tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14552741648140058562024-03-13T21:45:24.562-07:00Roast A PigNo, this blog is not a recipe to roast pigs. It is about speaking out against the injustices of our police force. This blog is for you. If you have ever been treated unfairly, had your rights violated or seen anybody else's rights violated, please post a comment here and I will add it to my blog. If you know the officers name, badge number, city or anything else, exercise your right to free speech.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-18879670736559182812010-12-02T12:27:00.000-08:002010-12-02T12:32:07.441-08:00Is Ex-Bart Cop Johannes Mehserle a Murderer?<object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q2LDw5l_yMI?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q2LDw5l_yMI?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=roapi-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1582613354&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=roapi-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=bpl&amp;asins=1582613354&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="padding-top: 5px; width: 131px; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" align="left" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />
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A judge sentenced ex-BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle to the minimum term of two years in prison Friday for fatally shooting unarmed train rider Oscar Grant, saying he believed the former officer's testimony that he had confused his pistol for a Taser.<br />
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Mehserle, 28, faced as many as 14 years in prison after he was convicted in July of involuntary manslaughter and a separate charge of intentionally firing a gun at Grant at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland early on Jan. 1, 2009. But Judge Robert Perry threw out the firearm conviction before sentencing Mehserle in Los Angeles County Superior Court, saying there was no evidence to support it.<br />
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His decision infuriated members of Grant's family, some of whom stalked out of the courtroom before the judge had even finished speaking. Grant's sister, Chantay Moore, exclaimed from the gallery, "Oh, my!"<br />
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Afterward, they said the outcome showed that the justice system was stacked against African Americans such as Grant, especially in dealing with white police officers such as Mehserle.<br />
Eligible in 7 months<br />
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With credit for time he has already served behind bars, Mehserle will be eligible for release in about seven months. His attorney, Michael Rains, said he will appeal the involuntary manslaughter conviction and in the meantime will try to win Mehserle's release on bail.<br />
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Wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and manacles, Mehserle showed little reaction to the sentence, but his family members burst into tears. Rains said Mehserle "told me he felt closer to maybe getting out and seeing his son," who was born a day after the shooting.<br />
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The events that led to Friday's sentencing were set in motion by a fight aboard a Dublin-Pleasanton train involving the 22-year-old Grant. BART police who responded to the Fruitvale Station decided to arrest Grant for allegedly resisting officers.<br />
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Mehserle testified that he had meant to pull his Taser shock weapon as he sought to handcuff the prone Grant, but instead drew his pistol and shot the Hayward resident once in the back. Several cell phone videos taken by other passengers ensured that the incident would receive national attention.<br />
Judge sympathizesRoast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-52640800326742060532010-12-02T12:00:00.000-08:002010-12-02T12:34:11.711-08:00Modesto Police Used Force More Often<div><br />
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Though the number of arrests and contacts with the public were at the lowest level in years, Modesto police officers used force more often in 2008 and 2009 than in previous years, and the department saw a 22 percent increase in citizen complaints alleging police misconduct.<br />
Officers resorted to using take-down moves, batons, Tasers, pepper spray or firearms 250 times in 2009, when 15,023 arrests were made, a rate of 1.7 percent.<br />
The use-of-force rate, which tells how often officers use pain or weaponry during an arrest, was 1.5 percent in 2008-09 period, compared with 1.2 percent from 2004 to 2007. <br />
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The Police Department also received an increased number of complaints alleging misconduct in 2008 and 2009. Of the 151 complaints, 37 people complained that officers used unreasonable force.<br />
There were 124 citizen complaints in 2006 and 2007, including 30 complaints regarding the force used by officers.<br />
The numbers, though far from conclusive, could fuel public sentiment that the city needs to look closely at how Modesto officers are using force when making arrests or controlling a crowd.<br />
Friday, the city is expected to announce the hiring of a law firm to conduct an administrative investigation of the Police Department.<br />
City management called for the probe based on a letter sent to Police Chief Mike Harden and top city officials a month ago. The unsigned letter, purportedly written by an MPD employee, names officers who are allegedly committing acts of brutality and claims department managers are looking the other way.<br />
City officials have said that details in the letter warrant investigation.<br />
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John T. Williams, long time Seattle resident and a </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ditidaht.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ditidaht</span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> member of the </span></span><a href="http://www.nuuchahnulth.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nuu-chah-nulth</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> First Nations of Canada’s <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roapi-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0774807008" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />Vancouver Island, was shot four times and killed Aug. 30 by police officer <b>Ian D Birk</b>, a two-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roapi-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0774807008" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
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Police said Birk spotted him sitting on a ledge with a knife and shouted three commands at him to drop it.<br />
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As eyewitnesses came forward with a different version of events police then said Williams was crossing an intersection with a knife and piece of wood in his hands, refused to drop the knife and advanced towards the officer.<br />
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“His body stance did not look threatening at all,” an eyewitness told The Seattle Times. “I could only see the gentleman’s back, and he didn’t look aggressive at all. He didn’t even look up at the officer.”<br />
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Williams died between 1811 Eastlake, a private nonprofit home for chronic drinkers where he’d lived off and on, and the Pike Street Market in downtown Seattle, where he sold his carvings.<br />
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Williams was crippled with arthritis and hobbled more than he walked, Randy Lewis, a leader of the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation said. He was capable at most of turning towards the officer when he heard him shouting, to show him what he had in his hands.<br />
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That’s if he heard him shouting. Williams’ friends say he was deaf in his left ear from an infection eight years ago.<br />
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Seattle police now say they don’t know exactly what happened. Seattle Police Chief John Diaz told reporters he has “a lot more questions than answers.”<br />
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What is known is that Birk exited his patrol car, shouted out commands and then fatally shot Williams in the span of a minute. The officer’s in-car video caught part of the incident. The tape has not been released to the public.<br />
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The folding carving knife carried by Williams had a less than three-inch blade, legal to carry in Seattle. The city’s code states a dangerous knife is one having a blade three and one-half inches or more.<br />
