From [HERE] Two New York Police Department officers repeatedly slammed a man's head into the ground while trying to handcuff him during a traffic stop on the morning of New Year's Eve. Part of the encounter in the city's Bronx borough was recorded on video, filmed from inside a bus across the street. It was the latest in an endless history of police brutality allegations against the city's unacountable police force.
The video shows three white officers, two male and one female, pinning a man to the ground. One of the male officers proceeds to punch, and then slap, the man in the head, while the other male officer puts him in handcuffs. Any words exchanged between offers and civilian aren't audible. As the bus pulls away, the man is being held against the side of the NYPD van.
The incident took place on East 149th Street between Cauldwell Avenue and Trinity Avenue, in front of a bus stop serving the Bronx 17 and 19 routes. The stop is adjacent to the NYCHA-run Moore Houses, in Mott Haven.
The video was first posted to the Facebook page of a person named Alexis Jasmin. Jasmin wrotethat the man had been in his car following an encounter with the police. She said the officers were "getting ready to pull off" when they changed course, exiting the van and approaching the man.
"Granted the man did stick his head out the window and say a few choice words," she wrote. "But please tell me why the cops got out the van, snatched him out of his car and proceeded to do this to him."
"This is exactly why i [sic] hate the police," she added. "His hands were already tied and he kept hitting the man in the face until bloody. RIDICULOUS!!"
Voices can be heard while the video was being recorded sounding incredulous, saying things like "Why are they hitting him?" and "his [expletive] face is bleeding."
"The matter is under internal review," a police spokesperson told the Gothamist. However, the NYPD would not provide key information, such as the name of the person who was beaten, the nature of the traffic stop and what he was arrested for.
From [HERE] The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s detention officers must face excessive-force in the death of a mentally ill Army veteran. The incident was partially captured on jail video. Arpaio, [racist suspect & Trump surrogate in photo], styles himself "America's Toughest Sheriff" and is known for unlawful sweeps to round up illegal non-white immigrants and inhumane treatment of Latinos.
The officers asked a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit last month to grant them qualified immunity from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Ernest “Marty” Atencio, a 44-year-old mentally ill Latino man who was a Gulf War veteran.
Atencio was arrested in 2011 for an alleged verbal assault or yelling at a [white?] woman and was taken to the Fourth Avenue Jail, run by Arpaio. [However, the woman explained to police, "Marty did not physically threaten me at any time. He did not make comments that made me think he would harm me . . . . . I didn’t want Marty to be arrested; he had not touched me, he wasn’t verbally belligerent. I knew there was something wrong with him and I just wanted him to go to the psych ward, at 24th and Van Buren, to get some help, not necessarily go to jail because he had not done anything" [MORE]
At the jail he was mocked, beaten, electrocuted, stripped naked, and killed by white public servants [cops]. [MORE]
According to court records, officers described Atencio as “humorous and jovial” while having his mugshot taken, but his behavior shifted when police roughly took him to a “linescan” room. A police witness in the jail said, "the guards were escorting Marty by leading him with his hands and arms bent in what looked to be a very painful position."
According to witnesses at the jail, though the Officers were needlessly inflicting pain on Marty, he was never aggressive, abusive, or resistive. So much so that the officers then removed Marty’s handcuffs. Although he posed no threat to the officers and reportedly made no threatening statements or movements Marty was surrounded by no less than nine white law enforcement officers.
When asked to take off his shoes, which were to be put through a scanner with his clothes, Marty removed his right shoe pursuant to the Officers’ instructions. When asked to remove his left shoe, Marty, according to the Officers, refused to do so. What happened next was the shocking commencement of the jailers’ riot that would kill Marty Atencio. According to one Sergeant from the MCSO, as well as others, “the best way to describe” what happened next was a group of law enforcement officers formed a “dog pile,” on top of Marty.
In an incident partially caught on videotape, Officers Hanlon and French helped hold Marty down, allowing MCSO Sergeant Weiers to continuously electrocute Marty with his Taser. Officer Nicholas French used a chokehold on Atencio, and a number of officers piled on top of him, crushing him. One of the witnesses to this brutality stated that “Marty was screaming in pain, in a deep voice.” A woman, who told the witness that she works in a medical office, said, “if they tase him anymore, they are going to kill him.” And, indeed, they did.
