Topic: VOTE / Police news / Funny or not? (Read 370 times)
not funny. cops not doing their job right is a nightmare. shooting kids, throwing the wrong people in jail, you name it. they're all assholes, they never admit when they're wrong and they all stick together. god help you if you're their target in one of these mistakes, cuz no one else will.
NICE! First vote (aside from the OP)!
These stories are kind of dumb...the hotel room story sounds like someone got the fact wrong. And jumping the wrong suspect is awful...Cops need to do better than that, always. That's why we give them such control...because they can perform at the highest level (obviously the cop in this case can't do that.)
These stories are kind of dumb...the hotel room story sounds like someone got the fact wrong. And jumping the wrong suspect is awful...Cops need to do better than that, always. That's why we give them such control...because they can perform at the highest level (obviously the cop in this case can't do that.)
I didn't vote.
The stories cops come up with remind me of the video posted on another thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Y69p1Lx48 except the kid is not harming anyone.
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Also notice that while the police story is about several members of a task force arresting somebody they were waiting for...
1) The video tells a different story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLlyoTnuac
2) That officer had similar previous incidents.
3) NYPD has a well founded reputation for shoveling bullshit to cover their officers,
An early report http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/us/james-blake-tennis-nypd-handcuffed/index.html
"It wasn't the greeting former tennis player James Blake is used to getting in New York during the U.S. Open.
The former tennis star and tournament darling says as many as five plainclothes police officers tackled and handcuffed him outside his Manhattan hotel Wednesday, according to the New York Daily News.
Blake was waiting for a car to pick him up and take him to the tennis tournament where he's doing corporate appearances, the paper said in an exclusive article.
According to the New York Police Department, Blake was detained during an ongoing investigation after he was misidentified by a cooperating witness.
Detectives from the Identity Theft Task Force were investigating the purchase of cell phones using fraudulent credit cards, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
Investigators organized a sting operation at the Hyatt Hotel, where phones were delivered to a male suspect who was later taken into custody, the law enforcement sources said.
That individual identified two people in the lobby of the Hyatt to whom he had delivered cell phones that were purchased with a fraudulent credit card, they added.
Blake was one of the people placed in handcuffs but was let go shortly after a retired member of the NYPD informed detectives that he was a tennis player.
"Once Blake was properly identified and found to have no connection to the investigation, he was released from police custody immediately," the NYPD said in a statement.
The second individual, who was not with Blake, was taken into custody, the sources added.
'I was just standing there'
According to the New York Daily News article, Blake suffered a cut to his left elbow and bruises to his left leg.
Blake told CNN affiliate WABC later in the day that everything in the New York Daily News report is true.
While Blake stopped short of out-and-out alleging racial misconduct, "There's no reason for anybody to do that to anybody," he told the New York Daily News. "I was just standing there. I wasn't running. It's not even close (to be okay). It's blatantly unnecessary," he said.
"In regards to the alleged improper use of force, the Police Commissioner directed the internal affairs bureau to investigate," a NYPD statement said.
"It shouldn't happen and it's something that you know we'll deal with, with the police, and we'll find out what they have to say internally," the 35-year old, who once was ranked No. 4 in the world, told WABC.
"You know hopefully there's video of it, and people can see what happened," he said.
Blake also posted on his Facebook page that he will speak about the incident on Thursday. "
NICE! First vote (aside from the OP)!
These stories are kind of dumb...the hotel room story sounds like someone got the fact wrong. And jumping the wrong suspect is awful...Cops need to do better than that, always. That's why we give them such control...because they can perform at the highest level (obviously the cop in this case can't do that.)
These stories are kind of dumb...the hotel room story sounds like someone got the fact wrong. And jumping the wrong suspect is awful...Cops need to do better than that, always. That's why we give them such control...because they can perform at the highest level (obviously the cop in this case can't do that.)
Two recent police news stories that don't seem to add up.
1) A celebrity goes to New York and gets jumped by cops, possibly due to a pigmentation issue. When cops realized they have just beat the shit out of a celebrity they quickly scour the internet for a lookalike photo and claim that it was a case of mistaken identity. Unfortunately the story hits the news and the cops get busted. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/australian-james-blake-lookalike-speaks-nypd-mess-article-1.2361143
2) Kentucky Trooper pulls over a guy for speeding and finds out he has a suspended license. Guy shoots cop. Not funny obviously.
