Crime What did the cops do wrong today Megathread Vol. 6 ? (who knows, lots of cop threads)

koquerelle said:
More info on the Mississipi goon squad.

Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up

On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

The deputy, Christian Dedmon, informed his colleagues Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke they were going to a property in Braxton, roughly 30 miles south of Jackson, to handle a complaint received by the office’s chief investigator, Brett McAlpin. The details of what prosecutors say happened that night were shared in a federal charging document.

McAlpin’s White neighbor had told him several Black men were staying at a White woman’s home there and reported seeing suspicious behavior.

Dedmon warned the deputies there might be surveillance cameras on the property. If they spotted any cameras, the officers should knock on the door instead of kicking it down. But if not, he told them they had free rein to barge in without a warrant.

“No bad mugshots,” Dedmon added in another text. The other deputies understood what he meant: They had the green light to use “excessive force” on areas of a person’s body that would not be captured in a mugshot, prosecutors said.

Dedmon told the others over the radio another man, off-duty Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, would also accompany them. In four separate cars, the five men pulled into the driveway of the four-bedroom, ranch-style home. McAlpin was already in the neighborhood, watching the property from down the street, and followed behind.

The deputies avoided a surveillance camera above the front door. Dedmon, Opdyke and Elward broke open the carport door and Hartfield kicked open the back door.

Entering the home without a warrant, the officers encountered two Black men: Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins. Parker was living there to help take care of the woman who owned the property. Jenkins, his friend, was staying there temporarily.

Over the next two hours, Parker and Jenkins were subjected to grueling violence at the hands of the six White law enforcement officers, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth.

The horrors the two men endured—as well as the text messages and other details in this report—were included in the federal court document filed on July 31. The six officers were charged with a combined 13 felonies in connection with “the torture and physical abuse” of the two men that night, the Justice Department said in a news release. The officers, who had been fired or had resigned after the incident, pleaded guilty to all charges against them in federal court last Thursday.

Some of the officers involved even called themselves “The Goon Squad” because of their willingness to “use excessive force” and not report it, according to the federal document.

The former officers are also facing state charges – all six are facing a charge of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, four with obstruction of justice in the first degree, two are charged with home invasion, and one with aggravated assault – and are expected to plead guilty on August 14 as part of the plea deal, according to Mississippi Deputy Attorney General Mary Helen Wall.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said, “No human being should ever be subjected to the kind of torturous, traumatizing and horrific acts of violence that were carried out by these law enforcement officers.”

The invasion and assault
After the officers entered the Conerly Road home that night, neither Jenkins nor Parker resisted.

The federal charging document describes how the two men were tased, handcuffed and then tased again and again.

Dedmon demanded Parker tell him where drugs were stashed in the house, and Parker said there were no drugs. Pulling out his gun, Dedmon fired a bullet into the wall of the adjoining laundry room before ordering Parker a second time to reveal the drugs. Parker, again, insisted there were no drugs.

The officers then hauled the two men into the living room where all six men spewed racial slurs at them and accused them of taking advantage of the White woman who owned the house. They warned them to stay out of Rankin County and go back to “their side” of the Pearl River, referring to neighborhoods with a higher population of Black residents. Dedmon repeatedly drive-stunned Jenkins – placing the Taser in direct contact with his body – while the two Black men were being taunted.

Meanwhile, Opdyke searched the house and kicked open a bedroom door where he found a dildo and a BB gun. Opdyke mounted the dildo on the end of the gun and brought it into the living room.

Dedmon took the dildo and slapped Jenkins and Parker in the face with it. He threatened to rape the men with the device, but stopped when he realized Jenkins had defecated on himself.

Elward then held Jenkins and Parker down on the floor of the living room while Dedmon poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup into their mouths. Dedmon poured cooking grease on Parker’s head. Elward threw eggs at both men.

The officers next forced them to disrobe and shower together “to wash away evidence of abuse” before they were brought to jail, the charging document said.