MCSO DOs carried Marty out of the Linescan Room and into their “Safe Cell 4.” While Marty’s life was slipping away in their “Safe Cell,” Officer Hanlon, with employees of the County, took a moment to laugh and joke about the events that had just transpired. Indeed, the jail’s surveillance video, outside of “Safe Cell 4,” shows Officers Hanlon and Hatton, with smiles on their faces, talking to other Officers, while two white women dance and bump their butts together.
Nine minutes after Marty was left alone in their “Safe Cell,” County employees found him without a pulse and without a breath. He died at a hospital.
A police officer said when he entered the jail "he was dressed nice, he had a leather jacket, a polo, slacks, normal dress shoes. Uh, had all his clothing on." At some point the cops stripped him naked. [MORE]
“Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Atencio, including the available video evidence, several of defendants’ acts could be found by a jury to constitute excessive force,” the panel ruled in a memorandum order issued Friday.
The three officers should have known they were “prohibited from the type and amount of force used against Atencio, including multiple strikes to the face, repeated tasering, and a knee strike, when Atencio was at most passively resisting, he posed no threat to the officers, and he was already being physically restrained by several officers,” the panel found.
Ninth Circuit Judges Richard Clifton and Paul Watford sat on the panel. They were joined by Circuit Judge Michael Melloy, sitting by designation from the Eighth Circuit.
“Today the Ninth Circuit found that there is evidence showing law enforcement officers, from both the city of Phoenix and Maricopa County, used excessive force against a United States Army Veteran – Marty Atencio,” Larry Wulkan, an attorney for the Atencio family, said in a statement. “While the Atencio family mourns the loss of Marty each and every day, they look forward to presenting Marty’s case to a jury so that justice may be served and, hopefully, others are not subject to the brutal treatment that resulted in Marty’s death.”
The ruling mostly affirms a decision last year by U.S. District Judge Paul Rosenblatt that the detention officers involved in Atencio’s death do not have immunity.
“There is a genuine factual dispute as to whether these officers were integral participants in the use of excessive force in the linescan room and/or the safe cell, as well as whether these officers violated a duty to intervene to prevent the use of excessive force,” Rosenblatt wrote.
The panel did find qualified immunity should be granted to Sgt. Anthony Scheffner and Officer Patrick Hanlon for their roles in the incident.
Even though Scheffner may have seen Hatton deliver a knee strike to Atencio, “there is no evidence that Sergeant Scheffner directed or otherwise knew that the solitary knee strike would occur, physically participated in the knee strike, or had a realistic opportunity to stop the knee strike from happening.”
The panel found similarly for Hanlon, who grabbed Atencio by the wrist when he disobeyed commands.
“Hanlon could not have reasonably foreseen that his use of a wrist lock would cause or would trigger events ultimately leading to Atencio’s death,” the ruling states.
Arpaio lost re-election to Paul Penzone, a Democrat and former Phoenix Police Department sergeant, last month after legal troubles and declining popularity plagued the six-term lawman.
Two racist suspect female cops (top left) celebrate Atencio's murder with a dance after the "jailers riot"
lol. An MCSO Detention Officer Anthony Hatton (bottom left) enjoying a chuckle after he and others leave Atencio for dead in a "safe cell." More on the Psychopathic Racial Personality.
Phoenix Cop Patrick Hanlon, all grins after Atencio's "law enforcement subdual." Fuck a camera.
Public servant [race soldier] Hatton demonstrates a move to other officers after Murdering the Latino
Great Public Service. From [HERE] An arbitrator has reinstated a Minnesota police officer who was fired after a Twitter video showed him hitting a Somali-American teen last year. The teen was unarmed and not threatening the public servant.
Richfield police say the arbitrator reversed Nate Kinsey's termination Wednesday. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office and a special prosecutor reviewed the case and declined to charge Kinsey. But the 10-year department veteran was fired after an internal investigation.
