Posted on 06/01/2008 5:02:43 PM PDT by Coleus
Forget about Ruby Ridge, think about New Orleans.
The mayor of a major US City conscripted LEO's from OUTSIDE his juridiction to enforce completely UnConstitutional orders INSIDE his city.
In UNIFORM, ON CAMERA, they mugged and arrested and abused citizens who did not pay their salaries and over whom they no authority. Here is the story of Patricia Konie among others:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4&NR=1
The Police Fraternity need to engage in serious thought about what exactly politicians ask them to do and just how quickly the wrong commands can erode public trust.
Do Police Officers REALLY want to face the prospect of a courtroom scenario where they testify on the witness stand they "were only following orders?"
Think about it.
Best regards,
My point was there are always two sides to the story.
Though police make mistakes, on the whole they abide by the rules 99% of the time under adverse conditions.
The facts may not mean anything to you I dont know.
Actually, there are at least 25 sides to every story.
We, the People, have become accustomed to believe there are just one or two or three sides to a story.
The rules the Police think they abide by, are in fact, dictated to them by their command and enforced by promises of advancement,pay and pension.
None of the Police in New Orleans abided by the rules. Any rules.
That pretty much blows your 99% figure right there.
Best regards,
Your starting to look foolish.
If true, the cops are scum and should go to jail, but seriously it reads like she was making it up as she was telling it.
They beat the pee out of a disabled woman because she interrupted their stealing of her bricks?! And throw in an abandoned baby, in case somebody doesn't care about beat downs on the handicapped.
And notice she had an on going fued.
I'm assuming you're not from this area of Jersey. Stuff like this goes on all of the time, and the majority of young cops around here have a severe case of Short D!ck Syndrome. Certainly the officers should have their fair day in court, but I'll be surprised if they're exonerated. It's a shame there are so many scumbags cops in that area that people automatically assume the worst about them.
Correct Im not from Jersey. And if they are guilty they should be convicted wiyh the haeshest punishment possible.
i noticed that news 12 had the story on all day yesterday and never read the police report for the reason of her arrest which happens to be public record.
I wonder what the Nutley PD’s excuse is for leaving the, 3-yr.-old, diabetic girl home alone. If mom left her home alone, mom would have been charged, and when the nutley pd left her home alone, that’s OK. Time will tell.
of course it’s a sob story, the event happened over a year ago, the civil trial attorney wrote a press release that I posted in post #1, and the relese was sent to the press who responded by doing the story without showing a copy of the police report. But what I can’t understand is why the nutley pd, let the little girl with diabetes home alone. It the roles were reversed it would have been mommy who was arrested. So, we will have to wait and see what is revealed in the trial. Maybe the girl wasn’t left home alone. time will tell.
(#18. Profess confusion at the other guy's choice of example.) What the heck does this have to do with Ruby Ridge?
(#21. Insert gratuitous ungrammatical ad hominem non sequitur) Your starting to look silly.
Best regards,
Utter BS, I was givin you the benefit of the doubt til that whopper...
A handicapped Nutley woman is planning a federal lawsuit claiming she was beaten and falsely ar rested by two township police officers while she was having a property dispute with her neighbor. Donna Koeppel, who walks with a cane and often has braces on her arm and leg, said Officer Andrew Bassett threw her face down on her lawn and pressed a knee against her back while handcuffing her. Koeppel, 36, whose attorney has formally notified Nutley of a pending lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Newark, said Bassett's knee shat tered a medical device implanted in her back to control her limb pain, causing her to receive an electrical jolt.
"First he knocked me down, and then he put his knee in my back," Koeppel said in an interview in her home. "I could feel the electrical shock through my whole body. That's when I urinated my self." Koeppel's claim against the police is unusual in that her lawyer, Angelo Bisceglie, took out a half- page ad in The Star-Ledger on May 30 that outlined her claim and established a hotline for people to report wrongdoing by the Nutley police. Gabrielle Gallagher, the attor ney for Bassett, said the officer was furious about what he considered Koeppel's fabrications. She said the officers never handcuffed Koep pel and treated her gingerly be cause of her condition.
Gallagher said Koeppel told the officers that she had tripped over her dog and injured herself before they arrived. She said that might account for the damage to her pain-control device. "There is no way that anyone can say these injuries were caused by the police officers," she said. "My client went out of his way to treat Mrs. Koeppel with extra care." Gallagher said a neighbor with no involvement in the dispute has given the Essex County Prosecutor's Office a statement that Koep pel was not mistreated.
Anthony Iacullo, attorney for the second officer, Eric Stabinski, said his client is also innocent of any wrongdoing. "Her version of what happened that day is the furthest thing from the truth," he said. The prosecutor's office is planning to present the case to a grand jury and has informed both Koep pel and the officers that they are possible targets in the proceeding, the attorneys said. The altercation took place on Jan. 3, 2007, after Koeppel called police to report that her neighbor on Wilson Street, Joseph Juliano, had workers removing bricks from a walkway on her property.
Koeppel said she and her husband have had previous disputes with Juliano, who is a Newark police sergeant, and that he has friendships in the Nutley police and in township hall. Stabinski filed a police report stating that he and Bassett sum moned code enforcement officer Carl Thunell to Koeppel's home and that Thunell told Juliano's housemate, Dina Mandato, to reinstall the bricks. The report states that the officers ordered Koeppel to stop yelling at Mandato and go inside her home, after which she shoved Sta binski, causing him to stumble backward. She was arrested for ag gravated assault on a police officer but not handcuffed because of her disability, the report said.
But Koeppel gives a different version. She said Stabinski roughly grabbed her arm and that she pulled it away because of the ex cruciating pain. She said she has a well-documented case of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a condition that can cause severe and chronic pain in the limbs. After she pulled her arm away, Koeppel said, Stabinski briefly stumbled over one of the loose bricks, prompting Bassett to throw her on the ground and handcuff her. She said he took her cane and threw it across the lawn and dragged her to a police car. She said the officers left her 3-year-old daughter, who is diabetic, alone in the home for 30 minutes, a claim that attorney Gal lagher says is untrue. Koeppel said that when she told Bassett that her daughter was alone, he swore at her.
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