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Some of the females are hot. They have something else to offer.Blaidd Drwg wrote:milosz wrote:I generally hate cops, but I hate the fucktards who bait them to make a cheap point even more.
Have you met any law students lately? It's really all they have to offer.
"A good man always knows his limitations..." -- "Dirty" Harry CallahanBlaidd Drwg wrote:90% of the people lifting in gyms are doing it on "feel" and what they really "feel" like is being a lazy fuck.
The Crawdaddy wrote:Some of the females are hot. They have something else to offer.Blaidd Drwg wrote:milosz wrote:I generally hate cops, but I hate the fucktards who bait them to make a cheap point even more.
Have you met any law students lately? It's really all they have to offer.
No comment."A good man always knows his limitations..." -- "Dirty" Harry CallahanBlaidd Drwg wrote:90% of the people lifting in gyms are doing it on "feel" and what they really "feel" like is being a lazy fuck.
You're an ASS!syaigh wrote: The thought of eating that giant veiny monstrosity makes me want to barf.
The long-standing, heavily documented militarization of even small-town American police forces was always going to create problems when it met anonymous Internet threats. And so it has, again—this time in Evansville, Indiana, where officers acted on some Topix postings threatening violence against local police. They then sent an entire SWAT unit to execute a search warrant on a local house, one in which the front door was open and an 18-year old woman sat inside watching TV.
The cops brought along TV cameras, inviting a local reporter to film the glorious operation. In the resulting video, you can watch the SWAT team, decked out in black bulletproof vests and helmets and carrying window and door smashers, creep slowly up to the house.
On the news that night, the reporter ends his piece by talking about how this is "an investigation that hits home for many of these brave officers."
But the family in the home was released without any charges as police realized their mistake. Turns out the home had an open WiFi router, and the threats had been made by someone outside the house. Whoops.
Pedestrian thrown in jail for 12 hours for holding up sign warning drivers about police speed trap
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 19:07 EST, 27 June 2012 | UPDATED: 19:08 EST, 27 June 2012
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A woman in Houston, Texas, was arrested and jailed for 12 hours after she held up a make-shift sign to warn drivers about a speed trap.
Natalie Plummer was officially charged with walking in the roadway -- jaywalking, essentially -- though she says the police officers who arrested her were just angry that she had tipped off speeders.
Miss Plummer was riding her bicycle along a road near downtown Houston on Thursday when she spotted police officers pulling drivers over.
She told KTRK that it looked like the officers were targeting cars at random, so she recorded some the activity on her cell phone.
Then, she said, she turned around and wrote 'Speed Trap!!' in large letters on a piece of grocery bag to warn oncoming traffic.
'I was simply warning citizens of a situation ahead,' she told the TV station.
The officers didn't see it that way. Shortly after she took up her post, a squad car pulled up to Miss Plummer and an officer grabbed her backpack off her shoulder and began rifling through it.
Then, he handcuffed her and told her she was under arrested for felony obstruction of justice and that she would spent three to five years in jail, at minimum.
She ended up being charged with misdemeanor 'walking in the road where a sidewalk is present,' through she was in jail 12 hours before she was able to bail out.
Miss Plummer said she wasn't obstructing justice, and she wasn't in the roadway, either -- she was on the sidwalk.
'He couldn't take me to jail for holding up this sign or he would have. So all he could do was make up something fake about it,' she said.
The Houston Police Department wouldn't speak on camera about the arrest, but stood by the officer's report that she was walking in the road and a danger to herself and others.
A KTRK legal analyst says Miss Plummer should not have been arrested.
The Crawdaddy wrote:Some of the females are hot. They have something else to offer.Blaidd Drwg wrote:milosz wrote:I generally hate cops, but I hate the fucktards who bait them to make a cheap point even more.
Have you met any law students lately? It's really all they have to offer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... t-man.htmlA high-flying attorney worked as a prostitute and offered to perform a sex act on a man for $50, officials say.
Reema Bajaj, 25, was linked to prostitution by police who were investigating a separate case involving child pornography.
The law expert is said to have met with a sex customer within 1,000ft of a school during August 2010, said DeKalb police Sgt. Bob Redel.
Bajaj, from Sycamore, Chicago, pleaded not guilty last week, according to her attorney David Camic of Aurora.
She is charged with two misdemeanours and one felony count, officials said
Florida, the corruptshine state.Shapecharge wrote:This is so outrageous it's actually hilarious.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/flo ... 46089.html
A suspended Florida police officer—who's been fired six times over the years for alleged misconduct, only to be reinstated—says he's the victim of a "witch hunt" and wants to go back to work, even though he's being paid $60,000 a year to stay home.
Since becoming an officer in 1990, Sgt. German Bosque of the Opa-locka Police Department "has been disciplined, suspended, fined and sent home with pay more than any officer in the state," according to the Miami Herald.
Bosque—who has been accused of "cracking the head of a handcuffed suspect, beating juveniles, hiding drugs in his police car, stealing from suspects, defying direct orders and lying and falsifying police reports"—was suspended with pay in May after he allowed a newspaper reporter to ride along in his patrol car without permission. (During the ride-along, Bosque told the reporter, "I'm an excellent police officer, but I break the rules.")
According to his lawyer, Bosque wants to return to duty "rather than sleeping late and watching telenovelas and 'Cops' reruns."
