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Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

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  1. Gator515151

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    Oh he started his own dumb thread about cops.
     
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  2. philnotfil

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    California police kept death in custody a secret for seven years, inquiry reveals

    Darryl Mefferd, 49, died on 8 December 2016 while he was detained by police in Vallejo, a city of 125,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The case was uncovered by Open Vallejo, a local non-profit news organization, which shared its records with the Guardian.

    The afternoon before he died, Mefferd had seemed disoriented and dehydrated and was making paranoid remarks, so his niece, Courtney Mefferd, took him to a local hospital. He was treated with vitamins and a sedative and declared “stable”, medical records show. By around 11pm, he was anxious to be discharged and left the hospital against doctors’ recommendations.

    Outside the hospital, Mefferd encountered the Vallejo police department (VPD) officer Jeremy Callinan. Callinan was responding to the hospital’s call for help with a female patient who had fled the facility, but the officer instead located Mefferd and placed him in “protective custody”, police records show. When Cindie, Mefferd’s sister, arrived at the hospital, she saw Callinan leading her brother into a police vehicle, she told Open Vallejo. She said she asked the officer to let her take her brother home, but the officer refused and said he would instead take Mefferd to a mental health crisis center. “They are going to kill me,” Cindie recalled her brother saying as he was driven away.

    It remains unclear what exactly happened next. The Solano county sheriff coroner’s office investigated the death, but a report written by the sergeant in charge of the investigation included conflicting narratives.
     
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  3. Gator515151

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    I'm sorry but you should check out your sources. The Guardian is bad enough but Open Vallejo looks to me to be about as laughable news source as there is.
     
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    calm down Marlboro man
     
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  5. philnotfil

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    What do you believe they got wrong? Are they misstating the coroner's report that shows blunt force trauma to his knees, torso, arms and face, including three contusions on the head? Are they lying when they state that pathologists who reviewed the available records said the death should have been ruled a homicide rather than an accidental death? Were they laughable when they cited four previous deaths caused by the Vallejo police department that were also covered up?
     
  6. Gator515151

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    I'm just saying, look up your sources site Open Vallejo you will see every story listed is anti police. Then go to the local newspapers site in Vallejo Ca and if this Blockbuster that was posted with today's date on Open Vallejo and The Guardian were that big a story wouldn't you think the local Newspaper would have a story on it today?
     
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    What do you believe they got wrong? Are they misstating the coroner's report that shows blunt force trauma to his knees, torso, arms and face, including three contusions on the head? Are they lying when they state that pathologists who reviewed the available records said the death should have been ruled a homicide rather than an accidental death? Were they laughable when they cited four previous deaths caused by the Vallejo police department that were also covered up?
     
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  8. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Too many people associate police accountability with being anti-police, imo. As if questioning why a man in police custody died while in police custody is "anti-police."

    It's similar to the Israel/Palestine conflict. A few folks associate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
     
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  9. wgbgator

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    Came across this the other day:


    Family of man left to die by deputy gang members files claim against LA County


     
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    First I dont even know if there's a local paper, as those have tended to disappear. Second, local papers & TV usually rely on cops for their crime reporting, a big part of their business. They aren't going to bite the hand that feeds because they are access driven. You can barely get city and state governments on board with police accountability, so its usually citizen journalists, and non-journalists shooting video (another thing cops are trying to make illegal lol) that break these stories.
     
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  11. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Seems to be a troubled department

    California DOJ to impose sweeping reforms on Vallejo police (openvallejo.org)
     
  12. ValdostaGatorFan

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    So we have another police gang to add to the list that have been covered in this thread.

    Here's the one from the article you posted. The Rattlesnakes:

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    The Executioners:

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    The Banditos:

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    Inglorious Bastards (Coin given out for beating a man unconcious):

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    Goon Squad (These are the guys that tortured the 2 black guys with one of them putting his pistol on one of their mouths and pulling the trigger)

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    Police term of the day: Distraction Techniques

    Used in a sentence: I applied four to five distraction techniques with a closed fist to the top of Donald's head.

