Cannibal Cop

UPDATE 3/9:

This story speaks for itself, it is very telling just how psychotic a NYPD Police Officer can be without any alarms going off in his psyche evaluation or in one of the other supposedly well trained, highly perceptive officers on the force, here are a bunch of the highlights in the story posted to Fox News earlier in the week.

A New York City police officer plotted to kidnap, cook and eat women, using a crime victim database and possibly an online dating forum to choose potential victims and discussing his twisted scheme in grisly detail online, local and federal law enforcement authorities said.

The six year vet of the force had these exact words to describe his plot:

“to kidnap, rape, torture, kill, cook and cannibalize a number of women.”

 US Attorney Preet Bhara had this obvious deduction to add to the case:

"This case is all the more disturbing when you consider Valle’s position as a New York City police officer and his sworn duty to serve and protect."

And according to further details found on the cannibal cops computer:

In a conversation from July 9 of this year, Valle is asked by an unknown co-conspirator, “How big is your oven?”

Valle allegedly responded: “Big enough to fit one of these girl[s] if I folded their legs…the abduction will have to be flawless…I know all of them.

“I can just show up at [one prospective victim's] home unannounced, it will not alert her, and I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her home,” he also said before boasting that he could make his own chloroform.”

“I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus…cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” he allegedly wrote.

Who was finally responsible for discovering this nefarious plot, believe it or not, his wife!  This maniac had a wife who left him after she found "weird stuff" on his computer and reported it to police.

On Valle's OK Cupid profile he had this to say of himself:

Valle lists his favorite book as “Green Eggs and Ham,” and says he enjoys Italian, Mexican, Chinese and Japanese food, adding, “I'll try anything and am not picky at all.”

You just can't make this stuff up.

One NYPD cop found to be plotting cannibal escapades, I'd bet money he's not the only police officer in New York, or America that has frightening inner thoughts about what he'd like to do to criminals and innocent people alike.

One becomes a cop to subvert others will and enact their own fantasies of grandeur.  Police officers should be watched the closest, yet they are the ones we allow to watch us.  If a guy like this can get in to the most powerful police force on the planet, what does that say about the recruiting process?

Oh yeah and one last thing, this guy wanted to eat women and he wasn't even high on bath salts, wait a second, sober people can be crazy too?!  No way!  We should create laws against being sober, it makes people think about the most insane things!

The General Public's Perception of LSD

Lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD is a mystery to the common person walking down the street.  Acid as it has become known over the decades creates a unique and thought provoking experience for the user.  At times it can also create quite a harrowing and completely unexpected psychological response.  If you've never done acid there is literally no way to have someone who has tried it explain the experience to you.  The words "hallucination" and "trip" or someone claiming they saw faces and color waves do not do the entirety of the experience any justice what so ever.

Watching movies and reading books in which the character "drops" acid can only allow the slightest of glimpses in to the actuality of a trip.

In the cultural consensus on hallucinogenic drug use most would assume that the hay days were the late 60's.  That the summer of love was the peak of LSD use in America and around the world.  I would argue that people who believe this are romanticizing an era beyond it's actual scope.  I believe there are more people using LSD today than ever before.  The reason the late 60's will be linked to acid use for the rest of eternity is that this was the period that usage sky rocketed and society became aware of it.  Similar to the way people think the crack epidemic ended in the 80's when in reality it is worse than ever.

Thousands upon thousands of people experience counter culture in one way or another, whether they're going to Coachella or Bonnaroo, visiting a "hippie commune", surfing Erowid and Basement Shaman, living more or less on any college campus in America, trekking to Burning Man, spending a week in the woods with the Rainbow Gathering, or just happen to have a friend who has journeyed to the furthest realms of their mind and wants to share the experience.  Tons of people are trying acid for the first time each and every year.

The conservative folks who refuse to do anything outside of the box and think that those who do are degenerate wastes of life will fight to the bitter end to create the illusion that taking LSD makes you crazy and  causes delusions.  We all remember the Miami cannibal story from a few months ago, the guy who ate someones face on the side of the road.  All of the initial news stories have him high on LSD, then Cocaine, then Bath Salts.  Guess what, when the drug analyses came in, the guy was completely sober!  You'll never hear that in the news though, "Sober guy eat's someones face".

