Police Intervention

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Police Shoot Suicidal Dad 11 Times… While He Lay in Bed Crying
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/police-shoot-suicidal-dad-11-times-while-he-lay-in-bed_022016

We’ve reported before on how calling the police for help these days in the modern American police state usually ends in less help and more death, pets included.

This time the woman was actually calling for an ambulance and not the cops, but since all first response tech is now integrated, the cops were sent anyway.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports:

Donna Spry called her husband’s doctor, crying. Curly Spry was refusing to go to his appointment. He was suicidal, off his medication and had a gun, his wife said.

Call 911, the doctor’s staff instructed her.

Less than an hour later, Curly Spry was dead. He had been shot 11 times by troopers with the West Virginia State Police, according to a lawsuit filed by Donna Spry last month in Kanawha County Circuit Court.

The family is suing for $11 million—their attorney told the Gazette-Mail that the agency’s insurance covers $1 million per incident.

Suicidal Curly Spry was delusional and crying and laying in bed. His wife and 17-year-old daughter were reportedly standing by his bedside when state police shot him 11 times.

Eleven.

The Sprys allege the troopers came into their house without permission. They wore full tactical gear and had weapons in hand when they entered, according to the complaint.

Spry’s wife claims she was on the phone with 911 when they killed her husband, and a trooper made her hang up afterwards. Of course, the police said the man pointed a gun at them (while he was laying in bed crying and they were wearing full tactical gear including bullet proof body armor)… so they just had to shoot a weeping suicidal man 11 times while he was lying in bed.

Guess Mr. Spry doesn’t have to worry about being suicidal anymore.



Police Officer Indicted on First Degree Murder Charge for Killing a Couple’s 2-year-old Son
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wyoming-man-indicted-murder-2-year-old-police-officer/#GwHmHO8GuGhYH0VD.99

Rock Springs, WY- Jacob Rollen Anglesey has now been indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder in the 2009 death of a two-year-old child — and new information revealed he’s a cop.

On March 9, 2009, emergency services were summoned to help with the boy, Konnor Allen, whom Anglesey had become unresponsive after suffering a fall.

Konnor, who had been in Anglesey’s care, succumbed to the head trauma and died the following day. Konnor was the son of Phylicia Rasdall and Robert Corry Allen.

No charges were filed at the time of the incident.

According to the Rocket-Miner,

At the time, Green River Police Department (GRPD) placed Anglesey on paid administrative leave and contacted the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office to request an independent investigation. That investigation was conducted by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. Former Sweetwater County Attorney Brett Johnson requested a special prosecutor, which was approved by the Sweetwater County Commission on March 12, 2009.

After a review of the DCI investigation, the special prosecutor declined to initiate charges at that time. The case remained open with Wyoming DCI.

Then in 2015, agents with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation presented evidence to the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office, which reportedly evidenced inconsistencies with Anglesey’s account of events, and included “medical reports stating the injuries were caused by non-accidental trauma,” according to the Associated Press.

K2 Radio News correspondent Tracie Perkins then “discovered information not released in the indictment,” but with serious implications, “namely, that Anglesey is an officer in the Green River Police Department.”

Why that information has not been previously released, whether or not the grand jury was privy to it at the time of indictment, and whether or not the Green River Police Department was aware of the investigation — while allowing Anglesey to remain on the job for its duration — remain unclear.

According to the Rock Springs, Wyoming, Rocket-Miner, Anglesey is being held on a $1 million bond. The State of Wyoming retains a death penalty option in cases of murder.

 

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Iceland Police Grieved and Apologized After Killing a Man For the First and Only Time In History
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/02/iceland-first-time-police-in-history/#

As Americans struggle to get an accurate total of just how many people U.S. police gun down annually, police in Iceland have still not shot a single person since their single fatality in 2013.

The Guardian UK has created a database to track down hundreds of U.S. citizens killed by the police who were sworn to protect them.

Meanwhile, Iceland, has had only one police killing since the nation became independent in 1944. There, when police shoot someone, they apologize.

“The police regret this incident and wishes to extend its condolences to the man’s family,” national police chief Haraldur Johannessen said.

“The nation was in shock. This does not happen in our country,” Thora Arnorsdottir, news editor at RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service said.

The incident shocked the nation, as headlines told of the death of a 59-year old man who was shot by police in December 2013. That man himself had shot at police when they entered his building. According to local sources, the man had a history of mental illness.

Still, the police believe they could have done better.

But in Iceland, police normally don’t even carry weapons, even though nearly a third of its citizens are armed. In spite of their high rate of gun ownership, unlikely the United States, violent crime is almost non-existent.

