Cop Car as Coffin: A Black Man Begged Police for Help, Said He Couldn't Breathe Over and Over. A Psychopathic White TX Cop Joked, Belittled Him and Did Nothing for Over 20 Min as He Died in Backseat

From [HERE] When a 23-year-old who died in police custody in 2019 told officers he couldn't breathe, he was accused of "felony faint," according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Sunday in federal court in Texarkana.

The complaint filed on behalf of the mother of Darren Boykin accuses Texarkana, Texas, Police Department officers Jerrika Weaver and Brent Hobbs, and Sgt. William Scott of violating Boykin's civil rights by being "deliberately indifferent" to a medical crisis, resulting in his death.

Police spokesman Shawn Vaughn said the department cannot comment on pending litigation.

Boykin was confronted by Texarkana College police officers in a building on campus sometime around 2 p.m. Aug. 29, 2019, according to the complaint. They suspected Boykin was responsible for a series of petty thefts and sought to take him into custody. Boykin pushed his way past the officers and fled on foot, according to authorities.

Boykin ran from the community college building to property next to a convenience store about a half mile away, before he was detained. Video from Weaver's body camera shows Boykin on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, breathing heavily, when Weaver arrived to assist the Texarkana College officers.

As Weaver approaches, a civilian bystander can be heard saying, "I thought he was having a heart attack." A Texarkana College officer responds that Boykin has "felonies, that's what it is."

As the officers tell him to walk to Weaver's patrol car, Boykin complains that he can't. Three officers carry him and place him in the back seat. A search of Boykin's pockets reveals an Ohio driver's license, and officers determine that he has a felony warrant for theft in that state, according to body camera footage.

Hobbs arrives and gives a bottle of water to a Texarkana College officer but no water is offered to Boykin.

FOR THE MOST PART WHITE PEOPLE TREAT EACH OTHER HUMANELY. BUT IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH NON-WHITE PEOPLE, RACISTS FUNCTION AS PSYCHOPATHS. DR. BOBBY WRIGHT EXPLAINED, 'THE PSYCHOPATH IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS CONSTANTLY IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER PERSONS OR GROUPS. HE IS UNABLE TO EXPERIENCE GUILT, IS COMPLETELY SELFISH AND CALLOUS, AND HAS A TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. PSYCHOPATHS understand right and wrong but SIMPLY IGNORE THE CONCEPT OF RIGHT AND WRONG. BY IGNORING THIS TRAIT IN THE WHITE “RACE” (THE LACK OF ETHICAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT) BLACKS HAVE MADE AND ARE STILL MAKING A TRAGIC MISTAKE IN BASING THE WORLDWIDE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT ON MORAL SUASION. IT IS PATHOLOGICAL FOR BLACKS TO KEEP ATTEMPTING TO USE MORAL SUASION ON A PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO MORALITY WHERE RACE IS THE VARIABLE.' WRIGHT CALLED THIS CONDITION AFFECTING WHITES THE PSYCHOPATHIC RACIAL PERSONALITY [MORE] In this matter PSYCHOPATHIC white media, prosecutors AND OTHER COPS are using various rationalizations to justify THIS white cop’s obvious disregard for Black life and blatant failure to provide her duty of care to a dying Black man.

In response to Boykin yelling for help while in the cruiser, Hobbs opens the door briefly. Boykin tells him, "I can't breathe."

When Hobbs tells Weaver that Boykin is complaining of an inability to breathe, Weaver responds, "He'll be fine."

The suit accuses Weaver of showing a "clear disregard" for Boykin's health once she is told he has a felony warrant.

"You can't call 'I can't breathe' after you ran forever and then you have felonies," Weaver can be heard stating in a body camera recording as she stands outside the patrol unit.

When Scott arrives, Hobbs mentions Boykin's complaint of being unable to breathe.

"Being the sergeant and supervisor on scene, defendant Scott had the ability to call for medical assistance or direct defendant Hobbs or defendant Weaver to call for medical assistance for Darren," the complaint states.

Before Weaver begins driving Boykin to the Bi-State Justice Building for booking into the Bowie County jail, Boykin has repeatedly asked for help.

The dash camera in Weaver's patrol unit captures a close-up view of Boykin as he sits in the back with his hands cuffed behind him.

Before the car begins to move, Boykin, who is handcuffed, Yells for help out the window multiple times and asks for help "back here" and complains that his leg hurts, and he is unable to breathe. He is in obvious physical distress and his chest is visibly pumping hard. He is also repeatedly swaying back in forth and throwing his head back apparently in attempt to get air. His mouth remains open for the entire ride and he is opening and closing his eyes and frequently slumped over. He says “please I can’t breathe.”

In response Weaver sarcastically replies, "I'm gonna help you get to the jail."

As Weaver drives toward downtown Texarkana to the jail, Boykin says, "Ma'am, I'm about to pass out."

Weaver contemptuous the entire time tells him to "just lean against the glass" of the cruiser's window and continues driving. She sarcastically asks him “if he is comfortable?” as he is obvious pain and in fact was dying.

As Weaver ends a call on the cellphone she is holding, Boykin lists forward and from side to side. Weaver tells him he will get water at the jail.

Weaver asks him about where he was staying, whether he knows he is "still going to jail."

Boykin is unresponsive as Weaver asks him if he is getting "air," referring to air conditioning.

"You know somebody that passes out isn't able to stop themselves from falling forward right? Fun fact," Weaver says as she continues driving to the jail and past Wadley Regional Medical Center.

Boykin slumps over and is nonresponsive.

After Weaver pulls into a parking spot in the jail building's basement, she gets out and opens a rear door.

"And I'm not picking you up and dragging you in there. Quit playing. Let's go. Let's go," Weaver can be heard on her body camera as saying.

Boykin is silent as Weaver calls his name and pats his leg. He doesn't react when Weaver rubs on his chest. Weaver calls, "Sarge," as she pulls Boykin from the car and onto the concrete floor. She immediately begins CPR and stops only to check Boykin's neck for a pulse.

Another officer works to unlock the cuffs and free Boykin's hands from behind his back as Weaver continues chest compressions. Emergency medical help is summoned as officers continue CPR.

More officers, a member of the jail's medical staff, and personnel from the Texarkana, Texas, Fire Department and LifeNet arrive.

Weaver can be heard on her body camera saying: "He said he was gonna pass out, but he is also being charged with a bunch of felonies, so it's one of those things."

"You know how he's got the felony faint in the back seat? 'Oh I'm gonna pass out.' He's fine. He kept saying he was tired, his legs hurt, he kept wanting to lay down. Normal stuff when you're getting charged with felonies," Weaver is heard saying on the body camera.

IN THE ABOVE VIDEO THE RACIST SUSPECTS IN THE MEDIA HAVE REVERSED THE ORDER OF THE VIDEO, PERHAPS TO HUMANIZE THE WHITE AUTHORITARIANS, AS IT SHOWS THE END OF THE VIDEO FIRST WHERE THEY TRY TO RESUSCITATE HIM. THE ACTUAL START OF THE VIDEO IS IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

A custodial death report prepared by Texarkana College police and submitted as required to the Texas attorney general states that Boykin's death was "natural" and notes "complications of sickle cell trait," as found in an autopsy.

