Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

Warren Sapp files $20 million lawsuit after wrongful arrest in Okeechobee, FL



NFL Hall of Famer and current Colorado assistant coach Warren Sapp is filing a $20 million suit against police after alleging a wrongful arrest last year in Okeechobee, Fla., according to a report from FOX Sports 640’s Andy Slater.

Details about the arrest were not immediately available, though Slater included a video that appeared to show police taking Sapp into custody.

Slater noted the state attorney dropped the charges against Sapp just days after the interaction, noting the actions of the police were not legal.

Article was written today:
Warren Sapp files massive lawsuit against Florida police department after wrongful arrest

I've come across a bunch of things I could add to this thread, but I figured this one was a good addition due to the location of the arrest and the Sapp's celebrity status. Add this one to the list with Tyreek Hill, Desmon Marrow, and Scottie Scheffler.

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Desmond Marrow, a former NFL player, sued after a violent arrest and reached a settlement for a record amount for a non-death, officer involved use of force case in Henry Co, Ga. He was choked by an officer who ended up pleading guilty to a criminal charge, gave up his LEO cert, and got a year of probation. It looks like there was a coverup, big suprise.

Desmond Marrow ex NFL player settles lawsuit over violent arrest | 11alive.com

Back in 2019, attorney L. Chris Stewart painted Henry County's internal investigation as an attempted cover-up that only failed because of the attention Marrow could command as a former football player.

He said the Henry County Police Department produced two different internal reports based on the same materials – one that said Rose was “polite and courteous” immediately after the incident, and another that said he used excessive force once the case gained media attention.

“Because he wanted to know why he was suddenly being arrested, both officers lifted the subject by both legs, bringing him down on his head," the border officer said, according to attorneys. "I was so shocked to see that happen. Never in my life have I seen this happen, only on TV. It was sad to see this happen."


Corruption Rules !!!!1!! (But does it have to be so obvious?)

 

State sponsored police brutality

Cop slams 71 year old man with bone cancer, knocking him unconscious. The slam resulted in a brain bleed, broken neck and eye socket.

The DA charged the cop with aggravated assault and battery but the state AG dropped the charges in the officer that almost killed this senior citizen for tapping him on the vest.

3 minute video:


Oklahoma AG dismisses assault charge against officer who slammed 71-year-old man to the ground

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general dismissed a felony assault charge Friday against a police officer who slammed a 71-year-old man to the ground, breaking his neck, during an argument over a traffic ticket.

“As attorney general, I will not permit Oklahoma police officers to face criminal prosecution for conduct adhering to their training,” Drummond said in a statement. “While the outcome of this incident is unquestionably devastating for Mr. Vu and his family, I do not believe the officer exhibited criminal intent.”

The use of force prompted outrage in Oklahoma City’s Vietnamese community, particularly since the video shows Vu had difficulty communicating with Gibson during the interaction and appeared not to understand what the officer was telling him.

Mark Nelson, president of the Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police, said no officer wants to see someone injured and he hopes Vu makes a swift and full recovery, “However, our members often have to make split-second decisions, and they cannot control the outcome of every situation,” Nelson said in a statement. “Unfortunately, when someone resists law enforcement, they increase the risk of harm to themselves or others.”

On Mr. VU:
This Vietnamese community wants answers after police officer throws 71-year-old to ground

Vu was hospitalized for more than a month with a broken neck, a brain bleed and orbital fracture. He went home with family the first week of December, his daughter, Teresa Vu, told PBS News.

This is not how you treat someone that is 5'3″, 115 [pounds] with bone cancer after a car accident," she wrote in the Oct. 28 post.

But the family fears the damage might be permanent.

"He suffers from a lot of confusion and is dizzy," Nguyen said. "He may not be able to walk again."

 

I have some time to kill, so I'm going to watch it. I hope it's good for as long as it is.

I'm updating this thread after this, lol.

 

That video could have been significantly shorter had all parties involved invoked their right to stfu, lol.

I can't believe bro nonchalantly said he paid them for sex like that wasn't a crime. Lol, fail. I had to find the original video about halfway through because although some of the Hoge twins' comments made me chuckle, it was hard to follow what was happening.

Was letting two scantily clad women out of your car reasonable enough suspicion to pull the car over in the first place?

 

From a week or two ago.. a Grand Jury recommends small police force be disbanded because of a "rampant culture of corruption."

