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Good thinking. Get in on the complaining before it happens.
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Two Ohio police officers were charged with reckless homicide in the death of a Black man who pleaded, "I can't breathe," during a police encounter, authorities announced Saturday.
Canton officers Camden Burch and Beau Schoenegge have been charged with reckless homicide in the April 18 death of Frank E. Tyson during a confrontation with police, Stark County Prosecuting Attorney Kyle L. Stone announced against at a news conference Saturday.
Burch and Schoenegge, both 24, were booked into jail Friday and remained in custody Saturday, NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland reported, citing cited inmate records.
Stone said he presented a grand jury with the results of an Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation probe into Tyson's death, which the agency completed in August. The grand jury approved the charges as part of an indictment.….
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Canton officers Camden Burch and Beau Schoenegge have been charged with reckless homicide in the April 18 death of Frank E. Tyson during a confrontation with police, Stark County Prosecuting Attorney Kyle L. Stone announced against at a news conference Saturday.
Burch and Schoenegge, both 24, were booked into jail Friday and remained in custody Saturday, NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland reported, citing cited inmate records.
Stone said he presented a grand jury with the results of an Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation probe into Tyson's death, which the agency completed in August. The grand jury approved the charges as part of an indictment.….
Two Ohio officers charged with reckless homicide in death of Black man who pleaded, 'I can't breathe'
Frank E. Tyson, 53, died in the April 18 encounter with Canton police. A grand jury returned an indictment with the charges, announced on Saturday.
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Police have been trained to believe that their sole duty, above all, is to come home safe and that is what led to this incident.
A grand jury indicted a Bowie, Maryland, police officer on a charge of attempted murder for firing his gun at a man on a busy road last month.
About 8 a.m. Sept. 12, Sgt. Robert Warrington stopped on Collington Road near Route 50 to check on a white SUV parked on the side of the road.
A man who asked to remain unidentified told News4 he was trying to retrieve his hat that had blown away while his girlfriend and children remained in the SUV.
As the man walked past Warrington on his way back to the SUV, he appeared to have one hand over his stomach with the other hand holding a white cloth or T-shirt that appeared to have blood on it.
“Are you here to help her?” Warrington asked.
“Nah, she’s taking me to the hospital,” the man replied.
Moments later, Warrington fired a shot.
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Now, the Cop sounds genuinely sincere in his apologies, but that should not excuse his actions.
A grand jury indicted a Bowie, Maryland, police officer on a charge of attempted murder for firing his gun at a man on a busy road last month.
About 8 a.m. Sept. 12, Sgt. Robert Warrington stopped on Collington Road near Route 50 to check on a white SUV parked on the side of the road.
A man who asked to remain unidentified told News4 he was trying to retrieve his hat that had blown away while his girlfriend and children remained in the SUV.
As the man walked past Warrington on his way back to the SUV, he appeared to have one hand over his stomach with the other hand holding a white cloth or T-shirt that appeared to have blood on it.
“Are you here to help her?” Warrington asked.
“Nah, she’s taking me to the hospital,” the man replied.
Moments later, Warrington fired a shot.
Bowie police officer charged with attempted murder
A grand jury indicted a Bowie, Maryland, police officer on a charge of attempted murder for firing his gun at a man on a busy road last month. About 8 a.m. Sept. 12, Sgt. Robert Warrington stopped on Collington Road near Route 50 to check on a white SUV parked on the side of the road. A man who...
www.nbcwashington.comNow, the Cop sounds genuinely sincere in his apologies, but that should not excuse his actions.
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I love me some cereal, but gotta have the Honey Nut Cheerios. Not the plain one.
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when i was a kid, my parents only bought three types of cereal. Plain Cheeerios, Plain Corn Flakes and those bricks of Shressed wheat. We had to put out own sugar in it. We always had a couple bee hives, so once they decided we would only use honey instead of sugar.. you know how hard it is to sweeten cheerios and corn flakes with honey? cold milk + honey = a big lump of cheerios all stuck together.. thank goodness that didn't last long..I love me some cereal, but gotta have the Honey Nut Cheerios. Not the plain one.
that was like someone pissing in my cheerios...lol
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A former police officer was convicted of murder Monday in the shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed.
Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly four years ago. Coy, who is white, was fired after the shooting. He told jurors that he thought Hill was holding a silver revolver that turned out to be keys.
