Police Brutality Link Roundup 10.5.14

“We’ll get CPS to take your baby!”

Stop me if you’ve heard this one- “Police officers pull over a vehicle with a mother, father, and infant for non-existent traffic violation. The mothers’ license is run and it comes back valid. Then they demand that the passenger identify himself. He refuses. The cops call in a K-9 unit. The passenger doesn’t consent to a search of the vehicle, so the cops use the K-9 dog to search for drugs. The dog supposedly ‘alerted’ to the vehicle and the cops demand both parents step out of the car.  When they refuse-bc they have a 2 week old in the backseat, the cops threaten to call CPS on them. Cops make more excuses for detaining the couple-none of which are valid. Finally, under the threat of violence the couple exits the car, and the father is arrested for “obstruction of justice.”

If this one seems familiar, it’s bc it is happening across the country all the time, in various permutations. Law enforcement officials are actively terrorizing citizens (and guess what race a huge number of those citizens are). We are living in a police state and far too many people are complacent in this shit.

Oh, and by the way:  no drugs were found in the vehicle.  Yet another reason to eliminate so-called drug sniffing dogs-they are incredibly unreliable.

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On Duty Cop Breaks into House Assaults Estranged Wife And Holds Family At Gunpoint

Diaz showed up to the Brighton Street Residence in his police car, and in full uniform, to confront his estranged wife and her new boyfriend on September 29 around 9:30 a.m.  Diaz was reportedly on duty at the time of the attack.

Desperate to get inside, Diaz kicked in the door like he would during a drug raid, and entered the home with his gun drawn, where he found the couple in bed together.

According to police, Diaz then grabbed his estranged wife by the hair and threw her to the ground, kicking and punching her multiple times.  Next, Diaz pointed his weapon at boyfriend Ajlan Abdulla, and threatened to kill both him and the wife.

Ajlan ran through the house and jumped through a closed window to escape, sustaining major cuts and injuries from the fall and the broken glass.

Diaz chased Abdulla through the house, and when he could not find him, he grabbed Abdulla’s nephew and pointed a gun to his head, asking where he had gone.  The nephew took Diaz to the broken window, and Diaz left the house in a rage.

Surprisingly, he was arrested the next day without bond, and is suspended without pay.  I’m pleased at that, don’t get me wrong.  But I can’t help but think about how Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown and he’s still free to this day. He hasn’t been arrested, and AFAIK, he is still being paid.

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Orlando cop investigated after body camera surfaces showing rough arrest

Authorities might charge Officer William Escobar in connection with his arrest of 25-year-old Refus Holloway this past March. Footage taken by Holloway’s sister shows him handcuffed and laying on the ground face-down when Escobar punches him in the back of the head. However, Escobar said in his report that he hit Holloway because he was “attempting to stand up” and resist being handcuffed

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This next story is not technically an example of police brutality. It does, however, fit into the larger theme of overzealous law enforcement.

Cops raid Georgia man’s home after mistaking okra for weed

Heroic Georgia police task force, in an effort to keep the citizens of Cartersville safe from a plant, descended onto the house of a man who’d dare grow vegetables in his own yard.

Dwayne Perry was awaken Wednesday night to a helicopter hovering over his house and deputies and a K-9 unit in his front yard.

“They were strapped to the gills,” Perry said. “I was scared actually at first, because I didn’t know what was happening.”

The chopper belonged to the heroic task force created by the Georgia governor’s office which is setup to kidnap and cage those who’d dare try to do with their own bodies as they wish.

The overzealous and highly incompetent task force mistook an okra plant, which has five leaves for the cannabis plant which has seven.

Okra plant
Weed plant

Yeah, they look totes the same.
I wonder how much taxpayer money was wasted on this okra raid?

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Police Brutality Link Roundup 10.5.14
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2 thoughts on “Police Brutality Link Roundup 10.5.14

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    Tony, thanks for doing these. They’ve helped me out quite a bit when trying to show someone that police racism and police brutality are actual issues. For some reason I was drawing a blank after Ferguson and a couple of other examples and was backed into a corner with several people disagreeing with me.

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