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Act of kindness by OKC police goes viral
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A couple of Oklahoma City police officers have gone viral for giving a helping hand to a woman on her 75th birthday.
According to OKCPD, officer responded to a call of a distressed woman sitting in a wheelchair near the street in the 5800 block of West Reno Ave.
When officers arrived, the woman, known as Ms. Carroll, was visibly upset and said her motorized wheelchair broken down while on her way to buy a cake for her 75th birthday. She told the officers she was upset that her birthday was ruined because the wheelchair was her only means of transportation.
Officers Amy Hanson and Travis Vernier then loaded up the wheelchair and took the woman to the supermarket where they bought her a cake and took her home to celebrate.
Anyone interested in a birthday card can do so through OKCPD at the following address:
Oklahoma City Police Department
- See more at: http://www.fox23.com/news/news/local/act-kindness-okc-police-goes-viral/nmxhr/#sthash.KAPMYvbV.dpuf

[Jammie]

We're Number One Again YAY !!





Oklahoma top state in 2015 police fatal shootings per capita

Recent analyses by two national publications, including The Washington Post, of fatal encounters with United States law enforcement in 2015 have concluded Oklahoma has the highest amount of such incidents per capita and is a top 5 state in police-involved fatalities this year.
 
Police union attorney Gary James blames “a lack of respect” for people in uniform for the deaths of people in custody.
“There’s no respect for what these guys do day in and day out,” James said. “I don’t think anyone understands. The law is not completely clear in every state and federal jurisdiction ... you’re asking a police officer to make a judgment call in seconds.”

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crimewatch/oklahoma-top-state-in-police-fatal-shootings-per-capita/article_464574ef-c5ec-58be-8fbe-ff4c40974de9.html

That really surprises me! If I were to make a guess at who is number 1 in that category, I'd have guessed Texas.

[Jammie]

Act of kindness by OKC police goes viral
 0 7 1 10

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A couple of Oklahoma City police officers have gone viral for giving a helping hand to a woman on her 75th birthday.
According to OKCPD, officer responded to a call of a distressed woman sitting in a wheelchair near the street in the 5800 block of West Reno Ave.
When officers arrived, the woman, known as Ms. Carroll, was visibly upset and said her motorized wheelchair broken down while on her way to buy a cake for her 75th birthday. She told the officers she was upset that her birthday was ruined because the wheelchair was her only means of transportation.
Officers Amy Hanson and Travis Vernier then loaded up the wheelchair and took the woman to the supermarket where they bought her a cake and took her home to celebrate.
Anyone interested in a birthday card can do so through OKCPD at the following address:
Oklahoma City Police Department
- See more at: http://www.fox23.com/news/news/local/act-kindness-okc-police-goes-viral/nmxhr/#sthash.KAPMYvbV.dpuf

Once again, the 1% are making the 99% look good.

[Vashta Nerada]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A couple of Oklahoma City police officers have gone viral for giving a helping hand to a woman on her 75th birthday.

Well that self-serving PR fluff sure put the critics of bad policing in their place.

[Vashta Nerada]

Owasso's favorite parasite cop cashes in



http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/arbitrator-awards-interest-payment-of-more-than-to-terminated-then/article_90214009-9119-5a83-8058-49429923234d.html

[TeeDub]

Good for him.    And good for the FOP.

[Vashta Nerada]

Good for him.    And good for the FOP.

Sick.







Dashcam Video Shows Troopers Arrest of Sandra Bland Bogus

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sandra-bland-threatened-with-taser-by-officer-making-arrest_55aec02be4b0a9b94852e3b6
"I'm going to yank you out of here," he shouts as he leans into her open car door.  "I will light you up," he says shortly afterward with his Taser in his hand.
"You're doing all this for a failure to signal?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8GR3OO9mU







'Get Out of the Car': Sandra Bland's Family Attorney Reveals New Details of Arrest
https://news.vice.com/article/get-out-of-the-car-sandra-blands-family-attorney-reveals-new-details-of-arrest


Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was pulled over by police in Waller County, Texas, on July 10 for failing to use her turn signal when she changed lanes. During the traffic stop, she was arrested for being "uncooperative." Three days later she was found dead in her jail cell, in what authorities said was an apparent suicide by asphyxiation.

The local district attorney said that Bland had evidently hung herself using a trash bag. The Texas Rangers and the FBI are currently investigating the circumstances around her death.

Last Friday, the Department of Public Safety said that it had assigned the officer who stopped Bland to desk duty, noting that it had "identified violations of the department's procedures regarding traffic stops and the department's courtesy policy."

Cannon Lambert, an attorney for Bland family, said on Monday that police dash cam footage of the traffic stop showed that the encounter took a turn after Bland refused the officer's request that she put out her cigarette.

"Why do I have to put out a cigarette when I'm in my own car?" Bland asked, according to an account that Lambert gave to NBC News. "And that seemed to irritate him to the point where he said, 'Get out of the car.' "

Lambert said that because Bland wasn't comfortable exiting her vehicle, the officer "looked to force her to get out of the car by way of opening the door and started demanding that she do" — though the attorney noted that it wasn't clear why she should have to exit her car during a routine traffic stop.

Video footage of Bland's arrest shot by a bystander and posted to YouTube on Wednesday shows two officers restraining her on the ground as she yells loudly about the police using excessive force. She can be heard saying, "You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that? I can't even hear."

The Waller County Jail has a history of violations in which it was cited for inmate suicides in 2012 and earlier this year, and for an inmate escape in 2014. On Thursday, the Texas Commission of Jail Standards issued a "notice of non-compliance" against the jail, citing insufficient staff training and the monitoring of inmates.

