CA woman slaps cop so she could go to jail to quit smoking

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Think you’ve heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn’t allowed.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_STOP_SMOKING_ARREST…

Boston Top Cop: Feds never shared warnings about bomber

Boston and Massachusetts law enforcement officials confirmed Thursday that federal agents left them in the dark on the growing warning signs about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the run-up to the Boston Marathon bombing.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, in testimony on Capitol Hill, said his officers on a joint terrorism task force were never told about an explicit warning from the Russian government or about Tsarnaev’s travel to the Chechnya region last [...]

Warning from Suspect’s Father: ‘If they killed him, then all hell would break loose’

The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed “all hell will break loose.”

Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night [...]

POLICE SCANNER: Trigger found on body; At-large bomber ‘may be wearing suicide vest’…

LIVE: COPS SURROUND BUILDING…

http://www.myfoxboston.com/category/262392/boston-marathon

COP ON SCANNER: ‘He is posting online — “I will kill all of you, as you killed my brother” ‘…

Developing…

No charges against cop who put camera in school restroom

Police State Raids Family’s Home: “The Fight Has Officially Been Brought To My Front Door”

Mac Slavo
March 20th, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

 

When certified firearms instructor Shawn Moore posted a photo of his 11 year-old son on Facebook the last thing he expected was a SWAT style raid on his home. The picture showed his son, a licensed hunter, holding his new birthday gift, a .22 caliber rifle.

 

While Moore’s son proudly displaying his semi-automatic personal defense rifle was completely legal, an anonymous tipster contacted New Jersey’s Department of Children [...]

Dorner case: Women shot at by LAPD could get $40,000 payment soon

L.A. Times
March 15, 2013

Two women whose truck was riddled by police gunfire during the pursuit of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner could get a $40,000 cash settlement to replace their vehicle within the next few days, officials say.

It remains to be determined how much additional compensation they will receive for the incident.

City Atty. Carmen Trutanich and the women’s attorney, Glen Jonas, stressed Thursday that the deal to compensate the women for [...]

WATCH: Cop Assaults And Arrests Woman For Videotaping

New Police brutality- a Melbourne, Florida cop viciously attacks a 66 year old man for no reason-caught on dash-cam

Outrage as dozens of supporters of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner rally outside LAPD headquarters against police corruption

Dozens of protesters rallied outside Los Angeles police headquarters Saturday in support of Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer and suspected killer of four who died after a shootout and fire this week at a mountain cabin following one of the biggest manhunts in recent memory.

Protesters told the Los Angeles Times they didn’t support Dorner’s deadly methods, but objected to police corruption and brutality, and believed Dorner’s claims of racism and unfair [...]

For anyone traveling full time around the U.S. it is getting harder and harder to find places to park overnight for free.

There was a time a few years ago when I was young when state parks were free to get in and only charged a few dollars to camp. Now state and national parks charge an entrance fee, then a camping few plus tax. Usually ends up being over $25 a night.

Almost all public lands east of the Mississippi are fenced and charge a camping fee. Yes, you can park “anywhere”, [...]

EX-LAPD WANTED IN COP SHOOTINGS

A massive manhunt was underway Thursday morning for an ex-Los Angeles Police Department officer suspected of shooting three police officers early Thursday, one fatally. He is also a suspect in the shooting of a couple in Irvine over the weekend.

The suspect is believed to have written an online manifesto on what authorities say is his Facebook page, threatening to harm police officials and their families, law enforcement sources said.

Read more:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/ex-cop-alleged-goes-on-rampage-shooting-3-officers-killing-one.html

 

Lesbian Cop that fingered the two women in front of oncoming traffic fired

The female Texas trooper who performed a roadside cavity search on two women will be terminated, according to the Department of Public Safety.

The two women from Irving are suing Trooper David Farrell, Trooper Kelley Helleson and the director of the Department of Public Safety for what they call an unconstitutional search without probable cause.

DPS spokesman Tom Vinger released the following statement on Tuesday: “The Director of DPS has made a [...]

House Republicans Wave White Flag Without a Battle; Three Month Extension Approved, Threats Withdrawn; Ryan’s Cop-Out

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock

A friend of mine just emailed a story regarding a Republican budget cave-in with a message “you nailed it“. To be honest, I didn’t. Let’s review my precise call.

Politics of the Debate

Obama will chastise Congress with talk of financial Armageddon if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling.
Congress will pretend to hold the president hostage
The secretary of the Treasury will get into the act with its own [...]

SHOCKING: Cop elbow punches retarded woman in face on subway

A passenger on a bus recorded a Los Angeles cop punching a woman in the face who apparently hadn’t been violent while the camera rolled.

