Officer Friendly.

[TerryB]

[Batboy2/75]

Couple of surprises:

How in the hell did Oregon make the top 10?

How did kansas come in last. based on my youthful vewing of the show COPS, one would think kansas would be ground zero for all sorts of stuff.

No fucking surprise the Big Easy State tops the charts for reported police misconduct.

[Blaidd Drwg]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeB5V8v_mNM[/youtube]

http://lukescorner.net/video/bullhead-a ... eating-and

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. -- The video speaks for itself. It shows a bloody, unconscious Robert Stout being wheeled into jail shortly after an encounter with the Bullhead City Police Department.

Stout is posed for his mugshot, with his head held up by an officer, before being placed in a cell.

The video shows Stout after he was cleared by a doctor at Western Arizona Regional Medical Center. An hour after entering the jail, he is wheeled out and taken to Kingman Regional Medical Center. He was then life flighted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas.

The video was released in an information request placed by 8 News NOW. Stout was arrested on February 2nd after a foot pursuit with police. According to the police report, Stout was tased by officers and fell on his face. However Stout's family claims he was beaten by police.

There are discrepancies in the police report. In an addendum to the original police report, Corporal Brad Holdway claimed Stout was combative at the hospital and had to be restrained. However medical records, and video from the jail, shows Stout was unconscious. The addendum was filed 20 days after the incident

"It would be impossible for him to be combative," said Stout's mother, Theresa Stout. "An outside doctor said every bone in his face is fractured."

[Pinky]

How did kansas come in last. based on my youthful vewing of the show COPS, one would think kansas would be ground zero for all sorts of stuff.

Have you ever been to Kansas? I have. It's ground zero for watching grass (wheat) grow.

[Turdacious]

How in the hell did Oregon make the top 10?

Whiny hipsters skewed the curve.

[Shapecharge]

How did kansas come in last. based on my youthful vewing of the show COPS, one would think kansas would be ground zero for all sorts of stuff.

Have you ever been to Kansas? I have. It's ground zero for watching grass (wheat) grow.

Hey fucker don't be hatin' on my state! That's where I'm from...grew up in wheat country in the western part of the state and then later in life went to college in the more colorful eastern part of the land of "Ahhhh's."

[buckethead]

How did kansas come in last. based on my youthful vewing of the show COPS, one would think kansas would be ground zero for all sorts of stuff.

Have you ever been to Kansas? I have. It's ground zero for watching grass (wheat) grow.

Hey fucker don't be hatin' on my state! That's where I'm from...grew up in wheat country in the western part of the state and then later in life went to college in the more colorful eastern part of the land of "Ahhhh's."

Get it? Big ears! Goddammit, I gotta take a knee from LOL'ing

[Turdacious]

"There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, "Enough is enough." For me, that time is now. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. Over the past three years, I have been subjected to a two-year federal criminal investigation followed by Travis Tygart's unconstitutional witch hunt. The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today - finished with this nonsense.
I had hoped that a federal court would stop USADA's charade. Although the court was sympathetic to my concerns and recognized the many improprieties and deficiencies in USADA's motives, its conduct, and its process, the court ultimately decided that it could not intervene.

If I thought for one moment that by participating in USADA's process, I could confront these allegations in a fair setting and - once and for all - put these charges to rest, I would jump at the chance. But I refuse to participate in a process that is so one-sided and unfair. Regardless of what Travis Tygart says, there is zero physical evidence to support his outlandish and heinous claims. The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of controls I have passed with flying colors. I made myself available around the clock and around the world. In-competition. Out of competition. Blood. Urine. Whatever they asked for I provided. What is the point of all this testing if, in the end, USADA will not stand by it?

From the beginning, however, this investigation has not been about learning the truth or cleaning up cycling, but about punishing me at all costs. I am a retired cyclist, yet USADA has lodged charges over 17 years old despite its own 8-year limitation. As respected organizations such as UCI and USA Cycling have made clear, USADA lacks jurisdiction even to bring these charges. The international bodies governing cycling have ordered USADA to stop, have given notice that no one should participate in USADA's improper proceedings, and have made it clear the pronouncements by USADA that it has banned people for life or stripped them of their accomplishments are made without authority. And as many others, including USADA's own arbitrators, have found, there is nothing even remotely fair about its process. USADA has broken the law, turned its back on its own rules, and stiff-armed those who have tried to persuade USADA to honor its obligations. At every turn, USADA has played the role of a bully, threatening everyone in its way and challenging the good faith of anyone who questions its motives or its methods, all at U.S. taxpayers' expense. For the last two months, USADA has endlessly repeated the mantra that there should be a single set of rules, applicable to all, but they have arrogantly refused to practice what they preach. On top of all that, USADA has allegedly made deals with other riders that circumvent their own rules as long as they said I cheated. Many of those riders continue to race today.