Police Chief Jay Henthorne says the city's weighing appeal options.
Sean Gormley, executive director of Law Enforcement Labor Services, the union representing Kinsey, says he's pleased with the arbitrator's decision and that the incident "illustrates the pitfalls of jumping to conclusions based on partial video and audio recordings."
In the cellphone video on Twitter, an officer tells a 19-year-old to leave Adams Hill Park. The teen asks him why can't I be in a public park? Then the white officer mushes his face and pushes him.
What is Collective White Power? From [HERE] and [MORE] A white police officer charged with murdering an unarmed, fleeing black motorist in North Charleston, South Carolina, will go on trial for a second time on March 1, a court has ordered.
The shooting of Walter Scott, occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light. Scott, a black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer. Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced contradicting his police report.
A state judge had declared a mistrial in the case of Michael Thomas Slager, who is accused of fatally shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott, on December 5 after jurors failed to reach a verdict following 22 hours of deliberation. The jury was made up of 11 white jurors and one black juror. [why would the prosecutor, who was white, allow a nearly all white jury to be emapaneled? Think Michael Brown/Eric Garner/Rodney King/etc. prosecutions of white cops.]
Complete Michael Slager Trial Prosecution Closing Arguments 11/30/16
Slager shot and killed Scott, after an April 4, 2015, traffic stop. The shooting was captured on a bystander’s cellphone video, which showed Scott running away as Slager fired eight times, striking Scott three times in the back.
The white jurors were deadlocked [mindblocked] several times after the five-week trial. Judge Clifton Newman had also allowed the jury to consider the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter, meaning the killing happened in the heat of passion. That charge carries a potential sentence of up to 30 years in prison. One juror, in a note, said he couldn’t vote for a conviction and wouldn’t change his mind. [MORE]
If convicted, Slager faces 30 years to life in prison. In the last trial, Judge Clifton Newman also allowed the jury to consider the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter.
Michael Slager Trial Prosecution Closing Rebuttal Arguments 11/30/16
Looking for a "shirtless" "Black male," White Cops had No Information about Build, Complexion, Hair style/length, Facial Hair, Age, Height, etc.. From [HERE] A video released Tuesday by a law firm shows a white Fort Worth police officer shooting a Black man in the back and the man’s lawyer says the shooting was justified and the stop was not supported by probable cause.
The newly-released video, obtained by Washington from the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office, shows an officer-involved shooting from July 27, 2016 where an off-duty Fort Worth police officer and an off-duty deputy [both in uniform] with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported robbery at a gas station near Las Vegas Trail and South Normandale Street.
Police said one of the armed men pulled out a "silver handgun" and robbed someone they had met to purchase items the victim was trying to sell online.
The officers drove to a nearby apartment complex in the 8700 block of North Normandale Street to look for the armed men, described as two shirtless black men, according to a Fort Worth Police Department news release sent out after the shooting.
The officers spotted a man at the apartment complex, now identified as Collie, who they believed matched the description of one the armed men. He had his shirt on - but he is Black.
According to police, Collie walked away from them and refused the officers' verbal commands to put his hands up. Police also said Collie pulled a silver box cutter out of his pocket and pointed it at the deputy sheriff; that's when the Fort Worth police officer shot him in the lower torso, according to the Fort Worth statement.
While agreeing that a police report said a box cutter was found 10 feet away from where Collie was shot, Washington said the police account that Collie threatened officers with a box cutter is fiction and that his client didn't have a box cutter in his hand. in other words the cops lied in their police report.
Contrary to the police report the dashcam video does not show a man with a weapon and the man does not advance toward the officers. It shows the man get shot in his back as he is walking away from the police.
Washington said the city has refused to turn over any records on the shooting. "The process that they ask us to trust is essentially, 'Let us do what we want to do, we will not be transparent at all, and then we'll tell you what we concluded,'" he said.
Collie was hospitalized for 61 days and is now paralyzed from below the abdomen, according to Washington. He was charged with aggravated assault on a public servant, but a grand jury dismissed the case against him, Washington said possibly because Collie could not be seen in the video holding any weapon.
