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Post by EVT1 on Mar 31, 2015 18:24:02 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/30/floyd-dent-police-inkster-michigan-beating Dent opened his door and put both his hands out of the window. “I wanted to let them know I’m unarmed,” he told the Guardian. But officer William Melendez – believing Dent was reaching for a gun – approached with firearm drawn. What happened next was captured on a patrol car camera. No audio of the incident exists. According to Dent, one of the officers told him to “get out the car, before I blow your fucking head off”. Dent opened his door and was dragged out of his Cadillac; almost immediately, Melendez put him in a chokehold. Melendez then proceeded to deliver 16 blows to Dent’s temple. This all took place in about 15 seconds. Another officer arrived moments later and proceeded to use a taser stun gun against Dent, three times. In the video, Dent, with blood dripping from his forehead and cheek, appears not to be resisting Melendez’s efforts to arrest him. For that, Dent says he spent two days in hospital for a fractured left orbital, blood on the brain and four broken ribs. Melendez’s record shows he has faced similar allegations before. At one point, he garnered more citizen complaints than any officer in Detroit, where he started his career in 1993 and served until his resignation in 2009. He entered Inkster’s police force a year later. Over nearly two decades, Melendez has been named as a defendant in a dozen federal lawsuits, accused of planting evidence, wrongfully killing unarmed civilians, falsifying police reports and conducting illegal arrests. Some suits were settled out of court. Others were dismissed. In 1996, Melendez, who was known in Detroit as “RoboCop”, and his partner shot and killed Lou Adkins. While Adkins was on the ground, several witnesses said the officers shot him 11 times, according to the Detroit Free Press. The case was settled for $1.05m, court records show. The victim decided to take a lie detector and passed: www.clickondetroit.com/news/man-beaten-by-inkster-police-officers-aces-polygraph-test/32112144
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 19:50:05 GMT -5
The solution is not to let police investigate or let prosecuting attorneys prosecute. The solution to bad cops will have to come from somewhere besides the powers that be. Some times bad cops get fired, and even rarer they go to jail, but mostly they just get some paid time off.
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Post by EVT1 on Apr 1, 2015 20:27:33 GMT -5
Wow- it seems this POS was fired for falsifying police reports in Detroit- and still got hired. Now at looks like he is on video planting evidence in this case:
www.clickondetroit.com/news/violent-inkster-arrest-did-officer-plant-evidence/32014270
Not to mention he had been indicted for doing in the past and let off by a jury.
The 57yo man he beat the crap of tested negative for drugs and has no criminal record.
From the other link:
The US prosecutor’s office examined Chancellor’s case as part of an investigation into allegations against Melendez, who was cited as the ringleader of numerous officers indicted by a federal grand jury in 2003 on civil rights violations. The officers were acquitted in 2004; jurors who spoke with the Detroit News explained they didn’t believe the government’s witnesses, many of whom had criminal records.
Around the time Chancellor’s case was concluded, in 2007, the city of Detroit settled another suit involving Melendez for $50,000. The lawsuit alleged Melendez and his partners knocked on Ernest Crutchfield III’s door in November 2003. When they received no response, they entered the premises without a search warrant and, in the kitchen, shot Crutchfield dead. According to the case, the officers planted a gun near his body before falsifying statements and lying under oath.
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Post by jkapp on Apr 1, 2015 21:02:54 GMT -5
Well, all I'll say is: when you blindly support unions, you get what you ask for...
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Post by OldCoyote on Apr 2, 2015 8:06:26 GMT -5
EVT1, Most of the poster here are not going to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions.
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Post by zibazinski on Apr 2, 2015 8:16:35 GMT -5
That's not the reason people aren't responding but I'm sure you know that.
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Post by OldCoyote on Apr 2, 2015 9:43:13 GMT -5
What do you mean you are to busy on other threads here.  |
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 2, 2015 10:59:26 GMT -5
Well, all I'll say is: when you blindly support unions, you get what you ask for... you really think the problem is UNIONS  ?  |
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 2, 2015 11:00:52 GMT -5
That's not the reason people aren't responding but I'm sure you know that. really? what reason are we not responding, zib? |
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Post by jkapp on Apr 2, 2015 15:47:22 GMT -5
Well, all I'll say is: when you blindly support unions, you get what you ask for... you really think the problem is UNIONS ? Unions protect all members, including douchbags like this...so, yes, it is one of the major problems. If this guy had been working the private sector, he probably would have been fired in one of the other dozen complaints brought against him. |
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Post by Robert not Bobby on Apr 2, 2015 15:54:53 GMT -5
There is a very fine line between thugs and cops...with all due respect to the 70 per cent of fine officers...or am I being generous? (I know, I pulled that statistic out of the air).
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 2, 2015 19:57:25 GMT -5
you really think the problem is UNIONS ? Unions protect all members, including douchbags like this...so, yes, it is one of the major problems. If this guy had been working the private sector, he probably would have been fired in one of the other dozen complaints brought against him. edit: seriously tho, judicial corruption is the problem. lack of meaningful oversight is the problem. do you think, say, a steel worker, or a nurse would get away with this? get real. the police can literally get away with murder. LITERALLY. |
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Post by jkapp on Apr 2, 2015 20:44:38 GMT -5
Unions protect all members, including douchbags like this...so, yes, it is one of the major problems. If this guy had been working the private sector, he probably would have been fired in one of the other dozen complaints brought against him. edit: seriously tho, judicial corruption is the problem. lack of meaningful oversight is the problem. do you think, say, a steel worker, or a nurse would get away with this? get real. the police can literally get away with murder. LITERALLY. Angry lashing out, intimidation, verbal bashing...absolutely they could get away with it. Especially the higher up in seniority they were. |
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Post by fairlycrazy23 on Apr 2, 2015 20:55:03 GMT -5
I am not responding because, sadly I am not shocked or amazed.Mayne not to this degree, but this seems far too common.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 2, 2015 20:59:13 GMT -5
edit: seriously tho, judicial corruption is the problem. lack of meaningful oversight is the problem. do you think, say, a steel worker, or a nurse would get away with this? get real. the police can literally get away with murder. LITERALLY. Angry lashing out, intimidation, verbal bashing...absolutely they could get away with it. Especially the higher up in seniority they were. |
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Post by jkapp on Apr 3, 2015 17:58:28 GMT -5
Angry lashing out, intimidation, verbal bashing...absolutely they could get away with it. Especially the higher up in seniority they were. That's a response? Oh, that's right...you live in California. You haven't met reality in a long time  |
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 4, 2015 0:08:34 GMT -5
That's a response? Oh, that's right...you live in California. You haven't met reality in a long time |
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Post by b2r on Apr 4, 2015 0:19:22 GMT -5
Maybe you're dehydrated? Got any of these other symptoms? Dizziness or lightheadedness that does not allow the person to stand or walk normally. Blood pressure drops when the person tries to stand after lying down Lethargy, confusion, or coma Seizure Shock |
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 4, 2015 1:01:13 GMT -5
Maybe you're dehydrated? Got any of these other symptoms? Dizziness or lightheadedness that does not allow the person to stand or walk normally. Blood pressure drops when the person tries to stand after lying down Lethargy, confusion, or coma Seizure Shock nope. hydrated, healthy and happy.  |
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