Stupid, Dumb and Just Plain Ignorant Cop Thread

[spaminator]

Mountie shoots herself at firing range: Cops
QMI Agency
First posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 01:18 PM EST
LONDON, Ont. - An RCMP officer was in hospital with minor injuries Friday after accidentally shooting herself at London police headquarters, police say.
City police and RCMP are investigating the shooting, which occurred in the morning at the firearms range, police said.
Mountie shoots herself at firing range: Cops | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

 

[spaminator]

Oklahoma cop charged with raping women while on duty
Heide Brandes, Reuters
First posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 03:48 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 03:59 PM EST
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty will face trial for 35 felony counts including rape and sexual assault, court officials said on Wednesday.
If convicted, Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, could face life in prison. Holtzclaw, who is on paid leave, has denied the allegations against him and remains under house arrest at his parents' home in Enid, about 70 miles north of Oklahoma City.
At a pretrial hearing this week, 13 women testified about being forced into sex with the officer, who threatened many of them with jail. The charges include six counts of first-degree rape.
"He was an officer. And I was scared. And I knew he could hurt me," one woman said in court.
Another victim, aged 17, said she was raped by Holtzclaw on the front porch of her mother's home. She testified Holtzclaw picked her up while she walking home and threatened to arrest her on outstanding warrants.
Holtzclaw, who had been on the force for three years, was arrested in August and charged with assaulting eight women. Other victims have came forward since then. Most of the incidents are suspected of taking place between February and June.
Holtzclaw's next court date is Jan. 21.
Daniel Holtzclaw is accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty. (kfor.com screengrab)

Oklahoma cop charged with raping women while on duty | World | News | Toronto Su

 

[tay]

Cop driving at 122 km/h in a 50 km/h zone while not responding to a call or emergency, crashes into a car and kills a child of 5.

No charges laid.




A decision not to charge a police officer who killed a five-year-old boy while driving over the speed limit has exposed a lack of transparency in the way Quebeckers are informed about deaths involving police.


Justice officials in the province are under no legal obligation to explain why the Sûreté du Québec officer will not be charged after he allegedly exceeded the posted speed limit by 72 kilometres an hour while on routine business in a Montreal suburb and struck a car, killing the child in the back seat.




Minister raps Quebec prosecutors’ handling of police crash that killed child - The Globe and Mail

 

[JLM]

Cop driving at 122 km/h in a 50 km/h zone while not responding to a call or emergency, crashes into a car and kills a child of 5.

No charges laid.




A decision not to charge a police officer who killed a five-year-old boy while driving over the speed limit has exposed a lack of transparency in the way Quebeckers are informed about deaths involving police.


Justice officials in the province are under no legal obligation to explain why the Sûreté du Québec officer will not be charged after he allegedly exceeded the posted speed limit by 72 kilometres an hour while on routine business in a Montreal suburb and struck a car, killing the child in the back seat.




Minister raps Quebec prosecutors’ handling of police crash that killed child - The Globe and Mail

Time to introduce a new policy regarding the police committing crimes. Because they should know better and are being paid to enforce the law, there should an automatic sentence imposed for any crime they commit that is three times that imposed on the general public. The standards of conduct in the police force would improve drastically "overnight"!

 

[grumpydigger]

the crown and the cops work together so no charges , and never no prosecutions when blatant criminal actions causing death like this happen should not be a surprise.

if a civilian, killed a child while excessively speeding , the media, the Crown the insurance companies and especially the police would have a heyday telling us how evil and criminal this person is

 

[spaminator]

Cop charged with manslaughter in teen protester’s death
Dan Williams, Reuters
First posted: Sunday, November 23, 2014 02:04 PM EST | Updated: Sunday, November 23, 2014 02:15 PM EST
JERUSALEM - Israel charged a policeman on Sunday in the fatal shooting of a teenage Palestinian protester, accusing him of deliberately switching his rubber bullets for the live round that killed the youth.
The prosecutors' decision to level a charge of manslaughter rather than murder drew criticism from the boy's father, who said there was ample proof the killing was premeditated.
Nadim Nuwara, 17, was shot in the chest during a demonstration in May at which Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. A second teenage protester was killed but Israel has made no arrest in that case, citing lack of evidence as an autopsy was not carried out.
CCTV footage suggested neither youth posed any immediate threat to the troops stationed some 70 yards (64 metres) away, in that neither appeared to be throwing stones when they were shot. Their deaths stoked Palestinian fury at Israel in the weeks after U.S.-sponsored peace talks collapsed in April.
The accused, a member of the paramilitary border police, was arrested on Nov. 12. His name has not been released for publication. He denies wrongdoing in the incident, which occurred near an Israeli prison and the Palestinian town of Beitunia.
An indictment filed at Jerusalem District Court said the policeman had slipped a live bullet into his ammunition clip, which was meant to hold only non-lethal blank rounds with which to propel rubber bullets mounted separately on the rifle muzzle.
"The defendant used the blanks magazine so that his live fire, as opposed to rubber-bullet fire, would not be observed," the indictment said, adding that he had targeted Nuwara's torso "with the intent of causing him grave injury, and while anticipating the possibility that he would cause his death".
Manslaughter, killing without the clear intention to cause death, carries a maximum 20-year jail term in Israel though judges can hand down lighter sentences. Murder, killing intentionally, usually carries a life term.
"All indications show the killing was deliberate and premeditated. It was not random fire," Nuwara's father, Siam, told Reuters. "A manslaughter charge is unacceptable. What sentence might he get if the charge is manslaughter?"
Asked to explain the charge, a spokeswoman for the Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office said the evidence available was insufficient for a murder indictment.
The policeman says he used rubber bullets only. His lawyer, Benny Katz, called the indictment "quite severe", and was confident he could prove his client was innocent.
An Israeli border policeman covers his head as he arrives at a remand hearing at the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem on November 12, 2014. Israeli police have arrested the paramilitary border policeman over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank in May, a spokesman said on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)

