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Lawsuit: Cops mocked man's genitals during strip search

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A new lawsuit accuses New Jersey police officers of unjustly strip searching a honeymooning Israeli man at a mall and mocking his genitals.

The unidentified 38-year-old man filed a discrimination lawsuit in Bergen County Superior Court on Wednesday.

The lawsuit says security at the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall stopped the man in November 2015 after he was accused of shoplifting.

When a search of the man's shopping bag uncovered no stolen items, the suit claims at least three Paramus police officers forced him into a corridor "open to the public" and pulled his pants down.

The officers were allegedly "openly laughing" while making fun of the man's genitals, accent and national origin.

The borough's attorney says he hasn't seen the lawsuit.
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No Gun Found At Scene Where Police Officer Fatally Shot Man, Top Cop Says

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Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said investigators have been unable to find a gun near the scene where a police sergeant shot and killed a man who he said pointed a gun at him during a chase.

"There's still many unanswered questions," Johnson said during a Thursday afternoon press conference. "We are working diligently to find those answers."

Johnson said detectives were trying to find any surveillance video to help piece together what happened late Wednesday in West Englewood, where police have shot and killed two men within the last week.

According to a police statement issued overnight, an Englewood District sergeant responded to a call of a battery in the 1400 block of West 65th Street at 11:07 p.m. and found a man matching the description of the attacker, police said.

The man, who police have not identified, ran away and the sergeant began chasing him, police said.

During the chase, the man turned around and pointed a gun at the sergeant twice, the sergeant told detectives.

The sergeant then shot the man, police said.

The man was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Family identified him as 19-year-old Kajuan Raye of south suburban Dolton, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Raye's family disputed the police version of events, according to the Tribune.

"There was no gun," Raye's cousin Ahkeya White told the newspaper.

Around 11 a.m. Thursday, activist Eric Russell canvassed the shooting scene, looking for people who might have witnessed what happened. He's convinced police shot an unarmed man.

"Police don't get to be judge, jury and executioner," Russell said. "Once again we have an unarmed black boy that was executed... Every time they police our community, they police our community with deadly intent. So, once again, we have another dead kid. There was no weapon recovered."

According to the overnight police statement, detectives and internal affairs investigators were searching the shooting scene to try to find any evidence and the man's gun. But that search proved fruitless, Johnson said Thursday afternoon.

"We were not able to locate the weapon as of yet," he said.

After Johnson delivered his statement, Chicago-based activist Ja'Mal Green led a press conference calling for total reform in the Chicago Police Department.

"This is the same narrative being pushed on every situation," said Green, who was indicted in August on nine felony charges after prosecutors said he attacked multiple police officers at a protest. "Every situation they're a criminal. Every situation they have a gun. But now we've got them where we want them. ... In this situation, they said he had a gun, yet they can't recover a gun."

Green said the sergeant must be punished, claiming it's not the first time he has fired a weapon while on duty.

"This is not his first time shooting someone," Green said. "He needs to be stripped of his police powers immediately. That is what we're calling for... Why is he still on the streets? And why does he have the rank of a sergeant?"

The sergeant, who was not injured, will be placed on administrative leave for 30 days while the Independent Police Review Authority investigates the case.

IPRA officials were not immediately available for comment Thursday.

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) called on the community to "join me in withholding judgment until all the facts are presented by IPRA."

"We are all undoubtedly angered and frustrated by the events of last night," Lopez said. "Together we will address those facts as a community, with police, residents and leaders all at the table. We can and must move forward together."

The incident marked the second time in less than a week that police shot and killed a man in West Englewood. On Friday, police fatally shot 26-year-old Darius Jones after they saw him shoot another man, police said.
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No Gun Found At Scene Where Police Officer Fatally Shot Man, Top Cop Says

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161124/west-englewood/police-shoot-man-involved-shootings-gun

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said investigators have been unable to find a gun near the scene where a police sergeant shot and killed a man who he said pointed a gun at him during a chase.

"There's still many unanswered questions," Johnson said during a Thursday afternoon press conference. "We are working diligently to find those answers."

Johnson said detectives were trying to find any surveillance video to help piece together what happened late Wednesday in West Englewood, where police have shot and killed two men within the last week.

According to a police statement issued overnight, an Englewood District sergeant responded to a call of a battery in the 1400 block of West 65th Street at 11:07 p.m. and found a man matching the description of the attacker, police said.

The man, who police have not identified, ran away and the sergeant began chasing him, police said.

During the chase, the man turned around and pointed a gun at the sergeant twice, the sergeant told detectives.

The sergeant then shot the man, police said.

The man was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Family identified him as 19-year-old Kajuan Raye of south suburban Dolton, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Raye's family disputed the police version of events, according to the Tribune.

"There was no gun," Raye's cousin Ahkeya White told the newspaper.

Around 11 a.m. Thursday, activist Eric Russell canvassed the shooting scene, looking for people who might have witnessed what happened. He's convinced police shot an unarmed man.

"Police don't get to be judge, jury and executioner," Russell said. "Once again we have an unarmed black boy that was executed... Every time they police our community, they police our community with deadly intent. So, once again, we have another dead kid. There was no weapon recovered."

According to the overnight police statement, detectives and internal affairs investigators were searching the shooting scene to try to find any evidence and the man's gun. But that search proved fruitless, Johnson said Thursday afternoon.

"We were not able to locate the weapon as of yet," he said.

After Johnson delivered his statement, Chicago-based activist Ja'Mal Green led a press conference calling for total reform in the Chicago Police Department.

"This is the same narrative being pushed on every situation," said Green, who was indicted in August on nine felony charges after prosecutors said he attacked multiple police officers at a protest. "Every situation they're a criminal. Every situation they have a gun. But now we've got them where we want them. ... In this situation, they said he had a gun, yet they can't recover a gun."

Green said the sergeant must be punished, claiming it's not the first time he has fired a weapon while on duty.

"This is not his first time shooting someone," Green said. "He needs to be stripped of his police powers immediately. That is what we're calling for... Why is he still on the streets? And why does he have the rank of a sergeant?"

The sergeant, who was not injured, will be placed on administrative leave for 30 days while the Independent Police Review Authority investigates the case.

IPRA officials were not immediately available for comment Thursday.

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) called on the community to "join me in withholding judgment until all the facts are presented by IPRA."

"We are all undoubtedly angered and frustrated by the events of last night," Lopez said. "Together we will address those facts as a community, with police, residents and leaders all at the table. We can and must move forward together."

The incident marked the second time in less than a week that police shot and killed a man in West Englewood. On Friday, police fatally shot 26-year-old Darius Jones after they saw him shoot another man, police said.
Vigil for man killed by cop; autopsy says fatal shot was in back

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Relatives of Kajuan Raye went to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office Friday afternoon to formally identify the body of the 19-year-old, who was shot dead Wednesday by a Chicago Police officer.