In 1990, he was tossed out of the Miami-Dade Police Academy after being arrested for impersonating a police officer, auto theft and possession of a firearm. In 1992, after graduating from the Polk County Police Academy, he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
"Back then I was a big hot dog," Bosque told Herald. He became a full-time officer in Opa-locka in 1993.
In 1994, four people in a stolen car Bosque was following were killed in a high-speed chase that crashed outside Opa-locka. "Questions were raised about whether he was pursuing the vehicle against department policy," the paper said. In 1998, he was suspended twice for unauthorized police pursuits. The same year, Bosque called in sick with "food poisoning." He was on vacation in Cancun, Mexico.
More from the Herald's profile, "The South Florida cop who won't stay fired":
It seemed, in spite of all his past misconduct, there was nothing Bosque could do to lose his badge.
Opa-locka inexplicably dropped the ball on almost all the internal affairs complaints on Bosque. He was fired after police found cocaine in his police vehicle, but appealed and managed to keep his police certification and his job.
In February 2008, Bosque's questionable behavior took another turn when the state attorney's office began noticing that key drug evidence in some of his cases was missing. His police car was inspected, and investigators found an empty Smirnoff vodka bottle, a small bag of cocaine, crack pipes, Florida license plates, a pile of driver's licenses he had seized, along with a stack of arrest reports he had never turned in. But the state attorney declined to prosecute, saying there was no evidence of criminal intent, and Bosque was back out on the street.
As the Herald noted, the Opa-locka Police Department has a long history of corruption. Its current chief, Cheryl Cason, tested positive for cocaine and was placed on probation in 1995. In 2011, Cason was suspended after "failing to tell the city that she had had a crash with her city-owned car."
Cason called Bosque a "time bomb that has now exploded."
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/03/ ... ice-stops/New Jersey’s branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken its mission of policing the police to smartphones.
The ACLU has released an app called “Police Tape” that lets users secretly record police stops.
The ACLU’s Alexander Shalom said the app is easy to use.
“There’s really only three buttons that the user needs to deal with,” Shalom said. “There’s a know your rights button that educates the citizen about their rights when encountering police on the street, in a car, in their home or when they’re going to be placed under arrest, and there’s a button to record audio and a button to record video.”
Denver cop Derrick Saunders was caught doing 143 MPH in a 55 — while legally drunk (.089 BAC). The repercussions? A 42 day suspension. At first, he was at least fired. But Saunders, who like a lot of cops apparently does not believe that “speed kills” when he is the one speeding — appealed his firing. And the police union backed him up. To repeat: a drunk cop doing 143 MPH in a 55 is demanding his job back. And the police union is helping him get his job back.
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/24/police ... drivi.htmlSaunders previously had been cleared of pointing a gun at a McDonald's employee in Aurora in 2009. The employee said Saunders, an officer assigned to Denver International Airport, grew impatient when his order wasn’t filled fast enough. He was in the drive-thru with another off-duty officer when he pulled the gun on them on May 2009, according to the McDonald's workers.
Florida Police Knock on Wrong Door at 1:30 a.m. Without Identifying Themselves, Then Fatally Shoot Armed Resident
Lucy Steigerwald | July 16, 2012
Via Instapundit comes the news that deputies in Lake County, Florida, early on July 15, fatally shot a man named Andrew Lee Scott. Deputies say they didn't identify themselves as police when they knocked on Scott's apartment door at 1:30 a.m. They also say that when Scott, 26, answered while armed with gun drawn, they immediately opened fire and killed Scott in his own doorway. His girlfriend was present in the apartment.
Police had been following a suspect in an an attempted murder, a man named Johnathan Brown who they trailed to Scott's apartment complex, and who had parked his motorcycle right outside. An hour and a half after killing Scott, police realized they had killed the wrong man. They soon found Brown in an adjacent apartment, as well as another man involved in the scuffle that had seen Brown attempt to bludgeon a man in the head with a cinder block.
According to Wesh.com Orlando, police are admitting the disturbing facts, but not any negligence:
"When we knocked on the door, the door opened and the occupant of that apartment was pointing a gun at deputies and that's when we opened fire and killed him," Lt. John Herrell said.
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"It's just a bizarre set of circumstances. The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you're going to get shot," Herrell said.
The above reports the the basics, as did most outlets, but Central Florida News 13 irritatingly decided to go with a lede of "A Lake County man with a criminal history is dead after a confrontation with deputies." Ten grafs down, they mention that Scott's criminal record was...for drug offenses. Drugs and paraphernalia were indeed found in his apartment. News 13's headline also describes the victim as a "a man with a criminal history," which, though accurate, seems a bit beside the point in these circumstances. In spite of his apparent drug use, Fox News Tampa interviewed neighbors of Scott who said he was a nice guy as they criticized police actions.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is looking into the shooting.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19059416/2 ... egal-candyTwo Seattle men say they spent more than two hours in a detention center at the Canadian border after U.S. border agents discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their car.
Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney told KOMO they decided to bring home some treats for friends and family during a recent trip to Vancouver, British Columbia. They bought Kinder Eggs — chocolate eggs with a toy inside.
The two men say border guards searched their car and said the eggs are illegal in the United States because young children could choke on the small plastic toys. Importing them can lead to a potentially hefty fine.
Sweeney says one border guard said they could be fined $2,500 per egg. The pair said they could have faced a $15,000 fine.
WildGorillaMan wrote:Enthusiasm combined with no skill whatsoever can sometimes carry the day.