The death report states that Boykin was pronounced dead at 6:51 p.m., Aug. 29, 2019, at Wadley Regional Medical Center.

Addison, Texas, lawyers Scott Palmer and James Roberts filed the lawsuit on behalf of Boykin's mother, Keisha Boykin, and his estate in U.S. District Court in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas. The suit alleges civil rights violations stemming from a lack of medical attention, and alleges that the three officers breached their duty to provide it.

The complaint asks for actual and punitive damages, compensation for Darren Boykin's pain, suffering and mental anguish, compensation for his mother's mental anguish and emotional distress, as well as funeral expenses and attorney fees.

Palmer's law firm requested the dash camera and body camera footage under the Freedom of Information Act and provided it to the Texarkana Gazette.

The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III.

Charges Upgraded on White Cop-Actress who Acted Like She Killed Daunte Wright by Mistake.Cop for 26 Yrs Knew Taser was Yellow (not Black), was on Belt's Left Side (not right) and Had a Safety Switch

From [HERE] Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has upgraded the charges against a white police officer to first-degree manslaughter over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in April. 

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter in April after she was captured on body camera footage in April shooting Wright during a traffic stop for an alleged expired tag. 

In an amended complaint filed Thursday, prosecutors charged Potter with “first degree manslaughter predicated on reckless use/handling of a firearm.”The complaint alleges that Potter caused Wright’s death “while committing the misdemeanor offense of reckless handling or use of a firearm so as to endanger the safety of another with such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.” It states

On April 11, 2021, around 1:53 p.m., Brooklyn Center Police Officer Anthony Luckey and his Field Training Officer, Defendant KIMBERLY ANN POTTER (DOB: 06/18/1972) conducted a traffic stop on a white Buick bearing Minnesota license plate 841UBY near 63rd Avenue North and Orchard Avenue North in Brooklyn Center, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Officer Luckey identified the driver as Daunte Demetrius Wright. There was also an adult female passenger in the front passenger seat. Officer Luckey informed Mr. Wright that the officers stopped him because the vehicle had an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror and the tabs on the Buick were expired. Officer Luckey returned to his squad car to conduct a record check for Mr. Wright, during which he learned that Mr. Wright had an outstanding arrest warrant for a gross misdemeanor weapons violation. As Officer Luckey ran these checks, Sergeant Mychal Johnson arrived to assist the officers. Officer Luckey and Defendant then re-approached the driver’s side of the Buick to arrest Mr. Wright on the warrant. Sergeant Johnson approached the passenger side of the vehicle.

According to time stamped BWC footage, at 2:01:11 p.m., Officer Luckey asked Mr. Wright to step out of the vehicle. Mr. Wright opened the door of the Buick at 2:01:22 p.m. and got out of the Buick at 2:01:30 p.m. At 2:01:31, Officer Luckey asked Mr. Wright to turn around and place his hands behind his back. Mr. Wright did so. Officer Luckey then began attempting to handcuff Mr. Wright. At 2:01:36 p.m., Sergeant Johnson told Mr. Wright that he was under arrest and at 2:01:39 p.m., Defendant added that Mr. Wright had a warrant.

At 2:01:43 p.m., Officer Luckey told Mr. Wright not to tense up. At that time, Officer Luckey and Mr. Wright were standing near the open driver’s side door of the Buick. Defendant was standing behind and to the right of Officer Luckey. Defendant walked up to Mr. Wright at 2:01:45 p.m. and, at 2:01:48 p.m., took a piece of paper from Mr. Wright’s hand using her left hand. Defendant immediately transferred the paper to her right hand. At 2:01:49 p.m., Mr. Wright pulled away from Officer Luckey and got back into the driver’s compartment of the Buick. Officer Luckey maintained a grip on Mr. Wright, to keep physical control of him so as to pull Mr. Wright back out of the Buick. Sergeant Johnson, who was on the other side of the vehicle, leaned inside the Buick through the passenger door.

At 2:01:55 p.m., Defendant stated, “I’ll tase ya,” and simultaneously moved the piece of paper she was holding from her right hand to her left hand. One second later, at 2:01:56 p.m., Defendant’s right hand, holding her department-issued Glock 9mm handgun, came into view of her BWC. Defendant pointed her handgun at Mr. Wright and tracked with Mr. Wright’s movements as he and Officer Luckey continued moving. Defendant again announced, “I’ll tase you,” at 2:01:58 p.m. and continued pointing her handgun at Mr. Wright.

At 2:02:00 p.m., Defendant said, “Taser, Taser, Taser.” Sergeant Johnson and Officer Luckey both immediately began disengaging from Mr. Wright. One second later, at 02:02:01 p.m., Defendant pulled the trigger and discharged her handgun one time, firing a single round of ammunition. The bullet entered the left side of Mr. Wright’s chest and sequentially perforated the left 6th rib and 5th intercostal muscles, left lung, pericardium, heart, pericardium once again, right lung, and right 4th intercostal muscles before partially exiting the right chest wall, perforating the skin, and becoming lodged in the right side of Mr. Wright’s chest. When she fired the handgun, Defendant was standing outside the driver’s side door and in close proximity to Officer Luckey. Defendant’s handgun was just inches below Officer Luckey’s arm pointing into the driver’s compartment of the Buick, in the direction of Mr. Wright, the passenger, and Sergeant Johnson. Defendant fired her handgun close to Officer Luckey’s face, and the discharged cartridge casing from Defendant’s handgun appeared to strike Officer Luckey in the face as it was ejected. At 2:02:02 p.m., Mr. Wright said, “Ah, he shot me.” The Buick then traveled short distance down the street, where it crashed into another vehicle. Defendant stated at 2:02:03 p.m., “Shit!” and at 2:02:05 p.m., “I just shot him.” Another officer asked, “you did?” and Defendant responded, “yes.” At 2:02:09 p.m., Defendant stated, “I grabbed the wrong fucking gun,” and repeated again, “I shot him.” At 2:03:09 p.m., Defendant stated, “I’m going to go to prison.” At 2:07:27, Defendant stated, “I killed a boy.” Other officers and paramedics responded. Medical personnel were unable to revive Mr. Wright and Mr. Wright was pronounced dead on scene at 2:18 p.m. Assistant Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Lorren Jackson later conducted an autopsy and determined Mr. Wright’s cause of death to be a gunshot wound and deemed the manner of death a homicide.

SSA McGinnis later collected and reviewed the layout of Defendant’s duty belt. SSA McGinnis observed that Defendant’s handgun was holstered on the right side of the belt, set in a straight-draw position, requiring Defendant to use her right hand to draw the handgun. Defendant’s Taser was holstered on the left side of the belt, also set in a straight-draw position, requiring Defendant to use her left hand to draw her Taser. The Taser is yellow with a black grip, while the handgun is entirely black. Additionally, the texture of Defendant’s handgun has a distinct grip from that on her Taser. Defendant’s Taser is also equipped with a manual safety switch which the operator must physically disengage before the Taser can be discharged and with a laser-sighting feature, which causes a laser indicator to appear on target when the Taser is being aimed after the safety is disengaged. Defendant’s Glock handgun is not equipped with such features.

