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As I noted in a post during the Republican convention in September, there was something fishy about the Republicans' use of the slogan "Country First" in the recent campaign. Why not "America First?" We got the answer the other day when the Bush administration continued its attack on the two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were sentenced to long jail terms for shooting and wounding a drug smuggler. The Bush Justice Department continued to go after the men this week and succeeded in an effort to prevent any significant reduction in the sentences of former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose...

NEW DELHI (Oct. 24) - A Roman Catholic nun who accused a Hindu mob of raping her said Friday that she will not cooperate with local police, alleging that they stood by idly during the attack. Hiding her head and face behind a scarf, the nun told reporters that she was raped after a mob attacked a Christian prayer hall on Aug. 25 in the eastern state of Orissa. In her first public comments, the nun said a group of about 50 men tore off her clothes and raped her. Later, she said, she was paraded naked, together with a...

Thirty-one members of Congress on Wednesday asked President Bush for an "immediate review" of the convictions of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were sentenced in 2006 to lengthy prison terms for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled back to Mexico. "Should you be unwilling to pardon Agents Ramos and Compean, as some of us have advocated, we ask that you then consider commuting their sentences to time served," the Republican lawmakers said in a letter. "Your intervention in this matter will not only serve to correct this injustice, but also help...

Drug use, identity theft described in testimony The federal trial of a rogue motorcycle cop threatens to blow the lid off alleged widespread corruption within the Boston Police Department as a key witness drops daily bombshells implicating unindicted officers allegedly involved in illicit drug use, identity fraud and wild sex romps. Roberto “Kiko” Pulido, 42, an 11-year veteran of the force, is on the hot seat in U.S. District Court charged with attempted possession and conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He and two other officers, Nelson Carrasquillo and Carlos Pizarro - both of whom have since pleaded guilty to like offenses...

See for example this thread first. A state trooper who's in Tennessee let a speeder get away for free It did not involve tact but a sexual act Did I say the driver was a "she" ?

CHICAGO - The city's police department has long been fighting the perception of lawlessness on the force, even before Al Capone had so many officers in his pocket. Now, one of its best crime-fighting tools is subjecting it to ridicule around the globe. Surveillance camera footage of an officer pummeling a female bartender half his size has made its way into living rooms worldwide through 24-hour news channels and YouTube. "He's tarnished our image worse than anybody else in the history of the department," Police Superintendent Phil Cline said of Anthony Abbate, a 12-year veteran charged with felony aggravated battery...

Nov. 23, 2006 — - Roughly 3 million Americans live with epilepsy. And a surprising number of them go to jail for it. Why? Around the country, police officers and bystanders who see someone having a seizure mistake it for disorderly, criminal behavior. That's what happened to Daniel Beloungea of Pontiac, Mich. On most days Daniel lives the normal life of a 48-year-old single man. But roughly once a week, he loses total control of his body and mind to an epileptic seizure. A seizure took over Beloungea's body while walking through his suburban Detroit neighborhood last April. When an...

BRADENTON -- For years, the Bradenton Police Department has quietly, without judicial review, confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and property from people they arrested for drug possession and other crimes. The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form called the "Contraband Forfeiture Agreement." By signing it, a person agrees to relinquish their property to the police and waive any rights they have to try to get it back through the courts. In some cases -- including one last year where police seized more than $43,000 from a man...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...

"It's (expletive) over, son."For two hours, authorities say, that message would be pounded into Lester Eugene Siler’s head and body, reinforced with the barrel of a gun and echoed in threats of electrocution. Handcuffed and surrounded, Siler was now a prisoner of the war on drugs in Campbell County. Seven months later, five former Campbell County Sheriff’s Department lawmen are poised to plead guilty to federal charges they conspired to violate Siler’s civil rights by beating, threatening and torturing him.

Great Moments in Police Work Officers of the Texas City Police Department were conducting a prostitution sting April 4. Things were going well -- eventually six hookers were arrested, no doubt the first step toward forever eradicating the problem of prostitution on the Gulf Coast. Around midnight, according to police, the officers observed a Texas City PD patrol car pull up to one of the women posing as a working girl. TCPD officer Lee Marshall, a two-year veteran of the force, was later charged with the class B misdemeanor of solicitation of prostitution. The department is not talking about the...

