http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/donutwatch/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:42:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417946/posts A Dallas County jail guard has resigned while under investigation for allowing a 20-year-old male inmate to perform a sexually suggestive dance for her to music earlier this month, according to Sheriff’s Department reports. The “lap dance” occurred in the county’s new direct supervision jail, where guards supervise inmates from inside the housing pods — a growing trend in corrections. Witnesses said Officer Kytrina Lewis was close to the inmate, Gregory Miller, and gave him her personal cell phone, which contained photos of her... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417946/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:42:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417738/posts While this may be a vanity, I believe it is another chapter in a growing trend of government to prey on its citizen subjects to add to their coffers.Yesterday, while returning home from a Christmas visit to relatives, my daughter was picked up on I-77 just north of the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel.She is 24, a cautious driver and never had a speeding ticket before. I'm 54 and have had only one, when I was slightly younger than she is now.The circumstances of the ticket are suspect. She was passing a semi-trailer going in the 50's on a steep downhill... Speedtraps.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417738/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416480/posts (CN) - A suburban Chicago police officer Tasered a man 11 times while he was having a diabetic seizure, and the 56 seconds of needlessly inflicted electric shock, "inflicted ... while he was lying unresponsive on the floor of his bedroom, permanently scarred [him] and caused him neurological damage that has not abated," the man claims in Chicago Federal Court. Prospero Lassi says he suffered a diabetes-induced seizure at home on April 9. His roommate called 911, and police from LaGrange Park and Brookfield responded, with EMTs from LaGrange Park. Lassi says his roommate explained to police that he was... Courthouse News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416480/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:15:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413001/posts The night that off-duty Ogden police Officer Jared Tongsaeng Ingalsbe crashed into two power poles, four cars and a house in Harrisville, there was both alcohol and a prescription drug in his bloodstream. Ingalsbe was initially charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, a class B misdemeanor. But prosecutors later allowed the officer to plead guilty to a non-alcohol-related reckless driving charge, which left him facing none of the usual drunken-driving sanctions like license suspension and substance-abuse treatment classes. Deputy Weber County Attorney Christopher Allred explained Monday that toxicology reports did not support beyond a reasonable doubt... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413001/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:59:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412899/posts A grand jury said that it found the shooting of a Georgia pastor by undercover officers to be justified. The report on the Georgia Bureau of Investigations investigation into the shooting was released on Monday. Baptist minister Jonathan Paul Ayers, 29, was killed outside a Toccoa convenience store on Sept. 1. Undercover agents said they were in the area watching Kayla Barrett as part of a drug investigation. An undercover agent, whose name will not be released, said, "We were going to do another buy for crack rock and work the prostitution angle as well." Investigators said Ayers, who was... WYFF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412899/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:38:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412946/posts THEY SAT there together, the 12-year-old girl and the 38-year-old man, alone in a van in sprawling Fairmount Park. He made the first move, exposing himself to her, asking her to touch him and then to perform oral sex on him, she later told police. When she recoiled, clearly overwhelmed, he took her home. Philadelphia Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412946/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:53:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412115/posts The Washington Post reports that yesterday’s record snowfall resulted in an impromptu mass snowball fight in downtown Washington DC. While some may have been celebrating an upcoming white Christmas, it appears that the Metropolitan Police Department may have already received the best from Santa. A plainclothes detective was stopped at the intersection when his burgundy Hummer (a $40k+ vehicle) was hit with snowballs. Video shows him get out of his stylish ride and draw his service sidearm. He then drops his comm unit and bends to pick it up out of the snowy street, all while holding his handgun pointed... Austin Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412115/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411512/posts Guy To Cop: "What's your badge number so we can report your ass for pulling a gun at a snowball fight" ......(Video) hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411512/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:19:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411447/posts According to an eyewitness, a D.C. Police detective went nuts after kids pelted his Hummer with snowballs at 14th and U streets NW this afternoon. The cop got out of his car and started waving his gun around. He did not immediately identify himself as a police officer. He calmed down once his fellow police arrived. Apparently, someone called 911 to report a man with gun. The snowball fight had been well hyped on Twitter. The news of the incident first broke there. We caught up with an eyewitness moments ago. Photos and video to come. http://www.nbcwashington.