Ridiculous Police News (Specific events)

[Melena]

You wonder if he posed a threat to anyone but the cops and if you read the article the cops were called there over a disturbance and had to get two victims out. Guy was probably waving his gun at them and threatening them.

[archibaldcrane]

Pretty sure he meant 'at the time they shot the guy to death'

[Byrthnoth]

Bad weekend for the police:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/ny...ders.html?_r=0
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...98E0AT20130915

[Tarage]

At least the dude who killed the car crash victim is being charged with manslaughter.

[6souls]

The Broadway Bomb brings together more than 2,500 longboard skaters each year in New York City to push eight miles through Manhattan, from West 116th Street to the Charging Bull in the Financial District. Since it’s inception in 2000, the NYPD has tried to hamper the event by hassling skaters, blocking roads, and even handing out tickets. This year the NYPD busted out the orange netting to try and corrall the skaters. They failed miserably. It was so bad that someone set the folly to the music from Benny Hill and it couldn’t be more appropriate.

http://www.networka.com/videos/polic...-broadway-bomb

[Ksandra]

fucking rofl

[Nephlite]

I feel their pain in trying to stop it since it does cause problems but damn that was hilarious. Bad management? Not long enough of a net? White shirt trying to put a lid on something that isn't that bad?

[Tajin]

Quite possibly the best thing to ever come from NY LOL

[Acevalefor]

I have plans to participate in this event in 2014. My friend did it in 2010 and rode with the event sponsors, Bustin Boards. He got a bunch of free shit from them including 2 free longboards. I will be riding with that group. I like free shit.

[jmc]

http://www.policeone.com/chiefs-sher...him-to-resign/

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Montgomery motorcycle officer has resigned and may face charges just days after he raced another motorcyclist, and a video of the incident went viral.

Montgomery resident Lawrence Lee Spillers stopped at a traffic light beside the uniformed officer and asked if he wanted to race.

“I got turbo,” the officer, who hasn’t been identified, can be heard saying on the video, which was recorded on Spillers’ helmet camera.


The video shows the two men then racing for several minutes — the officer outpacing Spillers.

Spillers quickly posted the video to YouTube, according to AL.com, and Montgomery Police Chief Kevin Murphy learned about the drag race shortly after.

“For the very thing that we are out here enforcing the law, for an officer to cross that line and violate it, there’s no excuse. I will not tolerate it, and he is no longer wearing the badge,” Murphy told WSFA.

Murphy confirmed that the officer had resigned and may face traffic violation charges.

“I think the officer was just trying to have fun,” Spillers told WSFA. “I don’t think he should be charged with anything and I don’t think he should have lost his job.”

Idiot

[Suvhater]

yea totally stupid. However i find it amusing that a police department will fire an officer (or force to resign) over this, yet time and time again will put officers who are accused of doing far worse (with video) on administrative leave. I watched the video and it doesnt look like they got up above 60 mph.

[jmc]

yea totally stupid. However i find it amusing that a police department will fire an officer (or force to resign) over this, yet time and time again will put officers who are accused of doing far worse (with video) on administrative leave. I watched the video and it doesnt look like they got up above 60 mph.

Departments can be pretty idiotic on punishment for some issues, and then drop the ball on serious ones.

[Tyrath]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-in-new-mexico

Cop fires at minivan full of kids after traffic-stop scuffle in New Mexico

What began as a routine traffic stop in New Mexico ended with a police officer bashing the window of a family minivan with his baton and a second officer firing shots at the van, which had five children inside.

The chief of the state police is promising a full review of the episode, which was captured on a police dash-cam on Oct. 28 near the city of Taos and aired by Albuquerque station KRQE.

It began when police pulled over Oriana Ferrell, 39, for speeding. An officer approached the car and asked her to wait, but she drove away. When she was pulled over a second time, the drama escalated.

“Get out of the vehicle! Get out of the vehicle right now!” an officer shouted at Ferrell. She did — and then her 14-year-old son got out of the van and rushed the officer. After a scuffle, the child ran back into the van.

