Case o' The Year: Bad Cops Make Good Law, Fourth Amendment Privacy Interests in Text Content
Ever notice that cops behaving, and other times judges behaving badly, create the best defense decisions? For example, cops beat the daylights out of Rodney King, get convicted, and generate the Supreme Court's seminal case on sentencing departures. Koon v. United States, 518 U.S. 81 (1996). Prison guards terrorize inmates, are convicted, and generate the seminal decision on bail pending appeal. United States v. Garcia, 340 F.3d 1013 (9th Cir. 2003). And now, in Quon, a SWAT cop uses his work pager to send sexually-explicit texts (and lots of them), and generates the nation's leading decision on Fourth Amendment protections in digital content. Quon v. Arch Wireless, __ F.3d __, 2008 WL 2440559 (9th Cir. June 18, 2008), decision available here. Keep up the good work, Lads and Lassies in Blue.
Hundreds of people killed nationally after being shocked by stun guns during encounters with police.
Since June 2001 more than 320 people across the country have died after being shocked with Tasers.
Two Orange County jail inmates died after being shocked with Tasers last year.
Jason Jesus Gomez died April 1, 2008, six days after deputies used a Taser while restraining him at the Intake Release Center in Santa Ana. He had been jailed for violating terms of his probation from a 2006 conviction for displaying a firearm and cultivating marijuana.
In October, Michael Patrick Lass died after deputies used a Taser while trying to restrain him at the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana. He had been jailed for drinking in public.
A grand jury report released last year called the recent inmate deaths a "cause of alarm" and said jail staff used Tasers on 437 inmates from 2004 to 2007.
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A probe found that officers routinely used excessive force, made arrests without probable cause and failed to investigate citizen complaints.
Tasers and The Police Officers That Use Them
The report detailed eight instances of alleged excessive force, half of them involving allegedly inappropriate use of a Taser stun gun. In one case in 2006, a young man asked an officer for his badge number after witnessing what he thought was excessive force. As he wrote it down, he was beaten by a group of officers, then handcuffed and shocked with a Taser, the report states. When the young man's father yelled, "What are you doing to my son?" he was assaulted by several officers, the document states.
State investigators also criticized the Police Department's "aggressive policy of stopping and citing drivers and impounding their vehicles," concluding that Maywood's actions violated state and federal laws.
A San Bernardino police officer shot and killed a man Monday when the man tried to take another officer's gun and then pointed a Taser at that officer's head, authorities said.
In the moments before the 6:30 p.m. shooting near 14th and Wall streets, Cedric James May, 22, of San Bernardino, tried to yank away an officer's baton, violently squeezed the officer's genitals and made a grab for his gun, police Lt. David Harp said.
The officer's partner fired a single shot, killing May, Harp said.
He said the confrontation started when two officers saw a man running, toward a car and get in with three other men.
Harp said the officers "asked" the two men in the front seats to step out of the car, and they complied. Then when one of the men in the back seat got out, he struggled with the officers and had to be subdued with a Taser, Harp said.
He said May came out fighting.
Neither of the first two men was arrested, Harp said. He said the man who struggled briefly with the officers was cited for interfering with police officers, a misdemeanor, and released. May died at the scene, Harp said.
"what would be the capacity of law enforcement
and of the courts to SUPRESS this kind of SPEECH?" -Judge A. Howard Matz, PRE-TRIAL HEARING OF KILLERCOP.COM
Here is the rule of law: Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. And that's a fact! Why? CauseIsaySo!! You are not entitled to anymore information, 'cause ya got no right to it. Git it? I bet you will soon enough. I'm all a Twitter waiting to see your reaction, to my reaction, to your Treatment. You'll just die when you see what I have in store for everyone in 2010.
Now move along folks, nothing more to see. Make like a Quack and disappear like Dr. Who.
Off-duty LAPD officer is shot, in serious condition, possibly "Gang" related. Police won't comment about if they are planning another raid on killercop.com.
February 1, 2009, Anthony Razo had worked with the Hollenbeck division's gang detail along with Detective Chuck Zeglin. He was attacked early Saturday while leaving his City Terrace home to play golf.
A 49-year-old off-duty Los Angeles police officer was in serious condition Saturday night after being shot in the shoulder during a struggle with two assailants who approached him as he was leaving his City Terrace home, police said.
The 14-year-veteran, Anthony Razo, is assigned to the Hollenbeck division and previously worked with the station's gang detail.
Police said Razo and one attacker were armed with handguns.
During the struggle, Razo's weapon dropped and was picked up by one of the assailants and used it to shoot the officer in the upper region of his right shoulder, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.
A large police presence descended on the neighborhood of modest homes Saturday, including LAPD officers, gang specialists, canine units, sheriff's deputies and a SWAT unit.
April 8, 2009 Anthony Razo, a 14-year veteran, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud for torching his car and filing a false report that he had been shot outside his home when he had wounded himself.
