Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged] (6 Viewers)

[Optimus Prime]

this is going to lead to some trust issues with his mother
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AVermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police.

What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities.

After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, then Cathy Austrian’s son was handcuffed and pinned to the ground as he screamed and struggled, according to a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday and police body-camera video shared with The Associated Press by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

The teen eventually was injected with a ketamine, a sedative, then taken to a hospital, according to the lawsuit and video.

“The police chose to respond to my son with unprovoked violence and use of force, when they could and should have followed their own procedures and used safe, supportive methods,” Austrian said in a statement provided by the ACLU of Vermont, which is representing her case.

The ordeal underscores the need for sufficient police training in dealing with people with disabilities and mental health challenges, and raises questions about whether police are best suited to respond to such situations, advocates say. A growing number of U.S. communities are responding to nonviolent mental health crises with clinicians and EMTs or paramedics, instead of police................

Police ‘injected Black teen with ketamine’ after his mom reported e-cigarette theft

A Vermont mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed Black son with behavioral and intellectual disabilities

www.independent.co.uk

 

[DaveXA]

this is going to lead to some trust issues with his mother
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AVermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police.

What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities.

After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, then Cathy Austrian’s son was handcuffed and pinned to the ground as he screamed and struggled, according to a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday and police body-camera video shared with The Associated Press by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

The teen eventually was injected with a ketamine, a sedative, then taken to a hospital, according to the lawsuit and video.

“The police chose to respond to my son with unprovoked violence and use of force, when they could and should have followed their own procedures and used safe, supportive methods,” Austrian said in a statement provided by the ACLU of Vermont, which is representing her case.

The ordeal underscores the need for sufficient police training in dealing with people with disabilities and mental health challenges, and raises questions about whether police are best suited to respond to such situations, advocates say. A growing number of U.S. communities are responding to nonviolent mental health crises with clinicians and EMTs or paramedics, instead of police................

Police ‘injected Black teen with ketamine’ after his mom reported e-cigarette theft

A Vermont mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed Black son with behavioral and intellectual disabilities

www.independent.co.uk

This is definitely a cop issue...but...mother calling the cops to teach her son a lesson? I mean, geez. That's just bizarre. I never did anything remotely like that with my kids, and they've done some stupid sheet.

Trust issues with the mother indeed.

 

[Optimus Prime]

DENVER (AP) — The Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying “no” and “mommy” as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held onto her teenage cousin’s hand.

The 6-year-old Lovely watched as her mother, Brittney Gilliam, was led to a patrol car in handcuffs after she shouted in frustration at the police, who mistakenly believed the car she was driving was stolen.

Three years later, Gilliam has agreed to a $1.9 million settlement with city officials in the Denver suburb of Aurora to resolve a lawsuit that claimed the police officers’ actions were evidence of “profound and systematic” racism, a lawyer for the family, David Lane, announced Monday.

“I feel like those kids deserve everything for what they were put through, not just me,” Gilliam said prior to the settlement.

A spokesperson for the city of Aurora city did not immediately comment Monday on the settlement.

That summer day in 2020 was supposed to be a fun girls’ day out for Gilliam, her daughter, her sister and two nieces. It instead became a traumatic ordeal.

An investigation by prosecutors found there was no evidence the officers committed any crimes, in part because they found they were following their training for conducting a high-risk stop of what they suspected was a stolen vehicle. However, they said the incident was “unacceptable and preventable” and urged police to review their policies to ensure nothing like it happens again.

One of the officers who stopped the car, Darian Dasko, was suspended for 160 hours. He and the other officer, Madisen Moen, still work for the department..........

Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement

A Black woman and a group of young girls who were wrongfully forced out of their car, held at gunpoint and handcuffed by police in suburban Denver in 2020 have reached a $1.9 million legal settlement.

apnews.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

this is going to lead to some trust issues with his mother
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AVermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police.

What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities.

After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, then Cathy Austrian’s son was handcuffed and pinned to the ground as he screamed and struggled, according to a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday and police body-camera video shared with The Associated Press by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

The teen eventually was injected with a ketamine, a sedative, then taken to a hospital, according to the lawsuit and video.

“The police chose to respond to my son with unprovoked violence and use of force, when they could and should have followed their own procedures and used safe, supportive methods,” Austrian said in a statement provided by the ACLU of Vermont, which is representing her case.

