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Texas cop suspended after pulling gun on teens at pool party
Video shows officer also throw teen girl down to the ground
Reuters
First posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 04:02 PM EDT
A Texas police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced that showed him throwing a bathing-suit clad girl to the ground and drawing a gun on a pair of teens at a pool party disturbance, officials said Sunday.
"This video has raised concerns that are being investigated," the police department in McKinney, a city about 30 miles north of Dallas, said on Sunday.
The incident occurred Friday and raised questions on social media about racial bias in policing since most of the people targeted by the officer, who appears in the video to be white, were black teens in a multi-race crowd.
In the video, the officer, who has not been named, is seen shouting obscenities at the teens and placing multiple black youths in handcuffs.
"Our expectation as a City Council is that our police department and other departments will act professionally and with appropriate restraint relative to the situation they are faced with," he said.
McKinney Police said officers were responding to a disturbance reported at a pool that is part of a residential community and many in the crowd refused to leave.
Witnesses told CBS11 News a fight broke out between adults and a group of black teens. BuzzFeed News reports witnesses saying racist comments were uttered by adults toward the teens leading up to the conflict.
Texas cop suspended after pulling gun on teens at pool party | Video | World | N
Video shows officer also throw teen girl down to the ground
Reuters
First posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 04:02 PM EDT
A Texas police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced that showed him throwing a bathing-suit clad girl to the ground and drawing a gun on a pair of teens at a pool party disturbance, officials said Sunday.
"This video has raised concerns that are being investigated," the police department in McKinney, a city about 30 miles north of Dallas, said on Sunday.
The incident occurred Friday and raised questions on social media about racial bias in policing since most of the people targeted by the officer, who appears in the video to be white, were black teens in a multi-race crowd.
In the video, the officer, who has not been named, is seen shouting obscenities at the teens and placing multiple black youths in handcuffs.
***WARNING: Video contains foul language***
"Having seen the YouTube video, I am disturbed and concerned by the incident and actions depicted in the video," McKinney Mayor Brian Loughmiller said in a written statement."Our expectation as a City Council is that our police department and other departments will act professionally and with appropriate restraint relative to the situation they are faced with," he said.
McKinney Police said officers were responding to a disturbance reported at a pool that is part of a residential community and many in the crowd refused to leave.
Witnesses told CBS11 News a fight broke out between adults and a group of black teens. BuzzFeed News reports witnesses saying racist comments were uttered by adults toward the teens leading up to the conflict.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46-XTqXkzETexas cop suspended after pulling gun on teens at pool party | Video | World | N
Santa Ana police officers caught on camera eating marijuana, joking about kicking amputee
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Santa Ana police officers caught on camera eating marijuana, joking about kicking amputee | abc13.com
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Santa Ana police officers caught on camera eating marijuana, joking about kicking amputee | abc13.com
Anybody else notice that other "black" kids that complied and didn't act like idiots didn't get tossed to the ground and roughed up?
Yes, even a blind black man is not safe from police brutality
A legally blind man is speaking out after saying he was injured when a Little Rock Police officer slammed him to the ground.
"I had just got off of work," said Eric Wilson. It was just before 4:00 Monday, June 1st.
Wilson left his job at Lighthouse for the Blind. He missed his bus so he started to walk home along 65th St.
Around that time, LRPD says they got a call about someone fitting Wilson's description who was running away from or chasing someone and who appeared to be afraid.
"Hey, come over here and talk to me," the officer can be heard saying on dash camera video.
Wilson is legally blind and says he only sees shadows. He says he didn't know who was calling him.
"I could have possibly been getting robbed," Wilson said. "I didn't know what was about to happen."
The officers tell Wilson to put his hands behind his back, and then he's taken to the ground.
In a police report, an officer said Wilson "pulled away violently causing me to lose grip," and that he was "afraid that Wilson would strike myself or my partner with the handcuff."
But Wilson and his lawyer Reggie Koch say that's not what the video shows.