The bottom line is I played by the rules that were put in place by the UCI, WADA and USADA when I raced. The idea that athletes can be convicted today without positive A and B samples, under the same rules and procedures that apply to athletes with positive tests, perverts the system and creates a process where any begrudged ex-teammate can open a USADA case out of spite or for personal gain or a cheating cyclist can cut a sweetheart deal for themselves. It's an unfair approach, applied selectively, in opposition to all the rules. It's just not right.

USADA cannot assert control of a professional international sport and attempt to strip my seven Tour de France titles. I know who won those seven Tours, my teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours. We all raced together. For three weeks over the same roads, the same mountains, and against all the weather and elements that we had to confront. There were no shortcuts, there was no special treatment. The same courses, the same rules. The toughest event in the world where the strongest man wins. Nobody can ever change that. Especially not Travis Tygart.

Today I turn the page. I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances. I will commit myself to the work I began before ever winning a single Tour de France title: serving people and families affected by cancer, especially those in underserved communities. This October, my Foundation will celebrate 15 years of service to cancer survivors and the milestone of raising nearly $500 million. We have a lot of work to do and I'm looking forward to an end to this pointless distraction. I have a responsibility to all those who have stepped forward to devote their time and energy to the cancer cause. I will not stop fighting for that mission. Going forward, I am going to devote myself to raising my five beautiful (and energetic) kids, fighting cancer, and attempting to be the fittest 40-year old on the planet."

[Blaidd Drwg]

Quit being an idiot.

[Holland Oates]

http://m.gawker.com/5937745/the-empire- ... ed-by-cops

But the Empire State Building shooting — two dead, nine others wounded — wasn't really a mass shooting. Or, if it was, it was mostly perpetrated by two police officers.

[Pinky]

How did kansas come in last. based on my youthful vewing of the show COPS, one would think kansas would be ground zero for all sorts of stuff.

Have you ever been to Kansas? I have. It's ground zero for watching grass (wheat) grow.

Hey fucker don't be hatin' on my state! That's where I'm from...grew up in wheat country in the western part of the state and then later in life went to college in the more colorful eastern part of the land of "Ahhhh's."

Get it? Big ears! Goddammit, I gotta take a knee from LOL'ing

[Shapecharge]

Harsh. But I have nothing.

[Pinky]

To be fair, the part of Kansas my mom is from (and I visited the most) is too desolate for cows.

[milosz]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/st-pa ... g-door-rai

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national ... oot/56187/

[Pinky]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national ... oot/56187/

Does it count as a mass shooting if cops are the perpetrators?

[Testiclaw]

If only there were more armed citizens able to start shooting and put a stop to the violence.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Certainly would help if these two cops got shot by the homeowner rather than the other way round.

http://www.10news.com/news/31374150/detail.html

Yes...he shot her in the left tit. Tittycide is a capital crime in my book.

In California, a woman was shot by San Diego County deputy Luke Berhalter, in her own backyard. Berhalter was allegedly checking her backyard for a masked man.

According to 10News,

Deputies were called to 8900 block of Leigh Avenue shortly before 10:30 p.m. Sunday to investigate a suspicious man seen in the area wearing a ski mask, according to San Diego County sheriff’s homicide Lt. Larry Nesbit.

Deputies arrived and determined the man had left the area, walking away in an eastbound direction, Nesbit said in a statement.

While checking for the man one to two blocks away from Leigh Avenue, deputies entered the backyard of a residence in the 200 block of Via Tapia, Nesbit said.

“At some point, while in the backyard of the residence, there was contact between the deputies, who had their weapons drawn, and a female resident of the home,” Nesbit said. “During that contact, one of the deputies fired from his service weapon. The female was struck in the arm by the round.”

Paramedics took the wounded woman, identified as Jennifer Orey, to an area hospital, where she was listed in good condition and expected to be released Monday, Nesbit said.

However, family members say the sheriff’s department is not telling the whole truth about the extent of Orey’s injuries.

“You know what, you guys need to get your story straight,” said Dennis Morgan, Orey’s father. “She wasn’t shot in the arm she was shot in the chest.”