"There are conflicting reports in the different city police reports they have written, they have various different narratives and they're inconsistent," Washington said.
Washington said the shooting is another example of excessive force by Fort Worth police. He is considering a lawsuit against the city, but no lawsuit has yet been filed.
"We've gotten calls from attorneys across the city, who said, 'I have videos as well, I have photographs of what happened to my client,' and so we're investigating the culture and the practice of the City of Fort Worth," Washington said.
"We want justice for David. We want change, but we also want peace and calm from the community after they see this video," Washington said.
Following the video posted to Facebook last week, the Fort Worth Police Department posted this message on Twitter. [BLAH BLAH]
From [HERE] A Latino man claims in court that he spent more than two years in jail on bogus drug charges because several city police officers conspired to plant false evidence in his car.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, Leroy Gonzalez claims he was just one of many who have been framed by the narcotics officers who were acquitted of corruption charges after a federal jury trial in May 2015.
Prosecutors had alleged the men routinely beat and robbed drug suspects.
Following their acquittal, the officers went to arbitration and got their jobs back in July 2015, although one of the officers was forced to retire after he failed the mandatory drug test he had to submit to before returning to duty.
The allegations prompted dozens of civil rights lawsuits, causing the reversal of nearly 450 drug convictions. In October 2016, U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond ordered the officers not to have contact with any former defendants who have sued them and the city over their arrests.
In his lawsuit, Leroy Gonzalez says he was wrongfully charged with drug possession and sales when the policeman “unlawfully and maliciously planted numerous items of false evidence in [his] vicinity to create the illusion of probable cause [and] justify their grossly illegal police misconduct.”
After his arrest, Gonzalez contends, he was charged with the crimes and served a 754-day sentence before hearing that three of the four officers who stopped him had been implicated in a corruption probe.
Facing jail time after being apprehended in a drug-related robbery, Officer Jeffrey Walker pointed the finger in court at colleagues Thomas Liciardello, Michael Spicer and Perry Betts, according to the complaint. He claimed that the trio was complicit in acts like producing fake evidence, conducting illegal drug stings and lying in testimonies, Gonzalez says.
As recounted in the complaint, Gonzalez was sitting along in his car when the officers approached and forcibly searched the vehicle without probably cause.
When their search allegedly came up empty, Gonzalez says, the officers threw him to the ground and cuffed him anyway, producing fake evidence to justify his arrest.
Liciardello, Spicer and Betts were investigated and charged with corruption after Walker blew the whistle on them. While the three officers were acquitted, Walker is currently serving a 42-month prison sentence on corruption charges.
Nothing to Lose But YOUR Head. Only a meditative Black person can really deal with or actually respond to a racist cop. Racism is one of the most powerful motivating forces in the world. It has been Black people's kryptonite. Racists have dominated Black people through their emotions - that is, dominated YOUR mind, which is where emotions arise & fall. Always pushing Black people's buttons, manipulating us and doing it to show Blacks who is boss or just for fun. And it works. Our predictable reactions are scripted or programmed in us through relentless psy-ops and a lifetime of false conscousness programming in education, media, language and symbols. As reactionaries, Chancellor Williams and Dr. Cress Welsing both explained that most Blacks 'continue to live in a dream world where they believe that singing, dancing, marching, praying and hoping will solve their problems.'
'Toreact means you are acting unconsciously. Somebody is manipulating you. Somebody says something, does something, and you react. The real master of the situation is somebody else. Somebody comes and insults you and you react, you become angry. Somebody comes and praises you and you smile and you become happy. Both are the same. You are a slave and the other knows how to push your buttons. You are behaving like a machine. You are an automaton, not a human being yet. A plaything in the hands of others.' [MORE] and [MORE]
Reacting to racism, most Black people simply freeze their minds and try to stay under complete, forced control. That is how most Blacks have been taught - pretend like this bullshit is not bothering me. There is no such thing as forcing yourself to be calm. You are not conscious in this state of repression, you are also not alive - you are a walking corpse in a very provocative situation. Folks who suppress anger are dangerous; calm like a bomb. "Anger needs a vomit." It is not natural to suppress it, you must let this poisin out, forcing it back in will eventually harm your mental and physical health. [MORE]
Other Black folks allow their anger or fear to burst out in flames and take over their minds. Expressing and thinking only emotions, like an animal. You may say or do anything in this unconscious mind state. The racist knows the seeds of anger/fear and anxiety are right below the surface and is steady probing to see if he/she can uproot them, trying to see how to"bring the nigger out."
