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  • Colorado sheriff's office settles for $1.5M in tasing lawsuit: "If the sheriff won't hold you accountable, we will"

    03/09/2024 6:43:49 AM PST · by CFW · 59 replies
    CBS news ^ | 3/4/24 | By Austen Erblat
    A sheriff's office in southern Colorado has settled a lawsuit with a 71-year-old man who deputies allegedly tased 35 times in 2022 for $1.5 million. Kenneth Espinoza, of Trinidad, was in his truck when Las Animas County sheriff's deputies pulled over his son. Espinoza was asked to pull his vehicle behind the deputies' cars but was almost immediately detained and eventually tased while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car a number of times. Two of those deputies were fired in September 2023. One of the attorneys representing Espinoza said when the deputies were fired that this was "the...
  • Kidnapping of California woman that police called a hoax gets new attention with Netflix documentary

    01/21/2024 12:57:34 PM PST · by CFW · 10 replies
    ABC news ^ | 1/18/24 | ap
    VALLEJO, Calif. -- The ordeal of Denise Huskins, whose kidnapping from her boyfriend’s Northern California home was first dismissed as a hoax by law enforcement, is getting renewed attention as the subject of a new Netflix docuseries, “American Nightmare.” Here’s a look at the facts of the case, which captivated the country: THE KIDNAPPING On March 23, 2015, Huskins was kidnapped by a masked intruder who broke into the home in Vallejo, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, told detectives he woke up to a bright light on his face and that intruders had...
  • Ohio SWAT Team Raids Wrong House, Seriously Injures Baby With Flashbang Grenade, Denies Responsibility

    01/13/2024 3:28:34 PM PST · by CFW · 90 replies
    Red State ^ | 1/13/24 | Jeff Charles
    Courtney Price was at home on Wednesday taking care of her one-year-old son, Waylon, when they experienced a terrifying and traumatic altercation with local law enforcement. What should have been an ordinary day took a turn for the worse when SWAT officers broke into the home, searching for a suspect. [snip] Price explained that the officers kept her outside for 35 to 45 minutes while her son “was laying in his swing, covered in glass, covered in smoke, choking, gasping for air.” [snip] Upon arriving at the hospital, she was told that her son had pneumonia but did not believe...
  • A geofence warrant typo cast a location dragnet spanning two miles over San Francisco

    01/11/2024 2:36:48 PM PST · by CFW · 9 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | 1/10/24 | Zack Whittaker
    Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed. But errors in the geofence warrant applications that go before a judge can violate the privacy of vastly more people — in one case almost two miles away. Attorneys at the ACLU of Northern California found what they called an “alarming error” in a geofence warrant application that “resulted in a warrant stretching nearly two miles across San Francisco.” The error, likely caused by a typo, allowed the requesting law...
  • Former corrections officer, current Disney worker charged with 32 child pornography counts

    12/23/2023 2:55:31 PM PST · by CFW · 27 replies
    WPDE.com news ^ | 12/22/23 | LENNY COHEN
    BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (TND) — A tip "regarding the possible possession of child pornography" at a home in Florida ended with the arrest of a man who used to be a corrections officer and then worked for Walt Disney World. Detectives in Hernando County, north of Tampa, got the tip last Saturday and then identified the suspect as Michael David Foster. On Wednesday, they executed a search warrant and “seized a flash drive and a few SD cards that had been located in a book bag belonging to Foster. Then, they said after his arrest, “Foster admitted to ownership of the...
  • Law professors goad police to use Qualified Immunity for gun confiscations

    07/20/2023 12:41:18 PM PDT · by CFW · 30 replies
    Bearing Arms ^ | 7/20/23 | Ranjit Singh
    Qualified Immunity is a controversial legal principle that “protects a government official from lawsuits alleging that the official violated a plaintiff’s rights, only allowing suits where officials violated a ‘clearly established’ statutory or constitutional right.” The bottom line for those of us who believe in civil liberties is that Qualified Immunity makes it very difficult to hold public officials accountable, especially police officers even in cases of horrific brutality, and it’s grating to think that this doctrine was invented by the Supreme Court in 1967. There’s a tension between the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment, and Qualified Immunity....
  • NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’