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Locals have honored the Williams family for more than 100 years for their traditional carvings, and for making and selling them at the street level and in galleries. He was a seventh generation master carver who carried his carving tools with him, and carved in public.<br />
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“It’s a great cultural ignorance for (the police department) even to admit they weren’t familiar with their carving with knives on the street (because it’s) not unusual,” said family friend Storme Webber, Aleut.<br />
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Diaz pledged a complete and transparent investigation by homicide detectives, as well as a firearms review board to determine whether Birk followed department policy.<br />
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Even so, “a whole lot of governmental process doesn’t bring a loved one back, we do recognize that,” Sean Whitcomb, SPD spokesperson said. The shooting “is not the outcome that anyone wanted, this entire event is very tragic.<br />
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“We recognize that as difficult as it is we ask that concerned citizens place some faith in this process that will unfold, Whitcomb said. “That process is the investigation process of our own department, as well as the inquest by the prosecuting attorney’s office.”<br />
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The Chief Seattle Club called on Deputy Chief Nick Metz, in particular, to apologize for comments he made about Williams at a press briefing Aug. 31.<br />
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“Metz was trying to paint a picture of him in a negative light, like he was trying to rationalize or justify what happened,” said Jenine Grey, Tlingit, of the Chief Seattle Club, a private nonprofit service agency for Native American and First Nations people, where Williams was a member. “Those are very common charges that homeless people face.”<br />
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Grey said finding a place to urinate other than a gutter is a complicated thing for the homeless. “No one, restaurants or other public places, wants to let homeless people in to use their bathrooms. Nor can they afford to sit in a restaurant or bar when they want to have a drink.<br />
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Fern Renville, Sisseton Wahpeton, managing director of Native youth theater group Red Eagle Soaring said the pitiful language coming from the police department “doesn’t describe the man that I knew – kind, compassionate, and a great artist.”<br />
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On Sept. 2, 300 people with candles and drums turned out at the Chief Seattle Club to affirm the value of the woodcarver’s life and his place in the community. They expressed their outrage at the senseless death of a harmless man.<br />
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“An elder said this wasn’t the time and place for that,” said Penny Octuck Cole, of Tacoma. “He said tonight we’re remembering who John was, in a quiet respectful way. After that, everyone settled down. But they were quietly making plans for protests.”<br />
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Seattle’s mayor Mike McGinn was at the vigil with a lit candle. “His attendance spoke miles,” Lewis said. The mayor told those around him that actions, speaking louder than words, would be forthcoming.<br />
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At a press conference called by community leaders Sept. 3, speakers demanded an inquest panel with at least one Native member approved by the community. Grey said they were holding the Seattle Police Department and the City of Seattle accountable for William’s death.<br />
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“This tragedy never should have happened,” Grey said. “We are angry and outraged that his life was interrupted for seemingly no reason, and so callously disregarded.”<br />
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Grey said they’re worried about their most vulnerable community members who suffer regular harassment and abuse on the streets of Seattle, and added that it is incredible that in a city named for an Indian chief, a police officer would not recognize that an Indian carrying carving tools was no threat.<br />
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“It’s really appalling what happened to my relative,” said Chief Jack Thompson of the Ditidaht First Nation, who traveled to Seattle from Canada’s Vancouver Island. He said Williams was just trying to make a living as he walked the streets of Seattle. “I hope the police would find it in their hearts to do the right thing.”<br />
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Lewis, an art framer said Williams used to come by his shop for wood scraps. “He’d carve on the front porch and we’d talk. He was probably one of the gentlest people I know. For them to trivialize his life riles me to no end.<br />
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“We are not a people of a romantic past, nor are we a people of an irrelevant present and we are not going to allow this to be swept under the rug. We want the police department to own the responsibility of their actions, then get on with the job of asking, is this person culpable?”<br />
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Several British Columbia newspapers reported that Williams’ death had left Native communities in Canada reeling. First Nations leaders held a news conference Sept. 3 to demand a full investigation.<br />
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“I’m deeply angered and outraged to hear once again the police shooting down one of our people in a clearly unprovoked situation,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Philip said he does not accept the police version of the incident.<br />
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A demonstration and community memorial service is pending discussions between the family and various Native organizations. Williams has at least two brothers and one sister living in the Seattle area.</span></span><br />
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A Stanislaus County judge today said a Modesto police officer must stand trial for allegedly assaulting and injuring his wife.<br />
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Matthew Spurlock, 39, of Modesto faces charges of spousal abuse, assault with a semiautomatic weapon and assault with the intent to commit rape.<br />
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He was arrested July 15 and put on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation, Modesto police Sgt. Rick Armendariz said.<br />
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According to testimony, Spurlock pointed a Glock .45-caliber gun at his wife's torso. Spurlock's wife suffered visible injuries but was not hospitalized.<br />
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I'm not sure if you can help, but hopefully you can direct me in the right <br />
direction. My son was arrested last year; charged with aggravated assault for <br />
calling a police officer an "asshole." While this is disrespectful, it is not <br />
against the law. <br />
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In addition, the day after we bailed him out, we were contacted by an officer <br />
"Smith" with the drug division in the Ahwatukee branch. He wanted my son to <br />
inform on any and all drug offenders in the area to have his charges dropped. I <br />
got involved and said we would meet with him as soon as I could arrange to have <br />
a lawyer present. He stated if we sought legal counsel then all bets were off. <br />
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My son went to court 2 weeks later and the charges were dropped. Now all of a <br />
sudden these charges have reappeared. <br />
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What are your thoughts? This whole thing seems dirty to me and I do not trust <br />
our law enforcement officials nor do I trust the judges on our benches. <br />
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Please advise if you can. <br />
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Thanks,<br />
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BrandiRoast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-54310451622187159892010-06-22T11:18:00.000-07:002010-06-22T11:18:39.546-07:00Whitehall Police Brutality - Cop Slams Elderly Woman's Head On The Cement<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yoSD79o0cOc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yoSD79o0cOc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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On August 1, at a Whitehall, Ohio Wal-mart, Virginia Dodson could not remember why she was sitting alone in a car. Coming to grips with her enclosed environment, it dawned on her that she did not know how to unbuckle her seat belt either. Panic began to take hold.<br />
