Cops behaving badly

[Pyperkub]

This cop and his co-workers were even worse:

Former Stoughton Police Department detective Matthew Farwell has been indicted on charges that he killed Sandra Birchmore, a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child, inside her Canton apartment and then staged her death as a suicide, court records show....

...In his capacity as a police officer, Farwell served as an instructor for the Stoughton Police Department’s Explorer’s Program, which is a vocational education program designed for youth to learn about careers in law enforcement. Court documents showed that Birchmore joined the program in 2010 when she was 12 years of age.

Farwell allegedly used his authority and access to groom, sexually exploit, and ultimately sexually abuse Birchmore when she was 15 years old and continued to have sex with her when she became an adult up until her death....

...A 2022 internal investigation by Stoughton police found that Matthew Farwell, his twin brother and coworker William Farwell, and Robert C. Devine, a former deputy chief in Stoughton, had all had “inappropriate” relationships with Birchmore.

[Daehawk]

The POS. Hope what see in movies is just a taste of what a cop behind bars gets.

[LawBeefaroni]

This cop and his co-workers were even worse:

Former Stoughton Police Department detective Matthew Farwell has been indicted on charges that he killed Sandra Birchmore, a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child, inside her Canton apartment and then staged her death as a suicide, court records show....

...In his capacity as a police officer, Farwell served as an instructor for the Stoughton Police Department’s Explorer’s Program, which is a vocational education program designed for youth to learn about careers in law enforcement. Court documents showed that Birchmore joined the program in 2010 when she was 12 years of age.

Farwell allegedly used his authority and access to groom, sexually exploit, and ultimately sexually abuse Birchmore when she was 15 years old and continued to have sex with her when she became an adult up until her death....

...A 2022 internal investigation by Stoughton police found that Matthew Farwell, his twin brother and coworker William Farwell, and Robert C. Devine, a former deputy chief in Stoughton, had all had “inappropriate” relationships with Birchmore.

A handmade card that federal prosecutors say Sandra Birchmore created to celebrate her pregnancy. She had told friends the father was then-Stoughton cop Matthew Farwell. Prosecutors included this photo in an Aug. 2024 court filing. U.S. Department Of Justice

If convicted, Farwell could face the death penalty or life in prison.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 988768007/

[Pyperkub]

Conspiracy Cop complicit? whouldathunkit?

Yeah, this is wild.

Part Ten: In an explosive new development that could bring new trouble for the already-troubled Millersville Police Department, a key player in a child-predator sting says the lead detective on that operation lied under oath.

These latest questions follow the revelation of secret recordings obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates from that child-predator sting back in May that, our investigation discovered, do not match the detective's sworn testimony in the case...

...Part Twelve: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has expanded its probe of the embattled Millersville Police Department, now looking into allegations that officials may have used sensitive law enforcement data to investigate their political enemies

[Victoria Raverna]

This is crazy. Report his dad was missing and he got "tortured" into confessing for murder.

[Isgrimnur]

Video of Tyreek Hill detainment released, Miami Dolphins blast 'despicable behavior' of officers

Body camera video released Monday showed how a dispute over a raised car window led officers to handcuff Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill, a confrontation that the team lambasted as a “despicable” police action.
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The video shows Hill's car pulled over and an officer on a motorcycle telling him he was speeding and to pull forward, which he does.

The officer knocks on the driver’s side window and asks why Hill does not have a seat belt on, and Hill tells him several times, “Don’t knock on my window like that.”

“Why do you have it up? I have to knock to let you know I’m here,” the officer says in the video.

Hill then says he is late and tells the officer to give him a ticket. The window then goes up, prompting the officer to knock on the rolled-up window again and tell Hill to keep it down.

The window goes down a crack, and Hill appears to say, “Don’t tell me what to do.”

“Keep your window down, or I’m going to get you out of the car,” the officer replies. “As a matter of fact, get out of the car.”

A second officer threatens to break the window, and the first officer tells Hill: "Get out of the car right now. We’re not playing this game."

Hill appears to tell the officers that he'll get out. As the door opens, an officer reaches into the car and pulls him out. That officer and another put Hill face-down on the pavement.