Robert Davis, the retired teacher whose beating during an arrest by New Orleans police was caught on videotape shortly after Hurricane Katrina, had the charges against him dropped, Davis and his attorney said Monday. Davis, 64, had returned to New Orleans to check his property following the Aug. 29 storm. He said he was looking for a place to buy cigarettes in the French Quarter when police grabbed him. The Oct. 8 beating by three New Orleans police officers was captured on video by an Associated Press Television News crew covering the aftermath of the hurricane. The videotape shows an...

When he pulled into the parking lot of the Meadow Glen Mall in Medford, State Police Sergeant Brian O'Hare believed he was about to meet the 14-year-old boy he had been courting for months on the Internet, and the two would have sex, authorities said yesterday. But there was no boy, just FBI agents waiting to arrest O'Hare at the end of a six-month undercover sting in which agents posed as flirty teenagers on an AOL chat room dubbed BoysShowerM4, said FBI spokeswoman Gail A. Marcinkiewicz. Well known among his 2,300 peers in the State Police, O'Hare is a 19-year...

Boyfriend Killed After Deputies Don't Respond To 911 Call   POSTED: 3:30 pm EST February 4, 2006  FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A woman said her estranged husband killed her boyfriend after Lee County sheriff's deputies failed to respond to her 911 call reporting he had shown up in violation of a no-contact order. However, the sheriff's department said Ruthie Mendez, 29, didn't give them enough information to act, and computer problems prevented them from finding the order. Mendez called 911 Wednesday night and told the operator her husband, Pedro Mendez-Morales, 31, had just been at her home with a...

CHINO, Calif. (AP) - A videotape released Tuesday shows a sheriff's deputy shooting an unarmed Air Force policeman who recently returned from Iraq as he appeared to obey an order to get up off the ground. KTLA-TV broadcast a 40-second clip it said came from a Chino resident who videotaped Sunday night's shooting, which followed a 100 mph car chase. Senior Airman Elio Carrion, 21, was listed in good condition at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. He was shot three times in the chest, ribs and leg, his father-in-law, Ernesto Paz, told KTLA-TV. Carrion was a passenger in a...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge police officers used stun guns on innocent people, hit handcuffed suspects and damaged cars and other personal property during patrols after Hurricane Katrina doubled the city's population, according to New Mexico State Police. In addition to a complaint filed with Louisiana authorities in September, the agency plans to ask the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate, said Peter Olson, spokesman for the New Mexico Department of Public Safety. His department and Michigan State Police had not given details about why they pulled out of Baton Rouge after patrols Sept. 9 and 10. Olson...

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti's office confirmed Wednesday that it is investigating the alleged looting of a New Orleans car dealership by city police officers. More than 200 vehicles were taken from the Sewell Cadillac Chevrolet dealership in the Central Business District, and in the most chaotic hours after Hurricane Katrina, some New Orleans Police Department officers reportedly pulled up outside the mobile command center at Harrah's casino in bright, shiny Cadillac SUVs. The cars allegedly still had "2004" stickers in their windshields and "Sewell" medallions on the back. The fancy rides appeared at a time when a desperate force,...

<p>Hours before New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass announced his resignation, Tony relayed some hot information he had heard from his Capitol Hill sources. It regarded an FBI investigation currently under way.</p> <p>You can go to the source above and listen to that segment of his radio show.</p>

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A university police officer working with the state to curb underage drinking was shot to death by an Orlando police officer outside the Citrus Bowl Saturday as fans were arriving for a football game, authorities said. Mario Jenkins, a canine officer working with Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco agents, was killed, said University of Central Florida Police Sgt. Troy Williamson. Williamson said Jenkins was wearing street clothes. He would not talk about the circumstances of the shooting. "You've got about 50 police officers and beverage agents who are in complete shock at this point," Williamson...