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Her solution was to scrounge up a steak knife and cut through the straps, eventually finding her way into the confusing world of the parking lot, still holding the blade.<br />
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Virginia, an 84-year-old African American, has Alzheimer's disease. Like many other sufferers, the responsibility for her care fell to her adult child. Her daughter, however, was inside the store.<br />
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It was only a short matter of time before the police were called.<br />
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A witness to the scene, one Tomya Beatty, said: "She didn’t even ask her to drop the knife. The woman told her when the cop came charging at her. She said, 'I’m not going to cut you. I’m not going to cut you.' She was just calling her daughter’s name out."<br />
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The use of force against an obviously frail woman is apparent. As the video progresses, a noisy scene develops around the officers as the confused old woman lays on the ground, bleeding. "Dotson’s daughter said her mother needed stitches to close the wounds and her hand may have been broken,"<br />
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Police declined to press charges against the woman, who was released back into her daughter's custody.<br />
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"What's got me is that since it's obvious the female officer was strong enough to take her down with ease, why not just grab the knife from her instead?"Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-71846538692374440402010-06-16T12:18:00.000-07:002010-06-16T12:52:22.191-07:00Seattle Police Brutality - Ian Walsh Punches Teenage Girl<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rO_ZbHO8RlM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rO_ZbHO8RlM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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Seattle police officials said Tuesday that their officers are trained to throw a punch in certain situations, but said they have a "number of concerns" regarding the tactics an officer used in dealing with a 17-year-old girl he punched in the face while trying to cite a group of women for jaywalking.<br />
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"The issue we have to investigate is whether the force he used is reasonable given the combative resistance he was facing... and we're not going to pass judgment on that until the matter has been thoroughly investigated," said Assistant Seattle Police Chief Nick Metz.<br />
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Seattle police have directed a review of Seattle police tactics and training to ensure the training and implementation of those tactics are appropriate and consistent, Metz said.<br />
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The review comes in the wake of an altercation captured on video that shows Officer Ian Walsh punching the teenage girl in the face while struggling to get her and another teen under control in South Seattle.<br />
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The incident began when Walsh spotted four young women jaywalking the 3100 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way S. Walsh asked the group to step over to his patrol car, but the women were being "verbally antagonistic toward the officer," according to officials.<br />
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Metz said Walsh will be transferred to a training section and the department will conduct an internal review.<br />
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"The officer is going to be transferred to the training section for a few days to review the tactics that he's been taught," Metz said. "The issue we have to investigate is whether the force he used is reasonable given the combative resistance he was facing. We're not going to pass judgment on that until the matter has been thoroughly investigated."Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-34801094677031999832010-05-11T23:03:00.000-07:002010-05-11T23:17:08.580-07:00Fresno Police Corruption - Fresno Citizens Have Had EnoughOn July 21, 25-year-old Julian Celaya reportedly stole two 12-packs of<br />beer from a liquor store in Fresno, California. Minutes later he was<br />murdered in a hail of police gunfire. The cops may have fired as many<br />as 45 shots.<br><br />Three days earlier, on July 18, Rene LaCentra, a 45-year-old unemployed<br />white woman, was shot three times by Fresno police after a car chase<br />through downtown. Police say they went after LaCentra after she made an<br />illegal turn. Today she's in the jail infirmary with wounds in the<br />chest, shoulder and arm.<br><br />On July 16, two days before cops shot LaCentra, they killed Roderick<br />Lee Bartolette in a northwest Fresno hotel. The cops claim they were<br />doing a drug investigation and that Bartolette was part of a shoot-out.<br />Six days, three police shootings, two deaths. The Fresno police are out<br />of control, and anger among the people of Fresno is boiling to the<br />surface. We need to stand up and not stand for this kind of police<br />corruption and brutality.<br><br /><br><br /><a href="http://revcom.us/a/v23/1110-19/1115/fresno.htm">Fresno<br />Police Corruption</a><br><br /><br><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eHwdC7lw9I0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eHwdC7lw9I0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-36922557555983983552008-08-21T18:01:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:03:58.469-07:00Modesto Police Detective James Eichbaum A PedofileJudge Marie Silveira called the case of Edward Deandre Mitchell and Laron Tavon Davis, who are accused of murder and a string of convenience store robberies.<br /><br />This time, the credibility of former Modesto police detective James Eichbaum, who retired in October, was on the line.<br /><br />On Feb. 9, Eichbaum pleaded no contest to providing alcohol to a minor, an infraction, and paid an $800 fine.<br /><br />He had been accused of giving an alcoholic energy drink to a 17-year-old female Explorer Scout while they worked together on an alcohol sting operation in August 2006.<br /><br />In court and in legal papers, defense attorney Frank Carson alleged that Eichbaum's relationship with the minor was far more extensive, and sexual in nature.<br /><br />As proof, the defense attorney gave the court a copy of an anonymous letter, purportedly from someone who works for the Modesto Police Department.<br /><br />He asked the court to review Eichbaum's personnel file to determine if complaints against the former detective show a pattern of malfeasance that could call his work on the Mitchell and Davis case into question.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-61139139648757841472008-08-10T13:49:00.000-07:002008-08-10T13:51:23.605-07:00Colorado Police Corruption<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <table style="text-align: left; width: 319px; height: 870px;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 460px; height: 421px;" alt="Roast A Pig - Police Corruption" src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8908/animated20pig4ti6so6.gif" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <h3>Colorado Police Corruption</h3><br /><a href="http://www.policecrimes.com/about.html">Colorado Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/148/overabarrel.shtml">Denver Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skhKBHSIh98">Colorado Springs Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.koaa.com/">Pueblo Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://pqx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/2/87">Boulder Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://localsearch.com/_1_2J6RU3T02YTDLG2__insp.bylocation/local/results.htm?what=Government+Police+Departments&searchTypeOptions=Ads,webOnly&where=Laporte%2C+CO&sessionID=95d73fe7-3ed8-4605-bec4-2f0b17d4835c&r_fcp=topnav&r_aid=BD70C42CC8124A89BD47EBC8E2C72E30">Fort Collins Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.coloradoaim.org/blog/2006_01_01_coloradoaim_archive.html">Sterling Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.greeleygov.com/Police/ServiceDivision.aspx">Greeley Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2000/2/18/frank_serpico_on_police_corruption">Aspen Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/city/acworth-nh/TTEGJR66R0JTNAAP9">Littleton Police Corruption</a> <br /> <a href="http://www.iejs.com/Policing/police_corruption.htm"><br /></a> <p><a href="http://www.doerflerlaw.com/PracticeAreas/Police-Brutality-Wrongful-Imprisonment.html"><br /> </a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-10073087491989630732008-08-09T13:39:00.000-07:002008-08-09T13:45:53.896-07:00Arkansas Police Corruption - Roast A Pig<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <table style="text-align: left; width: 319px; height: 870px;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 460px; height: 421px;" alt="Roast A Pig - Police Corruption" src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8908/animated20pig4ti6so6.gif" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <h3>Arkansas Police Corruption</h3><br /><a href="http://www.iejs.com/Policing/police_corruption.htm">Arkansas Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://gangstersinblue.org/category/police-corruption/">Little Rock Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://lawyers.nolo.com/searchresults.cfm?LocationID=320&specialtyID=8&loc=71903%2C%20Arkansas&spec=Government%20%26%20Environment&zid=3">Hot Springs Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://insidedateline.