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Post by Spider on Jul 31, 2008 14:44:19 GMT -5
"I swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth" Report from cop who slammed bicyclist posted online
Posted by Greg Sandoval | 14 comments July 30, 2008 3:16 PM PDT (Clarification: I mistakenly dropped a word when commenting on whether the officer made any hand gestures to signal the bicyclist to stop. The sentence should have read that the officer made no hand gestures.)
Kudos to The Smoking Gun for posting a copy of the arrest report filed by New York City policeman Patrick Pogan.
He's the officer who a tourist videotaped body slamming a bicyclist in what appears to be an unprovoked attack last Friday. The case is rapidly playing out on YouTube, where the clip has been watched nearly 900,000 times since Sunday night, when it was posted.
This is why I love the Web and I respect The Smoking Gun. They get paper. Thesmokinggun.com is famous for posting copies of important documents before anybody. They let readers decide for themselves what people say by publishing court filings, e-mails and memos.
Most of the information in the copy of Pogan's sworn complaint has been reported but there's a couple things I haven't seen anywhere else. Pogan wrote "upon instructing the defendant to cease the above-described conduct..."
I've watched that video a dozen times and it's hard to see any evidence that Pogan said a word before driving his shoulder into the bicyclist. He certainly makes no hand gestures for the rider to stop.
Pogan says that the rider was obstructing vehicular traffic, and weaving "in and out" of the center lane "thereby forcing multiple vehicles to stop abruptly or change their direction in order to avoid hitting" the rider.
In the video, traffic already appears to be stopped as bicyclists, who were participating in Critical Mass, a monthly protest against the reliance on motor vehicles, ride past Pogan. The officer has been stripped of gun and badge until the conclusion of the investigation.
Here's another little tidbit that didn't make its way into previous stories on the incident. In Pogan's report, right above the line where he is supposed to sign his name, is a sentence that reads: "False statements made herein are punishable as a class A misdemeanor."
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Post by Spider on Aug 3, 2008 1:48:17 GMT -5
"I swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth" September 21, 2007
Police officer taped ranting at driver fired. St. Louis suburb aldermen vote 5-0 to fire Sgt. James Kuehnlein Brett Darrow had a video recorder inside his car when Kuehnlein approached ST. GEORGE, Missouri (AP) .. A police sergeant whose berating of a driver was captured on videotape has been fired. Aldermen in the town of St. George, a St. Louis suburb, voted 5-0 in a closed meeting Monday to fire Sgt. James Kuehnlein. Notice of the firing was posted Wednesday at City Hall. Kuehnlein's attorney, Travis L. Noble, said the officer received a letter Thursday detailing the reasons for his firing. Noble said he would review the letter with Kuehnlein before deciding on a course of action. Brett Darrow, 20, had a video recorder inside his car when Kuehnlein approached him in a commuter lot in the early hours of September 7. Watch the tape and police officer's tirade in a video that was widely viewed on the Internet. Kuehnlein is heard taunting and threatening Darrow, sometimes shouting and using profanity. "It's what I wanted the whole time, " Darrow told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "The conduct was not forgivable."Police Chief Scott Uhrig said he recommended that Kuehnlein be fired based both on his language in the tape and because he violated department policy when he failed to tape the encounter himself with his police car's camera. Any Comments ? __ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Aug 19, 2008 21:38:55 GMT -5
Talking about clown cops ...There was a severe house fire across the street from me the other day. The house had been unoccupied for several weeks and the fire was rapidly extinguished once the fire dept arrived. Afterwards, 7-8 firemen were relaxing, sitting on the ground drinking bottled water, with their gear off and I decided to talk with one of them. (this is about 9 feet from my property line) Along comes this 'clown' (city cop) and abruptly tells me to move along because there was a live hose nearby (4-5 feet from everyone). I said; "These firemen don't seem so concerned about it" and he said; "They have firemen's insurance and don't have to move". I said; "I've got insurance too, doesn't that count?" Then he gave me an angry look and then HE moved along. .. What he said to me seemed stupid and out of place. Of course he was simply trying to keep the fire scene clear of civilians (after the fire was over) without exercising his brain very much. Sometimes cops just go 'automatic' on ya' without thinking much about how it fits into the context of events. This incident happened to my son about two weeks ago:My son is cruising along on I-95N, around 11:30pm, a car pulls up alongside him and 'hits him with a spotlight', the car drops back and blue lights come on. They both pull over and the trooper comes to the passenger-side window and tells my son to crawl over the