Abuse of Power Thread (Cops, Governments, Etc.)

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Florida Cop Pulls Over Harvard Grad for Blasting "F*** Tha Police"

In 17 years as a Hialeah cop, Harold Garzon has racked up 16 internal affairs cases against him. He may have a 17th case, after pulling over the wrong guy for playing N.W.A. on his car stereo: a "double Harvard graduate" and current law student who wasn't snowed by Garzon's poor command of state noise ordinances.

According to the Miami New Times, Cesar Baldelomar, 26, was stopped at a red light in his neighborhood northwest of Miami on Thanksgiving break from law school when Garzon, working another case at the intersection, took issue with Baldelomar's musical tastes:

Then came the song's eponymous refrain — "F*** tha police!" — four times in a row.

"Really?" Garzon said to Baldelomar through his open car window. "You're really playing that song? Pull over."

The cop told Baldelomar it's "illegal to play loud music within 25 feet of another person." The law student laughed that one off:

"In 2012 the state supreme court struck down any law banning loud music," he says. "I knew that because it was a case I had actually studied in law school."

Garzon grew angry, though, when Baldelomar told him that fact. He called over two other cops and then demanded proof of insurance. Baldelomar pulled up his info on his phone, but Garzon waived it off, saying, "It's got to be paper." (It doesn't. Florida changed the law a year ago.)

Finally, Garzon tore off three tickets: one for the insurance, one for having an out-of-state license plate, and one for not wearing a seat belt. Baldelomar says he was wearing his seat belt the whole time and is still legally a resident of Massachusetts.

When Baldelomar asked where his noise violation was, Garzon told him to take off and not to get "smart."

Baldelomar plans to contest the tickets, which he did not sign. He'll also file a complaint against Garzon. And he left New Times reporter Michael E. Miller with some heavy thoughts about policing in immigrant-heavy Miami-Dade County:

"I'm educated. I know my rights. And I speak English, so I can fight this," he points out. "But what about when this happens to someone who's not so lucky? Policing has to change in this country."

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/ript...rd_grad_for_playing_nwa_song_f_tha_police.php

The fact that there cops like this who are allowed to rack up numerous cases against them and then retire to live of tax payers teets is ridiculous

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Supreme Court: It's OK for Cops to Guess Wrong About What the Law Is

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=30317117&postcount=235

This is absolute BS. So an officer of the law doesn't evne have to know the law and they can basically do whatever the hell they want if they think you are doing something illegal even if it is perfectly legal. WTF

 

[Breogan]

Funny how this stuff comes out after he gets off

This testimony along with all the other outrageous eye wittiness testimonies which were thrown out, hence no indictment. Was released to the press the same day as the non indictment. And available to EVERYONE!
What is funny is it took you this long to find out about it, and the media to spin it for you as Daren Wilson "Key" witness.
So you had the perfect clueless soundbite to parrot .

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This testimony along with all the other outrageous eye wittiness testimonies which were thrown out, hence no indictment. Was released to the press the same day as the non indictment. And available to EVERYONE!
What is funny is it took you this long to find out about it, and the media to spin it for you as Daren Wilson "Key" witness.
So you had the perfect soundbite to parrot.

Dude calm the f*** down, geez. I just report stuff man ans say my piece in regards to it. I don't scour the internet for hours everyday to report stuff on the Hype. Sometimes I get busy with my actual life and things get reported late, if I feel something is worth reporting I still report. I don't write these articles either or come up with the headlines so get off your freaking high horse man

 

[Breogan]

"Reporting" would look up facts, this is more akin to a parroting.

So you had the perfect clueless soundbite to parrot .

I just report stuff man ans say my piece in regards to it. I don't scour the internet for hours everyday to report stuff on the Hype.

Actually that's exactly what is done here &-
Point is, tool might not even know what it is.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

"Reporting" would look up facts, this is more akin to a parroting.

Actually that's exactly what is done here &-
Point is, tool might not even know what it is.

