Another Body Cam Video of Liar Baltimore Cops Manufacturing Evidence Discovered Leads to More Dismissals

2nd Videos are [HERE].    From [arstechnica] More get-out-of-jail-free cards are being issued by Baltimore prosecutors—and more are likely, after Monday's disclosure of a second police body cam video that defense attorneys say shows cops manufacturing evidence.

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender said that charges against at least one suspect were dropped on Monday in light of the new video that they said shows officers "working together to manufacture evidence." The development comes days after the state's top prosecutor announced Friday that 34 prosecuted or pending drug or weapons cases were dropped or dismissed because they were connected to three officers seen in a different body cam video showing one officer planting drugs.

The brouhaha is part of the aftermath of the Maryland public defender's office releasing a body cam video last week that showed one white officer planting drugs in a trash-strewn alley. That officer, Richard Pinheiro, has been suspended while two others depicted in the video have been placed on administrative duty. That first video was turned over to defense attorneys as part of the usual discovery process. Pinheiro apparently did not realize that the agency's body cams retain footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button.

The public defender's office did not release the second suspicious video it discovered Monday because one of the two suspects in the video was not one of its clients. [ALL videos are [HERE] At least two more Baltimore officers are now under investigation, and the prosecutions in the cases they are connected to are being postponed until the investigation is completed, the authorities said.

"Pending the Baltimore Police Department's investigation pertaining to the officers' conduct, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office is requesting postponements on all cases involving the officers," Melba Saunders, a spokeswoman for State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, told the Baltimore Sun. "We look forward to continuing the advancement and pursuit of justice for all."

Police said the video in question "involves two arrests and the recovery of drugs from a car during a traffic stop," the Baltimore Sun said.

Defense attorneys suspect there are other still-undisclosed body cam videos, affecting hundreds of cases, that depict unethical conduct by Baltimore Police Department officers.

The discovery of the latest video brings to three the number of body cam videos [known to the public] in which police have recently staged a crime scene.

The third one is from Pueblo, Colorado, in which an officer staged a drug-find in a vehicle. Charges were dismissed against the suspect, but no public action was taken against Pueblo Police Department Officer Seth Jensen.

Here is the Colorado footage:

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Liar White Cops' Testimony is Worthless after Video Shows Them Planting Drugs: Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases

Anon hypothesizes: 1) If blacks can be convicted on the basis of skin color (regardless of the evidence), it is logical to assume that whites can be acquitted or never charged on the basis of skin color (regardless of the evidence).

2) If evidence can be falsified by police and district attorneys to CONVICT black defendants, then it is logical to assume evidence can be falsified to ACQUIT white defendants. [MORE]

From [HERE] State attorneys are dismissing dozens of cases in Baltimore after reviewing a video that appears to show a police officer planting evidence at a crime scene while two other officers look on.

Over a hundred cases that would have relied on testimony from those three officers are now under review. As of Tuesday night, 41 had been dropped or were set to be dropped.

“The credibility of those officers has now been directly called into question,” Marilyn J. Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, said at a news conference on Friday.

The video, released last month and recorded in January, shows an officer who appears to place a bag of white capsules in an alleyway before walking toward the street, as the two other officers watch. He then appears to turn on his body camera and returns to the alley to retrieve the capsules.

The body cameras used by the Baltimore police retain footage of the 30 seconds before they are activated, so it is possible the officer did not realize the initial scene was being recorded.

In a statement last month, a public defender identified Richard Pinheiro as the officer who handled the bag.

The three officers shown in the video had been scheduled to participate in 123 cases. Ms. Mosby said that of those cases, the ones in which the charges hinged solely on the officers’ testimonies had to be thrown out because of a “credibility issue,” while others could still be prosecuted on other evidence.

So far, 27 cases have been cleared for prosecution to continue, 41 have been dropped and the remaining 55 are still awaiting review. The cases that have been dismissed involve drug-related felonies and weapons possession, Antonio Gioia, chief counsel at the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office, said at the news conference on Friday.