    07/08/2023 6:50:54 AM PDT · by CFW · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/8/23 | Dean Balsamini
    Former NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell stepped down amid a steady stream of New York’s Finest beating her to the exits, according to troubling new data obtained by The Post. Through June 30, 648 officers quit before retiring this year — a 22% spike from 2021, when 530 left, and an 87% rise from 2020, when 347 quit, NYPD pension data show. The concerning “voluntary quits” — combined with NYPD recruiting problems leaves the 34,000 uniformed officers “at least 1,200 short,” the police union said. “Cops are being squeezed from every direction. They are working inhumane amounts of forced overtime. The...
  • Police: 2 officers shot, 3 civilians dead in shooting in Farmington (New Mexico)

    05/15/2023 1:03:30 PM PDT · by CFW · 57 replies
    KOAT ^ | 5/15/23 | Vince Rodriguez
    Farmington Police confirm 3 civilians are dead and 2 officers were injured in an active shooting incident. Police say there are multiple civilian victims in the shooting. Police confirm that one suspect was confronted by officers and has been killed. The officers who were shot are being treated for their injuries at San Juan Regional Medical Center. Police say Dustin Avenue from Ute Street to Apache street is closed as they investigate the incident.
  • San Bernardino County pays $1.1M ransom after cyberattack disrupts Sheriff's Department systems

    05/05/2023 4:24:33 PM PDT · by CFW · 27 replies
    ABC7 ^ | 5/5/23 | staff
    San Bernardino County paid a $1.1 million ransom to hackers who infiltrated the Sheriff's Department computers, officials acknowledged Friday. Last month, the department admitted a hack encrypted many of its files, disrupting systems and blocking access to data. County officials told ABC News on Friday that the county carries insurance for such attacks and its share of the ransom came out to just over $511,000. After negotiating with the hackers, the insurance company and county agreed to pay to restore the system to its full functionality and secure data.
  • Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter convicted in Daunte Wright death to be freed from prison

    04/20/2023 8:21:29 PM PDT · by CFW · 18 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/20/23 | Rebecca Rosenberg
    Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, who accidentally killed Daunte Wright when she mistook her firearm for a stun gun during a traffic stop, is set to be released from prison Monday, records show. Potter, 50, has served 16 months at the Shakopee Minnesota Correctional Facility and will serve another eight months on supervised release. A shocking new booking photo shows the former Brooklyn Center police officer's deterioration behind bars.
  • Leave Austin Now: Massive Wave of Police Retirements Coming as Repercussions from Defunding Hit Home

    02/25/2023 1:13:59 PM PST · by CFW · 35 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | 2/25/23 | J.D. Rucker
    Texas is generally considered a red (though leaning more and more purple) state. Republicans have been able to keep control outside of the metro areas and even in most of the metros the gab between blue and red is smaller than most other big cities. The exception has been Austin which models itself more after San Francisco and Los Angeles than Dallas or Houston. The city was among those leading the charge during 2020’s big #DefundPolice movement and the results have been bad. They’re about to get worse. According to Fox News:
  • Trooper shot, shooter killed during raid of proposed APD training facility, GBI says

    01/18/2023 11:41:32 AM PST · by CFW · 10 replies
    WSBTV-Atlanta ^ | 1/18/23 | News staff
    ATLANTA Trooper shot, shooter killed during raid of proposed APD training facility, GBI says By WSBTV.com News Staff January 18, 2023 at 11:49 am EST NOW PLAYING ABOVE Georgia trooper shot, suspected shooter dead near site of proposed public safety training center ATLANTA — A Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot near Moreland Ave and Constitution Road in Atlanta Wednesday morning. Officials confirmed the shooting to Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Michael Register said several agencies were doing a raid near a proposed Atlanta Police Department training facility when someone started shooting at them....
  • How 33,000 will have their Covid penalties repaid as authorities admit they had no legal right to fine Australians for 'offences' such as not wearing a mask, sunbaking or travelling 5km from their homes

    11/29/2022 7:04:50 AM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA ^ | November 29, 2022 | STEPHEN GIBBS
    Two Sydneysiders challenged fines for Covid Public Health Order breaches. Case was run by Redfern Legal Centre in New South Wales Supreme Court. Hearing did not go ahead when the government conceded fines were invalid. Commissioner of Fines Administration then withdrew 33,121 penalty notices . Thousands more such fines across NSW could now be found to be invalid. ... More than 33,000 people who were fined for Covid breaches will get refunds after two Sydneysiders won a landmark test case and the NSW government admitted the fines were invalid. NSW Revenue's Commissioner of Fines Administration Scott Johnson said on Tuesday...
  • Actress Susan Sarandon retweets message comparing cops at funeral for fallen NYPD Officer Jason Rivera to ‘fascists’