The ordeal underscores the need for sufficient police training in dealing with people with disabilities and mental health challenges, and raises questions about whether police are best suited to respond to such situations, advocates say. A growing number of U.S. communities are responding to nonviolent mental health crises with clinicians and EMTs or paramedics, instead of police................

Police ‘injected Black teen with ketamine’ after his mom reported e-cigarette theft

A Vermont mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed Black son with behavioral and intellectual disabilities

www.independent.co.uk

White mom
Least surprising google search of all time

 

[Optimus Prime]

An irate mother in Mississippi slammed local police when they detained her 10-year-old son and hauled him off to jail for urinating behind her car.

Latonya Eason was at an attorney’s office in Senatobia for legal advice on 10 August when an officer saw her son Quantavious Eason peeing outside, WHBQ reported.

“I was like, ‘Son, why did you do that?’ He said, ‘Mom, my sister said they don’t have a bathroom there,’” Ms Eason told WHBQ. “I was like, ‘You knew better, you should have come and asked me if they had a restroom.’”


The child was initially going to be let off with a warning, the officer telling Ms Eason: “‘Since you handled it like a mom, then he could just get back in the car.”

But several more officers suddenly arrived on the scene and the boy was detained.

Mother slams police for detaining 10-year-old son for public urination

I’m just speechless right now. Why would you arrest a 10-year-old kid,’ mother says

www.independent.co.uk

Mississippi judge has dismissed the case against a child who was arrested in August for public urination, according to an attorney for the child’s family.

Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow dismissed the case against Quantavious Eason, now 11, who was arrested for urinating in a Senatobia parking lot, family attorney Carlos Moore said Monday.

Quantavious was arrested and transported to the Senatobia Police Department after he relieved himself on private property near his mother’s vehicle, because signs said there were no public restrooms, CNN previously reported.

The boy’s mother, LaTonya Eason, said at a news conference in September an officer who was driving by spotted her son, stopped and went inside the business to look for her. Eason said she admonished her son - who was then 10 years old - for his behavior and the officer seemed satisfied.

Then, other officers arrived, including a lieutenant, Eason said, and her son was arrested. Eason asked for an apology and the firing of several officers involved in the incident.

Quantavious was sentenced to three months’ probation and assigned a two-page book report on the late NBA player Kobe Bryant during a December youth court hearing, Moore told CNN at the time. Eason was not declared delinquent or in need of supervision and was non-adjudicated, Moore said.............

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/us/mississippi-urinating-child-arrest-case-dismissed/index.html

 

[Optimus Prime]

When attorney R. Anthony Rupp III was leaving Chef’s Restaurant on a December night seven years ago, he saw a vehicle without its headlights on stop just short of two pedestrians on Seneca Street. So he did what he thought the moment called for: He yelled at the driver to turn on his headlights, ending his sentence with an expletive.

Rupp didn’t know the vehicle in question was a Buffalo Police Department SUV, and his exhortation eventually led to an encounter with several police officers and landed him a ticket for violating a city noise ordinance, a ticket that he successfully challenged. Rupp wrote a letter the next day to the police commissioner about the incident, and thought that would be the end of that.

But when two officers he encountered that night were involved in an incident two months later that ended with a man’s death, Rupp decided his encounter had something in common with the man’s death: that the officers lacked the proper training and temperament for the job and they and the city needed to be held to account. So Rupp sued them.

A federal judge in Buffalo dismissed his case, but this week, an appeals court reversed the lower court’s decision and said Rupp’s case should proceed.
Rupp said he initially never intended to sue over his encounter with police that night, calling it a “stupid case.”

But Rupp changed his mind when he learned that two of the officers involved in his incident – Todd C. McAlister and Nicholas J. Parisi – were involved a few months later in the deadly arrest of Wardel “Meech” Davis. The 20-year-old unarmed African American man died Feb. 7, 2017, of an acute asthma attack exacerbated by physical exertion from when he struggled during his arrest.

The Attorney General’s Office found no evidence to warrant criminal charges against either police officer.
But the fatal arrest triggered Rupp to sue over his encounter.

“I just decided that somebody needed to stand up for Meech Davis because the guy was dead,” Rupp said.

“When I saw that it was the same two cops who were involved in my incident, when they retaliated against me because I (angered) them and Meech Davis (angered) them by resisting arrest, I went forward with a lawsuit that I never would have brought,” Rupp said. “In my view, if a then-50-year-old lawyer with his own law firm couldn’t stand up against police abuse and misconduct in the face of a civil rights killing, who was going to do it?”..............