A veteran firearms instructor violated two key safety rules when he brought a loaded gun into a Cobb County police academy, where he accidentally shot and killed a recruit Tuesday during demonstration on how to draw a pistol, officials said Wednesday. Tara Drummond, a 23-year-old who hoped someday to become a detective, died Tuesday afternoon shortly after being hit in the chest by a single round, said Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren, who is leading an investigation of the shooting. All ammunition is banned from the building, said Warren, who declined to release the instructor's name or any initial findings as...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A 12-year-old student saw her father's remains in a gruesome photo of a drunken-driving crash during a police presentation on the dangers of mixing alcohol and operating a motor vehicle. The girl's mother, Marla Cabbage Higginbotham, said her daughter was traumatized by the experience last month at the Holston Middle School. Her attorney has urged the Knox County law director's office to investigate. ''Why are we showing 12-year-olds mutilated dead bodies when they can't even drive a car for four more years?'' attorney Gregory P. Isaacs said Friday. ''[The police] are good people with good intentions who...

New Orleans police sought sexual favors, took snapshots of helpless victims Ged Scott, 36, of Liverpool, England was with his wife and seven-year-old daughter in the Ramada Hotel when the flood waters started rising. "At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying 'Can you help us?' and the policemen said 'Show us what you've got' and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts," he told the Liverpool Evening Echo. "When the girls refused, they said `Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat." "I could not have a lower...

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SUNRISE -- Police seized 2 ounces of marijuana at the home of Anthony Diotaiuto after shooting him 10 times, according to information on the drug raid released Tuesday. Also Tuesday, while many friends and relatives of the 23-year-old bartender and student mourned him at a Davie funeral home, others appeared at a Sunrise City Commission meeting to demand an explanation for the fatal raid "Do 2 ounces of marijuana constitute a death warrant?" asked Sunrise resident William de Larm, a friend of Diotaiuto's.

SUNRISE · The SWAT team assembled outside Anthony Diotaiuto's home in Sunrise Golf Village early Friday morning, expecting to find drugs and guns, authorities said. Inside, Diotaiuto had been home for only a few hours after his night shift at one of the two jobs he kept to help pay for the home where he lived with his mother. He had a valid concealed weapons permit and kept a shotgun and a handgun for safety, friends said. It was about 6:15 when the SWAT team smashed in Diotaiuto's door and shot him dead. Officers were right to expect him to...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Two Ciudad Juarez police officers were charged Monday with the rape of a U.S. tourist, authorities said. Officers Gerardo Hinojosa and Juan Jose Castorena were accused of rape by a 24-year-old tourist from El Paso, Texas, who filed a complaint Saturday, Ciudad Juarez Police Chief Juan Salgado said. Salgado said the officers have been suspended pending an investigation. The woman told investigators the officers stopped her and her husband as they were getting out of a night club and arrested him for drinking in public. When she offered them a $50-dollar bribe to...

SEATTLE - A man apparently woken from a drunken stupor by Pierce County sheriff's deputies, repeatedly zapped with a stun gun and finally chewed by a police dog - all in front of a production crew from the TV show "Cops" - has sued the county and the officers, alleging brutality. The deputies, accompanied by a K-9 officer from the Tacoma Police Department, were looking for an armed suspect in a car break-in when they came upon Aaron Otto Hansen, 34, of Roy, early on July 10, 2004. Hansen, who did not commit the crime, was passed out drunk in...

N.J. Woman Says Bounty Hunters Grabbed Her Wed Jul 6, 3:45 PM ET A woman who was grabbed by bounty hunters in a case of mistaken identity and taken her from her home in handcuffs is demanding an apology from local police who she said stood by without helping her. ... "Nobody told me why I was being arrested," she told The Record of Bergen County for Wednesday's editions. "They took me out of my house without knowing why, and the police just stood there." ... New Jersey, like many other states, has no laws defining the authority of bounty...

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — The mayor of this embattled city announced Tuesday that nearly 80 police officers have been fired for failing to pass a screening process started as a result of a recent shootout between local and federal officers. Nuevo Laredo Mayor Daniel Peña said the officers were terminated for violating various administrative policies, ranging from absenteeism to more severe charges of flunking drug tests. City spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said up to 70 other officers are in jeopardy of losing their jobs before the end of the week. Combined, that would mean pronouncing unfit for duty about one-fifth of...

NAMPA, Idaho An Idaho man says he may have to "seek psychological help" after his home was mistakenly raided by police. The Nampa police department meant to raid the adjacent unit of his duplex Wednesday. Officers threw a powerful noisemaking device through John Simpson's window, then stood outside with their guns drawn. The Vietnam veteran said he hit the floor of his home, and took his wife down with him. Then, he picked up the first thing he could find -- a vacuum hose -- and ran out the door to defend himself. Police eventually arrested Simpson's neighbor on a...

