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A Pennsylvania police officer allegedly told his sexual assault victim that he hadn’t “intentionally raped” her.

Justin Hain, a 38-year-old officer who has been with the Steelton Borough Police for less than two months, faces several charges of rape in connection with the incident on 10 January.

Pennsylvania State Troopers wrote in an affidavit obtained by WHTM that they responded to a home on Lykens Borough after a woman called authorities. She said that she had just stepped out of the shower and was carrying her small child when Hain, whom she knew beforehand, approached her with a “weird grin.”


The victim told troopers that she asked Mr Hain not to touch her, but he forcibly removed her towel and pinned her down to a couch that was in the room. The woman recounted the moments of horror she lived as she tried to hit the suspect while he allegedly raped her and pushed her head into a corner of the couch.

Following the assault, Mr Hain reportedly left for work and the victim went to a friend’s house before calling law enforcement. She also confronted Mr Hain during a phone call recorded by investigators and asked him why he had raped her despite her pleas for him to stop.

Mr Hain allegedly answered: “I knew you were not into it.”

“It’s probably one of my deplorables, one of my things,” Mr Hain said, according to the affidavit for his arrest. “I’m deeply sorry ... I didn’t intentionally rape you.”……

Police officer tells victim he didn’t rape her ‘intentionally’

Justin Hain, 38, reportedly told the victim that he was ‘deeply sorry’ and ‘hadn’t intentionally raped her’ during a call

www.independent.co.uk

 

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A baby has been injured following a police raid in Ohio that the boy’s mother said was targeted at the home’s former tenant.

Waylon Price, the 17-month-old child, is currently in the pediatric wing of University Hospitals in Cleveland following the incident in which officials from the Elyria Police Department deployed two flash-bangs.

Courtney Price, the child’s mother, told cleveland.com that smoke immediately surrounded the infant but she was unable to take care of him because she was taken into custody. He was on a ventilator at the time.

“I kept yelling for my baby,” she said. “The officers were in the home, searching the home. The baby was clearly laying there suffocating, turning red, blue and they all just walked by him. Nobody went to him.”

The baby boy has pre-existing medical conditions and was born prematurely. Mr Price relayed that information to the officers, the outlet reported. He’s since been diagnosed with chemical pneumonitis, has burns all over his body and is struggling to breathe, the woman said.……

Ohio police accused of injuring infant son with flash-bang blasts during raid

The incident happened in Ohio last week

www.independent.co.uk

 

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i assume they just believed she was lying all those times she told them the person they were looking for didn't live there. man if only there was a thing such as actually investigating. how can some police work just be so crappy. well i guess it's not that hard when they don't actually care.

 

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A baby has been injured following a police raid in Ohio that the boy’s mother said was targeted at the home’s former tenant.

Waylon Price, the 17-month-old child, is currently in the pediatric wing of University Hospitals in Cleveland following the incident in which officials from the Elyria Police Department deployed two flash-bangs.

Courtney Price, the child’s mother, told cleveland.com that smoke immediately surrounded the infant but she was unable to take care of him because she was taken into custody. He was on a ventilator at the time.

“I kept yelling for my baby,” she said. “The officers were in the home, searching the home. The baby was clearly laying there suffocating, turning red, blue and they all just walked by him. Nobody went to him.”

The baby boy has pre-existing medical conditions and was born prematurely. Mr Price relayed that information to the officers, the outlet reported. He’s since been diagnosed with chemical pneumonitis, has burns all over his body and is struggling to breathe, the woman said.……

Ohio police accused of injuring infant son with flash-bang blasts during raid

The incident happened in Ohio last week

www.independent.co.uk

Yet another case where the pigs just plain refuse to offer first aid or call for medical assistance.

They're happy to watch a baby suffocate.

 

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A baby has been injured following a police raid in Ohio that the boy’s mother said was targeted at the home’s former tenant.

Waylon Price, the 17-month-old child, is currently in the pediatric wing of University Hospitals in Cleveland following the incident in which officials from the Elyria Police Department deployed two flash-bangs.

Courtney Price, the child’s mother, told cleveland.com that smoke immediately surrounded the infant but she was unable to take care of him because she was taken into custody. He was on a ventilator at the time.

“I kept yelling for my baby,” she said. “The officers were in the home, searching the home. The baby was clearly laying there suffocating, turning red, blue and they all just walked by him. Nobody went to him.”

The baby boy has pre-existing medical conditions and was born prematurely. Mr Price relayed that information to the officers, the outlet reported. He’s since been diagnosed with chemical pneumonitis, has burns all over his body and is struggling to breathe, the woman said.……

Ohio police accused of injuring infant son with flash-bang blasts during raid

The incident happened in Ohio last week

www.independent.co.uk

The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year-old to the hospital with burns.