Appeals court reinstates lawsuit: Jurors could easily view profanity shouted at Buffalo cop 'as eminently reasonable'

A federal judge in Buffalo dismissed his case, but this week, an appeals court reversed the lower court's decision and said R. Anthony Rupp III's case should proceed.

buffalonews.com

 

[Eeyore]

this is going to lead to some trust issues with his mother
=================================

AVermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police.

What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities.

After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, then Cathy Austrian’s son was handcuffed and pinned to the ground as he screamed and struggled, according to a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday and police body-camera video shared with The Associated Press by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

The teen eventually was injected with a ketamine, a sedative, then taken to a hospital, according to the lawsuit and video.

“The police chose to respond to my son with unprovoked violence and use of force, when they could and should have followed their own procedures and used safe, supportive methods,” Austrian said in a statement provided by the ACLU of Vermont, which is representing her case.

The ordeal underscores the need for sufficient police training in dealing with people with disabilities and mental health challenges, and raises questions about whether police are best suited to respond to such situations, advocates say. A growing number of U.S. communities are responding to nonviolent mental health crises with clinicians and EMTs or paramedics, instead of police................

Police ‘injected Black teen with ketamine’ after his mom reported e-cigarette theft

A Vermont mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed Black son with behavioral and intellectual disabilities

www.independent.co.uk

If she didn't want that, why did she call the police?

 

[Eeyore]

Man shot by Columbus police after car backfires during traffic stop, GBI says

An Alabama man was shot and injured by Columbus police officers Wednesday morning when his car backfired during a traffic stop, causing the officers to open fire, authorities said.

www.ajc.com

 

[Tapxe]

Man shot by Columbus police after car backfires during traffic stop, GBI says

An Alabama man was shot and injured by Columbus police officers Wednesday morning when his car backfired during a traffic stop, causing the officers to open fire, authorities said.

www.ajc.com

I know the car crowd that runs tunes which backfire. They do this knowingly. BMW's do not by default have that problem.

I've also heard a backfire and mistaken it for gunfire which I am also very familiar with.

Hard for me to fault an officer who just pulled over a vehicle that rolled 100 mph thru construction.

 

[Eeyore]

Officer of the year 2021

Brookline police detective on leave following arrest at Disney World - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

BROOKLINE, MASS. (WHDH) - A Brookline police detective is on leave following his arrest for allegedly assaulting people during a disturbance at Disney World in<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/brookline-police-detective-on-leave-following-arrest-in-florida/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Officer of the year 2021

Brookline police detective on leave following arrest at Disney World - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

BROOKLINE, MASS. (WHDH) - A Brookline police detective is on leave following his arrest for allegedly assaulting people during a disturbance at Disney World in<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/brookline-police-detective-on-leave-following-arrest-in-florida/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

Danforth was selected as the department’s Officer of the Year in 2021 and was recognized for his ability to de-escalate situations. He’s also a US Army veterans.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

This dude should be fired immediately!

Parade incident L.B. Landry student and NOPD officer

NOPD officer bumps and shoves student

www.wwltv.com

He initiated the contact with the band member and then he escalated by shoving the kid. That is straight up assault!

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

This dude should be fired immediately!

Parade incident L.B. Landry student and NOPD officer

NOPD officer bumps and shoves student

www.wwltv.com

He initiated the contact with the band member and then he escalated by shoving the kid. That is straight up assault!

Obviously policing is a stressful job
And carnival season must be an extra layer of stress for NO cops
But to CAUSE and incident and then ESCALATE it shows that you’re not cut out for it
Man character syndrome and a badge are a toxic mix

 

[DaveXA]

Obviously policing is a stressful job
And carnival season must be an extra layer of stress for NO cops
But to CAUSE and incident and then ESCALATE it shows that you’re not cut out for it
Man character syndrome and a badge are a toxic mix

I thought it was toxic man syndrome. I like that better anyway. Heh.

But yeah, agree 100%.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a “psychotic breakdown” instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the man's family.

The lawsuit over the 2022 death of Kevin Dizmang in Colorado Springs was filed against the team's paramedic, Nick Fisher, and police officer Sean Reed.

It identifies Fisher as the person seen taking Dizmang, 63, to the ground in body camera footage released last year by lawyers for Dizmang's family after his death was ruled a homicide and raised questions about how police handle encounters with people experiencing mental health crises.……

Family of man who died after being tackled by mental crisis team sues paramedic, police officer

Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a “psychotic breakdown” instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his family

www.independent.co.uk