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/970919.aspx">Russellville Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.screwedcentral.com/ubb/Forum31/HTML/000060.html">Benton Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3732">Pine Bluff Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=52762">Harrison Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/">Camden Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?&q5=&searchtype=0&q1=ALL&q3=&q2=&q7=&q4=&q6=UNITED%20COLLECTION%20&start=925">Conway Police Corruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.photography-forums.com/t18009-p2-drpostman-jamie-eckles-343-forest-park-west-memphis-ar-72301.html">West Memphis Police Corruption</a> <p><a href="http://www.doerflerlaw.com/PracticeAreas/Police-Brutality-Wrongful-Imprisonment.html"><br /></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-36516906105511745622008-05-12T17:22:00.000-07:002008-05-12T17:34:03.379-07:00Arizona Police Corruption - Roast A Pig<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <table style="text-align: left; width: 319px; height: 870px;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 460px; height: 421px;" alt="Roast A Pig - Police Corruption" src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8908/animated20pig4ti6so6.gif" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <h3>Arizona Police Corruption</h3> <p><a href="http://www.doerflerlaw.com/PracticeAreas/Police-Brutality-Wrongful-Imprisonment.html">Arizona Police Corruption<br /> </a><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/louie-tovar-of-phoenix-police.html">Phoenix Police Corruption<br /> </a><a href="http://suncity.arizona.com/movies.html?browse=info&show=52574">Sun City Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.coloradoaim.org/blog/2006_01_01_coloradoaim_archive.html">Flagstaff Police Corruption<br /> </a><a href="http://www.ethicsinpolicing.com/Categorynews.asp?catid=17&offset=420">Tempe Police Corruption<br /> </a><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/topics/drug_war_issues/criminal_justice/policing/police_corrupti">Tucson Police Corruption<br /> </a><a href="http://bhppc.blogspot.com/2002/09/police-corruption-crackdown-new-anti.html">Sierra Vista Police Corruption<br /> </a><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/">Scottsdale Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.goodbadcorrupt.com/showthread.php?t=492">Lake Havasu Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://mediafilter.org/cwdir/">Prescott Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://law.jrank.org/pages/2659/Wyatt-Earp-Trial-1881.html"> Tombstone Police Corruption</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-6846659555169250302008-05-11T14:05:00.000-07:002008-05-11T14:15:13.911-07:00Alabama Police Corruption - Roast A Pig<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <table style="text-align: left; width: 319px; height: 870px;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 460px; height: 421px;" alt="Roast A Pig - Police Corruption" src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8908/animated20pig4ti6so6.gif" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <h3>Alabama Police Corruption</h3> <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/294047/former_alabama_police_chief_given_38.html"><big><small>Alabama Police Corruption</small></big></a><big style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </big><a href="http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/">Birmingham Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://familydynamics.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/two-prattville-alabama-women-arrested-for-promoting-prostitution/">Prattville Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://freemasonrywatch.org/true_blue.html">Montgomery Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/03/04/tuscaloosa-police-be-ridin-dirty/">Auburn Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://bessemeropinions.blogspot.com/2007/09/western-tribune-column-from-september.html">Bessemer Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/section/MOVIES01&FilmID=65604&display=critics&show=r">Tuscaloosa Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://starpolice.blogspot.com/2007_12_30_archive.html">Anniston Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage">Gadsden Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/city/decatur-al/TP9SQU4VM7LTF8O01">Decatur Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.patrickswiney.com/">Huntsville Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Forest_Whitaker/articles/custom/relevance/1?end=20080419&start=20080329">Talladega Police Corruption</a><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-3466111661290870112008-05-07T14:16:00.000-07:002008-05-07T14:21:59.066-07:00Philadelphia Police Brutality - Video Gets 15 Cops Fired<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2myV0b9LE7I&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2myV0b9LE7I&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />Fifteen Philadelphia police officers will be taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked and beaten by city police.<br /><br />The video was shot Monday night by WTXF-TV. It shows three police cars stopping a car on the side of a road. The tape shows about a dozen officers gathering around the vehicle and pulling three men out. About a half-dozen officers hold two of the men on the ground. Both are kicked repeatedly, with one of the two apparently struck with a baton. Punches were also thrown. The third man is also kicked and ends up on the ground.<br /><br />"On the surface, it certainly does not look good in terms of the amount of force that was used. But we don't want to rush to judgment," Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Tuesday.<br /><br />"I just burst out and cried. I was appalled at it," said Shirley Hopkins, the mother of one suspect.<br /><br />Hopkins said she can't understand why police used as much force as they did.<br /><br />"I just can't believe that someone was being beaten like that by numerous officers -- constantly stomped, kicked and hit with blackjacks," she said.<br /><br />And the mother of a second suspect said seeing what happened left her angry with the officers.<br /><br />"I just can't express to you what I feel inside as a mother to see my son brutally beat like that," said Leomia Dyches.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-52737445814109160152008-05-06T11:38:00.001-07:002008-05-06T11:53:23.174-07:00Police Intimidation In Onalaska, WI - Officers Danou and Kobishop<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7140/imgpolicebadgeyo7.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7140/imgpolicebadgeyo7.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4181/team4bhe9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4181/team4bhe9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Recently in Onalaska, Wisconsin Officer Danou and Officer Kobishop dealt out some standard police issue, intimidation. Going into single women's homes, threatening to arrest everyone in the home. They dragged out several visitors to the home in handcuffs. This was all done in public view while very scared children watched their parents being harassed and called liars. According to Anjie of Wisconsin, this was done on multiple occasions.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-89467374164684581752008-05-01T14:12:00.000-07:002008-05-01T14:19:25.429-07:00California Police Corruption<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <table style="text-align: left; width: 319px; height: 870px;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="2" rowspan="1"><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 460px; height: 421px;" alt="Roast A Pig - Police Corruption" src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8908/animated20pig4ti6so6.gif" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><big style="font-weight: bold;">California Police Corruption</big></td> <td><big style="font-weight: bold;">california police corruption</big></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.goodbadcorrupt.com/"><big><small>California Police Corruption</small></big></a><big style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </big><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2007/11/los-angeles-police-corruption.html">Modesto Police Corruption </a><br /> <a href="http://antwerp.