DA Won't File Charges Against Cops That Murdered Tamir Rice

According to CopBlock, "County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty has been telling people he will not comply with the recommendation of Cleveland Municipal Judge Ronald Adrine to charge the officers responsible for the death of Tamir Rice, and force them to defend their actions in court. Even worse, he is saying he does not agree with Judge Adrine’s finding that there is probable cause to charge the officers with any crime. He says he has conducted a thorough investigation of the facts in the Nov. 22, 2014 shooting and will present them to the grand jury some time this month and let them decide if charges should be filed. But if he goes to the grand jury with no recommendation or a recommendation that there is no probable cause to indict, or before releasing the second video of the shooting, it is extremely unlikely the grand jury on its own will file charges."

The judge wanted to issue an arrest warrant for the officer who murdered Tamir Rice but it needed to be approved first by the County Prosecutor. Timothy McGinty has decided to place the burden onto the Grand Jury instead of doing the job he was elected to do.

Officer Timothy Loehmann, the man who shot Tamir Rice, claimed he had no choice but to shoot the 12 year old as he felt threatened. If this was the case he had many options. He could have stayed in his vehicle and used the megaphone to order Tamir to place his weapon on the ground and/or to put his hands up. The video shows that Officer Loehmann had a mission to shoot someone.

Please contact prosecutor Timothy McGinty and urge him to press charges on the officers responsible for the murder of Tamir Rice. If he feels pressure from the community perhaps he will do the right thing.

Read the full article here: 

https://www.copblock.org/143320/cleveland-da-refuses-file-charges-against-cops-murdered-tamir-rice/

Missouri Police Misconduct Still At An All Time High

According copblock.org sometime in September 2014 Bernard Scott was arrested in Pine Lawn, Missouri for just over $300 worth of traffic tickets. At some point between being arrested and getting to the jail, Mr. Scott was injured so severely that the police called an ambulance for him to be checked out. Once the paramedics arrived at the jail, they were instantly so concerned for the man, they began paperwork to rush him to the hospital. The jail personnel began getting Bernard dressed into his street clothes to be transported. That’s when a member of the administration called the whole thing off and told the paramedics to leave. The paramedics protested the decision but were overruled by the jail staff. Why? Because he didn’t pay the $300 dollars required for his release.Things just get worse from here. About 20 minutes later, a second ambulance was called for the same man. This time, with a report that he was unresponsive after hanging himself with a shoelace. This man that was so injured he needed immediate care was somehow strong enough to attempt suicide?! Well, that’s what jail staff wanted us to believe. Upon being rushed to the hospital, and worked on for nearly an hour, the man survived! He was in really bad shape and remained in a coma for nearly a month.

Bernard Scott then made a statement about the claims of a suicide attempt “why would I try to kill myself?! It was a traffic ticket!”

Read the full story here:
http://www.copblock.org/140019/missouri-police-misconduct-still-at-an-all-time-high/

Stephen Rankin: the military-trained officer who killed two unarmed men

Young Turks posted a video and you have to see it. "Before Officer Stephen Rankin fatally shot 18-year-old William Chapman, when an autopsy found the first unarmed man he killed was shot 11 times, residents of this city in southern Virginia voiced their dismay on the website of a local newspaper.“Talk to the men and women in our armed forces who face people with weapons every day,” wrote one. “You don’t use deadly force against unarmed citizens – ever.”One commenter, however, stood out for his combative endorsement of Rankin’s actions during the April 2011 encounter with Kirill Denyakin, a 26-year-old Kazakhstani cook."

 See full article here: 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/stephen-rankin-military-trained-officer-william-chapman

Chicago Police Accused of Deleting Video and Threatening Witnesses After Teen’s “Execution"

Many news outlets reporting on the Chicago Police and their efforts to cover up the murder of a 17 year-old boy. The boy was shot 16 times.

Credit: masetv.com

According to Photographyisnotacrime.com on October 20, 2014, McDonald was followed through the parking lot of the Burger King shortly before he was killed by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, the only one of the six police officers present that night who opened fire. The video from the restaurant would not have depicted the actual shooting, but would have shown the moments leading up to it.

