Cop Tazers 10 Year Old Boy For Refusing To Wash His Car

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SANTA FE, N.M. (CN) - A New Mexico policeman Tasered a 10-year-old child on a playground because the boy refused to clean his patrol car, the boy claims in court.
Guardian ad litem Rachel Higgins sued the New Mexico Department of Public Safety and Motor Transportation Police Officer Chris Webb on behalf of the child, in Santa Fe County Court.
Higgins claims Webb used his Taser on the boy, R.D., during a May 4 "career day" visit to Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School.
"Defendant Webb asked the boy, R.D., in a group of boys, who would like to clean his patrol unit," the complaint states. "A number of boys said that they would. R.D., joking, said that he did not want to clean the patrol unit.
"Defendant Webb responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, 'Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.'"
Webb then shot "two barbs into R.D.'s chest," the complaint states.
"Both barbs penetrated the boy's shirt, causing the device to deliver 50,000 volts into the boy's body.
"Defendant Webb pulled the barbs out [of] the boy's chest, causing scarring where the barbs had entered the boy's skin that look like cigarette burns on the boy's chest.
"The boy, who weighed less than 100 lbs., blacked out.
"Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal's office," the complaint states.
Higgins says the Tasing gave the boy post-traumatic stress syndrome, and that "The boy, R.D., has woken up in the middle of the night holding his chest, afraid he is never going to wake up again."
She adds: "No reasonable officer confronting a situation where the need for force is at its lowest, on a playground with elementary age children, would have deployed the Taser in so reckless a manner as to cause physical and psychological injury."
She seeks punitive damages for the boy for battery, failure to render emergency medical care, excessive force, unreasonable seizure, and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention.
Higgins and R.D. are represented by the Kennedy Law Firm, of Albuquerque.

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The Sacred Cause of "Officer Safety"

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“It’s just about being safe.”

Thus spoke Deputy Corry Bassett of the Lincoln County, Wyoming Sheriff’s Office as he struggled to justify handcuffing Robert Pierson during an August 11, 2011 traffic stop. 

Pierson, a Marine combat veteran, had been riding his motorcycle near Alpine when another motorist called to complain about a biker passing a number of slow-moving motor homes. Pierson was not charged with a traffic violation or a criminal offense -- but he was arrested and detained in handcuffs for 45 minutes because the sight of a Mundane carrying a firearm caused Bassett to irrigate his underwear.

“I know you have a gun,” Bassett said a few seconds into the stop, which was recorded on Pierson’s cell phone. “Are you a cop?”

When Pierson indicated that he was not part of the armed revenue-extracting caste, Bassett muttered: “OK, what I’m going to do is – put your hands behind your back right now.”

As he handcuffed the compliant motorist, Bassett explained, “I don’t like someone with a gun,” while insisting, “You’re not under arrest.”

The second statement is an unalloyed lie: Whenever a police officer restrains someone, that person is under arrest. The first statement is a lie by omission: If Pierson had been a police officer, Bassett would not have complained about him carrying a gun. The category of “someone” thus applies only to Mundanes, whose very existence is seen as a threat to the unimaginably precious personages who wear state-issued costumes.

“It’s the first thing you should have told me, [that] you’ve got a gun,” simpered Bassett, whose panic-tinged voice was thrown into sharp relief by Pierson’s composure.

“Well, actually I’m not required to tell you in either Idaho or Wyoming,” Pierson correctly pointed out.

“Yes, you are,” insisted Bassett. “If you’re packing a gun, I want to know about it.”

“Well, I’m open-carrying,” Pierson observed, stating the obvious. As Bassett began a rote speech describing the sacred imperative of “officer safety,” Pierson pointed out that he had done nothing wrong or illegal, that the deputy’s safety “is not in any way in jeopardy," and that actually “it’s not my concern.”

“It is!” yelped Bassett. “It’s my concern!”

“My only concern is my personal rights and individual liberties, which you are violating right now,” noted Pierson.

“No, I am not,” Bassett lied.

“You have me handcuffed,” Pierson reminded the increasingly petulant officer.

“I handcuffed you for [sic] number one, you did not tell me you had a gun on you, ‘kay?” Bassett groused. “You do not get off your bike and face me, and I see a weapon on you! I don’t like that!”

“You asked me if I could get off my bike, and you said `yes,’” recounted Pierson.

