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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You stupid man. The human garbage have no rights to exist, You sound like some libertarian jackass.
Pray do leave Louisiana, go some place like Massachusetts where your love of all the smelly rules government likes to call laws will be more appreciated.
Once giving the bum’s the rush was how the tax payers were protected.
“Lorenzo Orfila and Rafael Otano”
UH HUH 🤔
Some of them are combat vets. Are you?
From the article:
“were removed from active duty before being fired from the department,”
When did we start referring to the police like they’re military? There’s no such thing as “active duty” for police. It’s civilian; you’re either employed or not employed. That irritates me for some reason.
Yes and the problem is old. After the War Between the States many thousands of veterans of the Union army ,presumably a higher per cent of actual combatants than the veterans of today’s armed forces,’went on the bum’ as it was called then. LTG Richard Taylor, in words far more polished than mine, described the situation “From the Atlantic as far west as the young state of Nebraska hordes of idle vicious tramps penetrate rural districts in all directions rendering property and even life unsafe.”
Idle vicious vagrants menace peaceable lawabiding citizens (I mean the real laws of society, work, MYOB, marry, have a family, respect the property and person of other lawabiding persons) their property and their persons and their true right to go peaceably about their business. Whatever means necessary to disperse, expel, incarcerate or if necessary to kill these common marauders should be used,
What is this business that some of these pests may have been combat veterans. Past service or status does not bestow any permanent grant privilige on persons. What is this business of inquiring if I am one of that number. Are you imputing that only combat veterans are entitled to comment on the disgressive behavior of this cohort? That is akin to the special status various hereditary military societies such as Tokugawa Japan bestowed upon the Samurai class. Any peaceful citizen has superior rights over any individual behaving in a violent, vicious, idle manner, such persons menace them by their very presence.
> When did we start referring to the police like they’re military? <
It’s not just the wording. I can see having cops wear military ranks. You’ve got to know at a glance who’s in charge.
But it’s gone way beyond that. Cops wear service stripes on their sleeve. They wear award ribbons on their chest. And then there’s the military-style camouflage outfits and the military-style vehicles.
Put folks in that kind of environment, and they start thinking less like police officers and more like soldiers. And that ain’t good.
It is a foreign country.
“ Sounds like peace officers doing their job.”
You are nuts. At least you’re glad about it. Maybe the cops can beat the crap out of you for no reason and you can be glad about that too
” Most of the so called homeless are crazed or drugged out human dogshit”
Truly? Does that include the 19,572 homeless veterans? Or how about the 2-3 million mentally disabled that the states and fed gov have thrown out on the street?
Homelessness is not solely the realm of drug / alcoholic addicts. It is a station in life that is populated by a diverse grouping of people, many of whom are victims of circumstance. Among those are victims government seizure and foreclosure of property/fincnaces/businesses without due course or course, military veterans, mentally and physically disabled, and divorced men that have lost everything through ridiculous and unjust/unfair divorce laws and saddled with an unrealistic financial burdern of alimony and child support.
You are truly are blind dickhead, and I pity you. Be advised that there is a price to pay for being callous and uncaring. Suspect you will discover that when you meet the Lord.
Adios, Douchebag.
I saw nothing about him defecating on himself, maybe before they gave him “the treatment”.
Maybe we should give him free housing, or let him sleep on the sidewalk and shoot drugs and potty outside?
You should represent the criminal cops in their trial and see what the jury thinks about your excuse for kidnapping and battery. Dork
You have to be truly naive to believe any statistic self interested agencies put out. I don’t care what the problems these people have. Primarily as a tax payer I want my physical safety protected along with my property. Do you really personally know any of these, er individuals? If so why don’t you engage in private charity and take them in? Where did you plagerize your quotation from? From some organization that is a professional recipient of tax dollars. This is a classic example of professional whining. I had the misfortune to have an uncle such as this sob propaganda describes. As a kid he stole money from his brothers who worked, didn’t matter that they beat him up for it. He was always to smart to do dumb jobs. Two marriages wrecked by his love of the bottle and refusal to work. Eventually my father cut him off, he died of alcohol poisoning. Good riddance.
> The human garbage have no rights to exist... <
You are absolutely correct in that those folks are a serious drag on society. Something meaningful must be done about it. Too often politicians talk, and then do nothing more. This foot-dragging has got to stop! But you might want to rethink your wording there. Because when a group of people is labeled as garbage, bad things can happen.
As a side note, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in many countries. In a way, that kinda reinforces my point.
Coming soon, either the trah gets taken out or it will take you out.
I have heard them refer to actual active duty military members as "civilians".
It would be funny if it was not so dangerous a mind set.
Because if the police are not civilians then what are they?
Oh, blow me, you self-absorbed and self-righteous POS. Go away. You are pathetic and without heart or soul. Enjoy your warm and cozy evening by your fireplace in your gated suburban island while you group and revile the less fortunate as an enclave of worthless human excrement.
You suck balls.
Piss off.
Are you drunk or a drunkard. Your belligerent ranting is just like a bar room loud mouth.
Fool, watch the entertainment that is likely to begin tonight.
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