Yes lets argue semantics You think you can do a better job then by all means my friend, have at it. I like to post articles so people have stuff to talk about, sometimes I have opinions on those things. This is an open thread and you can post whatever you damn well please so instead of criticizing me why don't you back your s**t up with some source articles? Every article I post has a source article relevant to the page. You want to make a thread called "Cops are awesome and never do any wrong because they're all just swell guys!" you're more than welcome to it, you won't have any opposition from me. Funny thing is I tried a thread literally called Good Things in the world and I rarely get to post ish in it and when I do nobody cares. In fact the first few post in that thread are awesome cops.

I know Darren Brown is sketchy as hell and I don't know what to believe because I am not going to waste hours of my day sifting through all of the witness testimony, I have better things to do with my time. All I know is it was yet another black man in America gunned down by a police officer who may or may not have been in the right. You want to make a big deal about this case but I don't see you commenting on the literally almost hundred other post in this thread about police abusing their power. Got no excuse for those huh? Don't hear you talking about how it was right that an NYPD officer choked a man to death which is against NYPD policy on camera and the only person that caught a charge was the guy who filmed it

 

[Kelly]

Darren Wilson's Key Witness Lied About Everything

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236

Funny how this stuff comes out after he gets off

Hmmmm....so the two people talking on the footage that was released by the media of one guy explaining to another exactly what he saw, which jived with what Wilson said, as well as the forensics at the scene and the autopsy, did he lie as well?

Interesting...

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

When it comes down to it Kelly there where tons of wackos on both sides that were lying about stuff. Honestly I'm over the whole Ferguson incident because I wasn't there and there are folks who have already determined the outcome of this so in my mind it's done and over with. What people should find more disturbing is that from 4/3/14 till today we have 28 pages of all kinds of abuse of power and the good majority of whats in here is cops not doing there jobs properly. We need to have higher standards for those allowed to wear a badge and protect the civilians. People going against dept. policy and choking people to death as well as cops who were found to be unfit for duty in other police departments killing children within 2 seconds of arriving to the scene are things that need to be talked about and corrected.

 

[Ilikecomics123]

Supreme Court: It's OK for Cops to Guess Wrong About What the Law Is

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=30317117&postcount=235

This is absolute BS. So an officer of the law doesn't evne have to know the law and they can basically do whatever the hell they want if they think you are doing something illegal even if it is perfectly legal. WTF

I think you are jumping to conclusions about this. A cop can't just go around now and ignore all laws and claim ignorance and do whatever he/she wants.

This all stemmed from a conflicting and unclear law about tail lights.

An officer pulled over a vehicle with an inoperable tail light (something I do just about every day I work... equipment issues are some of the easiest valid and perfectly legal traffic stops to find).... but then some conflicting statute stated in that state a car needs at least 1 working tail lights... so the cop was stuck between a traffic law stating a vehicle could be pulled over for "inoperable tail light" and a conflicting motor vehicle statute stating a vehicle needs only 1 or whatever working tail lights.

I guarantee you the reason this case went as far as it did (Supreme Court) is probably because the cop made an arrest out of it (probably got drugs, guns, or other illegal contraband out of the car) and did a fine job.

This is not "cop ignored law and pulled over car any ways and then claimed ignorance of the law"....

My state actually had this same issue with brake lights (do you need all 3, 2, or just 1 working?) until some court in our land finally said you can be pulled over even if just 1 brake light is inoperable. I'm sure they finally ruled on this because of the same reason... there was conflict between how many brake lights you need to work on your car.

PS: Yeah, I looked it up. The cop got cocaine out of the vehicle, so of course now the defendant's attorney is going to fight the reason for the stop. Whenever a cop makes an arrest out of a terry stop or a traffic stop, THE VERY FIRST THING savy defense attorneys do is contest the reason for the stop. Why? Because it's usually their best and only option. They can't deny their clients had cocaine (or guns, drugs, a dead body, etc. whatever lol) in their car, so all they can do is contest the validity and legality of the stop.

Whenever I make an arrest out of a traffic stop or terry stop, I have to have diarrhea of the mouth in my probable cause because I know the only thing a defense attorney can attack really is my reason for making the stop....

