report.

CONTEXT BEFORE VIDEO FIRST FRAME:

1. According to eyewitness and videographer Robert Dean Nelson: a) Jason Arrona rode north on his motorcycle on dirt road Linda Lee Avenue, Yucca Valley, CA at about 3:45 PM March 13, 2013. b) When Arrona was first seen the following people were standing on the side of Linda Lee: Robert Dean Nelson, Captain Richard Boswell, Lt. Toms, Town Manager Mark Nuaimi, and Deputy Town Manager Shane Stueckle.

2. Hearsay accounts conflict as to what next occurred. (As to reading the video, they are irrelevant.)

News reports indicate Mr. Arrona attempted to use his motorcycle to run over “a deputy”. Mr. Arrona was charged with battery on a police officer and after 28 days in isolated confinement pled guilty. However, Arrona was not aware videos existed, and he did not see an attorney until a plea deal was offered upon arrival at court.

Mr. Nelson has stated no such assault or battery occurred, that he witnessed the entire event and had clear vision, and that Mr. Arrona nor his motorcycle were anywhere near anyone before the Yucca Valley police pounced on Arrona after Arrona had fallen off his dirt bike and was on the ground.

3. Mr. Nelson claims Arrona lost control of his motorcycle, then fell off and hit the ground hard.

START OF VIDEO:

4. Jason Arrona is face down on the unpaved ground.

5. A “dirt bike” style motorcycle lays about 6 to 10 feet farther away than is Arrona.

6. Arrona is motionless. Neither his legs nor arms nor head are moving.

7. Lt. Toms’ has his knee and left hand on Arrona’s back.

8. Captain Boswell’s left forearm is definitely vertical and at Arrona’s mid-back.

9. The perspective of the camera is such that at the start of the video, Boswell’s left arm is occluded from view by Boswell’s left leg. Nevertheless, a white mass consistent with Boswell’s left hand is visible directly vertically below Boswell’s left knee. (Preliminary analysis suggests this white mass is Boswell’s hand grasping Arrona’s right hand but more thorough processing is needed to be certain.)

10.

11. Captain Boswell’s right hand is used to reach for and grasp Arrona’s hair.

12. (T 00:00:66 ) Boswell uses that grasp on the hair to yank Arrona’s head up, thus flexing Arrona’s neck.

13. (T 00:00:93) Apex of first lift of Arrona’s head.

14. Boswell then with a jerking motioning pushes Arrona’s head toward the dirt ground. (The unenhanced image of Arrona’s head bouncing does not allow a conclusion that Arrona’s head actually hits the ground, however, see following paragraphs about the simultaneous movement of Arrona’s leg and foot at this moment.)

AFTER ONE SECOND OF VIDEO:

15. (T 00:01:03 ) Downward motion of Arrona’s head stops. Mostly likely Arrona’s face impacted the ground. Boswell’s shoving of Arrona’s head causes Arrona’s head to either impact the ground or Boswell begins to yank the head up again.

16. (T 00:01.13) About 2 frames probably less than 1/15th of a second after the first shove of the head towards the ground, Arrona’s left foot and leg start to move and then (T 00:01.16) Arrona lifts his left foot and the left shoetoe off the ground and upward no more than 6 inches.

17. (T 00:01:20) Lt. Toms’ lifts his left hand off Arrona to retrieve his cell phone to make a call. (He later contacts “Beverly”. Notably, it appears Lt. Toms is looking at the ground in front of him and then looking North into the distance as Captain Boswell continues to bash Arronas head and wrenching Arrona’s arm. Lt. Toms’ likely saw the first head bash, but likely did not see the rest of the bashing—he appears concentrated on dialing the phone.

18. (T00:01:62) The audio has not yet been fully processed, so recognition of speech is problematic. However Arrona appears to utter “XXX idea”, probably “No idea” or “I had no idea”.

19. (T 00:01:82) Boswell utters, “XXX assaulted me you idiot”, probably “You just assaulted me you idiot”.

20. (T 00:01.46) Just after the fastest pushing of Arrona’s head and within 1/30th of second before Arrona’s left toe returns to the ground, a frame shows four significant elements in particular:

a. A fraction of Toms’ left hand (probably knuckles) near Arrona’s midback (it is the whitish mass just left of Boswell’s left knee joint)

b. Toms’ right hand located in the “flattened” 2 dimensional image just below Boswell’s testicles (but in fact Toms’ hand is about 30 inches farther away from the camera than is Boswell’s crotch.),

c. Boswell’s right hand grasping Arrona’s hair, and,

d. likely Boswell’s left hand grasping Arrona’s right hand

21. (Conclusion: Arrona’s leg jerk is a reaction to the pain of having his head strike the ground.)