However, police have offered a conflicting account of what happened on Jan. 10, saying they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not "sustain any apparent, visible injuries."

Elyria Mayor Kevin A. Brubaker called the accusations “serious and disturbing,” announcing on Saturday “a complete review of the incident.” He said body camera footage from the incident will be released later Tuesday.

The Elyria Police Department had obtained a court-authorized search warrant for a residence in the 300 block of Parmely Avenue as part of criminal investigation, police said in a news release Friday.

That warrant was executed that same day at 2:12 p.m.

The Elyria Police Special Response Team deployed two diversionary devices, known as “flash-bangs,” outside the residence, made repeated announcements, entered the home and found a woman and her 17-month-old child inside.

Courtney Price was at home with her baby Waylon..........

'It's the wrong house': Audio of Ohio police raid that left a baby injured raises new questions

The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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A "starlight tour."

Family: Missing mother last seen with Missouri deputy

The family of a missing Missouri mother is searching the Mark Twain National Forest after claiming a sheriff’s deputy was the last person to see their loved one.

fox2now.com

 

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SEATTLE (AP) — Three Washington state police officers who were cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis — a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath — will each receive $500,000 to leave the Tacoma Police Department, according to documents released Tuesday.

“This says to the public that these are excellent officers, and it’s a shame Tacoma is losing them,” said Anne Bremner, an attorney for one of the officers, Timothy Rankine.

A jury acquitted Rankine, 34, and co-defendants Matthew Collins, 40, and Christopher Burbank, 38, in Decemberfollowing a trial that lasted more than two months. Rankine was charged with manslaughter, while Collins and Burbank were charged with manslaughter and second-degree murder.

The city released copies of the “voluntary separation” agreements with the officers Tuesday as police Chief Avery Moore announced findings that none violated the use-of-force policy in effect on March 3, 2020. Collins was found to have violated a policy concerning courtesy.



The use-of-force policy has since been updated. The old one “failed to serve the best interests of the police department or the community,” Moore said.

“These agreements support a responsible, constructive path forward for our community and the Tacoma Police Department,” City Manager Elizabeth Pauli said in a written statement.

In an email, Matthew Ericksen, an attorney for Ellis’family, called it “perverse” and said the officers were “effectively being rewarded” for his death. He noted that the officers had already been paid about $1.5 million total while being on leave for nearly four years.

“The worst TPD officers are also the highest paid TPD officers!” Ericksen wrote. “Everyone in the community should be upset by this.”

The U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle said last week that it is reviewing the case; the Justice Department can bring prosecutions for federal civil rights violations, but the scope of the review was not disclosed.


Ellis, 33, was walking home with doughnuts from a 7-Eleven in Tacoma, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Seattle, when he passed a patrol car stopped at a red light, with Collins and Burbank inside.


The officers claimed they saw Ellis try to open the door of a passing car at the intersection and he became aggressive when they tried to question him about it. Collins testified that Ellis demonstrated “superhuman strength” by lifting Collins off the ground and throwing him through the air.

But three witnesses testified they saw no such thing. After what appeared to be a brief conversation between Ellis and the officers, who are both white, Burbank, in the passenger seat, threw open his door, knocking Ellis down, they said.……

The 3 officers cleared in Manuel Ellis' death will each receive $500,000 to leave Tacoma police

Three Washington state police officers who were cleared of all criminal charges last month in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis will each receive $500,000 to leave the Tacoma Police Department.

apnews.com

 

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The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year-old to the hospital with burns.

However, police have offered a conflicting account of what happened on Jan. 10, saying they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not "sustain any apparent, visible injuries."

Elyria Mayor Kevin A. Brubaker called the accusations “serious and disturbing,” announcing on Saturday “a complete review of the incident.” He said body camera footage from the incident will be released later Tuesday.

The Elyria Police Department had obtained a court-authorized search warrant for a residence in the 300 block of Parmely Avenue as part of criminal investigation, police said in a news release Friday.

That warrant was executed that same day at 2:12 p.m.

The Elyria Police Special Response Team deployed two diversionary devices, known as “flash-bangs,” outside the residence, made repeated announcements, entered the home and found a woman and her 17-month-old child inside.

Courtney Price was at home with her baby Waylon..........

'It's the wrong house': Audio of Ohio police raid that left a baby injured raises new questions

The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

www.nbcnews.com

'It's the wrong house': Audio of Ohio police raid that left a baby injured raises new questions

The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

www.nbcnews.com

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Willow Neal was 17-years-old and seven months pregnant when she was sent to an isolation cell in the Adair Youth Development Center in Columbia, Ky., in November 2022, a new lawsuit alleges. She rarely left.


Neal was only let out of her cell five times to take a walk, and received just 12 showers during her month-long detention, isolation that went against the advice of her medical providers, according to the lawsuit.

