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.

So This Guy Isn't On Drugs?? #Highbeams

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.