Deputies Kill a Man In Custody

The undated photo provided by the Denver Department of Safety shows Marvin Booker, a homeless Denver street preacher.

 The 5-foot, 135-pound inmate died in July 2010 after deputies subdued him in the booking area of the jail.

The trial comes amid calls for a federal investigation of the department over other abuse cases.
Sheriff Gary Wilson resigned in July as the city agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle another federal jail-abuse lawsuit by a former inmate over a jail beating.
Booker, 56, was cursing and refusing to follow orders, authorities have said. He was restrained by deputies who got on top of him, placed him in a sleeper hold, handcuffed him and shocked him with a stun gun.
Attorney Mari Newman, who is representing the family of Booker, countered in court that the force was a malicious overreaction to the inmate.
"The fact that he was frail makes it all the more outrageous," she said.
Denver's medical examiner said Booker died of cardiorespiratory arrest during restraint, and ruled his death a homicide. The report listed other factors in his death, including emphysema, an enlarged heart and recent cocaine use.
Rice said Booker's death was the result of his own poor choice to keep resisting deputies even as they tried to subdue him with increasing force.
"Mr. Booker made the decision to fight the officers, who never lost their temper and never lost control of their actions," he said. "All he had to do was stop, follow the rules and behave like all of the other inmates and we wouldn't be here."
Rice claimed an inmate in better health would have survived.
Prosecutors declined to charge the deputies, and department officials never disciplined them, saying it was reasonable for the deputies to believe he could harm someone and that force was necessary to restrain him.
Booker's family filed the federal suit seeking unspecified damages against the city and county of Denver as well as deputies Faun Gomez, James Grimes, Kyle Sharp and Kenneth Robinette and Sgt. Carrie Rodriguez.
In a rare move, the city last week accepted liability for Booker's death, which could prevent his family's attorneys from presenting evidence from other excessive force complaints.
Surveillance footage shows three officers wrestling Booker onto chairs then down to the floor before two others join the scuffle. One puts his arm around Booker's neck for about three minutes. Officials said at the time that a deputy warned Booker to stop resisting.
An autopsy report said deputies had their body weight on Booker's back for four minutes while he was face-down on the floor.
The video also shows deputies carrying Booker's limp body to an isolation cell after one of them stunned him for at least eight seconds.

Man Shoots Intruder, Who Turns Out To Be a Cop

Should He Even Be In Jail, 

Let Alone Face the Death Penalty?

This May, Officer Charles Dinwiddie and fellow members of his SWAT Team crawled into the windows of a Killeen, Texas home, unannounced, at 5:30 am.
The practice is known as a ‘no-knock raid.’ It is intended to catch the occupants of the home off-guard.
In this case, however, it ended in tragedy. The man living in the home opened fire, wounding another officer in the leg and killing Dinwiddie. Two other officers received only minor injuries due to their protective armor.
The raid was intended to look for drugs in Marvin Louise Guy’s home. Instead, no drugs were found, although a few pieces of evidence suggesting drug use was recovered.
Guy, who woke from a dead sleep to find the officers entering his home, is now facing the death penalty in Texas for shooting a cop.
Unbelievably, this is not the first time it happened in Texas. In December 2013, another man shot a police officer when they conducted a no-knock raid to look for drugs.
In that case, the jury refused to indict, noting that Henry Goedrich Magee had a right to defend his home and his pregnant girlfriend from what he believed were intruders.
His lawyer agreed.
“This was a terrible tragedy that a deputy sheriff was killed, but Hank Magee believed that he and his pregnant girlfriend were being robbed,” Dick DeGuerin, told the Associated Press. “He did what a lot of people would have done. He defended himself and his girlfriend and his home.”
In this case, however, Guy, who is 49, is being charged not only with capital murder for Dinwiddie’s death, but for three cases of attempted capital murder for the other cops injured while crawling into the home.
The prosecutor Bell County District Attorney Henry Garza has also said he plans to seek the death penalty against Guy, despite the precedent set when Magee was ultimately not charged at all.
Some point out that the fact Guy is black and Magee is white may be one of the reasons for seeking the ultimate punishment.
Others think that it is a sign of a police force and legal system gone amok.
“Had the man in the dark of night been a burglar, Guy would be a Texas hero. They would hold a parade for him and name a day “Marvin Louis Guy Day” to celebrate how he took out some scuzzball who nobody cared about anyway,” criminal justice blogger Scott Greenfield wrote, “But Dinwiddie was a cop, even though there was no way Guy could have known that.  Even in Killeen, smoking some crack* isn’t that big a deal.”