center console and exit the car on the passengers side. Once out, the trooper sez he smells marijuana, puts the handcuffs on my son, searches him and locks him in the back of the troopers car. He then proceeds to search the interior of the car (but not the trunk?) and turns up nothing. He then releases my son, takes the cuffs off and hands him back his wallet. Then he tells him if he can walk to the fence (about 60 feet off the interstate) and return in an un-impaired manner that he will let him go. My son thought it was a trick, to tase him as a runner, so he asked him if he was 'for real' to which the trooper replied "Yes, I'll let you go". So my son walks through the marshy tall grass , etc. and when he reaches the fence and turns to return the trooper is pulling out onto the highway and leaves the scene. My son, who wasn't ticketed for anything, puts his stuff back into the glove compartment and goes to start his car and discovers that his keys are missing! So he calls me on his cell phone, tells me the cop took his keys and now he his on the interstate, after midnight, and would I bring his spare keys to him. Which I did. Puzzled by all of this seemingly innapropriate behaviour (by the trooper) and the missing keys I called dispatch who then informed me that they had not received any report of his car be pulled over by any trooper at all. Apparently this trooper was 'hot dogging' it and most likely violated several Highway Patrol operational policies but my son didn't know his name or car number and dispatch had no record of a stop being made. .. Now what !?! I wanted to make a report the next day, July 4th, but all of the administration offices were closed for the holiday weekend and when I tried to call dispatch the phone automatically disconnected. (I guess they didn't want to be bothered by outside calls on a busy holiday weekend) My son called me the next day and said he found his keys in the windshield wiper trough under the windshield. We're not sure if the keys were left there 'by accident or design'. Had my son of left the scene another person, whom the trooper might notify, could of very well stolen the car during the early am hours of the night. A few days later I got a phone call from the FHP seeking donations (unrelated to above scenario) and I told him about the questionable stop scenario and to forget ever calling my phone number again! The local cops don't seem to give out equipment warnings anymore! (a $5.00 ticket)I got a ticket that cost me $80.00 because I had one of my $2.95 tail lights burnt out. My son just got a $140.00 ticket for stopping in a crosswalk, after stopping at the stop sign, while making a legal rh turn. There were no pedestrians or vehicles at this residential intersection! Most of these residential intersections around here have obstructed views of lh and rh streets so in order to be safe one has to either creep forward or, quite often, momentarily stop in a crosswalk to proceed in a safe manner. But does 'Dumbo the City Cop' think about that? Of course not! He wants to make money for the city and brownie points for himself without any regard to the other driver or circumstances at hand. I've met a few really considerate cops but they are scarce around here. So unless I see some directly efficient LEO performance, in my presence, 'I'm essentially down on cops'. I could tell y'all much more about 'crooked and bad cops' that "Protect & Serve" (themselves) but most folks don't like hearing about it and, to be honest, it makes me a little sick just thinking about it. But it does make me feel a little better just telling y'all about it. __ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Aug 19, 2008 21:46:46 GMT -5
Cell phones enable cops to bypass official, recorded, lines of communication.Quite often they use them, between each other, to communicate messages that they don't want dispatch to know about. Here's Just One Example: .. About two years ago the DBPD discovered 3 white cops [and their patrol cars] were operating outside of department policy by running their own self-styled crime prevention measures in black neighborhoods that they patrolled together. They were using their own Nextel, walkie-talkie type, cell phones as they would 'round-up potential suspects' and then move-in on them. This all came to light when they decided to pull a car over for 'unofficial suspicious reasons'. A car with two black teenage occupants (a guy and a girl on a date) decided not to stop and accelerated. The three cops cars closed in on them and a high speed pursuit ensued. (high speed pursuits are not allowed, without permission from dispatch, by DBPD policy) The teenagers car wrapped itself around a telephone pole, caught on fire and the teenagers died. That's when these 'cowboy cops' exploits were discovered by administration and they were immediately terminated. It was reported that many other cops knew what these three had been doing (operating outside of dept. policies) for months but no one spoke up about it. Had they of spoken up, sooner, these two teenagers would most likely be alive today. There are a lot of 'Abuse of Power Issues' with many cops that very few civilians ever know about. __ 'S'
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Post by boatingmon on Aug 20, 2008 10:10:34 GMT -5
Damn cops. F-the Poe-poe...