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/a-city-for-the-rich-turning-antwerps-riverbanks-into-a-playground-for-the-privileged-few/">Riverbank Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.policewatchers.com/content/Causes-Of-Police-Corruption.html">Oakdale Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://sacpd.com/node?page=1">Merced Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/turlock-police-officer-jorge-cruz.html">Ripon Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-sex-crime-charges-against-officer.html">Manteca Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.middlesbrough-police.com/2008/04/bbc-make-false-statements-in_13.html">Stockton Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/turlock-police-officer-jorge-cruz.html">Turlock Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.lodinews.com/lodi_living/">Sonora Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.lodinews.com/lodi_living/">Lodi Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2007/11/los-angeles-police-corruption.html">Ceres Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://sacpd.com/sacramento-police-brutality-reported-amnesty-international">Sacramento Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/04/national/main542678.shtml">San Francisco Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/city/san-mateo-ca/T6P4AS1V9O6UOKRSP">Daly City Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/">Laytonville Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/">Willits Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/judge-throws-out-hamburg-medical.html">Ukiah Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/rampart/">Los Angeles Police Corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/148/overabarrel.shtml">San Diego Police Corruption</a></td> <td><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_8_31/ai_58381539"><big><small>california police corruption</small></big></a><big style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </big><a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2007/11/los-angeles-police-corruption.html">modesto police corruption </a><br /> <a href="http://antwerp.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/a-city-for-the-rich-turning-antwerps-riverbanks-into-a-playground-for-the-privileged-few/">riverbank police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.policewatchers.com/content/Causes-Of-Police-Corruption.html">oakdale police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://sacpd.com/node?page=1">merced police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/turlock-police-officer-jorge-cruz.html">ripon police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-sex-crime-charges-against-officer.html">manteca police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.middlesbrough-police.com/2008/04/bbc-make-false-statements-in_13.html">stockton police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/turlock-police-officer-jorge-cruz.html">turlock police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.lodinews.com/lodi_living/">sonora police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.lodinews.com/lodi_living/">lodi police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2007/11/los-angeles-police-corruption.html">ceres police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://sacpd.com/sacramento-police-brutality-reported-amnesty-international">sacramento police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/04/national/main542678.shtml">san Francisco police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/city/san-mateo-ca/T6P4AS1V9O6UOKRSP">daly city police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/">laytonville police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/">willits police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://roastapig.blogspot.com/2008/04/judge-throws-out-hamburg-medical.html">ukiah police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/11/03/lapd.trial/index.html">los angeles police corruption</a><br /> <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20080424-9999-1m24general.html">san diego police corruption</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-81378223826598064972008-04-28T17:31:00.000-07:002008-04-28T17:33:40.948-07:00North Carolina Pig Loses Temper - Police Brutality<object width="425" 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The Baton Rouge police chief has fired an officer accused of forcing a handcuffed man to the floor, kicking him hard enough to burst an internal organ, then using pepper spray on him.<br /><br />Nathan Davis was fired Friday, after an internal investigation found that he used excessive force against Brian Townsend, 29, who has filed a lawsuit claiming that one of the officer’s kicks ruptured his bladder.<br /><br />Told that Davis had been fired, Townsend said, “No way! No way! I can’t even describe how I feel right now!”<br /><br />Chief Jeff LeDuff made Davis’ dismissal effective immediately, and the police department will forward the case to the FBI for review, police spokesman Sgt. Don Kelly said Friday.<br /><br />“I have never been more proud of a police chief and officers in internal affairs in my lifetime,” Townsend’s lawyer, Aidan Reynolds, said Friday.<br /><br />Townsend said four operations have left him with a 10-inch scar from his navel to his groin.<br /><br />Police were sent to Townsend’s house about 3 a.m. March 4, during a going-away party he was giving for a friend.<br /><br />“Apparently someone decided there were too many cars in front of his house. Then he got handcuffed, pepper sprayed and brutalized for hours,” Reynolds said.<br /><br />Davis and Officer Nicholas Batiste were “very aggressive and confrontational” when they arrived, according to the suit, which names Davis and East Baton Rouge city-parish government as defendants. The suit, filed in March, says Townsend was calm and curteous but Davis tackled him to the ground.<br /><br />After handcuffing Townsend, the lawsuit says, Davis kneed him in the back so forcefully that he defecated. It says Davis used pepper spray on Townsend when he asked why he was being arrested, and again at the Highland Road substation, where he was made to lie on the floor and ridiculed by other police officers, the lawsuit says.<br />It says Townsend’s pleas for medical help were ignored for 30 minutes.<br />“My client cares more about this officer being not allowed to brutalize other human beings more than this lawsuit,” Reynolds said. “He’s been terrified that this cop’s still running around on the street with a badge and a gun.”<br /><br />Davis, 29, had spent four years with the Police Department as a member of the uniformed patrol division, Kelly said. He declined to elaborate on the investigation further, saying it was a personnel issue.<br /><br />Townsend, a manager at Chili’s, spent 108 days on medical leave due to his injuries. His first day back at work was Friday.<br /><br />“For both of these huge events to happen in the same day just kind of seems like karma,” Townsend said.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-44855350965303135592008-04-21T15:27:00.000-07:002008-12-13T00:47:13.590-08:00Chicago Police Corruption - Officers Charged With Home Invasions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jssdyX5Fx8-xZ9S2lZ7JS-_hXBtebTwSADqUozpSHZLxZbpSlYHNvFBPi4aSuYinuQaLyZIBKzLCXi0bQymPUcnTox57mqm3RPsX86mTlnlKvhOH_xnK9eDZC2zhjbnhOBPpOuqt49M/s1600-h/Chicago+Police+Corruption.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jssdyX5Fx8-xZ9S2lZ7JS-_hXBtebTwSADqUozpSHZLxZbpSlYHNvFBPi4aSuYinuQaLyZIBKzLCXi0bQymPUcnTox57mqm3RPsX86mTlnlKvhOH_xnK9eDZC2zhjbnhOBPpOuqt49M/s320/Chicago+Police+Corruption.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191829295701594546" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Three more Chicago police officers were charged Monday with corruption, only three months after four rogue officers faced charges of using their badges to break into homes and rob them.<br /><br />Thirty-eight-year-old Frank Villareal and 32-year-old Margaret Hopkins are charged with home invasion and official misconduct. Forty-year-old James McGovern is charged only with official misconduct. The officers turned themselves Monday as part of an ongoing corruption investigation.<br /><br /><br />"Abusive Chicago police officers have been allowed to perpetuate abuse in Chicago with virtual absolute impunity," said Craig Futterman, a law professor at the University of Chicago.