“I understand your concerns about search and seizure, but you have to understand one thing about where we’re at in law enforcement,” stated Bassett. “I’m asking you for my safety. I don’t know you. I don’t know your intentions.”

The same could have been said by Pierson about Bassett, who was, after all, just another armed stranger. One critical difference, of course, is that Pierson knew that Bassett’s intentions were malign: After all, the deputy had detained him, which is an act of aggression by any definition.

Recall that when Bassett noted that Pierson had a gun, his first question was: “Are you a cop?” If Pierson had been a fellow member of the Brotherhood of Official Plunder, this would have allayed Bassett’s concerns.

In fact, after noticing that Pierson carried a military ID, Bassett suggested that the detainee should see the encounter in terms of “force security” in a battle zone.

“You’re in the military,” Bassett began. “You ever been shot at? Would you like, if you roll up on somebody you have no idea who they are … wouldn’t it be a question in your mind if this person’s got weapons on them?”

Bassett, who never served in the military, clearly saw himself as part of an army of occupation – and insisted on unqualified submission to his supposed authority.

“Your safety does not trump my right and my liberty,” Pierson tutored the deputy.

“When I stop you, yes it does,” asserted Bassett.

“Your personal safety is more important than all the laws, the Constitution, and every one of my personal rights and liberties,” summarized Pierson, his voice heavy with disgusted incredulity.

“When I’m in a traffic stop, yes,” declared Bassett. “I’m in control of this situation.”

“The Constitution is in control of this situation,” Pierson rejoined.

“No – I am… and if I feel that I’m going to be threatened by the fact that you have a gun on your side, by hell I’m gonna do it,” concluded Bassett.

 

Forty-five minutes later, Deputy Rob Andazola arrived to provide “backup.” At that point, as Bassett has admitted in a sworn deposition, the deputies offered to unshackle Pierson if he allowed Andazola to draw his weapon and shoot the motorcyclist in the event he made any gesture perceived as a “threat.”

Pierson didn’t agree to those terms. Eventually a patrol supervisor reached the scene and acknowledged that the motorcyclist had done nothing wrong. Until that happened, however, Pierson was handcuffed, disarmed, and entirely at the mercy of two armed strangers who considered it their right – if not their duty – to kill him if he displayed any behavior that made them uneasy. 

 

“I didn’t know whether kicking my leg over the bike, or walking away, or what they could possibly constitute as a hostile act,” Pierson told the Associated Press. “And I was a little unnerved by the fact that they were threatening lethal force with a deadly weapon against a man who was compliant, in handcuffs, who had been screened.”

In the sacred cause of “officer safety,” no precaution is excessive, no imposition unjustified – and no constitutional “guarantee” of individual rights is binding.

Pierson’s legitimate concern for citizen safety in the presence of police is underscored by an incident that occurred near Canton, Ohio just weeks before the traffic stop in Wyoming. 

 

 

On June 8, 2011, Patrolman Daniel Harless of the Canton, Ohio Police Department, repeatedly threatened to murder the driver, William E. Bartlett, for carrying a concealed handgun for which he had obtained the appropriate permit. 

At all times, Bartlett was composed and cooperative. He made every effort to comply with the Ohio concealed carry ordinance by notifying Harless that he was carrying a weapon, and displaying his concealed carry license. He was rewarded with a profane outburst in which Harless made it clear that he was eager for a chance to kill somebody.

“As soon as I felt your gun I should have took [sic] two steps back, pulled my Glock 40 and just put 10 bullets in your ass and let you drop,” ranted Harless. “And I wouldn’t have lost any sleep.”

After threatening to “put lumps on” a witness to the incident, Harless told Bartlett, “I’m so close to caving in your f*****g head…. You’re just a stupid human being…. F*****g talking to me with a f*****g gun. You want me to pull mine and stick it to your head?”

Unlike Harless, who was obviously deranged, Bassett and Andazola did not dissolve into puddles of psychotic rage. But lurking behind their veneer of “professionalism” was a willingness to commit homicide simply because the sight of a Mundane with a firearm made them feel kind of funny. 

When contacted by Pro Libertate to comment on the case, Captain John Steztenbach of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office explained that “Our lawyer has told us that we are to say absolutely nothing about this case. I would love nothing more that for the other side of the story to be told, and we’re very frustrated that we can’t tell it, but it’s been made clear that until this goes to court, we’re not to comment on any aspect of this case.”

