Injustice Everywhere
Here are the 27 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for Wednesday, October 6, 2010:
A Phoenix Arizona police officer has been arrested on an aggravated assault charge and may be facing additional charges, possibly including murder, for fatally shooting an unarmed man while responding to a domestic dispute call. The incident started when the man’s mother called 911 in hopes of having the police help calm her son down who was causing damage in a trailer home. When the police came the man told them they couldn’t enter without a warrant, at which point officer Richard Chrisman allegedly put his gun to the man’s temple and replied “I don’t need no warrant, motherf*****.” At that point, according to another officer on the scene, Chrisman went hands-on with him, tasered him, peppersprayed him from a foot away, then shot a dog that was barking but not threatening the officers. The second officer talked the situation down and the man tried to leave on his bicycle but Chrisman fought with him over the bicycle before pulling out his gun and firing 2-3 shots, killing the man. It should be said that, if it wasn’t for the second officer coming forward, I’m sure the officer wouldn’t have been charged. The mother says she regrets ever calling the police for help.
Oakland California has settled a lawsuit for $1,200,000 to a woman who was left permanently disfigured by a SWAT team’s flash-bang grenade that burned 11% of her body when it hit her as she slept during a drug raid. That raid apparently involved property owned by a man involved in a suit against the department over falsified search warrants and this raid was also questionable as the two women at the home weren’t charged. The city settled a suit by the other woman for $45,000 previously.
A now-retired Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper has been charged with misdemeanor assault for slamming a handcuffed female accident face-first into concrete divider wall on dashcam video when he responded to her 911 call. The accident was apparently caused when a drunk friend she was driving home had grabbed her steering wheel though the suit claims she wasn’t drunk.
Maricopa County Arizona has settled a lawsuit for $600,000 to a man who hit by a deputy’s cruiser and left pinned underneath it while the deputy fought with family members who came out after hearing what happened when the deputy attempted to block the man in during a traffic stop.
The Jackson Wyoming police are being sued by an Idaho resident who was tasered multiple times when he protested about being pulled over for having out-of-state tags. While the police chief is defending his officers, the incident sparked a policy change that restricted taser use to incidents where officers or the public was in danger instead of in compliance situations.
Rutland Vermont has settled a lawsuit for $45,000 to a man who was shot over 20 times with pepperball rounds while he was shackled in a holding cell for being argumentative with police, the officer who repeatedly shot him was fired over the incident.
An Owensboro Kentucky police officer has been suspended without pay for 6 months after failing to intervene when another officer attacked a after taunting him on surviellance video. That officer was fired over the incident.
A now-former Fallowfield Pennsylvania police officer has been sentenced to probation for obstruction after failing to report finding a 17-year-old boy who had run away from home… instead he allegedly took the boy to his home and had sex with him twice.
A 34-year-old Norfolk Virginia police officer is the subject of a lawsuit filed by a 60-year-old woman who claims that the officer sexually assaulted her while on-duty when he responded to her 911 call requesting medical assistance when she mixed prescription medication with alcohol. She also claims that the officer returned later and raped her again though, according to the lawsuit, he claimed it was consensual.
An Indian Shores Florida police detective has resigned after a lengthy 15 month criminal and internal investigation into numerous allegations that included sexual battery, supplying a minor with alcohol, and association with a known criminal. He won’t face any charges as the statute of limitations apparently expired for the sexual battery allegations.
A Minneapolis Minnesota police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for multiple armed robberies to be served concurrently with an 8-year federal sentence for bank robbery. He still faces more charges for robberies that occurred in a different county.
A Buffalo New York police officer has been charged with criminal trespassing and harassment after he barged into a home and began assaulting a man who he believed to be having an affair with his girlfriend then attacking his mom and her boyfriend when they tried to intervene. Ultimately it ended up that the officer had the wrong address.
A Plainfield New Jersey police officer has been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assaulting an officer and drunk driving after he fought with police who responded to calls about his repeated attempts to start fights in a bar parking lot.
A Duquesne Pennsylvania police officer is under investigation after receiving 9 citations after some of her dogs attacked a group of people including a 12-year-old girl who was bitten. The officer allegedly came out, ignored everyone and refused to offer assistance to victims as she dragged her dogs back onto her property… The dogs weren’t shot.
Two Ripley Tennessee police officers have been indicted over unrelated incidents. One officer was charged with official oppression over a wrongful arrest and the other officer was charged with theft and official misconduct… Did I ever mention how much I hate news articles that don’t really explain what happened?
A Suffolk New York police officer and an investigator for the District Attorney’s office have been arrested on felony computer trespass charges. At this point I should mention how much more I hate subscription news sites.
A Lancaster Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with assault and reckless endangerment for ramming a woman’s car and ran her off the during an alleged domestic dispute, though the report does not specify what their relationship was.
A Grand Rapids Michigan police officer is accused of illegally shutting down a business for not displaying a license that they weren’t legally required to display. However, by the time that was cleared up in court the owners had lost their business and went into debt. The officer isn’t facing any disciplinary action .
A now-former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper has pled guilty to illegally selling drivers licenses to unqualified applicants.
A Tea South Dakota police officer who was hired despite being fired from the Souix Falls PD over being arrested on drug and alcohol charges has pled guilty to obtaining Oxycodone by fraud and DUI charges in a plea deal that requires him to also plead guilty to another DUI charge he was facing in a different county.
A Wilmington North Carolina police officer is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he caused an accident that injured an 81-year-old man when he ran a red light while on duty.
A Gaston County North Carolina police officer is facing DUI charges after crashing into a group of trees with his pickup truck while off-duty.
A Riviera Beach Florida police officer is on paid leave while he’s the subject of an unspecified internal and criminal investigation.
Mendenhall Mississippi residents have filed a petition with that city demanding that they either fire or suspend their police chief without pay while he’s under investigation over allegations that his officers stole $7,000 and other property from a man they detained but didn’t charge. Residents are still stinging from having to pay their former chief’s salary for several months while he was on leave facing molestation charges.
A Los Angeles California police detective has been arrested on seven felony counts of workers compensation fraud, perjury and attempted grand theft.
An Anchorage Airport police officer is under investigation after he received a citation for solicitation when he was allegedly caught up in a prostitution sting operation.
And finally, 89 Puerto Rico law enforcement officers from different departments have been arrested as part of a massive FBI raid that resulted from a 2-year long investigation into allegations of corruption and drug trafficking where officers allegedly supplied protection for drug While we haven’t previously tracked incidents from US territories since we didn’t have law enforcement employment numbers from those places, now that we do I’ve decided to start.
That’s it for today, stay safe out there!
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