JulesMaximus
No Lifer
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That police dept basically did everything it could possibly do wrong.
It used a dog that has had false positives before and whose certification expired in 2011 as the basis for the whole thing. They used an expired warrant in the wrong county They went above and beyond the call of duty with their love for the mans ass. This guy just needs to get it to trial. I wouldn't settle. I would take them to court and bankrupt the whole dept and hospital.
Holy shit!?!?!?!?!
That guy is gonna be one of the richest men in New Mexico soon. I truly hope they burn down both that police department and the hospital, fire sale everything, and give every penny to that guy along with statues of him holding wads of cash on top of the ashes.
Un.friggin.believable!
Yet the cop will likely get paid time off, then $$$ for emotional trauma due to the lawsuit.
Don't roll a stop sign if you don't want to pay the cost.
How the US Uses Sexual Humiliation as a Political Tool to Control the Masses
by Naomi Wolf
In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, which lets anyone be arrested forever at any time, and HR 347, the "trespass bill", which gives you a 10-year sentence for protesting anywhere near someone with secret service protection. These criminalizations of being human follow, of course, the mini-uprising of the Occupy movement.
Is American strip-searching benign? The man who had brought the initial suit, Albert Florence, described having been told to "turn around. Squat and cough. Spread your cheeks." He said he felt humiliated: "It made me feel like less of a man."
In surreal reasoning, justice Anthony Kennedy explained that this ruling is necessary because the 9/11 bomber could have been stopped for speeding. How would strip searching him have prevented the attack? Did justice Kennedy imagine that plans to blow up the twin towers had been concealed in a body cavity? In still more bizarre non-logic, his and the other justices' decision rests on concerns about weapons and contraband in prison systems. But people under arrest – that is, who are not yet convicted – haven't been introduced into a prison population.
Read MORE HERE:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/06-8
The most surprising part of this story to me is that the police did not "find" narcotics after going through all that and nothing was found.
Looks like this is not even the first time this has happened...
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3210356.shtml?cat=500#.UnpidMIo671
Some good news since this hit the airwaves...
"The doctors from the Gila Regional Medical Center have been turned over to the state licensing board. It's possible they could lose the ability to practice to medicine.
And the police officers will be answering to a law enforcement board."
We've learned more about that drug dog, Leo, that seems to get it wrong pretty often. He might be getting it wrong because he's not even certified in New Mexico.
If you take a look at the dog's certification, the dog did get trained. But his certification to be a drug dog expired in April 2011. K-9s need yearly re-certification courses, and Leo is falling behind.
"We have done public requests to find anything that would show this dog has been trained, we have evidence that this dog has had false alerts in the past," Eckert's attorney Shannon Kennedy said.
'Murica.
Police are out of control in this country. Do you know how many were on scene last night in NJ for that shooter? 200. Just kidding. It was 5-fking-hundred.
The drug war is full retard though.
The sister of Danielle Willard, a Utah woman shot dead by police last year, says that the officers who killed her sibling should be held criminally responsible.
"They took away a huge part of my life," Kayleen Williard told the Deseret News. "She was one of my best friends, she was one of my idols and I looked up to her more than anything in the entire world and with her being just gone within a flash, it was so wrong and I just believe they need to go to jail."
Last Thursday, the Salt Lake district attorney deemed detectives Shaun Cowley and Kevin Salmon "not justified" in the 2012 shooting death of Danielle Willard, 21, following an alleged drug deal in West Valley City, Utah.
The officers claimed they had opened fire on Willard in self defense after she tried to
hit them with her car. A forensic investigation revealed that the officers were out of harm's way when they fired six shots at the woman's car, killing her.
In a statement released last week, Willard's family said that the D.A.'s "findings confirm... that Danielle was murdered."
Although the D.A. announced that a criminal investigation will be forthcoming, so far no charges have been filed against the officers involved.
Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill is facing criticism from conservatives due to his office's findings, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
"It might simply be that Sim is a cop hater," Salt Lake County Republican Chairman Chad Bennion told the newspaper.
However, Gill's office isn't the only agency that has been investigating the department in the aftermath of Willard's death. In April, the FBI launched a corruption probe of Cowley's and Salmon's narcotics unit, which has since been disbanded.
Don't roll a stop sign if you don't want to pay the cost.
In a related story, an unarmed girl was gunned down by cops. Conservatives rushed to back up the cops actions.
I would take the anal probe over being gunned down....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...lle-willard-officers-need-jail_n_3744373.html
In a related story, an unarmed girl was gunned down by cops. Conservatives rushed to back up the cops actions.
I would take the anal probe over being gunned down....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...lle-willard-officers-need-jail_n_3744373.html
How difficult would it be for you to start a new thread instead of trolling this one?
Hey, if you have a problem with the guys post, report it to the mods, or make a post in the moderator forum. . . :whiste:
On topic - the police state is growing specifically surrounding the drug war, but the drug war is starting to lose ground, especially in states like CO which are now legalizing/decriminalizing/taxing drugs. It's a step in the right direction. I think part of the problem is Civil Asset Forfiture and the fact that police use "drugs" as an excuse for lots of violations of private property, including a guys anus.