During her 26 years as a police officer, Defendant received a substantial amount of training, including training related to use of force and, specifically, to the use of Tasers and firearms. Defendant completed annual recertification training courses on each of these weapons. These courses included training on how to draw, aim, and use each weapon correctly. The training material for these courses also included notices alerting Defendant to the possibility and risks of drawing a handgun instead of a Taser.

In the six months before this incident, Defendant completed two Taser-specific training courses. For example, on March 2, 2021, Defendant attended a four-hour training course pertaining to the Taser. This course involved a classroom component, which provided detailed and substantive information concerning the function, proper use, and safety concerns associated with using Tasers; a practical component; and a written test. After this training, Defendant was certified for use of the Taser X7. On Defendant’s certificate of completion, Defendant provided her signature, acknowledging that she had read and understood the information and warnings provided by the manufacturer regarding safe use of the Taser. One of those warnings states: “Confusing a handgun with a CEW [Taser] could result in death or serious injury. Learn the differences in the physical feel and holstering characteristics between your CEW and your handgun to help avoid confusion” and instructs officers to “always follow your agency’s guidance and training.” In other prior Taser trainings completed by Defendant, including another on November 5, 2020, Defendant likewise signed paperwork acknowledging that she received, read, and understood identical warnings. [MORE]

Potter is set to stand trial Dec. 6. 

Wright’s death sparked outrage in Minnesota and across the country, occurring during the trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, who would later be sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.

The amended complaint alleges that Potter caused Wright’s death “while committing the misdemeanor offense of reckless handling or use of a firearm so as to endanger the safety of another with such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”

When a White Georgia DA Blocked the Arrest of the 2 Neuropeons who Murdered Ahmaud Arbery was She Merely Hooking Up Her Friends or Protecting Their Right to Murder Black Men in White Supremacy System?

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing stated, “Whenever there is a sense of increased vulnerability within the local and/or global white collective - as, for example, [caused by major population changes in the US wherein the Black, Latino and Asian populations are each growing inexorably while the white population is actually literally shrinking or not growing]- there will be an increase of the ever-present "normal" daily slaughter and murder of Black and other non-white males by those both legally and illegally authorized to do so. This murder and slaughter will be logically viewed as justified within the specific logic framework of the fear of white genetic annihilation.

Within the historic framework of Western civilization and culture (the civilization and culture organized to prevent white genetic annihilation), all white peoples have the spoken or unspoken mandate to participate actively in their collective struggle for global white genetic survival. This specifically means, of necessity, the murder and slaughter of Black and other non-white males whenever it is felt within the white collective to be necessary and, therefore, justified. [MORE]

From [HERE] and [HERE] A former district attorney in Georgia was indicted Thursday on charges of violating her oath of office and obstructing a police officer in connection with an investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger who was gunned down after three white men chased him in trucks.

Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit top prosecutor Jackie Johnson is accused of showing favor to one defendant in the killing, retired police officer Greg McMichael, 65, who had worked for her as an investigator.

The grand jury indictment says Johnson recommended the appointment of another county’s prosecutor to handle the case without revealing that she had previously sought the assistance of that prosecutor in the Arbery investigation.

Johnson also is accused of improperly blocking the arrest of Travis McMichael, Greg’s son.

The McMichaels had chased and shot Arbery, 25, in their truck on Feb. 23, 2020, in Brunswick.

The attack was caught on film by a third man, William “Roddie” Bryan, who was driving behind them in another truck.

Travis McMichael shot Arbery three times with a shotgun.

Johnson was the DA at the time of the killing. Although she disqualified herself from handling the case as a prosecutor, the grand jury indictment says she took several actions which ended up delaying the arrests of both McMichaels and Bryan.

The case against Johnson was presented to the grand jury in Glynn County by Attorney General Chris Carr.

“Our office is committed to ensuring those who are entrusted to serve are carrying out their duties ethically and honestly,” Carr said in a prepared statement Thursday.

“We thank the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Glynn County Grand Jury for their hard work. While an indictment was returned today, our file is not closed, and we will continue to investigate in order to pursue justice,” he said.

The McMichaels, who have claimed they thought Arbery was a burglar, ended up being charged with murder in May 2020 after a third prosecutor, the DA for Liberty County, took over the case. Bryan was charged with murder later that same month.

The three men, who have pleaded not guilty, are due to begin their trial in that case next month.

Instead of Issuing a Ticket After a Traffic Stop a White Hartford Cop Removed a Black Man From His Truck, Cuffed Him and Forced to the Ground Where He Knelt on his Neck. Cop Charged w/Felony

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Hartford Police officer will face a trial for allegedly using excessive force during a traffic stop in August 2020.

Matthew Mistretta, 31, was arraigned in May on two counts of assault and battery, which counts as a 93 day misdemeanor and one count of misconduct in office by a public official, which counts as a five year felony.

Mistretta’s first circuit court appearance is Sept. 20 at 1:45 p.m., before Judge Brickley. 

At a preliminary hearing on Thursday, the judge bound the case over to circuit court.

The case was one of several brought by the Attorney General's Public Integrity Unit.

"My office will continue to hold public servants accountable who fail to uphold the integrity of their oath to protect and serve,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said.

The case is the result of a traffic stop for allegedly speeding and driving erratically.

A bystander captured video of Mistretta removing the driver from the truck, shoving him into the side of the truck to handcuff him, then slamming him on the hood of the patrol car, Nessel's office said.

Mistretta then forced the man to the ground and knelt on him "in a similar manner to the George Floyd murder," the AG's office said.

Video shows that the man did not resist Mistretta during the arrest. According to a passenger, the driver was heard telling Mistretta that he could not breathe.

The subject of the traffic stop did not resist or obstruct the officer, Nessel said.

A passenger in the truck reported hearing the driver tell the officer he couldn't breathe, reports said.

White Cop’s “Reliarability" was High so a Miami Beach Prosecutor Dropped Case. Video of Cop Pepper Spraying Black Woman in the Face for Filming Cops Contradicted Police Report

From [HERE] Miami Beach has dropped the case against a South Beach tourist who was pepper sprayed as she filmed police officers, then arrested under a controversial new city ordinance.

The city’s prosecutor announced Thursday that it would not pursue the ordinance case against Mariyah Maple, 27, of New York, who was arrested on July 25 after she had been recording a traffic stop on the 600 block of Collins Avenue.

Maple was one of over a dozen people arrested in July, during the weekend of the Rolling Loud hip-hop concert under a new ordinance touted to protect police officers from crowds but criticized as a way for cops to crack down on people lawfully video recording them. The Herald, which first reported on Maple’s case, obtained video that showed her arrest report depicted a significantly different version of what video showed happened that night.

The Herald story also detailed that of the 13 people arrested under the new ordinance, all were Black, and most involved people filming police. After the Herald article, the Miami Beach Police Department announced it had paused use of the ordinance, in light of two other arrests that involved allegations of excessive force — and the arrests of five police officers.

