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In another incident of cops behaving badly and being caught on video, an officer was caught during a traffic stop in Houston telling a woman he ordered out of the car to, “Put your hands up. Over your head! Pretend like we’re going to shoot you.”

Those jokers

https://www.theroot.com/houston-cop-...e_Root_twitter

05-23-2018 , 10:13 AM

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Another time video evidence helped exonerate an officer

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A Dallas attorney has apologized for his client's claims that she was sexually assaulted by a Texas Department of Safety officer who pulled her over, after the agency released body camera footage of the arrest late Tuesday.

The woman's allegations drew widespread attention after they were shared on Twitter by prominent columnist and activist Shaun King, who has since deleted the tweet. She had said the DPS trooper pulled her over in Ellis County early Sunday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, repeatedly offered to let her go in exchange for sexual favors and sexually assaulted her when she declined, according to a statement from attorney Lee Merritt.

Nearly two hours of body camera footage shows the woman, 37-year-old Sherita Dixon-Cole of Grapevine, being pulled over, performing a field sobriety test and being handcuffed and booked into the Ellis County jail. She was released Sunday night after posting bond.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elli...ampaign=buffer

05-24-2018 , 02:03 AM

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Does anyone think Shaun King shouldn't have deleted the tweet?

Deleting eliminates bad optics and doesn't permanently give ammo to those who want to discredit him.

Not deleting shows him as honest if he admits this person lied about police misconduct and he was mistaken to post the tweet. Perhaps even better, he goes hard to the paint on the liar in an effort to get people to understand it makes it harder to call out police brutality with credibility if we have idiots like these making the real victims look less credible in the eyes of public perception.

Thoughts?

05-27-2018 , 05:13 PM

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/vid...thalyzer-test/

05-27-2018 , 05:35 PM

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Weinman says that she refused to give him her name out of fear.

"This never would have happened if she just cooperated" - Inso0

05-27-2018 , 05:43 PM

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"I don't understand why people are scared of cops. I'm an affluent white male and they're really nice to me."

05-29-2018 , 06:45 PM

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05-29-2018 , 07:50 PM

#5683

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Wtf?

First just wtf? over putting a t-shirt on over a police uniform.

05-31-2018 , 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dth123451

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/vid...thalyzer-test/

Just read about this and feel like it didn't get enough coverage.

Absolutely ridiculous.

05-31-2018 , 09:54 AM

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dat sweet justice

05-31-2018 , 10:00 AM

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On the bright side the US's inability to take any meaningful action on climate change ensures that a significant number of these Floridians have a horrible, horrible fate awaiting them.

05-31-2018 , 10:02 AM

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Originally it was $4 but it was knocked down to 4 cents. No joke.

05-31-2018 , 10:54 AM

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Originally it was $4 but it was knocked down to 4 cents. No joke.

Yup, they gave his family $1 for funeral expenses and $1 for each child he left behind but then since they believed the cop was only 1% at fault they gave him 1% of $4.

05-31-2018 , 01:44 PM

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Yup, they gave his family $1 for funeral expenses and $1 for each child he left behind but then since they believed the cop was only 1% at fault they gave him 1% of $4.

I don't understand how the bolded is remotely possible. I've been through this process in CA (dunno how federal process might differ), where you determine what percent responsibility each party has and what damages should be without modifying for perceived responsibility. Coming up with emotional damages is extremely hard and they didn't give us ~any guidelines for how to do it, but funeral expenses? lmao that's a concrete thing you have a bill for, there's no excuse for coming up with one dollar. None.

Only thing I can think of is an extremely racist jury.

05-31-2018 , 01:59 PM

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Prosecutors dropped the cases against six activists accused of rioting outside President Donald Trump’s inauguration, after those prosecutors admitted to breaking court rules by hiding from defendants dozens of videos from right-wing video outlet Project Veritas.