In the cell next to Neal’s, 17-year-old Jamiahia Kennedy resorted to washing her body with her bra after being denied showers, according to the lawsuit. For two months, Kennedy was allegedly moved to a soiled padded cell without a bed or a working toilet.


Staff allegedly subjected other minors in the juvenile detention center to various abuses.
One was held in an isolation cell without lights or running water, and another in a cell that had a Spanish version of the song “Baby Shark” playing on loop, the lawsuit states.


Neal and Kennedy, who are both now 18 and released from the detention center, described the alleged abuses in a class-action lawsuit filed Monday against the detention center, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and several employees who allegedly ignored repeated reports of poor conditions at the prison.

The lawsuit adds to complaints the state’s juvenile justice system has faced over several years…….

The Kentucky agencies named in the suit deny the allegations, said spokeswoman Morgan Hall, who added that the state “works tirelessly to provide safe and effective services to the juveniles in its care.”


“For any staff member who violates policy and procedure, corrective action is taken. We deny the allegations in the lawsuit and will defend accordingly,” Hall said.


The detention center houses around 40 minors at a time and holds pre- and post-conviction juvenile offenders as well as non-offenders in the custody of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, according to Neal and Kennedy’s lawsuit. The suit seeks damages for anyone who has been abused while held in isolation at the detention center.


Children detained at the center had restricted access to showers, restrooms and medical care, and were not provided educational instruction, according to the lawsuit.

As punishment, staff allegedly withheld prescribed medications from detainees. Male staff conducted cell checks on girls detained without clothing, the suit alleged…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/21/kentucky-youth-prison-abuse/

 

[bigdaddysaints]

those people who work at places that treat people like that help themselves sleep at night by telling themselves it's their job and they were just doing what they were told.

 

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Willow Neal was 17-years-old and seven months pregnant when she was sent to an isolation cell in the Adair Youth Development Center in Columbia, Ky., in November 2022, a new lawsuit alleges. She rarely left.


Neal was only let out of her cell five times to take a walk, and received just 12 showers during her month-long detention, isolation that went against the advice of her medical providers, according to the lawsuit.

In the cell next to Neal’s, 17-year-old Jamiahia Kennedy resorted to washing her body with her bra after being denied showers, according to the lawsuit. For two months, Kennedy was allegedly moved to a soiled padded cell without a bed or a working toilet.


Staff allegedly subjected other minors in the juvenile detention center to various abuses.
One was held in an isolation cell without lights or running water, and another in a cell that had a Spanish version of the song “Baby Shark” playing on loop, the lawsuit states.


Neal and Kennedy, who are both now 18 and released from the detention center, described the alleged abuses in a class-action lawsuit filed Monday against the detention center, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and several employees who allegedly ignored repeated reports of poor conditions at the prison.

The lawsuit adds to complaints the state’s juvenile justice system has faced over several years…….

The Kentucky agencies named in the suit deny the allegations, said spokeswoman Morgan Hall, who added that the state “works tirelessly to provide safe and effective services to the juveniles in its care.”


“For any staff member who violates policy and procedure, corrective action is taken. We deny the allegations in the lawsuit and will defend accordingly,” Hall said.


The detention center houses around 40 minors at a time and holds pre- and post-conviction juvenile offenders as well as non-offenders in the custody of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, according to Neal and Kennedy’s lawsuit. The suit seeks damages for anyone who has been abused while held in isolation at the detention center.


Children detained at the center had restricted access to showers, restrooms and medical care, and were not provided educational instruction, according to the lawsuit.

As punishment, staff allegedly withheld prescribed medications from detainees. Male staff conducted cell checks on girls detained without clothing, the suit alleged…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/21/kentucky-youth-prison-abuse/

It’s hard to count how many constitutional violations are in there

 

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A 61-year-old man is suing Macy’s and the parent company of Sunglass Hut over the stores’ alleged use of a facial recognition system that misidentified him as the culprit behind an armed robbery and led to his wrongful arrest. While in jail, he was beaten and raped, according to his suit.

Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr was accused and arrested on charges of robbing a Houston-area Sunglass Hut of thousands of dollars of merchandise in January 2022, though his attorneys say he was living in California at the time of the robbery. He was arrested on 20 October 2023, according to his lawyers.

According to Murphy’s lawsuit, an employee of EssilorLuxottica, Sunglass Hut’s parent company, worked with its retail partner Macy’s and used facial recognition software to identify Murphy as the robber. The image that was put through the facial recognition system came from low-quality cameras, according to the lawsuit.

While Houston police department was investigating the armed robbery, the EssilorLuxottica employee called police to say they could stop the investigation because the employee had identified one of two robbers with the technology. The employee also said the system had pointed to Murphy as committing two other robberies, according to the lawsuit.