“I am pleased the prosecution dismissed the case, but it’s not enough. I’ve urged the prosecutors to quickly seal and expunge this arrest from Mariyah’s record, so she can maintain employment,” said her defense lawyer, Chad Piotrowski. “And I’ve urged them to ensure that the police officer be held accountable for using excessive force against a woman who was lawfully standing on a street video recording.”

The Miami Beach City Commission, in late June, passed the ordinance, which makes it illegal to “approach or remain within 20 feet” of a city police officer with the “intent to impede, provoke or harass” an officer engaged in lawful duties, after receiving a warning. City officials and the city’s police union said it was needed to protect officers from the raucous crowds that descended on South Beach’s famed tourist district during spring break.

Internal emails obtained by the Herald showed that the police department rushed to make sure the ordinance was in place specifically to possibly use for crowds in town during Rolling Loud.

The most high-profile ordinance cases were made against two New York men, Khalid Vaughn and Sharif Cobb, both of whom were wrestled to the ground as they video recorded police officers at the Royal Palm hotel in South Beach.

Some of the officers had been involved in the rough arrest of a third man accused of injuring a cop with his scooter. Five were later charged with misdemeanor battery.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office dropped the cases against Vaughn and Cobb; its office handled their cases because each man was also charged with separate state violations.

In Maple’s case, she was only charged with the city ordinance, which means the case was prosecuted by an attorney employed by the city of Miami Beach. The Miami Beach prosecutor, Yoe Lopez, only handles city ordinance cases under a system that is supposed to target nuisance “quality-of-life” crimes, but has largely ensnared homeless people.

Of the 13 arrests made under the ordinance that weekend, only four cases have been dropped, records show. Miami Beach did not explain why it dropped Maple’s case. Lopez made the announcement during a virtual hearing Thursday before Miami Beach branch court judge Stephanie Silver.

The arrest report alleged Maple was part of a group that “refused officers commands” to back away from cops making an arrest on South Beach on July 25. When a police sergeant used his bicycle to “create a physical barrier,” the report claimed, the crowd “stood their ground and refused to move” — forcing him to use pepper spray.

But a video taken by a bystander shows Maple standing peacefully on a sidewalk on the 600 block of Collins Avenue. “Back up. Back up,” a sergeant says. But before giving her a moment to do so, he whips his bike around like a shield, striking her hand and immediately deploys pepper spray. Maple, eyes stinging, then runs away with several friends.

Maple was not arrested immediately. The Miami Beach sergeant, Vincent Stella, walked away. Maple was only handcuffed after another officer noticed her down the street as her family rinsed her eyes out with water, and she complained about her burning eyes.

NC Gov Signs New Police Reforms but the Placebo Syndrome [servitude] Remains Status Quo: Dems/GOP Make Believe in "Authority"- The Govt has Absolute, Uncontrollable Power Over Citizens, who Must Obey

UNDECEIVER LARKEN ROSE EXPLAINS: The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self- contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.

Of course, nearly everyone is raised to believe the exact opposite: that obedience to “authority” is a virtue (at least in most cases), that respecting and complying with the “laws” of “government” is what makes us civilized, and that disrespect for “authority” leads only to chaos and violence. In fact, people have been so thoroughly trained to associate obedience with “being good” that attacking the concept of “authority” will sound, to most people, like suggesting that there is no such thing as right and wrong, no need to abide by any standards of behavior, no need to have any morals at all. That is not what is being advocated here – quite the opposite. [MORE]

From [HERE] GOP Gov. Roy Cooper [in photo above with BLM] signed a slate of policing reforms into law Thursday, creating a new duty for officers to intervene if they see another officer using excessive force.

The measures also include new tracking meant to keep problem officers from jumping departments by creating databases accessible to law enforcement and a standards commission, though not the public.

There's new required training, new psychological exams for officers and a new requirement that the the State Bureau of Investigation investigate deaths at the hands of law enforcement when the governor, a law enforcement agency head, a district attorney or the commissioner of prisoners requests it.

"No. 1, this is an important step," Cooper said before he signed the bills. "But, No. 2, there is more to do."

Even so, Cooper said he was "excited" to sign the bills, and even activists who have blasted the measures as inadequate attended Thursday's signing ceremony outside the Executive Mansion. The bills had widespread, bipartisan support in the state legislature, as well as support from law enforcement groups and the state's district attorneys.

PG County Lieutenant Cop Accused of Erasing Cellphone as Agents Executed Search Warrant

From [HERE] Edward “Scott” Finn, a Prince George’s County police officer who faced previous allegations of misconduct, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of tax evasion and obstruction of justice, prosecutors announced Friday.

Finn, 47, was initially arrested in April after the U.S. attorney’s office for Maryland accused him of failing to disclose more than $1.1 million in taxable income from Edward Finn Inc., his private security business that employed other off-duty police officers.

The indictment includes five counts of tax evasion related to those initial accusations, as well as the new charge of obstruction of justice. Authorities allege in court documents that on the day before his arrest, Finn erased and reset his Apple iPhone as federal agents executed a search warrant on his home.

Prince George’s executive says two top police officials will leave after officer is charged with tax evasion

“No one is above the law, and this indictment should serve as a stark reminder of that principle,” acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan Lenzner said in a statement Friday.

Finn, a lieutenant with the Prince George’s police department, had been on the force for 25 years. He established his security company in 2011 and used it to employ other officers who were working what the department calls secondary law enforcement employment, according to court documents.

Those working at secondary employment can use their department uniform, vehicle and service weapon to perform security-related jobs for outside, private entities — such as athletic and concert venues, apartment complexes or department stores. From 2014 to 2021, court documents say, Finn used his business to coordinate those jobs for his department colleagues.

The indictment alleges that from 2016 to 2021 he lied on his federal tax returns — underreporting his income by hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years. In that period, court documents allege, Finn deposited more than $1.1 million worth of checks written to the business into his personal bank account and the accounts of his children. Finn is also accused of writing checks from the business account for personal purchases, including a 2015 convertible Chevrolet Corvette, a 1992 Ford Mustang and a boat.

If convicted, Finn could face decades in prison.

Finn’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Before his arrest in April, the police department said Finn had been suspended with pay for an unrelated “personnel” issue the previous month. The department has not disclosed the nature of the suspension, citing state public records laws that prevent the public from seeing police disciplinary files.

On Friday, a police spokesperson said Finn had “separated” from the department in April, but did not specify whether he resigned, retired or was fired.

Finn’s history with the department includes accolades as well as allegations of serious misconduct. He has been awarded the medal of valor three times, but he also has been accused of lying and using excessive force — which was documented by The Washington Post in the early 2000s.

Finn was cleared by a panel of his peers in those cases, according to Post reporting, and went on to receive raises and promotions. He was also exonerated for his role in the death of 29-year-old Elmer C. Newman Jr., who was high on cocaine when he was arrested by police. He collapsed and died in a holding cell an hour after he was detained.

