Officer Friendly.

[milosz]

http://gawker.com/texas-cops-go-to-wron ... -925332964

Two rookie cops responding to a burglary call accidentally went to the wrong Fort Worth house and ended up shooting the homeowner due to "poor lighting," a police affidavit claims.

Despite being sent to investigate a possible break-in at 409 Havenwood Lane, Officers B.B. Hanlon and R.P. Hoeppner "inadvertently began searching" [PDF] across the street at 404 Havenwood instead.

The early morning hours of May 28th provided little natural light for the officers, and the affidavit says there was "no lighting around the home" of 72-year-old Jerry Waller and his wife Kathy, "and the officers had only the use of their flashlights."

Facts get a bit murky after that.

The officers allege that they encountered Waller standing outside his garage with a .38-caliber handgun, and identified themselves. They insist they only shot Waller after he pointed the gun at them.

But Waller's family tells a different story.

"My father never stepped outside of his garage," Waller's son Chris told the Star-Telegram shortly after the shooting. "He was shot multiple times in the chest only a few steps away from the doorway to his kitchen."

The only facts not in dispute are that Waller was shot six times in his own home by two police officers who shouldn't have been on his property to begin with.

"Married 46 years, and then somebody gets a little trigger-happy and away they go," Kathy told WFAA back in May.

According to her version of events, Jerry stepped outside after noticing suspicious bright lights shining outside their bedroom window.

She said she heard some yelling, followed almost immediately by gunshots.

A police department spokesperson said an internal investigation was ongoing. Meanwhile, both Hanlon and Hoeppner have resumed full-time duty.

[TerryB]

Those cops go out to do a hard job every day.

Every time they get in their cruiser they think, will I make it home today?

We owe them a debt of gratitude for their service.

[T200]

[T200]

[DrDonkeyLove]

Looks like a loving mom. I bet she makes sure that her boys in the joint always have cigs.

[milosz]

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archiv ... last-night

[Protobuilder]

Police fire 15 rounds at man in own driveway...and blame him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/fl ... index.html

[Batboy2/75]

Police fire 15 rounds at man in own driveway...and blame him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/fl ... index.html

The dip shit local voters will hold absolutely no one responsible. As a cop; you have to be criminally negligent on such a massive scale to be charged with a crime, it's mind boggling. You can basically shoot whom ever you want, when ever you want.

Except if there is video. Which explains why police are trying so hard to have laws passed that prevent regular citizens from filming them.

[Protobuilder]

Police fire 15 rounds at man in own driveway...and blame him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/fl ... index.html

The dip shit local voters will hold absolutely no one responsible. As a cop; you have to be criminally negligent on such a massive scale to be charged with a crime, it's mind boggling. You can basically shoot whom ever you want, when ever you want.

Except if there is video. Which explains why police are trying so hard to have laws passed that prevent regular citizens from filming them.

I'm not much of a gun guy but if you have a pair of cops close enough to a guy near retirement age that they fear he is going to come for them and they fire 15 rounds, shouldn't they hit him more than twice?

[johno]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0gyNxM0aDk[/youtube]

[baffled]

Police fire 15 rounds at man in own driveway...and blame him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/fl ... index.html

The dip shit local voters will hold absolutely no one responsible. As a cop; you have to be criminally negligent on such a massive scale to be charged with a crime, it's mind boggling. You can basically shoot whom ever you want, when ever you want.

Except if there is video. Which explains why police are trying so hard to have laws passed that prevent regular citizens from filming them.

I'm not much of a gun guy but if you have a pair of cops close enough to a guy near retirement age that they fear he is going to come for them and they fire 15 rounds, shouldn't they hit him more than twice?

Yeah, probably. Cops are notoriously inaccurate, but under stressful conditions it's somewhat understandable. Sounds like this was more of a target practice situation and both failed.

Also, there's this recent gem:http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013 ... lice-taser

When John Wrana was a young man, fit and strong and fighting in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps, did he ever think he'd end this way?

Just a few weeks shy of his 96th birthday, in need of a walker to move about, cops coming through the door of his retirement home with a Taser and a shotgun.

The old man, described by a family member as "wobbly" on his feet, had refused medical attention. The paramedics were called. They brought in the Park Forest police.

First they tased him, but that didn't work. So they fired a shotgun, hitting him in the stomach with a bean-bag round. Wrana was struck with such force that he bled to death internally, according to the Cook County medical examiner.

"The Japanese military couldn't get him at the age he was touchable, in a uniform in the war. It took 70 years later for the Park Forest police to do the job," Wrana's family attorney, Nicholas Grapsas, a former prosecutor, said in an interview with me Thursday.

...
And after doing some digging, I found there are two versions of events: The police version, and a new picture that raises questions of whether John Wrana was killed unnecessarily.