“The nation does not want its police force to carry weapons because it’s dangerous, it’s threatening,” Arnorsdottir said, even while acknowledging that guns are “a part of the culture.”

The Icelandic police department put officers involved in the shooting through grief counseling.

The police department also directly apologized to the family of the man who was killed, saying that “it’s respectful,” to do so, according to Arnorsdottir, “because no one wants to take another person’s life. ”

The Icelandic Police Superintendent says that their police have not used firearms since the incident and do not plan to.

 

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Albert Woodfox released from jail after 43 years in solitary confinement
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/albert-woodfox-released-louisiana-jail-43-years-solitary-confinement

Albert Woodfox, the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, held in isolation in a six-by-nine-foot cell almost continuously for 43 years, has been released from a Louisiana jail.

Woodfox, who was kept in solitary following the 1972 murder of a prison guard for which he has always professed his innocence, marked his 69th birthday on Friday by being released from West Feliciana parish detention center. It was a bittersweet birthday present: the prisoner finally escaped a form of captivity that has widely been denounced as torture, and that has deprived him of all meaningful human contact for more than four decades.

For the duration of that time, Woodfox was held in the cell for 23 hours a day. In the single remaining hour, he was allowed out of the cell to go to the “exercise yard” – a small area of fenced concrete – but was shackled and kept alone there as well.

Last November James Dennis, a judge with the federal fifth circuit appeals court, described the conditions of Woodfox’s confinement.
“For the vast majority of his life, Woodfox has spent nearly every waking hour in a cramped cell in crushing solitude without a valid conviction,” he said.

In a statement released by his lawyers, Woodfox said that he would use his newfound liberty to campaign against the scourge of solitary confinement that at any one moment sees 80,000 American prisoners being held in isolation. “I can now direct all my efforts to ending the barbarous use of solitary confinement and will continue my work on that issue here in the free world.”

The prisoner’s release came after the state of Louisiana agreed to drop its threat to subject him to a third trial for the 1972 killing. Woodfox in turn pleaded no contest to lesser charges of manslaughter and aggravated burglary.

The “no contest” plea is not an admission of guilt, and Woodfox continues to be not guilty of the main murder charge. He said that “although I was looking forward to proving my innocence at a new trial, concerns about my health and my age have caused me to resolve this case now and obtain my release with this no-contest plea to lesser charges.”

Woodfox was one of the so-called “Angola 3”: three prisoners initially held in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison, and who subscribed to the Black Panther movement and campaigned against segregation within the institution in the 1970s. His supporters contend that he was framed for the 1972 killing of the prison guard Brent Miller as revenge for his political activities.

His murder conviction was twice overturned – once in 1992 on grounds that he had received ineffective defense representation, and again in 2008 because of racial discrimination in setting up the grand jury that indicted him. Last year, Louisiana announced it would put him through a third trial despite the fact that all the key witnesses to the killing have since died. Woodfox’s lawyers argued the lack of witnesses would render such a retrial a legal mockery.

His two fellow Angola 3 allies were already freed. Robert King was released in 2001 after having his separate conviction overturned, and Herman Wallace, who spent almost 30 years in solitary confinement, was only allowed out of prison two days before he died in 2013.

“There was no logical reason that Louisiana kept him in solitary for so many years, for a crime in which all the evidence was undermined,” King told the Guardian.

“They did it as a war against the ideology of the Black Panthers and because they didn’t want to be seen to have been wrong all this time.”

Scientists have long warned about the dire effects caused by solitary confinement on prisoners even after a few days of such treatment, and several international bodies including the UN have called for it to be banned as a form of torture. The supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy has also spoken out about the practice, remarking that the side-effects of prolonged isolation include anxiety, panic, withdrawal, hallucinations, self-mutilation and suicidal thoughts and behavior.

George Kendall, Woodfox’s attorney with Squire Patton Boggs LLP, said his client’s decades-long isolation was indefensible. “Albert survived the extreme and cruel punishment of 40-plus years in solitary confinement only because of his extraordinary strength and character. These inhumane practices must stop. We hope the Louisiana department of corrections will reform and greatly limit its use of solitary confinement as have an increasing number of jurisdictions around the country.”

Amnesty International USA, which long campaigned for his release, said that “nothing will truly repair the cruel, inhuman and degrading solitary confinement that the state of Louisiana inflicted upon him. But this belated measure of justice is something he has been seeking for more than half his life.”

In 2014, Woodfox described to a blogger the fear that wells up in him from being constantly alone. “I’m afraid I’m going to start screaming and not be able to stop,” he said.