Cop charged with manslaughter in teen protester’s death | World | News | Toronto

12-year-old with pellet gun dies after being shot by police
Kim Palmer, Reuters
First posted: Sunday, November 23, 2014 02:35 PM EST | Updated: Sunday, November 23, 2014 02:40 PM EST
CLEVELAND - A 12-year-old boy who was shot by police after he waved and pointed a pellet gun at a Cleveland city recreation centre died on Sunday from his injuries, officials said.
The boy, who has not been identified, was shot in the abdomen by a city officer at a playground on the city's west side on Saturday, said Timothy Kucharski, an attorney for the boy's family.
According to the recording of a 911 call, a witness at the Cudell Recreation Center park told the police dispatcher that he saw somebody with a pistol and he was pointing it at people.
The caller told the dispatcher that the gun was "probably fake." But he said that it was scaring people.
Officers responded and advised the boy to raise his hands, according to a police statement.
"The suspect did not comply with the officers' orders and reached to his waistband for the gun. Shots were fired and the suspect was struck in the torso," the statement said.
After a preliminary investigation, authorities said the gun the boy had was an airsoft-type replica gun resembling a semi-automatic pistol.
Airsoft weapons are realistic looking guns used in play combat, and they shoot plastic pellets. Most are made with bright orange tips so that they won't be confused with real guns. Police said the orange safety indicator was removed from the replica gun the boy was holding.
The boy was taken to MetroHealth Hospital where he underwent surgery Saturday and remained in critical condition until his death early Sunday, Kucharski said. The death was confirmed by hospital spokesman Jonah Rosenblum.
The two officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave. One of them was treated at Fairview Hospital for an ankle injury.
The shooting followed another incident that shook the city. On Friday, Cleveland police said four people, including a 41-year-old pregnant woman, were shot and killed at a home on the city's east side. A 9-year-old girl was shot in the chest and was treated and released from a local hospital.
12-year-old with pellet gun dies after being shot by police | World | News | Tor

 

[shadowshiv]

Not sure why the article about the 12 year old being shot is in this particular thread. The only one that was stupid, dumb, and/or ignorant was the kid himself.


Just because the caller says the gun is "probably fake" doesn't mean that the police aren't supposed to treat it like a real gun. The part that differentiated it from a real gun was removed, so there was no real way the cops could tell it was fake.

 

[spaminator]

Not sure why the article about the 12 year old being shot is in this particular thread. The only one that was stupid, dumb, and/or ignorant was the kid himself.

Just because the caller says the gun is "probably fake" doesn't mean that the police aren't supposed to treat it like a real gun. The part that differentiated it from a real gun was removed, so there was no real way the cops could tell it was fake.

i guess i was too harsh on the cops. i woundn't be able to tell the difference between a pelet gun and real gun.

 

[tay]

A wrecking ball crashed through the City’s defense to the Eimers police brutality case on Friday.


At a scheduled deposition Chief Lee was expected to provide bureaucratic information about the City’s procedures and policies in the wrongful death case filed by the Eimers family against the City of Key West and 13 police officers.


But instead he spent over two hours freefalling into a seemingly endless pit opened by allegations of “perjury” committed by his officers.


At issue was the surprise new bystander video that showed up this week from Colombia. On November 28, 2013, while KWPD officers were busy arresting Eimers on South Beach, a couple from Colombia was filming the incident with their iphones.

Unlike the first video, it shows Eimers arrest all the way to the point of his death.


A fact that turns out to be devastating to the somewhat creative and more favorable stories cooked up by some of the officers.