"When we tell you to do something, you do it. You understand?" an officer — not the one who pulled Hill over and knocked on his window — appears to say as Hill is on the ground, the video shows.

"You understand? Not when you want but when we tell you. You're a little f---ing confused."

In the video, Hill is saying something while he is on the ground, but the audio of what he says is hard to make out. The officer can twice be heard saying, "Too late."

[Blackhawk]

I saw the full bodycam earlier. He had dark, dark tinted windows, which prevented the cops from seeing inside. In that situation, you get their window down. If it's a stolen car, or there are warrants, then not being able to see the driver is a very, very good way to get shot. He asked him at least three separate times to keep the window down, and he refused. At that point, they either accept the danger or get him out of the car.

[GreenGoo]

Sure. So then he complies. Now what? Throw him on the ground and make sure he knows who's in charge?

Some times people are going to be onery when pulled over. It happens. No cop is surprised by this. Humiliating and assaulting them is not a reasonable response, even if you have the power to do it and law on your side (because the law is always on your side, no matter what).

[Blackhawk]

If he complies and leaves the window down so they can see he isn't pulling a gun from between the seats, then the issue is resolved.

[Max Peck]

If the cop was simply concerned for his safety, then the situation was resolved once he got the driver out of the vehicle. It doesn't excuse what happened after that point.

[Pyperkub]

Yeah, let's just ignore and not investigate misconduct complaints referred for investigation by the oversight board...

The New York Police Department has tossed out hundreds of civilian complaints about police misconduct this year without looking at the evidence.

The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sent to the NYPD for disciplinary action. They included officers wrongfully searching vehicles and homes, as well as using excessive force against New Yorkers.

In one instance, an officer punched a man in the groin, the oversight agency found. In another, an officer unjustifiably tackled a young man, and then another officer wrongly stopped and searched him, according to the CCRB.

The incident involving the young man was one of dozens of stop-and-frisk complaints the NYPD dismissed without review this year — a significant development given that the department is still under federal monitoring that a court imposed more than a decade ago over the controversial tactic.

[Pyperkub]

If the cop was simply concerned for his safety, then the situation was resolved once he got the driver out of the vehicle. It doesn't excuse what happened after that point.

He wasn't concerned for his safety after opening the door, he was angry and escalating, because he could. And his partners did nothing to stop him or calm the situation down.

[Blackhawk]

If the cop was simply concerned for his safety, then the situation was resolved once he got the driver out of the vehicle. It doesn't excuse what happened after that point.

Which was? He refused to get out of the car and sat there making a phone call instead, so they had to physically remove him from the car. They cuffed him, and moved him away. It wasn't a particularly hard take-down when they cuffed him, either. None of that looked out of the ordinary. Did something happen beyond that?

I'm trying to understand what people see as so shocking in this one.

[Unagi]

was he under arrest? What was the crime that took place before this? Was his car reported as stolen?

[LordMortis]

an officer on a motorcycle telling him he was speeding and to pull forward, which he does.

[Blackhawk]

was he under arrest? What was the crime that took place before this? Was his car reported as stolen?

Traffic violation for the pullover, and the rest was because he completely refused to follow lawful instructions, putting the cops in a position where they really didn't have any choice but to forcefully change the situation.

Yeah, the cop was an abrasive dick, but even a nice cop is going to get pissy and take action if he comes up to you in a traffic stop and you keep hiding what you're doing from him.

[Unagi]

Traffic violation for the pullover, and the rest was because he completely refused to follow lawful instructions, putting the cops in a position where they really didn't have any choice but to forcefully change the situation.

So, when you get pulled over for speeding, the assumption is that you are armed and ready to kill the police until the officer can decide this isn't the case to their satisfaction? /shrug - just never seems to have happened to me like that before - I don't drive with tinted windows like that or tinted skin like that, so that's probably why.

[LordMortis]

I can't speak to Florida but heavily tinted windows on the front are illegal in Michigan and grounds for being pulled over in and of itself. People get them anyway and don't care. Given the state of our "freedom" around here, it's a rare occasion that I'd side with a cop being overly cautious in a domineering way.