Stetzenbach, a courteous and well-spoken Connecticut native, explained that the gag order applies not only to the details of Pierson’s arrest, but also to any discussion of the department’s instructions and guidelines dealing with matters of “officer safety.” After describing how he had come to the Rocky Mountain West to study at a gunsmith trade school in Colorado, Stetzenbach proclaimed that both he and the department he serves are “very pro-Second Amendment,” and promised that when the legal issues are settled he will be very eager to “tell the whole story.”

 

“It always amazes me how in situations like this, one side gets out very quickly, and it’s not ours; that’s really frustrating,” Stetzenbach complained.

In this case – as in other “situations” of its kind – the officers have themselves to blame for the fact that the public hasn’t seen “their side” of the story, since the dashcam recordings of the encounter have mysteriously disappeared. 

The victim documented the incident, and the chief assailant has confirmed all of the victim’s key assertions. Res ipsa loquitir.

In his sworn deposition (as paraphrased by the AP), Bassett admitted that he had been “trained to put his personal safety above the rights of a citizen openly carrying a handgun.”

 “We’re told every day, our safety is first,” Bassett pointed out. “We’re here to come home every night.”

Remember that admission next time you’re told that the police are here to protect and serve the public. 

US Police Can Legally Discriminate Against People With Above Average IQ

I think I have posted about this before, but it is so important I will do it again just to be sure.

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A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

In a ruling made public on Tuesday, Judge Peter C. Dorsey of the United States District Court in New Haven agreed that the plaintiff, Robert Jordan, was denied an opportunity to interview for a police job because of his high test scores. But he said that that did not mean Mr. Jordan was a victim of discrimination.

Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected.

Mr. Jordan, 48, who has a bachelor's degree in literature and is an officer with the State Department of Corrections, said he was considering an appeal. ''I was eliminated on the basis of my intellectual makeup,'' he said. ''It's the same as discrimination on the basis of gender or religion or race.''

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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.

Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test.

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Reckless 267 Pound Cop Turns 100 Pound 20 Year Old Girl Into A Vegetable

My Note: I am not defending this girl, as far as I can tell she is a scumbag. The problem is, as I see it, the cop gets to play judge jury and executioner. If someone at a party were to knock this girl to the ground turning her into a vegetable he would be arrested and most likely put into prison, the cop on the other hand will probably get a promotion.

Editor’s note: Clearly she was of no threat to this cop. There are good reasons why some people use the word PIG to reference these cowards. Was he was too fat and lazy to chase after her? The death penalty exists for people like the “police officer”. This is worse than murder because she now has to “live” in a coma.

On September 19, 2011, 20 year old Danielle Maudsley was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) for being involved in two misdemeanor traffic incidents and reportedly driving without a license. Police said she had cocaine and oxycodone in her system when she ran out the back door of a Florida Highway Patrol substation with 267 pound FHP Officer Daniel Cole in slow trotting pursuit. When 100 pound Danielle was about three feet distance from Officer Cole, Cole shot her in the back with 50,000 volt TASER darts which caused her to spin around and fall on her back, hitting her head hard on the pavement when she landed.

Thanks to Cole’s decisions, Danielle Maudsley’s life was ended for her within two minutes of hitting the pavement. .

While she will continue to breath, she is brain dead and will no longer know the everyday events which you and I experience and take for granted as the very essence of what it menas to “enjoy” life and to be alive. Her body may continue to live, but her life is gone forever.

Within a few days of the Sept. 19, 2011 TASER incident, Officer Daniel Cole was cleared of all “wrongdoing”:

“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted an independent review of the incident,” FHP spokesperson Sgt. Steve Gaskins said. “Their investigation found that the trooper’s actions were legal and within the scope of his duties.”

When you see the video clips below, ask yourself if there is any legitimate and reasonable justification for this psychopathic, inhumane, overweight, flat-footed slob of a cop, to have ended this girl’s life with a TASER weapon, when any adult male cop in reaonable physical condition, could have EASILY overtaken her and simpy grabbed her to stop her from fleeing?