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411447/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:41:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410977/posts Cop's Two Shots Kill Small Dog By Nicholas Briano Police fatally shot a small pug dog in the head last week while responding to a call on a quiet Edgemere block, telling superiors that the dog attacked them outside its Beach 43 Street home. The incident began at 5:33 a.m. last Thursday, October 26, when Patricia Fernandez, who was already awake and getting ready for work, heard shots fired outside her home located on a quiet deadend street. According to police sources, patrol cars had responded to the house next door on a child endangerment call. Prior to the cop's... The Wave (Long Island) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410977/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:38:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409782/posts (12-17) 09:44 PST ALAMEDA -- An Alameda police dog trying to flush out a burglary suspect was shot and killed by an officer today after the dog attacked the officer, a police spokesman said. Billy, a Belgian Malinois, and his handler were among those responding to a burglary at the Coast Guard Recruiting Center at 660 Central Ave. shortly before 6:15 a.m., police Lt. Bill Scott said. Billy bit another officer assisting on the call. The dog did not let go when his handler ordered him to do so, and the officer being bitten shot him to death, Scott said. SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409782/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:18:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409122/posts JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Some of the facts about Monday morning's police-involved shooting are not in question. What is in question is exactly why a Jacksonville police officer opened fire on a man who wasn't armed, at least not with a gun. Sgt. J.T. Carey, an 18-year veteran officer, shot and killed 30-year-old Neil Southerland after a pursuit in Mandarin early Monday. Investigators are trying to determine if deadly force was justified. Police said Southerland intentionally rammed an officer's vehicle twice during the course of a slow-speed pursuit early Monday morning. After the second time, officers broke out the window of... 4JAX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409122/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:35:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407713/posts The letter extols Giovanni DeMaio’s "love and understanding," his efforts to raise money for a young girl with cancer, his propensity for treating others "as he treats his own children." The gushing note was one of more than 90 written on behalf of DeMaio, a reputed organized crime associate facing sentencing for possessing a trove of illegal weapons. What caught the attention of federal prosecutors, however, was the name signed at the bottom: John Pinzone, police chief in the Bergen County community of Fairview. Odder still, prosecutors say: Pinzone didn’t mention he was dating DeMaio’s daughter. That omission drew an... Star-Ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407713/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:00:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408541/posts Police action called 'self-defense' in shooting death of mentally ill woman Toledo's police chief says his preliminary review of a police-involved shooting Monday night indicates the officers acted in self-defense and that the shooting was justified. TPD chief Michael Navarre identified the woman killed at a group home as Linda Hicks, 62. She was shot and killed during a confrontation with police at a group home on Fernwood near Detroit Avenue in Toledo. Police were dispatched after a call that the woman had been brandishing a knife. Chief Navarre said Officer Diane Chandler, a three-year member of the police department,... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408541/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:57:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408502/posts IT WAS just after midnight. Brian Westberry and a woman friend sat frozen in his bedroom, hoping the persistent pounding on the front door of his Northeast Philly home would stop. It didn't. Westberry, 24, slipped his licensed .38-caliber revolver into his pants pocket and crept downstairs to open the door. There stood Gregory Cujdik, 32, who demanded to see "Jen," his girlfriend. Westberry told him "Jen" didn't want to see him, and repeatedly ordered Cujdik to leave. When Cujdik refused, Westberry threatened to call police. " 'Do it. My family are cops,' " Cujdik said, according to Westberry. Philadelphia Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408502/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408448/posts The Shenandoah police chief and two officers under his command are charged with orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by altering evidence or lying to the FBI in a hate crimes case against two popular football players. The former Shenandoah High School athletes, 19-year-old Derrick Donchak and 18-year-old Brandon Piekarsky, have now been charged with a federal hate crime, accused of beating Luis Ramirez in a park on a night in July 2008 as they headed home from a party, the Justice Department said Tuesday in Washington. State prosecutors who tried unsuccessfully to win ethnic... The Times-Tribune (Scranton PA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408448/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408098/posts Ohio justices: Cell phone searches require warrant COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police officers must obtain a search warrant before searching the contents of a suspect’s cell phone unless their safety is in danger, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday on an issue that appears never to have reached another state high court or the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled 5-4 in favor of Antwaun Smith, who was arrested on drug charges after he answered a cell phone call from a crack cocaine user acting