But then the Kentucky cops claim the trooper was going to get the guy a hotel room instead of arresting him. Might be true. "Sir you were speeding and you don't have a drivers license. Let me contact dispatch and arrange a hotel room for you since you are a black man in Kentucky". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3235649/Kentucky-trooper-31-trying-organize-hotel-room-disqualified-driver-pulled-middle-night-man-shot-dead.html
It might be that police are telling the truth in one or both cases. But it is doubtful.
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3) A few days ago there were reports that a police officer in Illinois was killed while chasing three people.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/significant-new-evidence-found-fox-lake-murder-article-1.2349900
Vast resources were spent hunting the supposed killers and so on.
Strangely, a former Chicago cop began calling investigators and demanding that they rule the death a suicide. He also called reporters and gave what the police called 'false' tips. He was arrested and charged with something http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ex-chicago-threatens-investigators-officer-death-article-1.2359379
Now, a day later cops are saying it might have been a suicide. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/evidence-mounting-suicide-illinois-officer-death-article-1.2362449
The evidence seems to be that the initial report the dead officer gave involving "chasing three suspects" was not credible. The evidence at the scene looked like suicide but police and various federal agencies decided instead to expend vast resources promoting a fiction that painted the dead man as a hero of some sort.
The resources spent on the charade, if that is what it turns out to be, were far beyond what police and federal agencies would ever use in the death of a 'regular' citizen. It appears that the police officer who had been making threats to investigators, Joseph A. Battaglia, heard from other 'law enforcers' what was going on and was so disgusted he tried to blow the whistle, and was charged with some crime.
Again, a dead person is not funny but you have to laugh at how incompetent the cops are at their daily games. Why don't they just start using their resources to do their job, instead of using them to keep themselves out of jail and put everyone else in?
1) A celebrity goes to New York and gets jumped by cops, possibly due to a pigmentation issue. When cops realized they have just beat the shit out of a celebrity they quickly scour the internet for a lookalike photo and claim that it was a case of mistaken identity. Unfortunately the story hits the news and the cops get busted. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/australian-james-blake-lookalike-speaks-nypd-mess-article-1.2361143
2) Kentucky Trooper pulls over a guy for speeding and finds out he has a suspended license. Guy shoots cop. Not funny obviously.
But then the Kentucky cops claim the trooper was going to get the guy a hotel room instead of arresting him. Might be true. "Sir you were speeding and you don't have a drivers license. Let me contact dispatch and arrange a hotel room for you since you are a black man in Kentucky". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3235649/Kentucky-trooper-31-trying-organize-hotel-room-disqualified-driver-pulled-middle-night-man-shot-dead.html
It might be that police are telling the truth in one or both cases. But it is doubtful.
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3) A few days ago there were reports that a police officer in Illinois was killed while chasing three people.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/significant-new-evidence-found-fox-lake-murder-article-1.2349900
Vast resources were spent hunting the supposed killers and so on.
Strangely, a former Chicago cop began calling investigators and demanding that they rule the death a suicide. He also called reporters and gave what the police called 'false' tips. He was arrested and charged with something http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ex-chicago-threatens-investigators-officer-death-article-1.2359379
Now, a day later cops are saying it might have been a suicide. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/evidence-mounting-suicide-illinois-officer-death-article-1.2362449
The evidence seems to be that the initial report the dead officer gave involving "chasing three suspects" was not credible. The evidence at the scene looked like suicide but police and various federal agencies decided instead to expend vast resources promoting a fiction that painted the dead man as a hero of some sort.
The resources spent on the charade, if that is what it turns out to be, were far beyond what police and federal agencies would ever use in the death of a 'regular' citizen. It appears that the police officer who had been making threats to investigators, Joseph A. Battaglia, heard from other 'law enforcers' what was going on and was so disgusted he tried to blow the whistle, and was charged with some crime.
Again, a dead person is not funny but you have to laugh at how incompetent the cops are at their daily games. Why don't they just start using their resources to do their job, instead of using them to keep themselves out of jail and put everyone else in?
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