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....

€600K fines for Spain's "illegal" Protests

According to The Local:

Unauthorized protesters outside the Spanish Parliament could soon be hit with fines of up to €600,000 ($810,000) while those selling drugs or offering sexual services in front of minors could face a penalty of up to €30,000.

The move is part of a new Citizen Security bill drafted by Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) which is likely to be approved in Parliament on Tuesday.

Social uproar in the form of harassment or insults will result in hefty fines of up to €600,000 if the PP’s parliamentary majority gives the law the green light.

Aside from protesting outside government buildings, other “very serious offences” include publishing images/personal data of policemen online, interrupting public events and carrying out so-called escraches (demonstrations outside the homes and workplaces of political figures).

Offences deemed as “serious” on the new bill include insulting or threatening policemen, offering sexual services close to children’s play areas, possession of illegal drugs (regardless of whether they are for self-consumption), vandalism of public property and open-air drinking sessions known in Spain as botellones.

All these infractions will entail fines of between €1,000 and €30,000.

“We’re not looking to punish more, just to reduce the discretionary margin of illicit conducts and not stumble upon a judicial limbo for ‘new’ acts like the escraches,” Spain’s Huffington Post reported the Interior Ministry as saying.

Escraches were carried out in Spain for the first time in 2013, notably by the country’s anti-evictions lobby the PAH, who targeted politicians in their homes as part of their protest against the repossession of thousands of homes over the last few years. 

I guess America is not the only country trying to subdue and frighten their citizens in to obeying their orders.  

Should Cops Be Required To Wear Video Cameras At All Times When On Duty?

Dad Calls Cops on Son to Teach Him a Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead

"He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him," James said. ""It was over a damn pack of cigarettes."

According to Gawker:

A father's attempt to teach his son a lesson for taking his truck without permission ended in tragedy Monday after a local police officer shot the teenager dead.

James Comstock told the Des Moines Register he called the police on his son Tyler after the latter took the former's truck in retaliation for refusing to buy him cigarettes.

Ames Police Officer Adam McPherson reportedly spotted the lawn care company vehicle and pursued it onto the Iowa State University campus, where a brief standoff ensued after Tyler allegedly refused orders to turn off the engine.

McPherson eventually fired six shots into the truck, two of which struck Tyler who was later pronounced dead.


The official report claims the action was necessary in order "to stop the ongoing threat to the public and the officers."

Ah, America.  Where police officers are not given a lick of training in how to diffuse dangerous situations, they are just given a gun and the okay to shoot to kill.  Please dear lord, never call the police to teach your kid a lesson.  This story is a very good peak in to what will happen.  

The United States has More People in Jail than High School Teachers and Engineers

Liberty Blitzkrieg has a short and simple article detailing just how many prisoners the US Federal Government is holding in their dungeons nation wide.  If you want to read the article click the link above, but the startling info shared in the article can easily be summarized with the following info graph of the amount of people in jail compared to some popular professions in America...

Newark Cops Kill Alleged Drug Dealer, Neighbors Attack Police

According to StopTheDrugWar.org:

Two undercover Essex County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a suspected drug dealer Wednesday, sparking an angry response from area residents. The dead man, so far identified only as "Jose," becomes the 35th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.

According to the Newark Star-Ledger, citing Essex County Chief of Detectives Anthony Ambrose, the deputies were doing a drug investigation and approached "Jose" in a building on North 9th Street. Ambrose said the man came out of the building with a loaded weapon, and both deputies opened fire, killing him.

Neighbors at the scene, who pelted the sheriff's office vehicle with rocks and debris, breaking at least one window, had a different version of events. Several of them told a Star-Ledger reporter that the deputies hit the man with their vehicle, then shot him as he lay on the ground. None of those interviewed would give their names, saying they feared retribution from the police.

"Why did you have to hit him with a car? Why'd you have to shoot him in the back?" people shouted over Ambrose as he spoke to reporters.

One neighbor who did identify himself, Jamar Smith, said he was a friend of the dead man and was on his way to his house when he heard the sound of a car crash followed by the loud bang of two gun shots. Smith and several others said one of the officers involved is well-known in the neighborhood for his aggressive policing and that they had had violent encounters with him, too.

I am so excited for the day to come when communities finally start showing police officers around the nation who their boss really is.  The people of America supply their pay checks and as they continue to treat us like human garbage more and more people will start to treat them as the scum they truly are.  

Police Run Over Man on Bike on Purpose

According to ABC:

"They almost killed me, they almost killed me and that's not justified. That's not justifiable," Juan Mario Lugo said.
He says it began when he and his father Robert got into a heated argument and his father called police to calm him down.

"I called the police officers, but they responded the wrong way cause I told them, 'it's no emergency or anything,'" Robert Lugo said.

But responding officers thought Juan was involved in a robbery and witnesses say they chase him down as he was riding his bike near 5th and Lycoming.