The arresting officers said his injuries were self-inflicted, but a medical examiner later said police had fractured the man’s ribs and broken bones in his neck.

White Philly Cop Charged w/Felony Assault for Striking College Student in the Head w/Metal Baton During Protest Against Police Brutality

From [HERE] During a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020, a protestor and student at Temple University was struck in the neck with a metal baton by Philadelphia Police Officer Joseph Bologna, Jr., that resulted in the victim sustaining significant head injuries requiring about 10 staples and sutures.

Bologna was arrested for simple assault, reckless endangerment and possession of an instrument of crime following the incident. His charges were later thrown out by a judge.

But Tuesday, the Philadelphia District Attorney refiled charges.

Originally, the student was arrested and referred to the District Attorney’s Office for assaulting a police officer. However, after the District Attorney’s Office reviewed the evidence, they cleared the student of any charges and instead sought to charge Bologna.

A passerby recorded Bologna striking the student with a metal rod and tackling him to the ground and posted it on Twitter, leading to significant public outrage in a time of extreme anger and activism against police brutality. Bologna was fired quickly after the footage going viral on Twitter.

Reviews of Bologna’s time in the Philadelphia Police Department showed that Bologna received numerous complaints of previous misconduct before being fired.

However, the police union continued to heavily support Bologna, with more than 100 officers gathering outside the union headquarters where Bologna surrendered. They even went so far as selling “Bologna Strong” T-shirts to show their support.

The Philadelphia Police Department has proven to have a history of incidents surrounding police brutality and systemic racism. Multiple instances of police violence have said to have occurred within the Philadelphia Police Department, with many being left unresolved.

Controlling Speech w/Violence to Maintain Obedience to Authority: Report says in a 2 Month Period Last year Police shot 115 Protestors in the Head or Face w/“crowd control weapons” - 30 are Now Blind

From [HERE] According to Shot in the Head, a report released in September 2020 by Physicians for Human Rights, during the protests between 26 May and 27 July of last year, US law enforcement officials shot 115 people in the head with “less lethal weapons”. Of these victims, at least 30 suffered permanent ocular damage.

As the rubber bullets and teargas flew during last year’s protests, an epidemic of ‘less lethal’ shootings inspired a network of survivors.

Video Shows a White Norfolk Cop Climb into a Van to Assault a Black Woman after a Traffic Stop in the Free Range Prison

From [HERE] A Black woman from Emporia, who was pulled over for a traffic stop during the July 4th weekend, says she was punched by a police officer and pulled out of her car.

Ebony Holmes, 24, appeared at a press conference Tuesday afternoon with her attorney and other supporters. Enlarged photos of Holmes with a swollen lip and bruises were on display.

Holmes was stopped by Norfolk Officer Vincent Tocco in the early morning hours of July 5 near the intersection of Chesapeake Boulevard and Tallwood Street. She had three friends riding with her.

Video recorded by one of the passengers shows Tocco opening the car door and then striking Holmes in the face and pulling her from the car.

Holmes’ attorney, Amina Matheny-Willard, narrated the video and saying “that was [Tocco] going in the vehicle, and when he punched [Holmes] in the face, she automatically tasted blood.”

Norfolk police provided this statement in response to the claims of brutality:

“The Norfolk Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards is continuing to thoroughly investigate the actions of the involved officers in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

“Around 1:15 a.m. on July 5, 2021, Officers conducted a traffic stop after observing a car driving recklessly through the 1100 block of Tallwood Street. The driver, identified as Ebony R. Holmes, 24, of Emporia, was arrested and charged with reckless driving and obstruction of justice.”

“During the start of this traffic stop, Miss Holmes’ friends were at times a little loud and a little rowdy, and questioning what was going on by the police,” said civil rights advocate Brandon Randleman, one of Holmes’ supporters.

Holmes says she was struck again, while she was on the ground in a fetal position.

“[Tocco] was pressing all of his weight on her, at the moment that she says ‘You’re trying to kill me,'” Matheny-Willard said.

Holmes doesn’t deny she was speeding. Since the incident, she has lost her job and has begun mental health counseling.

“It has messed me up. I know it has messed me up, because I started thinking myself and believing did I deserve it?” she said.

Her supporters want all the body camera video from the traffic stop.

“Specifically from Officer Tocco, but there were six or seven officers out there, so there’s got to be a lot of footage,” Randleman said.

Matheny-Willard says she confirmed with Norfolk Police Monday that Tocco remained on active duty as an officer. Holmes and her attorney want Tocco to be suspended without pay during the department’s investigation.

Matheny-Willard says she tried to get a magistrate to file assault charges against the officer, but the magistrate eventually decided there wasn’t enough probable cause.

Holmes has a hearing in November on the charges.

Suit says 105 of 106 People Arrested by Beverly Hills Task Force were Black [Are Cops Protecting and Serving Blacks or Surveilling and Controlling their Freedom of Movement in the Free Range Prison?]

From [HERE] A special “safe streets” police task force in Beverly Hills made 106 arrests over the past year and a half—and a new lawsuit claims that 105 of those people were Black. The other was a dark-skinned Latino person. The shocking allegation was included in a complaint filed Tuesday by civil-rights lawyer Benjamin Crump. The lawsuit accuses the unit, known as the Rodeo Drive task force, of blatant racial profiling during its 16 months of operation between March 2020 and July 2021. It includes one incident in October 2020 when the unit stopped Salehe Bembury, then vice president of men’s footwear at Versace, for jaywalking. Body-cam footage shows the cops searching Bembury, and him telling them: “What’s unfortunate is I literally designed the shoes that are in this bag, and I’m being… searched.” According to The Guardian, the city defended its task force in a statement, but did not dispute the arrest data in the lawsuit.

Did Police Put You on the “4th Waiver List" by Mistake? (someone on parole, probation or a conditional release that can be detained w/o probable cause) Black Man Records Unlawful Stop/Search by SFPD

So-called Constitutional Rights Don’t Mean a Goddam Thing in the Free Range. Your beliefs in things that don’t exist may get you get killed. Watch your mind! Brazen cops so frequently abuse their power that no Black pedestrian, motorist, juvenile, adult or Black professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that so-called constitutional rights afford any real protection from cops.

From [HERE] A Black man said he was racially profiled during a traffic stop by San Diego police. It happened in Shelltown on Sunday morning around 9:15 a.m. in the 1700 block of Vesta Street.

Columbus White said when he saw an SDPD officer trailing him with his lights activated he pulled into a nearby parking lot.

White said he immediately got out of his car and started recording the traffic stop.

"I pulled over, got out and grabbed my phone and asked why he pulled me over," said White. 

Cellphone videos show White ask the officer why he was being pulled over. The officer replies because of a fourth waiver search.  

A fourth waiver search is when someone is on parole, probation or a conditional release can be searched without probable cause. In the cellphone video, the officer tells White that his system shows he is a fourth waiver but White said he is not and requests a sergeant.

"I let the officer know I am not on parole or probation. I’m not a fourth waiver," said White. 

While White waited for a sergeant he was put in cuffs. He said before he was detained he asked a witness to use his phone to record.