You can see from the dashboard video that the girl is not capable of running that fast, but Cole isn’t even RUNNING; he’s TROTTING, and doing it in a very flat-footed manner. It’s obvious to anyone with eyes that Cole is too OVERWEIGHT and too OUT OF SHAPE to actualy run after her, so he finds it much more convenient to simply shoot her in the back with the TASER darts, rather than exert hmself anymore than he already had. Since he’s a psycho-sociopath, he has absolutely no concern whatsover about the pain and suffering he will inflict upon this young 20 year old waif of a woman, because he just doesn’t want to exert himself anymore than he has to during his shift. Accomodating his LAZINESS and lack of physical conditioning is FAR more important to him than is this girl’s life or well being.

The first video clip only shows a portion of the first two minutes in which Officer Fleet Foot is berating the girl (who is withering in pain) after shooting her with these astute questions: “What were you thinking? What are you, stupid?

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Meet Maj. Joseph Floyd, Leading Candidate for Most Crooked Cop in America

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A grand jury indictment unveiled last week accuses a Northwest Florida cop of sexually harassing his colleagues, forcing his subordinates to torture suspects, forge incident reports, and alter their testimony; soliciting sex from residents in his jurisdiction; beating handcuffed suspects and prisoners; intimidating members of the community; and causing a pregnant woman to miscarry when he intentionally rammed the vehicle in which she was traveling. If the allegations against Major Joseph Floyd of the Crestview Police Department are true, he may be the most crooked cop in the country. 
Floyd joined the Crestview Police Department in the Florida Panhandle in 2007 after a brief stint with the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.

Unbeknownst to his new colleagues at the time of his hiring, Floyd had a rap sheet that stretched back more than a decade. Over the course of eight years, Floyd was terminated, forced to resign, or quit three police departments while under investigation for insubordination, lying, and falsifying records. Before becoming a cop, Floyd had been arrested for battery, disorderly conduct, and assaulting a law enforcement officer.
In 2007, Floyd was made a lieutenant and put in charge of the Crestview PD’s Street Crimes Unit, which investigates vice, drugs, and gangs.

According to the grand jury's indictment, which Reason obtained from the office of State Attorney Bill Eddins, Floyd’s malpractice began shortly after his hiring and continued right through the grand jury's investigation.
The higlights of the indictment are below:
Allegations of excessive force:

- “On multiple occasions, Floyd or officers acting at his direction used excessive force on person who were not resisting and were in custody, posing no risk to him, other officers, or the public.”
- Including, but not limited to “tasing suspects without cause, striking a suspect in the head with an assault rifle, elbowing suspects in the throat and neck and beating a handcuffed suspect.”
- Floyd “initiated” one female officer into his unit by ordering her to “tase a suspect without cause, even though Floyd knew, at the time, that she was not certified to use a taser.”
- While conducting surveillance during a drug investigation, Floyd rammed his cruiser into the side of a truck that was leaving the scene of a drug sale. The truck was not endangering any of Floyd’s men, and Floyd did not have his lights on. The truck flipped over, and its pregnant passenger “who was not involved in the drug transaction...subsequently lost her baby.” Floyd then instructed his unit not to report what they saw him do, and instead wait for him to write his report and then “mirror" it.
- Floyd “bragged about his physical abuse of suspects and prisoners” to other officers, and “stated in profane language that he did not care about people’s civil rights, that he had beaten a civil rights suit before, and if they wanted to keep their jobs they must do it his way.”

Allegations of falsifying testimony and reports:

- Floyd planted drugs on a suspect and then charged him with possession of crack-cocaine.
- He instructed his subordinates to write in their reports that suspects had resisted arrest when they had not.
- Floyd “directed an officer to redact a video recording of a drug buy to remove the sounds of a suspect screaming while being repeatedly tased.”

Allegations of sexual harassment and assault:

- Floyd called Crestview’s female officers “department sluts” and “department whores.”
- He offered “employment opportunities, work assignments, or ride-along opportunities in exchange for sex acts.”
- He “fondled a female subordinate against her will.”
- He was accused of sexual battery by a woman who refused to press charges out of fear for her safety. When Floyd learned that “the case would not be pursued, he directed a female officer to purchase a Barbie doll and to duct tape the doll’s mouth and hands behind her back. Major Floyd placed it in a dish on a buffet line at a city holiday dinner.”