<br /><br />Futterman has researched citizen complaints against Chicago police. A percentage cause big problems and there's no system in place to track them.<br /><br />"Just 5 percent is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the abuse complaints. Two-hundred sixty-two officers have 11 or more complaints," Futterman said.<br /><br />Officers Jerome Finnigan, 43, Keith Herrera, 28, Thomas Sherry, 32, and Carl Suchocki, 32, were arrested in September.<br /><br />Bond was set in September in the millions for all four.<br /><br />Prosecutors say the officers abused their authority to terrorize and steal from people. They say the men allegedly forced their way into homes of drug dealers and ordinary citizens. The officers allegedly took everything from drugs to guns and in come cases thousands of dollars in cash.<br /><br />Prosecutors said there were numerous cases where the officers never showed up in court to testify, which allowed alleged drug dealers to go free.<br /><br />Futterman says there were plenty of red flags about their behavior long before their arrests.<br /><br />"Even with these special operations group guys, they have 50 or more complaints. They were never disciplined, identified, or flagged in any way," Futterman said.<br /><br />In a statement, Chicago Police Supt. Phil Cline said Monday's arrests "further illustrate the department's ongoing commitment to root out bad cops who violate the public's trust and the professional integrity of the Chicago Police Department. Since 2003, the department has remained committed and continues to be vigilant in identifying patterns of misconduct."<br /><br />Pressure on the department to deal with corruption allegations has intensified. Cline pointedly said no one is above the law, and misconduct on any level will not be tolerated.<br /><br />But Futterman insists even the worst cops know there's little oversight.<br /><br />"Officers with 11 or more complaints know with 99 percent certainty nothing will happen to them due to citizen abuse complaints," Futterman said.<br /><br />Cline has implicitly admitted oversight has been lax in the past but says new systems are being tested to identify troubling patterns of conduct.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-16738431729110010722008-04-21T15:02:00.000-07:002008-12-13T00:47:13.746-08:00Twenty San Francisco Cops Suspended Without Pay<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQII0biJPwi1KEAt-9ABpJTvbmvYa_zqSLc202an7HdNXyZD4ScvKoednULcOV2H-J5XITWuv1ArUaHjQiGZzknYm_Iz0OD9u06WFrshP50vlUP6YK7MGQsX3sEfs0dtGZmMLyXks1w8/s1600-h/san+francisco_cops_three.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQII0biJPwi1KEAt-9ABpJTvbmvYa_zqSLc202an7HdNXyZD4ScvKoednULcOV2H-J5XITWuv1ArUaHjQiGZzknYm_Iz0OD9u06WFrshP50vlUP6YK7MGQsX3sEfs0dtGZmMLyXks1w8/s320/san+francisco_cops_three.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191825090928611746" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/12/08/MNGQIG4PLD1.DTL&o=0">You Can View Excerpts From The San Francisco Press Conference By Clicking Here</a> </div><span id="bodytext" class="georgia md"><p>About 20 San Francisco police officers will be suspended because of their alleged involvement in what the mayor and police chief describe as videos that mock minorities and treat women as sex objects, the officials said Wednesday night. </p><p>"This is a dark day -- an extremely dark day -- in the history of the San Francisco Police Department for me as a chief to have to stand here and share with you such egregious, shameful and despicable acts by members of the San Francisco Police Department,'' Chief Heather Fong said at a City Hall press conference. </p><p>An officer at the department's Bayview Station, who is among those ordered suspended, produced the videos over the past two years using other officers and acquaintances and intended them as morale boosters, he and his attorney said Wednesday night. The officer denied he had done anything wrong, and his attorney said the suspensions were a politically motivated attack on free speech. </p><p>Many of those ordered suspended are connected to Bayview Station, including its former captain, Rick Bruce, who went on leave three months ago for unrelated reasons. He appears in one of the videos, which was shot while he was still on duty. </p><p>The five videos shown at Wednesday's press conference with Fong and Mayor Gavin Newsom depict officers, some in uniform, responding to a variety of mock calls. One video shows a homeless black woman railing against white people after apparently being hit by a patrol car, followed by an officer grumbling about having to deal with her. "They get us involved with their business,'' the officer said. </p><p>Another video depicts an officer ogling a woman he has stopped for a traffic violation. One shows two officers attempting tai chi to vaguely Asian music. The two later go into a massage parlor and radio dispatchers try unsuccessfully to reach them -- the suggestion being the two are having sex with masseuses. </p><p>One video, with the theme to the old TV show "Charlie's Angels" as the soundtrack, shows various officers saying, "Oh, captain," and flicking their tongues suggestively. The captain involved, Bruce, flicks his tongue in apparent response -- although the officer who produced the videos said Bruce had not known what the shot was to be used for. </p><p>One of those depicted in that sequence is the same homeless woman who was earlier shown yelling about white people. Another is a police officer dressed as a transgender person. </p><p>In another video, a female officer is shown putting on lipstick in the middle of a mock drug raid. </p><p>Newsom called the videos the tipping point that will lead to changing the culture of the Police Department. </p><p>"Enough is enough,'' said Newsom, who promised dramatic changes, including the creation of a panel to review the entire department's operations.<br /></p></span>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-73698531379904779242008-04-16T19:56:00.000-07:002008-12-13T00:47:13.924-08:00Louie Tovar Of Phoenix Police Department Investigated<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSE6r5tYZU4Za8qgZJt98qSnERH0E91JNPtYvTB-oE4eHFy-0bNrQtmS5GCy360I-rblDput0YgOdKwRVJ1oDFgH7p0oZg28zHfQHmHqjW0yepkZhyphenhyphen4r8gxK8aBvhq7oqbczuC3FEMjOU/s1600-h/louietovar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSE6r5tYZU4Za8qgZJt98qSnERH0E91JNPtYvTB-oE4eHFy-0bNrQtmS5GCy360I-rblDput0YgOdKwRVJ1oDFgH7p0oZg28zHfQHmHqjW0yepkZhyphenhyphen4r8gxK8aBvhq7oqbczuC3FEMjOU/s320/louietovar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190044289813991794" border="0" /></a>Commander Louie Tovar Of Phoenix Police<br />The Little Man In The Back<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Commander Louie Tovar is with the Phoenix Police. He was with Family Investigations Bureau (FIB) but was recently demoted to work Transit. This is our befuddled "going nowhere-starting nowhere" Lightrail project in Phoenix. This seems fitting and appropo for Louie.<br /><br />While with FIB, Louie Tovar never bothered to learn how to use the new phone system the<br />Phoenix Police Department installed in 2007. This ineptitude lead him to forget, to hang up the phone. He had my voicemail on speaker phone while he spoke to his staff about me. The other voices in the recording are Sandra Renteiria and Brandon Huntley - both of the Phoenix Police Department. All Recording came from my cell phone and are accompanied by a notarized document for authenticity.<br /><br />This recording is Louie telling his staff to keep me from going to his boss, Chief Jack Harris, of the Phoenix Police. He states how he needs to get me "off his ass" and how "what a problem" I have become and not to "do it now." You see, I pointed out a major mistake to Louie and his staff, and he didn't like that. Brandon Huntely screamed at me telling me, "to get over it and let this go." Cops are arrogant and one can't point out to them their flaws and mistakes.<br /><br />Here's the transcript:<br />"So you have to be wary of the fact there...he'll ask the same questions of Chief Harris and will turn around and say, Why can't we make him a Subject? It's about getting this guy off our ass...Right? That's the problem, That's the problem. I'm not saying do it now...."<br /><br />So what exactly do you think Louie and his staff were not going to do now?<br />"I'm not saying do it now???!!???<br /><br />Wrongfully arrest me? Shoot me and plant a gun in my hand? Harrass me? Bug my phone? What was the "it" Louie Tovar?<br /><br />To make matters worse, here is yet another recording of Louie Tovar, calling me a Dickweed for questioning him and his authority. <br /><br />If you don't believe there is corruption in the Phoenix Police Department, just listen how behind closed doors Louie Tovar and his staff, refer to dealing with us as "a fucking game". I am so glad and feel so comforted that Commander Louie Tovar of the Phoenix Police Department thinks that his job is "a game" and everytime someone in the community calls and questions him, we automatically become "dickweeds." I would like to read about this in the Police Code of Conduct.