The abuse continued in a bedroom, where Opdyke, Middleton, Dedmon and McAlpin assaulted Parker with pieces of wood and a metal sword.

Dedmon, Middleton, Hartfield and Elward then began to tase the two men repeatedly to see “which (Taser) was the most powerful,” the document said. Elward’s Taser was discharged eight times; Hartfield’s five; and Dedmon’s four.

Then, Dedmon fired into the yard.

Elward removed a bullet from his gun, forced Jenkins onto his knees and put the gun into his mouth. Elward fired the gun, which did not discharge.

He racked the slide, put the gun back in Jenkins’ mouth and pulled the trigger again.

The bullet lacerated Jenkins’ tongue, broke his jaw and went out through his neck.

The cover story
Jenkins lay bleeding on the floor as the officers convened on the back porch to devise a cover story, the federal charging document said.

The six officers would tell investigators Dedmon found bags of drugs on Jenkins outside the house, and the officers ran inside after Jenkins. They would say Elward shot him in self-defense, and Elward was the only officer in the house at the time.

The officers began to destroy the evidence. Middleton offered to “plant a ‘throw-down’ gun” he had in his patrol car on Jenkins, the document said. Elward instead planted the BB gun that had been used earlier with the dildo – all while Jenkins was still bleeding and not receiving medical attention.

They discarded one shell casing, and Hartfield threw the men’s soiled clothes into a wooded area and then stole the hard drive from the home’s surveillance system before throwing it into a creek.

McAlpin and Middleton threatened to kill the four other officers if they ever told the truth about what happened that night.

Each of the six officers filed false reports to corroborate their cover story and continued to abide by the false script in interviews with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which initially investigated the incident as an officer-involved shooting, according to a January 25 news release from the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.

That news release gave no hint of what the victims would later detail. At the time, local officials said the officers were at the home for drug enforcement activities.

In late June, Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey announced some of his office’s deputies had been fired, although he did not confirm the number or their names. The false charges that had been filed against Jenkins and Parker were dropped at the time of the officers’ firing.

‘Justice is what it all boils down to’
Parker and Jenkins laid out the details of that night in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in mid-June, alleging six White deputies had turned off their body cameras and handcuffed, kicked, waterboarded, punched, repeatedly used Tasers on the two men, called them racial slurs and threatened to rape them.

“In their repeated use of racial slurs in the course of their violent acts, (the deputies) were oppressive and hateful against their African- American victims. Defendants were motivated on the basis of race and the color of the skin of the persons they assaulted,” the lawsuit states.

When emergency medical personnel arrived at the scene, Jenkins was taken to a hospital and underwent multiple surgeries. He has suffered permanent physical injuries and cognitive damage, including disfigurement and impairment, according to the civil lawsuit. Parker also sought medical attention for injuries suffered during the incident, it said.

The five Rankin County officers were under the purview of Sheriff Bailey, who is among the named defendants in the victims’ civil lawsuit filed in June.

An attorney representing Sheriff Bailey in the victims’ civil lawsuit declined to comment on the case when contacted by CNN on Wednesday.

In the state case, each of the six former officers are charged with conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, according to the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Dedmon is charged with home invasion and Elward is charged with home invasion and aggravated assault.

CNN contacted the attorneys for each of the six men seeking comment on the state charges against them but did not receive a response from those representing McAlpin and Dedmon. Attorneys for Middleton, Elward and Hartfield declined to comment on the case.

An attorney for Opdyke said the former officer “has admitted to his wrongdoing” and will plead guilty to all charges against him in in Rankin County Circuit Court on August 14.

“He takes responsibility for his part in the horrific harms perpetrated on Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Parker, the victims, and is prepared to face the consequences of his misconduct,” reads a statement to CNN from Opdyke’s attorney, Jeffery Reynolds.

Bailey said during a Thursday news conference he was “ashamed,” and the badge of law enforcement was “tarnished by the criminal acts of these few individuals.”

The sheriff also said he does not plan to resign in the wake of the charges against the six officers. Bailey is not facing any charges in connection with the incident.