"I see them, they make a U-turn, they came right behind him and instead of cutting him off real short and nicely, they jumped the curb, hit him with the car, he goes up in the air and that was it," witness Roberto Aponte said.
"Didn't hear no sirens. And boom, right into the man. Squished him in half. I thought he was dead," witness Sandra LaPorte said.


"They seen him and it was like he was wanted for murder, I mean look at that, look at that cop car, that doesn't make no sense," Mario's brother Robert Lugo, Jr. said.

I guess Juan Mario Lugo was not properly informed that police officers can do whatever they want.  Running someone over with their car is the least violent way they could have subdued him.  

To be honest I would not have been surprised if they shot him with a taser from their moving vehicle, then proceeded to unleash a K-9 on him while kicking him in the face and pepper spraying him.  Just a little tap with the car... he got away easy. 

Pervert Cop Tases Woman Who Won't Show Him Her Boobs

According to NYDailyNews:

A cop in Arkansas allegedly tasered a woman after she refused to show him her breasts.

Ashlea Bennett alleges that uniformed Officer Brandon Carter strutted into her place of work on Dec. 13, 2011, and ordered that she give him a sneak peak of her bosom.

When she declined, he reportedly then chased her around the building before zapping her repeatedly with his electroshock gun.

These are the people we are supposed to trust with our safety?!

Man Dies in Jail for Misdemeanor Pot Possession

According to RT:

Almost 18 months after a Washington man who turned himself in to police for a misdemeanor drug charge died in custody new video footage has surfaced that appears to contradict the authorities’ claim that his death could have been avoided.

Michael Saffioti died in jail Snohomish County, Washington on the morning of July 3, 2012. He had turned himself into police the day before after missing a court date on misdemeanor charges for pot possession.  A lawsuit filed by his family last month claims that Saffioti was denied adequate and timely medical care, leading to his death. 

Saffioti was severely allergic to dairy and, on a new video made public this week, is shown speaking with a guard with a tray of food in his hands. The 23-year-old is then shown taking a few bites of oatmeal. The video, hosted by the local news, can be found at KIROTV.com. 

Within a few minutes he is back at the guard’s desk breathing through his inhaler. The legal claim says he asked for a nurse only to be sent back to his cell. Over the next half hour inmates can been seen looking into Saffioti’s cell as he jumped up and down. 

A guard found the young man unconscious in his cell 35 minutes after he ate the oatmeal. Saffioti was pulled from the cell as nurses arrived to perform CPR. Firefighters then arrived and rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead approximately a half hour later. 

Cheryl Snow, the attorney representing Saffioti’s mother Cheryl, said this was not Michael’s first trip to county lockup and the staff certainly had his medical records on file. The complaint, which is seeking damages totaling $10 million, said Michael’s health problems were so well known in the jail that he was dubbed “Bubble Boy” on a previous visit. 

“Our theory is that they absolutely knew about Michael’s medical needs,” she told KIRO-TV in Washington. “We know that he asked questions and made inquiries and he was assured the oatmeal in the food was safe for eating. The video shows Michael clearly made his needs apparent, that his needs were ignored. Once he suffered distress he was further ignored.” 

Sick bastards did it on purpose.... 

Andy Lopez Shot 7 Times in 10 Seconds...

“No justice, no peace, f**k the police.”

Andy Lopez Cruz was shot seven times in 10 seconds by a Sonoma Co., Calif. sheriff’s deputy as he walked down the street with a plastic replica rifle.

According to Rutherford:

We have been silent about too many things for too long, not the least of which is the deadly tendency on the part of police to resort to lethal force. However, as Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us, "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

For the sake of 13-year-old Andy Lopez, we can be silent no more. The Santa Rosa teen was shot dead after two sheriff's deputies saw him carrying a toy BB gun in public. Lopez was about 20 feet away from the deputies, his back turned to them, when the officers took cover behind their car and ordered him to drop the "weapon." When Lopez turned around, toy gun in his hand, one of the officers, a 24-year veteran of the force, shot him seven times. The time span between the deputies calling in a suspicious person sighting and shooting Lopez was a mere ten seconds. The young boy died at the scene. Clearly, no attempt was made to use less lethal force.

Rationalizing the shooting incident, Lt. Paul Henry of the Santa Rosa Police Department explained, "The deputy's mindset was that he was fearful that he was going to be shot." Yet as William Norman Grigg, a commentator for LewRockwell.com, points out, such a preoccupation with officer safety leads to unnecessary police shootings. A peace officer is paid to assume certain risks, including those necessary to de-escalate a confrontation with someone believed to be a heavily armed suspect in a residential neighborhood. A "veteran" deputy with the mindset of a peace officer would have taken more than a shaved fraction of a split-second to open fire on a small male individual readily identifiable as a junior high school student, who was carrying an object that is easily recognizable as a toy at least to people who don't see themselves as an army of occupation, and view the public as an undifferentiated mass of menace.

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Yet the fatality rate of on-duty patrol officers is reportedly far lower than many other professions, including construction, logging, fishing, truck driving, and even trash collection. 

In fact, police officers have the same rate of dying on the job as do taxi driversNevertheless, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 400 to 500 innocent people are killed by police officers every year.