“I’m afraid I’m going to turn into a baby and curl up in a fetal position and lay there like that day after day for the rest of my life. I’m afraid I’m going to attack my own body, maybe cut off my balls and throw them through the bars the way I’ve seen others do when they couldn’t take any more.

“No television or hobby craft or magazines or any of the other toys you call yourself allowing can ever lessen the nightmare of this hell you help to create and maintain.”

Woodfox’s release was raised at the White House press briefing on Friday. The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said: “Scientists tell us that prolonged incarceration in solitary confinement can have a debilitating and long-term impact on an individual’s mental health. If our ultimate goal in the criminal justice system is to give people a second chance after they’ve paid their debt to society we are basically setting them up to fail.”

Last month Barack Obama used his executive powers to ban solitary confinement for juveniles in all federal prisons. He has also commissioned a review into the use of solitary in the US.

 

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2 LAPD Officers Charged With Rape, Sexually Assaulting Women While on Duty: DA
Updated at 11:18pm, February 17, 2016
http://ktla.com/2016/02/17/2-lapd-officers-charged-with-rape-sexually-assaulting-women-while-on-duty-da/


Published on Feb 6, 2016
Aaron Henderson won a $300,000 settlement after filing a lawsuit against the Allegan County (Michigan) Jail. Henderson was beaten by Deputy Jacob Kapanui after being arrested for disorderly conduct. He was kneed in the head and suffered several facial bone fractures.
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Read the full story here: https://www.copblock.org/153465/man-b...

police shoot unarmed man
Published on Feb 2, 2016
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZFGZ1ILeo


Captain Higgins targets suspected gang members
Published on Feb 18, 2016

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Man charged in killing of Va. officer is Army staff sergeant at Pentagon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/officer-fatally-shot-on-her-first-day-on-the-street-in-prince-william-county/2016/02/28/d5a92000-de22-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html?postshare=1501456701250519&tid=ss_mail

The Prince William County Police Department swore in Officer Ashley M. Guindon on Friday, tweeting a photo of her and another new recruit and including a message: “Be safe!”

Twenty-four hours later, on her first day on the street, Guindon, 28, was one of three officers called to respond to a domestic-violence incident in Woodbridge, Va.

As they approached the front door of the single-family home on a quiet residential street, Ronald Williams Hamilton, 32, an Army staff sergeant stationed at the Pentagon, started shooting, officials said. Police do not yet know why. But all three officers were shot.

Guindon’s wounds were fatal. The other officers were expected to recover but remained hospitalized Sunday.

Police said Hamilton’s wife, Crystal Hamilton, 29, called 911, but he shot and killed her before officers arrived. The couple’s 11-year-old son was home during the altercation and fled at some point, police said. He was not injured.

[...] The incident began shortly before 5:40 p.m. Saturday, when the officers responded to a house in the 13000 block of Lashmere Court in Woodbridge. Prince William Police Chief Stephan M. Hudson said Hamilton and his wife had been involved in a day-long verbal altercation that escalated physically.

Hamilton allegedly opened fire as the officers made their way to front door.

Police said additional officers arrived on the scene and surrounded the house. Hamilton surrendered without further incident and Hudson said they found his wife’s body inside.

At some point during the incident, Zacarius Harris, 18, a neighbor, said he saw Hamilton’s son running away from the house, wearing a T-shirt and basketball shorts. He was looking back at the house as he ran down the street. The boy ended up at a neighbor’s.

Police said the boy is now in the care of family.

The alleged gunman’s father, Ronald Whaley Hamilton, a retired major with the Charleston Police Department in South Carolina,
said in a brief interview with The Washington Post that he and his family learned about the shooting Saturday night and are shocked.

He said he does not know any details about the shooting, but said his son had a “very good upbringing.” The elder Hamilton said his son joined the Army at age 18 and worked in information technology.

Hamilton described his daughter-in-law as a “kind, humble, energetic and wonderful person” who worked with wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. He said that she and his son met after high school in South Carolina.

The couple, she said, celebrated their son’s 11th birthday Wednesday. They’d all planned on going to Red Lobster to celebrate his birthday, but their plans were interrupted by Wednesday’s severe weather.

 

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$3.6 Million Awarded In Flash-Bang Grenade Maiming Of Baby Bou Bou
https://www.copblock.org/155092/3-6-million-settlement-reached-in-flash-bang-grenade-raid-maiming-of-baby-bou-bou/

The parents of a baby injured by a flash-bang grenade during a no-knock multi-agency task force raid in Georgia, will be awarded $3.6 million after a federal judge’s decision on Friday.