A headline like that is to scary, it says that anyone can commit this horrible crime, the news would rather you believe that only someone tripping out would do something that insane.  In reality someone tripping out is probably the last person in the world who would stoop to devouring human flesh.  The thought alone is enough to send someone on acid in to a massive internal debate.  Someone on acid is very unlikely to be so "high" that they are unaware of their actions.  As a matter of fact normally they are highly aware of every thought and action that is going on in their nervous system.

This brings me to the reason LSD is in the news the past few days.  A college student who had just left a music festival in Mobile Alabama after consuming LSD showed up back to campus, stripped down, pounded on the campus police headquarters door, and was then promptly shot and killed.  The student was naked, had his arms out stretched revealing that there was nothing in his hands and walking towards the police officer.  Without taking any other precautionary steps , such as, oh I don't know, tackling the student, taking a few steps back, or pretty much any assortment of physical actions that could have subdued him, the officer opened fire and killed him on the spot.

The news will portray this as a crazed student pursuing a officer whose only option was to kill him or be killed.  This 18 year old might have eaten the officers face off if given a chance, so getting any closer to him to subdue him was out of the question.  Not to mention the officer most likely did not want to touch a naked boy, that's pretty gay right?  So. shoot him, that's a viable option.

I pray and wish and hope that this officer gets life in prison.  This is manslaughter, not self defense!  It's one thing if this were happening in a dark alley where the assailants identity was completely unknown, but now we're going to allow campus police to gun down the youth of America?  I hate to speculate but I'd bet money that this student had also consumed a ton of alcohol, which in my opinion was actually the determining factor behind his actions.  The LSD didn't make him walk around naked, it was the fact that he was drunk as all get out and had very lose inhibitions as well as a unstable state of mind to begin with that brought him to the front of a campus police station naked.

So every time a frat party goes south and there's a half naked pledge stumbling towards an officer the first thing they're taught to do is open fire?  I truly hope not.

In somewhat related news another fellow tripper was stun to death in Australia this week as FOUR officers attack him with their tasers at once and stopped his heart.

But the guy was high on LSD so this was obviously their only option.

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Chalk Vandalism?!

This story is nearly two weeks old now, but I wanted to touch on it.  A woman in Napa Valley California was arrested on September 15th for writing with chalk on the side walk.  Initially when she was approached by an officer she was told it was okay, but moments later that same officer came back to gather the woman's identification.  When the woman who was later identified as Amy Larson refused to give any information she was immediately arrested.

Amy was charged with  felony vandalism and $10,000 bail was set, due to her clean record they dropped the bail though and released her.  That was after keeping her behind bars for four days though.  Amy believes that the real treason she was arrested had little to do with her 9/11 Truth and YouTube WTC 7 slogans she chalked though and more to do with her not telling the officer her name, address and birthday.  IE. Amy got arrested for not "showing her papers"

Yesterday amazing news came out of a Napa court room, Amy Larson's case has been dismissed.  A level headed and rational judge finally decided that using chalk on a sidewalk should not be a felony case.  THANK GOODNESS!  However this doesn't change the fact that a police officer felt they had the right to detain an innocent woman for four days.  A woman whose only crime was trying to spread the truth in a medium that washes away in the rain.

If you want to find out more check out the original Patch article detailing the arrest as well as yesterdays follow up informing the public about the dismissal.

This is not the first time in recent memory that citizens have been arrested for using chalk.  What is this country coming to that police officers are wasting their time and tax payers dollars arresting people writing in chalk?!  This obviously has little to do with vandalism and more to do with the content of the message being written.  The powers that be want us to know if we write anything to do with an investigation in to 9/11, The Occupation of Wall St, or similar questions of the status quo on the side walk we will be arrested.