“The only thing I am guilty of on this incident right here is trusting grown men that swore an oath to do their job correctly,” he said.

During an interview with CNN’s Ryan Young in June, Jenkins and Parker said they had tried to tell their story in the months leading up to the lawsuit but were often not believed.

“It was hard,” Parker said. “You’re going up against guys whose careers are to be trustworthy … That’s something I never thought I would experience.”

Jenkins, who struggles to speak because of his injuries, said he’s angry at what was done to him and his friend. “It hurts,” he said. “And I’m embarrassed.”

As he spoke to CNN inside the house where the incident took place, Parker said, “It’s hard to stand right here, knowing what happened right here. … Justice is what it all boils down to. I’m just like them, you know, whether they are in uniform or not.”
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Scary story.
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Folks on this forum regularly try to tell me that Southern states are not particularly racist when I try to argue that the rural South is racist as fuck. I hope the fact that 6 officers tortured two black men for living with a white woman can highlight how bad things are. Six officers, not one, conspired to target black people over a series of years and even called themselves the Goon Squad because they prided themselves on using extra force on blacks. Nobody fucking cared when these officers were accused of unnecessary force in previous interactions.
 
woodguyatl said:
Folks on this forum regularly try to tell me that Southern states are not particularly racist when I try to argue that the rural South is racist as fuck. I hope the fact that 6 officers tortured two black men for living with a white woman can highlight how bad things are. Six officers, not one, conspired to target black people over a series of years and even called themselves the Goon Squad because they prided themselves on using extra force on blacks. Nobody fucking cared when these officers were accused of unnecessary force in previous interactions.
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If you are judging how racist a place is based on police action, you would agree that NYC and Los Angeles are just as racist as the rural South
 
You in the rignt thread homie?
 
woodguyatl said:
Folks on this forum regularly try to tell me that Southern states are not particularly racist when I try to argue that the rural South is racist as fuck. I hope the fact that 6 officers tortured two black men for living with a white woman can highlight how bad things are. Six officers, not one, conspired to target black people over a series of years and even called themselves the Goon Squad because they prided themselves on using extra force on blacks. Nobody fucking cared when these officers were accused of unnecessary force in previous interactions.
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The rural south contains places and people that time left behind. They're still clinging to the "south rising again" and all that shit. No surprise they're racist.
 
TankAbbott said:
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08...per-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/


MARION — In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.


Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”


The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.


The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting last week with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s lack of a driver’s license and conviction for drunken driving.


Meyer said he had never heard of police raiding a newspaper office during his 20 years at the Milwaukee Journal or 26 years teaching journalism at the University of Illinois.


“It’s going to have a chilling effect on us even tackling issues,” Meyer said, as well as “a chilling effect on people giving us information.”


The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid.


Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, said the police raid is unprecedented in Kansas.


“An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not just an infringement on the rights of journalists but an assault on the very foundation of democracy and the public’s right to know,” Bradbury said. “This cannot be allowed to stand.”

Meyer reported last week that Marion restaurant owner Kari Newell had kicked newspaper staff out of a public forum with LaTurner, whose staff was apologetic. Newell responded to Meyer’s reporting with hostile comments on her personal Facebook page.


A confidential source contacted the newspaper, Meyer said, and provided evidence that Newell had been convicted of drunken driving and continued to use her vehicle without a driver’s license. The criminal record could jeopardize her efforts to obtain a liquor license for her catering business.


A reporter with the Marion Record used a state website to verify the information provided by the source. But Meyer suspected the source was relaying information from Newell’s husband, who had filed for divorce. Meyer decided not to publish a story about the information, and he alerted police to the situation.


“We thought we were being set up,” Meyer said.


Police notified Newell, who then complained at a city council meeting that the newspaper had illegally obtained and disseminated sensitive documents, which isn’t true. Her public comments prompted the newspaper to set the record straight in a story published Thursday.

Sometime before 11 a.m. Friday, officers showed up simultaneously at Meyer’s home and the newspaper office. They presented a search warrant that alleges identity theft and unlawful use of a computer.