"When they tell him to 'come over here,' he walked towards them," Koch said. "When they tell him 'take your hands out of your pockets,' he takes his hands out of his pockets. What more do they want?"
The officers also said they saw a black handle hanging out of Wilson's pocket, but that turned out to be a clock that reads Wilson the time.
"Why would I get thrown to the ground?" Wilson questions. "If anything [the officers] should have been trying to help me."
That night, Wilson says he went to the hospital with back pain and was diagnosed with a strained lumbar.
Wilson has filed a formal complaint with the Little Rock Police Department. An agency spokesman said the department would not comment until an investigation into the complaint is complete.
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Blind Man Says He was Injured During Police Takedown - FOX16.com
A legally blind man is speaking out after saying he was injured when a Little Rock Police officer slammed him to the ground.
"I had just got off of work," said Eric Wilson. It was just before 4:00 Monday, June 1st.
Wilson left his job at Lighthouse for the Blind. He missed his bus so he started to walk home along 65th St.
Around that time, LRPD says they got a call about someone fitting Wilson's description who was running away from or chasing someone and who appeared to be afraid.
"Hey, come over here and talk to me," the officer can be heard saying on dash camera video.
Wilson is legally blind and says he only sees shadows. He says he didn't know who was calling him.
"I could have possibly been getting robbed," Wilson said. "I didn't know what was about to happen."
The officers tell Wilson to put his hands behind his back, and then he's taken to the ground.
In a police report, an officer said Wilson "pulled away violently causing me to lose grip," and that he was "afraid that Wilson would strike myself or my partner with the handcuff."
But Wilson and his lawyer Reggie Koch say that's not what the video shows.
"When they tell him to 'come over here,' he walked towards them," Koch said. "When they tell him 'take your hands out of your pockets,' he takes his hands out of his pockets. What more do they want?"
The officers also said they saw a black handle hanging out of Wilson's pocket, but that turned out to be a clock that reads Wilson the time.
"Why would I get thrown to the ground?" Wilson questions. "If anything [the officers] should have been trying to help me."
That night, Wilson says he went to the hospital with back pain and was diagnosed with a strained lumbar.
Wilson has filed a formal complaint with the Little Rock Police Department. An agency spokesman said the department would not comment until an investigation into the complaint is complete.
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Blind Man Says He was Injured During Police Takedown - FOX16.com
You'd think before a guy could qualify to be a cop, there would be an intelligence test it would be mandatory to pass.
actually I have read that many police forces when recruiting will reject people with higher IQs simply because they believe that is harder to train them to give absolute blind obedience and tend to have higher morals and think for themselves.
And they tend to quit quickly and move on to more intelligent jobs that don't necessarily give them a false sense of authority.
And they tend to quit quickly and move on to more intelligent jobs that don't necessarily give them a false sense of authority.
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.
Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.
But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover.
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops - ABC News
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.
Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.
But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover.
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops - ABC News
They should just start hiring all dogs- they'd get a 100% compliance and they'd never be an embarrassment from stupidity falling out of their mouths. ?)
Police officers’ R-rated helicopter conversation accidentally broadcast in Winnipeg
The Canadian Press
First posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 09:58 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 01:39 PM EDT
Winnipeg police are apologizing after officers flying in a helicopter mistakenly broadcast a conversation that one person says referred to a sex act.
Police say the officers were on routine patrol Monday night when they inadvertently turned on the chopper's public address system.
They didn't know many in the city could hear their workplace chatter.
People took to social media to describe the R-rated conversation using the hashtags #whoops and #speakerphone.
One tweet said the conversation included talk about oral sex.
Police say some of the remarks in the conversation were inappropriate and the incident is under review.
Police officers’ R-rated helicopter conversation accidentally broadcast in Winni
The Canadian Press
First posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 09:58 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 01:39 PM EDT
Winnipeg police are apologizing after officers flying in a helicopter mistakenly broadcast a conversation that one person says referred to a sex act.
Police say the officers were on routine patrol Monday night when they inadvertently turned on the chopper's public address system.