The group then drove to join a vigil at the West Englewood intersection where the teen was killed. There, they recalled the life of a teen who loved to play basketball, and adored dogs — a portrait that stands in stark contrast to the portrayal of Raye in police accounts of his final moments.

Police said a CPD sergeant shot the teen Wednesday night. The sergeant had given chase, thinking Raye matched the description of a battery suspect. Police say Raye was shot after the teen twice appeared to point a gun at the pursuing officer. Police said no gun had been found at shooting scene as of Thursday, and declined to say Friday whether a search of the surrounding area was still ongoing. The Medical Examiner’s office on Friday said an autopsy showed Raye was killed by a gunshot in the back.

Raye’s cousin, Ahkeya White, said the family was concerned about media attention paid to Raye’s prior arrest for theft, and said the teen was not doing anything wrong before police attempted to stop him Wednesday.

“Everybody got a story. Everybody got something they don’t want to put on TV,” White said, tears streaming down her cheeks. “That moment … two nights ago, whatever he did, he wasn’t doing it then, when they shot him down. And that officer didn’t know him.”

About 80 people crowded onto the sidewalk, some holding candles as they took turns at a microphone attached to a balky loudspeaker, remembering Raye’s life and calling for justice.

In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, attorney Jay Payne said he is representing the family, and planned to file a civil rights lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Monday against the CPD and the officer who shot Raye.

“We will not wait on the IPRA investigation, we will not wait for the police,” Payne said. “We will seek justice for this family.”

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Thursday that police were searching for the weapon. Payne said he was at the shooting scene Thursday and watched investigators “packing up.”

“They’re done searching and they didn’t find a gun, because the kid didn’t have a gun,” Payne said. “If they come out and say they found a gun, 48 hours after the fact, it doesn’t look good for them. It smacks of a coverup.”

Johnson also said it was not clear if the officers involved in the chase and shooting were wearing body cameras, though the department announced in September that body cameras would be issued to all patrol officers in six police districts, including the 7th District-Englewood, where Raye was shot. A spokeswoman for the Independent Police Review Authority, the city agency that investigates police misconduct, said Thursday that officers in the 7th District had not yet been outfitted with body cameras.

IPRA, the city agency which investigates police shootings and allegations of misconduct, is reviewing the shooting. The sergeant who shot Raye has been placed on desk duty while the investigation is pending.

Surveillance camera video from a church near the shooting scene shows Raye sprinting away from a police officer, who trails the teen by a a half-dozen yards. The footage does not capture the shooting.

White, Raye’s cousin, addressed the prospect of the planned lawsuit in her remarks.

“We all work. It ain’t about no money, we don’t need money. Whatever they give … it won’t bring him back,” White said. “We’re trying to move forward… we’re going to do it by the book.”

Raye’s death was one of three fatal shootings by Chicago police officers in the last seven days, and the second in Englewood. Darius Dishaun Jones was gunned down in the 2000 block of West 69th Street, where police officers on patrol saw Jones shooting at a 26-year-old man. Police said officers opened fire after Jones ignored “repeated” orders to drop his weapon. Jones was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Hospital. The man he allegedly shot suffered a wound to the abdomen, and was in critical condition.

Early Friday, police said 37-year-old Cleotha Mitchell was shot by an officer in the 600 block of Central Park Avenue in Homan Square, after Mitchell had fatally shot 35-year-old Jeffrey Banks.

Raye’s mother, Karonisha Ramsey, said only a few sentences, thanking the crowd of mourners.

“And as for my baby, I guess, we gonna get justice,” she said.

In a phone interview several hours before the vigil, Ramsey said Raye had called her Wednesday not long before he was shot, and she said he was on his way to her Dolton home for Thanksgiving dinner, which Ramsey has always cooked up on the Wednesday before the official holiday.

Ramsey said Raye had only recently moved back to Chicago after she had sent him to live with his aunt and grandmother in Texas. The teen had been unmotivated and his grades were slipping at Thorton Fractional High School, Ramsey said, and she hoped a change of scene would help him.

“I just wanted to put him in a different environment,” Ramsey said. “He had perfect attendance (at Thorton), he just wasn’t doing the work.”

Raye moved back when he turned 18, and while he wasn’t in school, Ramsey said she insisted that he start working toward getting his General Equivalency Diploma, and Raye was trying to get a job at Dominos Pizza, where his sister works. Someday, the teen hoped to become a veterinarian.

“He just loved dogs, and he kept saying he wanted to be a veterinarian. All he watched was Animal Channel,” she said. “He was a happy person. He wasn’t ever a problem.”
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Former LCPD officers seen beating man cleared of charges

http://www.kvia.com/news/top-stories/former-las-cruces-police-officers-seen-beating-man-cleared-of-charges/185140889

Two Las Cruces Police Department officers who were seen beating a handcuffed man in a surveillance video will not go to trial after all.

Abc-7 confirmed Friday the District Attorney's office is not pursuing the aggravated battery charges against former officer Richard Garcia and Danny Salcido.

In a video obtained by Abc-7, Ross Fynn is seen being beaten by the two officers. Flynn suffered several broken facial bones and a cracked skull. Flynn was being arrested for allegedly threatening a neighbor with a gun. He was found not guilty but he was convicted of resisting arrest and is currently on probation.

Garcia went on trial last summer and the judge declared a mistrial, Salcido has yet to face a jury. Las Cruces Police Chief Jaime Montoya tells Abc-7 District Attorney Mark D'Antonio consulted with the state Attorney General's office and late Wednesday afternoon, a decision was made to drop the charges against both former officers.

Flynn is suing the City of Las Cruces for $12,000,000,000.
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Teens sue Detroit cops over botched hooker sting

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An undercover hooker. A coney island restaurant. Three teenage boys in a car.

Mix 'em up, and you have the makings of a civil rights lawsuit that's unfolding in federal court, where three suburban teenagers are suing six Detroit police officers over accusations of arresting and mistreating them during a summer prostitution sting that ended with the teens getting dropped off in an unfamiliar area of the city and ordered to walk home to Dearborn.

According to the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, the police engaged in misconduct of all sorts that August night. It alleges the officers drove the boys through neighborhoods at "reckless speeds" without activating emergency lights or sirens; impounded their car and said it would cost "thousands of dollars" to get it back; took a photo of one of the handcuffed boys and broadcast it on the Internet using the Snapchat app, and laughed and joked about the arrest.

All of this happened, the lawsuit claims, because the officers thought the teens were trying to flag down a relative and stop him from approaching an undercover prostitute outside the Caesars Coney Island on Warren in west Detroit. The teens were charged with interfering with police activity, but the charges were later dismissed.

"It was pretty outrageous," said defense attorney Amir Makled, who represented the teens after their arrest. "They charged these guys with interfering with police activity. In essence, they were accused of stopping prostitution in the making ... these officers were just out of control."