 

[Mike_D202]

I think you are jumping to conclusions about this. A cop can't just go around now and ignore all laws and claim ignorance and do whatever he/she wants.

This all stemmed from a conflicting and unclear law about tail lights.

An officer pulled over a vehicle with an inoperable tail light (something I do just about every day I work... equipment issues are some of the easiest valid and perfectly legal traffic stops to find).... but then some conflicting statute stated in that state a car needs at least 1 working tail lights... so the cop was stuck between a traffic law stating a vehicle could be pulled over for "inoperable tail light" and a conflicting motor vehicle statute stating a vehicle needs only 1 or whatever working tail lights.

I guarantee you the reason this case went as far as it did (Supreme Court) is probably because the cop made an arrest out of it (probably got drugs, guns, or other illegal contraband out of the car) and did a fine job.

This is not "cop ignored law and pulled over car any ways and then claimed ignorance of the law"....

My state actually had this same issue with brake lights (do you need all 3, 2, or just 1 working?) until some court in our land finally said you can be pulled over even if just 1 brake light is inoperable. I'm sure they finally ruled on this because of the same reason... there was conflict between how many brake lights you need to work on your car.

PS: Yeah, I looked it up. The cop got cocaine out of the vehicle, so of course now the defendant's attorney is going to fight the reason for the stop. Whenever a cop makes an arrest out of a terry stop or a traffic stop, THE VERY FIRST THING savy defense attorneys do is contest the reason for the stop. Why? Because it's usually their best and only option. They can't deny their clients had cocaine (or guns, drugs, a dead body, etc. whatever lol) in their car, so all they can do is contest the validity and legality of the stop.

Whenever I make an arrest out of a traffic stop or terry stop, I have to have diarrhea of the mouth in my probable cause because I know the only thing a defense attorney can attack really is my reason for making the stop....

LOL that's funny you say that, I work with a few cops that tend to avoid arrests just because they don't want the defense attorney to make them look like they don't know what they're doing. I'd hate to be put in that position.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

School Punishes Blind Kid By Replacing His Cane With a Foam Pool Noodle

Administrators at a Kansas elementary school tried to punish a blind eight-year-old by replacing his cane with a foam pool noodle after he allegedly misbehaved on the school bus.

Local FOX affiliate WDAF reports that a school district spokeswoman confirmed the story, claiming the eight-year-old Dakota Nafzinger's cane was confiscated after he hit someone with it. The blind eight-year-old "posed a danger to himself and others," the school said.

His father says he sometimes raises his cane, which the bus driver may have misinterpreted as a violent gesture.

Nafzinger reportedly suffers from a rare condition called bilateral anopthalmia that caused him to be born without eyes.

He told WTKR the school told him he had to use the pool noodle for two weeks.

"Why would you do that? Why would you take the one thing that he's supposed to use all the time? That's his eyes," his mother told WDAF.

http://fox4kc.com/2014/12/16/north-...ind-childs-cane-replaces-it-with-pool-noodle/

That's really messed up

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Hey! Not all school administrators are bad, DJ Kidd.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hey! Not all school administrators are bad, DJ Kidd.

Ya but if you think giving a blind kid a freaking pool noodle for a cane is ok than that person is a seriously screwed up individual

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Muslim Woman Claims Jail Made Her Attend Christian Prayer Service

A Muslim woman in Ohio is suing a county jail after she says corrections officers forced her to go to Christian church services, the L.A. Times reports.

According to 24-year-old Sakeena Majeed, an officer at Cuyahoga County Corrections Center threatened her with solitary confinement when she refused to attend the jail's weekly Christian prayer service, led by a Baptist minister.

Even after she attended, the practicing Muslim alleges in her lawsuit that she was "openly chastised and mocked" by another officer for not participating.

"That should be offensive to anybody, no matter what your religion is," her attorney Matthew Besser told the Associated Press. "The government can't tell you what god to pray to or to pray at all."