"I asked him if he could hold my phone and record and he said, 'yeah,'" said White. "I got cuffed up. I complied to everything he said. I did everything."

Video shows officers swarm the area and one rush at the bystander holding the camera.

The officer makes demands to move back and get away from officers. The bystander is then detained.

White said when the sergeant arrived on scene, he ran his information and was let go.

“He sees that I'm not on parole or probation, I'm not a fourth waiver so he lets me go. I didn't have to go through that, and he violated me,” said White.

Activists believe White was racially profiled. Tasha Williamson said she filed a third-party complaint alleging this was police brutality.  

“It's about them having clear concise changes and accountability. It's about making sure that we are free to travel and we are not,” said Williamson.

Since the case is under investigation, San Diego police would not answer specifics about the traffic stop. In a statement, police confirmed there was a traffic stop at that location and a bystander recorded the interaction.

“[Monday], a complaint was received by the Internal Affairs Unit regarding the traffic stop and conduct of the officers involved. An investigation was initiated, and a thorough review will be conducted to determine if any policy violations occurred. At the conclusion of the investigation, it will be turned over to the Commission on Police Practices for their review and analysis,” said Lt. Adam Sharki, San Diego Police Department.

Activist Malcome Muttaqee said the Black community needs to be seen.

“A lot of times it's not about going to jail or being killed, it's about dignity. That's all. We just want dignity,” said Muttaqee.

White said the fear of driving while Black needs to stop.

“I’m tired, I don’t want the officers to harass me, pull me over, assume that I’m this or that,” said White. "I don't want this to keep happening. I don't want this to happen to the next Black man that is out there.”

White said before he was let go, he was ticketed for speeding and driving with expired tags. White showed News 8 a picture of his registration that was up to date. News 8 confirmed his registration with the DMV.

DOJ says San Luis Obispo Jail Authorities Violate Inmates' Constitutional Rights by Failing to Provide medical/mental health care and Using Excessive Force with Impunity

From [HERE] The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the results of a three-year investigation into the San Luis Obispo County Jail on Aug. 31, concluding that the jail violates the constitutional rights of inmates on several fronts, including by failing to provide adequate medical and mental health care and by using excessive force with impunity.

Sparked in 2018 by the high-profile inmate death of Andrew Holland, who spent 46 hours strapped to a restraint chair before dying of a pulmonary embolism, the DOJ's civil rights investigation found specific and systemic violations at the jail—and called on SLO County to cooperate on reforms or face a federal lawsuit.

"After a comprehensive investigation, we found that the San Luis Obispo Jail harms the people it incarcerates," Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.

The DOJ investigation detailed dozens of examples of alleged violations at the SLO County Jail between 2016 and 2019, which highlight sweeping failures in the areas of medical care, mental health care, excessive force, prolonged restrictive housing, and compliance with ADA (Americans with Disability Act) laws. A few examples include:

• Before jail custody staff strapped Holland to a restraint chair in January 2017, the Sheriff's Office held the 36-year-old with schizophrenia in isolation for approximately 16 months, and did not deliver him involuntary medication as required by a court.

• In April 2017, an inmate with hypertension died of a heart attack after the jail gave him high doses of ibuprofen and ignored his complaints of chest pain and other symptoms.

• In September 2018, an inmate committed suicide after a court ordered a mental health evaluation, which never took place.

• In December 2018, a deputy grabbed an unresisting inmate from behind and pushed him headfirst into a wall, causing him to bleed, after he'd yelled at the deputy from a "caged area." The deputy claimed in an incident report that the inmate "fell forward" into the wall.

• In January 2019, an inmate diagnosed with hepatitis C was never provided treatment during the 18 months of his remaining sentence.

• In April 2019, an inmate who tested positive for HIV did not see a specialist or receive medication for nearly three months.

The DOJ's report, which thanked SLO County for its cooperation in the investigation, added that many of the constitutional violations persisted even after the county invested in jail improvements in 2018 and 2019, which included outsourcing jail health care services to a private firm, Wellpath.

"Although the jail added the chief medical officer position and switched medical providers two years after [Holland's] death, medical care under Wellpath has not significantly improved," the investigation stated. [MORE]

Racist Suspect Oklahoma AG Asks Court to Schedule Murders of 7 Prisoners Despite Pending Trial on Constitutionality of Lethal Injection Protocol. Although OK is 73% White, Death Row is 52% Non-White

OK is 72 % white but its death row is 52% non-white.

From [HERE] Despite the pendency of a trial on the constitutionality of the state’s lethal-injection protocol, newly appointed Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for seven prisoners on the state’s death row. If the court approves the execution dates, they would be Oklahoma’s first attempt to carry out executions in more than six years, ending a hiatus brought on by a series of botched executions.

On August 26, 2021, O’Connor filed a motion in the criminal appeals court seeking to execute seven men in a four-month period between October 7, 2021 and February 10, 2022. The motion came just two weeks after a federal district court ruled on August 11 that death-row prisoners had presented sufficient evidence to warrant a trial on their claim that Oklahoma’s execution protocol was unconstitutionally torturous. O’Connor asserted that the seven prisoners could be executed because six had been dismissed from the lawsuit for not identifying an alternative method by which they could be executed and the seventh is not a party to the lawsuit.

The seven men for whom the state is seeking execution dates are John Marion Grant (Oct. 7), Julius Jones (Oct. 28), Bigler Jobe Stouffer (Nov. 18), Wade Greely Lay (Dec. 9), Donald A. Grant (Dec. 30), Gilbert Ray Postelle (Jan. 20, 2022), and James Allen Coddington (Feb. 10).

“Oklahoma has a checkered history when it comes to carrying out executions,” said Assistant Federal Public Defender Dale Baich, who is representing death-row prisoners in the protocol lawsuit. “The drug protocol that was problematic seven years ago is the same one the state seeks to use again. Given that history and the unresolved questions about the constitutionality of the State’s execution protocol that are pending before the federal district court, Oklahoma should not move forward with any executions at this time. To allow executions to proceed when there is a chance the court could find a constitutionally unacceptable risk that a person could suffer because of the drug combination used, is just plain wrong.”

Bank of England takes down paintings of governors with slavery links - Claims that it was Never “Directly" Involved in African Holocaust

From [HERE] The Bank of England has removed 10 oil paintings and busts of seven of its former governors and directors who were linked to the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The British central bank also hired a researcher on slavery for its museum and launched a review into its art collection, Reuters reported.

“The review is now complete, and artworks depicting former governors and directors, where we have been able to establish links to the slave trade, have been removed from display,” a spokesperson for the Bank of England said. “We have also appointed a researcher to work in our museum to explore the bank's historic links with the transatlantic slave trade in detail. This work will inform future museum displays interpreting these connections.”

The moves come as racial relations are being examined in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, which were sparked in the US by the death of George Floyd due to police brutality.

The art pieces taken down depicted the BoE's founding director and a governor Gilbert Heathcote, as well as James Bateman, Robert Bristow, Robert Clayton, William Dawsonne, William Manning and John Pearse. These were displayed at the BoE's headquarters and its museum.