Makled disputes that the teens were trying to deter someone from picking up a prostitute, but argues that even if they were: "It's not a crime ... that's a First Amendment issue right there ... it’s not as if they were in the middle of an arrest."

The Detroit Police Department declined comment on the lawsuit, which was filed Nov. 18 in U.S. District Court in Detroit on behalf of Hassan Abdallah and Ibrahim Bazzi, both 17 of Dearborn; and Ali Chami, 18, of Romulus.

According to the police report, no force was used in the arrest and there was no video or audio of the incident. The report said a team of officers with the 6th Precinct was conducting an undercover prostitution sting in the area of Winthrop and Warren at 6:45 p.m. Aug. 26, when they spotted a group of males sitting in a Chevy Monte Carlo in the parking lot of the Caesars Coney Island.

"The males were yelling across the street and waving their arms to get the attention of an older Arabic male who was making his way toward our ... decoy. The males were yelling, 'Don't do it! Don't do it?' " the police report stated. "The males appeared to be discouraging the older Arabic male from talking with the decoy."

This interfered with the police operation, an officer wrote in the report, so the teenagers were arrested and their car was taken to a "staging area by the takedown." The vehicle was towed by Detroit Auto Tow for impound, the report said.

For plaintiffs attorney Nick Hadous, the police version of events sounded like hogwash.

"It sounds almost like something you’d see on TV, like 'Narkos' or 'Menace to Society,' where kids are dropped off far away from home. Something really didn’t sit well with me when I heard what happened," said Hadous, who filed a civil suit after getting contacted by the teens' parents. "They are outraged. They do not believe police should be treating anyone’s children that way."

Especially egregious is that police abandoned the teens in the middle of Detroit and told them to walk to Dearborn, said Hadous, who argues the teens did nothing wrong.

"What I heard that really offended me was that these kids were arrested on the basis of what seems to be more a speculative crime involving somebody else. There was no underlying crime," said Hadous, arguing the drop-off location was especially alarming. "Why would you drop them off at a Detroit location, especially when two of them were minors? Are their lives that worthless that you don’t even consider their safety? And putting it on Snapchat?"

According to the lawsuit, here's what happened on the night of the arrests:

Two teenagers were sitting in their car eating chips and drinking soda while waiting for their friend to get out of work at the coney island. When he got out, he joined them in the car. As they were about to leave the parking lot, one of the teens noticed a relative pull his car into a nearby CVS pharmacy and started to wave to the relative, who drove over and greeted them.

As soon as the relative left, the police officers stormed the coney island parking lot with their vehicles and surrounded the teenagers, who were handcuffed, searched and placed under arrest for an "imaginary offense," the lawsuit states. The officers drove the teens around town and dropped them off at Tireman and Abington in Detroit instead of a police station where their parents could safely pick them up," the lawsuit states.

The officers ordered the teens to walk home and "the boys complied," the lawsuit states.

Over the next few days, one of the teens — 17-year-old Hassan Abdallah — made several calls to find out where his car was towed. At one point, he was told that it would cost "thousands of dollars to get the car back," the lawsuit states, noting the teen's father intervened and ultimately paid hundreds of dollars to get the car back from a towing company.

Throughout this ordeal, the lawsuit states, the police refused to drop the charges and forced the teenagers to get lawyers. The criminal charges were ultimately dropped.

The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of damages.

"We want justice," Hadous said. "We want the department to be aware of what happened and maybe take any appropriate measures they deem warranted. This is something that shouldn’t be happening to anybody."

The reporting officers listed on the police report are Michael Carson and Joseph Machon — both of whom are named defendants in the lawsuit.

According to DPD spokesman Michael Woody, Carson and Machon still work at DPD, as do two other officers who are named in the lawsuit: Jordan Leavy and Ibrahim Abdul-Hamid. Two other officers are also being sued, but their full names were not listed in the lawsuit.
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Voice appearing to be Philadelphia police officer responds to taunt

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The whole video lasts just 44 seconds. We've blurred the faces of the officers because we've not been able to identify them for their side of the story. However, the audio-- difficult as it may be to hear-- tells the story. A FOX 29 viewer sent us the video.

The video shows two white Philadelphia police officers looking for information from several young black men on a city street corner. The conversation quickly goes sideways and the cops order the men to disperse.

On the video, one of the black men is heard to saying, "Come on y'all, they might be gonna shoot us."

Voice appearing to be Philadelphia police officer responds to taunt

A voice that appears to be one of the officers replies: "Not all of you-- just one." The camera turns so you can't see the person.

FOX 29 caught up with Police Commissioner Richard Ross at a Hero Thrill Show preview event and played him the video.

"There's no doubt the context is difficult to deny. We’ve going to have to figure out who made that comment and obviously it's highly inappropriate," said Commissioner Ross.

Consider the state of relations between police and the African-American community. On one hand, incidents in Tulsa and now Charlotte in which cops kill men who may or not be an actual threat. On the other, right here in Philadelphia, an officer targeted-- ambushed-- by a black man in January. And a police sergeant released from the hospital days after being ambushed by a black man in a shooting rampage last Friday night.

There is frustration on both sides.

"Oh, it's tough. We're under-manned, under equipped. The attitude toward police has changed everywhere around the country. We've seen that," said John McNesby, with the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police.
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Maricopa Co. Attorney won't prosecute officers who pepper sprayed woman

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The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute two Phoenix police officers accused of lying about giving medical aid to a homeless woman they pepper sprayed last year. The decision comes despite the fact that the MCAO took it to a grand jury, which returned an indictment against the men and both were formally charged and arraigned. Clearly the process was well underway with pre-trial conferences and comprehensive trial conferences already scheduled to begin in January 2017.

Officers Chris Tiona and Logan Egnor told investigators that they had pepper sprayed an aggressive homeless woman in May of 2015 and stayed with her to treat her, but data from their vehicle locator and footage from their body cameras bring the medical aid into question.

Both officers were indicted by a Maricopa County grand jury on October 25, on one felony count each for tampering with a public record. The indictment alleged Tiona and Egnor knowingly, with the intent to defraud or deceive made false written reports following the May 24, 2015 encounter with the homeless woman.

The footage also brings up the question of whether the pepper spray was necessary, as well as their characterization of the woman's aggressive behavior.

So why, then, did the prosecutor Ed Leiter change his mind? The State's motion to dismiss reflecting the decision to toss out the case has not yet been released, but MCAO spokesperson Amanda Jacinto released this statement to 12 News:

“Upon further review it was determined that based on the facts of the case the office declined prosecution as there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction.”

Last week, 12 News reported that Tiona and Egnor were back under investigation by Phoenix PD. They previously served 240-hour unpaid suspensions of their peace officer certification after entering into consent agreements with the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, which certifies all police officers in the state.

Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jonathan Howard said the department would continue its internal investigation and the officers would remain on administrative leave.

Bob Kavanagh, attorney for officer Tiona, acknowledged the State filed a motion to dismiss the case against his client. He went on to say that he has not seen an order from the judge granting the State's motion. Kavanagh tells 12 News, "I will not be commenting further."

We also contacted attorney Jess Lorona, who is defending Egnor. He did not appear to know the prosecutor moved to dismiss the case against his client but said he was going to find out. We have not yet heard back from Lorona.
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Keith Lamont Scott killing: No charges against officer, DA says

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Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN)[Breaking news update at 12:16 p.m. ET]
The announcement that no officers will be charged in the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott "doesn't end our inquiry," Scott family attorney Charles Monnett said Wednesday.

"We still have concerns," Monnett said. "We still have real questions about what decisions were made that day," such as whether police could have used better de-escalation techniques that may have prevented Scott's death.

[Breaking news update at 11:40 a.m. ET]
Charlotte police Officer Brentley Vinson's deadly use of force was lawful the day he killed Keith Lamont Scott, Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray said Wednesday.

He said no charges will be filed in the case, and that 15 prosecutors reached the decision unanimously.

Murray urged the community to remain calm.

"I know some are going to be frustrated," he said, but Vinson "was justified in shooting him."

The district attorney said he met with Scott's family before making the announcement, and that the family was "extremely gracious."

[Breaking news update at 11:16 a.m. ET]
In response to public speculation about whether Keith Lamont Scott was armed the day he was killed by police, Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray said "all the credible evidence" leads to the conclusion Scott was armed.

His DNA was found on the grip of a gun found at the scene, Murray said.

[Breaking news update at 11:04 a.m. ET]
Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray is holding a news conference, describing new details from the day Keith Lamont Scott was killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Brentley Vinson.

Murray showed surveillance footage from a convenience store shortly before Scott was shot at an apartment complex. The footage showed a bulge around Scott's ankle. Murray said the bulge is consistent with the holster and gun later described by officers.

The district attorney also said at least three officers reported seeing Scott holding a gun before he was shot, though dashcam video did not show that detail.

[Previous story, published at 10:23 a.m. ET]
Two months after Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a police officer at a Charlotte apartment complex, the local district attorney is expected to announce whether the officer will be charged.

The 43-year-old black man's death sparked protests and added more fuel to the national debate over whether police are too quick to use deadly force, particularly against African-American men.

The officer who shot Scott, Officer Brentley Vinson, is also black.

Police said they were looking for someone with an outstanding warrant when Scott, 43, exited a vehicle with a gun.

Scott's family said the father of seven children didn't have a gun. But police say Vinson opened fire after Scott stepped out of a vehicle with a gun in his hand and didn't obey commands to drop it.

Scott's death led to public pressure on local police to release video of the shooting. The night after Scott's death, hundreds of protesters gathered. Many said they were angry about what they said was unnecessary police action. Some protests were peaceful, others turned violent.

In October, officials released footage of the incident. Video taken by Scott's widow shows a different perspective of what happened.

Dashcam footage shows an officer in plain clothes with his weapon drawn on Scott as Scott exits an SUV and begins walking backward. Vinson then shoots Scott four times.

Attorneys for Scott's family have said the videos show he wasn't aggressive when police surrounded him. Scott's daughter said her father was in his SUV reading a book, waiting for a son to come home from school. But police said no book was found at the scene.

Cell phone video recorded by Scott's wife, Rakeyia, shows a different angle of the incident. In that video, a man repeatedly yells for someone -- apparently Scott -- to "drop the gun."

"He doesn't have a gun. He has a TBI (traumatic brain injury)," Rakeyia Scott says, referencing an injury Scott sustained during a motorcycle accident. "He's not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine."

The videos don't clearly show whether Scott was armed. And critics say there's one key element missing from the body camera video released by police: sound.

An autopsy report later revealed the cause of Scott's death as gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen.

Tests of Scott's blood indicated the presence of diazepam, amantadine, babapentin, nicotine, nordiazepam and promethazine. Scott's family attorney said the drugs were being used to treat Scott's traumatic brain injury.
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Baltimore officer indicted on assault, misconduct charges

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Body camera footage helped a grand jury indict a Baltimore police officer who investigators say used unnecessary force to make an arrest.

Donald B. Gaff, a three-and-a-half-year veteran, faces assault and misconduct charges in the Sept. 11 incident near East Patapsco Avenue, police said.

Police said he used "unjustified force" but provided no details Friday on the case, including the type of force Gaff was said to have used.

Internal investigators were doing a "routine review" of body camera footage, when they saw the alleged abuse. The detectives presented their findings to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office for prosecution. Gaff's police powers have been suspended, police said. He was assigned to the Southern District.

"This incident again demonstrates our capacity and willingness to hold police officers engaged in misconduct accountable," Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said in a statement. "His actions do not represent the professionalism exhibited by the men and women of the Baltimore Police Department on a daily basis."

Police said they will not release the footage of the incident, and have turned it over to prosecutors.

A call to Baltimore police union president Lt. Gene Ryan was not immediately returned Friday afternoon, and no attorney was listed in court records representing Gaff.

In January 2015, Gaff fatally shot a man at a child's birthday party in the 1900 block of McHenry Street after he was flagged down by a resident. Police said a man was carrying a knife at the party and threatening to stab people. After being asked to drop the knife, police said, Gaff shot him once in the upper chest, killing him.

In that case, then-deputy police commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said Gaff had "courageously" confronted the man and was in the "right place at the right time."

"I think it's safe to say that through the officer's quick actions and the fact that the officer was deployed here and was able to quickly respond, this scene could've been a lot different," Rodriguez said at the time.
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Retired Corrections Officer Claims Garden City Police Mistakenly Beat Him

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A retired Nassau County corrections officer claims he was beaten by officers in a case of mistaken identity.

Ronald Lanier said he was shopping in the Western Beef Supermarket in Mineola on Nov. 30 when he was tackled, handcuffed and beaten by officers with the Garden City Police Department.

“I’ve never been cursed, physically abused, beaten and treated like a slave as I was two days ago,” Lanier said, breaking down as he described how he landed in handcuffs and in a hospital. “For somebody to grab me by the neck in the supermarket, and I’m telling you, ‘I’m one of you,’ and you disrespect it — it was like you’re just another black dude.”

“They cursed at him, they abused him verbally, they then start to beat him,” his attorney, Fred Brewington, told 1010 WINS. “He was taking blows with his hands cuffed behind him as he laid facedown.”

Lanier, who retired after two decades as a Nassau County corrections officer, claims he complied and explained to the officers that he was law enforcement, but they just laughed.

The officers, who are white, claimed they were searching for a black shoplifting suspect, who was later apprehended on the roof of the building.

