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TATCT: Cop brags about beating people on Facebook

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By MICHAEL LaFORGIA

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sgt. Brent Raban wore a badge and carried a gun issued by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, but he didn't think of himself as a crime fighter.


Sgt. Brent Raban wearing his camouflage skullcap emblazoned with the word 'PUNISHMENT.'


Instead, the seven-year sheriff's office veteran considered himself a punisher on the mean streets of Belle Glade, and he bragged in Internet postings about his prowess in battering the people he arrested, according to an internal investigation released Monday.


Together with two subordinates, Deputies Gregory Lynch and Michael Woodside, Raban would work the streets of the county's western communities, sometimes sporting a camouflage skullcap emblazoned with the word "PUNISHMENT," the investigation determined.


In a region long suspicious of law enforcement, the trio would confront people on street corners and was known to barge into bars, grabbing patrons' drinks and sniffing them for liquor - which was prohibited in some drinking holes, investigators said.


The behavior, which the deputies alluded to in Internet postings on the Facebook social networking site, which they often updated while on duty, earned a demotion for Raban and cost Lynch and Woodside their jobs.


It also led to a criminal investigation, though Chief Assistant State Attorney Paul Zacks ultimately decided not to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence.


"During his time in Belle Glade for calendar year of 2008, Sergeant Brent Raban, through his actions and writings, has shown a general disregard for the PBSO mission as well as for his responsibilities as Road Patrol Supervisor," internal investigators noted, before finding him in violation of 11 department rules and regulations.


Lynch and Woodside each were found to have broken four department rules and recommended for firing.


In a prominent place on Raban's page, the former sergeant typed, "It's not crime fighting ... It's dealing out PUNISHMENT!"


Questioned by internal affairs investigators, Raban said the statement was inspired by his fondness for Batman and The Punisher comic books and had nothing to do with his work as a deputy sheriff.


In other places on his Facebook page, Raban crowed about dealing harshly with the people he arrested, writing in one instance that he roughed up one suspect. "But like a good batterer," he added, "I know the areas that hide the marks well."


"It was a comment I made in extremely bad taste," Raban told investigators later. "It was meant as a joke."


In another instance, he lamented that he was losing his cool because he had gone 14 days without hitting someone.
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son i am disappoint
 
"Typical cop" = the 20 jackasses a year we hear about as opposed to the other half million who do their job quietly and competently.

YAATCopHaterT
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Topic Title: TATCT: Cop brags about beating people on Facebook
Topic Summary: Yet Another Typical Cop Thread...
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
son i am disappoint
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lol, so am i, at your typo in the topic.
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Cop basher fails at cop bashing and lame troll attempt.
 
Originally posted by: rivan
"Typical cop" = the 20 jackasses a year we hear about as opposed to the other half million who do their job quietly and competently.

YAATCopHaterT
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Why do the cops that get all the awards and accolades then also become mentioned as part of the problem?

There are very few good cops.
 
Originally posted by: Away
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Topic Title: TATCT: Cop brags about beating people on Facebook
Topic Summary: Yet Another Typical Cop Thread...
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
son i am disappoint
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lol, so am i, at your typo in the topic.
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Cop basher fails at cop bashing and lame troll attempt.
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it's fucking news you idiot.

Away is a good username, why don't you go there?
 
Questioned by internal affairs investigators, Raban said the statement was inspired by his fondness for Batman and The Punisher comic books and had nothing to do with his work as a deputy sheriff.


In other places on his Facebook page, Raban crowed about dealing harshly with the people he arrested, writing in one instance that he roughed up one suspect. "But like a good batterer," he added, "I know the areas that hide the marks well."


"It was a comment I made in extremely bad taste," Raban told investigators later. "It was meant as a joke."


In another instance, he lamented that he was losing his cool because he had gone 14 days without hitting someone.
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Good job hiring a neckbearded sociopath who can't tell the difference between comic books and real life.

Death to Florida.
 
Originally posted by: KK
Too bad he didn't take out his frustrations on beating cats and drowning them.
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Pretty funny, I don't know who you are at all other than someone that e-stalks me.

However I scarred you I hope was worth carrying me on your back like a freaking albatross.
 
Originally posted by: rivan
"Typical cop" = the 20 jackasses a year we hear about as opposed to the other half million who do their job quietly and competently.

YAATCopHaterT
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too bad a lot of them are still dicks.
 
When will police departments learn that defending the few bad apples and resisting any outside review ends up tainting the actions of the 99% of cops that do their jobs in a professional manner and never involve themselves in activities like this? All of them should have lost their jobs. Does anyone really think the demotion will do anything more than reinforce this guys "me vs. all evil doers" attitude?
 
These are the bad cops that get exposure how many more are able to hide behind their authority and get away with stuff like this? I mean if it takes something as stupid as publicly admitting it to get caught then there's a lot of room for cops to go on with the behavior.
 
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Alkemyst, you're an idiot.

Then again, that's not anything most of us didn't already know.
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Watch it, he may accuse you of e-stalking. :laugh: He's pretty full of himself. He doesn't realize that he's just a plain jane tard.
 
And in other news, three officers were murdered in the last few days.

Why no respect for the fallen? Oh, that's right - you're a troll...
 
Everybody - let's dial it back with the insults. If you want to discuss the topic, fine. If you want to hurl insults, I'll lock it. Your choice.

Sr Moderator allisolm
 
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