Posted on 04/04/2014 11:49:36 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
A wrongly imprisoned Dallas man, who just won his $1.1 million lawsuit against the city, would still be in jail if not for the discovery of video evidence, which proved that his arresting officer had attacked him and lied about it.
In December of 2009, Dallas police Officer Matthew Antkowiak was dispatched to break up a fight between two white men. But on his way to the scene, he saw a black man, 62-year-old Ronald Jones, crossing the street. Antkowiak claimed that Jones was throwing beer bottles. He stopped his car and approached Jones. According to the officer, Jones tried to choke him, provoking a fight that lasted until other officers arrived. (RELATED: Dashboard cam catches cops in unbelievable series of lies that led to man’s false arrest)
Jones was arrested on assault charges and spent the next 15 months in prison, according to WFAA News 8.
The only problem? Antkowiak’s account was a complete lie — and eventually, footage from police dashboard cameras disproved it.
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Abuse of power is not restricted for racial issues. It’s just used as a broad excuse.
And therefore diverts the objective.
M4L
The law needs to be changed. In theory, all government employees are working for the public. Intentionally lying to a citizen should be a felony for any government employee.
It didn't just start with the invention of phone and dash cams. The problem is a longstanding one that has allowed the race hustlers to convince their listeners that the JBT represent society.
And technically, LEO does represent us and we've mostly been silent about it until recently.
The other important question, why did it take 15 months for the video to surface?
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Another important question: Why did Jones spend 15 months in jail? Why didn’t he post bond? I read the link and the link in the link to WFAA article. Jones had not been convicted. He was awaiting trial.
I suspect other charges and/or issues are at play here beyond what we are reading.
Any mention of our Founding Fathers now days ends up with the Dems/leftists accusing the speaker of all sorts of nasty things because they detest the freedoms and liberties the founders tried to set up in our Constitution.
The current state of our education system has ensured our children know nothing of the true founding of this Country nor enabled their ability to read and find the truth. The Government has almost completed the transformation from our free society to another Socialist/Communist state.
No, resignation is not enough.* I don’t know the law in Texas. In other states he could be charged on felony charges. Battery is the least of what he did. False imprisonment, falsifying official reports, something analogous to perjury, a buffet of civil rights violations.
There has to be the -will- to exercise that prosecutorial discretion.
*Although if I was offered 1,100,000 to sit in jail for 15 months, I think I’d jump at it; but that does not answer the -criminal- malfeasance of the cop.
Simple
When a cop, judge, or da lies or withholds evidence they should get the same sentence as the accused.
And the other important question is why is the crooked cop allowed to resign and walk away? Since his testimony, I assume it was under oath and was a lie, where are the perjury charges? How about putting him in prison?
I wonder if the cop is drawing a pension?
“”Jones faced a possible life sentence had he been convicted on a charge of aggravated assault of a public servant. But the case was dismissed in March 2011. Antkowiak, who investigators said suffered a concussion and other injuries in the fight, called the incident “terrible.”
“Any time a police officer has to use force, it’s unfortunate,” he said. “It’s not something that I ever put a uniform on to do. I put a uniform on to help people.”
Antkowiak, 40, resigned from the Dallas Police Department in January 2012 for unrelated health reasons after nearly five years on the force. He is now CEO of the U.S. Security Institute, a private training and security firm.
Jane Bishkin, a Dallas lawyer who has represented officers for more than 20 years, said “nothing really stands out” in the officers’ use of force in the dash-cam video. Officers are allowed to use strikes to gain compliance, she said.””
Cops have subjected minorities to the Us vs Them treatment for a very long time.
LEO has become so entrenched in it’s own lawlessness and disregard for the constitution that they now treat everyone with the same disregard, so NOW it’s not racial.
All I’m saying is that this JBT behavior is not new and it’s one reason race hustlers have been so successful, in spite of the very real changes in attitudes in the regular population, it didn’t change in cop culture, instead it turned into a cancer that is eating away at our civil liberties.
I'll be surprised if there are any consequences to him to speak of. If this nation still had a "justice" system, he'd spend at least the same amount of time in jail as the man he railroaded. I'll be surprised if he even gets fired.
If he is, he'll be on another force, framing new people in weeks.
Every single conviction he assisted in should be scrutinized closely by the courts, with all benefit of the doubt being given to the accused.
*ping*
It’s stuff like this that makes people like me question the intentions of cops.
A cop lied? I can’t believe it. :-)
eventually???...did this guy even have an attorney and , if so, why wasn’t the dash-cam evidence introduced at the trial....pathetic!!
“I went to the link. It sounds like the officer was allowed to resign.”
This is why bad cops assume they will get away with it. Because they do, no matter what the boot lickers claim. Anyone else would not walk away from such a crime.
U.S. Security Institute
www.securityinstitute.us
U.S. Security Institute. Contact: Matt Antkowiak. Address: Arlington, TX 76012. Phone: 405-615-3209.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/US-Security-Institute/196485103861373?hc_location=timeline
I know that God says not to take revenge, that it is His job to do that, but one wants to dish back to these modern-day cops that shoot before asking questions, shoot to kill before identifying the purpose of their interdiction, etc. There are a lot of good cops, but in the cities, it is scary. There is NO WAY I’d want to live in a city!
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