In either case, a provocative white cop is clowning you, controlling your reactions.
[HERE], Ms. Craig and fam took the bait. When a white Fort Worth police officer wrestled Jacqueline Craig to the ground and handcuffed her for complaining about a white neighbor who allegedly assaulted her son by choking and grabbing him, the video of the incident was 11-minutes long. Today, the full 23-minute was released by Porsha Carver, who initially posted the first video on Facebook. The long version shows more of what occurred before the white cop arrived.
Ms. Craig and her four daughters are seen on the sidewalk, curb area talking amongst themselves and at the white neighbor in question who is about 20 feet away. It is clear that Ms. Craig and fam have already voiced their opinions to the neighbor and told him they are calling the police. Noticing them but completely ignoring them the white neighbor is seen painting his fence with a paint sprayer. As they talk loudly to get his attention, he steadily paints the fence, with his back to them, making it obvious that he is blowing them off. With his body language he seems to be saying: 'I choked your nigger kid nigger. So what? Call the cops, they are not going to do shit to me, nigger.'
Then Craig makes the initial 911 call to report the incident. While they wait for the cop to arrive, the white neighbor continues to paint the fence and ignore them. "I want to press charges,” Craig is heard on video saying within an earshot of the neighbor. “This is a grown man. He grabbed a 7-year-old kid and choked him.”
Then after the white cop arrives he briefly talks to the white neighbor. The white cop then talks to Ms. Craig, who explains to the officer that her 7-year-old son was grabbed and choked by the neighbor for littering and “defying him” when he told the child to pick up litter. The cop simply ignores her assault allegations with a blank expression. He does not ask the neighbor or anyone else for more information; his "police investigation" apparently was over. The cop then provocatively asks, "Why Did You Teach Your Son to Litter?" and 'Whats Wrong with the Neighbor Putting His Hands on Your Son?' ['In other words, 'fuck you and your family nigger. I'm not doing a damm thing about whatever happened to your kid if this white man had anything to do with it. I want to see you go off, so I can harm you and/or your family'].
Thus, Ms. Craig and her daughters were dealing with two fools or provocative racist suspects, unconscious corpse like robots programmed with all kinds of racist idiocy, inviting Ms. Craig and her daughters into their racist play world. With their buttons pushed, Ms. Craig and her daughters accepted the invitation and got louder & more attached, identified to the feelings popping up in their minds. The white cop then seals the deal by telling [daring] her he would take her to jail if she continued yelling at him. Subsequently, hell breaks loose.
In contrast to "reaction," Response is spontaneous and it only comes from the ever present now. Conscious alertness and awareness is not just an alertness and awareness of what is going on in front of you but of what is going on in your own mind, right now. It is not an observation of current events and recalling memorized knowledge - it is an observation of your own mind, watching your thoughts as they arise and go by. Analyzing incidents after they have occurred again and again is a useless, lifetime distraction. There can be no set plan for dealing with a racist just like there can be no set plan for dealing with falling out of tree - shit happens quick in the moment. Constitutional scholars and persons who memorize codes or legal phrases to deal with reality also will miss what is present in the moment - inside them and also may misperceive cop demeanor, tone of voice, body language, communicated words and environment. In fact, unless you are aware, the more knowledge you carry like that will slow you down. Your "knowledgable" eyes are interpreting & may not really see what is present. Mind is a motherfucker.
