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Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

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  1. orangeblue_coop

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    I agree, this goes beyond calling out the officers, the entire system and culture that fosters this behavior needs to be closely looked at. Good luck trying to get that accomplished with so many police-apologists and butt-kissers getting in the way.
     
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  2. ValdostaGatorFan

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    It's like there's an echo in here, lol
     
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  3. Orange_and_Bluke

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    What’s that? I couldn’t hear you all the way up there in that ivory tower.
     
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  4. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Don't go after cops who break the law and violate the Constitution?

    This is bootlicking territory.
     
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  5. mrhansduck

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    Law enforcement have very difficult jobs, and they can be forced with making quick life or death decisions with no easy answers. Worth pointing out though that the initial post referenced not just alleged violence and civil rights violations but also things such as tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, theft in office, and telecommunications fraud. Those aren't the sorts of actions or potential crimes for which law enforcement should receive deference based on the dangers of the job. I'm sure most good cops don't want to work along side corrupt guys either since it serves to make them all look bad and the good guys aren't taking part in that sort of stuff.
     
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  6. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Nailed it.
     
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  7. ValdostaGatorFan

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    There was an update I missed earlier this month. The key "victim" used to arrest the whistleblower recants her story and admits the State Police leadership put her up to it. She also says that the picture entered into evidence was altered, and that a police officer had cropped a timestamp out of the photo before sending it in.

    So, as a refresher, a whistleblower officer was arrested the day he was set to testify in a hearing about corruption in the state police department. This stemmed from a domestic abuse claim from another trooper in which he has a child with.

    Well, the female officer has recanted her claims and says that leadership in the dept ordered the criminal complaint and domestic vilence protection order the day before the hearing.

    Don't forget that the it looks like they were setting the whistleblower up to possibly get shot by police when they went to pick him up for the DV incident..

    It appears that they were trying to set Cpl. Comer up to possibly get shot,” Moye said. Sgt. Keefer, the one they sent to pick him up at nearly midnight, was not told about the DVP and was not told about the warrants. But he was told to tell Cpl. Comer to arm himself with his service revolver and that he was to transport him at midnight to the Parkersburg detachment. So why, the question arises, why would they tell him to arm himself when they are going to arrest him for a supposed violent felony 30 minutes later?

    About the DV claim:

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    Judge dismisses domestic violence protection order against WVSP whistleblower after recanted testimony

    The woman who accused the self-confessed West Virginia State Police whistleblower of assault asked a judge Monday to drop a protection order against the trooper.

    Eyewitness News has learned Marra allegedly used associates to reach out to Comer, explaining she was encouraged by former West Virginia State Police leadership to fabricate the accusations which led to criminal charges and a domestic violence protection order.

    “I can tell you the first sergeant that supposedly ordered her to do this and the criminal investigation was in direct communication – and I have texts and emails showing that – with former Col. [Jan] Cahill, former Maj. Finley and the whole line that came down that ordered this criminal complaint and DVP to be filed the night before the hearing,” David Moye, Comer’s attorney, said.

    Sources said Marra alleges the officer assigned to her case filled out a criminal complaint and took a photograph introduced as evidence. Marra said the photograph that showed bruises on her neck were intentionally mischaracterized and were not from Comer grabbing her by the throat.
     
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  8. ValdostaGatorFan

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    West Virginia State Police (Cont.)

    Second lawsuit filed against West Virginia State Police trooper who allegedly kidnapped, raped woman | WOWK 13 News (wowktv.com)

    A lawsuit was filed on Friday against a West Virginia State Police trooper and two other men alleging that they kidnapped and raped a woman.

    According to the complaint filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court, the lawsuits defendants are Trooper Michael Miller, the West Virginia State Police (WVSP), The Front Room – also known as Pappy’s Bar and Grille – the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security (WVDHS) and two other men.

    When the alleged victim tried to report the incident, a deputy with the Logan County Sheriff’s Office said she should not report the rape or go to the hospital, the complaint said. The Logan County Sheriff’s Office told 13 News in April 2023 that they are launching an investigation into the deputy.