First link I could find

https://tintwiz.com/window-tint-laws/michigan

How things play out from there, I got nothing. I am not exactly pro police escalation in about every other way. So once he's out of the car, if there is no sign of danger, it's a cops obligation to calm the fuck down, IMO.

[Unagi]

I can't speak to Florida but heavily tinted windows on the front are illegal in Michigan and grounds for being pulled over in and of itself. People get them anyway and don't care. Given the state of our "freedom" around here, it's a rare occasion that I'd side with a cop being overly cautious in a domineering way.

First link I could find

https://tintwiz.com/window-tint-laws/michigan

How things play out from there, I got nothing. I am not exactly pro police escalation in about every other way. So once he's out of the car, if there is no sign of danger, it's a cops obligation to calm the fuck down, IMO.

I don't have a problem with them wanting to see him and get his license, etc - then hand him a ticket. If the tinted windows are not legal - then they can perhaps have him step out, I guess - not sure what the procedure should be there. Impound the car? etc?

[Blackhawk]

So, when you get pulled over for speeding, the assumption is that you are armed and ready to kill the police until the officer can decide this isn't the case to their satisfaction?

100%. From the position they park their car, to where their eyes go as they approach, to where they stand are all planned on the assumption that you're going to turn around with a gun in your hand. In the days before portable hand-held computers, they clipboard they were carrying was often bullet-proof as well.

The two most dangerous duties for cops:

Traffic stops and domestic disturbances. And it's when a cop forgets that and get lazy on his 50th traffic stop that week that they get killed.

There's a lot of emphasis on always being aware of that, and of the driver and what he's doing.

[Blackhawk]

So once he's out of the car, if there is no sign of danger, it's a cops obligation to calm the fuck down, IMO.

If he'd gotten out of the car, that might have been true, but they had to physically force him from the car. At that point, they are generally going to have to follow through and put him in cuffs. They might very well release him after things are cleared up, but sometimes there is more than belligerence behind their actions.

And yet I still agree that the cop was being overly abrasive rather than respectful. Did it matter in this incident? Maybe - unless we can switch universes and check, it's just maybe. But that kind of attitude likely means that things get out of hand with this officer more often than with others.

[Pyperkub]

Hill has said he could have done better at handling the situation.

The HUGE ELEPHANT in the room is that the Police officer will never say that, and even if he, or the department ever does, they won't ever change how they treat (certain?) people, but rather keep escalating.

And, of course, see the ProPublica report above, where when officers have committed enough wrongdoings and generated complaints to warrant an investigation, the investigation is shitcanned.

And the fact of the matter is that there ARE bad cops, and that they repeat the bad behaviors over and over again. We have the statistics:

The “few bad apples” theory of police violence posits that a small portion of the police force is ill-intentioned or inclined to misconduct or violence, while the majority of officers are good cops. Until recently, this theory was difficult for civilians to investigate, but department data on complaints against officers obtained through a legal challenge shows that police misconduct in Chicago is overwhelmingly the product of a small fraction of officers and that it may be possible to identify those officers and reduce misconduct....

...It is clear that repeaters can not only be identified, but their misconduct can also be predicted. For all the complexity of policing, there is a clear signal in the data of who the bad actors are and, to a lesser extent, whether they are going to commit misconduct. Whether police departments will make use of that signal is another, trickier matter. For the departments themselves, enacting meaningful reform is the more challenging undertaking

I've posted this analysis multiple times here, and probably in this thread.

[Max Peck]

So once he's out of the car, if there is no sign of danger, it's a cops obligation to calm the fuck down, IMO.

If he'd gotten out of the car, that might have been true, but they had to physically force him from the car.

You keep asserting that, but the quoted news article says...

Hill appears to tell the officers that he'll get out. As the door opens, an officer reaches into the car and pulls him out. That officer and another put Hill face-down on the pavement.

...which sounds like if they hadn't physically escalated the situation and manhandled him out of the car and put him face down on the pavement, he'd have been out of the car and standing on his own two feet. But that wouldn't have been conducive to...

"When we tell you to do something, you do it. You understand?" an officer — not the one who pulled Hill over and knocked on his window — appears to say as Hill is on the ground, the video shows.