The Park Forest police version is that on the night of July 26, John Wrana, a resident of the Victory Centre senior living facility, threatened staff and paramedics with a 2-foot-long metal shoehorn and a metal cane. The police statement neglects to mention that the old man also used a walker, at least according to photographs supplied by Grapsas.

"Attempts were made verbally to have the resident comply with demands to drop the articles, to no avail," the police statement reads. "The resident then armed himself with a 12-inch butcher type kitchen knife."

But lawyer Grapsas says that Wrana's family never saw a knife in his room and that staff also told him Wrana didn't have such a knife.

...
But according to Maria Oliva, an executive with Pathway Senior Living, the staff was kept out of the room after police arrived. So there was no imminent threat to staff.

"The staff was not inside once the police were on the scene," Oliva told us. "At different times the staff were in there, but not when they were called. They (the police) were in charge at that point."

Police said there had been threats made against the staff. But Grapsas said he was told that staff begged to be allowed to try to calm down the old man.

Won't accept medical attention, 95 and unable to walk with any real stability on his feet, shoot him with a beanbag shotgun AFTER tasing him. Seems legit.

[milosz]

Sometimes it's hard to tell The Onion is fiction:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/insecu ... ove,33427/
"Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement"

[baffled]

A Baltimore police detective who claimed he was shot by another man and sought worker’s compensation has been convicted of perjury and fraud.

A Baltimore Circuit Court jury also convicted Anthony N. Fata Wednesday of misconduct in office. Sentencing is set for Oct. 21.

Fata, a 14-year veteran, said he was shot on Jan. 18, 2011 in a garage near police headquarters by another man and returned fire. He suffered a graze wound to his thigh.

Prosecutors say Fata shot himself to obtain worker’s compensation benefits.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/08/2 ... -shooting/

[Protobuilder]

Tons of source of friendly behavior in the comments.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... n=20130823

[The Crawdaddy]

hmmm... have a hard time not thinking this is ok...

[Sua Sponte]

hmmm... have a hard time not thinking this is ok...

Love the camouflage. The militarization of police in this country is ripe for congressional investigation. And the guy's body language and facial expression clearly show he feels in mortal danger-well, at least of being caught on film.

[Turdacious]

Great pattern for BOSNIA.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/08/navy- ... st-at-sea/

[The Crawdaddy]

The militarization of police in this country is ripe for congressional investigation.

The ironicals in this statement are almost overwhelming. Like asking a 5 year old to guard the cookie jar. One is hoping you were being sarcastic.

[Turdacious]

More trouble in Vegas.
Background: http://www.irongarmx.net/phpBB2/viewtop ... &start=600

Crystal Williams first told her story to the I-Team in May. Williams said marshals detained her for having a traffic warrant. She also said that she was handcuffed into a restraint chair, and they put a spit guard on her.

Even though the 110-pound woman was fully restrained, marshal's lieutenant Steve Rushfield allegedly choked Williams, telling her, "you're in my house now."

Lieutenant Rushfield resigned his supervisor's positions after the I-Team story aired. Now, Williams hopes her testimony to a federal grand jury will make a difference.

"I feel good about the whole thing. Letting it all out, so somebody can actually hear what happened to me and get it all off of my chest instead of keep holding it in," Williams said.

Within weeks, the federal grand jury is also expected to hear from Monica Contreras. She claims a family court marshal sexually assaulted her inside the courthouse.

The I-Team revealed Contreras' claim was validated by an internal affairs investigation. That incident was allegedly covered up by former marshal's lieutenant Steve Rushfield, the same marshal who is accused of choking Crystal Williams.

Grand jury testimony is secret, but this case is causing turmoil at local courthouses. Sources close to the investigation are beginning to look into whether court administration was willing to act on these internal affairs investigations.

One telling factor, Monica Conteras heard not from court administration that her case was deemed validated, she heard it from the I-Team, two years after it happened.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/23126501/ ... -testifies

Contreras was the woman who got felt up by a male court marshal and arrested for requesting to be searched in the presence of a female court marshal.

[Protobuilder]

SWAT decides to fire through door to kill 107-year old.

Yes, they knew that it was a 107-year old and nobody else in the room.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/08/justi ... ?hpt=hp_t3

[Protobuilder]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tyDTfu4JY[/youtube]

[Turdacious]

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

[Gene]

MERCED, CALIFORNIA – Merced Police are reportedly taking injured animals out to the shooting range and shooting them according to a report filed by CBS13. Animal rights activists are questioning whether this is the most humane solution to put down pets who are suffering from injuries.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/cops- ... jPQXT-nnHZ

[milosz]

I'm sure the cops are fucking it up or shooting animals who aren't deserving of it, but a well-placed shot is just as humane as a vet's needle for euthanasia.

[Gene]

I'm sure the cops are fucking it up or shooting animals who aren't deserving of it, but a well-placed shot is just as humane as a vet's needle for euthanasia.

Bullshit. People who use living creatures for "target practice" are fucked in the head. Don't excuse it because it's "as humane as a needle".