One day after Bland's death, an 18-year-old black girl named Kindra Chapman died in a similar incident in Alabama. She had been accused of robbing a cellphone and was arrested on a charge of first-degree robbery, and allegedly hung herself in jail.

The deaths of Bland and Chapman helped launch the Twitter hashtag #IfIDieInPoliceCustody, designed to draw attention to police brutality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYim6pDZV0Y



Texas Sheriff Tried Confiscating Camera During Violent Arrest of Sandra Bland, 48 Hours Later She Died
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/07/texas-sheriff-tried-confiscating-camera-during-violent-arrest-of-sandra-bland-48-hours-later-she-died/
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/07/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-sandra-bland-case/

[TeeDub]

Sick.

Unfortunately, it will take numerous events like this to awaken the public to the need to hold public servants to a higher standard.    Enough instances like this and change might happen.

[patric]

Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was pulled over by police in Waller County, Texas, on July 10 for failing to use her turn signal when she changed lanes. During the traffic stop, she was arrested for being "uncooperative." Three days later she was found dead in her jail cell

It looks like some communities are not as tolerant of edited dashcam video as Okies are.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandra-bland-dashcam-video-may-have-been-edited/

[Jammie]

I would guess their behavior hasn't changed. What has changed is the fact that people are getting braver and daring speak out against the violence and injustice they'd have gotten by with in the past. All of the videos showing their dirty deeds isn't helping them either and I imagine they wish the phones/recorders would just go away so they can continue their abuse so they can feel like real men. Thankfully, I haven't encountered many who are like that.

I don't remember if I shared this link with you, but when I grow up, I want to be just like the officer in this story. The compassion and forgiveness of this officer is something we could all strive for.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/viral-photo-black-officer-helping-white-supremacist-kkk-shirt-heat/

[Vashta Nerada]

It looks like some communities are not as tolerant of edited dashcam video as Okies are.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandra-bland-dashcam-video-may-have-been-edited/

The state trooper that stopped Bland created the circumstances of the stop by employing an old technique often used here:  Riding her bumper and exploiting her reaction, which was to pull out of his way (but not using a turn signal).

From there, it was escalate, escalate, escalate.  It was his criminal actions that ultimately led to her death in much the same way the "Felony Murder" laws here make another person liable for a death caused by a cop hitting an innocent bystander.

Suicide or not, Bland was in jail illegally, not under any sort of suicide watch, nor even the required supervision.

When someone dies as a result of bullying, it should be a crime.  Same goes for the two OHP troopers that taunted the pastor before they found themselves "needing" to kill him -- neither of them should be wearing a badge.




Why did the confrontation escalate out of control? Not because Bland violated the laws of Texas, but because the cop felt unconstrained by them.
The only reason police brutality has come to light via video cameras is that some officers are so used to committing it that they never dream of being held to account.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-sandra-bland-texas-trooper-encinia-suicide-perspec-0726-jm-20150724-column.html

[heironymouspasparagus]

He will probably get away with murder.

[Vashta Nerada]

Police don't like these people and don't tolerate much from them. I understand their reasons. However, authority is best used as a shield, not as a weapon.

Homeless Woman Who Picked Up Dropped Police Baton May Go To Prison For Life
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/23/homeless-woman-faces-life-for-picking-up-baton.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhEY_NfXJU

[Vashta Nerada]

One police body camera shows a murder, the other two bodycams show fellow officers concocting the cover story.
Its like they dont even care about the cameras -- they must have believed no one would ever see the video, or that the video would go to a lab to be doctored like we do in Oklahoma.

Anyone who might still be harboring doubts about the effectiveness (and necessity) of police body cameras need only watch what spewed out of the camera attached to University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, who was arraigned on a murder charge today. The recording of Officer Tensing, who is white, fatally shooting an unarmed Sam Dubose, who is black, during a routine traffic stop is nothing short of horrific.

That there exists a "blue wall of silence" when it comes to police officers and their unwillingness to get a fellow officer in trouble is not surprising. But to do so when they know a body camera is capturing the event as well as their conversations afterward? That suggests either rampant stupidity or a behavior that is so ingrained as to equal a criminal enterprise.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-cincinnati-20150730-story.html


Did the other officers lie 'just because'...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0730/Cincinnati-shooting-tests-blue-wall-of-silence


...or maybe they were just returning the favor?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/samuel-dubose-officers-sued_55baa370e4b0d4f33a023260


University of Cincinnati Officer's Bodycam Was Crucial to Murder Indictment
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cincinnati-cop-ray-tensing-pleads-not-guilty-shooting-death-samuel-n400926


A different bodycam shows the other officers inventing the cover story
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/30/sam_dubose_murder_phillip_kidd_and_david_lindenschmidt_suspended_after_backing.html
the body cameras of other officers—made public on Thursday—show just how quickly police coalesced around a false narrative of how the incident occurred. The footage should serve as a powerful lesson to anyone who automatically believes the accounts of police officers in these types of shooting incidents, for which cops are rarely prosecuted.


Cincinnati prosecutor who charged cop: 'When I indict a murderer, I don't pull punches'
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-cincinnati-prosecutor-20150730-story.html


“But in the cop’s defense — he thought he could get away with it.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/31/larry_wilmores_brutal_response_to_the_latest_horrific_police_shooting_in_the_cop%E2%80%99s_defense_he_thought_he_could_get_away_with_it/

[TeeDub]

“But in the cop’s defense — he thought he could get away with it.”[/i]
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/31/larry_wilmores_brutal_response_to_the_latest_horrific_police_shooting_in_the_cop%E2%80%99s_defense_he_thought_he_could_get_away_with_it/

Comedy Central?   As a news source?   Cited in your argument?   

Quit drinking bleach.