The search warrant identifies two pages worth of items that law enforcement officers were allowed to seize, including computer software and hardware, digital communications, cellular networks, servers and hard drives, items with passwords, utility records, and all documents and records pertaining to Newell. The warrant specifically targeted ownership of computers capable of being used to “participate in the identity theft of Kari Newell.”

Officers injured a reporter’s finger by grabbing her cellphone out of her hand, Meyer said. Officers at his home took photos of his bank account information.

He said officers told him the computers, cellphones and other devices would be sent to a lab.

“I don’t know when they’ll get it back to us,” Meyer said. “They won’t tell us.”

The seized computers, server and backup hard drive include advertisements and legal notices that were supposed to appear in the next edition of the newspaper.

“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” he said. “We will publish something.”

Newell, writing Friday under a changed name on her personal Facebook account, said she “foolishly” received a DUI in 2008 and “knowingly operated a vehicle without a license out of necessity.”

“Journalists have become the dirty politicians of today, twisting narrative for bias agendas, full of muddied half-truths,” Newell wrote. “We rarely get facts that aren’t baited with misleading insinuations.”

She said the “entire debacle was brought forth in an attempt to smear my name, jeopardize my licensing through ABC (state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division), harm my business, seek retaliation, and for personal leverage in an ongoing domestic court battle.”

At the law enforcement center in Marion, a staff member said only Police Chief Gideon Cody could answer questions for this story, and that Cody had gone home for the day and could not be reached by phone. The office of Attorney General Kris Kobach wasn’t available to comment on the legal controversy in Marion, which is north of Wichita in central Kansas.

Melissa Underwood, communications director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, replied by email to a question about whether the KBI was involved in the case.

“At the request of the Marion Police Department, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, we began an investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing in Marion, Kansas. The investigation is ongoing,” Underwood said.

Meyer, whose father worked at the newspaper from 1948 until he retired, bought the Marion County Record in 1998, preventing a sale to a corporate newspaper chain.

As a journalism professor in Illinois, Meyer said, he had graduate students from Egypt who talked about how people would come into the newspaper office and seize everything so they couldn’t publish. Those students presented a scholarly paper at a conference in Toronto about what it has done to journalism there.

“That’s basically what they’re trying to do here,” Meyer said. “The intervention is just like that repressive government of Egypt. I didn’t think it could happen in America.”
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Where the fuck are all the grifters who made millions of dollars claiming to be "first amendment absolutists" when it comes to stories like this?

Local PDs flagrantly violate first amendment rights all the time, and they don't say a word about it.

But I guess it pays more to complain about blue haired undergrads and social media companies trying to placate their advertisers by having moderation policies.
 
Phisher said:
Where the fuck are all the grifters who made millions of dollars claiming to be "first amendment absolutists" when it comes to stories like this?

Local PDs flagrantly violate first amendment rights all the time, and they don't say a word about it.

But I guess it pays more to complain about blue haired undergrads and social media companies trying to placate their advertisers by having moderation policies.
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There is a whole thread about this.
 
Has this been discussed already?


Texas Rep Ronny Jackson responds after new video shows police tackle him to ground, handcuff him at rodeo

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-rep-ronny-jackson-responds-130437203.html

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Texas Rep Ronny Jackson responds after new video shows police tackle him to ground, handcuff him at rodeo
Lawrence Richard
Tue, August 15, 2023 at 6:04 AM PDT·3 min read
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Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, has responded after authorities released a video Monday showing officers tackling him to the ground and placing him in handcuffs at a rodeo last month as he was attempting to assist a girl having a medical emergency. The video then shows the lawmaker profanely berating the officers and threatening to report them to the governor for what he later called their "incompetence."

The released body camera footage, a 31-minute video taken during an altercation at a rodeo in White Deer, shows Jackson, a trained ER physician, approaching a group of people crowding around a 15-year-old girl who authorities said was having a seizure.