Anything you do or say in an unconscious state of mind will be stupid. Dr. Blynd offers the following definition in the Funktionary:
unconsciousness: "that which lacks any integration within itself - instability; uncertainty and confusion. 2) the rejected suppressed and uncharted part of the ego. It is the unconscious that goads us to most of our activity. A divided mind, with the an unconscious and a conscious one, can never apperceive things as they are. "Truth is adulterated with falsehood in the same proportion to which one is unconscious" - Osho (See Mind, Truth & Reality Laundering).
The only rule for dealing with racist cops is awareness.[MORE] Only a meditative person can see reality as a mirror & spontaneously respond to what is in front of you based on a clear unfiltered perception of what's really real - right now. Analyzing later cannot help you with this cop, right now, here.
If you can be alert, present in the moment when you are dealing with that cop you will be calm. There can be no "be calm" or forced calm. Calmness is a by product of your awareness. This awareness can only be cultivated through meditation. Meditation enables you to be "the center of a cyclone." No matter what chaos is going on externally or internally, you can remain centered, a detached watcher of what you are observing. [MORE] Only in a state of mindfulness will you have the wherewithal to correctly apply or evaluate any knowledge. Even still your awareness must be strong to deal with racism during a prolonged or intense encounter. Otherwise the forms, feelings, perceptions and thoughts that pop up in your mind will take over- making clear thinking or perception of reality impossible.
In a state of awareness you will automatically know what to do and do it spontaneously. Whatever you do will be the right thing to do - as it will be a response not a reaction.
“I was disappointed with the video,” police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Friday at a news conference. “I was disappointed with some of the things I’ve heard and saw. We have been very, very forward and honest about the way we handle things here, and this is not the way we do things.” Never trust a Black probot.
Black on Black Crime.White media delights when Black cops get in the mix - hoping to confuse about racism. But Black on black violence is a result of white supremacy. 'The black on black criminal is a white racist in black skin - a person who has internalized white racist attitudes and has identified with his victimizers and expresses his victimization by victimizing other black people. His behavior reflexts the absence of an appropriate black and african identity.' [MORE]. In all contexts a black probot or any other 'alleged brother' programmed in service of white domination may be just as dangerous as a racist.] [MORE] Here, Black cops have taken on the same degenerate charactersitics of white cops - but the white collective will not offer them the same protections.
From [HERE] A Fulton county judge has sentenced to prison two Black East Point Police officers for the 2014 death of Gregory Towns, 24, who was repeatedly tased by the men while handcuffed.
Commanding officer Sergeant Marcus Eberhart was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 30 years on Wednesday, Dec. 21, for felony murder and aggravated assault. His partner, Corporal Howard Weems, was sentenced to five years in prison, with 18 months to serve for involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. Weems was sentenced under first-offender status, meaning that his felony charges could be dropped.
The 24 year old was arrested on April 11, 2014 after he fled on foot from officers who wanted to question him about a domestic dispute. Eberhart and Weems responded to a domestic-disturbance call at Smith’s residence, where they found Towns outside and confronted him about allegedly assaulting Smith. Towns ran, stumbled and was apprehended when he stopped to catch his breath. Towns, who weighed over 300 lbs was exhausted after the foot chase by police. Nevertheless, cops insisted that quickly comply with their commands to quickly walk to a police cruiser after he was arrested and placed in handcuffs. Towns also did not have any pants on. It is not clear whether the cops took them off or not. He was arrested in his underwear.
The officers handcuffed Towns and proceeded to tase him at least 14 times while he was sitting in a creek, claiming he was resisting and not complying with their orders in a 29-minute period. [MORE]
(Lawyers representing the Towns family in the civil suit conceded that they did not know exactly how many times Mr. Towns had been shocked, but they said the 14 uses of the Taser devices collectively amounted to more than a minute of actual electrical stimulation.) [MORE]
Murderers also Lie. In their police reports, the officers stated they only used their tasers a total of six times to subdue Towns, including one time while he was wet and sitting in a creek. However, the logs on the actual tasers showed they were discharged many more times than that, and by the time the paramedics arrived, Towns was unresponsive and did not have a pulse.
In an exclusive with Channel 2 Action News, Weems expressed great sorrow for his role and offered Towns’ family his deepest, sincere apologies.