“I thought I was going to die,” he testified. It was only after he rolled over Hill’s body and saw the keys that he realized there was no gun, Coy said tearfully. “I knew at that point I made a mistake. I was horrified.”
Coy, who was partially blocked from view by his grim-faced attorneys, did not visibly react to the verdict but muffled cries could be heard in the courtroom when it was announced.
Prosecutors asked that the former officer be sentenced immediately. Franklin County Judge Stephen McIntosh instead set a sentencing date of Nov. 25.
Coy, who is undergoing cancer treatments for Hodgkin lymphoma, was devastated, said defense attorney Mark Collins, who slightly shook his head “no” when the verdict was read and later promised to appeal.
Police body camera footage showed Hill coming out of the garage of a friend’s house holding up a cellphone in his left hand, his right hand not visible, seconds before he was fatally shot by Coy.
Almost 10 minutes passed before officers at the scene began to aid Hill, who lay bleeding on the garage floor. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Weeks after the December 2020 shooting, the mayor forced out the police chief after a series of fatal police shootings of Black men and children.
Columbus later reached a $10 million settlement with Hill’s family, the largest in city history. The Columbus City Council also passed Andre’s Law, which requires police officers to render immediate medical attention to an injured suspect.
Prosecutors said Hill, 47, had followed the officer’s commands and was never a threat to Coy, who now faces at least 15 years in prison. The jury also found him guilty of reckless homicide and felonious assault.
“We’re taught, ‘Do what the cops tell you to do and you can survive that encounter,‘” Franklin County assistant prosecutor Anthony Pierson said during closing arguments. “That’s not what happened here.”……..
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Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly four years ago. Coy, who is white, was fired after the shooting. He told jurors that he thought Hill was holding a silver revolver that turned out to be keys.
“I thought I was going to die,” he testified. It was only after he rolled over Hill’s body and saw the keys that he realized there was no gun, Coy said tearfully. “I knew at that point I made a mistake. I was horrified.”
Coy, who was partially blocked from view by his grim-faced attorneys, did not visibly react to the verdict but muffled cries could be heard in the courtroom when it was announced.
Prosecutors asked that the former officer be sentenced immediately. Franklin County Judge Stephen McIntosh instead set a sentencing date of Nov. 25.
Coy, who is undergoing cancer treatments for Hodgkin lymphoma, was devastated, said defense attorney Mark Collins, who slightly shook his head “no” when the verdict was read and later promised to appeal.
Police body camera footage showed Hill coming out of the garage of a friend’s house holding up a cellphone in his left hand, his right hand not visible, seconds before he was fatally shot by Coy.
Almost 10 minutes passed before officers at the scene began to aid Hill, who lay bleeding on the garage floor. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Weeks after the December 2020 shooting, the mayor forced out the police chief after a series of fatal police shootings of Black men and children.
Columbus later reached a $10 million settlement with Hill’s family, the largest in city history. The Columbus City Council also passed Andre’s Law, which requires police officers to render immediate medical attention to an injured suspect.
Prosecutors said Hill, 47, had followed the officer’s commands and was never a threat to Coy, who now faces at least 15 years in prison. The jury also found him guilty of reckless homicide and felonious assault.
“We’re taught, ‘Do what the cops tell you to do and you can survive that encounter,‘” Franklin County assistant prosecutor Anthony Pierson said during closing arguments. “That’s not what happened here.”……..
Ex-officer found guilty in the 2020 shooting death of Andre Hill
A former police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill has been found guilty in the shooting. A jury on Monday convicted former Columbus Officer Adam Coy of murder.
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CHARLESTON, W. Va. — The jury had reached a verdict, and the former chief of police still seemed relaxed. He leaned back in his chair. He nodded to his supporters. He was facing up to life in prison, but during the four-day trial, he never looked rattled by the testimony against him.
His attorney had made his position clear: Chief Larry Clay Jr. wasn’t the type of guy to be involved in child sex trafficking.
Clay, the jury learned, was an HVAC tradesman who’d left his family business in his 40s to fulfill a lifelong ambition of becoming a law enforcement officer. He was a sheriff’s deputy in Fayette County, West Virginia, and also served as the police chief in one of its small towns: Gauley Bridge, population 550, a poor community nestled on a picturesque river. Clay was frequently the only man on duty, cruising the town’s hills with a gold badge on his chest.