Classy JC, classy
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Post by Spider on Aug 20, 2008 11:37:41 GMT -5
SEX-TAPE 'TAUNT' LAWSUIT TEEN: COPS MOCKED ME[/center] Three Westchester cops forced a teenage girl to watch her own sex tape and taunted her as they played the video during a drug bust at her boyfriend's house, she charges in a federal lawsuit. The steamy video was unearthed by cops in tony Harrison during the May 17 raid on the home that Joseph Porto, 21, shares with his dad, Joseph Sr. It became a source of amusement for cops, with the captain leading the charge, according to the suit, filed in White Plains. "[Capt. Anthony] Marraccini, for his sexual gratification and to humiliate [the teen], then displayed that video . . . to other officers, while laughing," says the suit, first reported by The Smoking Gun Web site. The footage showed the girl, who was then 15, having sex with an unidentified man, the site reported. "Marraccini thereafter placed the camcorder directly in front of [the teen's] face and forced [her] to watch the video while . . . asking her: 'What's this?' " the suit says. One of the cops thrust his groin in her face and threatened to beat the teen, who begged the officers to leave, the suit says. She also accused one of the cops, Detective Richard Light, of telling her she was "under arrest for tampering with evidence" and then grabbing her breasts and buttocks. At one point, the cops allegedly threatened her. "I should beat you're a-- for this. I hope your parents beat your a--," Light told the girl, the suit claims. "If someone from your house calls the cops, I will tell the cops to delay any response for 45 minutes." The girl was never charged, while Porto, her boyfriend, was arrested for pot possession. The suit - which also names Officer Edward Lucas - alleges that the cops later took the tape to headquarters and held an impromptu film festival. They played it so loudly that Porto heard it in his cell, the suit says. Lucas lives down the street from Porto, whose father filed a separate lawsuit over the same incident, according to the Journal News. That suit, which charges the cops with violating Porto's civil rights, says his girlfriend was "terrorized" and "became hysterical," the paper said. Lucas' wife told The Post, "There are two sides to every story. There's the truth and the lies. "There's the truth over here and the lies are over there," she said, pointing to Porto's house. No one was available to comment at the Harrison Police Department. Marraccini told The Smoking Gun that he and his two colleagues "deny all of the girl's 'outlandish claims.' "
.. It's 'sock it to em' time now .. I bet BM knows about these sorts of things. __ 'S' [/color]
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Post by jc on Aug 20, 2008 13:01:40 GMT -5
Damn cops. F-the Poe-poe... Classy JC, classy OH MY GOD!!!!!! I was kidding!!!!!! Do you not know me better than that........Thanks a-lot just to clear things up, I respect all law enforcment!!!