Jay Darshane, the manager of the Burger King, told NBC Chicago and MSNBC that he thinks police detectives deleted the video after he told his employees to give them the password and allow them to access it. He said that the cameras were turned on and working properly during the night of the shooting.

“We had no idea they were going to sit there and delete files,” he said. “I mean we were just trying to help the police officers.”

The Independent Police Review Authority, which is responsible for investigating police shootings and misconduct allegations, acknowledged that the footage is missing, but did its best to defend police: “We have no credible evidence at this time that would cause us to believe CPD purged or erased any surveillance video.”

Jeffrey Neslund, one of the family’s attorneys, described the dash cam video to MSNBC:

When Laquan is about 12 to 15 feet away from the officers, the width of an entire lane of the southbound traffic, one officer begins shooting. Laquan immediately spins to the ground and the video then clearly shows that the officer continues to shoot Laquan multiple times as he lays in the street. Sixteen seconds pass from the time Laquan hits the ground until the last visible puff of smoke rises from his torso area. An officer then approaches Laquan, stands over him, and appears to shout something as he kicks the knife out of his hand.

In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Neslund referred to the shooting as an “execution.”

Van Dyke, the officer Prior to the McDonald shooting, Van Dyke had already accumulated 15 complaints, including allegations of police brutality and using racial epithets, but the city never resolved any of the complaints.

Ed Nance, one of the complainants, was awarded $350,000 by a jury after he was injured by Van Dyke in a 2007 police brutality case. Nance broke into tears after he was told about the McDonald shooting, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“It just makes me so sad because it shouldn’t have happened,” he said. “He shouldn’t have been on the street in the first place after my incident.”

Van Dyke has been on paid desk duty since the shooting.

Read the full article here: 

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/06/chicago-police-accused-of-deleting-video-threatening-witnesses-after-teens-execution/

Mike Eiskant, Former Santa Fe Cop, Accused Of Masturbating In Squad Car While On Duty

The title says it all. We understand that officers are humans to but this is inexcusable. Apparently there is video, more so audio of former Sgt. Mike Eiskant having a  graphic conversation with himself and masturbating while on duty. According to Huffington Post, Eiskant is heard texting someone and looking at naked photos of a woman. Former Sgt. Eiskant also has a reputation of stalking women. With this known reputation it is the department's fault for not nipping this in the bud a long time ago. Even with female officers complaining about him. Whats even worse is that he was given the badge number 69. 

This is not the worse of his offenses. Eiskant has since entered a plea of no contest  to two counts of attempt to commit a felony (false imprisonment), one count of stalking, two counts of harassment and other charges including larceny and possession of marijuana, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Read the full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/mike-eiskant-santa-fe-police-officer-masturbating-squad-car-on-duty_n_1415740.html

White Officer, Michael Slager, actually charged with murder for killing an unarmed black man.

Video has been released of the shooting of Walter Scott. It is clear that officer Michael Slager shot Scott as he was running away. Slager had plenty of time to choose whether to shoot Scott. Not only did Slager shoot 8 times but he did it as Scott was at least 10 feet or more away. It is clear that he was shooting to kill. It is a surprise that officer Slager was actually charged with murder but this is not a victory. He must be convicted. Since the release of the video officer Slager has been fired. Watch the video below and read more on this murder below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/07/officer-michael-slager-shoots-man-in-back-video_n_7021134.html

Officers plant drugs in black owner's store

This is an older story but we still need to share it because it is one of many videos that prove officers do plant evidence for conviction. Also note that the black man shown on the news graphic is the store owner and not a criminal. I would not have used that photo; it seems he is a suspect and not a victim of police harassment. Watch the video below.

Unarmed man attempting to surrender is shot down by police officers in new jersey

Denzel Mosley told KYW-TV that Reid’s hands were “in plain sight,” and that the officers “were telling him, ‘Get out [of] the car,’” then yelling “‘Stop!’ and they started shooting.”

Ben Mosley — a retired sheriff’s deputy — said that Reid may have attempted to get back into the car when the officers yelled the contradictory order to “Stop!” but that he did not believe that justified firing upon him.