Allegations of misusing department resources:

- Floyd used the SWAT team and and assault rifles to “effect the purchase of small quantities of street drugs and arrest the offenders.”
- He instructed his subordinates to “target people who were not otherwise disposed to deal in drugs.”
- He invited the media to film a “major drug bust” that was in fact a harassment campaign against a candidate for mayor and the candidate’s 15-year-old son. The son had sold “small quantities of marijuana” to an under-cover officer on three separate occasions, and his father had promised, if elected, to fire Clearview Chief Brian Mitchell and Floyd.
- Floyd invited the media to film interrogations, and once “forcibly held a suspect’s head up by the throat and hair to allow a publicity photo to be taken of the suspect and himself.”
- Floyd instructed his subordinates to investigate “public employees of other departments of the City of Crestview.”
- Floyd’s unit “used city time and funds to travel to and maintain a camper for their use at a campground in Holt, an area over which the officers had no jurisdiction.”

Allegations of intimidation of other officers: 

- “If officers refused to follow Floyd’s directives, they were threatened with termination, demotion, reassignment, and even isolation from other officers.”
- Floyd demanded that officers in his unit “report to Floyd about the activities of officers who were not loyal to Floyd.”
- Floyd taunted officers who disagreed with him by bragging about his relationship with chief of police Brian Mitchell.
- In 2010, a local business owner filed a civil rights suit against Floyd for harassing and assaulting him. Officers who were deposed in the suit were pressured to lie. Of those who refused to alter their testimony, once has since resigned, one was fired, and two have “been repeatedly harassed and slandered” by Floyd.

- The harassment continued throughout the current grand jury investigation.

In a statement to the Crestview News Bulletin, Floyd said, "The fact is I'm innocent until proven guilty. Now I know what they say I did and now I can prove the truth in my defense." You can read the full indictment here.

Miami Cop Sped Long Before His Traffic Stop

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The cop clocked at 120 mph on Florida's Turnpike last fall offered the trooper a familiar explanation: He was late for work.

Miami Police Officer Fausto Lopez was often in a hurry, a Sun Sentinel investigation found. Commuting from his home in Coconut Creek to Miami, he routinely blew through Broward County at speeds law-abiding citizens can only dream of driving.

In the year before his Oct. 11 traffic stop, Lopez averaged at least 90 mph on 237 days.

He hit speeds of 100 mph or higher on 114 days, an analysis of SunPass transponder records shows.

Lopez, 36,stood out as the most frequent speeder of all the cops whose toll records were examined by the Sun Sentinel.

His attorney, William Matthewman, of Coral Springs, said he would have to verify the analysis before commenting.

“Officer Fausto Lopez is a good driver,'' he said.

“Certainly, he at no time has put any member of the public in any type of danger.''

The unusual traffic stop that led to a charge of reckless driving against Lopez ignited intense emotions among his fellow officers, and some defended him on Facebook and police blogs. But many South Floridians cheered, happy to see a cop for once held to the same traffic laws they must obey.

Lopez's lawyer accused the media of whipping up controversy.

“He was not going 120 mph as claimed,'' Matthewman said in a December interview. “Was he going a little too fast? Very possibly so. I think that this is a minor incident that's been completely blown out of proportion by the media.''

Lopez routinely drove at least 25 mph over the speed limit on his two-county commute to and from work, the analysis of the SunPass data shows.

On Sept. 9, he averaged 120 mph on one stretch of his drive, and 18 other times topped 110 mph.

Lopez drove faster on his way home in the overnight hours. On his normal route, he took the turnpike north from the Golden Glades interchange past the Cypress Creek toll plaza to the Sawgrass Expressway, where he exited after the Deerfield Beach toll.

At the speed limit of 65 mph, the drive takes 26 minutes. One day Lopez made it in a little more than 14 minutes — thanks to an average speed of 117 mph.

About 1 a.m. on Sept. 30, Lopez averaged 114 mph from Golden Glades to Cypress Creek, and 112 mph from Cypress Creek to Sawgrass Deerfield. The following night, he averaged 115 and 110 mph on the same stretches. His highest average speed was 120 mph.

Lopez joined the Miami Police Department in February 2006. Nine months later, he was cited for careless driving after rear-ending a car in his personal vehicle, but that case was dismissed.

Before becoming a cop, Lopez had one speeding ticket, in 1999, for going 88 mph in a 65-mph zone, according to his driving record. After he got a badge, Lopez sped with seeming impunity — until Oct. 11.

Late for his off-duty job at a school in Miami, Lopez blew by Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jane Watts in his patrol car on the turnpike near Commercial Boulevard. She followed him for seven minutes and later wrote in a report that he was darting in and out of lanes at speeds exceeding 120 mph.