22. Lt. Toms’ has his knee and right hand on Arrona’s back.

23. Boswell then releases Arrona’s hair.

AFTER SECOND FOUR

24. Boswell’s right hand is then used to reach back and grab Arrona’s right wrist which was near Arrona’s mid-back.

25.

26. When Boswell’s grasp on Arrona’s right wrist is firm, Boswell then pulls Arrona’s right arm UP high and TOWARDS Arrona’s head, thereby maximizing torsion between Arrona’s arm humerus and scapula of his shoulder.

27.

28. (T00:05.00) Arrona’s right chest begins to separate from the ground as Boswell apparently lifts Arrona’s humerus vectoring towards zenith.

29. (T 00:05.01-2) Arrona’s starts to move his legs,

30. (T 00.05.10) At the very moment of maximum torsion, Arrona starts to lift both legs high into the air.

31. (T 00:05.26) Both shoetoes are off the ground vectoring upward. His legs start to flay about.

32. (T 00:05.30) Arrona yelps as if in pain and continues yelping.

IV. COMMENT ABOUT ACTIONS IN VIDEO

Throughout the video #1 sequence, Jason Allen Arrona is restrained, compliant, and does not move except at the points in time that Captain Boswell is forcibly manipulating Arrona’s head and neck, and Arrona’s arm in such a way as the preponderance of the evidence shows would cause Arrona great pain and bodily injury.

Nothing occurring before the capture of the first frame of this video justifies Captain Boswell’s use of force to bang Arrona’s head into the ground and then wrench his arm at 90 degrees to Arrona’s prone and compliant body behind Arrona’s back.

If Captain Boswell’s actions depicted in the video do not vault above the thresholds of torture as defined by California’s Torture Penal Code 206, they certainly meet the plain English definition of torture. It is also abuse of police authority which while it does not reach the levels of a “Rodney King” incident nevertheless are not to be tolerated by Yucca Valley, San Bernardino County, California, and the United States of America.

Thus Captain Boswell’s testimony about the matter of the allegation of battery by Arrona is not credible and Mr. Arrona should be offered a chance to change his plea after a full investigation of the matter in order to obtain a new trial.

 

 

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Incident Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013

Heading home after dropping my son off at my mother’s house, I saw an Anaheim PD Officer driving casually with a Ride-Along on the passenger side. As usual I saw that the officer was not wearing a seatbelt. As petty as it may seem, this is a huge annoyance because as a private citizen, if I am caught without a seatbelt on, the minimum fine in California is $142.00. The police feel as if they are exempt from traffic law, even if there is no emergency. So, being the loudmouth that I am, I rolled down my window as I passed him and rather gently notified him that he was not wearing a seatbelt. He drove up ahead and started looking at me and my vehicle through his driver side mirror. Knowing that the courts had recently learned that vulgar language and signals are covered under the First Amendment, I gladly gave him the middle finger. Unfortunately for me, I was driving my girlfriend’s Mazda 3, which came with no placard to place a front license plate, and she had never installed one. The officer slowed down and pulled up behind me and signaled to pull over.
I pulled around on to a corner where we would all be safe, rather than on the side of the road during peak traffic hours, locked my doors, cracked the window a few inches and began recording with my cell phone. The officer walked up and immediately demanded for papers. As soon as he finished I asked for a badge number (#184) and the reason for the stop. I was a bit confused when he told me there was no front license plate, but soon realized that my girlfriend had never installed it (super face palm).

I supplied the officer with my driver’s license, but could not find the registration. At this point the officer had asked me to put my phone down (I assume to stop the recording), and to further roll my window down, which I gave immediate refusal and stated that it was because I did not trust him. This bothered him enough to begin ordering me out of the vehicle, which I also initially refused. The officer made an attempt to open my vehicle door, but it had been locked, (I learned this lesson from another officer in the past).
The officer then began stating that if I did not get out of the vehicle I would be going to jail, without stating what the charge would be.

At this point I requested a supervisor and the officer called for both backup and a supervisor. Since I was on my way to a date with my lady, I decided I’d rather go home than be jailed for a license plate violation. I stepped out of the car and immediately stated that I do not consent to searches. At this point the officer was aggressive and hostile, probably because I called him a piece of shit for ordering me out of my vehicle under threat of kidnap and caging.

I stepped out of my vehicle and tried to shut my door, and the officer became pretty agitated. I was frisked for weapons without my consent, and had my phone taken from me and placed on the top of the car. Luckily it recorded most of the audio, though some of it is not clear.

