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NYPD Wrongly Arrest Man for Drinking Non-Alcoholic Beverage in Public

Shawn Randall Thomas was unlawfully detained and arrested for drinking a non-alcoholic beverage in New York City last month.

On August 28, 2015, Thomas was walking home while drinking a malta in a brown bag.

Officer Kevin McAlister (badge number 17304) saw Thomas walking with the drink and approached him demanding to see identification.

Thomas refused, stating that he wasn’t breaking the law. McAlister assumed that Thomas was drinking alcohol in public.

As the officer asked to see the container – Thomas refused. McAlister proceeded to arrest Thomas for “open container.”

Handcuffed and in the police vehicle, the officers recognized that the beverage in Thomas’ brown bag was non-alcoholic; so they let him go.

However, before they removed the handcuffs, police confiscated Thomas’ wallet, cell phone and identification, a clear violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

 
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California Cops Killed Marine on Veterans Day, City Pays $2,500,000 to Settle Family’s Lawsuit



California cops with the City of Palm Springs Police Department agreed to a $2,500,000 settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit of a Marine killed by an officer that recklessly jumped through the window of his moving vehicle.

It happened on Veteran’s Day 2012.

Corporal Allan ‘AJ’ DeVillena II, was 22-year-old High Desert Marine and veteran of the Afghanistan War’s Operation Enduring Freedom on active duty.

DeVillena received a medal for his good conduct too.

The young Marine was out celebrating Veteran’s Day when his life was cruelly ended by militarized police here at home.

The GI Bill was going to send him to college two short months later.

City of Palm Springs Blames the Victim

The attorney for Palm Springs is describing today’s $2.5 million settlement as “purely a business decision”.

“Mr. DeVillena created a rapidly evolving and dangerous situation that placed both officers’ lives in danger. Given the actions of Mr. DeVillena, it was reasonable for both officers to respond with deadly force to defend themselves,” Patrick Desmond, an attorney for Palm Springs, said in a prepared statement.

This is the third time that Officer Nordman has seriously cost the taxpayers of Palm Springs.
 
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#CALI "SO PROGRESSIVE" /SARCASM

Los Angeles County has sentenced more people to death than five Southern states combined.



Texas is called the Death Belt. Harris County is the buckle.” That’s how one judge described the death penalty in the Lone Star State 15 years ago. In those days, Texas produced 40 death sentences per year, and no one blinked if Harris County accounted for 10 of them. These days, Texas is at the epicenter of a different trend: The Deep South has witnessed a sharp, sustained, and unmistakable drop in death verdicts. So far this year (as of Sept. 6, 2015) Texas has not had a single new death sentence. Neither has Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia.

While the Deep South has moved away from capital punishment, Riverside County, California, has become the buckle of a new Death Belt. It produced seven new death sentences in the first half of this year. That’s more than California’s other 57 counties combined, more than any other state, and more than the whole Deep South combined.

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A black woman claims she was held against her will at a mental hospital for eight days then slapped with a $13,000 bill because a police officer didn’t believe the BMW she was driving belonged to her. Kamilah Brock, 32, sued the city earlier this year for unspecified damages and claims that her constitutional rights under the Fourth and 14th Amendments were violated and that she was a victim of racism. She is arguing that she endured ‘unwanted and unwarranted intrusion of her personal integrity, loss of liberty [and] mental anguish’ during and after her bizarre encounter with police last year.

[ame=http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhLT5cWcRFrKXW5iVg]Black Woman Endured 8 Days In A Psych Ward Because NYC Cops Didn't Believe A BMW Was Hers! | New Video[/ame]
 
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California Approves License Plate Reader Disclosure
Red light camera companies may be sued in California for privacy breaches under a law that takes effect in January.

Governor Jerry Brown (D) last week signed into law a bill that will require police agencies to be up front with the public about the use of cameras that record the identity and movements of drivers. The measure introduced by Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo County), along with a companion bill regarding the Stingray cell phone intercept device, requires public agencies and private companies alike to protect the sensitive data they record.

"These new laws ensure that information collected by license plate readers and cell phone intercept devices is used and stored in a way that respects individuals' privacy and civil liberties," Hill said in a statement.