They didn't know many in the city could hear their workplace chatter.
People took to social media to describe the R-rated conversation using the hashtags #whoops and #speakerphone.
One tweet said the conversation included talk about oral sex.
Police say some of the remarks in the conversation were inappropriate and the incident is under review.
Police officers’ R-rated helicopter conversation accidentally broadcast in Winni
Woman who spent 3 days in crashed car after police fail to respond dies in hospital
The Associated Press
First posted: Sunday, July 12, 2015 04:37 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, July 12, 2015 05:31 PM EDT
LONDON -- A 25-year-old Scottish woman who lay injured in her crashed car for three days because police failed to respond to an accident report has died.
Lamara Bell's family says she died in a Glasgow hospital Sunday, a week after the accident.
She was found Wednesday beside her dead boyfriend John Yuill in a car that had slid down an embankment near the city of Stirling in central Scotland.
Police say the accident was reported, but officers were not sent to the scene until a second call three days later. Scotland Police Chief Const. Stephen House has apologized, saying police "failed both families."
Scottish politicians are calling for an inquiry into how the mistake happened and whether it is connected to police reorganization and budget cuts.
Woman who spent 3 days in crashed car after police fail to respond dies in hospi
The Associated Press
First posted: Sunday, July 12, 2015 04:37 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, July 12, 2015 05:31 PM EDT
LONDON -- A 25-year-old Scottish woman who lay injured in her crashed car for three days because police failed to respond to an accident report has died.
Lamara Bell's family says she died in a Glasgow hospital Sunday, a week after the accident.
She was found Wednesday beside her dead boyfriend John Yuill in a car that had slid down an embankment near the city of Stirling in central Scotland.
Police say the accident was reported, but officers were not sent to the scene until a second call three days later. Scotland Police Chief Const. Stephen House has apologized, saying police "failed both families."
Scottish politicians are calling for an inquiry into how the mistake happened and whether it is connected to police reorganization and budget cuts.
Woman who spent 3 days in crashed car after police fail to respond dies in hospi
Rape victim raped again when used as bait by police: Reports
Postmedia Network
First posted: Monday, July 13, 2015 03:11 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, July 13, 2015 03:19 PM EDT
Indian police admit a 17-year-old rape survivor was raped a second time when police sent her as bait to catch her attackers, then failed to follow her.
According to Indian media, the girl was raped at knifepoint by a pair of men on July 7. She said the attackers shot video of the attack and blackmailed her with it to keep her from reporting the assault. The girl went to the police anyway, and cops decided to lay a trap for the man.
But a "miscommunication" meant officers who were supposed to watch her and move in weren't told when she was dropped off. Instead, the girl was allegedly raped again by the same men.
The suspects were arrested a short time later.
The officer who led the operation has been suspended pending an inquiry.
The horrific story is making headlines in India, where rape has become a hot-button issue.
The district of Maharashtra, where the girl was raped, recorded the most rape cases in all of India last year.
Rape victim raped again when used as bait by police: Reports | World | News | To
Postmedia Network
First posted: Monday, July 13, 2015 03:11 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, July 13, 2015 03:19 PM EDT
Indian police admit a 17-year-old rape survivor was raped a second time when police sent her as bait to catch her attackers, then failed to follow her.
According to Indian media, the girl was raped at knifepoint by a pair of men on July 7. She said the attackers shot video of the attack and blackmailed her with it to keep her from reporting the assault. The girl went to the police anyway, and cops decided to lay a trap for the man.
But a "miscommunication" meant officers who were supposed to watch her and move in weren't told when she was dropped off. Instead, the girl was allegedly raped again by the same men.
The suspects were arrested a short time later.
The officer who led the operation has been suspended pending an inquiry.
The horrific story is making headlines in India, where rape has become a hot-button issue.
The district of Maharashtra, where the girl was raped, recorded the most rape cases in all of India last year.
Rape victim raped again when used as bait by police: Reports | World | News | To