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    Police Misconduct: In Indiana You Can Shoot Back

    Police Misconduct: In Indiana You Can Shoot Back

    June 8, 2012 by Sam Rolley
    America is becoming a police state.

    You probably don’t need to be reminded that America is becoming a police state. Reports of police misconduct throughout the country are consistently on the rise. But the questions remain: Why isn’t the public outraged and why aren’t elected officials moving to quell police misconduct?

    Here are some of the most recent examples of jackboot cops abusing their authority:

    ♦ In New York City, it is likely not uncommon for innocent bystanders to be punched in the throat by members of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “personal army” — the New York Police Department. But, New York’s finest probably don’t often screw up and do it to one of New York’s honorables.

    From Wednesday’s New York Times:

    Thomas D. Raffaele, a 69-year-old justice of the New York State Supreme Court, encountered a chaotic scene while walking down a Queens street with a friend: Two uniformed police officers stood over a shirtless man lying facedown on the pavement. The man’s hands were cuffed behind his back and he was screaming. A crowd jeered at the officers.

    The judge, concerned the crowd was becoming unruly, called 911 and reported that the officers needed help.

    But within minutes, he said, one of the two officers became enraged – and the judge became his target. The officer screamed and cursed at the onlookers, some of whom were complaining about what they said was his violent treatment of the suspect, and then he focused on Justice Raffaele, who was wearing a T-shirt and jeans. The judge said the officer rushed forward and, using the upper edge of his hand, delivered a sharp blow to the judge’s throat that was like what he learned when he was trained in hand-to-hand combat in the Army.

    Note to New York City judges: Wear your robes at all times; it may be the only way to keep from being beat down with the rest of the proles.

    ♦ Often, people complain that “walking while black” still raises suspicion from law enforcement. Well, in Louisiana it appears that showing up at a GOP event while supporting Ron Paul will also earn you a beat down. At least that’s what allegedly happened to Henry Herford, a Louisiana GOP Chairman and Paul supporter who got kicked out of the State convention and arrested by Shreveport police after calling to order a re-formed convention approved by duly elected Paul delegates.

    See for yourself:



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    Herford, who reportedly was fitted recently with a prosthetic hip, appears to be well into middle age — not exactly what one would picture when he hears Republicans complain about the raucous, rude and unkempt young Paul supporters who keep “ruining” their conventions.

    The guy recording the first video wasn’t driving a car — if you couldn’t tell — so what does the cop need his driver’s license for? Maybe it was an intimidation tactic to encourage the man to hand over the “evidence” on his phone? After all, it did contain video proof that at least four officers joined in taking down a man who repeatedly complained of a hip injury and who appears to be trying only to avoid falling to the ground.

    ♦ When police tell you that you better be sure that you tell them the truth, they know from experience that even cops lie to cops. Anthony Gerardi Jr., a 24-year veteran of the Fairfield Police Department in New Jersey, lied to cops after the friends he was hanging out with — members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang — hit a man in the back of the head with a beer mug and then tried to punch his wife in the face. According to NJ.com, he is resigning from his job. Maybe he can get a gig with the Angels.

    ♦ In New York City, cops stop and frisk at will. In Aurora, Colo., they don’t even bother with frisking if a crime has been committed; they just cuff random people. But rest assured, these illegal detention tactics aren’t used unless they have “virtual certainty” (whatever that means) that the suspect is nearby.

    Some police in Indiana are upset over an National Rifle Association-backed law that recently went into effect in that State that allows individuals to shoot police in response to the “unlawful intrusion” by a “public servant” to protect themselves and others, or their property. According to a report on Cleveland.com police departments in the State — the first in the Nation to enact such legislation — are changing the way they operate to avoid situations that may leave innocent citizens feeling threatened by law officers. But given the frequency of law enforcement abuses of power throughout the country, some people may argue that other States should pursue similar legislation.

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    Double Taxation For Emergency Services

    June 8, 2012 by Sam Rolley

    In some places police or fire response to a fender bender is going to cost you.

    In some cash-strapped municipalities throughout the country, residents are being double taxed to raise money to help fund local police and fire departments.

    According to MSNBC, municipalities in as many as 34 States have taken to charging motorists for police and fire response to the scene of an accident. The fees can range into the hundreds of dollars.

    The fees, dubbed “accident response fees” or “crash taxes,” are usually billed to a motorist’s insurance company. But in some cases a collection agency winds up trying to collect from the individual.

    The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies is among the insurance organizations working to do away with the fees. Joe Thesing, assistant vice president-state affairs with NAMIC, says that insurance policies usually don’t cover non-medical accident response, so the victims end up footing the bill.

    “These fees are a form of double taxation applied only to responsible citizens who follow state law and carry auto insurance,” Thesing said. “It’s our belief that responding to investigative accidents is a function of police and fire departments supported by local taxes.”

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    Driver in diabetic shock killed by cops?

    Published: 07 June, 2012, 01:12
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    The widow of a Baltimore, Maryland man that died after being assaulted by cops and repeatedly stunned with Taser guns is hoping that a just-filed lawsuit will bring justice following the slaying of her husband.

    Linda Johnson is seeking more than $10 million in punitive damages stemming from a May 27, 2010 run in with the law that left her husband, a 48-year-old, dead.

    Carl D. Johnson was driving home from a Bible study class two years ago, his wife says, when he suffered a severe diabetic reaction. Several 911 calls were placed by automobile drivers who witnessed Johnson drive erratically on the shoulder of a Baltimore-area highway after he allegedly went into shock. When cops made it to the scene to investigate the incident, though, things took a turn for the worst.

    Responding officers say Mr. Johnson did not cooperate with them as they approached his vehicle, but his wife writes in a court filing that things were different. According to the complaint, State Trooper Davon Parker arrived on the scene first, tapped on the window or Mr. Johnson’s car and then blasted the man with a burst of pepper-spray.

    Still suffering from the diabetes-related episode, Johnson exited the car only to be clubbed at least once in the knee. Police accounts attest that Johnson tried to fight off the officers, but the just-filed lawsuit insists that a second officer then arrived and assaulted Johnson similarly with his own nightstick.

    According to the complaint, Baltimore County Police Officer Nicholas Wolferman then arrived, struck Johnson "at least three times" with his baton and then, along with another officer, "grabbed Mr. Johnson and threw him over the guardrail.”

    His widow says she believes five cops were present when Officer Andrew O’Neill fired his Taser gun at Johnson twice. Then, reads the complaint, another officer punched the man in the face before he was handcuffed.

    By the end of altercation, 52 individuals in all were believed to be dispatched to the scene. More than a dozen were on the scene, says Mrs. Johnson, when cops removed the man’s wallet — which included a medical alert cart explaining his condition — as he laid dying on the ground.

    Johnson then went into cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead an hour later. Mrs. Johnson is charging the Maryland State Police, Baltimore County Police, departmental captains and six officers alleged to have been involved in the beating. She says that the defendants should be reprimanded for wrongful death, loss of consortium, false imprisonment, false arrest, battery, gross negligence and other charges.

    Amnesty International reports that Taser guns have been a factor in the deaths of at least 500 people in only the last decade. Johnson’s death marked the second time in just three years that a casualty was linked to a Taser gun used by a Baltimore County Police officer.

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