National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 10-11-11

Injustice Everywhere
VERBATIM POST
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• Little Rock AR police are being sued by the family of a 67yr-old man who was fatally shot by 2 cops who got into a confrontation with the man when they entered his apartment without a warrant because they claim his door was open and his apartment looked messy. [0] bit.ly/royTO2

• Parkersburg WV settled suit for $100k to a man claiming 3 cops beat him, used anti-gay slurs and falsely arrested him. This is the 3rd suit settled by that town of 32,000 (and 61 officers) this year including a $70k brutality suit settlement and a $2,500 settlement for an incident where a man’s dog was shot. [0] bit.ly/qBmWxJ

• Mountain View CO cop is under investigation after being accused of verbally and physically abusing 2 men during a traffic stop over tinted windows. It’s alleged that another cop arrived and told the officer to calm down, to which he allegedly replied “This is my fucking prisoner, I’ll do whatever the fuck I want.” [1] http://t.co/QVKH0IDD

• Marksville LA cop has been indicted on 2 counts of aggravated rape after an investigation into complaint made back in February of this year. [1] http://t.co/m8w9A0nf

• University of Massachusets in Lowell police officer was caught on video threatening to slap a student for recording a group of cops that he was with. (via @MassCopBlock) [3] http://t.co/8cR1PMPJ

• New York NY cop was recorded using verbal abuse, racist and sexist rants when he arrested 3 teens for nothing more than what appears to be contempt of cop. The cop apparently started his racist diatribe after hearing the kids speak Russian. [3] http://bit.ly/p7nJFi

• Union County TN sheriff’s sergeant was fired for unspecified reasons after a questionable off-duty incident where he shot a fleeing car he claims contained people who robbed him when he was meeting a female “informant” at a hotel parking lot. [2] http://t.co/JLeflX2v

• Arlington TX cop is accused of overreacting when he shot a family’s basset hound/rottwiler mix to death in front of kids and their dad. [1] bit.ly/nTfnFc

• Philadelphia PA cop was suspended after arrested on allegations he was stealing credit cards from people he arrested and using them to buy gasoline and other personal items before destroying them. [0] bit.ly/mZ5xhv

• Spokane WA was forced to revoke their ombudsman’s power to independently investigate police misconduct after an arbitrator ruled in favor of a challenge by the police union opposing independent investigations. [0] http://t.co/KarjV1N2

• New Brunswick NJ internal affairs sergeant was charged with obstruction & record tampering for mishandling 81 investigations into alleged misconduct. [0] bit.ly/qV2Cdr

• 3 Miami Beach FL supervisors and a number of other officers face discipline for partying while on-duty and a lack of oversight before drunk cop’s ATV crash [0] bit.ly/qy0d3I

• Patterson NJ police lieutenant was arrested on an aggravated assault charge for allegedly pointing a gun at his girlfriend then dragging her out of his home. [0] http://t.co/E3PBwOqz

• Carteret NJ cop who heads police union arrested for simple assault of live-in girlfriend & her 19-year-old son in a domestic dispute [0] bit.ly/nko7mb

• 3 Helena-West Helena AR cops & 2 Marvell AR cops were arrested as part of a federal drug trafficking investigation on allegations that they were protecting drug shipments that were crossing state lines. [0] bit.ly/oAVDFO

• Riverside Co CA deputy who is already being sued for shooting his friend in the leg after a night out drinking pleads guilty to DUI for a freeway construction zone crash [2] bit.ly/riEx5F

• Doraville GA cop arrested on DUI & other charges after testing .151 BAC following crash that injured 69yr-old [0] bit.ly/ozglu8

• Macon GA cop suspended pending termination after arrested for drunk driving at county DUI checkpoint [0] http://t.co/T1c6St7i