Moments later, law enforcement officers physically dragged Jackson from the group, put him facedown and placed him in handcuffs before ultimately helping him to his feet. The teenager was put on a stretcher while the two-term Republican congressman and the state trooper shared a tense exchange of words.

"I’m glad the video is out," Jackson wrote on X after the incident. "It shows the incompetence of the authorities and their complete disregard for the young girl in distress. We have the best Sheriffs in the country here in the panhandle and north Texas. Unfortunately, the Sheriff in Carson County is not among them."

In another post, the former White House physician apologized for his language and added, "but I will not apologize for getting upset & speaking my mind considering the circumstances."

He also wrote, "If I had to do it again, I would still step up & act in a life-threatening situation. I will ALWAYS help someone in need. I WILL NOT apologize for that."

In the video, Jackson can be heard telling a state trooper that he was "going to call the governor tomorrow, and I’m going to talk to him about this (expletive), because this is (expletive) ridiculous."

Fox News Digital contacted Rep. Jackson’s office for additional comment but did not immediately receive a response.

State police released the video footage Monday, prompting a response from Jackson spokesperson Kate Lair, who reiterated the congressman's comments and said he was prevented from providing medical care to the teenager due to "overly aggressive and incompetent actions" by officers.

"Congressman Jackson, as a trained ER physician, will not apologize for sparing no effort to help in a medical emergency, especially when the circumstances were chaotic and the local authorities refused to help the situation," Lair told The Associated Press.

Two people who reportedly witnessed the July interaction, Chris and Jodi Jordan, said they were at the rodeo and explained Jackson was trying to help the girl before medics arrived and that the deputies aggressively pulled him away.

"We were just appalled," said Chris Jordan, 48, of Hereford. "The slamming to the ground I didn’t understand whatsoever."

White Deer is a small town outside the panhandle city of Amarillo.

After the encounter, Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry, Jackson and the two officials further discussed the incident and potential repercussions for the involved officers.

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The video shows Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson being taken to the ground by officers and profanely berating them. The congressman later said he was trying to help a person who needed medical care before officers intervened.
According to the sheriff's report, Jackson told Terry there needed to be consequences for the deputies who had handcuffed him.

Terry also wrote Jackson said that "he would pull hell and high water and come and ‘bury me in the next election.’"

Jackson worked in the White House and gave a glowing review of then-President Donald Trump's health. After leaving the administration, he was first elected in 2020.
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‘This Is Totally Our Fault’: Missouri Police Department Apologizes for Hiring Cop Who Posted About Decapitating Black People Online

The posts, made only a month ago, were extremely offensive. While Smith posted some political memes, many of the posts were homophobic memes. The most disturbing was a post that referenced decapitating Black people.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/totally-fault-missouri-police-department-220000067.html
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Like Pedos gravitating towards the priesthood and jobs that puts them close to kids, racists and bullies will gravitate towards Law Enforcement
 
MicroBrew said:
‘This Is Totally Our Fault’: Missouri Police Department Apologizes for Hiring Cop Who Posted About Decapitating Black People Online

The posts, made only a month ago, were extremely offensive. While Smith posted some political memes, many of the posts were homophobic memes. The most disturbing was a post that referenced decapitating Black people.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/totally-fault-missouri-police-department-220000067.html
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Like Pedos gravitating towards the priesthood and jobs that puts them close to kids, racists and bullies will gravitate towards Law Enforcement
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It's like moths to a flame

Psychopaths, wh*te supremacists, and raging wife beating alcoholics all dressed up in blue keeping our streets terrorized
 
Pig prevents young man from purchasing items at Walmart.
Pig then gets within 6 feet (Covid anyone?).
Pig doesn't understand wifi.
Young man starts exercising/jogging, Pig chases and tackles him for no reason.
Pigs destroy his AirPods.


 
Sorry if already posted.



Black men tortured by cops for the crime of being roommates with a cripped white woman, one of whom has been friends with one of the victims for years.

NSFW details.

Abner Louima all over again.
 
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