One of the officers involved was suspended; the other two were placed on administrative duty. On Tuesday, the police did not specify which officer was suspended.

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On July 4th ["the Fourth of Their Lie"] White NJ Cops were Ordered to Kick Black Teens Out of Town

Independence Day - The Fourth of Their Lie. (See Constitution & Declaration of Undie-Pendance). From FUNKTIONARY

From [HERE] The fireworks weren’t the only explosive moments at last year’s Fourth of July celebration, which ended in four arrests, the eventual discipline of several police officers and outraged calls in the community for the police chief’s ouster.

Police officers have been accused of using excessive force against crowds of mostly black teenagers. And newly released recordings of police radio transmissions that night capture police brass instructing officers to push a group of black teens across the border into Irvington. Officers are then told to “maintain our border” once the youth are across the city line.

The problem? The kids didn’t live in Irvington.

The year-old incident has exposed racial tension in one of the most diverse parts of New Jersey. About 35 percent of Maplewood and 29 percent of South Orange are black. The middle-class communities are suburbs of Newark and neighboring Irvington, which is 85 percent black. Irvington also has a higher crime rate than its neighbors.

New Jersey 101.5 this week obtained copies of the audio recordings. The voices ordering officers to push the teens across the city line were identified by local news website The Village Green as those of Chief Robert Cimino and Capt. Joshua Cummis.

The city also released hours of video from police dashcam recordings, which show more than a dozen officers herding a small group of young men and women through a neighborhood.

The parade of cops and young people is orderly until a commotion happens off camera. Video shows two groups of officers taking down two young men and arresting them. One of the teens is punched several times by a number of officers while one officer reaches for what appears to be a chemical spray.

Public attention is back on the year-old incident after the Township Committee this month ordered the release of the recordings for the first time. The police department announced on Friday, ahead of the release of the recordings, that six officers had been disciplined.

The incident was investigated by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, which declined to press criminal charges against any officers, spokeswoman Catherine Carter said.  In April, the prosecutor also declined to charge Cimino and Cummis with racial profiling.

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Your Rights Are Just Words on Paper: White Colorado Cops Unlawfully Detain Black Man & Tase Him in the Back - case settled

Why Should a Public Servant Bother To Explain the Purpose of the Stop When He Can Just Assault? From [HERE] This is the moment white race soldier cops Tasered a young Black man in the back in an unlawful arrest.

A lawsuit for $110,000 has now been settled. Bodycam footage on an officer's uniform captured Darsean Kelley get struck with the stun gun when he was detained.

Mr Kelley and his cousins were stopped on the street in Colorado when officers responded to reports of a crime.

Officers did not have a description of the suspects but ordered the men to put their hands up in February last year.

In the disturbing video, released only this week, Mr Kelley can be heard screaming: "I know my rights" before he writhes on the floor in pain.

He was eventually arrested and charged for failing to obey lawful orders. He spent three days in jail before he could bond out.

ACLU settlement appears to be dog shit. But now the City of Aurora will pay $110,000 to settle claims brought by Kelley's lawyers in a lawsuit. Sounds like a shitty settlement. 

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein said: "Through constructive, respectful dialogue, the ACLU of Colorado and the City of Aurora, through the City Attorney’s office, were able to work together to resolve this case promptly and without expensive and time-consuming litigation. 

"The ACLU commends the City of Aurora for its willingness to come to the table in good faith to find a resolution that is fair to Mr Kelley and beneficial for taxpayers of the city."

He added that Aurora Police Department has "at every turn refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing or need for policy change even in the face of public outrage and irrefutable video evidence of misconduct".