From here on out I refused to answer questions or consent to any searches. I told the officer that I was not afraid of him. Soon after, I found myself surrounded by 4 Anaheim PD officers; one of them left since he wasn’t needed. Shortly after, the supervisor showed up. I had requested his presence while I was being ordered out of my vehicle, but he showed up a bit too late. I refused any conversation with him which apparently pissed him off enough to start badgering me and even go so far as to threaten me with psychological evaluation, an attempt to intimidate me into answering more questions about my personal life, such as if I work, where I work, etc. The supervisor then began searching my vehicle for the registration, for which I did not give consent – but apparently no consent is needed when searching for certain documents. I should have locked my car. The officer soon found the registration and my license was checked for warrants – of course I had none. The officer gave me the license plate ticket and also admitted that the stop was retaliation for flipping him off. The officer told me to have a great day and I proudly responded with a nice loud, “Go Fuck Yourself.”

VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXphA1tH5kE

Anaheim Police Department
200 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, CA 92805
(714) 765-4311

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**NOTE THIS VIDEO IS QUITE GRAPHIC**  

Before making any “declarative statements” I would ask that you take a look at the DA’s Full Report, and validate the gravity of this video.

Attorney John Burris released a video showing the shooting of Ernest Duenez Jr. by Manteca PD Officer John Moody on December 12, a day after the San Joaquin District Attorney’s Office cleared Moody of any wrongdoing in the June 2011 incident.

According to the District Attorney’s report, Duenez, who was being sought for a parole violation and an earlier domestic disturbance call, brandished a knife as he exited a truck despite orders not to move. Moody fired 13 rounds in 4.2 seconds, striking Duenez several times. Duenez’s wife can be seen coming out of the house and screaming after her husband is shot.

Burris believes that Duenez, who was caught in the truck’s seatbelt, was not holding any weapons or moving aggressively. He has asked the U.S. Justice Department to look into the case and to file murder charges against Moody.

FOX 40 NEWS FOLLOWUP – VIDEO(S)

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From ABC7-KGO San Francisco

VALLEJO, Calif. (KGO) — The ABC7 News I-Team has uncovered a new complaint of excessive force against Vallejo police — the incident, caught on camera. The department is already reeling after a violent year, including six people shot and killed by officers.

The more I dig, the more questions I have. This story began when a package arrived in the mail from someone inside the department. It was a DVD, a police report, and a letter complaining about a “cowboy attitude” by officers and command staff.

Imagine you’re a police officer on patrol. It’s a warm summer day when the call comes in — a 22-year-old complaining his roommates beat him up and kicked him out of the apartment.    Read More…

 

Feel free to Contact Vallejo PD at their non ER number

Non-Emergencies
(707) 648-4321

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There was more news released today on the police-on-police manhunt in Los Angeles, and the out-of-control police violence and jumping-the-gun overkill shootings in Torrance, California, which I mentioned previously the other day Now it turns out that they lit up not just one completely innocent pick-up driver, but two. Emphasis added.

David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way.

Seconds later, Perdue’s attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.

His pickup, police later explained, matched the description of the one belonging to Christopher Jordan Dorner — the ex-cop who has evaded authorities after allegedly killing three and wounding two more. But the pickups were different makes and colors. And Perdue looks nothing like Dorner: He’s several inches shorter and about a hundred pounds lighter. And Perdue is white; Dorner is black. . . .

The incident involving Perdue was the second time police looking for the fugitive former LAPD officer opened fire on someone else. . . . Torrance police said the officers who slammed into Perdue were responding to shots fired moments earlier in a nearby area in a nearby area where LAPD officers were standing guard outside the home of someone targeted in an online manifesto that authorities have attributed to Dorner.^[1]

In the first incident, LAPD officers opened fire on another pickup they feared was being driven by Dorner. The mother and daughter inside the truck were delivering Los Angeles Times newspapers. The older woman was shot twice in the back and the other was wounded by broken glass.

In Perdue’s case, his attorney said he wasn’t struck by bullets or glass but was injured in the car wreck, suffering a concussion and an injury to his shoulder. The LAX baggage handler hasn’t been able to work since, and his car is totaled, Sheahen said. . . . According to the police department, Perdue’s car was headed directly for one of their patrol vehicles and appeared not to be yielding. When the vehicles collided, Perdue’s air bag went off, blocking the view of the driver, and one officer fired three rounds.

— Robert Faturechi and Matt Stevens, Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second case of mistaken identity, Los Angeles Times (February 9, 2013)

Do you feel safer now?

Mostly, this is just horrible and I hope that my friends in Southern California are staying safe. Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney, was consulted by the authors of the L.A. Times article, but what they chose to print from her statement was not anything having to do with civil rights; it was They [government police] don’t know where he is, and they’re going to be edgy and jumpy . . . Don’t get in their way. They’re in a special state of consciousness right now, and they’re not used to being hunted. I don’t know how much talk about civil rights issues in this homicidal police rampage was edited down to get that pull-quote, so I don’t want to blame Connie Rice for anything if this was taken out of context by the reporters. However, I will say that while it may be sensible practical advice to tell folks to stay away from the cops right now — while they are acting like twitchy, homicidal maniacs, and shooting literally anybody who moves the wrong way — it’s not clear how this advice is supposed to help someone like David Perdue. After all he didn’t get in [the police’s] way; they rammed his truck from behind. And if the attitude you have to take towards government police right now, even when they don’t come right after you for driving down a residential street, is essentially to treat them like mad dogs and do anything you can to keep a safe distance from them, what does that tell you about policing?