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Mother says race is to blame for the shooting death of her son by police

Susan Hunt of Saratoga Springs said her family wants answers about what happened leading up to Wednesday's shooting by officers of her son, Darrien Hunt.
On Saturday afternoon, law enforcement authorities issued a statement saying that the man lunged at officers with a sword.
The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/XfgtTx) that police say they were called about 9:40 a.m. Wednesday to investigate a "suspicious" man walking near businesses along Redwood Road while carrying a "Samurai-type sword."
"When the officers made contact with Mr. Hunt, he brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers with the sword, at which time Mr. Hunt was shot," Utah County Chief Deputy Attorney Tim Taylor said in a statement.
Before the statement was issued, Susan Hunt told the Deseret News: "They killed my son because he's black. No white boy with a little sword would they shoot while he's running away.
"Those stupid cops thought they had to murder over a toy. This is my baby. This is my family. And they ruined my family."
The city on Friday issued a statement saying the shooting was under investigation by the county attorney's office.
"We sympathize with Mr. Hunt's family during this difficult time," the statement says. "Any claim that our officers' actions were a result of Mr. Hunt's race is completely unfounded and speculative. Our officers responded to a call for service and addressed the situation that was presented to them."
Based on the limited information the family has been given, Susan Hunt said, it believes a shot was fired by police during the confrontation and multiple shots were fired after he ran away.
Susan Hunt said her son was carrying a Katana, a souvenir sword bought from an Asian gift store that has a rounded edge, not a blade.
His mother is white, and his father is black, the Standard-Examiner of Ogden reported. Susan Hunt had just returned to Utah after separation from her husband to start a new life for the family.
She said she and her family fled from an abusive relationship and her son was still trying to process many emotions.
"My son is a tender heart who would not hurt anybody," she said. "My son is a beautiful, bright-eyed, intelligent boy."

Boynton Beach police officer Threatens to Shoot Unarmed Young Man (RAW VIDEO)

Boynton Beach police officer pull over some young men for an unspecified reason. As they start recording & teasing the cop he becomes upset & overbearing. He then calls for backup while trying to keep a 'grip' on the situation. When more cops show up, they turn volatile and get physically violent while also threatening the young men at gunpoint...

An officer actually pulls his gun out, aims  at

and threatens to shoot a young man. 

His exact words are;

"I'll fucking put a round in your ass so quick"

This is unacceptable.

Record incidents if you can,  you have the right to do so.

SWAT Storm The Wrong House w/ Kids Inside & Injure All Of Them (video)

 “They didn’t have any reason to, but they hit my nephew in the head with their rifle. He’s 13″


A SWAT team is under investigation for storming into a home in Coconut Grove at around 11 a.m. with a narcotics warrant.
According to the homeowner, Bobby Mclendon, the warrant that SWAT presented to raid his house was for 2 blocks away. However these brutes did not care.
They came in belligerent, with guns drawn ordering children around like slaves. When the children didn’t react fast enough to the officers’ commands one child was subsequently bludgeoned with the buttstock of a rifle.
“They didn’t have any reason to, but they hit my nephew in the head with their rifle. He’s 13,” recounts Mclendon.
Major Delrish Moss, with Miami PD, said that in all of the chaos of the raid, the 13-year-old was injured when he “ran into an officer’s weapon.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
After assaulting the first child, they went into the room of Mclendon’s 12-year-old son, who was asleep. SWAT ordered the boy out of the bed and to put his hands behind his back. As the boy was complying with their orders, but apparently not fast enough, “they punched him in his left eye,” says Mclendon.

