DENVER – What started as a walk to the park with his dogs ended with a trip to the hospital for a Denver dog owner. 32-year-old Mark Ashford says he was beaten black and blue by two Denver Police officers. “They punched him and pinned him up against the fence and forced his head into the concrete.” Ashford’s attorney, Will Hart, said the beating that was caught on camera is a clear case of Excessive Force. “This happened when he was walking his dogs, he has a conversation with another citizen that the police officer doesn’t like and as a result, he ends up in the hospital,” said Hart. Hart says Mark Ashford was walking his dogs near 20th and Little Raven in LoDo, when he saw police pull over a driver for failing to stop at a stop sign. Ashford told the driver he saw him stop and would be willing to testify in court. Hart says the officer overheard him and “wasn’t very happy.” That’s when Ashford says the Denver police officers demanded his ID and detained him. Ashford tried to take a picture of the officers to document the incident, and a few second later he was on the ground. Police charged Ashford with interference and resisting arrest. Hart says, the charges were later dropped because the officers violated Ashford’s 4th amendment rights, “they had no reason to stop him, take his ID or detain him.” An Excessive Force complaint was filed against both officers involved. A Denver police spokesperson says the internal affairs department has completed its investigation, but …
Police Brutality: ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) – An Anderson woman said she lost her faith in law enforcement after SWAT members damaged her home and left her homeless. Mary Williams said being inside her house for much longer than a minute causes her eyes and throat to burn and her skin to itch. She said Anderson SWAT damaged her home even though she allowed them to search it for a wanted suspect. Anderson police got a tip that an armed and dangerous man was hiding out in a downtown home. Police said they were looking for Tracy Miller, also known as Tracy McCloud. He is the son of Williams’ boyfriend. He’s also wanted for armed robbery and federal drug dealing charges. “She said we can come in and look and then we found out there was a dog in there, which may put us in harms way. We said, ‘Would you mind removing the dog?’ She then came outside and said she didn’t want to remove the dog,” said Detective Mitch Carroll. This is where Williams’ story and the police story start to contradict. Williams said she did remove the dog from the house and waited across the street. But it was another four hours before SWAT arrived and started shooting tear gas through the windows. “Like how you see a movie, a Rambo movie. How Rambo hides in the woods. It was awful. You could see big lights going off,” said Williams. SWAT came out empty handed — McCloud is still on the loose. Meanwhile, Williams said she is now homeless. Nearly every window is broken from teargas canisters and gas grenades …
Police Brutality: Cops in Tennessee arrest a guy wanted on a domestic violence charge. He gets out of the car with his hands raised, is attacked by a police dog and then the cops plant drugs on the guy. And they do it with a hand signal seen on video.
Police Brutality: A Lakewood police officer tortures dog with Taser for no apparent reason. The dog (Otis) was not attacking them and the owner was on his way. Two women said that they heard Otis barking last Saturday morning around 8:30 am and looked out of their apartment window to see the pup surrounded by several police officers. The officers tasered Otis twice “like he was a grizzly bear,” said witness Christina MacDonald. MacDonald added that “the dog was backing up defensively, as if he was saying, ‘stay away from me.’ He wasn’t being aggressive in any way.” You can read the story here: www.sfgate.com
A man whose home Columbia police raided in February on a narcotics search warrant has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and is contemplating a civil action against the department for shooting his two dogs during the raid. Jonathan E. Whitworth, 25, of 1501 Kinloch Court entered into a plea agreement with the state to drop charges of possession of marijuana and second-degree child endangerment for a guilty plea to possession of drug paraphernalia. Investigators believed Whitworth was in possession of a large amount of marijuana and was considered a distributor, Deputy Chief Tom Dresner said in February. Police, who found a grinder, a pipe and a small amount of marijuana, shot two dogs upon entering Whitworths home around 8:30 pm Feb. 11. SWAT team members encountered a pit bull upon entry, held back and then fatally shot the dog, police say. Officers said the dog was acting in an uncontrollably aggressive manner. A video of the raid shows that a shot was fired upon entry, but the pit bull was not wounded until later. Whitworth was arrested, and his wife and 7-year-old son were present during the raid. Both his wife and child were living in the residence at the time, said Jeff Hilbrenner, Whitworths attorney. Dresner previously said that intelligence gathered before the raid did not indicate the child was in the home. A second dog was shot in the leg but was not killed. The corgi is seen in the video and does not appear to be wounded. There is no indication when the …
September 25, 2009 – Over 500 police officers gather at Schenley Plaza and attempt to disperse students, ultimately utilizing sound cannons, tear gas, paintballs, pepper spray, and rubber bullets. This video was shot by an unnamed source, apparently a student of the University of Pittsburgh.
Oklahoma Police Officer Kills Dog and Then Allegedly Lies – Tries To Buy Owner’s Silence. — How to make people like you in 90 seconds or less. Get Free Book summary at bit.ly – Only email needed. — Tammy Christopher is suing Grady County Oklahoma after Deputy Sean Kinght shot her dog. While the police officer told her that the dog charged at him when he stopped for direction while serving tax warrants, the video appears to contradict that claim and show Knight shooting the dog in the head. Christopher has filed a 000 claim against Grady County, State of Oklahoma and Grady County Deputy Sean Knight for the wrongful shooting of her dog. The video is subject to interpretation but it does show Knight immediately going to the extreme measure of shooting the dog.
Police Brutality: A Prince George’s County, Maryland SWAT team raided the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo last night, shooting and killing his two black labs in the process. “My government blew through my doors and killed my dogs,” Calvo said. “They thought we were drug dealers, and we were treated as such. I don’t think they really ever considered that we weren’t.” Calvo described a chaotic scene, in which he — wearing only underwear and socks — and his mother-in-law were handcuffed and interrogated for hours. They were surrounded by the dogs’ carcasses and pools of the dogs’ blood, Calvo said. Spokesmen for the Sheriff’s Office and Prince George’s police expressed regret yesterday that the mayor’s dogs were killed. But they defended the way the raid was carried out, saying it was proper for a case involving such a large amount of drugs. Well no, it isn’t, unless there’s reason to believe that the mayor, his wife, and his mother-in-law are violent people capable of killing cops who might have served the warrant in a less confrontational manner. The possibility of the mayor or his wife disposing of the drugs doesn’t seem likely, either, unless the family owns an industrial-strength toilet: The raid commenced after police began tracking a package filled with 30 pounds marijuana originating in Arizona that was eventually delivered to the mayor’s wife. Local police are angry that they weren’t notified first: “You can’t tell me the chief of police of a municipality …
2008 Tammy Christopher is suing Grady County Oklahoma after Deputy Sean Kinght shot her dog. While the police officer told her that the dog charged at him when he stopped for direction while serving tax warrants, the video appears to contradict that claim and show Knight. shooting the dog in the head. Christopher has filed a 000 claim against Grady County, State of Oklahoma and Grady County Deputy Sean Knight for the wrongful shooting of her dog