When Murphy returned to Texas from California, he went to the department of motor vehicles (DMV) to renew his license. Within minutes of identifying himself to a DMV clerk, Murphy told the Guardian he was approached by a police officer who notified him there was a warrant out for his arrest for an aggravated robbery.

Murphy said he was not told any details about his supposed crime except for the date the robbery occurred. He realized he was in Sacramento, California, at the time of the robbery – more than a thousand miles away.

“I almost thought it was a joke,” Murphy said.

Still, he was arrested and taken to the local county jail, where he was held for 10 days before being transferred to and processed in Harris county jail.

After a few days at Harris county, his alibi was confirmed by both his court-appointed defense attorney and the prosecutor, and the charges against him were ultimately dropped, according to the lawsuit.

Murphy was never convicted of a crime. Nonetheless, he says his detainment left him with deep scars. He was brutally beaten and gang-raped by three other men in the jail hours before he was released, he alleges.

They threatened to kill him if he tried to report them to the jail staff, according to Murphy. After the alleged attack, Murphy remained in the same cell as them until he was released.……

Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit

Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr’s lawsuit claims he was misidentified as culprit of armed robbery and put in jail, where he says he was raped

www.theguardian.com

 

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A Minnesota trooper is charged with murder in the shooting death of Ricky Cobb II

A Minnesota state trooper has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Ricky Cobb II during a July traffic stop.

apnews.com

 

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New York City police officers will be required to record the apparent race, gender and ages of most people they stop for questioning under a law passed Tuesday by the City Council, which overrode a veto by Mayor Eric Adams.

The issue was thrust into the national spotlight in recent days when NYPD officers pulled over a Black council member without giving him a reason.

The law gives police reform advocates a major win in requiring the nation’s largest police department and its 36,000 officers to document all investigative encounters in a city that once had officers routinely stop and frisk huge numbers of men for weapons — a strategy that took a heavy toll on communities of color.

It requires officers to document basic information in low-level encounters, where police ask for information from people who aren’t necessarily suspected of a crime.

Officers also will have to report the circumstances that led to stopping a particular person. The data would be made public on the police department’s website.



City Council Member Kevin Riley, a Bronx Democrat who is Black, related his own experience of being detained by police simply for hunting for a parking spot on Manhattan’s Upper West Side while fresh out of college as he voted for the law.

“This is something we deal with on a daily basis,” he said. “When we see those red and blue lights, our hearts drop into our stomachs.”…….

NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question in law aimed at police transparency

The New York City Council has overridden a mayoral veto of a bill to require police officers to document basic information whenever they question someone.

apnews.com

 

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The New Mexico Justice Department says it will not criminally prosecute three police officers who went to the wrong house when responding to a call last year and fatally shot the armed homeowner as he opened the door.

Deputy Attorney General Greer E. Staley said in a letter dated Friday that an expert report had found the Farmington police officers’ use of deadly force was “lawful” in light of the threat they faced from Robert Dotson, 52, and then his wife, who were both armed. Department spokesperson Lauren Rodriguez said in a statement Wednesday that there was “no basis” for criminally prosecuting the officers “after a careful review of the facts.”

Last September, Dotson’s family sued the city of Farmington and the three officers involved in the incident, Daniel Estrada, Dylan Goodluck and Waylon Wasson. The lawsuit alleged that the officers “acted unreasonably” and “applied excessive, unnecessary force” in fatally shooting Dotson — while knowing they may have been at the wrong residence.

Body-camera footage released just more than a week after the shooting late on April 5 last year showed the officers talking about how they were not sure whether they were at the correct address while responding to a domestic violence call.

According to a police statement issued the day after the shooting, when there was no answer to their knock on the door after they identified themselves as police officers, the officers asked the dispatcher to call the party that made the initial report to ask them to come to the front door. They then discussed whether they were at the right address.

When Dotson opened the screen door and began to raise his gun, police opened fire, body-cam footage showed. After Dotson was shot, his wife, Kimberly, opened fire on the officers, the police statement at the time said. Police then returned fire.

“Once she realized that the individuals outside the residence were officers, she put the gun down and complied with the officer’s commands,” the statement said, adding that Dotson’s wife was not injured. Dotson was struck by 12 bullets and pronounced dead the next day, the family’s lawsuit said.

Staley, in a letter addressed to the district attorney, said that to “hold an officer accountable for the use of excessive force, the State would be required to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt that a reasonable officer would have acted as the officer did under the totality of the circumstances.”

A detailed report from Seth Stoughton — a former police officer, professor and an expert in the use of force by police officers for the New Mexico Justice Department — found that “both Mr. Dotson and Ms. Dotson presented imminent threats of death or great bodily harm to the officers at the time.”


The officers’ use of “deadly force” was therefore “proportional to the threat that Mr. Dotson and Ms. Dotson presented at the time,” Stoughton said in his report, which was attached to Staley’s letter...............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/31/police-shooting-robert-dotson-farmington/