ACLU lawyers last year successfully defended Mr Kelley in the criminal case, winning dismissal after filing a motion arguing that the unlawful street detention. [what an accomplishment after clearly being stopped for no reason & committing no crimes. And what a way to balance the scales; after being terrorized while excercising his "freedom of movement," stopped & searched in violation of his so-called 4th Amendment rights, assaulted by public servants b/c of his skin color and illegally incarcerated for 3 days, the white cops acknowledge no fault, don't have to pay a penny, keep their jobs so they can do the same thing tmw to another non-white person and the Gov gives them a discounted, unbargained ghetto settlement. Sounds like some nigger shit. Thanks ACLU [beware of the do-gooders]

$1 Million Less for Trump's Wall After Barbaric Border Patrol Cops Coerce Teen to Drink Liquid Methamphetamine

White Cops LOL at non-white persons, who they "believe" are a different species from themselves. Suffering from the disease of constant comparison racists and their make believe beliefs, [imagining themselves to be a part of a hierarchy wherein persons unable to produce color & lacking melanin are supreme; imagining themselves to be higher than whatever they imagine you to be] are in a state of non-reality, a play world. Doc Blynd further states, Racism is a "virus in the mind. 

From [HERE] Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he’d brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico.

The 16-year-old had just crossed the US-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. US Customs and Border Protection officers told him to drink it to prove he wasn’t lying, court records say.

A surveillance video published by ABC Friday, about 3½ years after Acevedo’s death, shows the teen taking a sip of the liquid after one of the two officers, Valerie Baird, motioned for him to drink. He took another sip after the other officer, Adrian Perallon, made a gesture with his hand, appearing to tell him to drink more.

The teen took four sips.

Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists.

In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family’s attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults.

‘‘Mi corazón! Mi corazón!’’ Acevedo screamed, according to court records — ‘‘My heart! My heart!’’

He was dead about two hours later.

The United States has since agreed to pay Acevedo’s family $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against two border officers and the US government.

The family’s attorney, Eugene Iredale, acknowledged that the teen did something wrong when he tried to bring drugs into the United States on Nov. 18, 2013.

‘‘But he’s a 16-year-old boy with all the immaturity and bad judgment that might be characteristic of any 16-year-old kid,’’ Iredale told The Washington Post. ‘‘He was basically a good boy, he had no record, but he did something stupid. In any event, the worst that would’ve happened to him is that he would’ve been arrested and put in a juvenile facility for some period of time. . . .

‘‘It wasn’t a death penalty case. To cause him to die in a horrible way that he did is something that is execrable.’’ Iredale said he does not know where or how Acevedo got the drugs, or why he brought them into the United States.

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His White Skin Was His Authority: Off-Duty Chicago Cop Fatally Shot Joshua Beal After He Put His Gun Away - Suit Filed

911 callers reported a man with a gun: 

Caller: "He is a white Caucasian male, probably mid-30s, oh my god"

911 Operator: "Ma'am?"

Caller: "He's shooting!" [MORE] and [MORE]

From [HERE] and [HERE] The fiancé of a 25-year-old Black man shot to death by an off-duty white Chicago Police officer last fall has filed a lawsuit against the department and the officer, saying that she wants to set the record straight on what happened that day.

The incident, which occurred on Nov. 5 last year, sparked outrage and protests after an off-duty white officer in plain clothes with no badge shot and killed Joshua Beal. The lawsuit, filed by Beal’s fiancé Ashley Phifer, alleges that the officer failed to properly identify himself as a police officer during a confrontation with Beal. Although the complaint acknowledges that Beal had drawn his own gun, he had already put his weapon away when he was shot 18 times.

The lawsuit maintains that the individual officers, both off duty at the time of the shooting “were acting within the scope of their employment” when they allegedly shot Beal. Derouin was in uniform and on his way to work when he came upon the altercation; Treacy was not in uniform.

“An off-duty officer wearing a red t-shirt like a crazy man came out of a car,” Phifer’s attorney Blake Horwitz said. “No one had any weapons. This officer started pointing his gun at a group of African-Americans and they fled.”  Horwitz says that the 25-year-old was acting within his rights as a legal gun owner because he felt threatened by the white man's actions.