By this point, backup had arrived. Moments later, an officer used his baton to smash a passenger-side window. And a second officer, appearing to aim low, fired three shots as the van sped away.

The chase came to an end outside a hotel. Ferrell was arrested and charged with intentional abuse of a child and fleeing an officer. The son was arrested and charged with battery.

The New Mexico state police chief, Pete Kassetas, called the incident “an intense, 43-minute-long, dangerous situation that placed the public at risk.”

“I have, of course, reviewed the video and do have concerns relating to the conduct of the officer who discharged his firearm,” the chief said in a statement.

Greg Meyer, a retired police captain and expert on the use of force, watched the video and told NBC News that he also had concerns. He said that it was possible the second officer was firing at the tires, but that it would take more investigating.

“I would be asking a lot of questions about the window smash — what’s he trying to accomplish there? And the gunfire — what’s he trying to accomplish there?” Meyer said. “Until we know why, it’s difficult to judge thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the reasonableness of what happened here.”

According to court documents obtained by The Taos News, the family had locked themselves inside the van before the first officer smashed the window. A police account said that the second officer fired “in an attempt to keep the vehicle from leaving.”

Alan Maestas, a lawyer for Ferrell, told a judge that it was unjustified.

“She was flat-out scared that something was going to happen to her children,” he said in court, according to the newspaper. “We ought to talk about the stupidity and recklessness of shooting at a car that has five children in it.”

Ferrell was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, the newspaper reported. Ferrell, from Memphis, Tenn., has prior arrests for driving while intoxicated, and two apparent marijuana pipes were found at the time of the arrest, the paper said.

The four other children, ages 6 to 18, were put in the care of family friends, state police told the newspaper.

[Edelweiss]

Seems like the best place for it.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,1837318.story

George Zimmerman has been arrested and was en route to the Seminole County Jail, according to Sheriff Don Eslinger.

It's not clear what happened or what crime he's accused of committing, but just before 1:30 p.m., Eslinger confirmed that Zimmerman had been arrested today and was being driven to the county jail in Sanford.

He said more information would be available shortly.

WESH-Channel 2 reported that Zimmerman was accused of domestic violence by a girlfriend.

The Sheriff's Office, in a short news release, reported that the agency had arrested Zimmerman after being called to a disturbance on Topfield Court in western Seminole County near Apopka.

Zimmerman's new girlfriend lives in the 1300 block of Topfield Court, according to an unrelated Lake Mary police report.

Zimmerman, 30, is the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer, who was acquitted in July on a charge that he murdered Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, last year.

Since then, Zimmerman has had a string of run-ins with law enforcement. In September he was handcuffed by Lake Mary police but released after his estranged wife, Shellie, and her father accused him of threatening them with a gun while they were moving out her belongings.

Zimmerman had arrived at that scene with a woman, Samantha Scheibe, who was described a few days later as his girlfriend by Shellie Zimmerman's attorney, Kelly Sims.

Last week, Lake Mary police officially closed that case, saying they had no solid evidence that Zimmerman had broken the law.

When the searched Zimmerman that afternoon, he had no gun.

[AidenCarby]

Rip the Zim Zam

[Lucavi]

Just can't stay away from the cops. He really, really wants to wear a badge, but he's going about it all wrong!

[Mojo]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-in-new-mexico

Massive stupidity on both sides

[jmc]

Massive stupidity on both sides

The window smash I understand, the shots fired at the car I don't.

[archibaldcrane]

How does he not automatically handcuff the woman first chance he gets after she ran the first time?

[Nephlite]

Trying to give her the benefit of the doubt? Might not have been safe to do so with that kid... seems like the little fucker was just itching to get at the officer. Try to give a person a chance as much as possible before you escalate it. Unfortunately, people can die from this mentality but it seems like the officer was trying to de-escalate as much as possible to make the arrest smoother.