“They broke every single flat screen TV, they broke the play station 4, they broke every single picture frame for whatever reason…..Every single thing they could possibly break, they broke,” said Mclendon.

According to McClendon, officers went to the wrong house because the address on the warrant states 3744 Williams Avenue and the home that was raided was at 3844 Thomas Avenue. That point is disputed by Miami Police.

“This was the right house,” said Moss. “Not only was it the right house, but a gun was seized and illegal narcotics taken from the location.”

The “narcotics” that police found turned out to be a small amount of marijuana. Also, last time we checked, guns were not illegal.

This is yet another barbaric example of the aggressive, militarized police system being beefed up and used against good people, in the relentless and deadly war on drugs.

The state does not care whether they lay waste to children or even infants, in their immoral pursuit to control what you put into your own body.

Chicago Cop Snatches Camera, Handcuffs Man For Recording Her w/out "Permission" (RAW VIDEO)

A Chicago police officer stepped out of a patrol car with her phone recording before snatching a camera from a citizen who was recording her, handcuffing him and telling him he had no right to record her.
“Did I give you permission to record me?” the cop demanded to know.
“I’m recording the whole situation that is going on,” the man said.
The cop then demands his identification before the video turns off.
The incident begins right after the 2:10 mark.
The first two minutes of the video show a bunch of cops kicking a group of citizens out of a public park for reasons that are not clear.
It appears as if the citizens were not doing much more than receiving therapeutic massages from a woman who had her massage chair with her and was telling the cops she is a professional and they intend to come back the following day.
One cop tells her they are only trying to “reduce crowds” to “reduce the potential for violence” and mentions smoking and drinking, but the people in the video don’t appear to be doing any of that.
The woman is trying to rationalize with the cop, telling him that that Garfield Park is the safest place to go because so many other parts of Chicago are violent and that they, themselves, monitor the park for potential violence.
The female cop then arrives on the scene, proving that the safest place to go for this group is completely unsafe from cops.

Suspect in 4 deaths caught in Florida

Detectives found the bodies a day earlier when they went to check on a 4-year-old boy believed to be the suspect's son, who authorities say is autistic.
Police said they arrested Adam Matos, 28, after tricking him into leaving his room — where he was staying with the boy — on the 18th floor of the historic Floridan Palace Hotel. Matos had checked in under his real name, they said.
Results were pending of a DNA test that would determine whether Matos is the father of the boy, Ismael Tristan Santisteban.
"I love my son and I hope that he's safe right now," Matos told reporters as he was led to a police car outside the hotel. He denied killing the victims or knowing who did. Officials said an investigator who specializes in talking to autistic children was interviewing Ismael. They were not sure whether he might have witnessed the killings.
After Matos' arrest, the boy seemed fine, said Jane Castor, Tampa's police chief.
"He is in good spirits," she told a news conference. She said she did not know whether Matos had a weapon in the room.
Matos is the only suspect in the deaths of the four people whose bodies were found in Hudson, some 45 miles away from the Tampa hotel, authorities said. Pasco deputies declined to release the names pending the conclusion of autopsies. But a search warrant obtained by both The Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times lists them as Megan Brown, 27; her parents, Margaret and Greg Brown, both 52; and another man, Nicholas Leonard. All recently lived in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, as did Matos. The Associated Press could not obtain a copy of the warrant.
Margaret and Greg Brown owned a Lehigh Valley kennel that had recently lost its license for employing a man who had once been convicted of animal cruelty at another kennel, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tara Cellini of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, who owns the Florida home with her husband, Ben, and rented it to the Browns, said the couple and their daughter abruptly moved south a few months ago, saying "they were just tired of all the work up here and they wanted to go down there to slow their lives down and enjoy their lives."
She also said the family had trouble with Matos, whom Megan Brown had dated.
Detectives released only a few details about what specific evidence ties Matos to the slayings. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco did say Matos had been seen in the Hudson area recently and quickly became a suspect.
Court records in Pennsylvania show Matos had been arrested numerous times for harassment, theft, burglary, trespassing, assault and driving under the influence. He pleaded guilty to some of the charges, and others appear to have been dismissed.
He is due in a Hillsborough County court Saturday to face a charge of aggravated assault related to an incident on Aug. 28, when the boy was last seen at his home. His mother called police and said Matos had threatened her with a knife and then fled, said Nocco. She told investigators she was scared of Matos, but authorities could not find him.
On Thursday, Pasco sheriff's deputies were checking on the family, but no one was home.
They noticed a bad odor in the area and about three-quarters of a mile down the street found the bodies of two men and two women in a pile in a grassy area out in the open with birds circling overhead, police said. The bodies had apparently lain unseen for several days in the working-class neighborhood with houses big and small that abuts canals leading to the Gulf of Mexico.
The names of the four victims were not released pending identification, Nocco said.
"It's been quiet around here," said Mark Evans, who helps run a storage facility and landscaping service that overlooks the area where the bodies were found. "We mow some lawns over on that street, and we didn't see anything out of the ordinary."
A tip from a cab driver who had driven a man and a boy the hour and a half or so to Tampa led officials downtown, Nocco said. There, witnesses said they'd seen Matos at a bus station, asking about fares. Authorities said they thought he planned to travel to Key West. A ticket wasn't available, officials said, so he headed to the hotel.
Once he checked in — and called the front desk at least once, asking how to connect to the Internet — staff called police, and the SWAT team gathered in the lobby.