“I saw a disarmed man go down to the ground and get shot,” Mosley said. “That’s exactly what I saw.”

The video — obtained by the Press of Atlantic City but not released to the public — confirmed these eye-witness accounts.

“Show me your hands. Show me your f—— hands,” Days said, before quickly adding, “Get him out of the car, Rog[er Worley], we got a gun in his glove compartment.”

After the gun is retrieved, Days continued to yell at Reid. “I tell you, I’m going to shoot you,” he shouted. “You’re gonna be f—— dead. You reach for something, you’re going to be f—— dead.”

Reid then attempted to exit the vehicle with his hands raised, at which point Officer Days yelled, “Don’t you f—— move!” before he and Worley opened fire, discharging their weapons at least six times.

Conrad Benedetto, the attorney for the Reid family, said after viewing the video on Tuesday that “you see that there was no threat to the officer, and no weapons in the victim’s hands.”

Walter Hudson, chair and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance, said that “the video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat and he possessed no weapon on his person. He complied with the officer and the officer shot him.”
Dashboard footage from a fatal police shooting in Bridgeton, New Jersey confirm eyewitness accounts that the victim was stepping out of the car with his arms raised when officers shot and killed him, the Press of Atlantic City reports.

Police in Bridgeton pulled over the car in which Jerame Reid was a passenger on December 30th. Prosecutors said that “during the course of the stop a handgun was revealed and later recovered,” but witnesses said that Officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley opened fire and killed Reid as he was peacefully exiting the vehicle.

Tahli Dawkins told the Press of Atlantic City that he watched the officers approaching the car yelling, “Don’t effing move!” and that they opened fire without provocation.


Denzel Mosley told KYW-TV that Reid’s hands were “in plain sight,” and that the officers “were telling him, ‘Get out [of] the car,’” then yelling “‘Stop!’ and they started shooting.”

Ben Mosley — a retired sheriff’s deputy — said that Reid may have attempted to get back into the car when the officers yelled the contradictory order to “Stop!” but that he did not believe that justified firing upon him.

“I saw a disarmed man go down to the ground and get shot,” Mosley said. “That’s exactly what I saw.”

The video — obtained by the Press of Atlantic City but not released to the public — confirmed these eye-witness accounts.

“Show me your hands. Show me your f—— hands,” Days said, before quickly adding, “Get him out of the car, Rog[er Worley], we got a gun in his glove compartment.”

After the gun is retrieved, Days continued to yell at Reid. “I tell you, I’m going to shoot you,” he shouted. “You’re gonna be f—— dead. You reach for something, you’re going to be f—— dead.”

Reid then attempted to exit the vehicle with his hands raised, at which point Officer Days yelled, “Don’t you f—— move!” before he and Worley opened fire, discharging their weapons at least six times.

Conrad Benedetto, the attorney for the Reid family, said after viewing the video on Tuesday that “you see that there was no threat to the officer, and no weapons in the victim’s hands.”

Walter Hudson, chair and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance, said that “the video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat and he possessed no weapon on his person. He complied with the officer and the officer shot him.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/video-shows-nj-cops-gunned-down-unarmed-black-man-as-he-tried-to-surrender-during-traffic-stop/

Lets ignite change for police reform nationwide!

Families across America urge the U.S. federal government to set a higher standard of policing by strengthening accountability mechanisms and securing critical reforms to end police brutality, biased racial profiling, and militarized policing targeting youth and communities of color across our nation.

Sign the petition and protest. 