The defendants were among approximately 200 people charged with conspiracy riot after sweeping mass-arrests at protests in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017. Prosecutors made their case for conspiracy based in part on videos from Project Veritas, which filmed some activists discussing their plans for an Inauguration Day protest. But U.S. attorneys edited a video to appear more damaging to defendants, then passed the video off as undoctored, prosecutors admitted last week. And in a Wednesday email to a judge, prosecutors admitted to hiding another 69 videos, which they had been required to disclose.

Lol, they used a right wing video as evidence but hide the rest of the videos

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-d...a=twitter_page

05-31-2018 , 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Lol, they used a right wing video as evidence but hide the rest of the videos

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-d...a=twitter_page

Doctoring a video to put people in prison sounds like something they should be prosecuted for, but I guess having to drop a case is all the "punishment" prosecutors can face here.

05-31-2018 , 02:26 PM

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Can you file a complaint against prosecutors with the Bar Association or only through formal government channels? Do prosecutors ever get disbarred without being arrested or do you have to co-mingle client and firm funds to lose your law license, prosecutorial misconduct is A-OK?

06-01-2018 , 06:11 PM

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i've seen them filed against prosecutors. prosecutor misconduct is a violation of the rules of professional responsibility.

the case i was aware of was that a prosecutor alleged in court in front of a judge and defense attorney that he had a cooperating witness ready and waiting to testify trying to induce a guilty plea, when in reality that witness had specifically recanted and informed said prosecutor she was not testifying.

the da's office thought that was a totally valid strategy akin to bluffing. nothing came of the complaint.

06-01-2018 , 08:19 PM

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I am absolutely certain that right wing prosecutors are allowed any sort of dishonest tactics if it is done for the purpose of prosecuting anti american leftwing cutlural marxists who are by definition criminals.

06-03-2018 , 12:30 AM

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06-04-2018 , 05:48 PM

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Update on the both sides made mistakes take in the Sterling Brown arrest

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The latest videos from WISN-TV show one officer needlessly stepping on Brown’s ankle while he is pinned face down on the asphalt and handcuffed. Other officers express concern about their actions only after realizing the “media firestorm” they were sure to create because Brown plays for the Bucks. And to put a cherry on top of these shameful How Not To Police videos, another officer laughs about their use of a Taser while singing The O’Jays “For the Love of Money” on a call requesting overtime pay.

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“You’re stepping on my ankle, for what?” asked Brown, whose ankles are his livelihood.

“So you don’t kick us,” the officer said.

“I ain’t got no reason to kick y’all, man,” added Brown. He made no attempts to kick the officers.

That’s when another officer asked, “Are you a Bucks player, man?”

And that’s the moment you know just how horrible their actions are, because that’s the moment they start to realize that they might not be able to get away with the same brutality they can with someone who doesn’t play for the Bucks, someone who wouldn’t have the same mouthpiece as an NBA player.

We know this because another WISN-TV video showed this exchange between three officers:

“The bureau is coming out for this?”

“We’re trying to protect ourselves.”

“Because he’s a Bucks player?”

“Because he plays for the Bucks, if he makes a complaint, it’s going to be a [expletive] media firestorm.”

“Oh yeah.”

“And then any little [expletive] thing that goes wrong is going to be, ‘Ooh, the Milwaukee Police Department is all racist … blah, blah, blah.'”

videos in the link

https://sports.yahoo.com/video-shows...170653832.html

06-06-2018 , 10:42 AM

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06-06-2018 , 11:09 AM

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What the absolute ****

06-06-2018 , 11:32 AM

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jesus thats bad

06-06-2018 , 12:43 PM

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That incident is in my area. Extended video at link- worth watching the last 20 sec for extra wtf factor. Police chief:

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"I don't feel that our officers were at their best," Batista told the Arizona Republic . "I don't feel this situation needed to go the way that it went. ... The images of the video are powerful and I thought it was paramount that you hear it from me with respect to how I feel about it and what I'm going to do to ensure this doesn't happen again."

"This in no way represents the whole work that is done every day," Batista told another TV station. "They're human beings and certainly at first glance, this looks like a mistake."

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/...video-10477416

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