Don't be too Polite to Cops

According to TheNewspaper: 

On that day, Ohio State Highway patrolman Jared Haslar was running a speed trap on Pearl Road in Strongsville, where the speed limit is 35 MPH. Patrolman Haslar claims his radar gun clocked Fontaine at 45 MPH, so he pulled him over. In the course of the stop, Fontaine cheerfully handed over his license, proof of insurance, and registration. This caused the officer to suspect criminal activity.

“While speaking to Mr. Fontaine I felt that his body language and his behavior was a little bit unusual,” Patrolman Haslar testified. “He was extremely — like almost overly polite, and he was breathing heavily at times while I was talking to him.”

Patrolman Derek Feierabend was called in to bring a drug dog to sniff Fontaine’s car while Patrolman Haslar wrote out a warning for speeding. Fontaine was ordered out of his car and searched for weapons.

Lesson to be learned here, treat cops like the scum they are.  If you're too nice they'll suspect you have something to hide.

Arrested for Waiting for the Bus

According to InfoWars: 

The Edison Tech high school students were on their way to a basketball scrimmage as part of a group of about a dozen teens who had been instructed by their coach to wait for the bus in downtown Rochester.

A Rochester police officer arrived when he saw the group of teens gathered on the sidewalk, and ordered them to disperse. Students attempted in vain to explain they were headed to a basketball game.

“We was just waiting for our bus and he started arrested us,” one of the students who was arrested, Wan’Tauhjs Weathers, 17, described.

“You’re just downtown minding your own business and the next thing you know, anything can happen,” another student who was arrested, Daequon Carelock, 16, explained.

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Scott tried to reason with the officer to no avail. “He goes on to say, ‘If you don’t disperse, you’re going to get booked as well,’” Scott stated. “I said, ‘Sir, I’m the adult. I’m their varsity basketball coach. How can you book me? What am I doing wrong? Matter of fact, what are these guys doing wrong?”

Scott says the officer’s sergeant arrived and proceeded to threaten him with arrest as well.

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“It’s a catastrophe,” Scott says. “These young men were doing nothing wrong, nothing wrong. They did exactly what they were supposed to do and still they get arrested. I’m speaking to the officers with dignity…and still and yet – they see me get treated like nothing.”

The boys were able to make Thanksgiving after their families posted $200 bail, and now await a December 11 court date where they hope the charges will be dropped.

It says alot when the commanding officer in a situation like this just become belligerent and threatening.  No wonder beat cops act the way they do.  These young men were doing nothing wrong yet they were arrested for the crime of disobeying a police officers unreasonable demand, welcome to America. 

Cops Laugh at Mentally Ill

According to the lawsuit, Murphy was fired before over conduct "similar" to that seen in the video, but subsequently rehired. 

According to BoingBoing:

Police and paramedics in Millvale, Pa., were recorded on video laughing as they repeatedly stunned a handcuffed and mentally-ill man as he pounded his head against the side of a desk. The video--predictably--ended up on YouTube, and the police officers involved became targets of an FBI investigation and a federal lawsuit.

Sadly mental illness is one of the last bastions for prejudiced assholes.  Somehow there are still millions of people who will make fun of and abuse the mentally ill.  Race, sex, age, religious belief, all of these attributes are becoming less and less condemned by others.  Yet somehow even police in America are still getting away with treating the mentally ill as lesser than human.  

In a similar story The Young Turks reported on a cop who made a mentally ill man make animal noises, then continued to film the man and laugh at him.  

Cop Rapes Teen

According to RT:

A San Antonio, Texas police officer has been arrested and charged with raping a 19-year-old woman following an early morning traffic stop.

Jackie Len Neal, 40, was arrested on the charge of felony sexual assault on Saturday, November 23. Neal is accused of tailing a woman while on duty around 2 a.m. on Friday, pulling her over, handcuffing her, and raping her in the back of his police vehicle.

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McManus added that this isn’t the first time Neal has been accused of sexual misconduct, and a woman made a similar complaint against the officer years ago. She declined to cooperate with police on an investigation, however, and the case did not move forward.

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According to an arrest warrant affidavit concerning the recent rape charge, Neil told the unnamed woman he was following that he pulled her over because the car she was in had been reported stolen. The woman showed Neil documentation for the vehicle, but he asked her to step outside of the car anyway for a pat down.

Feeling uncomfortable with the situation, the woman reportedly requested a female officer to pat her down. Neil allegedly ignored her request, and instead groped her during the procedure before cuffing her, taking her to his vehicle, and raping her. The affidavit goes on to state that the woman was told not to say anything about the incident.

What always bothers me most about incidents like this is when you hear that the officer or person involved has been accused of similar atrocities in the past.  Yet somehow they were still allowed to keep their position of authority.  While the officer in question is finally being brought to justice, if the department had taken care of him years ago, this would have never happened to begin with.  

Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP; /ˈɛmræp/ em-rap)

Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP; /ˈɛmræp/ em-rap) vehicles are armored fighting vehicles used by various armed forces, whose designed purpose is surviving improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and ambushes. The first development in armored vehicles designed specifically to counter the land mine threat were initiated during the Rhodesian Bush War; existing technology was subsequently inherited (and matured) by the South African Defence Force after 1980.

According to AP:

Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs during the Iraq war.

The hulking vehicles, built for about $500,000 each at the height of the war, are among the biggest pieces of equipment that the Defense Department is giving to law enforcement agencies under a national military surplus program.

For police and sheriff's departments, which have scooped up 165 of the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPS, since they became available this summer, the price and the ability to deliver shock and awe while serving warrants or dealing with hostage standoffs was just too good to pass up.

"It's armored. It's heavy. It's intimidating. And it's free," said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, among five county sheriff's departments and three other police agencies in New York that have taken delivery of an MRAP.

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Others in New York that got big armored trucks included sheriff's departments in Jefferson County, Steuben County and Sullivan County, and police in Nassau County, Plattsburgh and Hamburg Village. Police departments statewide have also acquired almost 150 other trucks and Humvees, a dozen of them armored, over the past two years.

These are all small towns with small problems.  Armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass really have very little place being placed all over the nation like this unless they are expecting something major to occur.  I could understand if they were selling these vehicles but they all seem to be given away by DHS at this point.  Free war machines for your local police...

Teen Spent 3 Years in Rikers Without Ever Being Convicted, Then Suddenly Released

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According to RT:

A young Bronx teenager spent three years in the infamously violent Rikers Island prison complex without ever being convicted of a crime.

Kalief Browder was initially arrested on his way home on May 14, 2010, after an unknown individual identified the teenager, then 16 years old, as the person who robbed him a few weeks prior. Browder was charged with second-degree robbery and, unable to post the $10,000 bail at the time of his arrest, was transferred to Rikers Island.

The case never went to trial, however, and Browder languished at Rikers Island until the charges were dropped without explanation in June 2013.

“No apology, no nothing,” Browder said about his release to local WABC. “They just said, ‘Oh, case dismissed. Don’t worry about nothing.’ What do you mean, ‘Don’t worry about nothing?’ You just took over three years of my life.”

This story is completely out of control.  I can convict some random person on the street of robbing me and have them locked up with no proof?! For three years?!  

America is no longer ruled by law but by bureaucracy, this poor kid got lost in the system because  because of paper work.  Some signature here or stamp there and he could have been free but instead he lost three years of his life to a corrupt plutocracy where laws are pliable from above but set in stone for the little people.  

Felony First Degree Custodial Sexual Misconduct....