According to RT:

The same police officer who shot and killed a young teen after mistaking a toy gun for a real one pulled his weapon on a motorist during a routine traffic stop on the highway two months ago, the California man in question now says.

Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus is currently on paid administrative leave after fatally shooting 13-year-old Andy Lopez, who was walking to a friend’s house with a replica AK-47. The tragedy has made international headlines and frustrated the local community, with vigils and protests against the police taking place over the past ten days. 

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Gelhaus’ attorney declined to comment on Westbrook’s accusations. The deputy is an Iraq War veteran who serves as a police field training officer and weapons instructor. A 24-year veteran of the force, he was training a new officer at the time of the shooting.

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Then, almost two months to the day after the roadside scare, Gelhaus shot Lopez seven times in under ten seconds. The deputy told investigators that he thought the gun the boy was carrying was real – but later found out it was an airsoft gun designed to shoot plastic pellets. 

In another article by RT:

Over 1,000 people showed up to protest the death of Andy Lopez hours before the funeral for the 13-year-old boy was scheduled to take place. California police fatally shot Lopez last week when they saw him carrying what turned out to be a toy rifle.

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Signs reading “We are all Andy Lopez, the whole damn system is guilty” and “Andy did not have to die” were on display alongside police officers in riot gear who were monitoring the crowd.

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Police advised demonstrators planning on attending the Tuesday rally to not bring any replica weapons, which were brought to previous vigils.

According to InfoWars:

Gun control activists in California are blaming toy guns and airsoft guns for the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old on Oct. 23, shifting responsibility away from the police.

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“These guns don’t belong on the street,” Karen Caves, de León’s spokesperson, said to Time. “They endanger children and they endanger police … You can simply paint them some bright fluorescent colors that will give police an opportunity to easily identify them for what they really are and avoid this type of tragedy.”

Cruz’s family and friends, on the contrary, said that the deputy who killed Cruz simply overreacted to a situation which did not require the use of deadly force.

According to Police State USA:

The officer who shot Andy Lopez has been revealed to be 48-year-old Sonoma County Deputy Erick Gelhaus, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

Gelhaus is a 24-year veteran of the department, an Iraq combat veteran, a firearms instructor, and a prolific writer and commenter on the internet.  He served in theArmy National Guard from 2004 to 2010, and testified about dealing with insurgents in Iraq. He advocates an aggressive, combat-like view of law enforcement.

He participates as a moderator on The Firing Line, an online forum for gun enthusiasts hosted by S.W.A.T. Magazine. There Gelhaus uses his real name and gives his opinions about a wide variety of law enforcement topics, touting his experience in combat.

Innocent Man Given Forcible 14-Hour Anal Cavity Search

According to InformationLibertation:

A man has filed a lawsuit stating that a traffic stop led to a series of forced medical procedures when a police officer thought he was clenching his butt cheeks.  His lawsuit says that without his consent, he was taken to a medical facility and where he was forcibly X-rayed multiple times, sedated, given several enemas, required to give multiple stool samples, subjected to fingers penetrating his anus during multiple cavity searches, followed by an actual colonoscopy where cameras probed his intestines for drugs.   The startling 14-hour ordeal failed to find any contraband inside his body.

The incident happened on January 2, 2013, when David Eckert says he had just wrapped up shopping at a Wal-Mart store in Deming.  As he pulled out of the parking lot, his vehicle allegedly did not stop completely at the posted stop sign.  Deming police promptly stopped his car and began fishing for charges that they could apply to him.

While stopped, Eckert was required to exit the vehicle by police officers intent on searching his car.  Police claimed that his seat smelled like narcotics and that his butt cheeks appeared to be clenched.

Eager to get an arrest, police conspired to search Eckert’s anus for contraband.  They took him into custody and got a judge to stamp out a search warrant for Eckert’s intestines.

Police were turned away at a Deming emergency room, after a doctor told him that the search was “unethical.”  But that jarring statement wouldn’t be enough to sway police officers from seeking another place to violate Eckert’s body in the name of prohibition.

Medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City were more than happy to comply with the police in their hunt for drugs.  After a few hours, Eckert was admitted to the hospital and a grueling series of examinations began.

I've seen this story reported all over the place... 
I don't think I even need to expand with my opinion ... 

Man Jailed for Overdue Library Book

According to KFVS:

Fines for overdue library books are typical, but a Texas man spent time behind bars for a book he failed to return.

Thanks to a city ordinance in Copperas Cove, TX.

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Jory Enck was the latest patron to have the book thrown at him.

He was picked up last week after police noticed he had the active warrant and booked for not returning library materials.

If there was ever a case that portrayed the extreme depths of the police state we live in, this is it.  

I moved from Virginia to Texas last year and during the move happened to liberate a handful of library books from the Dominion to the Lone Star State.  

When I did my taxes at the end of the year I found that a sizable chunk of my return went towards paying the library back for the books I expropriated.  

I guess I should be thankful I wasn't extradited back to the east coast to face charges for overdue library books.