as a police informant. Officers took Smith’s cell phone when he was arrested and, acting... Gaea Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408098/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:54:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406565/posts Update: The door was likely between an inner bedroom and the suit. I guess he left the room door open to the hall to, um, attract visitors. You might be able to make this up. But it would require a pretty disturbed mind. Where to begin. Initially being investigated for disabling the fire alarm systems in his hotel room, due to shower steam, he claimed, it was discovered he had replaced the hotel room door with a piece of plywood. The plywood contained a circular padded hole believed to be used for sexual acts. See gloryhole. Yes, it was facing the... Riehl World View http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406565/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:33:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406221/posts DALLAS — The search for suspects who raped an SMU student last weekend led police to a southeast Dallas neighborhood off Jim Miller Road and Red Bud Drive. Ruben Moontiel also saw SWAT officers near his home on Red Bud Saturday afternoon while he landscaped his front yard. No sooner had he gone inside to tell his wife police were suiting up outside when SWAT kicked in his front door. "I felt humiliated," Moontiel said. His wife, Agueda, said Dallas SWAT officers rushing into her home trampled over her foot and fractured it. DPD detained the entire family for four... WFAA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406221/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:38:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405952/posts CHARLESTON, WV - A freelance photographer is outraged after being arrested for taking pictures. The dispute revolves around what exactly happened recently at a Charleston, West Virginia mall. Scott Rensberger says when he took some photos of a child on Santa's lap, a man asked him if he could delete the photos. He says he complied, but then moments later, Rensberger says police officers approached asking why he was taking photos of kids. Fox 5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405952/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405710/posts It would be conveniently tidy for the story of last month’s Parkland police massacre to begin and end with recently-departed cop killer Maurice Clemmons; tidy for social apologists who never seem to run out of excuses for people like Clemmons, and tidy for people left in his wake. This is not a tidy world. If it were, Clemmons would still be in an Arkansas prison and the four police officers he gunned down would be looking forward to the holidays with their families. Clemmons, it is now evident, represents the tip of an iceberg that encompasses several relatives and some... Seattle Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405710/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:50:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404812/posts Crude cartoons intended to offend Muslims in St. Cloud were found posted on utility poles this week. The cartoons, reminiscent of those published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, "are clearly offensive to the Muslim community here, inappropriate and not wanted in our community," said police Sgt. Marty Sayre. Five pages of cartoons, posted on a pair of utility poles, depict the prophet Mohammed in derogatory ways, the Qur'an and a swastika. "We've had swastikas before, but I believe this is the first time we've seen" images specifically targeting Muslims, Sayre said. One of the posts was stapled to a... StarTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404812/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:56:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403830/posts Students at the University of Colorado are being told by campus police that their planned game of "Humans vs. Zombies" must be canceled because of a campus ban on toys that look like guns. The planned game would divide participants into "humans" and "zombies" with the human team defending themselves with NERF guns. Campus police "[fear] they could be painted to look like a real weapon and someone could become alarmed and notify authorities, who would have to respond." "If we have people playing a game and someone happens to be walking and sees someone crouched down with something that... Cleveland gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403830/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:36:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403415/posts A Chicago police officer executing a search warrant was hurt this afternoon when he was struck in the leg by a bullet from another officer's gun that was intended for two charging dogs, police said. The incident happened at about 1:15 p.m. in the 6000 block of South May Street, according to a police statement. Narcotics officers were at a home there as part of a investigation, and as one officer tried to secure a room, the two dogs attacked him. He fired his gun at them, police said. One of the bullets hit a dog and then kept going... WGN9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403415/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:00:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403249/posts A woman has filed suit against the Washington Park police officer who she says accidentally shot her in the leg. Linda Hicks claims she called police to her house at 5731 Portland on Dec. 1, 2008, to request that her son be removed due to his disruptive behavior. Responding to Hicks' request, defendant Washington Park police officer Donald Williams arrived at Hicks' residence where he arrested Hicks' son for an outstanding warrant, according to the complaint filed Nov. 30 in St. Clair County Circuit Court. "As the officers were taking the plaintiff's son to the squad car, plaintiff's dog barked... Madison Record http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403249/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:31:18 GMT