Hill does not oppose the use of automated license plate readers (ALPR, also known as ANPR in Europe), so his new law does nothing to limit or deter the use of tracking technology. Instead, he imposes minimum requirements on both public agencies and private companies that use traffic cameras. The law's definition of ALPR as a system that converts photographic images of license plates into "a searchable computerized database" means the provisions would also apply to speed camera and red light camera vendors.

Beginning January 1, 2016, users of ALPR devices will have to maintain "reasonable" securtiy standards, including training and oversight procedures. Camera systems must create a log every time an employee accesses a driver's location information so that unauthorized use can be documented. Agencies and companies must post a detailed ALPR privacy policy on their website.

Any driver who learns that his personal information has been misused may file a civil lawsuit against the officer or camera company employee who unlawfully accessed location data. A judge may award damages of no less than $2500 for each instance of reckless or willful disregard of the law.

A city that wants to use cameras may no longer install them without first holding a public meeting and inviting public comment. If hackers obtain the database containing the history of where everyone drives in the city, the police agency would be required to disclose the security breach.

[ame="http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2015/ca-sb34f.pdf"]SENATE BILL 34[/ame]
 
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Texas Student Spent 52 Days in Coma After Being Tased by Police at School

In one of the most shocking cases of police brutality inside a school, 17-year-old Noe Niño de Rivera spent 52 days in a medically induced coma after police tased him at school in November 2013. He was permanently brain injured. Last year Bastrop County in Texas settled a federal lawsuit for $775,000 with his family. We speak to his attorney, Adam Loewy.

 
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Citing federal immunity, judge tosses manslaughter charge for Texas detective who shot unarmed black man in 2013



On Thursday night, just four days before the former Austin police officer was set to stand trial, a federal judge in Texas dismissed a manslaughter charge against Charles Kleinert in the 2013 shooting death of Larry Jackson Jr., an unarmed black man.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel cites a little known 1889 case that determined federal agents can be granted immunity from state criminal charges and undoes one of a handful of indictments handed down to police officers out of the thousands of fatal police shootings that have occurred in recent years.

Kleinert was one of 54 officers to be charged in connection with a fatal on-duty shooting from 2005 to 2014, according to a Washington Post analysis published earlier this year. So far in 2015, there have been more than 800 fatal on-duty police shootings that have resulted in charges for just five officers, according to a Post database.

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Fox Lake Officer Committed Suicide After Years of 'Extensive Criminal Acts'



An Illinois police officer's death has been ruled a suicide, officials said today, two months into the investigation of his shooting death.

Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz died by a "carefully staged suicide," Lake County officials said at a news conference today.

Gliniewicz "committed the ultimate betrayal," officials said.

The investigation found the lieutenant had been committing "extensive criminal acts," including stealing and laundering money from the Fox Lake Police Explorer Post over the past seven years, officials said. Thousands of dollars were used for personal purchases, including adult websites, officials said.

The Police Explorer Post helps youth who are interested in careers in law enforcement. The Fox Lake Law Enforcement Explorer Post 300 website lists Gliniewicz as an advisor.

He was also found to have forged signatures and official documents, officials said.

Authorities determined Gliniewicz intentionally left a staged trail at the crime scene to try to mislead first responders that this was a homicide scene. Gliniewicz had significant experience staging mock crime scenes as a part of his job, officials said.

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Gliniewicz was found shot dead in the Chicago suburb of Fox Lake, Illinois, Sept. 1, shortly after he radioed that he was chasing three suspects.

The shooting led to an extensive manhunt for the three alleged suspects. The subjects described by the officer were since found and interviewed by authorities who determined they had "rock solid alibies," officials said today.

Gliniewicz's "ongoing criminal activity" was revealed by analysis of his text messages and financial records, officials said.

"The stress in his life began six months ago," officials said today, when, according to Gliniewicz's text messages, he was feeling pressure with new management in the Village of Fox Lake. According to officials, the Village of Fox Lake had begun conducting an internal audit of its assets, which would have eventually led to the discovery of the officer's criminal actions.

Gliniewicz was 52 and nearing retirement after more than 30 years with the police department.

A statement today from the attorneys for the Gliniewicz family said: "Today has been another day of deep sorrow for the Gliniewicz family. The family has cooperated with the Task Force's investigation and will not comment at this time. The Gliniewicz family requests that their privacy be respected as they continue to cope with the loss of the beloved husband and father."
 
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