June 15, 2005 -- The shattered father of a Queens deli clerk shot dead by a retired police detective last fall collapsed in tears yesterday, telling a crowded courtroom how the incident had torn his life apart. "Every day, I miss his smile," said Noe Chametla, 40, of his boy. "Every day, I miss the phrase, 'Papi, I love you.' I don't have the chance to see him grow older, to see him become a man."

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - FBI agents posing as cocaine traffickers in Arizona caught 16 current and former U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel who took about $220,000 in bribes to help move the drugs through checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday. Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, current and former members of the Arizona Army National Guard and the state corrections department, and a Nogales police officer, officials said. "Many individuals charged were sworn personnel having the task of protecting society and securing America's borders. The importance...

FBI agents posing as cocaine traffickers in Arizona caught 16 current and former U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel who took payoffs to help move the drugs through checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday. Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, current and former members of the Arizona Air National Guard and the state corrections department, and a Nogales, Ariz., police officer, officials said. All 16 have agreed to plead guilty to being part of a bribery and extortion conspiracy, the result of the nearly 4 1/2-year FBI...

Off-Duty Officer Pleads Guilty To Fatally Shooting Teen Officer Alleges Teen Tried To Break Into Shed POSTED: 4:40 pm EDT April 25, 2005 BALTIMORE -- A 32-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Monday in the death of a 14-year-old boy. Ronald Johnson Sr. fired one gunshot on Aug. 20, 2004, from a second-story bedroom, striking D'Koy Dancy in the back. The teen was allegedly trying to break into a storage shed in the back yard of Johnson's home, in the 5000 block of Lindsey Road. Johnson faces a maximum possible prison sentence of 10 years. The judge has...

Police raid wrong home Deaf B'klyn mother of two pulled from bed and handcuffed by narcotics cops who were on wrong floor BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA STAFF WRITER April 8, 2005 Police who busted into a Coney Island apartment looking for guns and drugs found only a deaf woman with asthma and her two screaming kids, victims of a raid that went awry because police used a back entrance that left them on the wrong floor, Newsday has learned. Mini Matos, 28, and her two children were fast asleep when about five cops from Brooklyn South Narcotics burst into her apartment...

Mom not laughing at 911 dispatcher's 'joke' By Leila Fadel Star-Telegram Staff Writer WATAUGA - Lori came home to find her daughters fighting that Monday evening. Her 12-year-old had kicked a hole in the door, and the girls were hitting and throwing things at each other. She feared one or both would be seriously hurt. She called 911 and asked for help. Her 12-year-old daughter was out of control, she told the call-taker. "OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?" the dispatcher asked, according to a recording released this week. For five seconds, the line went...

[Excerpts:]You would think that a party at a police officer's house, full of off-duty police officers, would be among the safest places to have fun. Frank Jude, 26, doesn't think so. The Milwaukee-area man had been invited by another guest to such a party on Oct. 24, 2004. He left cuffed and savagely beaten. "It looked like a bomb had went off in Frank's face," said Kirsten Antonissen, who accompanied him to the party. Jude's pants were also cut off his body. He says he was kicked repeatedly in the groin, his fingers were yanked back and a pen was...

Confused Cops Swarm Woman After Birth 42 minutes ago AP KETTERING, Ohio - A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way — first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint. Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over at a gas station just after midnight Tuesday. "I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a little, and I looked down and there was...

<p>Police chief resigns after DWI charge; Miguel named new chief Syracuse police Chief Steve Thompson resigned this morning after being charged with driving while intoxicated after hitting a bicyclist in Geddes with his city-owned vehicle Sunday night.</p> <p>Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll appointed First Deputy Chief Gary Miguel to be the new police chief. Deputy police Chief Michael Heenan was named first deputy chief. Thompson, 53, whose salary is $85,430, refused to take a Breathalyzer test at the scene, police said. Neither Thompson, nor Bridget Scholl, an assistant Onondaga County district attorney who was a passenger in his car, could be reached for comment.</p>