“This is not a first-time occurrence with y'all,'' Watts told Lopez after pulling him over. “Y'all come from that way all the time, this Miami police car, and we never catch it.''

Lopez apologized and tried to explain he was running late.

“With all due respect ...,'' he said, but Watts cut him off.

“You don't respect me, sir,'' she said. “You don't respect these people out here.''

The exchange was captured on Watts' dashboard camera, and video of the traffic stop went viral. Cops lined up to take sides.

Some criticized Lopez for speeding, but many came down against the trooper for drawing her gun on a fellow officer and handcuffing him. Blog attacks on Watts got nasty and personal, and someone smeared human feces on another FHP trooper's car.

Lopez has pleaded not guilty to reckless driving, a misdemeanor.

Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss said he could not comment on the case. The Police Department will decide whether action against Lopez is warranted once the reckless driving charge against him is resolved in court, he said.

“Speeding is a big concern for us,'' Moss said. “That's why we have a policy in place. That's why we take disciplinary action when we find that people are violating our policy.''

In the days following the traffic stop, Lopez slowed down but still drove in the 80s and twice averaged 96 mph, the SunPass analysis shows.

He eased up on the gas pedal after Oct. 28, when news of his traffic stop aired in South Florida and beyond. In November and December, according to SunPass data, Lopez's top average speed on his commute was 77 mph.

Unarmed Man Shot By Police While Holding 9 Month Old Baby

An Arizona man was shot to death by police Tuesday while holding his grandson.

"There were at least three officers in position to engage the suspect. At least one of the officers thought he saw something in the suspect's hands," said Sgt. Mark Clark.

Loxas was standing outside of his home with his grandchild still in his arms when Officer James Peters fired one shot to the head, killing the suspect.

Police say the 9-month-old boy was not injured during the shooting.

Officers also escaped unharmed.

Some neighbors are now questioning the officers actions.

Investigators say the officers on the scene thought Loxas was holding a gun.

Detectives did not find a weapon on Loxas following the shooting, but did locate several firearms inside the home.

Officer Peters, who fired the fatal shot, has been involved in seven shootings over the past decade.

Six of those have been fatal, and all have been ruled justified.

Police Kill Unarmed Marine In Front Of Daughters

Police Laugh After Beating Motorist In Diabetic Shock

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Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face.

"Stop resisting," officers on the video yell, but Greene, his face pushed into the pavement, hasn't resisted. He doesn't even move -- maybe can't move -- because he's gone into diabetic shock caused by low blood sugar.

The video, recorded more than a year ago by a police car dashboard camera, was released Tuesday by Greene's lawyers. The same night, the Henderson City Council approved a settlement of $158,500 for Greene. His wife received $99,000 from Henderson, which is just under the minimum amount that requires council approval.

Nevada Highway Patrol troopers also participated in the traffic stop but do not appear to kick or knee Greene on the video. The state has agreed to pay $35,000 to Greene for a total of $292,500 between the two agencies.

It was a Highway Patrol vehicle camera that captured the incident.

CAUGHT ON TAPE

A Highway Patrol trooper enters the scene first, gun drawn, and kicks the driver's window of Greene's four-door sedan. After several moments, the trooper opens the door.

The trooper, his gun still raised, then gives Greene conflicting commands. He first tells him not to move, then tells him to come forward.

A second trooper quickly cuffs Greene's wrist and pulls him from the car, which rolls forward until an officer stops it.

Greene flops to the ground, clearly dazed as five officers rush him. A sixth officer, with Henderson police, enters the frame late and delivers five well-placed kicks to Greene's face.

"Stop resisting mother (expletive)!" one officer yells.

Greene doesn't scream until a second Henderson officer knees him in the midsection -- and then does it three more times. Greene was later treated for fractured ribs.

Police suspected Greene was intoxicated as he weaved among lanes about 4 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2010, and finally stopped his car near Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway in Henderson.

But that wasn't the case, which they soon discovered after they searched Greene.

"Call in medical," one officer says in the video. "We found some insulin in his pocket. ... He's semiconscious."

"Let's get medical out here. He's a diabetic, he's probably in shock," the officer later tells dispatch.

Greene's lawsuit said officers then forced him to stand by a patrol car in handcuffs and blow into a Breathalyzer, despite being injured. Paramedics later arrived and treated him for low blood sugar.

