Police Behaving Badly 12.28.14

Another day, another law enforcement officer gets pissy about being filmed








Respect my authority. Or else.  That’s authoritarian thinking in action. Such thinking seeps into the minds of people everywhere.  When it crops up in law enforcement officials, the results can range from unfortunate to deadly.

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Pastor files federal civil rights lawsuit after being brutally beaten by police









In a blog post shortly after the incident, the pastor spoke about the incident:


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In a case of Police Behaving Badly meets Irresponsible Gun Owner, an off-duty sheriff’s deputy in Palm Beach, FL shot and killed his 21-year-old son on Christmas Eve:

According to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times‘ Pulp blog, Khamis Shatara was shot and killed by his father, a Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy, in a dispute that took place on Wednesday.

The deputy’s name is Shatara K. Shatara, who has been with the sheriff’s department since 2006.

Khamis Shatara was a criminal justice major at Palm Beach State College and a staunch supporter of the police. He intended to enroll in the police force after graduation to follow in his father’s footsteps.

Police were called to the apartment complex shortly before 8 a.m. on Wednesday. When they arrived they found Deputy Shatara and his son, who was dead of a single gunshot wound.

There are minimal details at the moment, but it appears the shooting occurred over some type of dispute. Once again, the presence of a gun in a household has led to a tragedy. And once again, someone turns to a gun to resolve a conflict.

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 Former NYPD cop ‘We planted evidence, framed innocent people’ to meet arrest quotas



The practice is known among NYPD cops as “flaking.”

Anderson was busted, along with four other officers, “flaking” four men in Queens back in 2008. He has cooperated with prosecutors, and is admitting that far from a few “bad apples,” this is the modus operandi of the NYPD.

“It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators,” Anderson testified.


The NYPD arrested over 50,000 people last year for low-level marijuana offenses.

As it turns out 86% of them are African American and Latino.

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Beavercreek police shove, then threaten woman in wheelchair at protest for not leaving quickly enough

A woman in a wheelchair was threatened at Wednesday’s Beavercreek protest, at the mall across the street from where John Crawford was gunned down.

She tells us that she was physically shoved while in her wheelchair, by officers. That’s when she decided to start recording the police.

Suddenly, officers got just a little bit more polite, but not much more…

Her husband was threatened by an aggressive Beavercreek police officer who didn’t think they were moving to their vehicle quickly enough. They pointed out that the mall had not been closed, and that they had been there to go to other stores as well as to show support for John Crawford. There was nothing illegal about their being there as shoppers.

A statement from the woman, Christine Wade, is as follows:

I was there to shop but help protest for the human rights we all was there doing what was right for the victims of police brutality when the officers came in to force everyone out the door we all started moving in single file line I started rolling as I waited for my husband to push me when the officer came to me asked me to move I said I am he touched me I warned him not to touch me and pushed me in my back as I was trying to move out my husband had to argue with the officers to get me out he wasn’t there to protest but make sure nothing happens to me.

He got me outside out of the way of the crowed sitting there taken video footage on how the police was being rude a demanding my husband was simply standing off the side and a officer order him to leave with me as we walked we saw a man being drug by his back for no reason

The mall had not prevented them from this, nor banned them from their property. One African American officer finally admitted that they were in fact allowed to reenter through another door. Other officers continued to perpetuate the lie that the mall had instructed them to force “everyone” off of this “private property.”

But that simply was not a true reflection of what the mall said. The mall only authorized arrest for people who were blocking shoppers, stores or entrances. There was no order to arrest people in the parking lot, nor if they reentered to go shopping. The police made this up and decided to enforce their own fabricated laws. That makes every arrest that took place in the park lot, a false arrest and a crime committed by the Beavercreek Police Department. But this wouldn’t be the first time that police officers demonstrated their embarrassing ignorance of the law

Police Behaving Badly 12.28.14