Bengals re-sign player to help him pay for daughter's cancer treatments

The Cincinnati Bengals made arguably their greatest move of the season this week.
The Bengals re-signed defensive tackle Devon Still to their practice squad Sunday to help him pay for his 4-year-old daughter's cancer treatments. He was waived by the team last Saturday.
Still learned back in June that his daughter, Leah, has stage-four pediatric cancer. Since the diagnosis, Still's mind understandably hasn't been completely on football as he missed parts of organized team activities and minicamp this offseason to be with his daughter, which is why he understood the team's decision to cut him.
"I completely understand where the Bengals were coming from when they cut me because I couldn't give football 100 percent," Still told ABC News.
But when Still received the call this morning that he had been signed to the practice squad and would receive health insurance as well as a weekly salary of $6,300, he was incredibly grateful. Still also will remain in the game he loves, for the team that drafted him, without all of the traveling, meaning he can be closer to his daughter as she undergoes treatments.

"They could have washed their hands with me and said they didn't care about what I was going through off the field," Still said. "It's like a blessing in disguise for me."

Joan Rivers Dead at Age of 81

After a battle with illness, a medical induced coma & being on life support the actress, comedian and hostess has passed on. JUNE 8, 1933 - SEPT 4, 2014

NY driver charged in child's death arrested again

Franklyn Reyes, 18, made an illegal turn Sunday evening and refused to put the SUV in park when an officer asked him to, police said. One officer had reached through a passenger-side window to try to put the vehicle in park when Reyes sped off, and the officer was dragged about a block. Police said Reyes was arrested after he ditched the car in a parking garage and hid in the office.
His lawyer didn't immediately return a message seeking comment.
The Manhattan district attorney's office said Reyes was being held without bail after his arraignment on assault and other charges and is due back in court Friday.
Reyes is awaiting trial on a manslaughter charge in the death of Ariel Russo last year. Authorities said he had taken his parents' car without permission and was fleeing officers who were trying to stop him from driving erratically. The SUV jumped a curb and hit a building, pinning Ariel and striking her grandmother, who survived.
He has also been accused of taking jewelry, cash and wine from a dead woman's apartment. His attorney has said that Reyes denies taking anything and was helping his father, the building superintendent, with a plumbing leak. Reyes' father was charged with similar crimes.
The judge overseeing Reyes' cases had offered the teen a deal where he'd receive a maximum of four years behind bars in Russo's death and the chance to have his case eventually sealed. He faced up 15 years in prison if convicted at trial. It's unclear if his latest arrest will affect the proposal.
Sanford Rubenstein, an attorney for Ariel Russo's parents, said Wednesday that the family was outraged.
"That offer should be revoked. He should stand trial in every case that he has," Rubenstein said.