Jermaine Green, the man who taped the Monday night incident in Bellflower, told NBC LA that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who struck the woman threatened to arrest him if he didn’t hand over his camera phone.

The woman brought a stroller laden with pillows on [...]

The ethnic distribution of gun violence (95% black and Hispanic) in New York City (29% Hispanic, 26% black)

Jonathan Capehart runs into NYC’s top cop and discovers what any New Yorker knows from accounts of relatives and friends being robbed. Stats are available from the following NYC government website:

http://www.nyc.gov/…/crime_and_enforcement_activity.shtml
I ran into Police Commissioner Ray Kelly last week while dining at a favorite breakfast joint in New York. Since I still read the Daily News and the New York Post, I asked him about the increase in crime that [...]

CT. COP on Sandy Hook Inconsistencies: “THINGS DON’T ADD UP”

from SGTReport.com:

Firearms industry expert and part-time police officer Mark S. Mann (pseudonym) lives in Connecticut, just miles from the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. He’s been following the story closely, talking to cops he knows in the area and he will be reporting for us as this story develops. Mark says there are just too many inconsistencies with the ‘official’ story and “Things don’t add up.” As we all now know, [...]

WATCH: Cop Fired After Illegal Search Video Goes Viral

Video from Lexington, Kentucky last weekend shows a student setting up a camera before arguing with two campus police officers while refusing them entry to his dorm room.  The officers, who alleged alcohol had been dumped from the room’s window, demanded to search the premises for more alcohol but did not possess a warrant.

The 4th amendment action begins at the 3-minute mark.  The kid is no saint.

Fast Times at the [...]

Top Cop Lauds Significant Progress Fighting Crime

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s police superintendent says his department is making a significant dent in the city’s crime rate.

 

Police Supt. Garry McCarthy credits his policing strategies with a sharp reduction in crime compared with earlier this year.

“Since then, it’s definitely turned,” he said. “In fact, the murder rate is down to about 18 or 19 percent off of what it was last year, where earlier in the year, it was up [...]

Photo of NYPD cop giving winter boots to barefoot homeless man goes viral

A New York police officer’s spontaneous act of kindness has captured the praise of hundreds of thousands of people across the internet.

A tourist from Arizona captured a heartwarming photo of Lawrence Deprimo kneeling down to give a barefoot homeless man a pair of winter boots on a cold night earlier this month.

The NYPD posted the photo on its Facebook page, an effort to show the softer side of the nation’s [...]

Manhattan cop busted for shoplifting

A police officer was arrested for allegedly finding the best Black Friday deal in town — a five finger discount.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/cop_busted_in_shoplift

VIDEO: Woman Suffers Cardiac Arrest After Cop Tasers Her 3 Times During Traffic Sto

ENCINO (CBS2) — A video taken by the California Highway Patrol may be the first time a camera has captured all of the events leading up to a cardiac arrest following the use of a TASER® electronic control device.

On June 4, CHP officers stopped to check on the welfare of 50-year-old Angela Jones after finding her sitting in a parked vehicle on Haskell Avenue, near the Ventura (101) Freeway.

A camera mounted on [...]

Seattle Cop Fires On Mentally Disabled Man Wielding Legos

seattle.cbslocal.com
November 16, 2012

A Kings County Sheriff’s deputy has been put on administrative leave after being accused of shooting at a developmentally disabled man who was holding a toy gun.

The Seattle Times reports police got multiple calls about a man waving a gun at passing vehicles.

“The first deputy arrived minutes later and the man ignored her commands. When the man pulled the handgun from his waistband and raised it, the deputy [...]

COPS: Photo Of Man’s Tattoo On FACEBOOK Threatens Police Officer, Lands Him In Jail

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota man is in jail because of a Facebook picture of what police call a threatening tattoo.

Investigators say the tattoo on Antonio Jenkins’ arm is a death threat against a Minneapolis police officer.

“This is the first time I’ve heard of a case like this,” said department spokesman Sgt. Bill Palmer.

Investigators say 20-year-old Jenkins posted a picture of his tattoo on Facebook. It showed a pig with a [...]

Powerful New Video on New York City’s Stop-and-Frisk Policy

We’re really sliding over the precipice when this blatantly unconstitutional and invasive practice is tolerated in the largest city in the nation. Worse, its tolerance there would seem to make its spread inevitable.

NYPD Officers Stop-and-Frisk Teen ‘For Being a F****ing Mutt’

New York Magazine: A new documentary on the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactics includes jarring audio from one such search that neatly encapsulates everything critics say is wrong with the program. [...]

