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Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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Meanwhile, another drag queen cop has been arrested for molesting a child.

'Evil comes in many forms': Georgia sheriff fires, arrests deputy on child sex crime charges

A Georgia deputy is behind bars after being charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

According to Jones County Sheriff Butch Reece, Deputy Kevin Harden was fired and arrested Thursday.

Reece said Harden had been with the department since 2017.
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The non-drag-queen mugshot is hereby presented for your perusal.
 

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Frank Newgent said:
badge video...

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=602302351825817&ref=sharing

Three cops realize they are at the wrong address at the 3:15 mark.
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See, the error here is that the homeowner opened the door. The correct course of action is for the homeowner to shoot through the door:

A teenager was shot by a homeowner after going to the wrong house to pick up siblings, Kansas City police say

Note that on this occasion the police have identified the one who got shot but not the homeowner who shot him. Who has also not been arrested (shooter's name and address are all over social media anyway, and protesters are at the house). Police and the DA are claiming that they have not made an arrest in part because they say they first need a statement from the victim. :jaw-dropp

The homeowner – who has not been identified – was taken into custody and placed on a 24-hour hold, then released pending further investigation due to the need to obtain a formal statement from the victim and to gather additional forensic evidence, Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said in a news conference Sunday.
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So keep that in mind - if you get shot in the head and survive, this police force won't make an arrest until you recover enough to talk about it.:confused::confused:

ETA: The homeowner did open the door to shoot the kid the second time, so perhaps opening the door isn't all wrong.
 
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https://www.kxii.com/2023/04/17/mcc...sed-killing-burying-reporters-during-meeting/

Nothing to see here

Unless you think it's bad for police commissioners to discuss hiring hitmen on reporters.

ETA, and bemoaning lt lack of lynchings

Later in the recording, a voice Willingham identifies as County Commissioner Mark Jennings, lamented the discontinuation of lynchings with the sheriff, stating he would run for sheriff if he could beat up a black man and throw him in jail.

Jennings: Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a d--- rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.
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crescent said:
Clear Creek County deputies shoot and kill man who asked for help after car crash

The man seemed to be having a bit of a mental health crisis - his car was stuck in a ditch or a bush or something and he was convinced that it was a trap. He would not get out of his car. He seemed to just want help with getting his car unstuck. He was an amateur geologist with the tools of the trade in the car with him - a little hammer, a rubber mallet and a pair of little knives.






The entirety of his offense seemed to just be his refusal to get out of the car, along with actually following the order to not throw the knives and hammer out the window.

:(:(:(
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crescent said:
Here's a bodycam video. Video cuts out just before shots are fired, audio goes on for a few more seconds.



For a fair bit of the time the poor fellow is just staring at the cops - not a hostile stare, but more of a befuddled look. Other times he just stares off into the middle distance. There is discussion between him and a female cop of him unlocking the door, he seems to think he is unable to do that. She seems to be trying to work with him to get the car unstuck.

A particularly aggressive cop insists on standing on the hood with his gun drawn, as if poor Glass is going to stab someone through the windshield or closed door.

So they break the passenger side window. Everything was pretty calm until then - other than the hyper-escalatory idiot standing on the hood. But once they pop that window Glass freaks out in a big way, clutching the knife and screaming. He appears to be in a complete panic and incoherent. Just looking straight forward, knife in hand next to his face with the blade not pointed at himself nor anyone else and just screaming in panic.

So they use the bean bag gun and then tase him and then shoot him.

It is clear to me that he was utterly and completely unable to follow instructions and that the police utterly and unnecessarily escalated the hell out of the situation.
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Revisiting this one: The cop who was stood on the hood of the car pointing the gun at the mentally ill man - he left the department, got hired by a neighboring department and has now been promoted.

Deputy involved in Christian Glass call hired by nearby Georgetown Police
 
And then there's this.

Georgia police executed climate activist, autopsy results show.

Really short version?

The autopsy of murdered climate activist Manuel Esteban Paez Teran revealed that Teran was shot fifty-seven times. Details of the autopsy reveal Teran's arms were in the air at the time of his shooting. Contrary to police claims that they were protecting themselves from an armed shooter who shot an officer, there was no residue of gunpowder on his hands
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Presented without comment:

Police say a 62-year-old man was walking his dog on a leash near 20th and Chew streets when one of two loose pit bulls began to attack his dog.

The man reportedly tried to pull the dogs apart but was unsuccessful. That's when police say the man shot and killed the attacking dog.

At some point after the gunfire, the man was able to flag down a 14th District officer to report the incident.

According to police, the man told the officer that he had just shot the dog around the corner and that his gun was in a holster on his side.