“In Gauley Bridge,” prosecutors told the jury, “Larry Clay was the law.”
Clay was the law until one day in the fall of 2020, when a teenage girl made a startling report to the sheriff’s department. In the federal courtroom, she would be called by her initials, C.H.
C.H. was also known in Gauley Bridge. The town had watched her barefoot, blissful childhood come to an end when, at 13 years old, she learned the lump on her mother’s collarbone was a fast-growing lung cancer. Within a year, her mom was gone, leaving C.H. with her stepfather. He soon found a new wife, who moved into C.H.’s house.
The new stepmother and C.H. never got along. Shortly after C.H. graduated from high school, the teen left town and the only place she’d ever called home.
A few months later, Clay was stripped of his gold badge, and it wasn’t long before all of Gauley Bridge knew why.
C.H. had reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay. While he was in uniform and on duty. The first time, against his department-issued vehicle. The second, inside a police office..............
A police chief was accused of paying $100 to rape a teen — and trying to cover it up
His attorney had made his position clear: Chief Larry Clay Jr. wasn’t the type of guy to be involved in child sex trafficking.
Clay, the jury learned, was an HVAC tradesman who’d left his family business in his 40s to fulfill a lifelong ambition of becoming a law enforcement officer. He was a sheriff’s deputy in Fayette County, West Virginia, and also served as the police chief in one of its small towns: Gauley Bridge, population 550, a poor community nestled on a picturesque river. Clay was frequently the only man on duty, cruising the town’s hills with a gold badge on his chest.
“In Gauley Bridge,” prosecutors told the jury, “Larry Clay was the law.”
Clay was the law until one day in the fall of 2020, when a teenage girl made a startling report to the sheriff’s department. In the federal courtroom, she would be called by her initials, C.H.
C.H. was also known in Gauley Bridge. The town had watched her barefoot, blissful childhood come to an end when, at 13 years old, she learned the lump on her mother’s collarbone was a fast-growing lung cancer. Within a year, her mom was gone, leaving C.H. with her stepfather. He soon found a new wife, who moved into C.H.’s house.
The new stepmother and C.H. never got along. Shortly after C.H. graduated from high school, the teen left town and the only place she’d ever called home.
A few months later, Clay was stripped of his gold badge, and it wasn’t long before all of Gauley Bridge knew why.
C.H. had reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay. While he was in uniform and on duty. The first time, against his department-issued vehicle. The second, inside a police office..............
A police chief was accused of paying $100 to rape a teen — and trying to cover it up
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'They're all dead': Man arrives home to find his 7 dogs shot dead — allegedly by a police deputy
A Tennessee man returned home to the tragic sight of seven of his dogs dead, one of them alive after hiding from the alleged shooter — a police deputy.
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A California woman won't be allowed to sue the police officer who allegedly leaked a confidential abuse report to her violent boyfriend after the Supreme Court declined to review her case, ending her nearly decade-long legal battle to hold police officers responsible for abetting her abuse.
The Supreme Court declined this week to take up a petition for writ of certiorari filed in August by Desiree Martinez. Martinez filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2015 against several police officers in Clovis, California, who she accused of ignoring multiple attempts to report her abusive boyfriend. She says that's because her boyfriend, Kyle Pennington, was also a Clovis police officer.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that those officers, including one who tipped off her boyfriend, are immune from Martinez's lawsuit under qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that shields state and local government officials from federal civil suits if their alleged misconduct was not "clearly established" by existing case law.
Qualified immunity allows government officials to avoid liability even in cases where courts find that they violated the plaintiffs' constitutional rights. Defenders of qualified immunity say it protects police from frivolous lawsuits, but in practice it also short-circuits credible allegations of civil rights violations before they ever reach a jury.
Martinez was represented by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm.
"This is obviously hugely disappointing," Anya Bidwell, an Institute for Justice senior attorney, said in a press release. "Qualified immunity should not be a one-size-fits-all doctrine that protects on-the-beat cops and desk-bound bureaucrats alike. My heart breaks for Desiree. But one day, when we defeat qualified immunity, it will be because she and other heroes like her had the courage to stand up."
According to Martinez's Supreme Court petition, in one instance she filed a confidential abuse report against Pennington to the Clovis police. Later, during a late-night argument, Pennington called another Clovis officer, Channon High. Pennington put her on speakerphone and asked Martinez, "So you're telling the cops what I did to you?"
