Stupid, Dumb and Just Plain Ignorant Cop Thread
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Oklahoma cop accused of sexual assaults released on bond
Reuters
First posted: Saturday, September 06, 2014 04:16 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, September 06, 2014 04:28 PM EDT
An Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping or sexually assaulting at least six women while on patrol was released from jail after posting $500,000 bond on Friday, officials said.
Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, a three-year veteran of the Oklahoma City police force was arrested last month and charged with 16 counts of burglary and sexual assault including two counts of first-degree rape and sexual battery, among other crimes, court records show.
Holtzclaw's bail was originally set at $5 million cash, but his attorney Scott Adams successfully lobbied the judge to reduce the total to $500,000, according to court records. A deputy at the jail said Holtzclaw was released after posting bond.
Holtzclaw was ordered into house arrest and fitted with a GPS monitoring system, court records show. He was forced to turn in his badge, uniform, and weapon.
Police said some of the suspected assaults took place as a result of traffic stops.
Oklahoma cop accused of sexual assaults released on bond | World | News | Toront
Reuters
First posted: Saturday, September 06, 2014 04:16 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, September 06, 2014 04:28 PM EDT
An Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping or sexually assaulting at least six women while on patrol was released from jail after posting $500,000 bond on Friday, officials said.
Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, a three-year veteran of the Oklahoma City police force was arrested last month and charged with 16 counts of burglary and sexual assault including two counts of first-degree rape and sexual battery, among other crimes, court records show.
Holtzclaw's bail was originally set at $5 million cash, but his attorney Scott Adams successfully lobbied the judge to reduce the total to $500,000, according to court records. A deputy at the jail said Holtzclaw was released after posting bond.
Holtzclaw was ordered into house arrest and fitted with a GPS monitoring system, court records show. He was forced to turn in his badge, uniform, and weapon.
Police said some of the suspected assaults took place as a result of traffic stops.
Oklahoma cop accused of sexual assaults released on bond | World | News | Toront
The Central Park Five's Long Legal Nightmare Ends As Judge Approves $41 Million Settlement
The Central Park Five's Long Legal Nightmare Ends As Judge Approves $41 Million Settlement
A federal judge officially approved New York City's $41 million settlement with the Central Park Five on Friday, bringing to an end a decades-long legal battle for the five men wrongfully convicted in a high-profile sexual assault case in 1990.
"It's a long time coming and we're grateful that this chapter in our lives can finally be put to rest, and we can concentrate on other things," Raymond Santana told The Huffington Post on Friday. Santana, along with four other men, all of them black or Latino, spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted in the 1989 beating and rape of a Central Park jogger.
"But it still doesn't take away what we went through and all the obstacles we had to overcome," he added.
But this will not solve the problem in NYC or anywhere else unless and until police criminals are forced to pay for their crimes.
Each of those police need to be arrested, charged, and convicted under the RICO statute, pay the $41 million through their union, and spend the rest of their lives in jail.
That is when much of the racism, hate, and social division that exists in this society will be ended.
The Central Park Five's Long Legal Nightmare Ends As Judge Approves $41 Million Settlement
A federal judge officially approved New York City's $41 million settlement with the Central Park Five on Friday, bringing to an end a decades-long legal battle for the five men wrongfully convicted in a high-profile sexual assault case in 1990.
"It's a long time coming and we're grateful that this chapter in our lives can finally be put to rest, and we can concentrate on other things," Raymond Santana told The Huffington Post on Friday. Santana, along with four other men, all of them black or Latino, spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted in the 1989 beating and rape of a Central Park jogger.
"But it still doesn't take away what we went through and all the obstacles we had to overcome," he added.
But this will not solve the problem in NYC or anywhere else unless and until police criminals are forced to pay for their crimes.
Each of those police need to be arrested, charged, and convicted under the RICO statute, pay the $41 million through their union, and spend the rest of their lives in jail.
That is when much of the racism, hate, and social division that exists in this society will be ended.
Strangely enough, I can never get the anti-government Tea Baggers to voice their concerns or to demand that these government agents be removed from the streets so that we can have peace and order in our cities. If they had any principle at all that's what these hypocrites would be calling for.
A few libertarians do. The others just obsess on hating Obama and Clinton. They're not a movement, they don't have a philosophy. They're a bunch of ill-tempered, dull-witted children whose greed and selfishness is being manipulated by the usual raft of con artists.
Absolutely. Nobody plays the Broken Record card more than do these delusionals but they are always the first ones to point the finger at everyone else.
Listen, goph, with all due respect, you don't help your own case by emulating their tactics. Make your points intelligently and don't scream. Let them do the dumb-*** taunting and stay on your own message.
Do that, and I promise I'll give you the intelligent conservative argument in return. Where they differ, that is. I cannot for the life of me see an intelligent liberal and and intelligent conservative differing on the idea that the police need to be reeled in hard.
But if I'm emulating their tactics and get no intelligent response, where's your criticism of them and their Broken Record campaign? Isn't it time to take your poison and spread the wealth just a bit rather than play the kiss up game??
