Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

[DaveXA]

Even if the car was stolen, is that the right approach? I think not.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Even if the car was stolen, is that the right approach? I think not.

i mean, if pointing a gun at children is wrong, i don't wanna be right... /sarcasm...

 

[Optimus Prime]

another article on this

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A Texas police department apologized after officers pulled over what they wrongly suspected was a stolen car, then held an innocent Black family at gunpoint.

The driver, her husband and one of two children being driven to a youth basketball tournament could all be heard sobbing on body-camera video posted online by police in Frisco, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

“We made a mistake,” the Frisco police chief, David Shilson, said. “Our department will not hide from its mistakes. Instead, we will learn from them.”

The video showed an officer pointing his gun at the Dodge Charger as he ordered the driver to get out and walk backward with her hands raised. Also in the car were the woman’s husband, their son and a nephew.

Police ordered one of the children to step out and lift his shirt. The driver’s husband and the other child were told to stay inside and raise their hands through windows.

“I’ve never been in trouble a day of my life,” the driver said. “This is scaring the hell out of me.”

Frisco police acknowledged the stop was caused by an officer misreading the car’s license plate. As she saw it leaving a hotel, the officer checked its number as an Arizona tag. The car had an Arkansas plate. The officer who initiated the stop told the driver she was pulled over because her license plate was “associated essentially with no vehicle”.

“Normally, when we see things like this, it makes us believe the vehicle was stolen,” the officer told the crying woman on the body-camera video.……

Texas police apologize for holding innocent Black family at gunpoint

Stop was caused by officer misreading car’s license plate and suspecting it was a stolen car

www.theguardian.com

 

[bigdaddysaints]

another article on this

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A Texas police department apologized after officers pulled over what they wrongly suspected was a stolen car, then held an innocent Black family at gunpoint.

The driver, her husband and one of two children being driven to a youth basketball tournament could all be heard sobbing on body-camera video posted online by police in Frisco, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

“We made a mistake,” the Frisco police chief, David Shilson, said. “Our department will not hide from its mistakes. Instead, we will learn from them.”

The video showed an officer pointing his gun at the Dodge Charger as he ordered the driver to get out and walk backward with her hands raised. Also in the car were the woman’s husband, their son and a nephew.

Police ordered one of the children to step out and lift his shirt. The driver’s husband and the other child were told to stay inside and raise their hands through windows.

“I’ve never been in trouble a day of my life,” the driver said. “This is scaring the hell out of me.”

Frisco police acknowledged the stop was caused by an officer misreading the car’s license plate. As she saw it leaving a hotel, the officer checked its number as an Arizona tag. The car had an Arkansas plate. The officer who initiated the stop told the driver she was pulled over because her license plate was “associated essentially with no vehicle”.

“Normally, when we see things like this, it makes us believe the vehicle was stolen,” the officer told the crying woman on the body-camera video.……

Texas police apologize for holding innocent Black family at gunpoint

Stop was caused by officer misreading car’s license plate and suspecting it was a stolen car

www.theguardian.com

I didn't see where they said WHY the officer decided to run the plate in the first place. I mean, I'm pretty sure I know why.

 

[Optimus Prime]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “Goon Squad” have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth, federal prosecutors say.

The civil rights charges were unsealed Thursday as the officers — five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies and an ex-Richland police officer — appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty.

The charges come after an Associated Press investigation that linked the deputies involved in the episode to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.….

Ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid

Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses against two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended when an officer shot one of the men in the mouth.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Fulton County has reached a settlement with the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in the county jail’s psychiatric wing, the family’s lawyers said Thursday.

Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Attorneys Ben Crump and Michael Harper, who represent Thompson’s family, said in a news release Thursday that the family has reached settlements with the county “and other unidentified entities.”

Thompson’s death gained public attention in April after Harper released photos of his face and body covered in insects. The U.S. Department of Justice cited Thompson’s death last month when announcing an investigationinto jail conditions in Fulton County.

The family is satisfied with the settlements, but the lawyers said in the statement that “we are nowhere near the end of this journey to full justice.”

“We will continue to work with the Thompson family –– and the community that rallied behind them –– to ensure that a tragedy like this one never happens to another family or takes one more life,” the statement says. “Lashawn’s life mattered, and together, we can demand and motivate significant change in his name. That will be the legacy of Lashawn Thompson.”…….

Family of man who died in bedbug-infested cell in Georgia jail reaches settlement with county

Lawyers for the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail’s psychiatric wing say they've reached a settlement with the county.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A woman left lying topless in a jail cell has alleged she was drugged and sexually assaulted while being held by Greater Manchester Police.

Zayna Iman was arrested by police officersresponding to a welfare callout about a woman high on cocaine on 5 February 2021.

The 38-year-old was detained for 40 hours, with some of her treatment captured on CCTV. However, Sky Newsreported that three hours of footage from her ordeal are missing.

Ms Iman was arrested at 1.53am and body-cam footage from an officer shows she was bundled into a police van six minutes later.

A nearby CCTV camera captured a police officer entering the van through a side door, but there is no body-cam footage of the journey, according to Sky News. The ride to a nearby station should have taken 10 minutes but Iman isn’t seen on video again until 3:26am, the broadcaster adds…….

Woman left topless in prison cell accuses police officers of sexual assault

Zayna Iman, 38, recounted a 40-hour detainment by Greater Manchester Police, with the claims now referred to the force watchdog for investigation

www.independent.co.uk

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

A woman left lying topless in a jail cell has alleged she was drugged and sexually assaulted while being held by Greater Manchester Police.