Greene was released without a citation, and officers apologized to him for "beating him up," the lawsuit said.

He immediately went to a hospital, where he was treated for the broken ribs and the bruises to his hands, neck, face and scalp, the lawsuit said.

One of the harsher moments in the video comes near the end of the clip, when one officer can be heard laughing loudly.

One officer notes that Greene "was not a small guy." An officer laughs and says, "I couldn't take him by myself."

OFFICERS NOT IDENTIFIED

None of the officers was named in the lawsuit, and authorities have not released their names.

Henderson police said a sergeant involved was disciplined. The sergeant remains employed with the department.

Greene's lawyers were planning to hold a news conference today about the incident.

Greene's case, while shocking, is not unique.

Alan Yatvin, a legal advocate for the American Diabetes Association and a Philadelphia attorney, said police across the country frequently mistake low blood sugar -- called hypoglycemia when blood sugar is exceptionally low -- for intoxication in people with diabetes.

A Web search on the issue returns dozens of video clips and stories similar to Greene's.

Symptoms of hypoglycemia include shakiness, dizziness, hunger, pale skin, moodiness, aggressive behavior, loss of consciousness and even seizures.

"You need police to be trained in what to look for," Yatvin said. "The problem is, there's no authority over all police departments. Every department has its own procedures, and states have different rules and training regimens."

Henderson police said in a statement that the department's use-of-force methods were modified after the Greene incident. The statement noted a 30 percent reduction in use-of-force incidents from 2010 to 2011. The specific policy changes were not detailed.

William Sousa, a criminal justice professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said training for crisis issues is not consistent through departments. Some departments train every officer, and some departments train just a few.

And it is unknown how effective crisis training is, Sousa said.

"Anecdotal evidence is that even officers trained for this will come upon situations they have to diagnose quickly, and act quickly, and those result in cases where you have something (like Greene's case)," he said.

The American Diabetes Association recommends that people with diabetes wear a bracelet indicating their condition, but "police still have to look," Yatvin said.

It is unknown whether Greene was wearing a medical bracelet, but it wasn't mentioned in the lawsuit.

Yatvin, who specializes in police misconduct cases, added that it is "very troubling" for the average citizen to think police could arrest or assault them because of a medical condition.

"I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it's necessary to kick an unarmed man and break his ribs," he said.

The scenario likely would not have been seen at all had the Highway Patrol camera not been rolling.

At the time of the incident, Henderson police did not have dashboard cameras. Those were added to Henderson police vehicles in June, more than eight months after the incident with Greene.

Such an event would not have been captured on video in Las Vegas because the Metropolitan Police Department doesn't have cameras in cars.

Sousa said the trend with agencies has been moving toward dashboard cameras.

"It works both ways," he said. "There's usually resistance from officers at first, but as years go by it may become no big deal, because you get an objective recording that often helps the officers."

This wasn't the first high-profile incident involving a medical episode in Clark County. In both cases, the Highway Patrol was involved.

Las Vegas doctor Ryan Rich, 33, died in January 2008 after trooper Loren Lazoff used a Taser on him five times.

Rich's vehicle had crashed into two vehicles and then the center median on Interstate 15.

Lazoff said Rich appeared intoxicated, dazed and was combative, but an autopsy later revealed he only had seizure medication in his system. Rich had been diagnosed with the seizure disorder shortly before he died.

The Clark County Coroner's inquest jury ruled the death excusable.

Rich's family sued Taser International last year. The Highway Patrol was not named in the lawsuit.

Occupy San Diego Protestor Gets Slammed By Cop

Lee County Deputies Tied Suspect to a Chair, Gagged Him, and Pepper-Sprayed Him to Death

From Fox 13 in Tampa comes the horrifying story of Nick Christie, a 62-year-old Ohio man who was detained by the Lee County Sheriff's Office for being publicly intoxicated. While Christie's wife asked that he be taken to the hospital, Lee County cops decided instead to strip Christie naked, tie him to a chair, cover his face, and then pepper spray him repeatedly, until he died:

The District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff's office of any wrong doing.

It's been more than two and a half years and his wife still can't accept what happened.

"I was shocked. This was something out of a horror movie," says Joyce Christie. She said her husband was depressed and was showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving for Florida.

She called authorities and pleaded with them to take her husband to a hospital and be given his medications. Instead, he was taken to jail for disorderly intoxication.