“Sir, we’ve gone to the trouble, in preparation for various motion practice,” said attorney Robert McKee, “of taking every question and answer of your officers who were under oath and every time their answers were not what the video showed. There are pages and pages of it”…. and down we went




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[gopher]

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cops again caught in the act of abusing people and then trying to suppress evidence - this should bring a lot of calls for an armed citizenry from the TP members on this forum



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[Cannuck]

this should bring a lot of calls for an armed citizenry from the TP members on this forum

the tea baggers are quite fond of police tactics like those shown in the video as long as the victim is the right color or political persuasion

 

[grumpydigger]

61-year-old woman alleges excessive force after she was thrown to the ground for refusing to answer questions Irene Joseph's takedown by Smithers RCMP captured in photo - British Columbia - CBC News

 

[JLM]

61-year-old woman alleges excessive force after she was thrown to the ground for refusing to answer questions Irene Joseph's takedown by Smithers RCMP captured in photo - British Columbia - CBC News

Do the poor cops get sent up north per chance? I think it was Houston where the cop shot Ian Bush in the back of the head!

 

[grumpydigger]

OPP cruiser rear ended a school bus full of kids School bus carrying kids hit by police cruiser in Fergus | CTV Kitchener News

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.....LOL

 

[JLM]

OPP cruiser rear ended a school bus full of kids School bus carrying kids hit by police cruiser in Fergus | CTV Kitchener News

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.....LOL

Following too close??????????????????????

 

[grumpydigger]

playing on his computer and cell ...........Oh they are specially trained so they can do that

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I calculate this'll cost a school-bus driver her job, and maybe some jail time.

 

[Cannuck]

I calculate this'll cost a school-bus driver her job, and maybe some jail time.

He/she should just be thankful that he/she managed to stay alive throughout the ordeal. Had the cop not been injured there probably would have been another shooting or (at the very least) a good old fashioned tasering.

 

[JLM]

I calculate this'll cost a school-bus driver her job, and maybe some jail time.

If so the cop may get black balled at the local doughnut shop.

 

[spaminator]

Judge slams OPP officer, acquits Good Samaritan
By Tracy McLaughlin, Special to QMI Agency First posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 06:14 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 06:57 PM EST
ORILLIA - A 49-year-old-grandmother who was acting as a “Good Samaritan” was karate-kicked, sucker-punched, beaten and left with “catastrophic injuries” by a police officer, a judge said Tuesday.
It has been two long years since Maria “Tonie” Farrell was charged with assaulting a police officer in an incident that has left her crippled from a shattered knee.
But in his ruling, Justice George Beatty exonerated — and validated — Farrell when he found that it was OPP Sgt. Russ Watson who attacked her while on duty April 2, 2011.
Outside of court, Farrell — still in pain — wept and embraced her lawyer.
“This is the best Christmas present ever,” she said. “I’ve been going through hell ... but I knew the truth would prevail.”
Her defence lawyer, Angela McLeod, wept with her. “The greatest injustice was righted today,” McLeod said.
During the on-and-off trial that dragged out over a year, court heard Farrell, an employee at Tim Hortons, was still in her uniform after work when she heard a woman screaming.
She ran behind a Mac’s convenience store in time to see a woman being punched in the face by a male who ran off. Farrell rushed to the woman’s assistance and when Watson arrived alone on the scene she tried to point out the direction of the assailant.
But she said the officer was aggressive and told her to “shut the f--- up.”
“Mrs. Farrell was acting as Good Samaritan who went to the assistance of a woman who was being assaulted,” the judge said. “She had no criminal record and wanted to assist Sgt. Watson.”
He described the officer as a “controlling,” “large and powerfully built” man.
“Watson kicked her to the side, a karate-kick that snapped her leg,” said the judge. Farrell screamed in agony as she tried to defend herself.
“Watson then jumped on her and punched her on the left side of her face. She turned face-down and Sgt. Watson kept kneeing her in the back,” Beatty said.
With her leg dangling, crying out in pain, Farrell was then handcuffed and taken to the cruiser.
She had injuries to her neck and back, a crushed knee that required several operations, a knee replacement and lost a back tooth. She now lives with her elderly parents because she will never be able to work again and can’t afford to pay rent.
During his testimony, Watson said he suspected Farrell had been drinking. He said she was disruptive and “took a poke” at him, then resisted arrest. But the judge didn’t believe him.
“Sgt. Watson provided no explanation as to how Ms. Farrell’s tibia was broken, or indeed, the reasons for the bruises on her legs and arms and the loss of a tooth,” Beatty said. “His notes did not record the hammer strike to her left eye, which was basically a sucker punch … he suffered no injury and her injuries were catastrophic.”
The judge said even if Farrell’s “excitement and zeal was distractive,” her only intent was to help.
“Police officers are trained and experienced in handling people who may be intoxicated, drug addicted, mentally ill, armed or violent. They apply their psychological skills and use the minimum of force in maintaining the peace and protecting the public,” Beatty said.
“That did not happen in this case.”
The Special Investigation Unit investigated the case and found no reasonable grounds to charge Watson, although he refused to produce his notes.
“Our records show he came in for an interview but he would not provide his notes,” SIU spokesman Jasbir Brar said. “That is within his legal rights.”
The OPP did not respond to calls for comment Tuesday.

Maria (Tony) Farrell leaves Orillia court house. (Tracy McLaughlin photo)

Judge slams OPP officer, acquits Good Samaritan | Ontario | News | Toronto Sun​