While trying to remove the weapon, authorities say the officer accidentally shot the man in the leg.
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The Deputy and the Disappeared: A Latino man and a black woman disappeared 3 months apart in Florida. Both vanished immediately after being picked up by the same deputy.

Naples, Florida — One morning 19 years ago, Marcia Williams woke up praying for her son. Terrance worked two jobs, and liked reading about Socrates, and had a scar on his right hand, near the thumb, from one time when he played with matches as a little boy. He was Marcia’s only child. She prayed and prayed, fighting against this inexplicable feeling that something terrible was about to happen.

A few hours later, Terrance crossed paths with a deputy sheriff. He got in the deputy’s patrol car. Then he disappeared.

The deputy said he’d given Terrance a ride to a Circle K convenience store. But there was no proof that Terrance arrived at the Circle K. And his mother never saw him again.

Eventually, Marcia learned something astonishing about this deputy sheriff.

Three months earlier, another man had also taken a ride in his patrol car.

Just like Terrance Williams, Felipe Santos had been driving illegally.

Just like Williams, he encountered Cpl. Steven Calkins of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.

And just like Williams, he disappeared right after that.

The deputy said he’d dropped Santos off at a Circle K convenience store. But there was no proof that Santos arrived at the Circle K. And his family never saw him again.
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CNN: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/04/us/naples-florida-deputy-missing-men/
 
shemp said:
Just a nitpick correction: the victims were both men.

I've seen reports about this before. I hope it finally gets the investigation it deserves and justice is done.
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They investigated pretty thoroughly, didn't they? Did a DNA sweep on the car, nothing. No witnesses to anything. The only things that are incriminating is that both missing people were stopped by this deputy, allegedly dropped off at a local Circle K, and haven't been seen since. That's not out of the realm of coincidence, or even a Circle K killer instead of the sheriff guy.

There were a couple weird things, like the signatures not being right on the tickets written (deputy's middle name spelled wrong and an expert says it wasn't the deputies handwriting). But that's not really indicative of murder. What did the deputy do, ask a passerby to fill out the ticket while he killed people?

And they said the deputy's accounting of time was screwy. Well...so is mine? I mean, I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night, never mind recounting the peripheral details of a routine traffic stop months prior.
 
Thermal said:
They investigated pretty thoroughly, didn't they? Did a DNA sweep on the car, nothing. No witnesses to anything. The only things that are incriminating is that both missing people were stopped by this deputy, allegedly dropped off at a local Circle K, and haven't been seen since. That's not out of the realm of coincidence, or even a Circle K killer instead of the sheriff guy.

There were a couple weird things, like the signatures not being right on the tickets written (deputy's middle name spelled wrong and an expert says it wasn't the deputies handwriting). But that's not really indicative of murder. What did the deputy do, ask a passerby to fill out the ticket while he killed people?

And they said the deputy's accounting of time was screwy. Well...so is mine? I mean, I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night, never mind recounting the peripheral details of a routine traffic stop months prior.
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Yeah, it's one thing being pretty sure or "knowing" something and another thing to be able to prove it.
I think I read that they even dragged water bodies in the area.
 
Here's a story from a slightly different perspective than usual -

After Being Wrongfully Convicted For 28 Years And Now Free, Grateful Soul Meets His Steadfast PenPal

Of particular note in that for this thread -

She teamed up with The Midwest Innocence Project and they formed and organized a local conviction integrity unit.

The unit reviews post-conviction claims of innocence, hoping to exonerate innocent prisoners.

And what they found infuriated them and put them in direct and constant battle with the local police.

Overwhelming and substantial evidence that proved Lamar has been telling the truth.

Of deceit, lies and frame- ups.

State Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office had opposed prosecutors’ motion for a new trial.

Tricia Bushnell, director of the Midwest Innocence Project, wasn’t buying any of it.

But they fought, and it wasn’t easy.

They showed with concrete proof of prosecutorial and police misconduct including that the detective investigating Boyd’s death, Joseph Nickerson, made up out of whole cloth multiple testimonies, and bribed the witness, “Greg,” with more than $4,000 if he testified against Lamar.

And with a 70-page report... by the Innocence Project and the St. Louis attorney found that “the actual perpetrators…credibly confessed to the shooting of Boyd in signed sworn affidavits, personal writings…” In a letter to Johnson while he was in prison in 1995, Phillip Campbell acknowledged his own role in the murder while exonerating the wrongly accused men.

The signed confession was seized by the state but no effort was made to correct the wrongful conviction despite the new evidence until it was discovered years later and was used as evidence to plea for a new trial
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