San Marcos Cpl. jailed after illegally arresting pedestrian

KVUE ^ | July 16, 2013 | John Bumgardner

[Altariel]

Well, it looks like some are even willing to defend a government employee assaulting an innocent, law-abiding woman.

[NEMDF]

Do you suppose they’ll keep him on “paid administrative leave” until his actual trial?

[Altariel]

Wonder if they’d even defend an officer pointing a gun at a gas station attendant?

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_23674364/off-duty-tucson-cop-accused-pointing-gun-at

(AP article)

[stinkerpot65]

Her bio:

http://lexyalphaintro.wordpress.com/about/

College kid, committed Christian. Police and public schools seem to enjoy imprisoning children for any perceived slight.

[piroque]

Being a cop doesn’t even rank in the top 10 (ten) most dangerous jobs in America. So whats your problem?

[I want the USA back]

What should happen is

The department mails a written apology, admitting that the cop’s actions were criminal. The woman sues the department for 52 million. She gets to visit the cop in jail and kick him in the ba11$ twice. Then spit in his face.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Why are you so quick to side with the cop here. His own supervisors released the woman immediately upon finding out what happened, his own department investigated his conduct, and his own department arrested him for aggravated assault.

[lapsus calami]

 

Very similar to what happened in Temple back in May. Kid gets curious, comes in from parking lot to watch. Cops order him "back" into the store, but he didn't come from inside the store, kid tries to go back to parking lot and is attacked. Temple PD presently getting sued.

 

 

Temple Police release details in resisting arrest case

Temple Daily Telegram

Monday, June 3, 2013 11:37 pm

by Deborah McKeon

 

Two weeks after two men were arrested in connection with a theft at Walmart on May 18, Temple Police released details that may give some explanation to the resisting arrest case against 15-year-old Lorenzo Martinez at the same time and place.

 

Martinez, who was cleared of any involvement in the theft, said police broke his collarbone that Saturday night and his mother filed a complaint that is now being investigated by the Texas Rangers.

 

One reason police may have been suspicious is a Walmart loss prevention agent said one of the men got a phone call and hid stolen merchandise inside a display box before trying to leave the store, leading him to believe someone outside was watching for police, the police report said.

 

Roderick Keith Moore, 23, and Douglas Wayne Kubiak, 22, both of Bryan, were arrested around 8:43 p.m. May 18 in connection with the theft, according to the report released Monday. Both were charged with criminal mischief between $500 and $1,500 and theft between $500 and $1,500 in connection with the incident at the Walmart at 3401 S. 31st St.

 

Both men bonded out of Bell County Jail, according to jail records.

 

The May 18 police reports originally provided by Temple Police indicated that the case was active and didn’t show any arrests or provide any names.

 

According to the police report provided Monday, two men allegedly forced open a computer display case, took notebook computers and concealed them, loss prevention agents said. The agents called police and said the suspects were still in the store. They provided updates on their locations to police dispatch, according to the report.

 

Officers parked outside the store and watched the exits while receiving updates on the suspects’ locations. That was when the loss prevention agent said one of the men got a phone call and hid the merchandise inside a display box, the report said.

 

When Moore and Kubiak were leaving the store, they saw the officers coming and tried to go back in, according to the report. Loss prevention agents and officers then took them into custody.

 

The arrest report for Moore and Kubiak was logged at the same time as the arrest report for Martinez.

 

Martinez said his girlfriend was in the store and he was waiting for her outside in the car when he saw police arrive. He said he was curious, so he walked into the store’s entryway to see what was going on. When he tried to leave, officers arrested him. Martinez said they threw him to the ground and broke his collar bone. Paperwork from Scott & White showed he was diagnosed with a fractured clavicle.

 

Martinez’s mother, Elsa, filed a complaint against the Temple Police Department alleging excessive force and a false accusation of theft.

 

Temple Police would not comment on the time factor or the relationship between the cases because Martinez is a minor, department spokesman Cpl. Christopher Wilcox said.

 

However, Wilcox said in an email on May 29 that Martinez was not involved in the Walmart theft case.

 

[Leaning Right]

...a female could easily approach an officer with a concealed weapon..

Really? That's your defense of the cop's actions?

Many years ago, my car's battery died during a snowstorm. I was parked in a big-city parking lot at the time. So I walked up to a cop to ask him where the nearest garage was.

Under your theory, I'm lucky I didn't get a beating for approaching the officer.

[contrarian]

Yep...walk by a traffic stop. IT makes you want to sneak up on the cop with a concealed weapon and assault his fist with your face. Good thing she wasn’t walking her poodle. She clearly weighs about 120 pounds to the porkers 180-200. Sorry, I don’t accept knocking her teeth out as an excuse for this one...

[yarddog]

I used to know a retired Georgia Highway Patrolman. I once asked him about exactly that kind of thing. He said he didn’t believe in acting that way but some would club you pretty fast if you didn’t say yes sir and no sir.

I remember one night we were returning from Gainesville to Troy and traveling in state cars. One of the drivers made a pretty obvious violation and a Georgia Highway Patrolman stopped him. Our head coach was riding in another car and he got out and asked the cop what was going on.

The cop glanced at him and said “get back in that car”. Our coach who often had a big mouth, said yessir and got back in the car. We all laughed and the patrolman did not give us a ticket, probably because it was a state car.

[ken5050]

I’m not siding with anyone..read my post. I asked why are most here already blaming the cop. we don’t know what the circumstances were..

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Hey, you don’t know what kind of gas station that was. That attendant could have had a gun in the cash register. You have no idea how dangerous it is for drunk cops to shop at 3 AM.

[tacticalogic]

In the cop's defense, he did at least user her to bash a Prius.

(ducking and running)

[Altariel]

The cop is blamed because he committed physical assault. The woman did not commit assault.

[Hulka]

Goodness.

First story was in San Marcos, on a part of the street that is just outside the campus (I went to university there). Well lit, well traveled, students constantly walking to/from campus to get a Manske roll or something.

SPD officer back then were pretty good guys, mostly students themselves.

Now this story from Temple PD. Wow. I used to be a police officer there and that incident is weird and not at all like when I was there. We were too busy with real troublemakers and didn’t get involved in that sort of stuff. Has the chief lost control?

Times are changing. . .

[Altariel]

Those gas station attendants; making drunk officers act out their “I’m robbing a gas station” fantasies.

Shame on them.

</ sarc >

[QQQQ]

With a multi-million $$ settlement in few months I would smile too.

[dfwgator]

She could then afford the best dentist in Texas.

[gaijin]

The city should pay for her injuries, and the officer should have to pay a very tidy sum, also.

Then they should have a very formal ceremony in a controlled environment in which she (or a member of her family) punches out the tooth of his child.

He would ABSOLUTELY understand that, and learn from it.

There was a difference in power between the two, and he abused that.

Same thing.