Police Intimidation Caught on Video Over Filing A Police Complaint

 

   Officer Schumanich was caught on camera cursing and screaming at a member of a police watchdog group who went to his department asking to file a complaint against an unspecified officer.  Read more

 

Chicago Police Officer Pleaded Guilty to Drunk Driving Charges that Killed Two Teenagers.

  A former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges Friday and could face up to 28 years in prison for causing a crash that killed two teenagers.

  Officer Jason Casper, 25, entered his plea to four counts of aggravated driving under the influence in the death of another and one count of aggravated DUI causing great bodily harm.

 

Two out-of-state police agencies refused to work with Baton Rouge Police

 Last month, New Mexico State Police and Michigan State Police refused to work during hurricane detail with the police in Baton Rouge Louisiana.

 The two agencies refused to help out, due to complaints over the use of force, unprofessional language and conduct by the Baton Rouge police department. 

 

A Police Chief and a Officer are Charged with New Orleans Looting

 Police Chief Jeremy LeBlanc and an officer in his department have been booked for malfeasance and two counts each of looting and felony theft. 

 They're accused of stealing 23 T-shirts from the Jean Lafitte Gift Shop on Bourbon Street, and suede and leather sports coats and a box of Ray Ban sunglasses from Saks Fifth Avenue after they went to help police there.

 

Caught on Tape New Orleans Police Officers Plead Not Guilty to Beating

Three New Orleans police officers are entering pleas of innocent to charges of battery.  The charges stem from a videotaped incident over the weekend, in which two patrolmen repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man who was accused of public intoxication."

 Two officers, identified as Lance Schilling and Robert Evangelist, were charged with battery in connection with the arrest of Robert Davis.  Officer S.M. Smith was accused of roughing up a producer for Associated Press Television News.

 

New Orleans Police were Confiscating Firearms from Citizens at Gun Point

 Gun rights groups won a temporary restraining order Friday preventing police in New Orleans and a nearby parish from confiscating people's firearms when seeking to evacuate residents. News reports quoted police as saying: "We are going to take all the weapons, and only law enforcement officials would be allowed to have firearms."

 

Prisoners were Abandoned in their Cells without Food or Water for Days as the Flood Waters Rose

 As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff's department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city's jail. These inmates, including some who were locked in ground-floor cells, were not evacuated until, four days after flood waters in the jail had reached chest-level.

 

Taxpayers Must Pay a Woman $100K for Carrying 2 Bags of Crack

  During the traffic stop on a street corner in Edgewater, an anonymous caller told the cops that a woman had stuffed something down her pants. When asked, the woman told officers that she was hiding crack cocaine in two small bags and the officer searched the woman's genital area right on the street. 

"Racist" Police Blocked Bridge and Forced Evacuees Back at Gun Point

  A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees back into the chaos and danger of New Orleans. Witnesses said the officers fired their guns above the heads of the terrified people to drive them back.

 

Police Officer shoots 12-Year-Old Girl at School With A Taser

 An officer shot a 12-year-old schoolgirl with a Taser gun and arrested her after she became disruptive at school.

 The officers had trouble controlling the 12-year-old, who is all of 5 feet 5 inches tall and 120 pounds. So to calm down the young girl, the officer shocked her with 50,000 volts of electricity.

 

So Far Only A Few New Orleans Police Officers Have Been Caught Looting

 A handful of police in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans joined with looters in cleaning out store shelves and pilfering merchandise that had nothing to do with survival.

 While the overwhelming majority of Big Easy cops were performing admirably under staggeringly difficult circumstances, an NBC camera crew filming looters at a local Walmart captured two police women filling a shopping cart to the brim with shoes.

 Asked what she was doing, one of the unidentified officers told reporter Martin Savidge: "I'm just doing my job" - before abandoning her shopping cart to resume her patrol. Her partner apparently continued looting unfazed by NBC's presence.

 

Officer Michael McDonald Seems to be Bully with a Gun and a Badge

 Officer Michael McDonald of Dayton, Ohio pepper sprayed a fast-food worker because the officer thought she short-changed him. 

 The city fired officer Michael McDonald and later got his job back. The fast food worker was awarded $60,000.

 

F.B.I. Posing as Drug Dealers-Bust Four Bad Cops

 Three Memphis police officers and a Shelby County sheriff's deputy, get busted in a drug sting by undercover F.B.I. agents. The police officers are charged with stealing money they believed belonged to drug dealers. Officer Charles Smith is charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a federal officer. He's accused of warning another cop. Officer Roderick Smith is charged with theft and attempting to possess cocaine. Officer Deshone Skinner is charged with conspiracy and theft. Shelby County deputy Marvin Wilson is charged with two counts of theft.

 

Police Officer that Killed Disabled Man-Keeps His Job and is Only Suspended 90 Days Without Pay

 A cop who shot and killed an unarmed invalid man was suspended for 90 days without pay. It was concluded the fatal shooting was unreasonable.

  Frank Lobato, 63, was killed in cold blood by police officer Rich Ford Jr., as he lay in bed watching television. Relatives said Lobato was disabled and needed crutches to move around. Police Chief Gerry Whitman said that Ford mistook a soda can Lobato was holding for a weapon and shot him.

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