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/its-time-for-police-reform

Mothers, fathers, and other family members demand change that protects our young people from reckless policing. Families across America urge the federal government to take definitive and immediate action, including but not limited to the following reforms: 

• A fully-resourced and rigorous civil rights and criminal investigation by the DOJ into discriminatory policing, excessive force, and death or injury by police in every state in the country; 
• A comprehensive, streamlined, public national-level database of police shootings; excessive force, misconduct complaints, traffic and pedestrian stops, and arrests, broken down by race and other demographic data, with key privacy protections, the exclusion of personally identifying factors and information, and deportation immunity for civilians; 
• Mandating of Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST) in every state and inter-state coordination between all POSTs; 
• An executive order that creates a strong and enforceable prohibition on police brutality and discriminatory policing based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, immigration status, disability, and housing status; 
• Increased funding for the DOJ's Office for Civil Rights to ensure additional, accessible state-level responders for police and other civil rights violations Divestment of federal anti-drug grants and federal funding for police departments that demonstrate abuse of power and massive reinvestment in community controlled and based policing practices; 
• Support for the passage of the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA); 
• Streamlined national use of force matrix and mandating that state and local police have clear and streamlined matrices; and 
• Strict limits on asset seizure without due process and the transfer of any military equipment to local law enforcement under the 1033 program, guidelines that ensure that the equipment is not used on non-violent protesters, and an end to the requirement that such military weaponry is used within a year. 

How dumb can you be? Caught on camera: cop kicks fellow cop in the head then punches the actual suspect in the face.

Dumb ass cop. Just watch the video and you decide.

 

NYPD robs a citizen and pepper sprays the victim and his sister

Desperate cops do desperate things. New York officers started harassing a man by the name of Terrel Haskins when Lamard Joye asked the officers if was necessary to harass Haskins. That's when attention turned on Joye and he was pushed against a fence by an officer who then began to search him taking cash out of Joye's pocket. The amount stolen was reported to total $1300. Joye repeatedly asked for his money back but the officer responded with pepper spray. A woman tries to identify the officer asking for a badge number and she too was pepper sprayed.

Huffington post reports, Joye's lawyer Robert Marinelli, told the publication it was one of the most disturbing things he had ever seen.

“I believe that this officer made an assumption that any money Mr. Joye possessed was obtained illegally and therefore he would not report the theft. This assumption was wrong," Marinelli said.
"Mr. Joye is a hardworking taxpayer deserving respect."

The lawyer told the New York Post that his client had $1,300 on him so he could treat he and his wife to a night on the town in celebration of his 35th birthday.

ABC 7 eyewitness news also reported that the officer has not turned the money in or wrote a report about the incident further proving the cop was just looking for valuables to take.


Read the full article from Huffington post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/nypd-steals-1300_n_5959432.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black+Voices

APD Officer makes remark about shooting James Boyd 2 hours before shooting

You may have heard about the wrongful death of a Albuquerque homeless man in March 2014. Audio has recently been released of Officer Keith Sandy joking about shooting the man. Two hours before Keith Sandy shot and killed homeless camper James Boyd, he was recorded telling another officer that he would shoot Boyd in the penis with a shotgun. Its obvious that they wanted to shoot him. Boyd had a knife but was too far to actually bring harm to the officers. They couldn't wait to use their weapons and dog on this man. Watch the video below and listen to the audio following. 

Make the NYPD Adopt On-Body Cameras

There is a petition that we need you to sign. It will prompt the new mayor of New York to consider mandatory on-body cameras on every police officer. We need to make this mandatory across the United States but small steps can make huge changes.

Petition excerpts:  There is a simple way to make a dramatic change in police misconduct: require officers to wear on-body cameras that record their interactions.... Other police departments are using on-body cameras with amazing success. In the first year after the Rialto Police Department in California adopted the cameras in 2012, the number of complaints filed against officers fell by 88 percent compared with the last year. More importantly, the use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent.

Help us usher in police reform and sign the bill:
https://www.change.org/petitions/bill-de-blasio-make-the-nypd-adopt-on-body-cameras

Crooked Cops and Prescription drugs

According to KLTV, 37 year old Monty Allen Clark, A former Grapeland, Texas police officer, is charged with second-degree obtaining controlled substances with a fraudulent prescription. The investigation also revealed Clark filled prescriptions for Adderall by forging a doctor's signature
It is also reported that a Wallings pharmacist, said he knew Clark for more than a year and said he has filled numerous prescriptions for Clark.

Read the full article here: 

http://www.kltv.com/story/25652900/grapeland-k-9-officer-arrested-on-prescription-drug-charge

Missing money and drugs from North Slope Borough Police Department in Alaska since 2013... no one knows who took it.