Cop Gets Five Years for Kicking In Door Without Warrant, Beating Man

Susan Welch
stltoday.com
October 6, 2012

A St. Charles County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Friday to serve five years in prison for breaking the law while he and other officers were at a Middletown, Mo., home to apprehend a wanted meth cook.

In August, a jury found Christopher E. Hunt, 38, guilty of felony burglary and misdemeanor counts of assault and property damage after a three-day trial that pitted police officer against police officer.

The [...]

REPORT: Detroit police chief traded promotion for sex

I got a call from Lieutenant Monique Patterson, the cop caught in the love triangle between former chief Warren Evans and Ralph Godbee two years ago.  She said she had some text messages showing that she had sex with Godbee in exchange for a promotion.

One text message from Godbee to Patterson said, “I want you, I think you, I breathe you, I taste you, I smell you, need I go [...]

This Cop Got Suspended Over 2 Years Ago, and He’s STILL Collecting $137,453 A Year Watching TV

This guy did something slimy, got put on suspension, and has been collecting his salary for doing nothing (with raises) ever since.

God Bless Amerika

Union wants to know why Little Egg Harbor cop continues to collect salary while on lengthy leave

By DONNA WEAVER Staff Writer | Posted: Monday, September 24, 2012 2:00 am

LITTLE EGG HARBOR — A township police lieutenant placed on administrative leave nearly three years ago continues to collect [...]

Shocking moment cop floors woman with sucker punch during Puerto Rican Day parade ‘because he thought she let off some silly string’

This is the shocking moment a police sergeant punched a young woman in the face because he thought she sprayed silly string at him during a peaceful parade.

The video was recorded during yesterday’s 50th anniversary Puerto Rican Day parade in Philadelphia – where around 1,500 people were in attendance.

The 36-second clip shows a number of people milling around enjoying the festivities in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’.

From the left-hand side, [...]

TSA Confiscates Camera, Deletes Footage of Checkpoint… TSA Workers Steal Memory Card, Cop Claims “It Must Have Fallen On The Ground”

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com
October 1, 2012

Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted.

Since the TSA deleted most of the video footage, this clip shows only the end of the incident.

Tom McCormack explains how he was repeatedly harassed by TSA officers and [...]

NJ Cop Beats Up Woman in Wheelchair

ROBBINSVILLE, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey police officer is undergoing a psychiatric exam after he was accused of attacking a woman in a wheelchair and her 4-year-old son while on duty.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19585559/nj-cop-accused-of-attacking-woman-in-wheelchair#ixzz278rR1mza

FBI: Miami Cop Pulled Over Female Drivers To Look At Their Breasts

MIAMI (CBS Tampa) – An officer with the Miami-Dade police department was arrested by federal authorities for stopping female drivers for no other reason than to initiate “sexually suggestive conversations.”

According to the Miami Herald, 33-year-old officer Prabhainjana Dwivedi was arrested by FBI agents inside police headquarters on Wednesday.

Dwivedi had worked overnight patrolling the streets between Jackson Memorial Hospital and Key Biscayne before being assigned to desk duty in the summer of 2011 [...]

Cop caught on dashboard camera grabbing female suspect, yanking her hair and slamming her head on car

A police officer has been fired from his job and arrested on assault charges after his dashboard camera filmed him slamming a female suspect against her car multiple times and handling her roughly.

Florida police officer Christopher Geraci appears to grab Abbi Bonds, 29, who he believed was the driver of a hit-and-run accident, by the arm and shove her against the car more than once after she refused to obey [...]

Cynicism is Intellectual Cowardice … a Cop-Out to Rationalize Fear and Laziness

Washington’s Blog
Aug 16, 2012

Preface: Obviously, giving up cynicism and getting active doesn’t mean adopting phony hopium.  It means abandoning both fear and laziness – on the one hand – and false hope on the other.

In other words, question authority and be cynical of those in power. But don’t be cynical of the desirability – and necessity – of acting to challenge the destructive or criminal acts of those in power.

We have overwhelming numbers (and see this).  If we [...]

WTF?! Cops Strip Search Mom, “Forcibly” Pull Tampon Out of Her for Maybe Rolling Through Stop Sign

“A passing cop pulled a u-turn, flashed the lights, and rolled up behind her. Tarantino claims that the cop immediately drew his weapon, pulled her from the car, and refused to explain why he pulled her over. Tarantino’s two young children watched all of this unfold from inside her car.

The cop then placed Tarantino in the back of the squad car, where she allegedly sat for two hours. When backup [...]