Orey’s sister-in-law, Kristin Arzaga-Morgan, told 10News Orey made it through surgery early Monday to repair the wounds from the bullet that entered her chest, exited through her bicep and struck her pinky finger.

“Part of a bullet ricocheted off and hit her in the pinky, and they also had to do a little bit of repair to her pinky as well,” said Arzaga-Morgan.

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said that is not true. Gore told 10News he has been monitoring the situation and said with assurance that Orey had been shot in the arm and that her pinky was “scratched.”

Gore said the deputies thought Orey’s open gate looked suspicious, so they went into her backyard. The deputies ran into Orey, and one of them had a “spontaneous reaction.”

Authorities said they did not know exactly what prompted the shooting. They said the woman did not have anything in her hands and was not armed at the time.

Morgan said Orey told him she heard something in her backyard so she went to check it out.

“She saw a flashlight and identified herself as the homeowner and he shot her,” said Orey’s father, Dennis Morgan.

Orey told relatives the deputy told her to lay on her back until paramedics arrived.

Her father said Orey was the first woman accepted in the Navy’s Air and Sea Rescue team and she knew if she stayed on her back she would die, so she turned on her side and waited.

Morgan said he believes the sheriff’s department is downplaying the shooting.

“I told them I’m really pissed off,” he said. “I’m pissed off as hell. A cop could have very easily killed my daughter.”

Before she was rushed to the hospital, Orey had one question for the deputy.

“After he shot her, she looked at him and said, ‘Why did you shoot me?’” said Morgan.

Orey told her father the deputy never answered her.

Another source states

The brother … wants the sheriff’s department to admit its mistake and take responsibility for the incident.

Orey and Deputy Luke Berhalter came in contact and the officer’s firearm discharged at point-blank range, her brother James Morgan [said].

“He fired without warning, saying freeze, or anything. Then just as she saw the black smoke coming out the barrel she turned her body,” Morgan said. “The bullet went through her chest and her left nipple, into her shoulder and out her pinkie.”

The deputy reportedly told her, “I’m sorry, you startled me,” Morgan [stated].

Berhalter, a San Diego County deputy for 21 months after seven years with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, has been placed on leave. The case has been handed over to the local prosecuting attorney for review.

Orey, whose family told the newspaper she was the first woman in the Navy to earn her wings of gold as a search and rescue swimmer, was released from hospital.

But still her brother wants answers.

“I feel they are trying to cover up their mistakes,” Morgan [said]. “They know the truth. They just don’t want to admit it. All we want is for them to own up to their mistake and be responsible just like anybody else.”

[Holland Oates]

He had his finger on the trigger like a stupid faggot,

[Turdacious]

Orey and Deputy Luke Berhalter came in contact and the officer’s firearm discharged at point-blank range, her brother James Morgan [said].

“He fired without warning, saying freeze, or anything. Then just as she saw the black smoke coming out the barrel she turned her body,” Morgan said. “The bullet went through her chest and her left nipple, into her shoulder and out her pinkie.”

Turned after she saw the smoke from the barrel at point blank range?
Is she The One?

[Blaidd Drwg]

Yer under arrrest...Office Friendly would like to have a boat.

By Eapen Thampy, Americans for Forfeiture Reform

Last August, a Middlesex County (VA) grand jury returned 25 felony indictments against disgraced Sheriff Guy Abbott over use of his asset forfeiture fund. The indictments included:

Indictments handed down last week by a Middlesex special grand jury allege Sheriff Guy Abbott procured an inflatable boat, two other boats and a vehicle, obtained undisclosed sums of money in an asset forfeiture fund and misused county credit cards, all of which he accessed by virtue of his position as the top law enforcement officer in the county, according to the indictments…

Between 2003 and 2008, Abbott is also accused of using his office to obtain a 1985 Volvo, a Boston Whaler boat, a 1982 Privateer boat and a 1993 Nova Marine inflatable boat, according to the indictments.

Other counts accuse him of misusing various public funds and Visa and Mastercard credit cards over an eight-year period dating back to his first year in office, according to the indictments. Some of the money was in an account in which assets seized for forfeiture are held.

Abbott’s trial on these allegations concluded on August 15th in front of Middlesex Circuit Court Judge Paul Sheridan.

Ohh.....but he was only conviocted of bribery.

What other hijinx has O.F. been at in the meantime?

The Middlesex County prosecutor has asked Sheriff Guy L. Abbott to explain a drug bust that went awry when armed deputies burst into the wrong home and ordered a 50-year-old woman to the floor.