Houston Police Kill Double Amputee

You would think that those who are called in to the line of duty as a police officer would have a high tolerance for fear and a steady hand when it comes to dealing with possibly dangerous situations.  This assumption comes from the fact that those who decide to become an officer of the law know that they are putting their lives on the line when dealing with what could be a lethal situation any given day.

A police officer who is dealing with such a situation should choose to use their weapon only if there is absolutely no other choice, and if they do go ahead and shoot someone who ends up being less lethal than perceived in the moment, that police officer should be put in jail.

Today, Sunday September 23rd a Houston Police Officer shot and killed a man with one arm and one leg.  The double amputee was in a wheel chair and living in a home for the mentally ill as he suffered from schizophrenia.  CNN explained the situation as follows:

A Houston police officer fatally shot in the head a schizophrenic, wheelchair-bound double amputee threatening people with a pen at a group home for the mentally ill after authorities said the man advanced on the officer's partner, police said.

"The officers made verbal commands for the suspect to drop whatever he had in his hand, to stay still and to speak with the officers, but the suspect continued to make threats," 

Officer Matt Marin, "in fear of the safety of his partner and the safety of himself, discharges his duty weapon, striking the suspect," 

The unnamed Houston police spokesperson said later Sunday that Marin himself was not cornered, unlike his partner, when he shot the wheelchair-bound man in the head. 

"This was an incident that didn't have to take place if the individual -- a police officer -- had been trained in dealing with emotionally disturbed individuals."

... So instead of grabbing this guys wheel chair and wheeling him away, an officer decided the best course of action was to shoot him in the head.  I can understand that the officer may not have known it was a pen at first, he thought it was a knife obviously, but this wheel chair bound amputee had no ability to lunge at anyone and was obviously paranoid and scared.

This is beyond disgusting and completely unacceptable behavior.  Why are police officers allowed to murder people?  Why do they get away with things like this with a simple slap on the wrist and a few days paid leave?  What in the world is wrong with our society that we condemn innocent dark skinned people to death row when the evidence is barely there to convict them, but when a police officer murders someone in public they are just doing their job?!

Police officers need to be held responsible for their actions.  Officer Matt Marin should be sentenced to death!  Justice with mercy my ass.

Wells Fargo B & E

This is one of the saddest stories I've ever read.  Wells Fargo hired a crew to break in to an elderly couples home, steal all of their stuff and destroy it.  The nefarious bank was under the impression that they owned a mortgage on the house, which in fact they did not!  The owners of the home had literally built it with their own two hands.  Now after raising three generations of their family in their dessert home every single item they have ever owned was taken and destroyed in a matter of hours.  A CBS affiliate in LA had this to say about the situation:

A crew broke into Alvin and Pat Tjosaas’ desert home and took everything after being directed by Wells Fargo to secure the structure.

The couple, however, didn’t have a mortgage on the home.

Alvin said the deputy sheriff said, “Good news, we know who took (your possessions)…Wells Fargo. Bad news, your stuff is all gone.”

The couple seem pretty forgiving about this situation being quoted as saying:

“When you put your heart into something…it makes me real sad. I’m just glad I have my sweetheart. We’ve been together a long time,”

This make's him real sad, if a bank came in and stole every worldly possession of mine that I had accumulated over decades I would be furious, there would be no end to the obscenities and threats coming out of my mouth.What does the bank have to say for themselves?

“We are deeply sorry for the very personal losses the Tjosaas family suffered as a result of their home being mistakenly secured,” said Alfredo Padilla. “We are moving quickly to reach out to the family to resolve this unfortunate situation in an attempt to right this wrong.”

Whether the victims of this crime get paid some large sum doesn't change the fact that there were almost certainly irreplaceable relics of their children's past as well as unique keepsake that the couple had acquired over years of being together.  Stuff that money cannot buy.  So what I want to know is, who is going to jail for this?   

If I were to break in to someones home to take all their stuff and then got caught I would be arrested on the spot.  Yet an entire crew worth of people went in to this home illegally and a banker sent the word to the crew to go on this heist.  Sounds to me like a kingpin and his cronies just admitted to their crimes.  So when are they going to be arrested?

