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another arrest related death
1 posted on 05/19/2014 4:37:00 PM PDT by eccentric
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If you speak up they’ll say you’re resisting arrest. The only thing to do is act like an wimpy sheep.
baaafreakinbaaa.


2 posted on 05/19/2014 4:40:50 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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police are seen attempting to revive Yancy while a witness states, “All of this for one guy who wasn’t even resisting arrest,”. The officer is said to have received no serious injuries.

They f'd him up so badly they won't let his family see the body!

3 posted on 05/19/2014 4:42:05 PM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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4 posted on 05/19/2014 4:42:08 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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LEO’s need to learn some fear before this will stop. A few of them need to fail to go home after their shift.

They need to be drug tested. Especially for ‘roids.


5 posted on 05/19/2014 4:42:45 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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But the cops made it home without breaking a nail. That’s all that matters, right?

Due process, along with most of the rest of the Constitution, is out the window in Øbama’s America.


7 posted on 05/19/2014 4:46:30 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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Here is an old one from Houston that always stuck in my craw, I remember “the hole”, it is where cops went to sleep in their cars and hang out, to avoid patrol.

“”Joe Campos Torres (December 20, 1953 - May 5, 1977) was a 23-year-old Vietnam Veteran who was beaten by several Houston police officers and subsequently died.

Torres had been arrested at a Houston bar for disorderly conduct. Six police officers took Torres to a spot called “The Hole” next to Buffalo Bayou and beat him.
The officers then took Torres to the city jail, who refused to process him due to his injuries. They were ordered to take him to Ben Taub General Hospital, but instead of doing so, the officers brought him back to the banks of Buffalo Bayou and pushed him into the water. Torres’s body was found two days later.””


Another Torres family loss: “”The Torres family grappled with tragedy again when Army Sgt. Jacob Molina was killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The 27-year-old soldier was the nephew of Joe Campos Torres, who died in one of the most notorious cases of police brutality in Houston’s history.

“No family deserves to go through what we’ve been through,” Sandra Torres said.

Molina never met his uncle, but he grew up hearing stories about him, and looking at pictures of him in uniform. His decision to join the Army was motivated in part by his uncle’s service, relatives say.

Joe Campos Torres was wearing his Army fatigues and combat boots when Houston police arrested him after a disturbance at an East End bar in May 1977.

He drowned after being severely beaten by officers and thrown into Buffalo Bayou. His body was found floating in the water a few days later.

The officers were convicted of negligent homicide and received probation of one year in state court. Federal charges resulted in prison sentences of a year and a day for civil rights violations, and a decade of probation for conspiracy.””


10 posted on 05/19/2014 4:48:12 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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This is tragic.


12 posted on 05/19/2014 4:48:36 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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posting the names and addresses of these cops would make others think twice


13 posted on 05/19/2014 4:49:31 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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What, we have some effed up form of Sharia law in America now?

What's it "Comply or get beat to death by the cops?"

FFS, let the revolution begin already.

15 posted on 05/19/2014 4:49:33 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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He must have resisted arrest so they had no choice but to beat him to death.


16 posted on 05/19/2014 4:49:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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Around here, they used to at least take them back to the jail where there was a stairway to fall down.


22 posted on 05/19/2014 4:55:15 PM PDT by digger48
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...his family has not been permitted to see his body,...

Who has the authority to prevent them?

23 posted on 05/19/2014 4:56:27 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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Tommy Yancy, 32, father of two, was savagely beaten to death by five law enforcement officers during a routine traffic stop

You got that right.
26 posted on 05/19/2014 4:59:16 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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drug test 'em all; any drugs, convict them' em, every puckin' one.
in this case, there are no innocent LEOs..all were culpable.
if no drugs are found, dismiss them all/no pensions/nothing.
dismiss & sue everyone involved, LEOs, Supers., city and state.
no civil apologies accepted.

32 posted on 05/19/2014 5:08:46 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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unbelievable...they are asking for war.


35 posted on 05/19/2014 5:11:04 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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Well, at least no dogs died and the police went home safely to their families. What else can you ask for? A disturbed citizen dead without due process of law. No matter. We have to show these peasants who is in charge. Complain about this and we’ll come and get you. To protect and to serve (our Nazi government)


39 posted on 05/19/2014 5:17:04 PM PDT by centurion316
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i believe some are hoping vets go after cops after the cops push them too far to give a pretext to martial law/cwii. admin fears armed vets and armed citizens who shoot far better than the average cop does.


51 posted on 05/19/2014 5:28:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I’ve been really torn in the past few years about my feelings toward law enforcement. My uncle was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1974. He rolled up on a burglary in progress and as soon as he got out his patrol car the perpetual started shooting at him. Though wounded, he managed to shoot the guy in the leg, but since my uncle only had his service revolver on him, once he fired his 6 rounds, he was toast. The person went to the squad car, got out the shotgun inside, and murdered my uncle. The guy is still in prison to this day. He was 17, so he wasted two lives that day.

Because of this family history, I planned on becoming a police officer when I graduated college. I even got my degree in Criminal Justice, which is fairly worthless if you aren’t going to be a police officer. I ended up becoming a school teacher, mostly because I felt that it would be more rewarding to help instill values into troubled kids before they had to deal with the police....I work in an inner city school, the police have never been real popular with the kids.

I guess I have rambled on enough, but I didn’t want to come off as a life long anti-law enforcement Internet tough guy. I read......alot, and I seem to be seeing more and more examples of police over reach, and blatant disregard for the people they are supposed to be protecting and serving. I myself have never had a negative interaction with the police, and even though my uncle was killed 40 years ago there are still many in my community who remember the incident.

I’m not really sure what the reason is for the police to seemingly be becoming more militarily based, but something has got to give.

(Please forgive any typos, I’m typing on my cell phone.)


61 posted on 05/19/2014 5:51:19 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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Yet many freedom loving conservatives are always welcoming new primary stop opportunities for LEO. Just say safety and the idiotocracy will bend over and drop trow. Then thank the officer for going in easy. Makes me physically ill.


66 posted on 05/19/2014 5:57:17 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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his family has not been permitted to see his body,

i can only wonder why this didnt provoke a (shall we say) discourteous response

84 posted on 05/19/2014 6:45:15 PM PDT by Revelation 911
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