Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

It is. First of all, having a cop put his hands on you when you aren't doing anything wrong will change you, giving rise to the phrase "Back the Blue until it happens to you."

Secondly, this is an important topic, IMO. To say there is nothing wrong with policing in the country is laughable. Just like when folks who are anti-gov and don't trust anything related to the government, but pridefully sport their thin blue line apparel and stickers. It's laughable. Supporting the enforcement arm of the very entity that you despise is some weird flavor of Stockholm Syndrome.

Thirdly, who wants a new thread everytime something like this comes out? Some deserve their own threads, like the Goon Squad waterboarding people, putting pistols in people's mouths and pulling the trigger, and sticking things up their asses. Best to put it one place and if people want to engage, they can.

 

Full bodycam in this article: Attorney says video disputes charges that farmworker caused officer’s fatal heart attack

Was anyone following the story of the teen in St Augustine who was charged for the heart attack an officer received while beating the shit out of him?

The charge of manslaughter, downgraded from the initial charge of murder, was dropped recently after spending months and months in jail.




Cops harrasing people and then lying about it, big shocker... St John's Sheriff's Department said that the hotel was closed therfore there was no reason for the teen to be there.. That's just a lie.


https://jaxtoday.org/2024/03/04/charges-dropped-in-death-of-st-johns-police-sergeant/#:~:text=After months of national uproar,died of a heart attack.

After months of national uproar in response to police body cam footage, prosecutors dropped an aggravated manslaughter case against an indigenous Guatemalan teen charged in death of St . Johns County police sergeant who, after a physical confrontation, died of a heart attack.

Kunovich reported Aguilar-Mendez as a suspicious “Hispanic male” and stopped him and questioned him in English. It was unclear whether the teen understood the police commands. Aguilar-Mendez resisted when the officer suddenly tried to pat him for weapons.

Court proceedings were in limbo after a St. Johns County judge ordered Aguilar-Mendez to take a monthslong jail-based competency class to learn the American judicial system before his case could move forward.

“You’re going to stop someone, and stop their case, keep them incarcerated until you can educate them on our system? ” Baez said. “He’s gotten a feel of what our system is all about, and it’s not pretty.”

Attorney says video disputes charges that farmworker caused officer’s fatal heart attack

In a news conference held a few days after the arrest, Sheriff Robert Hardwick defended Kunovich saying the sheriff’s sergeant “simply” asked why Aguilar was trespassing on property and tried to pat him down. He said Aguilar should have complied, but instead tried to remove a knife from his pants' pocket.

“As the body camera footage will come out and show you, it was by the book, textbook,” Hardwick said of the arrest at a May 24 news conference. Hardwick said Kunovich “succumbed to some medical issues that were induced by the struggle with our subject.”

The incident report also states that the data from Kunovich’s Taser showed it was deployed six times over 2 minutes and each time was on stun mode, which delivers electrical shocks. In another mode, it fires probes or darts that penetrate the skin and deliver electrical pulses into the body that cause temporary paralysis.

According to the report, Ryker Graves, a dispatcher on a ride-along with a deputy who arrived after Aguilar was handcuffed, told the investigator in a sworn statement that deputies had told him that Kunovich had been “complaining of chest pains beforehand.”

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My thoughts.. Why approach this kid in the first place? Why lie and say the hotel was closed? What made the officer think the kid was armed and needed a pat down? Why demand ID? Why so long to release bodycam footage? Why file charges for murder when the cop already has a known heart condition that he was previously complaining about? Is keeping someone in jail so they can learn the law normal?

 

I can't disagree with any of that.

 

lol. That never happens.

But keep this in mind when in St Augustine, someone can be tazed 10 times, baton striked 22 times, punched, and absolutely punted in the face a couple times instead of simply being handcuffed, the officer won't be fired until the video goes public, AND the fine people in the jury will find the officer not guilty of aggravated battery.

The man, who was passively resisting, said under oath “My nose was broke four times, my shoulder blade was fractured, my elbow was broken multiple times.”

 

I've never heard of that one, but it looks kinda sketchy...

A Florida woman is found dead, authorities ruled it a suicide, but her family believes she was killed

When St. Johns County sheriff's deputies arrived at the St. Augustine, Florida, home of Jeremy Banks on Sept. 2, 2010, they found his 24-year-old girlfriend Michelle O'Connell lying on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head and dozens of prescription painkillers in her pocket.

Debra Maynard, a former St. Johns County sheriff's deputy, was one of the first to arrive and said she questioned what she was hearing on the scene.