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Post by Spider on Aug 20, 2008 16:05:42 GMT -5
Bigfoot site stuns the world: It was a hoaxIt was all so exciting while it lasted. [/b][/color] But now one has to lie down, shaking with shock, on discovering that the supposed Bigfoot discovery was, indeed, a gorilla suit in a freezer. [/center] The Web site Searchingforbigfoot.com, owned by Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi, on Tuesday carried the words of Steve Kulls, who is apparently the executive director of something called Squatchdetective.com. Kulls was invited to be a witness to the thawing of the captured cadaver. "We contacted Mr. Biscardi who gave us permission to begin an expedited melting process. We set up a salamander heater to heat the freezer," wrote Kulls. "Within one hour we were able to see the partially exposed head, as I was now able to touch it, I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section," he continued. "Within the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. As the team and I began examining this area near the feet, I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot." Live beings do not have rubber feet. Subsequently, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton, the two Georgians who claimed they had happened upon Bigfoot's body, allegedly admitted their sleight of mouth. Kulls added: "The motives behind this fraud are still unknown at this time.[/color] Of It is still unclear why Whitton who, being a police officer for the Clayton County Police Department in Georgia, got up before the world and lied and was complicit in a scheme to defraud in a felonious manner." Of course, now legal action is threatened because there appears to have been money given to Dyer and Whitton in exchange for the gorilla suit. And, presumably, the freezer.
According to Kulls: "At this time the victim of this series of deceptions, Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., is seeking justice for themselves and for all the people who were deceived by this deception. Due to this event peoples lives have been disrupted and many people, so wanting vindication about there prior experiences, were hurt.
Let us all try to be mindful of such." __ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Aug 21, 2008 0:03:10 GMT -5
Ya ever hear this one before jc ..?
~ When 'PIGS' Fly ~ [Part I]__ 'S'
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Post by jc on Aug 21, 2008 15:05:57 GMT -5
No I have never heard of that one either.
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Post by Spider on Oct 8, 2008 10:12:00 GMT -5
In an elaborate robbery scheme that's one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities. It gets better: He then escaped in a creek headed for the Skykomish River in an inner tube, and the cops are still looking for him. "A great amount of money" was taken, Monroe police said, but did not provide a dollar value. It appears to have unfolded this way, according to a Seattle-based NBC affiliate: around 11:00 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, the robber, wearing a yellow vest, safety goggles, a blue shirt, and a respirator mask went over to a guard who was overseeing the unloading of cash to the bank from the truck. He sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed his bag of money, and fled the scene. But here's the hilarious twist. The robber had previously put out a Craigslist ad for road maintenance workers, promising wages of $28.50 per hour. Recruits were asked to wait near the Bank of America right around the time of the robbery--wearing yellow vests, safety goggles, a respirator mask, and preferably a blue shirt. At least a dozen of them showed up after responding to the Craigslist ad. "I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," one of the unwitting decoys, named Mike, said to the NBC station. As it turns out, they were simply placed there to confuse cops who were looking for a guy wearing a virtually identical outfit. Authorities eventually found the getaway inner tube (a getaway inner tube!) and suspect that accomplices may have picked up the robber in a boat. According to the NBC affiliate, police hope to track him down by figuring out who posted the Craigslist ad in the first place. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark was not immediately available for comment. _____________ __ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Oct 16, 2008 13:27:10 GMT -5
[/b][/size] 8 hours ago[/center] CORNING, Calif. (AP) — The family of a dead elderly woman cremated her remains on a makeshift barbecue and continued collecting her retirement checks amounting to more than $25,000, authorities in Northern California said. Ramona Allmond's daughter and grandson were arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and disposing of a body without a permit. Allmond, 84, likely died of natural causes, though investigators were still trying to determine the exact cause of death, said Tehama County sheriff's Capt. Paul Hosler. Allmond's daughter, Kathleen Allmond, 50, and Allmond's grandson, Tony Ray, 30, told investigators their relative died in December. They left her body on her bedroom floor for a week before cremating the remains in their backyard fire pit, Hosler said. Investigators said the two kept collecting Allmond's monthly retirement checks, amounting to more than $25,000. Sheriff's Detective Richard Knox said they may have been trying to honor Allmond's desire to die at home and be cremated. The two were arrested after Allmond's son grew suspicious about her whereabouts. Both were in jail in lieu of bail, with arraignment scheduled for Thursday. The sheriff's department said they do not yet have attorneys. ___________ __ 'S' [/color]
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Post by Spider on Dec 8, 2008 0:05:16 GMT -5
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.(AP) A 25-year-old Detroit-area man literally spilled his guts to police and was arrested on a drug charge after officers found crack cocaine in his vomit. Police said the man swallowed the drugs after a short car and foot chase Tuesday about 20 miles northeast of Detroit.