“We moved out of Richmond to get away from this stuff,” said Estelle Newcomb as she described the Oct. 26 incident that has left her shaken and dismayed.

“I can understand them trying to clean up” the county of drug traffickers, she said, “but, my God, leave innocent people alone!”

The Sheriff’s Department drug unit rebounded from its misstep the next night and raided its intended target, a trailer about 200 yards from Newcomb’s mobile home.

The police made two arrests there and confiscated a half pound of marijuana they valued at $2,800.

But, by last week, the mistake had become the talk of the county, which was no small feat considering many residents were preoccuppied with preparations for the 40,000 people expected at the Urbanna Oyster Festival, which ended yesterday.

“I’ve heard a lot of grumbling about it,” said Fred Crittenden, a long-time member of the Board of Supervisors.

Worse yet for Abbott, it didn’t take a very long memory to recall a similar snafu in July. That time, the local drug task force made headlines when authorities in a helicopter thought they had landed in a Middlesex County marijuana patch only to find tomato plants and one very frightened gardener.

“The National Guard pilot called that, but I’ll take the blame for it,” Abbot said of the summer miscue.

[Protobuilder]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/st-pa ... g-door-rai

Not enough hatred going to these guys.

But on the night of July 13, 2010, the task force broke down the Francos' doors, "negligently raided the home of plaintiffs, by raiding the wrong home and physically brutalizing all the above-named occupants of said house," the complaint states.

Even after learning that they were in the wrong house, the complaint states, the drug busters stayed in the Francos' home and kept searching it.

They "handcuffed all of the inhabitants of the plaintiffs' home except plaintiff Analese Franco who was forced, virtually naked, from her bed onto the floor at gunpoint by officers of the St. Paul Police Department SWAT team and officers of the St. Paul Police Department."

The complaint states: "Upon forcibly breaching the plaintiffs' home, defendants terrorized the plaintiffs at gun and rifle point.

"Each plaintiff was forced to the floor at gun and rifle point and handcuffed behind their backs.

"Defendants shot and killed the family dog and forced the handcuffed children to sit next to the carcass of their dead pet and bloody pet for more than an hour while defendants continued to search the plaintiffs' home."

One child "was kicked in the side, handcuffed and searched at gunpoint," the family says.

Another child, a girl, "a diabetic, was handcuffed at gunpoint and prevented by officer from obtaining and taking her medication, thus induced a diabetic episode as a result of low-blood sugar levels."

Shawn Scovill of the taskforce may have raided the wrong house, but he didn't want to let the opportunity to rifle through someone's things go to waste. So he and his team ransacked the Franco house for over an hour, and managed to find a .22 caliber pistol in the "basement bedroom of Gilbert Castillo," which the suit says they attributed to the head of the Franco household, Roberto Franco. According to the suit, Franco was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm, and remains behind bars.

[Protobuilder]

Obama doesn't realize that Congress only gave him power to assassinate US citizens without question when they step outside of US borders. Doesn't mean that he doesn't want the power though.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/19/obama ... use-of-vio

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the DEA’s use of force against the 11-year-old and 14-year-old daughters of Thomas and Rosalie Avina--which included putting a gun to the youngest girl's head--was “excessive,” “unreasonable,” and constituted “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

Attorneys for the Obama administration defended the raid, and Reason has obtained the brief the DOJ filed to the Ninth Circuit. In it, the Obama administration argues that “the DEA agents’ conduct was plainly reasonable under the circumstances.”

After subduing their parents, agents broke into the two girls’ bedrooms during a wrong-door raid in January, 2007. The oldest of the two girls dropped to the floor and was handcuffed by agents before being dragged into the living room and laid next to her mom and dad. The 11-year-old, however, was sleeping when agents came into her room. As they began to shout at her to “get on the fucking ground,” the girl woke up and “froze in fear.” Agents then dragged her from her bed to the floor. One agent handcuffed her while another aimed a gun at her head.

Should the DEA be held unaccountable, at the very least, for raiding the wrong house? The Obama administration says no:

Unless the victim of a wrong-door raid can prove that the mistake was an act of malice--it is almost never that--there is absolutely no legal recourse for suffering the shock-and-awe of a wrong-door raid.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Post of the Week to Terry....

In your honor.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jy04ACD030[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5gRIud57jQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuY-d6-sp5Q[/youtube]

[Pinky]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/st-pa ... g-door-rai

Not enough hatred going to these guys.

Every cop involved in this sort of raid, including the fuckwads that ordered it, should be fired. All of their future salary and benefits (including pension) should then go to the family.

[Protobuilder]