Government police are immensely politically and socially privileged, and they constantly demand extraordinary legal immunities and social deference. The reason that police use to justify the special powers and immunities that they get relative to the rest of the population is, in their constant refrain, that they’re putting their own lives on the line, supposedly for our safety. Actually, what constantly happens, and what is happening right now in Southern California, is that police jump on guesses, shoot first and ask questions later, and rely on boss cops and city lawyers to make up excuses for any mistake or any aubse, and so to protect them from any legal consequences whatever for when they attack, hurt or kill unarmed, defenseless or completely innocent people. As a result, when the chips are down, what happens, over and over again, is that police put our lives on the line, in order to protect their own safety, and their political privileges and legal immunities ensure that they will never be held accountable for whatever they do to us in the process.

Government police are one of the greatest menaces to public safety in the United States.

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Also.

• GT 2013-02-09: Public Safety
• GT 2009-09-04: 59 shots
• GT 2010-08-20: Your authorization says shoot your nation
• GT 2008-02-18: Cops are here to protect you.
• GT 2009-01-12: Cops are here to protect you. (#8)

1. ^[1] The jumbled grammar here — which, like most writing that was copied more or less directly from cop-speak, is full of passive constructions, lost subjects, rhetorical misdirection fractured causation, and seems more or less entirely calculated to erase the subjects of sentences, in order to ensure maximal obscurity about what police actually chose to do and when they did it — makes it hard to parse out this piece of information. But other reports have made clear that the shots fired moments earlier, which the cops who rammed Perdue’s truck were responding to and which got them afraid, were shots fired by other police officers, specifically the shots fired when LAPD opened up 20-30 rounds on the women in the first pickup truck. So one set of cops is hunting another cop who’s been shooting cops; the first set of cops flies off the handle and lights up the wrong pickup truck; the gunfire from their mistaken-identity overkill shooting frightens another set of cops, and so they flip out, then ram and light up the first pickup truck they see coming. ↩

A Massachusetts cop had his own informal prescription drug take-back program, but that was pretty innocuous compared to some of this week’s other entries. Let’s get to it:

In Somerset, Massachusetts, a Somerset police officer was arrested last Thursday for tricking elderly residents into giving him prescription drugs. Ricardo Pavo went to a senior retirement home asking residents about their emergency contact information, whether they had any guns or vicious dogs, or any unused prescription pills. Residents reported handing over drugs like tramadol and hydrocodone to Pavo, who was caught with the drugs in his patrol vehicle after someone called the police department. He has already been charged, but the local reports don’t make clear exactly what the charge is.

In San Luis Obispo, California, a San Luis Obispo narcotics officer was arrested Tuesday for providing fake pain pills to a snitch in exchange for cash. Corey Pierce, 39, is now charged with bribery. The snitch was going to sell the bogus pills to a third party, who would then peddle them to unwitting customers. The fake pills are often used in drug enforcement operations, the police said. He had been assigned to the California Bureau of Narcotics Task Force until it was dissolved and was a member of the Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit. He has been suspended with pay.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, a former Cherryville narcotics detective pleaded guilty last Thursday to receiving stolen goods, taking bribes, and stealing money. Frankie Dellinger, 41, was one of several men, including three other police officers, caught up in a federal undercover sting. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy, money laundering, and two counts of extortion. No word on how many years he’s facing.

In Atlanta, two former TSA agents were sentenced last Wednesday for a scheme to smuggle drugs through Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Richard Cook, 28, and Timothy Gregory, 26, got 11 years and six years, respectively. They went down in a sting after authorities received information that Cook was willing to be corrupted. Undercover officers posing as Mexican drug cartel representatives met with Cook and provided him with three kilograms of what he thought was heroin and $3,500 in cash in partial payment for his services. After repeated deliveries of fake drugs, Cook enlisted Green, and he similarly ensnared himself.

In Camden, New Jersey, a former Camden narcotics officer was sentenced last Thursday for his role in a corrupt dope squad that has already seen three other officers either convicted or pleading guilty of various charges. Jaston Stetser, 34, admitted to planting drugs on suspects, carrying out illegal searches, and stealing drug money along with the rest of his crooked crew. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive others of their civil rights. The dirty narcs forced prosecutors to dismiss some 200 drug arrests and convictions.

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories is a post from Cop Block - Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights