Wednesday, July 29, 2015

white officer murders another Black man who is unarmed [RAW VIDEO]


Samuel Dubose, Ray Tensing, Sam Dubose and Ray Tensing, Cincinnati police shooting
MURDERER                                             VICTIM
Officials have released body camera footage showing a University of Cincinnati police officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a traffic stop.The video above shows the full recording of the traffic stop, with the moment of the shooting blurred. The shooting occurs at about the 1:45 mark of the video.
Officer Ray Tensing, who is white, killed Sam DuBose on July 19 in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mount Auburn.
The full video, unedited and without the shooting blurred, can be watched below. It also includes the aftermath of the shooting and Tensing’s conversations with other officers. Warning, the video is graphic:
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said the video shows a “senseless” and “asinine” shooting by a man who “never should have been a police officer.”
Tensing, 25, was fired by the University of Cincinnati after his arrest. He worked there for four years and was also a graduate of the university.
The video shows Tensing pulling over DuBose for not having a front license plate. Tensing asks DuBose for his driver’s license, and DuBose eventually says he does not have it. After Tensing asks DuBose if his license is suspended and then tells him to get out of the car, DuBose then turns the keys in his ignition, and the car can be hearding starting up. He says “I didn’t even do nothing.”
DuBose has his hand on the driver’s side door, holding it closed, as Tensing tries to open it. Tensing then reaches into the car and toward the keys. As he does that, DuBose leans backwards and the car starts to roll forward a bit. Tensing appears to grab onto DuBose’s seatbelt as DuBose leans away from the officer. Tensing then draws his gun, points it through the window and fires one shot, hitting DuBose in the head.
Tensing falls backwards to the ground and DuBose’s car speeds off and eventually crashes down the street. Tensing chases after the car, while radioing in that shots were fired. The prosecutor said DuBose was dead instantly.
Tensing originally said he was dragged by the car and feared for his life, but Deters, the prosecutor, said the video shows he wasn’t dragged. Deters said he thinks Tensing was making an excuse for the purposeful killing of another person. Deters called the traffic stop itself “chicken-crap.”
 Authorities are bracing for possible unrest following the release of the video. The University of Cincinnati closed its campus early:
This decision is made with an abundance of caution in anticipation of today’s announcement of the Hamilton County grand jury’s decision regarding the July 19 officer-involved shooting of Samuel DuBose and the release of the officer’s body camera video. We realize this is a challenging time for our university community.
Before it was released, Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said he watched the video and said it is “not good.”
“I don’t want to put my personal feelings out prematurely,” Blackwell said. “I just hope that the right thing continues to be done in this investigation and that we’re able to move forward from this and allow this to be a moment of learning and teaching for our city.”
Read more about Tensing, DuBose and the case at the link below:

Husband seeks answers on wife's death inside holding cell

"I don't know what happened," husband Herman Turner said about her death. "They won't give me a time of death ... what happened ... nothing." - Joe Marino/New York Daily NewsA 43-year-old Mount Vernon mother of eight mysteriously died in police custody Monday — and her heartbroken husband wants to know why.
Herman Turner, 49, waited all day Monday for his wife, Raynette, to be arraigned on a shoplifting charge at the Mount Vernon criminal court.
When she didn't appear, he went home, only to be met by two detectives who broke the bad news: Raynette had died in a holding cell.
"I went blank ... It was a complete shock," Turner said, recalling the horrific news. "She was the best. She was very loving ... She always loved to laugh. She was a fun, happy lady."
Turner said their children — the oldest 21, the youngest just 8 — were "completely distraught."
"I don't know what happened," he said about her death. "They won't give me a time of death ... what happened ... nothing."
His attorney Osvoldo Gonzalez said Raynette had been in custody since Friday because court is not in session in Mount Vernon on the weekends.
Details of her arrest were not available, although a Mount Vernon spokeswoman said it was Raynette’s third shoplifting arrest in recent weeks.
Over the last four days, Raynette —who recently had bariatric surgery and suffered from hypertension, according to officials — repeatedly said she was not feeling well and asked to see a doctor, Gonzalez claimed.
"She was isolated in the police station for four days and was still complaining about needing medical attention and received nothing," he said. "The hospital is directly across the street, but apparently her requests for help were ignored."
Mount Vernon Police Captain Edward Adinaro refuted Gonzalez’s claim and said Raynette received medical care at the hospital across the street on Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m.
She was taken back to her holding cell about 10 p.m. Adinaro said.
Gonzalez questioned the Mount Vernon police’s timeline, and believes she was not given a full checkup.
“That’s amazingly fast for a hospital visit,” he said of the emergency room stay. “Two hours in a hospital is like one minute. Obviously whatever they did, it was not helpful to her.”
On Monday, a cop monitoring the cells saw Raynette alive about an hour before she died, Davis said.
When they found her, she appeared to be sleeping, he said.
A city spokeswoman said an investigation into what transpired was underway. An autopsy was slated to determine what killed Raynette Turner.
Herman Turner said his wife "was as strong as a bull."
"She had no medical issues," he said. "She had a little high blood pressure, but that was it."

Stabbing suspects wanted to kill more than Columbine

Booking photo provided by the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office shows Robert Bever. A booking document filed by police in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow, Okla., accuses Bever, of five… The Oklahoma teen brothers accused of fatally stabbing their parents and three of their siblings hoped their bloody rampage would make them more infamous than the Columbine High School shooters, local media reported.

This Friday, July 24, 2015 booking photo provided by the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office shows Robert Bever. A booking document filed by police in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow, Okla., accuses Bever, of five counts of first-degree murder and a count of aggravated assault in the attack that left five family members dead.
Robert and Michael Bever, 18 and 16 years old, were booked into jail as adults in the five stabbing deaths.
The brothers planned to first kill their relatives — whom they considered to be “easy targets” — and then go after “harder” targets outside the family home, sources said. But their mass murder plan was cut short when police tracked them down after the kin killings.  
Five of the Bevers — parents April and David, 12-year-old Daniel, 7-year-old Christopher and 5-year-old Victoria — were found dead last week inside the family’s well-kept, upper-middle-class home in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb. Two sisters survived the attack: A 13-year-old Crystal was injured while 2-year-old Autumn was unharmed.
At least one of the two brothers — who were tracked down by a K-9 officer in woods behind the house — confessed to the killings.
The home attack was just the first step in the boys’ mass murder plot, sources said.
The two allegedly wanted to kill so many people, they would become more famous than the Columbine High School shooters, who fatally shot 13 people inside the Colorado school in 1999, sources said.
The plotted their two-step killing spree in advance, sources said: First they’d stab their relatives to death, then start killing other people.
A shipment of 3,000 rounds of ammunition was delivered to the family home in the days after the domestic massacre — weapons the boys planned to use in stage two of their plot, sources said.
But police ended the planned rampage when they tracked down the teens shortly after the family stabbings. Their 12-year-old brother called police before he died from his stab wounds.
Officers found the five slain victims and two surviving sisters inside the home. A tracking dog led officers to 16- and 18-year-old brothers in woods behind the house.
Michael and Robert will both be charged as adults, police said. They are currently being held on five counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault and battery.
Robert Bever is due in court on August 3

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Los Angeles police detective arrested over 5 bank robberies


The suspected "Snowbird Bandit" is shown in this combination of surveillance handout photos released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Reuters on July 23, 2015. Randolph Bruce Adair, a retired Los Angeles Police Department detective has been arrested in a string of bank robberies.A retired Los Angeles Police Department detective has been arrested in a string of bank robberies attributed to the so-called "Snowbird Bandit" after several of his family members tipped off authorities, police said on Thursday.
Randolph Bruce Adair, 70, was taken into custody in a parking lot near his home in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, on Wednesday on suspicion of bank robbery and an outstanding warrant, an Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.
Adair was booked into the Orange County Jail in lieu of $205,000 bail pending an initial court appearance later on Thursday and was expected to face federal charges in the coming days.
The former LAPD detective had been linked to five bank robberies beginning in March, according to the sheriff's department, including two in Rancho Santa Margarita, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Los Angeles.
The other three robberies took place in the Orange County communities of Ladera Ranch, Mission Viejo and Dana Point.
http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/07/22/d4cfc602-c29c-4061-8f36-75288368efb6/thumbnail/620x350/49a0adf5d8a6985b98f0213dcfa5d52e/snowbird-bandit.jpgThe man responsible for the Snowbird Bandit robberies earned that nickname after victims and witnesses described him as being an older male, possibly a retiree, according to the FBI, which had sought the public's help identifying him.
In their latest release about the robberies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation described the Snowbird Bandit as having white hair and aged in his late fifties to sixties.
Photos from the robberies show what appears to be an older white man with a mustache who wears a baseball cap or straw hat and dark glasses.
The agency said the robber displayed a revolver as he demanded cash from tellers and in one case carried a white pouch with the word "Medic" printed on it.
An LAPD spokeswoman declined to comment on Adair's arrest but confirmed that he had been employed as a detective in the department's Rampart Division until his retirement in October of 1988.