“They didn’t have a good description of who they were looking for. That doesn’t give you the right to go into a store and grab the first black person you see and throw them to the ground,” his attorney, Fred Brewington, told 1010 WINS. “The fact that he happened to be a black male in the store does not make him a culprit, it does not make him a suspect.”

Lanier intends to sue the Garden City Police Department, accusing them of violating his civil rights. He wants the officers stripped of their badges.

“I’m tired of hearing officers constantly talking about we have to retrain. We don’t have to retrain, we got to let them be held accountable for their actions,” Lanier said. “Imagine if I had my gun at that time. It could have went either way.”

“We are hoping Garden City Police Department will come forward with respect, identifying their officers, disciplining their officers,” said Dennis Jones, with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

The Garden City Police Department declined to share its side of the story with CBS2, but provided context, saying they were chasing a fleeing shoplifting suspect who abandoned a getaway car on the railroad tracks and fled into the supermarket, Carolyn Gusoff reported.

Brewington said his client spent 20 minutes inside a squad car before he was let go without receiving an apology.

“The sergeant, without any apology or any other way of making it clear that they were acknowledging the mistake that they had made, just said cut him loose,” Brewington said.

Western Beef does have interior security cameras, but would not share the video with CBS2.
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Former Roanoke police officer pleads no contest to sexually assaulting female prisoners

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A former Roanoke police officer has resolved the two criminal cases against him, both involving sexual assault claims by prisoners who were in his custody.

Francisco Alberto Duarte, 30, was indicted earlier this year on charges of aggravated sexual battery and forcible sodomy.

He was due to go to trial on the former case on Thursday morning and on the latter case in January.

At a hearing Thursday in Roanoke Circuit Court, Duarte pleaded no contest to amended counts of felony carnal knowledge with an inmate and misdemeanor sexual battery.

Through a plea agreement with prosecutors, Duarte received six months to serve on each charge, with five years in suspended time. He likely will end up serving about three months on the misdemeanor offense and another six on the felony. He was taken into custody as soon as the hearing ended.

Based on the statute under which Duarte was charged, he will not have to register as a sex offender, his lawyer said.

In a summary of the prosecution’s evidence, Roanoke Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney John McNeil said the two offenses occurred while Duarte was on duty and was taking female prisoners to the Roanoke City Jail.

In the first instance, which occurred Dec. 2, 2015, McNeil said security camera footage showed Duarte bringing a woman into the jail, talking with her briefly, then leaving with her and going back out to his car.

McNeil said the woman can be heard telling Duarte, “No one has to know.”

The woman later told investigators they rode a short distance from the jail, parked and then engaged in oral sex.

“The mere fact that she was in custody and he was a police officer made her feel like she had no choice in the matter,” McNeil said.

He said the woman reported the incident while she was being processed into custody. Duarte was interviewed by police officials and “taken off the road” within hours.

A police spokesman said earlier this year that Duarte’s last day with the force was Dec. 3, 2015, but he declined to elaborate, saying it was a personnel matter.

The second incident came to light in March. McNeil said a woman charged with a petty offense in Roanoke County told investigators that she had been arrested on a shoplifting charge in Roanoke in September 2015. While being taken to jail by Duarte, he had stopped in a motel parking lot where he parked, exposed himself and placed her hand on his privates, she said. McNeil said she rejected the advance and they continued on to jail from there.

Neither woman is being identified in this story because The Roanoke Times does not name victims of sexual assault.

“These are cases we have wrestled with for months,” McNeil told Judge David Carson. He said the circumstances of the cases complicated the prospects of going to trial. Both witnesses had expressed reluctance to testify, he said, and they approved of the agreement.

“They both want to move on,” he said.

Defense attorney David Damico added that there were “significant issues that would’ve potentially affected the credibility of the witnesses,” and that there was little evidence that force had been involved in either case.

Under the initial indictments, Duarte had faced the possibility of maximum sentences of life plus 20 years in prison.

“He exercised monumentally bad judgment,” Damico said. “We see this as a pragmatic solution to a difficult situation.”

Asked by Carson whether he wanted to make a statement before his conviction, Duarte declined.

Both sides in the case have exercised extreme discretion as the matter has moved forward through the courts. Most relevant court documents were placed under seal, and members of the media were barred from an evidentiary hearing in September — on a motion from the defense — while recordings were played. The windows of the courtroom doors were also covered during that hearing.
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Video: Miami Cops Throw Legless Woman to Ground

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Video emerged Wednesday of two Miami-Dade police officers handcuffing a legless woman and throwing her to the ground from her wheelchair. Mary Luis Brown, 52, was panhandling outside as gas station on Saturday night when cops arrived to ask her to leave. Bystanders filmed the unnamed officers manhandling Brown, cuffing her and throwing her to the ground as she shouted, “Stop hurting me!” The police department admits the two officers acted improperly and noted that “we need to provide our law enforcement officers additional resources to aid them in facilitating the transport of disabled individuals, so that situations such as these are handled in a more amicable manner in the future.” Brown was arrested for trespassing and transported to a local hospital for treatment.

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Cops Gagged and Smothered a Man to Death, Then Fist-Bumped

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Police handcuffed Ben Anthony C de Baca, threw him on his stomach, pulled a mask over his face, and planted their knees in his back. While he cried that he couldn’t breathe, the officers were busy laughing at a joke. They stopped laughing when they realized he’d gone limp.

“Anthony,” one officer said, wiggling the dead man’s arm. “Anthony.”

“Fuck,” another one said.

He was dead.

Twelve minutes after that, two officers fist-bumped.

Medical examiners ruled C de Baca’s Sept. 6, 2015 death a homicide from “excited delirium (cocaine intoxication) complicated by means of physical restraint.” An investigation by New Mexico’s Rio Rancho Police Department found no criminal intent by any of the three police agencies involved in the arrest. But C de Baca’s family says his death was a senseless act of police brutality and incompetence.

The family is planning a wrongful death suit against the three law enforcement agencies involved in his arrest, family attorney Ahmad Assed told The Daily Beast. Meanwhile, Sandoval County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor told The Daily Beast it is investigating C de Baca’s death for potential criminal charges.

C de Baca had a history of mental illness, his wife said, according to a police report. Doctors had recently changed his medication, and he had been “acting very paranoid all week,” she said. On the day of his death, his wife said he had experienced “schizophrenic episodes,” which came to a head at a McDonald’s.

While waiting in the drive-through line, C de Baca began acting irrationally, telling his wife that there were people in the trunk. She humored him, promising to check the trunk, at which point he flung his legs into the driver’s side of the car and slammed on the gas, sending the car speeding into another vehicle.

C de Baca then fled on foot to a nearby Wal-Mart, where he began throwing soda and smashing televisions. He shouted, “‘You are all murderers, you killed my kid’ and other things that didn’t make sense,” a Wal-Mart employee told police.

