SmarterthanYou
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* Franklin New Hampshire police are accused of raiding an apartment and holding a 10-year-old boy at gunpoint while ordering the boy’s mom on the floor in an apparent wrong door raid. Well, to be more precise, the police raided the address on the warrant, but the people living there weren’t the people they were looking for because, apparently, the wrong address was put on the warrant. The woman wants an apology but none have been forthcoming, she speculates that maybe they wanted the apartment above her’s.
the police AND the city are being very quiet on this incident on the advice of their attorneys. guess they both screwed up and our trying to cover their asses.
* A North Carolina State trooper has filed an appeal with the court to get his job back claiming that his being fired was unfair. Why was he fired? He was charged with animal cruelty after trapped the neighbor’s 5-month-old kitten and shot it to death for walking on his cars.
* Several Los Angeles California police officers are under investigation after they were accused of harassing and attacking cyclists during a critical mass BP protest ride. Some of the alleged attacks were captured on video, showing an officer attempt to kick a bike out from underneath a moving cyclist… until the person videotaping it was tackled himself. Before the video is shut off after the camera was knocked to the ground it shows two officers standing with batons drawn giving the person contradictory “get up” and “stay down” commands at the same time.
videotaping police, in public, doing their official duties is not illegal. they should be fired and charged for civil rights violations.
* A New Orleans Louisiana police officer was suspended without after he was arrested on allegations that he went to the post office where his wife works and assaulted her after threatening her and a friend. He’s been charged with trespassing on government property, battery, and domestic battery.
* Maryland police appear to be continuing to arrest and charge people for violating wiretap laws for recording police officers in public even though court rulings suggest that the practice is illegal. So says Radley Balko in his piece at Reason Magazine’s Hit & Run blog.
* The Provincetown Massachusetts police department is being sued by a radio host and his partner who allege that they were subjected to excessive force and false charges when they were arrested at a house party that the host was playing DJ for. They were apparently arrested for resisting arrest over a noise complaint but say they turned down the music when asked and didn’t resist. He suggests they may have been targeted over their sexual orientation.resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges are very common place when police arrest people who have committed no crimes.
* A Buffalo Grove Illinois police officer and an FBI agent, both retired, have been named in a false arrest and malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by a police officer who spent 19 years in prison on a kidnapping charge until he was exonerated.
the police AND the city are being very quiet on this incident on the advice of their attorneys. guess they both screwed up and our trying to cover their asses.
* A North Carolina State trooper has filed an appeal with the court to get his job back claiming that his being fired was unfair. Why was he fired? He was charged with animal cruelty after trapped the neighbor’s 5-month-old kitten and shot it to death for walking on his cars.
* Several Los Angeles California police officers are under investigation after they were accused of harassing and attacking cyclists during a critical mass BP protest ride. Some of the alleged attacks were captured on video, showing an officer attempt to kick a bike out from underneath a moving cyclist… until the person videotaping it was tackled himself. Before the video is shut off after the camera was knocked to the ground it shows two officers standing with batons drawn giving the person contradictory “get up” and “stay down” commands at the same time.
videotaping police, in public, doing their official duties is not illegal. they should be fired and charged for civil rights violations.
* A New Orleans Louisiana police officer was suspended without after he was arrested on allegations that he went to the post office where his wife works and assaulted her after threatening her and a friend. He’s been charged with trespassing on government property, battery, and domestic battery.
* Maryland police appear to be continuing to arrest and charge people for violating wiretap laws for recording police officers in public even though court rulings suggest that the practice is illegal. So says Radley Balko in his piece at Reason Magazine’s Hit & Run blog.
* The Provincetown Massachusetts police department is being sued by a radio host and his partner who allege that they were subjected to excessive force and false charges when they were arrested at a house party that the host was playing DJ for. They were apparently arrested for resisting arrest over a noise complaint but say they turned down the music when asked and didn’t resist. He suggests they may have been targeted over their sexual orientation.resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges are very common place when police arrest people who have committed no crimes.
* A Buffalo Grove Illinois police officer and an FBI agent, both retired, have been named in a false arrest and malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by a police officer who spent 19 years in prison on a kidnapping charge until he was exonerated.