Martinez denied it, but High interjected, "Yes, she did. I see a report right here.".............
The Supreme Court declined this week to take up a petition for writ of certiorari filed in August by Desiree Martinez. Martinez filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2015 against several police officers in Clovis, California, who she accused of ignoring multiple attempts to report her abusive boyfriend. She says that's because her boyfriend, Kyle Pennington, was also a Clovis police officer.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that those officers, including one who tipped off her boyfriend, are immune from Martinez's lawsuit under qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that shields state and local government officials from federal civil suits if their alleged misconduct was not "clearly established" by existing case law.
Qualified immunity allows government officials to avoid liability even in cases where courts find that they violated the plaintiffs' constitutional rights. Defenders of qualified immunity say it protects police from frivolous lawsuits, but in practice it also short-circuits credible allegations of civil rights violations before they ever reach a jury.
Martinez was represented by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm.
"This is obviously hugely disappointing," Anya Bidwell, an Institute for Justice senior attorney, said in a press release. "Qualified immunity should not be a one-size-fits-all doctrine that protects on-the-beat cops and desk-bound bureaucrats alike. My heart breaks for Desiree. But one day, when we defeat qualified immunity, it will be because she and other heroes like her had the courage to stand up."
According to Martinez's Supreme Court petition, in one instance she filed a confidential abuse report against Pennington to the Clovis police. Later, during a late-night argument, Pennington called another Clovis officer, Channon High. Pennington put her on speakerphone and asked Martinez, "So you're telling the cops what I did to you?"
Martinez denied it, but High interjected, "Yes, she did. I see a report right here.".............
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A northern California city has agreed to pay nearly $1m to settle a lawsuit alleging police used excessive force when a K-9 dog tore out a woman’s scalp during her arrest.
Talmika Bates will receive $967,000 from the city of Brentwood, located about 60 miles (100km) east of San Francisco in Contra Costa county, her attorneys announced on Friday.
Bates, who was wanted on suspicion of shoplifting items from a makeup store, was hiding in bushes when the German shepherd bit her head during the arrest in February 2020.
The woman required more than 200 stitches in her head, tissue rearrangement and laceration repair. She has been diagnosed with mild diffuse traumatic brain injury, mild post-traumatic brain syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to her attorneys.
“We need to recognize that K-9s are dangerous, sometimes lethal, weapons that can cause life-altering damage or kill someone even when an officer is trying to get them to release and relent,” said the civil rights attorney Adante Pointer. “Here we saw a trained K-9 handler stand by while his dog mauled an unarmed young lady who was surrendering.”
The settlement comes six months after a federal judge stripped the officer handling the police dog of some of his qualified immunity protection, because the extended amount of time he allowed his dog to bite Bates could be considered by a jury as excessive force, her attorneys said.…..
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Talmika Bates will receive $967,000 from the city of Brentwood, located about 60 miles (100km) east of San Francisco in Contra Costa county, her attorneys announced on Friday.
Bates, who was wanted on suspicion of shoplifting items from a makeup store, was hiding in bushes when the German shepherd bit her head during the arrest in February 2020.
The woman required more than 200 stitches in her head, tissue rearrangement and laceration repair. She has been diagnosed with mild diffuse traumatic brain injury, mild post-traumatic brain syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to her attorneys.
“We need to recognize that K-9s are dangerous, sometimes lethal, weapons that can cause life-altering damage or kill someone even when an officer is trying to get them to release and relent,” said the civil rights attorney Adante Pointer. “Here we saw a trained K-9 handler stand by while his dog mauled an unarmed young lady who was surrendering.”
The settlement comes six months after a federal judge stripped the officer handling the police dog of some of his qualified immunity protection, because the extended amount of time he allowed his dog to bite Bates could be considered by a jury as excessive force, her attorneys said.…..
California city to pay woman nearly $1m after police dog tore out her scalp
Talmika Bates will get $967,000 in settlement after lawsuit alleged Brentwood police used excessive force
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Destinii Hope, 2 months, pictured in a photo posted on social media by family members, has been identified by investigators as the infant killed in an Independence police shooting on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Oval Spring Apartments in Independence.
Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article295483354.html#storylink=cpy
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