Workers called 911. Officers from three departments arrived on the scene, due to the Wal-Mart’s location near the intersection of three jurisdictions. An officer from the Rio Rancho Police Department responded to a report about C de Baca’s car crash outside the nearby McDonald’s, while officers from the neighboring Bernalillo and Santa Ana police departments responded to the call from inside the Wal-Mart. (The Rio Rancho Police Department decline to comment on this story. The Santa Ana and Bernalillo police departments did not return The Daily Beast’s requests for comment.) Bernalillo and Santa Ana officers found C de Baca in the store, where they cuffed him on the floor, body camera footage shows.

“Stand up or we’re going to drag you out, one way or another,” an officer is seen telling the restrained man. But C de Baca continued to struggle, allegedly biting one officer on the leg.

“A fucking bite mark, dude,” the officer is heard telling another on camera. “This cunt fuck bit the fuck out of me, dude. I had to punch his ass off of me.”

Officers pulled C de Baca outside, where they placed him on his stomach in the parking lot, shackled his legs, and placed hands and knees on his back. They placed a spit sock over his head to prevent him from biting again, the police report says. An officer began questioning him, presumably for an incident report. C de Baca initially cooperated, giving his name. Then he cried for help.

“I can’t breathe,” he said.

“Anthony, what’s your date of birth?” the officer taking the report called.

“I can’t breathe,” C de Baca repeated.

“What’s your date of birth?” the officer asked again. His colleagues continued placing pressure on C de Baca’s back, pinning his cuffed hands behind him.

“I’m dying,” C de Baca pleads. No one appears to listen. The conversation returns to the bite mark on one of the officer’s pant legs.

“He hit bone?” an officer asked, alluding to the other cop’s penis.

“Always with the jokes,” the bitten officer said, confirming that the bite didn’t break the skin.

The officers were still laughing when they realized C de Baca had gone limp under their hands and knees. An officer shook his arm, then his shirt, attempting to rouse him. The “spit sock” was still over his face.

As police watched the paramedics attempt to revive him, one officer’s body camera showed two officers fist-bumping near the body, apparently in greeting. It was one of several casual gestures that may appear insensitive in the immediate aftermath of C de Baca’s death. Later, two different officers are seen discussing the man’s death.

“You alright?” one officer asked another several minutes after C de Baca’s pulse stopped.

“Yeah, I’m good, dude,” the second answered. “I fucking hate when people put us in a position like that.”

“No, I’m asking are you OK,” the first asked. “I don’t care about that,” he said in apparent reference to C de Baca’s death. “Are you OK?”

Assed, a lawyer for C de Baca’s family, said conversations suggest a fundamental lack of concern for C de Baca’s life.

“He’s telling him essentially that Mr. C de Baca has passed, and he’s like ‘I don’t care, I’m asking how you’re doing,’” Assed told The Daily Beast. “It’s really telling if you look at that particular part of the video.”

Assed said C de Baca’s family is preparing a civil suit against the three police departments involved in the arrest. But Assed said his primary concern is not the officers’ attitude on camera, but their treatment of C de Baca during what should have been a routine arrest.

“I’m really more concerned about why they hogtied him, dragged him out, placed him face down with three guys kneeing him in the back,” Assed said. “A guy is screaming for his life saying he can’t breathe and that he’s hurting, and then they claimed to put a spit sock on him for what reason I have no idea, because it doesn’t prevent anything.”

The use of the spit sock in C de Baca’s death is central to claims that the officers mishandled his arrest.

Spit socks are intended to prevent individuals from spitting at officers, but are not meant to prevent the person from biting, or to impair their breathing. But C de Baca’s case was unusual. Police placed the sock over his head after he allegedly bit an officer.

The spit sock was mesh, with a “thick cotton portion,” a sergeant reported during an investigation into C de Baca’s death. During C de Baca’s arrest, the spit sock’s cotton had covered C de Baca’s “face, nose, and mouth,” while the mesh bunched up around his forehead, the sergeant told investigators, adding that “he had not seen a spit sock used in that fashion before.”

An independent report by the New Mexico Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that an “improperly placed” spit sock has the potential to suffocate a person. The examiner wrote that they could not rule out suffocation as a contributing cause in C de Baca’s death.

“They used it in a different fashion than in the training I hope they received,” Assed said. “I doubt they received any training. If there was training, it certainly wasn’t consistent with how they used it.”

The Bernalillo Police Department, which placed the spit sock on C de Baca’s head, did not return a request for comment. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, a separate entity from the Bernalillo Police Department, outlines a standard spit hood policy in their officer manual.

“When Deputies are faced with prisoners who spit, have spat, or indicate they are likely to spit, the following procedures will be followed,” the document reads (PDF). “No other methods will be utilized to control or prevent this action. The Transportation Hood will only be used to deter spitting and will NOT be used for any other purpose.”

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s officer manual also outlines policies that could have saved C de Baca’s life. Police are required to pay special attention to individuals displaying signs of cocaine psychosis, which medical examiners identified as a contributor in C de Baca’s death.

“Deputies will seek immediate medical attention for the prisoner if signs or symptoms of cocaine psychosis, excited delirium or positional asphyxia are observed,” the manual reads.

The manual also warns against placing a handcuffed person on their stomach.

“Deputies must guard against leaving the individual or allowing the individual to go to the chest down position as this could cause Positional Asphyxia,” the manual says. The police sergeant who told investigators that the spit sock had been misapplied also said that he instructed officers to not to place C de Baca on his stomach, a suggestion that went ignored.

While law enforcement’s internal investigation into C de Baca’s death found no criminal intent by the officers involved, charges might still come from a district attorney in New Mexico’s Sandoval County.

David Foster, an attorney with New Mexico’s 13th Judicial District told The Daily Beast that the incident was under investigation, but could not comment on the nature of the ongoing probe.

But Assed said the family planned to sue all three police departments for wrongful death. The pending lawsuit will likely address the officers’ apparent lack of training about the spit sock, in addition to their overall conduct during the arrest.

“They placed it in a way that I believe wholeheartedly contributed to Mr. C de Baca’s death,” Assed said. “To place him on his face and place that spit sock on him, with three people on him, it’s ridiculous. It’s crazy."
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UPDATE: 4 EPD officers suspended; termination recommended for 3

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Four Evansville police officers were suspended without pay following improper use of force during an arrest Oct. 29, Evansville Police Chief Billy Bolin said at a press conference Friday.

Three officers were investigating a garage burglary in the 700 block of Florida Street early Saturday morning and arrested Mark Healy, 36, of Evansville. The case report indicates officers used force, so an on-duty motor patrol sergeant reviewed materials and reported the officers’ actions were justified.

On Monday, further review by another supervisor led to a formal investigation, which found information in the case report was inconsistent with what was shown on body camera video.

