October 9, 2009, 10:35 am
Via Carlos Miller:
The suburban Chicago cop who was caught on video beating a 15-year-old student for refusing to tuck his shirt last May is being accused of raping a woman while holding a pillow over her face.He also killed his ex-wife's new husband last year by shooting him 24 times in front of their children while he was a cop for another suburban police department.
What does it take to actually bring a police officer to justice? He shoots his ex-wife's new husband 24 times and no one presses charges just because he is a police officer? I can't find any details on the weapon he was using but I can't believe that any weapon he was issued by his force had a magazine with a 24 shot capacity. So the guy probably stopped and reloaded and then pumped some more bullets in the guy's corpse.
October 5, 2009, 10:05 am
Via Carlos Miller:
Police in California used their Taser on a legless man, then dragged him out of his apartment where they sat him on a curb handcuffed and naked from the waist down for several minutes as neighbors complained of brutality.Gregory Williams, 40, a double-amputee, ended up spending six days in jail on charges of domestic violence and resisting arrest before he was released with dropped charges.
It all began when Williams apparently was reluctant to let Child Protective Services in to search his house in response to an anonymous tip. I don't know the laws in California, but CPS officials often have scary, broad powers that go beyond any reasonable definition of Fourth Amendment rights.
In this case, police get double abuse points for seizing the camera of a bystander video taping the event (something that is entirely legal but which police treat as illegal) and allegedly deleting the video of the police handling of Williams.
