“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Not THIS time!!
Posted on 05/06/2022 3:42:04 AM PDT by vespa300
DENVER — A former Colorado police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia and later seen joking about it with colleagues was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
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Meanwhile, Ashli Babbitt’s shooter got what...?
If I were her family I'd be suing Walmart for millions. I've seen it written that Walmart fights even the most trivial actions brought against them...for example a $100 X-ray bill from someone who slipped and fell in Aisle 7 on some spilled yogurt.
I see what Walmart did as being even worse than what the cops did.
5 years for being stupid seems a bit harsh. Prisons would fill pretty fast if we did that regularly.
Good news, nully.
Did you see video of the arrest? Did you see video of them watching the replay of the arrest, laughing, high-fiving while the woman was chained to a bench with a dislocated shoulder?
What he does d in the field was a “mistake”. Repeatedly joking and laughing about causing serious injury was evil and calls into question his original motive.
If two cops mistreated one of my elderly parents that way, and it was all recorded, I would need to fight the impluse to cause them similar discomfort or disturbance. I would never forget it.
Pretty much in line with the federal code for violating a person’s rights under color of law resulting in bodily injury =>
...and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
Here’s a question: Why was the guy who did this ever allowed to wear a badge...?
Meanwhile the Capitiol Police officer/officers who wantonly disregarded the value of Rosanne Boyland’s human life, to the point of piling protesters on top of her, and eventually bashing her with a stick while she was unconscious and lay dying, got what...?
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4059044/posts
hing that occurred is an assault under the color of authority by Morris,” Kephart told The Epoch Times. “That is a crime, an arrestable offense.”
Police at the mouth of the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol ignored dozens of pleas to help Boyland after she collapsed, the videos show.
When a lifeless Boyland was pulled inside the building more than 10 minutes later, other police and EMS personnel began 50 minutes of life-saving efforts that ultimately failed.
An independent forensic pathologist hired by the Boyland family contends that her cause of death wasn’t an overdose of the prescription drug Adderall—as reported by the D.C. medical examiner—but manual asphyxia. Boyland was crushed under a pile of people when police gassed protesters and pushed them out of the tunnel at about 4:20 p.m. on Jan. 6. ‘Under the Color of Authority’
Kephart, a 42-year law enforcement veteran and former director of security for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, reviewed Boyland’s case at the request of The Epoch Times. He has testified as a witness more than 350 times on topics including excessive force, police discipline, officer safety, and crowd control.
Kephart concluded that Morris’s use of force was a felonious “assault under the color of authority,” with intent to cause great bodily harm. He said that Morris should be prosecuted in criminal court and fired from the D.C. Metro police force.
“I believe two things were in operation here. One was anger at this person,” Kephart said, referring to Boyland. “That was overridden by fear. And those two elements were the causal connection between what was done to the person by the officer and the result.” Rosanne Boyland was struck with a wooden stick on Jan. 6, 2021: once in the ribs and twice in the head, video evidence shows. (Metropolitan Police Department Bodycams/Graphic by The Epoch Times)
The force used against Boyland fails a four-part standard set in the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case Graham v. Connor, Kephart said: whether force was ever needed and appropriate in the situation, the extent of the injury, and “whether the force was applied in a good-faith manner to maintain and restore discipline, or maliciously and sadistically.”
Police are trained not to strike people in the head with a blunt object. In the West Terrace tunnel, something overcame that training, Kephart said.
“If you have a trained officer who is angry at what the crowd is doing and the crowd rises up and puts him in a position where he feels his personal safety is compromised, fear begins to take over the anger, and the reflexive response throws the training right out the window,” Kephart said.
Chief Robert Contee of the Metropolitan Police Department didn’t respond to a request for comment. A message left with the department’s public information office wasn’t returned. Justin Winchell reacts in horror when his friend Rosanne Boyland is struck in the head with a wooden stick. Boyland was struck three times. Officer Lila Morris tried striking a fourth time, but the stick flew from her hand. (Metropolitan Police Department Bodycam/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
One protester who allegedly used the same wooden stick to strike and jab at police in the terrace tunnel was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon. Jonathan Mellis was charged in a 10-count indictment on March 10, 2021. He pleaded not guilty. Mellis is being held in jail pending trial. Police Ignored Pleas for Help
Police bodycam video shows protesters begging officers to render life-saving aid to Boyland from the moment she collapsed at the mouth of the tunnel. The pleas grew more desperate as it became apparent Boyland was dying. That sparked a violent backlash from rioters, who attacked the police line with fists, flag poles, sticks, and a whisk broom.
“There’s people under here!” shouted Justin Winchell, Boyland’s friend who accompanied her to Washington that day. “There’s people trapped under here!”
A protester right at the police line who was bleeding from a baton strike to the head pointed to Boyland and pleaded for help. “Get her up. Get her up! Get her up, please,” the man urged. “Save her life! Save her life, please!”
One officer used his baton and boots to push five protesters on top of Boyland, bodycam video shows. “Please get her up! She’s gonna die!” Winchell shouted.
There was the sound of a female coughing as a battle raged above and around Boyland. The coughing stopped at 4:26:04 p.m., according to a timeline developed by The Epoch Times from police bodycam footage.
Deep State has come been the country and its law enforcement.
Deep State is very happy about that.
“Did you see video of the arrest? Did you see video of them watching the replay of the arrest, laughing, high-fiving while the woman was chained to a bench with a dislocated shoulder?”
Just curious, why are police the only group on Earth never extended any effort of understanding? Democrats have collapsed American society and police are the only group holding it together. Have you ever wondered if they get desensitized? Have PTSD or some form of it after being immersed with toxic crap day after day?
“Here’s a question: Why was the guy who did this ever allowed to wear a badge...?”
He seemed to fit right in at Loveland PD. Not one of the officers had the decency to take the cuffs off of her and attend to her injuries. They just left her chained to the bed while they yukked it up.
Ex-Officer Hopp is going to have a miserable few years ahead of him. Good.
That’s a good question.
He is quoted telling officer #2 to wait so she can hear the “pop” of the old lady’s arm becoming dislocated from her shoulder. Horribly cruel. Taking a sadistic delight in causing pain when he didn’t need to. How many others has he done that to?
Yeah, I saw that. I think Hopp knew he f’d up and was making sure he dragged others into it with him. All involved are scumbags.
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Not THIS time!!
According to Dr. Clarissa Cole fully half the people she did the mandatory pre-employment psychiatric evaluations on, who she flunked, were hired anyway.
The real questions are:
Who did the actual final approval of hiring a known psychopath?
Why are they not personally held to account for giving a known sociopath a gun, a badge, and unlimited authority over innocent citizens, and any damage that loose cannon does?
Why has no attorney representing a victim or a victim's survivors ever demanded the results of the mandatory pre-employment psychiatric evaluation of the alleged bad cop in open court?
That's the same for anyone living in $hit everyday. A kid from the ghetto, a person in a horrible family, etc. Lots of people get beat down mentally and physically where they are from. Usually not much sympathy for them out there.
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