Clinton Township police caught and were questioning the man when he threw up the crack cocaine and other contents of his stomach. The drugs were picked from the mess.
The man was jailed after being arraigned Wednesday on a controlled substance charge. He has requested a court-appointed attorney. _________________________
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Post by Spider on Dec 12, 2008 18:22:59 GMT -5
~ Caught On Tape ~__ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Jan 28, 2009 14:01:14 GMT -5
Waitress Shown Own License When Asking For ID Maybe she should have paid better attention to her server. Last week, a waitress at the Moosehead Saloon in Westlake, Ohio, asked a woman to show proof of age after the customer ordered a drink. When the waitress looked at the ID, she realized the customer's ID was actually her own license, police said.
The waitress, a 22-year-old Lakewood, Ohio, woman, had reported her wallet stolen from a bar on July 9. Her driver's license and credit card were in the wallet. The credit card had already been used for $1,000 in illicit purchases, police said.
As the waitress called police, the woman apparently got suspicious and took off, according to police. She was identified by a friend as Maria Bergan, 23.
Bergan was arrested at her home Saturday night and remains in the Westlake City Jail. She has been charged with identity theft and receiving stolen property.
Police Captain Guy Turner said the odds of something like that happening defy calculation. _________________________ __ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Feb 7, 2009 20:03:55 GMT -5
Courts split over police searches of handhelds By: Declan McCullagh
[Police Blotter is a regular CNET News report on the intersection of technology and the law] What: Defendants in Florida and Virginia, each arrested after being stopped for speeding, claim warrantless searches of their handheld devices violates the Fourth Amendment.
Outcome: One federal judge rejects the warrantless search as illegal, while a federal appeals court upholds it as perfectly OK.
What happened: According to court documents and other sources: Anyone who relies on a handheld device for e-mail, Web browsing, note, and scheduling knows how well it knows them. Modern gadgets contain enough data about us to raise alarms about identity theft if lost--or worries of another sort if police peruse them in hopes of finding incriminating files. To snatch these capacious little devices from our homes, police need warrants. But if we happen to be arrested with gadgets in our pocket or purse, police claim they can search through the contents, including personal photo albums, without limitation. (CNET readers who attend the Burning Man festival and like to document their pharmaceutical experimentation, take note.) This has become an more important--and unresolved--modern privacy question. As Police Blotter reported last month, courts have split over whether (or exactly how) to support police powers or defend Americans' privacy rights. In just the last few weeks, two more cases have appeared, both arising from speed traps. More_______________ 'S' [/color]
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Post by Spider on Feb 8, 2009 4:25:33 GMT -5
;D ~ THIS IS FUNNY ~__ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Feb 16, 2009 3:43:27 GMT -5
Oh No - "We didn't do it that way" ...("we did it this way")__ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Feb 20, 2009 10:01:27 GMT -5
The Boy who got arrested for opening his Xmas gift too early.
A South Carolina boy, 12, was arrested on December 2006 after his mother called police to report that he had unwrapped a Christmas present without her permission.
According to a Rock Hill Police Department report, the child opened a Nintendo Game Boy, though he had been directed not to by family members. When the boy's mother learned that the $85 gift had been opened, she called cops, who charged the juvenile with petty larceny.
In an interview with The Herald newspaper, the boy's mother, a 27-year-old single parent, described her son as a disruptive child, noting that she hoped his arrest would serve as a corrective to disorderly behavior at school and home. ____________________ __ 'S' [/color]
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Post by Spider on Mar 3, 2009 12:13:31 GMT -5
;D __ 'S'
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