Upon launching the review in July 2020, BoE said that, while it was never directly involved in the slave trade, it was aware that some of its former officials had “inexcusable connections” to slavery, and apologised for them.

White CO Cops, Paramedics Charged for Murdering Elijah McClain. Cops Tackled and Piled onto 140 lbs Black Man Walking Home w/Groceries, Used Sleeper Hold, Sedated Him and Laughed as He Begged for Life

From [HERE] Three Colorado police officers and two paramedics have been criminally charged in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died in 2019 after he was subdued and injected with a sedative, the state attorney general said on Wednesday.

A state grand jury handed up a 32-count indictment, Attorney General Phil Weiser said at a news conference. All five defendants are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

McClain, 23, died at a hospital after a violent arrest on the evening of August 24, 2019. McClain was walking home after he had gone to a corner store to purchase tea. Although one of the officers acknowledged that McClain was not a suspect of criminal activity, the 140-pound man was unlawfully stopped in violation of his so-called constitutional rights. He was tackled and pinned to the ground by three white officers using a “carotid control hold” [sleeper hold] on him. After McClain was handcuffed, authorities injected him with ketamine. The drug is used for sedation purposes.

McClain suffered cardiac arrest during the ambulance ride to a nearby hospital. Elijah McClain was declared “brain dead” on Aug. 27 at a local hospital, where he was later taken off life support.

The Aurora officers involved are Randy Roedema, Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard.

The encounter was captured on police body camera video which was released in November. In the video no weird mannerisms are on display. He looked like he was walking home with groceries.

McClain, who routinely wore masks when outside because he had anemia and became cold easily, according to family, refused to stop for officers when they first contacted him. However, the police apparently had no legal justification to stop him in the first place. “I have a right to go where I am going,” he said. Officers said McClain refused to stop and fought back when they tried to take him into custody. McClain said: “I am going home. … Leave me alone,” and “Let me go. No, let me go. I am an introvert. Please respect my boundaries that I am speaking.”

McClain begged, asking police to stop, informing officers he couldn’t breathe and vomiting multiple times. Officers responding to the scene then requested that a paramedic administer medication (a dose of ketamine) "due to the level of physical force applied while restraining the subject and his agitated mental state." According to Young’s report, officers said they took McClain to the ground when he tried to grab one of their holstered guns. Even though McCain was a 140-pound man, the three officers claimed that McClain was super strong and they assumed that he was on drugs or a stimulant.“Whatever he is on, he has crazy strength,” one officer said. The autopsy found only ketamine and marijuana in his system.

The family’s attorney, Mari Newman says about the body camera footage "He is laying on the ground vomiting, he is begging, he is saying, 'I can't breathe.' One of the officers says, 'Don't move again. If you move again, I'm calling in a dog to bite you,'" At one point, an officer spotted another officer’s body camera pointed at him: “Move your camera, dude,” the officer said.

The police officers charged are Nathan Woodyard and Randy Roedema, who are both still on the force, and Jason Rosenblatt, who was fired after he responded “Haha” to photos taken by uninvolved officers mocking the death of McClain.

The two paramedics under indictment are Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, who also face assault charges for the drug injection.

In a statement on its Facebook page, the Aurora Police Association called the indictments a "hysterical overreaction" and noted that the initial investigation cleared the officers of wrongdoing.

"Sadly, Mr. McClain died due to a combination of exertion due to his decision to violently resist arrest and a pre-existing heart condition," the statement said. "There is no evidence that APD officers caused his death."

The city said the four defendants it still employed were suspended immediately and indefinitely without pay.

Initial internal investigations [all white] determined that the officers and paramedics had not violated policy. Adams County District Attorney Dave Young [racist suspect in photo] found no criminal actions by Aurora police during his investigation into the death of Elijah McClain. Dave Young, in a letter dated Friday to Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz, said: “From the officers’ perception, it went from an investigatory stop to a potential life-threatening incident, and it certainly raised the officers’ use of force. [MORE]

According to a letter released by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Friday evening. “Applying the facts of this incident, to the applicable Colorado law, the evidence does not support the filing of any state criminal charges against the involved officers for the unfortunate and tragic death of Mr. McClain.” [MORE]

Weiser took over the case after Governor Jared Polis appointed him as a special prosecutor last year, and in January announced that a state grand jury was convened to review the case.

An independent panel hired by Aurora's City Council found that police officers who stopped McClain had no apparent reason to suspect a crime was being committed and that a subsequent internal police investigation of the incident was flawed.

The family has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Aurora, the police department and paramedics.

According to FUNKTIONARY

Yurugu - a mythological figure within the Dogon tribe (Africa) who is "the incomplete being" (fiend without a face) referring to Neuropeans (neurotic Europeans) within the European asili. 2) a regressive (degenerative) state of consciousness where the soul is cut off from itself. 3) the inability to recognize or abate unacknowledged destructive capabilities. Yurugu also expresses itself and manifests as the pathological condition that utterly fails to convince those in geographical proximity of its harmlessness, therefore has to kill them. Yurugu is in a vicious spiral increasingly at odds with his own humanity—as fragmented, pathological, and distorted as it is. (See: Asili, Caucasian, Racism White Supremacy, Elite, Western Civilization, Neuropean, WASP, Privilege, Oppression, Scarcity, Violence, Genocide, Manifest Density & Ma'afa)

Sacramento Cops Release Info/Video to Prosecute People Not Cops. Judge Orders Release of Docs/Photos of the Cops who Killed Darell Richards, Withheld 3yrs. Suit Says Cops Shot Black Man w/His Hands Up

From [HERE] The city of Sacramento violated the California Public Records Act when it withheld records about the 2018 fatal police shooting of Darell Richards, a judge has ruled.

After The Bee filed the lawsuit, the city released more than 800 pages of documents to the public. In an Aug. 13 ruling, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Steven M. Gevercer ruled in The Bee’s favor, and ordered the city to release additional information and photos in the shooting by Sept. 13.

“We’re pleased that the court has ruled in our favor and has held that the city took too long to release the important records of this officer-involved shooting,” said Karl Olson, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in Public Records Act litigation and is representing The Bee in the lawsuit. “We’re also pleased the judge has held that they improperly withheld certain information from what they did release. We look forward to their compliance with the order.”

The Bee filed a public records request on Sept. 25, 2020 for: “Any and all records from the use-of-force investigation into the actions of officers Todd Edgerton and Patrick Cox, regarding the shooting of Darell Richards in 2018.”

The city withheld the documents for more than seven months. Then in May, after The Bee threatened to sue, the city released a seven-page “administrative review” report. But the city continued to withhold more than 700 pages from a June 2020 report. That report contains statements from witnesses and relatives, officer observations, detective follow-up, forensic diagrams and autopsy findings.

After the Bee filed the lawsuit, the city released the June 2020 report and additional documents, totaling 876 pages, to its police website. It also released hundreds of photos.

The judge ordered the city to, by Sept. 13, release photographs of Richards, his undisclosed medical condition, his alleged prior legal violations and photographs of the two officers who shot Richards. The city redacted those items from the documents.