As mad as I am I had to do a bit more research on this subject and it ends up that the home was actually Alvin Tjosaas' parents home, who he was the caretaker of.  It still had tons of Alvins tools, his fathers WWI uniform, an American flag and appliances that were all taken.  Then to add insult to injury, when they came back to check on it a few days later another crew hired by Well Fargo had made the same mistake and cleared out the remainder of the house.

I can't take it anymore I am fuming over this story, go to ABC to find out more.

LAPD VS Unarmed Women

I stared this blog nearly four months ago after reading about a Dekalb County police officer who kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach.

Last month while my girlfriend and I were driving from Virginia to Texas we passed through Dekalb County Georgia.  The only reason I even realized it was because I saw a police speed trap on the side of the road.  When I saw Dekalb County proudly emblazoned on the side of the car it was almost like seeing a celebrity, a member of the police department who inspired me to start this blog.

On the entire other side of the country though, the LAPD has spent the past few days putting Dekalb County's Dickhead Cops to shame.  I normally paraphrase and quote the articles I find, but in this case I think it is more appropriate that I just copy and paste the entire blog from Boing Boing that popped up in my Google Reader this afternoon:

A drug-addicted woman who dropped off her two children at a police station because she recognized that she was unable to care for them was tracked down by LAPD officers who reportedly told her to "get your fat ass in the car," threatened to stomp her genitals, then followed through on that threat.

35-year-old Alesia Thomas is reported to have been "combative." After being stomped in the groin, she suffocated while being taken into custody, and died.

Why do we know about this, and why are five LAPD officers now under internal and criminal investigation in her death? The altercation in front of her apartment was captured by a patrol car's video camera.

This news comes in the same week that Los Angeles Police chief Charlie Beck vowed an investigation into another video that shows two LAPD officers body-slam another woman, a 5'4" tall mother and nurse targeted for using her cell phone while driving.

Michelle Jordan, 34, pulled over into a Del Taco parking lot after being flagged down by police. She then got out of her car. Surveillance video from the Del Taco camera shows that two male police officers slammed her into the ground—twice. Then, they exchange a celebratory fist-bump.

To protect and serve.

Empire State Shooting

By now we've all heard of the shooting that took place in front of the Empire State Building the morning of August 24th.  One victim dead and the gunman shot by two NYPD police officers also dead, with nine wounded and bleeding out on the streets.  A gory scene for sure, but what might not be making the rounds as quickly as the initial news is that ALL nine of those wounded during the shooing were victims of the police officers trigger fingers.

Fox News of all places had this to say about the wounded bystanders:

All nine bystanders caught in the crossfire of a shooting outside New York City's iconic Empire State Building were wounded by two police officers who had never fired their weapons on duty, authorities confirmed Saturday.

While the shooter did turn around abruptly and aim his gun at the officers giving them every right to open fire, you'd think there would be more consequences against the NYPD and the two officers in general for injuring nine innocent civilians.  Further testing after the gruesome morning events proved that:

"it appears that all nine of the victims were struck either by fragments or by bullets fired by police,"

Thank goodness none of the injuries are life threatening, however this doesn't take away from the fact that these nine people who were walking down the street on what seemed to be any given morning were abruptly hospitalized due to shoddy police work.  Unsurprising to absolutely no one Commisioner Ray Kelly applauds the work of his officers, being quoted as saying the officers had:

"a gun right in their face" and "responded quickly, and they responded appropriately."

As well as:

"These officers, having looked at the tape myself, had absolutely no choice,"

Once again as proven time and time again, if you're wearing a badge it is legal to shoot and maim just about anyone for any reason.  If you don't have that badge though expect to be murdered in cold blood for all to see.  Instilling that fear in the populace so we all know, don't mess with the police!

As always this blog is skewed towards putting a negative spin on police actions.  I was not there and have read the same news as many other people around the nation have.  I am sure that these officers did what it took to protect their lives and in the moment what they thought they needed to do to protect bystanders.

It is just very sad that those bystanders ended up being the victims of sixteen rounds shot at a perpetrator in an extremely robust section of New York City.