According to the Arctic Sounder evidence including Money and Drugs have been stolen from a police department evidence room in North Slope Borough, Alaska. A memo was written and presented to two supervisors and not much has come of it.   Officer Gary Moore reported, "he was told when he met with the district attorney in Fairbanks that the there was no case because another member of the police department had told the assistant district attorney that the evidence had since been found." But when Moore returned to work he asked the evidence custodian who stated that the evidence had not been found. Moore labeled this "police mis-conduct". Over the past month, Moore disclosed the memo to the Alaska State Troopers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage, the Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions and North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower.

"The mayor has authorized an independent outside investigator to look into the matter," said John Boyle, the mayor's chief advisor in an email response. "In addition, the investigator will perform an audit of the North Slope Borough Police Department evidence room and procedures."

For all they know the suspect could still be working at the Police Department. 

I will be surprised if they find out who's responsible. 

Read full article here

http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1413missing_money_drugs_raises_questions

San Jose police officer arraigned on rape charge

Geoffrey Evatt Graves, a six-year member of the San Jose Police Department, was arraigned in a San Jose courtroom charged with raping a woman while on duty last fall. According to San Jose Mercury news he is believed to have escorted a woman to a hotel on September 22, after she had been involved in a domestic dispute. Graves, after waiting for another officer to leave, entered her room and raped her.

Mercury news also reports that, "an investigation...discovered her DNA on Graves' bulletproof vest -- he reportedly shed parts of his uniform but kept the vest on during the alleged attack. Sources said the nature of the DNA and amount of bodily fluid present could not have come from casual contact." 

Read the full article here: 

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25410441/san-jose-police-officer-arraigned-rape-charge

Cops hold the best house parties! Investigators found cocaine, steroids, hundreds of prescription pills, guns and cash in Jeffrey Johnston's home.

According to The Denver Post, Jeffrey Johnston, a Littleton police officer has been accused of buying $1,300 worth of Ecstasy from a confidential informant. He was sentenced, earlier this month, to 4 years in federal prison. The 46 year old was also sentenced to three years of supervised release for firearm and drug trafficking crimes. He accepted a plea deal for prohibited person in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute. Federal authorities said that Johnston held house parties at his home. Investigators found cocaine, steroids, hundreds of prescription pills, guns and cash. Among the items seized were an AR-15 rifle and two 12-gauge shotguns.

Read the full article here: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25059359/former-littleton-cop-sentenced-four-years-prison-ecstasy 

Defenseless homeless man gets Tased over 5 times and beaten with a baton

Video of a homeless man being beaten and tased has gone viral. Over 20 bystanders witness the heartless act and only a few caught it on tape. Share it with the world and demand police reform.

Two former cops accused of unlawfully killing a schizophrenic California homeless man in July 2011 have been found not guilty

Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, both former Fullerton police officers, were acquitted of all charges stemming from the violent 2011 beating of a homeless man. The victim, 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, died five days after the violent encounter. The prosecutors had to prove intent to cause harm and with police easily justifying violent behavior, this was proven to be a great challenge as the jury acquitted both officers. We unfortunately have to wait until God deals with these officers and hope that they suffer sleepless nights until their own demise. 

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389ZzRXH6mk

Jay Cicinelli

Manuel Ramos









Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fullerton-cops-aquitted-homeless-man-death-article-1.1578808#ixzz2qaMHqveU

New Update on the 2 DC Cops charged with prostituting girls and producing child pornography

Looks like Justice has been served for one of the two cops recently exposed for being the sickos they are. Marc Washington, the DC officer accused of producing child pornography, was found dead yesterday in the Potomac River near Hains Point. I speculate that he has committed suicide as it is reported that there was an abandoned vehicle and clothes nearby. It is also reported that the mother of a young girl called police and reported Marc Washington who visited the young girl's home while on duty and ordered her to remove her clothes as he took nude photos of her. The second officer now identified as Linwood Barnhill, who allegedly has been prostituting both young girls and women, is now arrested and charged with 2 counts of pandering of a minor.

View full article here: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Search-for-Missing-Person-at-Hains-Point-235329281.html