So, this small town in Alabama has a 5 man police force. They had an unsecured evidence room that a dispatcher got into, took a cocktail of drugs, including fentanyl, gabapentin, diazepam, amphetamine, carisoprodol and methocarbamol. He OD'ed at work and died. This started an investigation. It was found that several unauthorized individuals were accessing the evidence room. One of the cops and his wife were selling anabolic steroids. The 5 officers have been indicted on corruption, tampering, and drug charges. The grand jury said that the dispatchers death was a direct result of the department's "negligence, lack of procedure, general incompetence and disregard for human life."

Entire Alabama police department put on leave after grand jury recommends its abolition

The mayor of a city in Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, a day after officials announced that a grand jury had recommended the small department be abolished, saying it had “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency” and is “an ongoing threat to public safety.”

At a news conference Wednesday, Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker announced that a grand jury had indicted Hanceville Police Chief Jason Shane Marlin and four other officers, as well as one of the officers’ wives, on various charges, which include tampering with evidence, as part of an extensive corruption investigation.

Crocker read nine findings from the grand jury — including that departmental negligence played a role in the 2024 overdose death of a Hanceville 911 dispatcher who was found dead at work.

Donna Kelso is accused of unlawfully distributing anabolic steroids to Wilbanks and Cody Alan Kelso, according to the indictments obtained by NBC News. She and her husband are charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and criminal conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime.

Grand jury recommends abolishing Alabama police department

• Jason Shane Marlin: Two counts of failure to report an ethics crime and one count of tampering with physical evidence.
• Cody Allen Kelso: Two counts of computer tampering, and one count each of tampering with physical evidence, conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime, and use of official office for personal gain.
• Jason Scott Wilbanks: Two counts each of computer tampering, solicitation to commit a controlled substance, and use of official office for personal gain. He also faces once count of tampering with physical evidence.
• William Andrew Shelnutt: One count of tampering with physical evidence.
• Eric Michael Kelso: Four counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and two counts of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance.

 

Cops cook innocent man on blacktop, in the afternoon, in the summer, during a record heatwave, in Arizona, on a 114 degree day

$15,000,000 lawsuit filed for being subjected to 3rd degree burns by the Phoenix Police Department. He was held down on 180 degree blacktop for 4 minutes.


https://www.abc15.com/news/local-ne...-being-held-on-hot-pavement-by-phoenix-police


As Phoenix police deal with the fallout of the violent beating of a deaf man and face the threat of federal oversight, the department is now set to face a lawsuit after a man suffered third-degree burns across much of his body during a detainment.

“Phoenix police are demonstrating an utter disregard for human life over and over again,” said Bobby DiCello, one of Kenyon’s attorneys. “This young man was burned to the third degree because his skin was cooked on asphalt.”

“So, I walked up to them with my phone in my hand and said, ‘Hey what happened?’ or ‘What’s going on?’… One officer grabbed my one wrist, and the other officer grabbed my other wrist… They said to me in a mean hostile way, ‘You’re being detained.’ But I said, ‘I’m on the phone. What do you mean? I didn’t do anything. Please explain to me.’ And they were like, ‘Why are you getting antsy? Why do you seem like you’re nervous?’ I said, ‘I’m not. You’re scaring me. Can you please explain to me? Let me sit down. Let me sit down.’ I sat down on the back of some random person's truck tailgate.”

“The lady across in the high-rise said she thought an animal was dying. That’s why she looked out her window,” Kenyon said during an interview. “And that’s when she started recording me.”



Fresh wounds are blurred.

 

Cops taze and punch innocent man who they knew just had a seizure.

The good Samaritans that stopped to check on him called 911 and reported that he was having a seizure. He had just suffered a grand mal seizure and slowly rolled into a ditch. The cops knew this before arriving on scene. They called for medical after seeing his condition. They end up punching and tazing him after getting frustrated at the still-reeling man. A lawsuit was filed last month.

Hercules man beaten by police while having seizure sues department – NBC Bay Area

A Hercules man said he was manhandled and beaten by police while suffering an epileptic seizure that caused him to crash his car. Instead of being treated like a victim, he said officers treated him like a criminal.

Although Bruce said he can't remember what happened, police body cam footage shows what took place. Witnesses had called in the accident as a seizure, but officers didn't give Bruce enough time to get out of his car, Bruce's attorney claims.

Bruce said he finally gained consciousness in the hospital, bloodied and bruised. "Tons of pain, I would say, the worst pain I've ever been in in my life," he said. "All busted up, it wasn't a pretty sight to look at. No one deserves to go through that."

"He was tased three times, not only that, he was punched in the face twice by the admission of one of the officers who did it," Fiol said. "He was pulled by the hair, pulled by the limbs, cursed at, yelled out, shoved, poked, grabbed just about everything. You can imagine their effort to get him out of that car."


It's a longer video, but it starts where they are getting him out of the car. You'll get the idea after a minute or two.