Prior to the lawsuit, the city had released video and audio of the incident, but no documents, despite a law the California Legislature passed in 2018 that required their release. The law, called SB 1421, the Right to Know Act, requires police agencies to release records related to the investigation and discipline of police officers when officers use force that results in serious injury or death, commit sexual assault on a member of the public, or engage in dishonesty in certain situations.Sacramento police fatally shot Richards, a 19-year-old Black and Hmong man, on Sept. 5, 2018. At around 11:30 p.m., dispatchers received a call about a man wearing a mask and pointing a firearm at people along Broadway near Tower Cafe. “Decedent was not holding a firearm at the time that he was shot to death," the suit states.

According to the complaint:

Sacramento Police Officers watched Darell jump a fence and then enter a backyard outside of their view. At the same time, a California Highway Patrol (hereinafter CHP) aircraft was on scene assisting the search. From the air, CHP Officer Young was able to observe Darell jump the backyard fence, cross through the backyard and disappear under the cover of tree. The CHP aircraft tracks via heat sensing technology from an elevation of approximately 6,000 feet in the air. During the same timeframe, Sacramento Police Department S.W.A.T. team was deployed to the area and set up a one block perimeter with the assistance of a California Highway Patrol (CHP) aircraft. CHP Officer Young assessed the scene from the air and determined that the one-block perimeter was good, because he did not observe Darell leave that block. Sacramento Police Officers were holding positions around the small, approximately 10 parcel block, to ensure that Darell did not leave that one-block area.

Defendant Lieutenant Sood held a briefing to inform officers of their plan to locate Darell. Prior to Lt. Sood’s briefing, Sacramento Police Officers located Darell’s backpack, which he discarded while running from officers. The backpack contained identifying information, a possible suicide note and a receipt from ‘Big 5 Sporting Goods’ which recorded the sale of a Sig Sauer pellet gun purchased earlier the same day.

The Defendant Officers were informed prior to initiating the search that their fellow officers had found Darell’s backpack and the contents included within it, including the receipt for the pellet gun. Officers were informed about Darell’s possible suicidal ideation and his recent police contacts, which revealed potential organic or drug induced mental health issues.

The Defendant Officers made no efforts to contact and/or involve Darell Richards’ family, despite knowing his identity, address and potential for self-harm.

Defendant Lt. Sood intentionally did not summon assistance from other departments or agencies. Indeed, Lt. Sood made no efforts to obtain the 24-hour a day on-call Crisis Intervention Team, or any mental health experts, despite finding documents in Darell Richards’ backpack indicative of a potential suicidal subject and evidence that Darell purchased a pellet gun earlier the same day.

At approximately 3:15 a.m., witnesses saw Officer Yesenia deploy a K-9 unit into the backyard of 2017 1st Avenue, without issuing a warning. The K-9 Officer went into the backyard, urinated and went back to the Officers. Officer Yesenia deployed the K-9 Officer a second time. This time according to witnesses, the K-9 Officer appeared to locate someone under the backyard deck and then returned to the Officers. Nevertheless, Officers entered the yard without announcing themselves or providing Darell an opportunity to surrender.

At this point, Darell had been hiding for approximately three hours. The police had made no attempts, whatsoever to contact him. Inexplicably, none of the officers on scene attempted to make contact with Darell, despite knowing his name and that he wrote a suicide note and was carrying a pellet gun. Moreover, none of the officers on scene attempted to contact Darell’s family, despite knowing that he had recent police contact where the family informed officers they suspected the police contact was due to a mental illness. Furthermore, none of the officers on scene attempted to contact Darell via his cell phone or social media accounts or issue Darell any commands or orders to surrender. Perhaps most egregious, none of the officers on scene identified themselves as police officers or warned Darell that they intended to deploy a police K-9 into the yard.

Immediately thereafter, numerous SWAT Officers, including Defendants Edgerton and Cox, and Officers Yesenia and Tiner entered the backyard in stealth mode and rounded the corner of the home. As they were midway through the yard, Officer Tiner heard a noise and pointed his 1000 lumin rifle light at Darell’s face, ostensibly blinding Darrell, and screamed “show me your hands” while Defendant Cox simultaneously yelled “drop the gun.” The team never assigned specific officers to be the point of contact and deliver commands, which resulted in both officers providing contradictory commands at the same time, after failing to identify themselves as police officers.

Within seconds, Sgt. Todd Edgerton and Officer Patrick Cox opened fire, striking Decedent multiple times in the head and body. Mr. Richards died as a result of his injuries.

None of the officers’ body worn camera show what Darell was doing at the time of the shooting. Defendant Edgerton’s body worn camera would have shown what Darell was doing when he was shot, but he conspicuously failed to activate it during the course of this incident.

Darell Richards had a gunshot entry wound in the palm of his right hand, indicating that he had one or more hands raised during the shooting.

None of the officers on scene ever announced themselves or identified themselves as police officers at any time in the three hours prior to shooting and killing Darell Richards. In fact, no one from the Sacramento Police Department ever notified Darell Richards of the heavy police presence prior to sneaking up on him and shooting him.

Neither of the Defendant Officers identified themselves as police officers or warned Darell Richards of their intent to use deadly force, prior to shooting and killing him.

To date, there has been no disciplinary decisions made regarding this incident and the statute of limitations for employee discipline has passed.

The department said Richards pointed the gun at the officers, but the video footage does not show it. The lawsuit is still pending.[MORE]

Cell Phone Video Catches a Gang of 6 White LA County Cops Drag a Latino Man Out of a Car and Into the Street Where They Pile On Top of Him and Kick, Punch and Taze Him to Make a DUI Arrest

From [HERE] A force investigation begins after a cell phone video of 6-7 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies repeatedly beating a Latino man in Palmdale during a drunk driving investigation on Saturday.

The video shows the cop reaching for the driver’s side of the car, pulling, punching, and using other physical tactics to start driving the man out of the car. Ultimately, they rely on pulling out the guy.

Then at least half a dozen cops work to detain the man and give him more blows while he is on the ground. Then handcuff the man before lowering his pants down to his ankles and carrying them towards the police car.

The incident occurred after 5 pm on 38000 blocks on 35th Street East.

In a statement about the case, the sheriff’s department said:

“Palmdale, who was assigned to Palmdale Station, was investigating drunk driving as the use of force continued. Due to the aggressive investigation, no further comments can be made at this time. Use is fully covered. A complete, thorough and objective investigation. “

The suspect, 35-year-old Samuel Reyes, first appeared in court on Tuesday. He faces the misdemeanor of resisting arrest. He entered his acquittal for the indictment. [what happened to that DUI, which was the alleged basis of the stop and arrest??]

The judge set a $ 30,000 bail for Reyes.

Defendant lawyer Terry Goldberg, who met Reyes’ family, said he was appalled by the video.

“I don’t think our society should support police officers beating civilians in their arrest efforts,” he said.

“It’s a tragedy of justice,” Goldberg added. “We know that it is unfair, the consequences are dangerous and can be fatal.”