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As you know by now, Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker was suspended four games for the use of amphetamines. Pro Football Talk reported that Welker "took MDMA… that had been cut with amphetamines" at this year's Kentucky Derby. Welker, of course, denied all accusations, telling the Denver Post, "I wouldn't have any idea where to get a Molly or what a Molly is." Regardless of Welker's denial, we were still treated to gems like these on Twitter.

Million Dollar Marijuana Business Goes Up In Smoke

Quebec’s billion-dollar marquis of marijuana is volunteering for a stiffer drug trafficking sentence in the United States — provided Ottawa guarantees him an inmate transfer to Canada, just as it did for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr.
Jimmy Cournoyer, 34, pleaded guilty last year in a New York court to running a massive marijuana and cocaine-trafficking enterprise, moving an estimated $1-billion in drugs across borders.
He is now arguing over his sentence.
U.S. prosecutors say Cournoyer is a masterful drug baron who forged ties to the Mafia in Montreal, the Hells Angels biker gang, aboriginal smugglers and Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.
Prosecutors last month asked Brooklyn federal Judge Raymond Dearie to hand Cournoyer a 30-year prison term, instead of 20 years, because he likely will be transferred to a prison in Canada, where his sentence would be slashed by Canada’s more lenient parole system.
(By treaty agreement, citizens of Canada and the United States who are imprisoned in the other country can apply to serve their sentence in their homeland.)
As part of Cournoyer’s plea bargaining, he asked for a binding agreement approving a transfer to Canada but was told the government could not do that, said Gerald McMahon, Cournoyer’s New York lawyer.
“We have just learned that the United States government does, in fact, make such agreements,” Mr. McMahon said in a court filing.
He sent Judge Dearie a copy of diplomatic notes between Canada and the United States agreeing to transfer Khadr, a Canadian who had been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay where he pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism. Khadr is now is serving his sentence in Alberta.
A 2010 note to the U.S. State Department from Canada’s embassy in Washington, D.C., confirmed to U.S. prosecutors that, “as requested by the United States, the Government of Canada is inclined to favourably consider Mr. Khadr’s application to be transferred to Canada.”
Cournoyer wants one of those diplomatic agreements too, and in return he will agree to a 30-year sentence instead of fighting the government for a 20-year term.
“It is clear from that exhibit that an agreement guaranteeing treaty transfer to Canada can be done,” Mr. McMahon told the judge.
“Considering that the government has expressed optimism that Jimmy Cournoyer will at some point be transferred to Canada, they should gladly accept this offer.
“And Cournoyer, who has not seen a member of his family since he was seized in Mexico on Feb. 17, 2012, will finally be able to go home.”
Mr. McMahon also says the U.S. government is trying to spoil Cournoyer’s international prison transfer by accusing him of criminal acts he was not charged with, including kidnapping, assaults, gun running, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
“The recitation of criminal conduct is not only totally false, according to Cournoyer, but it makes no sense,” Mr. McMahon told the judge.
“The prosecutor knows very well that Canada is much less likely to approve the transfer of a prisoner who is alleged to have committed acts of violence and/or obstruction of justice.”
Cournoyer specifically denies working with the Rizzuto crime family, historically the dominant Mafia organization in Montreal, as prosecutors allege.
“Cournoyer never partnered or associated with anyone from the Rizzuto family and never employed [alleged Mafia soldier Giuseppe] Fetta as a driver and bodyguard,” Mr. McMahon wrote, saying the government’s allegation is a case of mistaken identity — Cournoyer’s former driver, a man who “had no connection to the Rizzuto family but who looks like Fetta.”
“Cournoyer also never imported firearms into Canada for the Rizzuto family,” he wrote.
Cournoyer shepherded his businesses from growing a little marijuana in his Laval apartment as a teenager to a “massive international drug consortium,” prosecutors say.
He lived a playboy lifestyle, driving exotic sports cars, entertaining friends on an island resort and partying with celebrities and his international model girlfriend.