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$1M Settlement: Baltimore Cops Beat Tyrone West to Death During Routine Traffic Stop in System of White Supremacy

From [HERE]  and [HERE] Baltimore officials said Wednesday they plan to pay the family of Tyrone West $600,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging police misconduct and excessive force. The announcement came as state officials approved paying $400,000 to settle their share of the suit.

The combined $1 million is to settle a suit filed after West died in 2013 during an altercation with police during a traffic stop in Northeast Baltimore.

The family’s attorney, A. Dwight Pettit, said the money would go to West’s three children — Nashay West, Tyrone West Jr. and a minor child — and lawyers’ fees.

Thus, the total settlement (from the city and state) will be $1 million in return for the family dropping their lawsuit, which was scheduled to go to trial this fall.  The family is represented by A. Dwight Pettit.

The city’s share represents the biggest cash outlay since the $6.4 million settlement with the Gray family – and is double the $300,000 paid in February to the family of Anthony Anderson to settle another high-profile excessive force case.

West died on July 18, 2013 after police pulled over his vehicle in Northeast Baltimore for a "routine traffic stop."  

West borrowed a 1999 Mercedes-Benz owned by his sister, school teacher Tawanda Jones, when an acquaintance named Cortinthea Servance contacted him for a ride. West was described as an unlicensed cab driver who provided transportation to neighborhood residents. Servance met him at the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard and Winston Avenue in the North Baltimore neighborhood of New Northwood.They drove four-tenths of a mile to the intersection of Kitmore Road and Northwood Drive to eat the boxes of chicken West had picked up. After a few minutes, Servance asked West to back up in the intersection and turn east on Kitmore Road, deciding to return to her mother’s house on Kitmore.

They were passed by officers Chapman and Bernardez-Ruiz driving an unmarked police vehicle wearing ballistic vests and BPD badges but not in uniform, all according to standard protocol for the Northeast Operations Unit. They observed a dark green Mercedes unsafely backing into an intersection and turning eastbound on Kitmore Road at which point they turned around and began to follow the car. The driver and passenger reportedly "made suspicious movements" inside the car after making eye contact with the police.The passenger explained that west was balancing chicken on his lap and eating while driving.

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Suit Filed After Unlawful Traffic Stop: Pittsburg [CA] Cops Beat [16 broken ribs] & Choked Latino Man to Death

From [HERE] The family of a Latino man who died last year during an arrest due to complications from a carotid chokehold has sued the Pittsburg Police Department for wrongful death and violation of the decedent’s civil rights.

Officers attempted to pull Humberto Martinez over for a traffic stop around 2:30 p.m. one year ago Wednesday, but he led them on a short pursuit to a residence in the 4200 block of Hillview Drive.

They followed him into the home and a struggle ensued during the arrest. Martinez allegedly bit one of the officers, according to police, and they used a Taser on him.

According to the plaintiffs’ attorney, Michael Haddad, the officers also choked, punched, elbowed and kneed Martinez – resulting in 16 broken ribs on both sides of his torso.

He was handcuffed, but eventually became unresponsive. Martinez was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The official cause of death was listed as “probable mechanical obstruction of respiration complicated by carotid sinus reflex stimulation due to 1/8a 3/8 carotid chokehold,” according to the Contra Costa County coroner’s office. The incident was classified as an accident by a coroner’s inquest jury in March.

The suit names the City of Pittsburg, the Pittsburg Police Department as well as its chief of police and six specific police officers as defendants – and a number of John or Jane Does.

It claims that the officers lacked probable cause to pull Martinez over or to follow him in to the home where he was arrested, and that Martinez was visibly unarmed, posing no immediate threat to the arresting officers when they used a Taser on him, beat him and improperly choked him – “severely impairing his ability to breathe.”