<br /><br />Here's the transcript:<br />"It's a game. It's the fucking nature of the game with these dickweeds...ya know?" You can clearly here Sandra Renteiria affirmation of "Yeah" agreeing with him.<br /><br />A complaint against Louie Tovar and FIB was filed with the Phoenix Police Professional Standards Bureau (FIB - their Internal Affairs) in August of 2007, mentioning these recordings and threatening comments made by Louie Tovar. Two months later we received a letter back stating that a "<em>thorough investigation was conducted</em>" and they found nothing wrong, or any wrong doing by Louie or his staff.<br /><br />We are unaware how they can conduct an investigation without ever reaching out to us, requesting these recordings or ever interviewing us. Frankly, we don't think any investigation was done because subsequent requests for transcripts, notes, recordings or any documentation related to this investigation have gone unanswered by chief Jack Harris, Professional Standards Bureau, mayor Phil Gordon or the City Manager's office. One would think there would be some evidence of this "thorough investigation"...No?<br /><br />If they ever provide it, we will post it here too. We heard that documentation is being forwarded to us on this supposed investigation and we are cautiously optimistic. We still don't comprehend how an investigation is conducted by the police, by only speaking with the police, when the complaint is against the police.<br /><br />None of us can figure out where these cops get the authority and right to speak to, and order citizens in this way. It can only come from poor leadership and lack of good management. The arrogance is so real and so mind blowing, we just can't make this stuff up!!!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2F84gJgiu_8&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><div mobilizerframe="true" id="mobilizer-frame-n27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: visible; width: 425px; display: none;"><div style="overflow: visible; height: 0px; width: 100%;" align="left"><div id="mobilizer-tab-n27" style="border-style: ridge ridge none; border-width: 2px 2px 0px; padding: 1px; overflow: visible; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; opacity: 1; background-color: white; position: relative; top: -22.5px; left: 3px; z-index: 900; width: 96px; height: 19px; cursor: pointer;" align="center"><span style="font-family: Sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 180%; text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; color: black;"><img style="width: 19px; height: 19px;" src="chrome://mobilizer/skin/mobilizer.png" align="left" border="0" /> <div style="margin-left: 19px; text-align: center;" id="mobilizer-text-n27">Mobilize This!</div></span></div></div></div><embed mobilizerframename="mobilizer-frame-n27" mobilizerframedobject2="true" mobilizerframedobject="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2F84gJgiu_8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-7200978229156500692008-04-16T19:26:00.000-07:002008-12-13T00:47:14.077-08:00Detective Edgar Rios Of Trenton NJ Police Department<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4-ySBlW5oxtEU0_OLf7GK0Du5Mvr0B9Xxz1mqGI8IeJUT40P1WyhORK1qofOHdffTJzT1NK0KSVRjHUNmirLvXUXx4e6UnBUZnpFYwsdjmAaBDGZQ4HQil9a5Wqgjh0qemTOUTTQCJJE/s1600-h/large_337565_ttcopp26_fj_2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4-ySBlW5oxtEU0_OLf7GK0Du5Mvr0B9Xxz1mqGI8IeJUT40P1WyhORK1qofOHdffTJzT1NK0KSVRjHUNmirLvXUXx4e6UnBUZnpFYwsdjmAaBDGZQ4HQil9a5Wqgjh0qemTOUTTQCJJE/s320/large_337565_ttcopp26_fj_2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190037525240500562" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Authorities are disciplining a Trenton police detective who waited more than two years to tell the family of a missing woman that she was dead. <p>Detective Edgar Rios is charged with 28 departmental violations and has been removed from the homicide unit.</p> <p>The city's Officer of the Year for 2007 has said he waited to disclose Amber Ramsey's death because he wanted to make sure forensic evidence checked out. But Police Director Joseph Santiago says there's no evidence that was the case.</p> <p>Rios' administrative charges include failure to follow leads and failure to document his work. Two of his supervisors, including his brother, have also been transferred.</p> <p>Ramsey was reported missing in February 2006 and her body was found, along with a coat that contained ID, seven months later.</p> <p>Her parents were not notified until last month. She apparently died of a drug overdose.</p>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-70313837155665541392008-04-16T00:09:00.000-07:002008-04-16T00:24:52.119-07:00Earl Sanders, Disgraced San Francisco Police Chief, Promotes "The Zebra Killings" BookExiled in retirement after Fajitagate, ex–Police Chief Earl Sanders has re-emerged with a fresh account of the infamous Zebra murders. And his critics are on the warpath.<br /><br />It's noon on a Thursday and former San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders, accompanied by his wife, Espanola, is holding court at the Washington Square Bar & Grill in North Beach, reminiscing about his nearly 40 years as a cop.<br /><br /><br />The more than a dozen people seated at his large table are there at the invitation of longtime Sanders pal and attorney Phil Ryan. There are other lawyers, a reporter, a cop, and a lobbyist. Sanders doesn't know some of them, but that's OK — this isn't a social gathering. Rather, at $50 a head, including lunch, it's an attempt by the former chief at generating some positive buzz about a book he has written and is promoting with near evangelical zeal.<br /><br />The Zebra Murders, co-written with TV and film scriptwriter Bennett Cohen, purports to set the record straight about the investigation into a series of racially motivated serial killings in 1973 and 1974 that are among the most horrific — and least talked about — crimes in San Francisco history. But even his friends acknowledge that the book is also an attempt by the city's first and only African-American police chief to set his own record straight.<br /><br />Until now, at least, what most people associate with Earl Sanders' brief and generally un-noteworthy 14-month tenure as the city's top cop is the Fajitagate scandal. He and most of his command staff were indicted for — and later absolved of — covering up a police probe of a 2002 street brawl, allegedly over a bag of fajitas, involving three young off-duty cops. Obstruction of justice charges were later dropped and Sanders obtained a rare factual finding of innocence from a Superior Court judge. Fajitagate wasn't his only problem at the time. The year after the scandal broke, a U.S. District Court judge released two African-Americans that Sanders and an old partner in homicide allegedly framed for murder. By the time he retired in September 2003, after six months of medical leave, his reputation was in tatters. He'd been trashed in the local press. Detractors openly mocked the leave as a sympathy ploy despite his having suffered a minor stroke. Even his one-time patron, and the man who appointed him, former Mayor Willie Brown, asked him to quit.<br /><br />Fleeing the limelight, the 69-year-old Sanders retreated to the Sacramento suburb of Folsom, where he has long maintained a home (and, ironically, home to the state prison where some of the former homicide detective's criminal "clients" wound up behind bars). He went there to lick his wounds, care for his health, and, so it seemed, to settle into a life of obscurity.<br /><br />Now, he's back.<br /><br />He's going full-tilt as a new author, whether at intimate affairs such as the one in North Beach, or at book signings, readings, or doing remote interviews with radio stations across the country, often accompanied by co-author Cohen. It seems that a three-decades-old tale of racially inspired terrorism has struck a resonant chord in places far from San Francisco in the years since Sept. 11, 2001. "Earl is really in his element and enjoying himself, and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person," says Ryan, who was Sanders' lawyer during the Fajitagate mess.<br /><br />But in the four months since The Zebra Murders hit store shelves, the book has done more than merely rekindle interest in a bloody and racially ugly epoch. It has also dredged up old dissensions within San Francisco law enforcement circles, and a few former cops have even stalked Sanders at book signings in the Bay Area. Critics accuse Sanders of recasting himself, both as a star sleuth in the Zebra investigation, and as a civil rights hero in a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of black cops in the 1970s. "I read it and didn't think much of it," retired cop Dennis Bianchi says of the book. "To me, it isn't so much about the [Zebra] killings as it is about promoting Earl Sanders."