Zayna Iman was arrested by police officersresponding to a welfare callout about a woman high on cocaine on 5 February 2021.

The 38-year-old was detained for 40 hours, with some of her treatment captured on CCTV. However, Sky Newsreported that three hours of footage from her ordeal are missing.

Ms Iman was arrested at 1.53am and body-cam footage from an officer shows she was bundled into a police van six minutes later.

A nearby CCTV camera captured a police officer entering the van through a side door, but there is no body-cam footage of the journey, according to Sky News. The ride to a nearby station should have taken 10 minutes but Iman isn’t seen on video again until 3:26am, the broadcaster adds…….

Woman left topless in prison cell accuses police officers of sexual assault

Zayna Iman, 38, recounted a 40-hour detainment by Greater Manchester Police, with the claims now referred to the force watchdog for investigation

www.independent.co.uk

*vomit* that needs all the jail time

 

[Loco Hornet Fan]

A woman left lying topless in a jail cell has alleged she was drugged and sexually assaulted while being held by Greater Manchester Police.

Zayna Iman was arrested by police officersresponding to a welfare callout about a woman high on cocaine on 5 February 2021.

The 38-year-old was detained for 40 hours, with some of her treatment captured on CCTV. However, Sky Newsreported that three hours of footage from her ordeal are missing.

Ms Iman was arrested at 1.53am and body-cam footage from an officer shows she was bundled into a police van six minutes later.

A nearby CCTV camera captured a police officer entering the van through a side door, but there is no body-cam footage of the journey, according to Sky News. The ride to a nearby station should have taken 10 minutes but Iman isn’t seen on video again until 3:26am, the broadcaster adds…….

Woman left topless in prison cell accuses police officers of sexual assault

Zayna Iman, 38, recounted a 40-hour detainment by Greater Manchester Police, with the claims now referred to the force watchdog for investigation

www.independent.co.uk

Awful

 

[Optimus Prime]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

As Jenkins writhed in pain, the six white officers devised a scheme to cover up dozens of stunning acts of brutality that they had just carried out during a 90-minute period of terror against Jenkins and a second Black victim.

The officers planted drugs. They stole surveillance footage from the house. They tried to dispose of other evidence. They agreed on a set of lies that would further upend their victims’ lives.

And that was just the cover-up.

Careful to avoid security cameras at the house, they burst in without a warrant, starting the torture session of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. They handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs. They electrocuted them.



The officers had meant to torture the men without leaving physical scars. But one shot Jenkins in the mouth. Miraculously, Jenkins survived.

The six officers pleaded guilty Thursday to a long list of federal civil rights charges. The Mississippi attorney general’s office announced afterward that it had filed state charges that include assault, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

Law enforcement officers are seldom charged for crimes committed on the job, and it’s rarer still for them to plead guilty.……

How 6 Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men

Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker.

apnews.com

 

[Taurus]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

As Jenkins writhed in pain, the six white officers devised a scheme to cover up dozens of stunning acts of brutality that they had just carried out during a 90-minute period of terror against Jenkins and a second Black victim.

The officers planted drugs. They stole surveillance footage from the house. They tried to dispose of other evidence. They agreed on a set of lies that would further upend their victims’ lives.

And that was just the cover-up.

Careful to avoid security cameras at the house, they burst in without a warrant, starting the torture session of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. They handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs. They electrocuted them.



The officers had meant to torture the men without leaving physical scars. But one shot Jenkins in the mouth. Miraculously, Jenkins survived.

The six officers pleaded guilty Thursday to a long list of federal civil rights charges. The Mississippi attorney general’s office announced afterward that it had filed state charges that include assault, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

Law enforcement officers are seldom charged for crimes committed on the job, and it’s rarer still for them to plead guilty.……

How 6 Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men

Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker.

apnews.com

The case against them must have been a stone-cold lock.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[bigdaddysaints]

it's like, sometimes they don't even care they are being videoed. they know the dept will just say they were following procedure, and get paid leave for it

 

[Optimus Prime]

A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday acquitted a white state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling the man 18 times with a flashlight.

The case of Jacob Brown was the first to emerge from a series of FBI investigations into troopers’ beatings of Black men during traffic stops in Louisiana and underscored the challenges prosecutors face convicting law enforcement officials accused of using excessive force.

After a three-day trial in Monroe, jurors found Mr Brown not guilty of depriving Aaron Bowman of his civil rights during a 2019 beating that left Mr Bowman with a broken jaw, broken ribs and a gash to his head.


Mr Brown, who defended the blows to investigators as “ pain compliance,” would have faced up to a decade in federal prison if convicted.

Mr Brown’s defence attorney, Scott Wolleson, told The Associated Press he was grateful for the verdict. "The men and women of the jury recognized the risks law enforcement officers like Jacob Brown face on our behalf every day,” he said.

Mr Bowman’s attorney, Ron Haley, said the acquittal “shows it’s incredibly hard to prove a civil rights violation in federal court.” He added that the attack had “fundamentally changed” Mr Bowman’s life.

“He was low-hanging fruit for Jacob Brown,” Mr Haley said. “Because he’s looked at as just a drug user, he was treated like he wasn’t human.”………

Louisiana trooper acquitted after beating Black motorist with flashlight

A federal jury found Jacob Brown not guilty of depriving Aaron Bowman of his civil rights during a 2019 beating

www.independent.co.uk