Thread: OVERKILL: Police Kill An 80yr Old Man In His Own Bed Over Drugs That Weren’t There

OVERKILL: Police Kill An 80yr Old Man In His Own Bed Over Drugs That Weren’t There

By Clash Daily / 15 February 2014 /


Published on Feb 13, 2014
In the early morning hours of June 27, 2013, a team of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies pulled up to the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living in the rural outskirts of Los Angeles county with his wife Tonya Pate and stepson Adrian Lamos.

The deputies crashed through the front gate and began executing a search warrant for methamphetamine on the property. Detective Patrick Hobbs, a self-described narcotics expert who claimed he "smelled the strong odor of chemicals" downwind from the house after being tipped off to illegal activity from an anonymous informant, spearheaded the investigation.

The deputies announced their presence, and Pate emerged from the trailer where she'd been sleeping to escape the sweltering summer heat of the California desert. Lamos and a couple of friends emerged from another trailer, and a handyman tinkering with a car on the property also gave himself up without resistance. But Mallory, who preferred to sleep in the house, was nowhere to be seen.

Deputies approached the house, and what happened next is where things get murky. The deputies said they announced their presence upon entering and were met in the hallway by the 80-year-old man, wielding a gun and stumbling towards them. The deputies later changed the story when the massive bloodstains on Mallory's mattress indicated to investigators that he'd most likely been in bed at the time of the shooting. Investigators also found that an audio recording of the incident revealed a discrepancy in the deputies' original narrative: Before listening to the audio recording, [Sgt. John] Bones believed that he told Mallory to "Drop the gun" prior to the shooting. The recording revealed, however, that his commands to "Drop the gun" occurred immediately after the shooting.

When it was all over, Eugene Mallory died of six gunshot wounds from Sgt. John Bones' MP-5 9mm submachine gun. When a coroner arrived, he found the loaded .22 caliber pistol the two deputies claimed Mallory had pointed at them on the bedside table.

Mallory had not fired of a single shot. The raid turned up no evidence of methamphetamine on the property.

To find out more about this case, including details about what the police did find, watch the above video, featuring Mallory's widow Tonya Pate. Pate has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, an agency plagued by prison abuse scandals, questionable hiring practices, and allegations of racial profiling and harassment in recent years.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department declined multiple requests to comment on this story.

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The deputies said they announced their presence upon entering and were met in the hallway by the 80-year-old man, wielding a gun and stumbling towards them. The deputies later changed the story when the massive bloodstains on Mallory's mattress indicated to investigators that he'd most likely been in bed at the time of the shooting.

If this is true, it was an execution not a raid.

Oklahoma Police Beat Man To Death In Front Of Family For Trying To Defuse A Family Fight

February 17, 2014




In the latest instance of police brutality, three Moore, Oklahoma police officers have been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates their involvement in the death of Luis Rodriquez.
At a night out at the movies, Luis, his wife, Nair, and their daughter got into a verbal altercation that ended with Nair slapping the daughter and storming off. Luis attempted to defuse the situation by going after his wife when police stopped him and demanded his identification. His wife, meanwhile, continued to get in her car and was about to drive off so Luis didn’t stop for the police and kept on walking. That was all it took for the five officers on scene to take him down and start beating him.
The daughter, Lunahi, told News9 that the officers never gave him a chance, but continued to beat him long after he stopped struggling.

“When they flipped him over you could see all the blood on his face, it was, he was disfigured, you couldn’t recognize him.”

By that time, Nair Rodriguez said she was convinced Luis was dead.

“I saw him. His [motionless] body when people carry it to the stretcher,” she explained. “I knew that he was dead.”

The police never bothered to investigate the incident that started the night.
Oklahoma Police Beat Man To Death In Front Of Family For Trying To Defuse A Family Fight [continued]



Oklahoma Police Beat Man To Death In Front Of Family For Trying To Defuse A Family Fight

Jameson
February 16, 2014
Class Warfare Exists



In the latest instance of police brutality, three Moore, Oklahoma police officers have been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates their involvement in the death of Luis Rodriquez.
At a night out at the movies, Luis, his wife, Nair, and their daughter got into a verbal altercation that ended with Nair slapping the daughter and storming off. Luis attempted to defuse the situation by going after his wife when police stopped him and demanded his identification. His wife, meanwhile, continued to get in her car and was about to drive off so Luis didn’t stop for the police and kept on walking. That was all it took for the five officers on scene to take him down and start beating him.
The daughter, Lunahi, told News9 that the officers never gave him a chance, but continued to beat him long after he stopped struggling.

“When they flipped him over you could see all the blood on his face, it was, he was disfigured, you couldn’t recognize him.”

By that time, Nair Rodriguez said she was convinced Luis was dead.

“I saw him. His [motionless] body when people carry it to the stretcher,” she explained. “I knew that he was dead.”

The police never bothered to investigate the incident that started the night.

“I told them I hit her and he was just trying to reach me. Why didn’t they arrest me?”
Lunahi added, “My mom was taking a video and asking, ‘What are they doing this for? Why?’ And they didn’t give really an explanation.”

Nair did the right thing by recording the incident. Often times, a witness or victim’s recording is the only way officers are held accountable. Frequently, a case comes down to the officers word against the victim’s (or the victim’s family), and judges tend to side with law enforcement. In this case, police confiscated the phone she had been recording on so whether or not the video is destroyed is a very real concern.
Even though Nair felt her husband was already dead, she and her family waited desperately at the local hospital to hear news of his status. Two hours later, the police finally called them and informed them that Luis had been dead the whole time. The officers had never gotten around to informing them.
Now the family is seeking an attorney to represent them in an inevitable lawsuit. There is also an internal investigation within the department, the outcome of which is still pending.
Watch the heartbreaking interview with the Rodriguez family here, courtesy of News9.

http://libertycrier.com/oklahoma-pol...3306-284711521