Contacted by multiple news outlets, Cuyahoga County spokespeople have declined to comment on Majeed's lawsuit.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-muslim-woman-mass-jail-20141219-story.html

If true that's totally messed up

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

^^^Dime piece.

A brother would convert to Islam fo dat azz.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

OK, this is about the closest thread I could find to post this.

http://postracialcomments.tumblr.co...ometimes-i-wish-black-folks-were-just-as-cold

Yeah, those cops are bastards for wearing shirts like that, but what I don't get is when someone says that black people would never stoop to the level of white people and do something like that, that they aren't as cold hearted. Why do posts like that get so many likes? It's a generalization, it's fighting bigotry with bigotry. If anyone replies on tumblr disagrees with comments like that, they just get their comment reblogged and laughed at, usually accompanied by some "funny" meme.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

NYPD Racial Profiling Captures Off-Duty Black Cops

A new report from Reuters details an ongoing problem within the New York Police Department: off-duty black cops are often targets of racial profiling by white NYPD officers.

Among the officers surveyed—10 who are currently serving; 15 who are now retired—many admitted to "being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping." In the most extreme instances, a select few admitted to having a gun pulled on them.

The recent rhetoric from Rudy Giuliani and NYPD union head Patrick Lynch—in the wake of the slain NYPD officers—warns about the dangerous, false belief that black people should fear and submit to the police. Who else believes this? Black cops, apparently.

So, what is being done about police-on-police racial profiling? Nothing, according to officers.

All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.

During Michael Bloomberg's tenure in office, the NYPD regularly profiled residents under the guise of Stop and Frisk and "Broken Windows" policing. The department's targets were usually black, Muslim, and Latino men and women. In August, a report by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Daily News confirmed what many knew to be true for decades: the aggressive and disproportionate policing of communities of color.

Additionally, a 2010 New York State Task Force report on police-on-police shootings revealed that, from 1994 to 2009, "officers of color had suffered the highest fatalities in encounters with police officers who mistook them for criminals."

Of course, many police apologists will cite otherwise, arguing that crime is typically higher in communities of color and by stopping suspected offenders—even if mistaken—they are helping quell the possible threat of violence or wrongdoing.

"[If] you want to get into the essence of why certain groups are stopped more than others, then you only need to go to the crime reports and see which ethnic groups are listed more as suspects," former LAPD Chief Bernard Parks told Reuters. "That's the crime data the officers are living with."

But crime data rarely tells the full story. As Michelle Conlin noted:

A number of academics believe those statistics are potentially skewed because police over-focus on black communities, while ignoring crime in other areas. They also note that being stopped as a suspect does not automatically equate to criminality. Nearly 90 percent of blacks stopped by the NYPD, for example, are found not to be engaged in any crime.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/23/us-usa-police-nypd-race-insight-idUSKBN0K11EV20141223

I've heard some of the same tired arguments being made in this very thread. But I'm sure these off duty black officers must have done something to be targeted, right?

 

[Docker2.0]

^^^Dime piece.

A brother would convert to Islam fo dat azz.

First thing I thought when I saw how she looked!

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

It's easy to look good for a pic for a story on the interwebs but lets see that booking photo haha

 

[Docker2.0]

It's easy to look good for a pic for a story on the interwebs but lets see that booking photo haha

I'm to lazy to google. And geez man! Why would you want to ruin our Christmas Eve? I'm sure she looks like Queen Latifah but on the pic she looks quite hittable.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

She is definitely attractive but I've been burned too many times by females that look good with tons of makeup under the club lights and then wake up the next day like WOAH!

 

[mrvlknight21]

First thing I thought when I saw how she looked!

^^^Dime piece.

A brother would convert to Islam fo dat azz.

Are you guys joking? That girl is scary looking.

 

[Docker2.0]

Are you guys joking? That girl is scary looking.

Don't know if you are being sarcastic or not.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Hope that kid goes Matt Murdock on that school, and by Matt Murdock, I mean go to college and become a lawyer so he can pay people to place false evidence in everyones home who were involved and get them locked up in jail.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Don't know if you are being sarcastic or not.

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