    02/02/2022 9:10:50 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 98 replies
    Daily News ^ | FEB 02, 2022 | Rocco Parascandola
    Actress Susan Sarandon in an eyebrow-raising tweet has called into question the need for police in New York City — and she did it by reposting a message likening cops at the funeral for fallen Officer Jason Rivera to fascists.
  • Two Police Officers Shot Dead During Traffic Stop in Germany

    01/31/2022 12:05:25 PM PST · by rktman · 27 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 1/31/2022 | Breitbart London
    BERLIN (AP) – Two police officers were shot dead while on a routine patrol in western Germany early Monday, police said. The shooting happened during a traffic check near Kusel at about 4:20 a.m., police in Kaiserslautern said in a statement. The officers – a 24-year-old woman and 29-year-old man – were able to radio for help but reinforcements were unable to help them when they arrived. The perpetrators fled but police had no description of them, the car they used or what direction they fled in. Police called on drivers in the Kusel area not to pick up hitchhikers...
  • Gun, car used in shooting death of 6-year-old boy on 55 Freeway found, authorities say (New Details)

    06/07/2021 5:18:04 PM PDT · by Michael.SF. · 37 replies
    Orange County Register ^ | 6/7/21 | Nathaniel Percy
    The station wagon and the gun were found in a different location than where the couple was arrested, but officials did not disclose when and where they were found, nor how long they conducted surveillance on the suspects prior to the arrests. The gun and car used in the road-rage death of a six-year-old last month on the 55 Freeway in Orange have been found, the California Highway Patrol said Monday, June 7, just hours after Aiden Leos was buried.District Attorney Todd Spitzer said the driver and passenger will make their first court appearances in the case on Tuesday to...
  • You've Got 24 Hours': OC District Attorney, Todd Spitzer, Warns Killer Of 6-Year-Old Aiden Leos

    05/27/2021 7:01:55 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 64 replies
    CBS Los Angeles News Via Youtube ^ | May 27, 2021 | Michele Gile (reporting for CBS via Youtube)
    Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer issued a stern warning Thursday to a pair of unidentified suspects sought in the road-rage shooting death of a 6-year-old boy on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway in Orange, as the reward posted in the case swelled to $310,000.
  • Law enforcement organizations are calling on Governor Wolf to make them a priority for the vaccine

    03/04/2021 5:56:13 PM PST · by lightman · 25 replies
    WGAL ^ | 4 March A.D. 2021 | Amber Gerard
    In light of the news that teachers will not be eligible to receive the vaccine, some first responders are wondering when it will be there time. "We're an afterthought." states Dave Kennedy, President of the PA State Troopers Association. Kennedy was incredibly disappointed when he heard today's announcement. EMT's can receive the vaccine, nurses, doctors, now teachers, he says, BUT not law enforcement... "It's a no brainer. There's over 4,500 of us. Over 700 of us have already been infected." Since the Pandemic began, at least three stations have had to shut down Kennedy says. "Other stations in the troop...
  • 264 Police Officers Killed In 2020—A 96 Percent Increase

    01/18/2021 1:24:56 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 31 replies
    A staggering 264 police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020 representing a 96% increase compared to the previous year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.As of Dec. 31, 2020, the 264 officers killed consisted of federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial officers in the line of duty compared to 135 officers who died in the line of duty in 2019. The Memorial Fund’s report also records the deaths of officers in the category of “other” causes, which includes COVID-19 deaths, which is up 300% compared to other causes last year.Approximately 246 of the...
  • Patriots! Get to DC and STAND! Oath Keepers immediate call to action.!!

    Part of the call.... "Antifa fears us for good reason, because our men are highly trained, competent, and fearless, and this serves as an effective deterrent to prevent Antifa even attempting to attack people we are protecting. To date, not one person we have protected has had even a hair on their head touched by Antifa and we aim to keep it that way. We ALWAYS have a mix of LEOs and military, as well as highly skilled martial artists, in each of our teams. As we have done on all recent DC Ops, we will also have well armed...