Are you really suggesting I don't give EagleSmack and Colpy and Blackleaf and their lot enough sh*t?
I have yet to see you accuse them of playing the Broken Record card but if you feel you have then so be it.
OK, you reject my advice and my promise, and instead bitch about the "other team."
F*ck you.
EDITED TO ADD:
I reached out to you honestly, with an attempt to try to get a conservative/liberal dialog going here, and all you could do was whine "But you're not doing the same thing with them!"
Thereby proving you're not worth trying to have a serious dialog with.
So, again, f*ck you.
F*ck you.
EDITED TO ADD:
I reached out to you honestly, with an attempt to try to get a conservative/liberal dialog going here, and all you could do was whine "But you're not doing the same thing with them!"
Thereby proving you're not worth trying to have a serious dialog with.
So, again, f*ck you.
go get 'im!
Not only is he obsessing over Colpy, now he's obsessing about me as well.
Too bad cause he's now playing the,
Broken Fcukkin Record card
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Former Calif. policeman pleads no contest in baseball bat beating
Joaquin Palomino, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10:20 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10:27 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Northern California police officer pleaded no contest Monday to assault and vandalism for beating a woman with a baseball bat while off duty, officials said.
Prosecutors said Gregory Thompson, 53, wore a mask in the attack, which took place outside of a home owned by a relative.
The officer, who retired last week from the Walnut Creek Police Department near San Francisco, faces up to five years and eight months in prison in the attack, Contra Costa County deputy district attorney Barry Grove said.
The incident took place early on the morning of Aug. 16, when Thompson was surveying a family member's home in the blue-collar suburb of Richmond that was vacant but had recently been broken into, Richmond police said.
At around 2:00 a.m., a woman's car ran out of gas in front of the home. She left her vehicle to seek help when a masked man approached and began beating her with a baseball bat, police said.
"Maybe she looked suspicious or it was a mistaken identity," Richmond Police Lieutenant Andre Hill said. "We don't know what his mindset was, but we do know this woman had nothing to do with the house."
Police received reports of a screaming woman being chased by a man with a baseball bat. After arriving on the scene, witnesses directed officers to Thompson, who was hiding in his car. Police found two guns, a baseball bat and a mask in the vehicle.
Thompson told Richmond police he was a law enforcement officer and was taken into custody without incident, Hill said.
The woman suffered non life-threatening injuries. Another woman was injured trying to intervene in the attack. Police have been unable to locate her.
After the attack Thompson was placed on paid administrative leave, Captain Mark Perlite of the Walnut Creek Police Department said. Thompson retired last Friday.
At the arraignment Monday, Thompson pleaded no contest to assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and felony vandalism. He also faces an enhanced sentence for carrying a firearm during the attack.
His sentencing hearing is set for Oct. 10.
Former Calif. policeman pleads no contest in baseball bat beating | World | News
Joaquin Palomino, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10:20 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10:27 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Northern California police officer pleaded no contest Monday to assault and vandalism for beating a woman with a baseball bat while off duty, officials said.
Prosecutors said Gregory Thompson, 53, wore a mask in the attack, which took place outside of a home owned by a relative.
The officer, who retired last week from the Walnut Creek Police Department near San Francisco, faces up to five years and eight months in prison in the attack, Contra Costa County deputy district attorney Barry Grove said.
The incident took place early on the morning of Aug. 16, when Thompson was surveying a family member's home in the blue-collar suburb of Richmond that was vacant but had recently been broken into, Richmond police said.
At around 2:00 a.m., a woman's car ran out of gas in front of the home. She left her vehicle to seek help when a masked man approached and began beating her with a baseball bat, police said.
"Maybe she looked suspicious or it was a mistaken identity," Richmond Police Lieutenant Andre Hill said. "We don't know what his mindset was, but we do know this woman had nothing to do with the house."
Police received reports of a screaming woman being chased by a man with a baseball bat. After arriving on the scene, witnesses directed officers to Thompson, who was hiding in his car. Police found two guns, a baseball bat and a mask in the vehicle.
Thompson told Richmond police he was a law enforcement officer and was taken into custody without incident, Hill said.
The woman suffered non life-threatening injuries. Another woman was injured trying to intervene in the attack. Police have been unable to locate her.
After the attack Thompson was placed on paid administrative leave, Captain Mark Perlite of the Walnut Creek Police Department said. Thompson retired last Friday.
At the arraignment Monday, Thompson pleaded no contest to assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and felony vandalism. He also faces an enhanced sentence for carrying a firearm during the attack.
His sentencing hearing is set for Oct. 10.
Former Calif. policeman pleads no contest in baseball bat beating | World | News
RCMP detachment was "dysfunctional RCMP detachment was "dysfunctional" at time of jail sex incident: Retired cop - InfoNews.ca
KAMLOOPS – The first man who internally investigated the RCMP watch commander working the night two women had sex in a jail cell told a Kamloops Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday the officer was untrained in his new role in an office he called “a terrible place to work.”