MOUNTAIN GATE, Calif. (AP) - An autistic teenager suffered a head injury and a broken elbow in a beating by three sheriff's deputies who mistook him for a prowler, authorities say. Pierre Cowell, a 17-year-old who does not speak, had wandered from his home early Friday. A neighbor, who did not recognize him, called 911 after seeing him outside her home about 2 a.m., Capt. Tom Bosenko said Monday. The woman became alarmed when she heard the doorknob jiggling, he said. As three deputies approached the house, Cowell ran toward them and bumped one of them, Bosenko said. When Cowell...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was been suspended after video surfaced showing the man shooting himself during a gun safety class in front of a group of Orlando fourth-graders, according to Local 6 News. An investigation has been launched to determine who leaked the home video of the undercover DEA agent shooting himself at an event sponsored by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association. Before the shooting, the agent was videotaped talking about how certain weapons are popular with rap artists. "This is a Glock 40," the agent said on the tape. "Fifty Cent,...

AURORA, Colo. -- Aurora police are reviewing a weekend incident in which a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers. The incident began at 4:05 p.m. Sunday when officers were called to the restaurant at 145005 East Exposition on a report of a larceny in progress. Police talked to the Chuck E. Cheese manager who told them that a customer had refused to show proof that he had paid for food. The manager said the man was seen "loading" his plate at the salad bar. The...

Teen boy, mother with baby had been arrested after confrontation with shouting, 'crazy' officer Not only have the charges against a South Carolina teenage boy and a homeschooling mother stemming from a confrontation with a plainclothes police officer been dropped, but the officer involved has been fired. The two were arrested – the boy for carrying a concealed weapon and the mother for assaulting a police officer – after the cop confronted the boy in a picnic shelter where a homeschool support group had gathered for socializing and play. As WorldNetDaily reported, the incident occurred at Simpsonville Park in Simpsonville,...

  Woman Faces Perjury Charges After Men Jailed In Bogus Attacks Tony Pipitone, WKMG-Local 6 News POSTED: 10:03 pm EST February 3, 2005 UPDATED: 3:56 pm EST February 4, 2005  ORLANDO, Fla. -- At 5-foot-9, 140 pounds, 25-year-old Beate Faanis cut a stunning figure as a University of Central Florida golfer, and she quickly caught the eye of fellow golfer Trason Brooks.       "Tall girl, blonde hair, blue eyes, pretty girl," Brooks recalled of his first impression of the Norweigian-born clinical social worker. They would date off and on over 18 months, but after their last break-up things turned...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Nine men, including four veteran Chicago police officers, were arrested Thursday and charged with stealing cocaine, money and guns from drug dealers. All nine were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. Authorities said the five non-officers arrested were drug dealers themselves who worked with the policemen from the Englewood District on Chicago's South Side.

Deputy stops man for traffic violation, but ends up seizing his cash and jewelry John Pickens didn't want to show his face while telling Ted Oberg his story, but he has contacted the FBI. By Ted Oberg ABC13 Eyewitness News (01/17/05 - HOUSTON) — It seemed like a routine traffic stop, but then it took an unfortunate turn for the man who was pulled over. That driver was told, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you don't get a ticket. The bad news I have to take your money and your jewelry." Deputy stops man...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orange County sheriff's deputy was fired after surveillance video showed him urinating in a public elevator, according to Local 6 News.

Miami-Dade police said an officer should not have used a stun gun to stop a 12-year-old girl who was skipping school. A Miami-Dade police officer used a Taser to stop an unarmed, 12-year-old girl who was running away from him after she was caught skipping school, police acknowledged Friday night. The incident happened Nov. 5, just over two weeks after other Miami-Dade officers used a stun gun to restrain a first-grader. In that case, police said the 6-year-old boy was holding a shard of glass and threatening to cut himself. Police Director Bobby Parker defended the decision to shock the...

An off-duty deputy U.S. marshal embroiled in an apparent road rage confrontation along Rockville Pike on Thursday night fired repeatedly into the rear window of his adversary's car, killing the man as he sat behind the wheel, according to police and witnesses. Numerous witnesses to the death of Ryan T. Stowers, 20, at the Mid-Pike Plaza in Rockville shortly before 8:30 p.m. were being interviewed by Montgomery County police yesterday. Authorities said no decision had been made on whether charges would be filed against the deputy marshal, Arthur L. Lloyd, 53, a 28-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service assigned...