"You understand? Not when you want but when we tell you. You're a little f---ing confused."

...because it's a bit more difficult to assert dominance like that when a person can stand and look you in the eyes.

[Pyperkub]

So, yeah, the cop has a history which lines up with the Hill escalation...

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/offi ... er-report/

In exactly the way the 538 data indicated it would, apparently.

The suspensions all came between 2004 and 2018, during which time he was also the subject of at least six Internal Affairs investigations, according to records reviews by The Sentinel. He was investigated for complaints of conduct unbecoming, force violations and discourtesy, with five of the six complaints being sustained after the Internal Affairs investigation.

[GreenGoo]

This is not one of the better ones from this channel, but it does ok and shows a lot of the camera footage. Also, now that I see the context and circumstances regarding the stop and the car being driven and the location, it's hard to argue that the tinted windows were a driving factor in the entire escalation. I'm not sure how you argue the 5-7 cops were concerned for their safety in the middle of a game day migration of thousands of fans.

As far as being disrespectful, my impression is that Tyron (sp?) is simply not very bright. YMMV.

Watching the takedown, it it is clear to me that it was one cop's attitude that was at issue. Using "tinted windows" and not instant compliance (he did lower his window within seconds of being asked to, after hesitating briefly) as a reason to put your hands on a member of the public is very obviously an excuse for bad behaviour, rather than the cause.

The second take down is even more ridiculous and there are no tinted windows in sight.

[Unagi]

I'd be curious to hear BH's reply to some of the things stated in that video that seem more in line with my take on a traffic stop.

A cop doesn't have the right to assume maximum threat if it's a traffic stop.


License given, give a ticket or arrest them - you can't yell at them for their window being up or down and demand compliance.

From my understanding of all the rando 'sovereign citizen' traffic stop youtube videos I've seen (maybe 5) - the one thing they are correct about is the general summary above.

[Brian]

Maybe this will help (pour fire on the debate)

[GreenGoo]

Meh. Nothing in the video Brian posted is news to me or most people. But it also doesn't change anything at all about the original event being discussed. Oddly, the defense lawyer never addresses anything in the body cam footage directly, or specifically. The video would be just as useful (or not, if you were already aware of the general advice he gives) if the body cam footage was not included or another entirely different traffic stop had been in the background of this video.

Shrug. Don't be rude and obey a police officer's commands if you want to minimize the chances of escalation. But the corollary of that is not "be rude and hesitate to follow orders and you get to eat pavement and you deserve it".

Great.

I also recognize that the Legal Eagle video has a lot of opinion in it, which I don't find particularly useful, unless it's a legal opinion, but many of the opinions in that video were not.

[Pyperkub]

Nice racket in Kansas City, Kansas...

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/a ... 14144.html

The protection racket, the lawsuit said, “operated a network of women that the Unified Government and its employees crudely or jokingly (depending on one’s viewpoint) referred to as ‘Golubski’s Girls.’ Golubski insisted upon a proprietary interest in these women, which was respected by the Unified Government.”

Golubski, the lawsuit said, managed the protection racket’s operation, which covered up gang killings, fabricated evidence and raped women.

Golubski’s partner Terry Ziegler became police chief in 2015 and “protected and enabled the Protection Racket’s conduct,” the lawsuit alleged. He was one of 11 individual officers named as defendants in the lawsuit.

[Isgrimnur]

Kentucky sheriff killed judge in his chambers following an argument, police say. Here’s what we know

District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was found around 3 p.m. Thursday with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the Letcher County courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky State Police Trooper Matt Gayheart said at a Thursday evening news conference.

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, shot Mullins after an argument inside the judge’s chambers, a preliminary police investigation revealed. Stines is now facing a first-degree murder charge, state police said. CNN is trying to determine whether Stines has an attorney.

Stines turned himself in after the shooting and was arrested at the scene without incident on Thursday, authorities said. He is cooperating with authorities, Gayheart said.
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It is not clear when Stines will have his first court appearance because arraignments for crimes committed in Letcher County would normally be handled by Judge Mullins,

[LawBeefaroni]

“This community is small in nature, and we’re all shook,” [State Police Trooper Matt] Gayheart said.

