Posted on 01/27/2023 11:16:39 AM PST by Morgana
Two police officers are among the three people charged in connection with the beating of a homeless man in Florida last year. Both officers were removed from active duty before being fired from the department, police chief George Fuente said.
According to an affidavit, Hialeah Police Department officers Lorenzo Orfila and Rafael Otano were working an afternoon patrol shift together on Dec. 17, 2022, when they were dispatched to Los Tres Conejitos Bakery in a Hialeah shopping plaza. The two officers "made contact" with Jose Ortega Gutierrez, who was then handcuffed and put in the backseat of Orfila's police vehicle.
The affidavit notes that Orfilo and Otano did not arrest Gutierrez for "any violation of Florida State Statute and/or Miami-Dade County Ordinance." The officers' body cameras were not activated during the encounter.
Gutierrez was "transported ... against (his) will" to "an isolated and dark area," according to the affidavit. Gutierrez said that he was taken out of the vehicle, still handcuffed, and "punched and pushed onto the floor" by Orfila and Otano.
GPS data from the officers' vehicles confirmed that they took Guttierez to the location he claimed he had been assaulted, according to the affidavit. The route the GPS data showed them taking was also corroborated using surveillance video, the affidavit states. Neither officer logged the trip or the transportation of Guitierrez in their daily reports, which they would have been required to do, according to the affidavit.
Photos of Gutierrez taken after the incident showed lacerations and bruises on his body, including a black eye. According to the affidavit, Gutierrez said he fell unconscious and when he awoke, he was alone and uncuffed. He soon made contact with another person, who called the police, according to the affidavit.
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Sounds like peace officers doing their job. Instead of running him off though, he will now be a rich bean.
These men should be praised and rewarded. Most of the so called homeless are crazed or drugged out human dogshit.
“Sounds like peace officers doing their job.”
He committed no crime, was not cited for a crime, and then these two goons kidnapped him at gunpoint, took him to a dark place, and then while he was still in handcuffs they beat him up.
You think this is ‘doing their job’?
What the hell is wrong with you?
I hope you’re being ironic.
Yeah, you are definitely “nuts” and a typical “NIMBY”. It’s all good, cool and legit as long as the cops are not violating or abusing you or your friends/family.
You are an apathetic POS and I pity you for when they come for you next because you will receive no pity or support when they “billy club” your butt.
Friggin’ idiot turd.
This feral’s very existence is a crime and an offense of the real people. Please hurry to one of the ‘encampments’ where these pieces of shit block sidewalks, harass passersby, aggressively panhandle, publicly urinate and defecate, strew garbage, and destroy public spaces paid for by the real people, the tax payers and see how much you enjoy the company.
> Sounds like peace officers doing their job. <
Better be a bit careful there. Because maybe someday you’ll get a visit from a couple of those newly-hired, armed IRS guys. And they’ll violate your constitutional rights six ways from Sunday...just doing their job.
Then ENFORCE THE LAW. Don’t make yourself the law.
Picking Droning Ted over DJT says a lot about you. By the way, have you been to Smacramento, as it is now styled, and noted the large scenic ‘homeless encampments’ decorating public property?
I got lost in Hialeah once so stopped and asked for directions, but nobody spoke English. But some older Cuban guy was able to direct me with hand signals. It was like being in a foreign country.
You have no constitutional rights with the IRS
There unwritten laws more powerful than all the smelly little rules that are today misidentified as laws.To save and preserve what is left of our country many so called laws must be ignored and many so called human beings must die and die soon.
I liked Ted Cruz because his views on the Constitution are sound.
I lived in Sacramento from 2004 to 2009 and it was awful then and worse now. Not a big fan of the permanent homeless who are not good people but instead are drug abusers and fugitive sex offenders.
That still doesn’t excuse two cops acting like people you’d call the cops on.
> You have no constitutional rights with the IRS <
That’s effectively the case. When dealing with the IRS, you are guilty until proven innocent. It was bad enough before. But now they’ve hired a bunch of armed agents. They’ve got something planned. And whatever it is, it ain’t good.
Side note to rich and connected people: Don’t worry. You’ll be okay.
Worse is a silly adjective to describe the heaps of human garbage infesting what was a very pleasant town. Cruz is an arrogant gasbag phony. He thinks his droning about marginal tax rates speaks to a country being destroyed. His lead agent here Timber Rattler reveals by his shoulder shrug about the current alien invasion of the US what Cruz people consider important, politibabel, chamber of congress politics and a smug arrogant fat man with his silly beard.
Well,at least they didn’t need a translator present.
From what I can understand Sacramento stopped being a nice place after 1964 when LBJ’s welfare programs ruined Oak Park and the former city of North Sacramento which is now called Del Paso Heights.
I wish I had seen it before then. From what I can tell it was a really nice place to live.
Now it’s just a nice place to leave.
Contempt for the law, huh? I hope you get your own butt kicked. You might learn a lesson.
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