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Police Confiscate Cellphones at High School While Students Film Another Student Being Detained
Awakended Citizen ^ | 4/26/2014 | Wil Brown

Posted on 04/28/2014 5:30:59 AM PDT by Domandred

All too often we are reminded of the ever-encroaching police state by reading about incidents happening all over the country. It hits you a little differently when you hear about a child being abused and detained by your own local police department.

This was the reality for me today when I heard that local 17-year old, Joseph Turner was aggressively detained by the Boise Police Department in his own school, Frank Church High School.

What's even more astounding is that as the incident was happening, school officials took it upon themselves to confiscate the phones of students who were recording the incident. Information on Idaho Code in regards to filming police can be found here.

According to multiple eye-witness accounts, School Resource Officer Kane and School Security Officer Espinoza did indeed use excessive force.

Friend to Turner and eyewitness Rainy Sargent said, "I did not witness much of the fight, but what I did see was horrific. Both the SRO and the security guard were using excessive force. I saw them slam his head into a wall, pull his hair, elbow, and knee him. Joe is a great kid. He keeps to himself most of them time, but he's a total sweetheart. I'm horrified this happened to him of all people."

When further asked on the background of the situation, Sargent stated, "I was talking to him this morning and he was telling me a lot has been going on in his life lately. He had been kicked out of his house last night, and had to sleep in an alley. He got kicked out of class because he had been sleeping."

Carsten, a student at the school, whose last name has been removed for privacy reasons, described the incident in a Facebook post:

"An office aid told me it was because he was sitting in the hallway with his legs out, and the teachers didn't like having to step over his legs so they sent him to the office, then he got an attitude and it pretty much went from there.”

Career Counselor Wibble can be seen clearly trying to prevent anyone from filming the incident in the video.

We have been unable to obtain any other video footage at this time. We have been told by students that some people have yet to have their phones returned by faculty. Some students even complained that their phones were returned in inoperable condition.

No contact has been made with Turner by Awakened Citizen or any of his friends.

We are still learning more details about the incident and will provide them to you as they come in. It is unclear at this time whether Turner swung on the SRO, but based on eye-witness accounts, it is clear he presented no danger to faculty or any of his classmates. What is also very clear is that NO child should be subject to this kind of violent abuse, especially by those entrusted to protect him.

As you continue to read stories about police violence in other areas, don't wait to be reminded like I was that it CAN happen in your area. Chances are, it IS happening. As friend and classmate Derek Tucker stated, "I just don't wanna see this kid get assault on a officer."

If you would like to contact Boise Police Department with any questions regarding this incident, this can be done so here: 208-377-6790


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: education; force; policevideo; school
This is not the first time the Boise Police department has had problems with people video recording them making arrests.

Another source says at least a dozen police responded, locked down the building and searched students as they left.

To be fair, from the video at the source it does look as if the student was resisting.

1 posted on 04/28/2014 5:31:00 AM PDT by Domandred
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To: Domandred

these clowns keep doing this. Time after time the courts have ruled its LEGAL for citizens to record the police. I hope they sue the crap out of the individual cops and the police department.


2 posted on 04/28/2014 5:39:21 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissingerhaha)
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To: Domandred

So…the object here is to have students accept excessive force by the police, right?

There should be a 10 year waiting period before ex-military personal can be hired by civilian police forces. Contrary to their training, this is not Iraq or Afghanistan, and this thuggish behavior has to stop.


3 posted on 04/28/2014 5:39:50 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Domandred

Cops are ENEMIES of the American People.


4 posted on 04/28/2014 5:41:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Domandred

Who are you going to believe; the government or your lying eyes?


5 posted on 04/28/2014 5:43:06 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Domandred

The Supreme Court ruled that ones rights do not end at the schoolhouse doors. We need to make sure our children understand this. They are growing into the compliant citizens this administration wants.


6 posted on 04/28/2014 5:44:45 AM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of liberty only to see marxism elected at home.)
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To: Kozak

Until the cops that are illegally inhibiting recording of their official activities are personally held accountable, this will not stop.


7 posted on 04/28/2014 5:45:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Domandred
Why is it OK for teachers and cops to destroy evidence?

8 posted on 04/28/2014 5:52:27 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Domandred

:: from the video at the source it does look as if the student was resisting. ::

But then these. Godless socialists can’t defend their position of “instinctual/evolutionary fight-or-flight” as a natural response, either.


9 posted on 04/28/2014 5:58:15 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: Kozak

Courts have also ruled that the school setting is differentiated from other locations as to the freedom allowed to the students. A suit might not be the slam-dunk you believe it to be.


10 posted on 04/28/2014 6:14:19 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: BitWielder1

Why. To teach the students the true nature of life in these United States.


11 posted on 04/28/2014 6:20:22 AM PDT by Holdem Or Foldem (Life isn't fair, so wear a cup.)
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To: Lazamataz

Tell me about it. I got detained unlawfully and then arrested. Had to hire a “civil liberties” lawyer....


12 posted on 04/28/2014 6:24:14 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: Domandred

We need to put cameras in all areas of public schools, except the bathrooms and locker rooms. These cameras should be accessible to all parents 24/7 via their computer or smart phone. This is already being done at many private schools.


13 posted on 04/28/2014 6:25:52 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: Domandred

I guess the key is for the public to use small, hidden cameras that the jack boots can’t see or confiscate.

Camera phones are too obvious.


14 posted on 04/28/2014 6:45:58 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I don't want to feel "safe." I want to feel FREE!)
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To: Domandred

The headline should have been::

Local Police ROBBED a group of Students at GUNPOINT.


15 posted on 04/28/2014 6:48:44 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: txrefugee
There should be a 10 year waiting period before ex-military personal can be hired by civilian police forces.

Great idea, but it'll never happen.

16 posted on 04/28/2014 7:14:20 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Domandred

To be fair, maybe he should have resisted. Maybe the students should have kicked the crap out of the thugs in blue and their school employee enablers. Maybe we ought to let the dog shooting doughnut eaters know that they need to decide whose side they are on. BTW, it isn’t a dangerous profession - not even in the top ten. I don’t want to hear about their just wanting to go home at night.


17 posted on 04/28/2014 7:49:09 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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I'm curious if anyone posting has ever been in a classroom with 30+ students which are addicted to cell/Iphones.
They can't put them down. Even thought school policy is phones are not to be displayed during the school day.
Most High Schools have a “SCHOOL” policy about picture/video taking, I submit to you that the confiscation of devices were due to this policy. Flame away
18 posted on 04/28/2014 8:19:04 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: TaxPayer2000

My school district was having trouble with discipline on the busses, so they installed video cameras. The idea was when little Johnny misbehaved, we’d show his parents proof of his deeds. But it didn’t work out that way. Yes, you can show little Johnny’s parents video of LJ, but you can’t show them the faces of any of the other kids—right to privacy and all of that.

Students, not being an arm of the government are not constrained by this rule—they can video each other as much as they want.

We were also told that if we ever took a kid’s phone, we were to have them turn it off first. Under no circumstances were we or any school official to look at what was on their phone. Reason—if there was anything that could be considered child pornography, we’d be an adult in possession of kiddie porn. Once again, perfectly legal for them (if they’re under 18), big trouble for us.

I really don’t think schools—or much of society—have come to grips with the reality of this technology.


19 posted on 04/28/2014 8:24:29 AM PDT by hanamizu
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