There's probably a lot of drama to unpack here. Will take some time to unwind.

Stines was deposed on Monday in a lawsuit filed by two women, one of whom alleged that a deputy forced her to have sex inside Mullins’ chambers for six months in exchange for staying out of jail. The lawsuit accuses the sheriff of “deliberate indifference in failing to adequately train and supervise” the deputy.

The now-former deputy sheriff, Ben Fields, pleaded guilty to raping the female prisoner while she was on home incarceration. Fields was sentenced this year to six months in jail and then six and a half years on probation for rape, sodomy, perjury and tampering with a prisoner monitoring device, The Mountain Eagle reported. Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

Stines fired Fields, who succeeded him as Mullins’ bailiff, for “conduct unbecoming” after the lawsuit was filed in 2022, The Courier Journal reported at the time.

https://www.kbtx.com/2024/09/20/sheriff ... -chambers/

[Pyperkub]

Foiled by the lie detector test!

Yakima police are accusing Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice of evidence tampering, making false statements and official misconduct after he falsely maintained for more than two weeks that someone tried to poison him with drugs.

Curtice told Yakima police that an energy drink, his workout energy shake powder and water in an electric tea kettle were spiked with cocaine and fentanyl, and he was taken to the hospital with drugs in his system after sipping a drink.

His claims fell apart after he failed a lie detector test, according to a Yakima police report, and he admitted he had been snorting drugs he obtained from dead bodies in the course of his job for a couple of months.

[LawBeefaroni]

“This community is small in nature, and we’re all shook,” [State Police Trooper Matt] Gayheart said.

There's probably a lot of drama to unpack here. Will take some time to unwind.

Stines was deposed on Monday in a lawsuit filed by two women, one of whom alleged that a deputy forced her to have sex inside Mullins’ chambers for six months in exchange for staying out of jail. The lawsuit accuses the sheriff of “deliberate indifference in failing to adequately train and supervise” the deputy.

The now-former deputy sheriff, Ben Fields, pleaded guilty to raping the female prisoner while she was on home incarceration. Fields was sentenced this year to six months in jail and then six and a half years on probation for rape, sodomy, perjury and tampering with a prisoner monitoring device, The Mountain Eagle reported. Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

Stines fired Fields, who succeeded him as Mullins’ bailiff, for “conduct unbecoming” after the lawsuit was filed in 2022, The Courier Journal reported at the time.

https://www.kbtx.com/2024/09/20/sheriff ... -chambers/

Security camera video of the shooting was released, with the actual moment(s) of the judge getting shot redacted. After apparent conversation, the sheriff (in plainclothes) draws his gun and shoots the judge from 6 feet away or so and the judge, who is seated, falls under his desk. Unclear if he was hit but he is moving and trying to stay in cover. The sheriff goes around the front of the desk to get a follow-up shot and leans over to shoot a few feet from the judge's head. As he heads out the door, he stops and turns and shoots one more time at the judge who is behind the desk but showing some movement. It appears to be the coldblooded execution of an unarmed, defenseless victim. Still no idea of motive but there is absolutely no doubt what happened as far as the actual shooting.

[Pyperkub]

“This community is small in nature, and we’re all shook,” [State Police Trooper Matt] Gayheart said.

There's probably a lot of drama to unpack here. Will take some time to unwind.

Stines was deposed on Monday in a lawsuit filed by two women, one of whom alleged that a deputy forced her to have sex inside Mullins’ chambers for six months in exchange for staying out of jail. The lawsuit accuses the sheriff of “deliberate indifference in failing to adequately train and supervise” the deputy.