A former Los Angeles police officer was sentenced to a year in County Jail on Tuesday after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and falsely reporting to authorities that assailants shot him outside his home when he actually wounded himself.
Anthony Razo, 49, avoided eye contact with some of his former Los Angeles Police Department colleagues as he pleaded guilty in Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norm Shapiro's courtroom. Razo was immediately sentenced to a year in jail and three years' probation.
As part of a plea agreement, Razo, a 14-year LAPD veteran, admitted that he made up the story that two young Latino males with shaved heads had attacked him outside his City Terrace home, grabbed his department-issued handgun and shot him in the shoulder. Razo told the judge that he was alone when he was wounded and that the men did not exist.
That's the news the State run media omit to dumb you down. Notice it removed from this article on ABC 7.
The grandfather of the state run T.V. media is N.B.C. Click here to view their propaganda from the L.A.P.D. According to them Killercop is a "gang affiliated person" which segway's, naturally, into this website being labeled a "gang" website. Nice labels. Here is ours for you. "Un-American."
A Cop Crime Scene:
Citizen Down!!
The cop was hit twice in the leg in a gun battle with one of three men he tried to question for "running suspiciously."
2:51 PM PST, January 9, 2008
A Gardena police officer was shot today, and authorities were searching for three young citizens. The officer pulled into a restaurant when he saw three citizens "suspiciously running" across the street, said Gardena Police Lt. Ed Burnett. When he "asked" the men to stop, they ignored him, Burnett said.
Thinking that to ignore a cop, or anyone, “asking” you to stop is now a crime the officer, like a fool, then chased one of the men behind the restaurant, where they exchanged at least 10 rounds of gunfire.
The officer, whose name was not released, was shot twice in the upper right leg. "I saw the police officer shooting at the suspects," a witness said. "I heard six to seven shots fired, bang, bang, bang." After cordoning off several blocks, dozens of officers, wearing bulletproof vests and armed with shotguns and high-powered rifles, scoured the neighborhood in search of the assailants. At least two police helicopters flew overhead addressing the men on loud speakers to "come out now and you will not be harmed."
All three men remain at large and free to ignore anyone who "asks" them to give up their liberty and right to "run suspiciously" in America. I am now going outside my home and I will be "running suspiciously." God bless these young "assailants" for protecting my liberty and right to "run suspiciously" in America.
If you ask me it was the young officer who was the "assailant."
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies shot and killed an alleged gang member Saturday night after confronting him outside a party in Compton. Gang enforcement officers on patrol near West 137th Street and South Wilmington Avenue saw one of two alleged gang members walking with a gun, said Deputy Oscar Butao. He said the two officers tried to get the men to stop and put down the weapon.
The armed man ran across the street, hid between two parked cars, turned and pointed the gun at officers, who fired and killed him, Butao said. A loaded handgun was recovered at the scene, he said.
Butao's version of events conflicted with the news release distributed by the sheriff's department. It said that deputies tried to contact "several" citizens attending a party and that the deputies attempted to stop the men before they saw a weapon.
Apparently "concealing something" is against the law!
The deputy was in a marked patrol car heading west on East Avenue Q-4 about 8 p.m. Sunday when Dejon King, 18, crossed the street in front of him, apparently concealing something in the waistband of his pants, Jones said.
The deputy stopped, exited his car and "ordered" King toward him, he said.
King ignored the unlawful command and quickly walked toward an apartment complex gate near the location, but discovered it was locked, he said. He then turned, produced a handgun in fear for his life and liberty and ``immediately began shooting at the deputy,'' Jones said.
Henry Louis Gates' Contempt Of Cop Emptywheel - At tonight's nationally televised press conference, a reporter asked President Obama a question about the July 16 arrest of famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Obama set off...
Contempt of Cop' by William Norman Grigg - The police are to the government as the edge is to the knife, insists sociologist David Bayley, who apparently couldn't explain why the typical...
Welcome to America Now step inside the jail cell - The audio exchange in this video was apparently recorded at the U.S. Canada border after a Canadian displayed contempt-of-cop towards the American law enforcement officer asking questions.
Contemptible police tactics - Cops raid the home of a licensed medical marijuanna provider in Washington, handcuff the fourteen year old son and put a gun to his head, and search the nineteen year old daughter and take the contents of her mickey-mouse wallet.
How To Survive Traffic Stops in America Submit, Instantly! - What the cops want is immediate obedience. Many cops are ex-military and view the civilian motorists of America about like they viewed the hapless peasants of Iraq and Afghanistan that is, with contempt, not as fellow citizens deserving of civility and respect. It is a possibly lethal mistake to do anything other than submit, instantly and obey!
My radio interview with Katherine Albrecht - Carlos Miller Photography is Not a Crime is interviewed by Katherine Albrecht, activist, radio host and privacy advocate, Tuesday afternoon where they discussed his blog, his arrests, the situation in the United Kingdom and the spread of contempt of cop cases that are popping up on the internet on a regular basis.