Cop illegally enters home, arrests naked woman (VIDEO)

An Arizona cop barged into a woman’s home while she was in the shower and handcuffed her as she stood naked and sopping wet, according to a lawsuit.
Officer Doug Rose lectured an unclothed, sobbing Esmeralda Rossi in front of her daughter and told her he was in charge, even though she was in her own home. Even as an investigation determined that Rose illegally entered the home, the policeman managed to retire and start collecting his pension.
Rossi is now suing the city of Chandler, Ariz., for the aggressive invasion her daughter caught on camera.
Rossi — who was never charged with a crime — said Rose slapped cuffs on her while she attempted to cover herself with a towel.
“I felt helpless. I felt violated. And honestly, I felt molested,”
Rose and another officer responded to Rossi’s home, responding to a complaint about an argument between the mom and her estranged husband.
Rossi was in the shower when the cops knocked, and her daughter answered the door. The girl then went to her mom’s shower to tell her about the visitors. Rossi grabbed a towel to cover up and met the cops at the door.
Rose and his partner started interrogating Rossi, and the mom admitted that she took an attitude with the cops. The conversation got more aggressive, and Rossi said she felt “uncomfortable” — so she asked the cops if she could fetch her phone to record their conversation.
“I turn to go into my living room, and I probably get about five steps in and all of a sudden, I just hear boots running in after me, telling me, ‘Stop or I’ll arrest you!’”
That’s when both Rossi and her daughter started recording.
The daughter shot video as the cop grabbed Rossi — still only covered by a bath towel — and told her she was under arrest.
A panicked Rossi cried and begged Rose to stop touching her as the cop forced her hands behind her back.
“You have absolutely no clothes on?” Rose asked.
“I was in the shower! What is wrong with you?” Rossi screamed, her towel slipping off of her body.
Rossi dropped her cellphone while Rose handcuffed her, but it still recorded audio. Rose lectured Rossi for 20 minutes about her behavior while the mom sobbed.
“Don’t take the attitude with cops, because we don’t play,” Rose said. “When a cop shows up, you’re not the one in charge. I don’t care if this is your house.”

“This was not the proper treatment of a citizen,” Marc Victor, Rossi’s attorney," This was disgusting. This was barbaric.”
The cops left without officially arresting Rossi.
Investigators probed the case and determined Rose entered the home illegally and without probable cause. He also didn’t fully document what happened: the fact that Rossi was naked was never reported. There is also no mention of Rossi’s “arrest” in his police report.
Amid the investigation, Rose retired from the force. He received a pension from the department.
Rossi — who said she was molested as a young girl — said the ordeal brought back horrific memories of her childhood.
“When I was standing there … I felt like I was 7 all over again in a dark room with a man that is just staring at me,” she said.

Teen lured to dog-collar sex parties

Christopher Scott Burke, 31, lured a teen girl to sex parties involving his wife and dog collars. A Michigan man who lured a 15-year-old girl into dog-collar wearing sex parties with his own wife was sentenced to four and a half months in jail last week.
“He’s a manipulator and a sexual predator,” the girl’s mother told a judge about Christopher Scott Burke.
Burke, of Ann Arbor, met the teen girl’s older sister while working at a Walmart in Saline. The sister, who is in her 20s, agreed to live with Burke and his wife in a sexual arrangement.
The 15-year-old was lured to the home several times during one week in late December 2014.
Christopher Scott Burke's father defended him by saying Burke and his wife chose to live an 'alternative lifestyle.' The girls’ mother said Burke had “taken the innocence” of her daughters.
Burke, 31, pleaded no contest to one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with an underage victim in June.
On Facebook, where Burke calls himself  “Christopher D Wolfe” and “Draco Wolfe,” he posted pictures of himself wearing a dog collar and with furry animal ears on his head. He left his Walmart job in March to work as an auto parts deliveryman.
His father, Scott Burke, defended his son by telling the Ann Arbor News Burke and his wife just chose an “alternative lifestyle.”