“I’m sorry that this incident happened,” Weems said. “I’m sorry for the Towns family. I’m sorry there is nothing I’ll ever be able to say that will allow them to have forgiveness for me or that would change their mind and their belief.”
However, the sentencing does not stop the pain of Towns’ family. His girlfriend, Aisel Smith, told WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News, that she can’t rely on the justice system anymore and that she regrets calling police that night.
“Moving forward, I will no longer put my faith in police officers, the courts, anything like that,” Smith said.
"Mistaken" Raid & Search For 3 Hours. From [HERE] and [HERE] New York City cops raided a family’s home in Brooklyn at the break of dawn Thursday, handcuffing every family member while searching the apartment unit for three hours before realizing they had the wrong home and leaving.
Next thing the family knew, a photo showing them handcuffed while sitting on the couch appeared on Snapchat with the caption, “Merry Christmas it’s NYPD!”.
Another photo also appeared on Snapchat with the caption “Warrant sweeps Its still a party smh.”
Now internal affairs is investigating, but have refused to release the names of the officers involved.
“The worst part was the Snapchats,” Kimberly Santiago said. “That’s what really got to me.”
“The things that he wrote, it’s like, this what you all do?” Santiago said. “If he did that to, picture how many other families he’s done that to. And he was the only one standing there watching us.”
“Ya’ll know that when you came to this house, looking for the wrong person that we don’t even know,” she said.
“We thought he was texting on his phone,” she said. “Because the whole three hours we were sitting here, he was the one standing there. We saw him on his phone, but we didn’t think an officer would do that.”
The photos appeared in the New York Story feed on Snapchat, which is a smartphone app where photos last 24 hours and receives more than a billion views a year, according to Wikipedia, which describes the app as focusing “on the ephemeral nature of fleeting encounters.”
In 2013, Gizmodo reported that Snapchat regularly hands over unopened messages to police to assist them in investigations.
At 5:23 White Cop Unloads Glock 16 times Into Black Man Walking Away from him. Fom [HERE] Documents obtained by the Chicago Tribune reveal that Chicago law enforcement ignored an inspector general’s recommendations to terminate commanding officers who corroborated false statements about the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald. Police also rushed to defend Officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot McDonald 16 times over a period of 15 seconds, just six seconds after he exited his squad car.
During his investigation of the shooting and aftermath, Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson discovered that a deputy chief on patrol the night of McDonald’s death, David McNaughton, “approved false police reports submitted by Van Dyke, Walsh and a third officer,” according to the Tribune. Ferguson also said in his report that McNaughton had lied to the news media, rewording a police statement to say that McDonald was approaching police when Van Dyke opened fire.
Additionally, Ferguson found that Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy watched the video and “let stand reports that contained materially false statements and put forth a false narrative, which served to exaggerate the threat McDonald posed at the time of the shooting.” The inspector general concluded that officers also lied about the details of the shooting by painting McDonald as more threatening than he actually was.
Ferguson ultimately recommended that 11 officers, including Roy and McNaughton, be fired. Instead of heeding his suggestion, the Chicago Police Department allowed the commanding officers to quietly retire without informing the public of their alleged wrongdoing. The department reportedly convened a meeting of top officers soon after the shooting, where everyone was in agreement that Van Dyke’s actions were justified.
But Ferguson’s investigation wasn’t the first report offering evidence that officers lied. A spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, Pat Camden, publicly claimed that the teenager was holding a knife and “lunged at police,” but damning video footage released in November 2015 showed McDonald walking away when Dyke unloaded his gun. Camden also said that McDonald was shot in the chest, and downplayed the 15 additional shots to his head, neck, arms, legs, and back.
Chicago officials — including members of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s staff — conspired to cover up the video for more than a year. Attorneys for the city tried to pay McDonald’s family to keep quiet about the video. Then-State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez waited one year to release the video, and only did so because a judge ordered the city to publicize it in response to a journalist’s public records request. Only then did Alvarez charge Van Dyke with first degree murder.
Witnesses also said Van Dyke and fellow officers at the scene attempted to destroy camera footage in the surrounding area.
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