Her lawsuit alleges he was pepper sprayed 10 times over a 48-hour period, at times while in a restraint chair.

Monshay Gibbs was a deputy trainee at the jail at the time. In a video deposition, she testified that she thought the way Nick Christie was treated was excessive.

"He had a spit mask on and was naked," she said on the video while under oath. Gibbs testified that Christie pleaded with guards to take off the spit mask because he couldn't breathe.

Former Sheriff Arrested In Meth For Sex Scandal

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Just a few minutes ago, Denver’s channel 3 broke the story: Former Arapaho Sheriff Patrick Sullivan – an extremely well-connected member of the Colorado political elite – has been arrested in a meth-for-sex scandal allegedly involving underage partners of both genders.

But there might have been no arrest – and therefore no mainstream story to break – if it hadn’t been for Jonathan Elinoff and yours truly. Elinoff, a scourge of the New World Order and alternative media powerhouse, came on my radio show exactly two weeks ago

Two Cops Fired After Beating Suspect Then Celebrating

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Two cops have been fired after being filmed brutally beating a suspect then doing a celebratory chest bump.
The shocking footage shows the officers holding the man down, punching him and kicking him in the head more than a dozen times.
As he lies motionless on the concrete the officers move away - and bump each other in the sick celebration.

Suspect Nicholas Blume had only been stopped for a traffic violation at the time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he was beaten up.
Officers John Doyle and Robert Woolever have now been fired from New Mexico’s police force, which has recently been criticised over its high number of police shootings.
A special prosecutor is also reviewing the February 13 incident and will decide if the two will face criminal charges.

OCCUPY OAKLAND - Scott Olsen Was Shot In The Head Intentionally From Less Than 10 Feet By The Same Officer Who Threw The Flash Grenade (Video)

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"Police Regularly Plant Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quota"

FULL STORY Stephen Anderson, a former NYPD narcotics detective, testified yesterday that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest quotas. Mr. Anderson is testifying under cooperation with prosecutors after he was busted for planting cocaine on four men in a bar in Queens. "It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," said Anderson. "One of the consequences of the war on drugs is that police officers are pressured to make large numbers of arrests, and it's easy for some of the less honest cops to plant evidence on innocent people," said gabriel sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance. "The drug war inevitably leads to crooked policing – and quotas further incentivize such practices." The NYPD has also come under heat recently for arresting more than 50,000 people last year for low-level marijuana offenses – 86% of whom are black and Latino – making marijuana possession the number one offense in the City. Most of these arrests are the result of illegal searches by the NYPD, as part of its controversial stop-and-frisk practices. Marijuana was decriminalized in New York State in 1977 – and that law is still on the books. Smoking marijuana in public or having marijuana visible in public, however, remains a crime. Most people arrested for marijuana possession are not smoking in public, but simply have a small amount in their pocket, purse or bag. Often when police stop and question a person, they say "empty your pockets" or "open your bag." Many people comply, even though they're not legally required to do so. If a person pulls mari¬juana from their pocket or bag, it is then "open to public view." The police then arrest the person. Last month, in a rare admission of NYPD wrongdoing, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly ordered all officers to stop charging people with misdemeanor marijuana violations based on improper searches. The new policy directive comes on the heels of a 2011 report released by DPA highlighting the enormous costs of marijuana arrests in New York and a public pressure campaign by advocacy groups and elected officials. "Whether the issue is planting drugs (like this instance) or falsely charging people for having marijuana in public view (as is the case with the majority of marijuana arrests in NYC) the drug war corrupts police, ruins lives, and destroys trust between law enforcement and the communities that they serve," said sayegh. Tony Newman 646-335-5384 or Anthony Papa 646-420-7290

NYPD Beat And Pepperspray Occupy Wall Street Protestors, And Laugh About It

Identified: NYPD Officer Who Maced Peaceful Protesters

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A photographer has identified the cruel and cowardly NYPD supervisor who point blank maced a penned in group of young women and then slinks away Saturday at the Occupy Wall Street protests:
Deputy Inspector Anthony V. Bologna of the NYPD Patrol Borough Manhattan South.
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If you think Deputy Inspector Bologna should be fired and prosecuted for his abuse of power, file an on-line complaint with:

• Mayor Michael Bloomberg: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
• and, NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html
• and, the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board: https://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/html/complaint.html