Police Issues II

Building upon previous posts: Police Issues and Cops

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"Two former Fullerton California police officers were just acquitted this week in the death of a homeless man. Police brutally beat and killed Kelly Thomas after a violent struggle that was captured on surveillance video.

Admittedly, it is rare for officers to be charged in a death involving actions that occur while they are on duty. But the sheer brutality of the beating that Thomas received led many to believe that maybe this time some sense of justice would be served.

Unfortunately, all of those who believe that the officers might face justice had their hopes dashed as former Fullerton police officer Manuel Ramos was acquitted Monday of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges. Former Cpl. Jay Cicinelli was also acquitted of all charges, in his case involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force."
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Anonymous also investigates the issue

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"Kim Nguyen, a 27-year-old pharmacist, says she was thrown from a squad car after police kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. Nguyen was shown on camera tumbling from a moving LAPD cruiser last year, after being handcuffed in the early morning hours of March 17, 2013."



more here and information about the filed complaint here

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 "Police in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma are being accused of using excessive force in their beating of a deaf African-American man. ...

Pearson has a sign on his vehicle that informs officers that he is deaf and thus may not hear commands. But this didn’t seem to matter to the officers involved in the beating.

Local KFOR reported that affidavit indicated Pearson didn’t comply with multiple orders to show his hands after he was pulled over on January 3. KFOR later removed the article, apparently after pressure from local law enforcement. No retraction was ever issued for information in the article, and a search of the KFOR website revealed nothing of the story."
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"An argument between two moviegoers turned deadly on Monday when a 71-year-old retired cop allegedly shot and killed another man in a Florida theater where the victim had been texting during the previews. According to police, the confrontation began when Curtis Reeves, a retired police captain, asked 43-year-old Chad Oulson to put his phone away. "It ended almost as quickly as it started," said Pasco County Sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin."
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"A 16-year-old boy in Philadelphia was hospitalized after a stop-and-frisk encounter with police led to a brutal sexual assault by police....

Darrin Manning, a black, straight-A student and star basketball player, was walking with his coach and teammates to basketball practice when they were stopped by three white police officers. The officer's admitted reason for stopping the group was that they were wearing scarves to cover their faces--on one of the coldest evenings ever recorded in Philadelphia.

After the encounter, Manning had to be rushed to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he underwent reconstructive surgery on his genitals. Despite his injuries, the teenager was still charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest." 

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"Cops in Durham, NC, claim that Jesus Huerta committed sμicide by shooting himself in the face in the back seat of a police car. I say claim because Huerta had been searched by a cop before he was put in the car with his hands cuffed behind his back. Yet they want us to believe that he could’ve had a gun on him the rookie cop who frisked him didn’t notice AND could’ve contorted himself to use that gun to shoot himself in the face!"
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Police will not be facing any charges on this case...

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The above pictured cop:

"In Spring Hill, Florida, a Hernando County detention deputy was arrested after burning a 3-year-old boy who was left in his care. Deputy Cody Marrone, 21, was charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect, after having burned the toddler for “not letting” Marrone sleep.

The toddle in his care was brought to a local hospital with severe burns, including burns to his genitals, according to authorities."

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"The police marksman who killed Mark Duggan will be allowed to have his gun back and return to armed duties. The officer was found to have lawfully killed Duggan by an inquest jury last week though the jury decided his account of the shooting, in which he said Duggan had had a gun in his hand, was wrong."
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"[O]ut of New York City... Over the weekend, an elderly man was hospitalized after being left bloody and violently arrested by police on the Upper West Side. His crime? Jaywalking, apparently."

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"An Oregon reserve officer and former sheriff’s deputy is behind bars after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old son nearly to death.

On New Year’s Eve, the boy had to be medivaced to a nearby hospital after sustaining a severe brain injury, internal tearing of his bowel and intestine and seven fractured ribs.


34-year-old Michael Shane Abo, who had worked as a sheriff’s deputy for the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department from 2008 to November 2012, was arraigned Monday following a grand jury indictment."

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