Staff Sgt. Garry Kerr was originally responsible for leading an internal investigation following the incident on August 18, 2010. The result was a charge of breach of trust against Cpl. Rick Brown after he and other officers watched the women via video security footage and failed to intervene.
Kerr said he did not continue his assignment after the discussion he and Brown had five days after the incident.
The two spoke when Kerr noticed Brown’s demeanour had changed at the office.
“He looked physically sick,” Kerr said. The pair went to the watch commander office to talk privately. Kerr said Brown became emotional; he began to cry.
“(He was) emotional to the point where it was difficult to get words out,” Kerr said. He couldn’t determine exactly what happened due to Brown’s disjointed sentences. He told the court he assumed a fight between prisoners happened and someone was hurt.
Brown produced a piece of paper and slid it over the desk. It was the email Cpl. Kelly Butler wrote to the staff sergeant notifying him the two women had sex and one was self-declared HIV positive. Her email kicked off the entire investigation.
“Rick said ‘what do I do? What do I do?’” Kerr told the court.
Last week the court played a phone call between Brown and Butler. In the call, Butler offered to take back the email sent to their superiors and asked Brown how to re-word it. Despite the conversation, she did not take back the email, nor was it edited.
Kerr, a former watch commander, said Brown only had a few months in his new role and conceded there was no training process. To help him deal with the situation at hand, Kerr told Brown he should speak with then Insp. Yves Lacasse, but Brown refused. He said Lacasse intimidated him—a statement Kerr said he understood.
“Lacasse was an extremely difficult person to work for,” Kerr told the court. “He was an extreme bully... towards myself and a lot of other members in the detachment.”
Kerr said there was ongoing conflict between upper management and staff. He called the detachment operations “dysfunctional to the extreme.” Lacasse left the detachment in 2013 to take a new role with the proposed Ajax mine.
Once the internal investigation began, the media became involved. Kerr said he asked upper management if the detachment could issue a press release on the investigation, but said his efforts were “quashed.” There was concern about embarrassing the RCMP.
Now retired, Kerr said he has only come across one similar case in his 31 years of service. While he was stationed as a watch commander in Powell River in 1982, he encountered two male prisoners engaging in a sex act and separated them.
Following Kerr’s evidence, the Crown called Rob Vecchio, a jail guard working at the Kamloops city cells. The Crown expects to hear evidence from Staff Sgt. Royce Roenspies and guard Clayton Vandenham.
KAMLOOPS – The first man who internally investigated the RCMP watch commander working the night two women had sex in a jail cell told a Kamloops Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday the officer was untrained in his new role in an office he called “a terrible place to work.”
Staff Sgt. Garry Kerr was originally responsible for leading an internal investigation following the incident on August 18, 2010. The result was a charge of breach of trust against Cpl. Rick Brown after he and other officers watched the women via video security footage and failed to intervene.
Kerr said he did not continue his assignment after the discussion he and Brown had five days after the incident.
The two spoke when Kerr noticed Brown’s demeanour had changed at the office.
“He looked physically sick,” Kerr said. The pair went to the watch commander office to talk privately. Kerr said Brown became emotional; he began to cry.
“(He was) emotional to the point where it was difficult to get words out,” Kerr said. He couldn’t determine exactly what happened due to Brown’s disjointed sentences. He told the court he assumed a fight between prisoners happened and someone was hurt.
Brown produced a piece of paper and slid it over the desk. It was the email Cpl. Kelly Butler wrote to the staff sergeant notifying him the two women had sex and one was self-declared HIV positive. Her email kicked off the entire investigation.
“Rick said ‘what do I do? What do I do?’” Kerr told the court.
Last week the court played a phone call between Brown and Butler. In the call, Butler offered to take back the email sent to their superiors and asked Brown how to re-word it. Despite the conversation, she did not take back the email, nor was it edited.
Kerr, a former watch commander, said Brown only had a few months in his new role and conceded there was no training process. To help him deal with the situation at hand, Kerr told Brown he should speak with then Insp. Yves Lacasse, but Brown refused. He said Lacasse intimidated him—a statement Kerr said he understood.
“Lacasse was an extremely difficult person to work for,” Kerr told the court. “He was an extreme bully... towards myself and a lot of other members in the detachment.”
Kerr said there was ongoing conflict between upper management and staff. He called the detachment operations “dysfunctional to the extreme.” Lacasse left the detachment in 2013 to take a new role with the proposed Ajax mine.
Once the internal investigation began, the media became involved. Kerr said he asked upper management if the detachment could issue a press release on the investigation, but said his efforts were “quashed.” There was concern about embarrassing the RCMP.
Now retired, Kerr said he has only come across one similar case in his 31 years of service. While he was stationed as a watch commander in Powell River in 1982, he encountered two male prisoners engaging in a sex act and separated them.
Following Kerr’s evidence, the Crown called Rob Vecchio, a jail guard working at the Kamloops city cells. The Crown expects to hear evidence from Staff Sgt. Royce Roenspies and guard Clayton Vandenham.