“It is well known in law enforcement that a choke hold – or an improperly performed carotid hold – constitutes deadly force because it can cause death by obstructing the persons ability to breathe,” the suit reads.

“The PPD classifies the carotid hold and choke hold not as deadly force, but as the same level of force as a Taser or a fist strike … and trains its officers accordingly, in violation of widely accepted law enforcement standards,” according to the lawsuit.

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White Collective Power = White Cops & Media Support White TX Cop Who Niggerized Black Man Cutting Grass

From [HERE] A black man in Texas says he was racially profiled by a white deputy as he was cutting lawns last week, claiming he was approached simply because he “fit the description” while going door to door with business cards.

A four-minute video of the June 18 encounter between Marlin Gipson, 21, and a deputy from Harris County Constable Precinct 1 has racked up more than 5 million views. It begins with Gipson explaining to an officer why he had been walking from house to house with his brother in a subdivision in North Harris County.

“Because I’m investigating what you’re doing,” the deputy replies when asked why he was stopped. “Whenever an officer asks you for your ID, you’re supposed to provide your ID.”

The obese white deputy and a K9 unit later responded to a home and located Gipson, who was Tasered and attacked by the police dog after not complying with at least 10 orders to surrender, the Houston Chronicle reports. [How humane]. 

Gipson was arrested and charged with evading arrest and failure to identify himself, according to the newspaper. [here, the white media, in this case the Houston Chronicle and the NY Post, have ommitted the important fact that in order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have a reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity.  Cops cannot stop you and demand ID for no reason. Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.[MORE] "Stop and identify" statutes are statutory laws in the United States that authorize police to legally obtain the identification of someone whom they reasonably suspect of having committed a crime. If there is no reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed, is being committed, or is about to be committed, an individual is not required to provide identification, even in "Stop and ID" states. [MORE] and [MORE]

He’s also a fugitive on a previous assault charge and has two pending cases in nearby Washington County for resisting arrest and giving false information to police, according to the police. Even though no trial has taken place he must be guilty. The white cop knew none of the above information as he observed a Black body cutting grass - the cop knew none of the above information prior to ordering him to stop. Violating the Constitution to find out such info is prohibited when it comes to white citizens in their "democracy."

Gipson’s Philadelphia-based attorney, Lee Merritt, said his client’s civil rights may have been violated during his arrest.

“His right arm was being mauled by a K9 unit,” Merritt told KTRK. “While he was being mauled by a K9 unit, he was shot a second time with a Taser, then placed in handcuffs all the while being fully compliant. That’s excessive force under any circumstances.”

Calls seeking comment from Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen were not immediately returned Friday. But Rosen told Chron.com that Gipson’s family has filed a complaint with his office and claimed Gipson had not been truthful about the interaction.

“I think anytime you turn something you claim is racially motivated, that sensationalizes things,” Rosen told reporters during a press conference Wednesday.

Rosen, who played a clip from dashcam footage taken from the deputy’s car, denied that race played a role in the interaction and said his deputies acted correctly, including during Gipson’s arrest later that day, KTRK reports.

“We have one of the most diverse offices in Harris County,” Rosen said. “It really incenses me that somebody says they were targeted because of their race. I love our minority community, I work hard to gain trust of our minority community.” 

Meanwhile, an online fundraiser for Gipson has surpassed $20,000. Gipson claims the damage to his reputation and his business cannot be fixed.

“My brothers and I believe we can turn this negative into a positive despite it all,” the fundraiser reads. “We want to grow and expand our business and teach others about opportunities in entrepreneurship over selling drugs. We want to speak out against injustice and police brutality. We want to be sure the officers involved here are held accountable.”

NAACP Suit says White Cleveland Cops Wrongfully Jailed & Attacked Black man as he entered His Own House

From [HERE] Two Cleveland police officers are accused in a lawsuit of beating a man and filing a false police report to justify the man's arrest and charge him with assault.