    Context: This term was actually used in the officer's official arrest report.

    Video: What a distraction technique looks like. Keep in mind that this guy is already in handcuffs...

     
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    Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it

    A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer.

    Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years behind bars, had established evidence of actual innocence and must be freed within 30 days unless prosecutors retry her. He said her trial counsel was ineffective and prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that would have helped her.

    Her attorneys say this is the longest time a women has been been incarcerated for a wrongful conviction. They filed a motion seeking her immediate release.

    “We are grateful to the Court for acknowledging the grave injustice Ms. Hemme has endured for more than four decades,” her attorneys said in a statement, promising to keep up their efforts to dismiss the charges and reunite Hemme with her family.
     
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  15. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Developing story.

    Cop, who was previously fired from a different dept for being too violent, slams 57 year old woman, knocking her unconscious. The cop then tells the unconscious woman to "quit resisting."

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    The lady had to be rushed to the ER. Stitches to the mouth, stitches to the head, completely dislocated elbow, and maybe a dislocated shoulder. Obvious head trauma. You can hear the agonal breathing in the video. Right before he tells an unconscious body to quit resisting.

    Word is that he was fired from his last job for excessive violence, then sued for the termination while being aided by a police union. There is also word out there that no one can access his personnel records at his last job.



    Quit allowing bad cops to get hired on at different departments!
     
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    LT slams handcuffed man, almost killing him. He quit breathing. The arresting officer though he was dead. A responding officer thought he was dead.

    The parents were told that he was handcuffed, then fell back and hit his head. The man is mentally disabled and is accused of stealing a $3 can of beer.

    Chief "Investigates," and clears LT of any wrong doing in slamming a handcuffed man to the concrete head first. The Chief did not interview anyone. He watched the body cam and read the report and called the slamming of a handcuffed man "reasonable and appropriate". He did not interview the arresting officer or any witnesses.

    The Chief was ordered to complete a thorough internal affairs investigation. He did not do that. He sent it off to another department for review. Not any of the nearby bigger depts, one small dept over 100 miles away.

    Both of the female cop whistleblowers have been put on leave and then fired. What was the punishment for the lieutenant that did the slamming? There was none. He had to review the use of force policy. That's it.

    https://www.abc15.com/news/local-ne...ctions-by-high-ranking-williams-pd-lieutenant


    “I heard a noise that I’ve never heard before. The sound I heard was his cranium, his skull hitting the sidewalk,” said former Williams police officer Nicole White as she described what happened to the man.

    Less than a minute later, the body camera video shows Lieutenant John Romero’s hand appearing, unannounced, on Lopez's back and Romero takes him to the ground.

    Lopez was handcuffed and could not brace for his fall, causing his head to slam into the sidewalk, which required urgent medical attention, according to the police reports.

    Williams police placed White and Cooper on administrative leave less than two months after they raised these concerns, according to internal records. Both have since been terminated and have filed appeals in court claiming retaliation.







    I commend the arresting officer for coming forward. Props to her. But also pretty par for the police course, the whistleblowers were terminated, the cop who actually did it was cleared after a non-investigation by the chief, and the taxpayers will most likely foot the bill in a lawsuit while the problem officer continues to walk the streets waiting for the next person to seriously injure.
     
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    Sean Reyes is a national hero. He is doing God's work.
     
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  18. ValdostaGatorFan

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    He does a good job. Jeff Gray (HonorYourOath) out of St. Augustine is the GOAT.

    I like Reyes in that he's not an in-your-face kind of guy. Not a subtle as Gray, but still does a good job. He's been arrested a few times but I don't think anything has stuck yet, which says a lot about the arresting officers.
     
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    The usuals doing what they usually do. SMH
     
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    The biggest gang in America doing what they do best, covering up their evil and daring you to do something about it