"Immediately, it was almost like they were taking Jeremy's word that she shot herself at that point," Maynard said. "We were told it was a suicide. They automatically said it was a suicide, though we are trained to say every scene is a homicide until proven otherwise. But they did immediately start calling it a suicide."

David Shoar, the St. Johns County sheriff, later acknowledged his department made missteps in how the investigation was handled, including that deputies failed to canvas the neighborhood for witnesses, failed to interview the decedent's family members and failed to isolate, interview and photograph Banks in a structured environment.

Also, when they exhumed the body, it was found that her jaw bone was broken into two pieces. This story is odd. And apparently they did a 20/20 show on it.

 

St Pete, FL
Story broke last week.

Another man paralyzed by police. This man was paralyzed by an officer who had previously injured an unrestrained man in a police van.

This victim is now a quadriplegic and in a nursing home, and had both his legs amputated above the knees.

Not captured in this video is his head violently bouncing off the concrete when they pulled him all of the way out of the van.



Lawsuit

Man paralyzed after ride in police van files lawsuit

Video from inside the vehicle shows when Sanchez-Mayen slid off the bench and hit his head on the bulkhead of the van, knocking him unconscious. The suit alleges that Thacker checked the cameras and observed Sanchez-Mayen lying face-down and motionless but did not check on him until they reached the jail.

They didn’t pull over, they didn’t check on him, they didn’t render him aid, they just kept driving,” an attorney representing Sanchez-Mayen said. “Then when they got to the jail, they didn’t treat him like a human being. They literally pulled him out by his ankles.”

Footage from inside the van showed the officer shaking Sanchez-Mayen in an attempt to wake him up. He then dragged him, face-down, out of the van by his feet. Sanchez-Mayen also appeared to hit his head on the door of the van and the concrete floor.

When reached for comment, a spokesperson for the City of St. Petersburg said the police department “denies the claims and trusts in the judicial process.”

 

Add another momento to police violence to the list..

The previous ones from this thread:

From this thread Six cops torture two black men in Mississippi :




The coin made by notorious Phoenix PD after an officer shot a Trump protestor in the nuts with a smoke canister.
Phoenix releases report on police coin that mocked protester





And recently, a mock tombstone spotted in the background of a bodycam video showing a Seattle police precinct of a 19 year old that was killed by the police, assumedly taken from a memorial of the dead teenager.
Trump flag, mock tombstone at Seattle police precinct ‘alarming and unfortunate,’ mayor says





Picture taken at the scene where cops helped kill an innocent teenager




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April 2024

The newest memento, Inglorious Bastards challenge coin for beating a man unconscious, emblazoned with the officers that were there. This came up after investigation of Mesa officers beating a different man unconcious:






https://www.abc15.com/news/local-ne...lent-arrest-once-celebrated-on-challenge-coin

MESA, AZ — A Mesa officer being sued for a chaotic arrest that left a man unconscious at a quinceanera has a history of use-of-force complaints and was previously featured on a challenge coin that appeared to celebrate police violence.

Without warning, Monarrez suddenly pushed Barraza with two hands and a pair of other officers threw him to the ground. While on top of Barraza, the officers repeatedly punched, kicked, and kneed him in the back and head.

During his seven-year career, the officer has been internally investigated seven times, according to an internal document summarizing his history of complaints. His record shows no suspensions but includes lesser disciplinary actions.

And in 2018, he received a written reprimand for an incident involving officers knocking another man unconscious. That man, Robert Johnson, filed a lawsuit and received a $350,000 settlement.


Video:



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Does Arizona have the worst cops in the country??

 

A look at some of the training that tax payers help pay... (taken from a different thread)

Thousands of cops nationwide have attended these. Their presentations teach unconstitutional policing. It's so bad, that hundreds are being ordered to retrain just for attending the thing.

Link: MSN
(NJ comptroller says hundreds of cops attended training that 'undermined' key reforms)



Link: MSN

(Over 200 New Jersey police officers must be retrained after attending controversial conference, state attorney general says)





Language warning. There are some F bombs. They start out censored but aren't after that. It's worth watching, imo. What a vibe....



There might be one happening in Orlando at the end of this month. The organizer looks to have filed for bankruptcy, but the event is still on their calendar.

 

Hawke skirted answering the question of whether the public deserved to know about the use of force incident after it happened three years ago or any time since. A WBTV reporter asked the question three times but could never get an answer.

“We are here talking about it today,” Hawke said. “So this isn’t a matter of hiding. This isn’t a matter of not telling the public. This was a personnel matter. It was handled and we’re here now.”

Come on, now

But Hawke refused to answer multiple questions from a WBTV reporter about why none of the other three officers who witnessed the use of force documented the force in their initial narrative of Butler’s arrest.

Par for the course.