The Cleveland Branch of the NAACP filed the lawsuit last week in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on behalf of Shase Howse, a 21-year-old man who police initially suspected of breaking into his own apartment last summer.

The lawsuit, which was assigned to Judge Hollie Gallagher's courtroom, accuses the officers of excessive force, malicious prosecution and assault and battery during a July 28, 2016 incident outside an apartment on Cleveland's East Side.

The lawsuit says the City of Cleveland failed to train the officers not to use excessive force. It also says the city's police department subjects black residents to a pattern and practice of excessive force.

On August 27, 2016 at approximately 9:00 p.m. Shase walked from his home on East 102nd Street to a convenience store located diagonally across St. Clair Avenue to purchase cigarettes. While enroute to the store and for no apparent reason, other than the fact that he was Black man walking in a “high crime area.” he was stopped by a Cleveland policeman and illegally searched. (Reminiscent of “stop and frisk tactics that have consistently been ruled unconstitutional by numerous state and federal courts.) At the time that he was stopped and searched he had committed no crime and the police had neither “reasonable suspicion” nor “probable cause” to conduct a stop or search. Nevertheless, he was stopped and searched and, after the police determined that he was unarmed and not in possession of any contraband, he was permitted to go on about his business.

Upon his return home and while standing on his porch attempting to unlock his front door, he fumbled in the darkness for his keys. As he located his keys, a Cleveland police patrol car was patrolling the area, driving on East 102nd Street. The two officers in the patrol car, who contended that they were “trained”, noticed Shase standing on his porch and, apparently, became suspicious that he might be attempting to break-in. (Apparently, attempting to enter one’s home on East 102nd Street at 9:00 p.m. is grounds for suspicion by supposedly trained policemen.)

The official report prepared by the officers described his neighborhood as being a “high crime” area and contended that they were actually patrolling East 102nd Street because there had been an “uptick” of felonious assault shootings and gang-related activity in the area. The police report also indicated that a “vigil” was being held in the neighborhood for a murder victim and the police often patrol such vigils because people that attend such vigils are known to be armed and carry firearms. (As ridiculous as that sounds, that is the position of the Cleveland Division of Police that was contained in their official report.)

While Shase Howse was attempting to unlock his door he noticed the police cruiser driving in front of his house and looked to see what was happening. After noticing Shase on his porch, the police officers exited the car and asked if that was his house and whether he lived there. Having already been illegally searched and being understandably upset, Shase replied that he did, in fact, live there and said “…what the fuck difference does it make and why are you messing with me.”

Apparently, the police were offended by the coarse nature of his language which, of course, was not a crime and, although he had reported that it was his house that he was attempting to enter, instead of verifying his claim, the police officers threw him to the ground, put cuffs on his wrists and placed him under arrest. In an attempt to justify their actions, the police did contend that Shase raised his hand towards them as they approached him which they interpreted as his assuming a fighting position. Shase emphatically denied that he was threatening the police although he does acknowledge that his language, although intemperate, was neither illegal nor threatening. While the police were struggling with Shase on his porch, his mother came to the scene and begged for the police to stop beating him since it was his home. Unfortunately, they did not stop and, following a struggle, succeeded in arresting him on the front porch of his house in the presence of numerous neighborhood witnesses. After his arrest, the police placed him in their patrol car and transported him to city jail.

The detectives took Howse back to the city's jail. They wrote in a report of the incident that they forcefully detained Howse because they thought was going to run away, the lawsuit says.

Shase was held in jail over the week-end and, thereafter, indicted for two felony counts of assault on police officers and one count of obstruction of official business. (Of course, it was Shase who was actually assaulted and the only official business with which the police were involved was Shase’s unlawful arrest.) Following Shase’s release on bond he was “recommended” for acceptance into a diversion program so that, following a plea of “guilty” and providing that he did not become involved in any additional criminal activity or receive any additional charges his criminal record would be sealed.

The lawsuit also says police supervisors did not investigate the incident to determine if the use of force was justified.

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