19-month-old Bounkham Phonesavah (Baby Bou Bou) spent weeks in a burn unit after deputies with a Cornelia Police Department SWAT team threw a flash bang grenade directly into his crib, which exploded in his face, leaving him permanently disfigured.

The raid was conducted at around 3:00 am for a drug suspect that wasn’t even in the house. By happen-stance, the Phonesavanh family was staying at the residence with relatives because their home in Wisconsin had just burned down.

“[The grenade] landed in his playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face,” Bou Bou’s mother, Alecia Phonesavanh said at the time. “He’s only a baby. He didn’t deserve any of this.”

Following the raid, the child was rushed to the Grady Memorial Hospital where he was put into a medically induced coma. In the wake of the incident, Habersham County attorneys said that “the board of commissioners concluded that it would be in violation of the law” to pay for Bou Bou’s medical bills.

The Phonesavah family has since settled multiple lawsuits against the assorted departments involved in the raid however. A settlement was reached earlier this month with the City of Cornelia for $1 million, and in April, an agreement for $964,000 was arrived at with Habersham County.

On Friday, a federal judge approved payments totaling $1.65 million by Rabun and Stephens Counties – bringing the entire amount awarded to the family to around $3.6 million.

“We have worked diligently with our co-counsel to obtain the best possible result for Baby Bou Bou and his family,” Attorney Mawuli Davis said. “What we achieved will not fix what happened or take away the nightmares, but we hope it helps them move forward as a family.”

The only officer that faced any charges as a result of the incident was twenty-nine-year-old Nikki Autry – a special agent of the Mountain Judicial Circuit Criminal Investigation and Suppression Team (NCIS).

She was indicted by a federal grand jury in July for providing false information in a search warrant affidavit and providing the same false information to obtain an arrest warrant that ultimately led to the raid.

Prosecutors had said that Autry knew the informant she relied on wasn’t a reliable source and didn’t buy drugs from anyone inside the house, but gave the affidavit to the judge anyway who issued the no-knock warrant.

Autry was charged with four counts of civil rights violations for willfully depriving the occupants of the residence of their right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures by an officer and “knowingly depriving [the] right to be free from arrest without probable cause.”

Although her actions directly led to Fourth Amendment violations that resulted in Bou Bou’s injuries, the grand jury declined to hold Autry responsible in December after her attorneys argued that she became the scapegoat for other officers’ errors in the case.

 

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Not so much related to police, but it's a Secret Service Agent
http://mashable.com/2016/02/29/trump-photographer-choke-slam/#CuNjLnyDFmqD

Contains some brutal slamming.

A Secret Service agent violently slammed a photographer to the ground during a Donald Trump rally held in Virginia on Monday.

The incident, which was captured in numerous videos, began when Christopher Morris, a Time magazine photographer, attempted to take photos of a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, who disrupted the Trump rally by marching out with their hands above their heads.

 

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Georgia Mom Arrested and Shackled Over Three Unexcused Absences For Sick Son
http://www.trueactivist.com/georgia-mom-arrested-and-shackled-over-three-unexcused-absences-for-sick-son/

Georgia mother forced to turn herself in to be arrested after sick son was absent for three days.

Mothers with young children who are named Student of the Month and are known for their high grades aren’t typically what you think of when you imagine criminals, yet that is what one mother in Georgia currently is because of her son’s three unexcused absences.

Julie Scott Giles and her son Sam live in Georgia, where Sam attends public school in Screven County. His school has a policy that allows students to have up to 6 unexcused absences per year, and Sam was reported to have 12 at the time of arrest. However, Julie explained via Facebook that while Sam was 6 absences over the limit, 3 of those ended up being excused because Sam’s doctor reissued 3 notes that Sam had never turned in. This means that Julie’s arrest was over just 3 unexcused absences.

Giles explained that her son is often sick and that she can’t always take him to the doctor’s each time to obtain an official note because of the costly fees. Her son reportedly has 4 A’s and 4 B’s, showing that although he may be absent more than others, he still manages to excel in school. He also was named Student of the Month and his teacher stated that Sam was chosen because of his willingness to help others and participate in their activities, even if it wasn’t his first choice.

Giles took to Facebook to document her case and the procedures she endured, even posting before she decided to turn herself in to be arrested. She stated that although the arrest went quickly and no bondsman was needed after she was photographed and booked, she was “actually placed in ankle shackles!”

Sheriff Mike Kile from Screven County confirmed the arrest and claimed that ankle shackles are a standard procedure for every arrest. Superintendent William Bland from Screven County Schools said that the school district is absolutely working within the law and that, “It’s important for these children to be in school and I think the courts recognize that.”

Giles stated that, “I can be proud of my mothering, with or without shackles and mug shots, because the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”