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- Maryland police offer ridiculous excuses for failure to release brutality video
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Ozark, AR police officer tases 10-year-old girl, fails to use taser cam In 2009, Ozark police officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to deal with a 10-year-old whose mother claimed she was refusing to take a shower. Bradshaw used his taser on the girl after she allegedly kicked him in the groin. Bradshaw was later fired because he violated a department policy which required him to record the taser deployment with a taser-mounted video camera. Bradshaw had been disciplined for failing to use his taser camera in the past. Sources:
* * * * * U. Maryland police offer ridiculous excuses for failure to release brutality video In March, 2009, the University of Maryland men's basketball team beat Duke and students began celebrating in U. Maryland's College Park. Riot police were called out to deal with the situation. Three riot police shoved Jack McKenna into a wall and brutally beat him without any provocation. According to McKenna's attorney, McKenna and a second student beaten by the police both suffered concussions, contusions, and cuts. Police arrested McKenna and filed a fraudulent arrest report claiming that McKenna assaulted them and resisted arrest. A large number of other officers were present at the time of McKenna's beating and every single one of them failed to intervene or even report what had happened. After McKenna was arrested, students released iPhone videos proving that the police beat and arrested McKenna for no reason and lied. McKenna's attorney subpoenaed three-hour clips of surveillance video from 20 cameras that were filming the College Park the night of the beating. The campus police turned over the footage from all the cameras except the one that recorded McKenna's beating. They claimed that a "technical error" caused the camera to record over the footage of the beating. Police later claimed to have found the lost video, but two key minutes of it were missing. Interestingly, Lt. Joanne Ardovini, who heads U. Maryland's campus video surveillance system, is married to one of the police officers named in McKenna's complaint. The charges against McKenna were eventually dropped.
* * * * * Green incidents: Houston, TX police chief says filming police encounters will lead to officers being assaulted and killed On February 17th, 2011, Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland said during a meeting with journalists that he was becoming concerned about people filming the police. “Officers are telling me that they’re being provoked.” McClelland said. “Even when they try to write a simple traffic ticket, people are jumping out with cell phone cameras scanning their badge numbers and their nametags. And I’ve asked them to remain calm and treat people with respect and dignity.” McClelland said that this phenomenon, in conjunction with supposedly intensifying anti-police sentiment, will lead to officers being attacked or killed. “This rhetoric can give someone a free pass to try to assault a police officer or kill a police officer, and I’m not going to allow that,” McClelland claimed. “My officers should be able to go out here and work in the neighborhoods and keep this city safe without fear and without hesitation.” McClelland also mentioned that his department's internal affairs division possesses numerous videos that "show the violent nature of police work," but said that he is prohibited by law from releasing them. McClelland's comments were made two weeks after a surveillance video was released showing four Houston, TX officers punching, kicking, and stomping on a 15-year-old burglary suspect after he voluntarily surrendered to them. The victim, Chad Holley, filed a lawsuit against the police alleging that he suffered a brain injury during the beating. The district attorney, mayor, police chief, and a federal judge all worked to delay or prevent the release of video supposedly because allowing the public to see it would prevent the officers from receiving a fair trial, however, ABC News was able to obtain and publish a leaked copy of it. Sources:
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* * * * * Philadephia, PN police officers destroy security cameras to cover up robberies In 2009, the Philadelphia Narcotics Unit was accused of disabling surveillance video cameras at numerous convenience stores and then stealing thousands of dollars in cash, cartons of cigarettes, drinks, snacks, and other merchandise. Most of the alleged victims were immigrants who spoke little English and lacked familiarity with the U.S. criminal justice system. George Bochetto, an attorney representing the officers, claimed that the allegations were false. Bochetto went so far as to say that "there is a not a scintilla of truth" to the accusations. The allegations were finally proven in March when Jose Duran released footage of a police search of his convenience store. The videos show officers enter Duran's convenience store and handcuff everyone present. They ask Duran if his store sell little plastic bags which they claimed were "drug paraphernalia." After asking Duran about the bags, the officers begin asking about Duran's surveillance cameras. They search to store to make sure they knew the location of all the cameras, then begin destroying them. For instance, one officer is seen cutting the wires on a camera with a knife he took from the store's deli. Duran alleged that police took thousands of dollars in cash and cartons of cigarettes from his store, but the police only reported taking $785 in their report. Duran was able to release the footage because his cameras were set up to send it straight to his home computer. In addition to the robberies, members of the Philadelphia Narcotics Unit were also accused of fraudulently obtaining search warrants, framing innocent people for drug crimes, and sexually assaulting women during searches. Their corruption became the focus of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles called "Tainted Justice." The series resulted in several fraudulent drug charges being overturned and an FBI probe into the department. None of the officers were ever charged criminally. More than 15 lawsuits were filed against members of the Philadelphia Narcotics Unit. Sources:
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