The case report claims Healy was running from police when an officer caught him and Healy poked the officer in the hand with a used, open syringe. The syringe allegedly contained liquid methamphetamine. The report also claims Healy struggled and pulled away from officers when they tried to handcuff him.

Body cam video released by police Friday contradicts the affadavit. It shows Healy was handcuffed without incident and an officer searching him poked his hand on a needle in Healy's pocket. The video, taken from the body camera worn by the officer who was poked, appears to show that officer throwing Healy to the ground and yelling at him.

The video is obscured and dark for about 18 seconds after Healy is thrown to the ground and later shows an officer holding his hand over Healy’s mouth and shaking the man’s head. Three officers were on-scene when this happened.

"Two officers are seen using force on Mr. Healy, while verbally insulting and screaming at him," Bolin said during the press conference. "The third officer watched the incident, but did nothing to intervene or stop the actions of the other officers."

Evansville police held a press conference related to three officers being suspended after involvement in use of force investigation.

The probable cause affidavit filed in the investigation indicates the three officers at the scene were Nick Henderson, Mark DeCamps and Marcus Craig. When asked to confirm the names, Bolin said he would have to wait for the Evansville Police Merit Commission, a civilian board responsible for final actions on discipline in the department, to release the names of the suspended officers and sergeant.

The three involved officers were suspended for 21 days without pay after the formal investigation was completed Thursday, with a recommendation that they be fired. The sergeant who initially reviewed the report was also suspended 21 days without pay, with a recommendation to the Merit Commission that he be demoted.

The three involved officers and the sergeant were placed on paid administrative leave Monday until the formal investigation was completed Thursday.

“Multiple department policy violations were discovered during the investigation,” Bolin said during the press conference.

At one point, Healy is taken out of handcuffs so he can turn out his pockets and take off the sweatshirt he is wearing over a t-shirt.

In the video, officers yell at Healy and ask him if there are more needles, then threaten him multiple times.

One officer says, “I’ll [expletive] shoot you in the [expletive] back if you run,” and another says, “I’m going to beat the holy [expletive] out of you again.”

The Evansville Police Department manual states deadly force – using firearms, for example – is only legally justified “when necessary in the defense of a member’s own life” or another person’s life, or “when necessary to prevent the escape of a felony suspect whom the member has probable cause to believe poses a significant threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others.”

Video shows another officer arriving and speaking with the three officers on scene. That officer has not been identified.

On Friday morning, Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Todd Ringle said his agency was asked to look into the case by Evansville police officials. Taking on such a request requires the approval of state police superintendent Doug Carter, which was granted Thursday, according to Ringle. He did not know when police department officials first asked state police to look into the incident.

"Typically," Ringle said, "when another agency requests that our agency investigate an incident, it's simply because there is a possibility of criminal charges being filed or that there had been some sort of crime that may have been committed."

The next regularly scheduled Police Merit Commission meeting is November 14. Police have indicated they will not release further information or comment on the case again before the meeting.
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Unarmed man, 73, shot and killed by police in California

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Authorities in California say a Bakersfield police officer answering a report of a man with a gun shot and killed an unarmed 73-year-old as he stood in a neighbor's driveway. The man's family says he was in the early stages of dementia.

The Kern County coroner said in a statement that the man, 73-year-old Francisco Serna, was declared dead at the scene about 1:15 a.m. Monday.

Police Sgt. Gary Carruesco tells KBAK-TV and the Los Angeles Times that police had arrived about 12:30 a.m. and when a witness pointed to Serna, one officer fired several rounds and killed him.

Carruesco said no gun was turned up in a search of the scene.

Serna's son Rogelio Serna tells the Times his father was a retired grandfather who didn't own a gun. He says he was suffering from delusions and other early signs of dementia.
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Cops Allow Police Dog to Bite Naked, Unarmed Man

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The NBC4 I-Team has obtained police body cam video — never before seen publicly — that shows cops allowing a canine to bite a naked, unarmed man, including for over 40 seconds after officers had him pinned to the ground.

Attorneys who’ve seen the video say it amounts to excessive force, and raises questions for all police departments about how they use canines.

The initial police call came out around 8:30 in the morning on a Saturday in August 2015. Patrol officers with the San Diego Police Department were asked to check on the welfare of a naked man screaming and running through a canyon in University City, a San Diego suburb near La Jolla, according to police reports obtained by the NBC4 I-Team.

It took some time for the officers to locate the man hiding in a rustic canyon area surrounded by homes and a high school. Officers believed the man was under the influence of a controlled substance, which the man later admitted to NBC4 was true.

In the police video, you see officers asking the naked man to walk up the hillside toward them. He complies with their commands until he gets to the top of the canyon.

You hear the officers ordering the man to "turn around, turn around." He says "no" several times in a defiant voice.

Just two seconds later, and without warning, the K9 officer gives his police dog the command to bite the subject.

The dog takes down the man immediately. Then four officers pinned the man to the ground, but allowed the dog to violently bite the man’s leg for 44 more seconds. Other San Diego Police Officers hold the subject down and cuff him.

"It wasn’t necessary to use the dog to begin with and it sure as hell wasn’t necessary or needed or appropriate to let the dog continue to bite," said noted civil rights attorney Donald W. Cook.

The NBC4 I-Team watched the video with Cook, who has represented hundreds of people bitten by police dogs over a 30-year career. He does not represent the man in the police video.

"It’s barbaric," he said.

The man, a 25-year-old businessman in San Diego for a convention, told NBC4 he ended up naked in that canyon after a night of hard partying.

"I take some responsibility because I was under the influence," said the man, who asked not to be named. "But nothing justifies the cops used of such force," he said.

Added attorney Cook, "It’s not just a San Diego problem. It’s a problem in any department where they’re letting a dog attack and bite non-dangerous suspect."

Cook, along with a group of other attorneys, sued the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s after another video of a police dog biting an unarmed suspect was released to the public. The City of Los Angeles settled that suit for $3.6 million and agreed to "revamp its policy for the use of force by dogs."

"The number of bites went way down," said Cook.

Despite his concerns, Cook says that police dogs can serve an important role in law enforcement, such as sniffing for bombs or finding hidden, armed suspects.

"But not to attack and mutilate people like you see in the video," said Cook.

San Diego Police Department policy states "if possible, give at least two warnings in a loud and clear manner" before allowing a dog to bite.

But the video shows that no warning was given and the K9 officer wrote in his official police report that, "due to the immediate threat I did not have an opportunity to give K9 warnings."

He went on to say that he believed the man "posed an immediate threat to officers due to the fact he was clinching his fists and walking towards them."

He also states that the subject "was under the influence of a controlled substance and was very agitated with officers."

Cook says that after watching the video he didn’t see any threatening behavior from the unarmed man toward police. And after reading the officers reports, he doesn’t believe they were justified in using the dog and says the force was excessive.

