Police Behavior and What To Do About It

[goldenvalley]

May 10, 2023 15:34:18 GMT LFC said:

These South Carolina deputies were completely out of control. There's not justification for this, even if the guy was an actual criminal rather than having a mental health episode. This is the warrior cop training at its worst.

The sheriff in York County will address disturbing body cam video of a man being shot at nearly 50 times by deputies while sitting in his pickup and a concurrent lawsuit filed last week.

The event is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday and Queen City News will cover the event live.

Trevor Mullinax miraculously survived being shot at nearly 50 times by deputies while he was sitting in his pickup while, through the window of his vehicle, his mother tried to de-escalate a severe mental health episode he was undergoing.

He suffered nine gunshot wounds including one to the head, according to his legal team, who is filing a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office.

“The deputies jumped out of their vehicles and almost immediately started firing their weapons into Mullinax’s truck,” attorney Justin Bamberg said. The lawsuit was filed by Bamberg’s firm on Friday. “Tammy Beason had to leap out of the way and was nearly hit by the shots fired.”

Mullinax’s attorneys said he had a hunting shotgun in his truck, but never pointed it at deputies. According to the YCSO and SLED, Mullinax was armed during the incident and “retrieved his shotgun from the rear seat of the truck and presented it or pointed it at the officers.”

Deputies were responding to initial calls regarding a welfare check. The incident occurred in May of 2021 on East Highway 324 in Rock Hill. On Tuesday, York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson released a statement.

Shoot first. Ask questions later.  
I really have to wonder if the county is getting its moneys worth out of these deputies.  Fifty shots and they don't kill the target? That's a lot of ammo wasted. And it appears they may not be very good shots if it took 50 to inflict 9 wounds in the target.

[pnwguy]

May 10, 2023 16:02:22 GMT goldenvalley said:

May 10, 2023 15:34:18 GMT LFC said:

These South Carolina deputies were completely out of control. There's not justification for this, even if the guy was an actual criminal rather than having a mental health episode. This is the warrior cop training at its worst.

Shoot first. Ask questions later.  
I really have to wonder if the county is getting its moneys worth out of these deputies.  Fifty shots and they don't kill the target? That's a lot of ammo wasted. And it appears they may not be very good shots if it took 50 to inflict 9 wounds in the target.

Are you questioning the professional competence of Barney Fife?

If they are going to stand 100 feet away, profess they know exactly what a person is preparing to do, and assume it's about to be violent, then these deputies should be issued fully automatic machine guns.  Piston accuracy isn't great from a great distance.  Better to pepper the vehicle first, ask questions later.  You never know when a citizen might be a criminal.  

[pnwguy]

And of course if the human in question has high levels of melanin, assume their criminality right up front. Swap to a larger magazine and take off the safety.

[LFC]

If this is how they treat their children, they should both have their badges, all guns, and their children taken away. It's abundantly clear that these batshit crazy, unfit, abusive parents have no regrets and are playing the victims.

Two Florida parents who are both high-ranking police officers are under investigation after admitting to putting their 3-year-old in jail because he was struggling with potty training.

Lt. Michael Schoenbrod of the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department brought his son to jail on back-to-back days in October, placing him in handcuffs the second time, according to an interview captured on body-camera footage from a Volusia County sheriff’s deputy.

Schoenbrod told a caseworker at the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) that his fearful toddler promised he would not soil himself again.

“He was crying,” Schoenbrod said, according to body-cam footage obtained by The Washington Post. “I was getting the response I expected from him.”

Schoenbrod also acknowledged in the interview that he had disciplined another son in a similar way when the boy was 4, saying that taking the child to jail for acting out in preschool was “effective.”

The incident was first reported Wednesday by the Daytona Beach News-Journal, raising questions about whether Schoenbrod and the child’s mother, Det. Sgt. Jessica Long, faced any discipline from the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department for placing the toddler in jail. The couple was told they were facing an internal professional standards investigation for their actions, but the findings of that inquiry have not been made public, the newspaper reported.

Schoenbrod, 45, and Long, 36, who live together, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday morning. During the interview with the caseworker, Long called the investigation into their potty-training response “insane.” Schoenbrod agreed.

“It’s just disgusting that somebody would drag our family through the mud like this,” he said, according to body-cam footage.

[pnwguy]

“Spare the handcuffs, spoil the child. I will take up my religious freedom case to the US Supreme Court”.

Sadly they could win with the present court and make a killing in online donations for their “persecution”

[goldenvalley]

Antioch and Pittsburg, CA have become have become much more diverse as high housing prices have moved people who can't afford them into this town from the nearby Bay Area.  Some officers there are in deep doo doo.

Nine police officers — five Antioch cops and four from Pittsburg — and one Antioch community service officer were named in four indictments alleging years of suspected misdeeds across East Contra Costa County. The allegations were remarkably varied, including everything from alleged college credit scams to steroid distribution to racially motivated police brutality laid out in unabashedly bigoted text messages.

This is inhumane for a lot of reasons both for the victims and the police dog.

Antioch officers Morteza Amiri, Devon Wenger and Eric Rombough are accused of plotting violence against specific people, collecting “trophies” of their crimes and reveling in the “gore” caused by their actions. They’re also accused of falsifying accounts of the violence to cover their tracks.

It started in April 2019 and continued until early 2022 when the officers’ homes were raided by the FBI, according to prosecutors.

“I was planning on enjoying the day off but f— them for f—ing with an officer,” Amiri said in one 2019 text to Rombough, records show.

“Me too, and exactly I’m going to f— someone up and hopefully you get a bite,” Rombough replied.

“Exactly! Blood for blood,” Amiri replied, according to the indictment.

The allegations mirror previous revelations of alleged police brutality and racist policing by several of the Antioch officers, who sent text messages between each other using the N-word and bragging about brutalizing criminal suspects, documents obtained by this news organization show. But the batch of texts detailed in court papers released Thursday largely centered on the use of Amiri’s police dog, Purcy, who bit dozens of people while under the oversight of Amiri, the indictments alleged.

Via text, the indictment says, the trio egged each other on to use violence and swapped photos of people they had injured. In one text, Wenger wrote “we need to get into something tonight bro!! Lets go 3 nights in a row dog bite.” Later that night in August 2020, Amiri and Wenger pulled somebody out a car, took them to the ground, and Amiri later texted Wenger pictures of that injured person.

The next day, Amiri raided a homeless camp with an officer from a neighboring agency and sicced Purcy on a man inside a tent, court records say. He later texted that the man was “laying in bed acting like he was asleep” and that Amiri stood there and “game planned how to f— him up,” then proceeded to unleash his dog.

“You would have loved it,” he later texted Wenger. “(The officer from another agency) agreed to keep cameras off,” a reference to police body worn cameras.

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Prosecutors say between March 2019 and November 2021, Amiri’s dog bit 28 people, and Rombough deployed a .40mm “less lethal” launcher at 11 subjects from November 2020 through August 2021. Records show that of the 28 bite victims, 19 were Black residents, or 68 percent.