    The lawsuit said the WVSP was aware of the allegations against Trooper Miller but did not do anything. This is the second lawsuit filed against Trooper Michael Miller alleging that he kidnapped and raped a woman.
     
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  9. ValdostaGatorFan

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    West Virginia State Police (Cont.)

    Another lawsuit for the hidden camera in the women's locker room. This hidden camera most likely picked up minors as well. It's alleged the WVSP destroyed the evidence.
    These are the cops that a certain poster doesn't want to go after..


    https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-vi...st-virginia-state-police-academy-locker-room/


    An unnamed WVSP employee was allegedly shown the hidden camera footage, according to the lawsuit. They became upset and destroyed the thumb drive containing the footage, the lawsuit alleged.

    The lawsuit claimed Divita and others were filmed by a camera placed inside the women’s locker room by a West Virginia State Police supervisor. The suit said the camera was pointed at the showers in the locker room.

    Three members of the WVSP viewed the footage, the suit claimed. The footage was later destroyed by WVSP members, which included one supervisor, according to the suit.

    The suit said the former Superintendent of the WVSP, Jan Cahill, became aware of the recordings and the alleged destruction of the flash drive that contained the recordings in 2020. It said the WVSP did not discipline employees for filming and keeping footage from the recordings, nor did they tell people who could have been filmed in the locker room. On March 21, 2023, Gov. Jim Justice’s Chief of Staff, Brian Abraham, said that “high-ranking individuals at the State Police destroyed evidence,” the suit said.
     
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  10. mutz87

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    Speaking of WV State Police, their Superintendent resigned back in March due to several rather ugly problems.

    There's a good yt channel run by a civil rights lawyer who has been taking PDs around WV to the woodshed.

    FWIW, I think police apologists need to take the blinders off. While no doubt policing is hard and sometimes very dangerous, and police often show great courage, problems within policing in the US are rampant in ways that many just don't want to see. These problems are increasingly being caught on video with more people fighting back in the legal system, and it's leading to reforms, including some states even limiting or ending qualified immunity.
     
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  11. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Nice reference to the Civil Rights Lawyer.

    Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers
     
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  12. mutz87

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    Thanks! I hadn't gone back through this entire thread and didn't realize you posted about his channel. :)

    He's doing good stuff down there in WV.
     
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  13. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Yes he is. I really enjoy his content. Audit the Audit is another good one. Lackluster did a video on an incident here in Valdosta, and had more details that what I had known, and I live here, lol. Fun Fact about the Valdosta incident, the officer that broke that innocent man's wrist was promoted afterwards.

    It also looks like there is another cop thread now, despite the fact that I have said here in this thread, several times, that not all cops are bad and they are necessary for a functioning society. The system is bad.
     
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  14. Orange_and_Bluke

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  15. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Care to comment on anything else on this page? Maybe allegations that the leadership in a state police force destroyed evidence of a hidden camera pointed at the showers in a women's locker room that most likely caught minors and other female officers? Or that top, top leadership had a trooper make up a story about DV so that whistleblower would be arrested the day he was set to testify about corruption in the tip top of the state police? Or why troopers would tell the targeted trooper to show up with his duty weapon when they were going to arrest him? Allegations that a trooper with the same department kidnapped and raped a woman, not once, but twice, and nothing was done about it? Or that that three other officers are alleged to have killed an unarmed man at a traffic stop?

    Say something bad about them. I dare you.
     
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  16. Orange_and_Bluke

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  17. ValdostaGatorFan

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    So no.. Won't condemn them, at all. I DARE you.
     
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  18. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Dude, of course they are rotten people.
    I don’t think you’re following the pace of these threads very well.
     
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    Rookie Ga. officer performs CPR for nearly 10 minutes to save runner

    Officer Carson Yates, who is still in his first year with the Powder Springs Police Department, can be seen performing CPR for nearly 10 minutes, using the training he learned at the police academy. That training ultimately assisted Yates in rendering aid that helped regain the man’s pulse and consciousness, while buying time for paramedics to arrive at the scene. FULL STORY
     
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  20. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Good for that officer. Good that he had that training and put it to use.
     
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