"Not only excessive, but animalistic," said Cook. "In this case, you had your subject, you had him surrounded. All you had to do was simply take him into custody."

The man in the video wasn’t charged with any crimes, and he sued the City of San Diego for excessive force. In the legal complaint, his attorney says the officers "acted with unnecessary, cruel and despicable conduct and in wanton disregard for the civil rights, health and safety" of his client.

In the city’s legal response, they wrote, "At all times, the conduct of the defendants was reasonable, lawful, based on probable cause and within the scope of their official duties and employment."

Last week, the San Diego City Council approved a $385,000 settlement.

But the man, who asked not to be named, told NBC4 by phone the incident has left his right leg partially and permanently disabled. "No dollar amount is worth having a disability for life," he said.

The NBC4 I-Team wanted to speak with the San Diego Police Department about this case and their procedures regarding the use of dogs. They declined to speak with us. The San Diego City Attorney didn’t respond to our request for an interview.

The man in the video told NBC4 that he was in the hospital for two weeks. He says the injuries sustained during the bite will cost him the full use of his right leg for the rest of his life.

Cook hopes the release of this video will change San Diego Police Department policy and make other law enforcement agencies take a hard look at their policies and practices on how they use canines.

"The officers seem oblivious to what we as the viewer can see in the video, which is this is horrific," said Cook. "How can you let this go on for so long?"

WARNING: This video is extremely graphic and disturbing. It includes footage of a police dog biting a subject’s leg until blood and other injuries are visible. We have not blurred the dog bite portion of video in this version. Viewer discretion is strongly advised. If you wish to see the full video, click here.
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Two Alameda County sheriff’s deputies seen on surveillance video beating a man with batons in San Francisco’s Mission District have been fired.

Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly says deputies Paul Wieber and Luis Santamaria are no longer with the Alameda County sheriff’s office as of 5 p.m. Friday.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/2gZVXDt) Kelly could not provide details on their departure, but Michael Rains, an attorney for Santamaria, said the deputies were fired for their role in the Nov. 12, 2015, beating.

The deputies were caught on surveillance video striking Stanislav Petrov more than 40 times with steel batons after a 38-minute car chase from Castro Valley and a foot chase into a dark alley in San Francisco.

The San Francisco district attorney’s office charged Wieber and Santamaria in May with assault with a deadly weapon, assault under the color of authority and battery. They pleaded not guilty.
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Texas officer on restricted duty after videotaped arrests

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A white police officer in Texas was placed on restricted duty Thursday after a viral video surfaced on Facebook showing him wrestling a black woman after she called police to report that a man had allegedly assaulted her young son.

Forth Worth Police, who have not released the name of the officer, said they are conducting an internal investigation which also resulted in the arrest of the woman's two teenage daughters. The man the woman accused of assaulting her 7-year-old son was not arrested,

"We acknowledge that the initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions," the Forth Worth Police department statement said in a statement. "We ask that our investigators are given the time and opportunity to thoroughly examine the incident and to submit their findings."

In the video, the officer approaches Jacqueline Craig, who complained to the officer that a man had “grabbed and choked” her son for littering, according to the woman’s relatives. Relatives said that a neighbor grabbed the boy by the neck in an attempt to get him to pick up the trash.

During the conversation, the officer is heard asking Craig, "why don't you teach your son not to litter?" Craig says regardless of whether her son littered, the man did not have the right to “put his hands on him.” The officer says, “Why not?”

The officer engages Craig in a conversation that quickly escalates. He asks why she hadn’t taught her son not to litter. Craig says regardless of whether the boy littered, the man, who is white, did not have the right to “put his hands on him.” The officer says, “Why not?”

As the argument escalates, one of Craig’s daughters tries to push her mother away, but the officer forces Craig and the teen to the ground. He points a stun gun into Craig’s back and then at her daughter when she tries to approach.

Warning: Video contains graphic language

The attorney for the family, Lee Merritt said that the officer "physically, violently, and brutally escalated the situation” and added that the man who allegedly assaulted the 7-year-old should have been placed under arrest.

"She was questioned about why she did not teach her son not to litter,” Merritt says. He said he plans to “request the prosecutor pursue charges” against the man.

Thomas Glover, president of the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, looked at the video and told News 8 he is disgusted and disappointed.

“The citizens ought to be outraged, the city council, the mayor, the city manager," Glover told News 8. "Anywhere it happens, it damages the strides we’ve made in bridging the gap, either real or perceived, that persists between the black community and police departments. And this is a big stain."

The video, viewed more than 1.1 million times, was posted on Facebook by a woman identified by The Dallas Morning News as Craig’s niece.

The head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas said in a statement Thursday that she’s disappointed the officer is being given 48 hours to prepare a report on the incident.

“This incident and countless others like them demonstrate that for people of color, showing anything less than absolute deference to police officers — regardless of the circumstances — can have unjust and often tragic consequences,” executive director Terri Burke said. “This fundamental injustice is also a threat to public safety.

"If a Black woman in Fort Worth can’t call the cops after her son is allegedly choked by a neighbor without getting arrested, why would she ever call the cops again?”
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Cop uses Taser on man with Alzheimer's at nursing home 'because he wouldn't go to the doctor'

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Harrowing police body cam footage shows the moment an elderly man was Tasered at a nursing home - 'because he refused to go to the doctor'.

The incident was originally captured in March, but has only just been released to the public.

Video footage shows a 91-year-old man - who suffered from Alzheimer's disease - scuffling with an undersheriff from the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office at a Minneapolis nursing home.

In the original report, it suggested that the elderly man had become violent after refusing to get in a car and attend a doctor's appointment.

The man repeatedly bats the hands of officers as they attempt to coax him out of the nursing home and into the vehicle.

In the clip, the man can be seen struggling with officers as they attempt to subdue him, but he breaks free and tries to run away.

One officer tells the man to relax, but he ignores them, prompting another policeman to shout Taser - before deploying the device.

The elderly man then screams in pain before falling to the floor.

The man's family, who do not want to be identified said he died two months after the incident. They believe the Taser incident weakened his heart and led to his passing.

They also claim that the handcuffs used on the 91-year-old broke his wrists.

At the time of the incident, the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed they were investigating.

The elderly man was taken into mental protective custody to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else at the nursing home.

KWCH News reached out to the Ottawa County sheriff after the body cam footage was released.

He said he believed the investigation had been concluded but was unable to speak on camera.

The nursing home has since introduced new policies and have trained staff to handle similar situations.
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No, no, no!!!

I can't take it!

Taserig a 91-year old with Alzheimer's. What the living fuck?

Oh my god. Every time that I think that I can't read something worse, I do.

This one particularly kills me.

Doesn't anyone in authority know how to deal appropriately and kindly with a mentally ill or demented person anymore?

Shooting or tasering are the only two options??

I am beyond floored.
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