<br /><br />The book is sold locally at Barnes and Nobles in Daly City.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-15051103917590762582008-04-15T22:55:00.000-07:002008-04-16T00:29:01.733-07:00San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders and Six Other Top Cops Indicted In Alleged Cover-Up<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8601/image542681xpo5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8601/image542681xpo5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- sphereit start --><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Indicted by a grand jury and warned by the district attorney that "no one in San Francisco is above the law," six of the city's top police commanders have stepped aside, leaving the department in shambles.<br /><br />Police Chief Earl Sanders was preparing to take a medical leave, and appointed an acting assistant chief Monday.<br /><br />The moves were the latest development in a police corruption scandal that erupted last week with the indictments of Sanders and the six other commanders for allegedly obstructing justice by hindering a police investigation into an off-duty brawl involving three officers — including a troubled rookie whose father is Sanders' top aide.<br /><br />The officers, who allegedly demanded two men hand over a doggie bag of steak fajitas Nov. 20, have been accused of felony assault and battery and were suspended without pay, a police spokesman said.<br /><br />A contentious Police Commission meeting illustrated how the scandal had rocked the city — both on and off the force. Rank-and-file officers lined up to praise their accused leaders, while some citizens pleaded for reforms for what they perceive as a pattern of police corruption.<br /><br />"This is a cautionary tale for police departments all over the country," said Jimani Jakada of the group Bay Area Police Watch, who criticized the police for closing ranks around the indicted chief. "They're saying they're blue, I'm blue, I'll stand with you."<br /><br />Officers representing various segments of the force — black, Hispanic, Asian, and gay and lesbian officers — urged the commission to keep the command staff intact.<br /><br />"This department is up and running and we'll continue to serve the people," said Chris Cunnie, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association. "We stand by these people."<br /><br />Mayor Willie Brown, who has steadfastly supported Sanders and the police investigation into the off-duty fight and the alleged cover-up, pulled back from the controversy and did not offer public comment.<br /><br />But the mayor's rival, District Attorney Terence Hallinan, said he was stunned by the latest turn.<br /><br />"I understand the public feelings of shock, outrage, anger and apprehension," Hallinan said.<br /><br />After the Police Commission meeting, its president Connie Perry announced Sanders had accepted the offers of the six commanders to "step aside and go on leave." Then commissioners adjourned, saying they needed to gather more information about the indictments.<br /><br />It wasn't clear when Sanders might relinquish control of the department. Assistant Chief Alex Fagan and Deputy Chief David Robinson were also among those stepping down.<br /><br />Heather Fong, one of the few untainted police managers, was elevated to be acting assistant chief, effectively running the department.<br /><br />The turmoil began with a sidewalk confrontation between Fagan's son, Alex Fagan Jr., a 23-year-old rookie, and two other officers who had been drinking at a police banquet to celebrate the mayor's promotion of the elder Fagan to the department's No. 2 spot.<br /><br />At closing time, Fagan Jr. and officer Matthew Tonsing allegedly accosted Adam Snyder, 22, who tends bar nearby, and his friend, Jade Santoro, 25, as officer David Lee, the designated driver, pulled up in his pickup truck.<br /><br />Snyder, who said he had no idea the men punching them were police, called 911 on his cell phone.<br /><br />Police arrived and took the officers away before Snyder and Santoro could identify them. Fagan Jr., Tonsing and Lee also were allegedly allowed to change their clothes and drink lots of water before they were tested for alcohol, more than four hours later.<br /><br />It turned out Fagan Jr. had at least 16 violent encounters with suspects in a 13-month period, sending six of them to the hospital, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.<br /><br />But other higher-ups apparently took little action other than to counsel him about his conduct and order anger management training — a course he never took.<br /><br />The officers involved, still in the San Francisco area including Daily City and Pacifica.Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455274164814005856.post-47895352593165085112008-04-15T22:22:00.000-07:002008-04-15T22:28:57.783-07:00Judge Throws Out Hamburg Medical Marijuana Case; Mendocino County Sheriffs Department “ommited truth”<b>Laura Hamburg stood up Against the Bio-tech Giant Monsanto, helped to pass Measure G the famous Anti-GMO Bill in Mendocino County. And this is how the County of Mendocino thanks her!<br /></b> <p><b>And this is what we get out of the people who are supposed to protect us?</b></p> <p>From the Press Democrat:</p> <p><i><b>Former county prosecutor Keith Faulder, Hamburg’s attorney, accused sheriff’s deputies in court Thursday of deceiving a local judge who was convinced to sign a warrant to search her home on property owned by her parents, former Rep. Dan Hamburg, D-Ukiah, and his wife, Carrie.</b></i></p> <p><i><b>Faulder said authorities had “wildly inflated” the amount of processed marijuana found </b></i></p> <p>UKIAH — Prosecution of community activist Laura Hamburg on felony marijuana charges is in doubt following a Mendocino County judge’s decision to quash a search warrant in the high-profile case.</p> <p>The ruling means evidence seized during a raid on her home can’t be used against her, and it raises the possibility that the pending criminal case could be dropped. That prospect Thursday buoyed Hamburg’s family and friends, as well as supporters of county medical marijuana policies.</p> <p>Hamburg said after her court victory that widespread publicity surrounding her case has unfairly branded her as a criminal.</p> <p>“People think I’m some kind of big-time grower, but I’m not. It was just a family operation,” said Hamburg after Thursday’s hearing.</p> <p>Former county prosecutor Keith Faulder, Hamburg’s attorney, accused sheriff’s deputies in court Thursday of deceiving a local judge who was convinced to sign a warrant to search her home on property owned by her parents, former Rep. Dan Hamburg, D-Ukiah, and his wife, Carrie.</p> <p>Faulder said they failed to disclose in their sworn statement that Laura Hamburg had provided them with valid county-issued medical marijuana documentation showing that two other individuals — her sister Elizabeth Hamburg and neighbor Jean North — were also involved in the pot-growing operation.</p> <p>Judge James Luther, a retired Superior Court judge presiding over Thursday’s hearing, agreed.</p> <p>Luther ruled that the documentation was crucial because the number of pot plants growing at Hamburg’s home appeared to be within county guidelines if three people were in fact involved.</p> <p>“Based on the evidence presented today, I don’t believe the search warrant would have been issued,” said Luther.</p> <p>Deputy District Attorney Scott McMenomey said Thursday he was unsure whether he will try to prosecute Hamburg, given the diminished evidence.</p> <p>“We’ll have to wait and see what happens,” said McMenomey. Luther ordered another hearing to be held March 13.</p> <p>At the time of the raid in October, sheriff investigators said at least 50 mature pot plants, about 50 pounds of processed marijuana, and $10,000 in cash were found on the Hamburg property. Faulder said authorities had “wildly inflated” the amount of processed marijuana found, a volume which could have been worth $150,000 or more in the underground pot market.</p> <p>Hamburg’s pot-growing case has been high-profile from the beginning, when top sheriff’s department brass, 11 drug agents and at least two deputy district attorneys went to the family compound last fall after being alerted that marijuana was being cultivated.</p> <p>Deputies were seeking to serve a warrant on Hamburg’s brother, Matt, for violating a civil restraining order when they noticed the growing pot.</p> <p>“I initially welcomed the first two officers onto the property because I knew we were in conformance with county law,” said Hamburg.</p> <p>But Hamburg said she became increasingly “fearful” as the number of law enforcement officers swelled.</p> <p>“I’m not some criminal,” she said.</p><br /><p>Other towns in Mendocino County include: Willits, CA , Laytonville, CA , and Ukiah, CA .<br /></p>Roast A Pighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669372267324352401noreply@blogger.com0