The now-former deputy sheriff, Ben Fields, pleaded guilty to raping the female prisoner while she was on home incarceration. Fields was sentenced this year to six months in jail and then six and a half years on probation for rape, sodomy, perjury and tampering with a prisoner monitoring device, The Mountain Eagle reported. Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

Stines fired Fields, who succeeded him as Mullins’ bailiff, for “conduct unbecoming” after the lawsuit was filed in 2022, The Courier Journal reported at the time.

https://www.kbtx.com/2024/09/20/sheriff ... -chambers/

Security camera video of the shooting was released, with the actual moment(s) of the judge getting shot redacted. After apparent conversation, the sheriff (in plainclothes) draws his gun and shoots the judge from 6 feet away or so and the judge, who is seated, falls under his desk. Unclear if he was hit but he is moving and trying to stay in cover. The sheriff goes around the front of the desk to get a follow-up shot and leans over to shoot a few feet from the judge's head. As he heads out the door, he stops and turns and shoots one more time at the judge who is behind the desk but showing some movement. It appears to be the coldblooded execution of an unarmed, defenseless victim. Still no idea of motive but there is absolutely no doubt what happened as far as the actual shooting.

It seems at least as if they may be looking into what the relationship may have been between the Judge and the Sheriff's wife and daughter (regardless of the fb rumor, there may be something):

When asked by defense attorney Jeremy Bartley whether Stines said anything about "protecting his family" when he was taken into custody, Stamper said Stines allegedly made a comment that, "They're trying to kidnap my wife and kid."

More:

Stamper then added that footage not shown in court captured the Sheriff using both Mullin’s phone and his own to make multiple calls to his daughter, and that whatever information he heard then was all the motivation he needed to end the Judge’s life.

[LawBeefaroni]

There are a lot of rumors - some paint the sheriff as victim, others as abuser. Hopefully we'll get facts eventually, if only to end the rumors flying around.

[Isgrimnur]

French Polynesia (translated)

The video has been circulating on social media. It shows four DTPN police officers surrounding a person in a wheelchair in Taunoa. One of the officers was particularly violent, pushing the victim before punching him. The officers have been suspended and an investigation has been opened, the High Commission announced.

After the general indignation, the response from the authorities was not long in coming. On Friday evening, a resident of Papeete posted a video on social media showing a man in a wheelchair being assaulted by a national police officer. First pushed, the victim received a violent blow to the face, the three other officers remaining passive. In the morning, at the very moment when many Polynesians were marching against violence, ice and harassment, the representative Tematai Le Gayic announced that he had reported the facts to the public prosecutor, after having gone to the scene, in the Taunoa district, to collect testimonies. As reported by our colleagues at Tahiti Infos , the public prosecutor immediately opened an investigation for violence with three aggravating circumstances, the officers being in positions of public authority, the violence having been committed in a group, and on a vulnerable person.

[Pyperkub]

There are a lot of rumors - some paint the sheriff as victim, others as abuser. Hopefully we'll get facts eventually, if only to end the rumors flying around.

Yup. But it definitely seems to have been personal.

[Max Peck]

Probe clears 7 VPD officers in deadly 2015 beating of Myles Gray

A Police Act investigation into the 2015 death of Myles Gray, who was 33, has cleared seven Vancouver Police Department (VPD) officers accused of abuse of authority, six of whom were also accused of neglect of duty.

The investigation, carried out by Delta Police Chief Neil Dubord, serving as discipline authority, is the latest in a series of investigations into the fatal encounter in Burnaby, B.C.

Gray's sister, Melissa Gray, said she was not surprised by Dubord's findings.

"This is a joke," she said, adding that she had lost faith in the system. "My hope was, at the very least, they would be taken off the job."

Myles Gray died after a struggle with police in a shrouded backyard in Burnaby, B.C., in August 2015. His injuries included ruptured testicles, a broken voice box, a fractured eye socket and widespread bruising.

Prior to the struggle, Gray was making a delivery for his Sechelt-based florist business when police were called after he confronted a South Vancouver homeowner for watering her lawn during that summer's extended drought.

A coroner's inquest into the case concluded last year that Gray's death was a homicide. The jury's recommendations included the use of body cameras with audio-recording capability for all patrol officers in the city and a review of the VPD's de-escalation and crisis containment training.

Dubord found that the allegations of abuse of authority by using unnecessary force — faced by constables Kory Folkestad, Eric Birzneck, Derek Cain, Josh Wong, Beau Spencer, Hardeep Sahota and Nick Thompson — were not substantiated.

He also found the allegations of neglect of duty against all except Birzneck, who didn't face the accusation, were also not substantiated.

[Isgrimnur]

Former Ohio cop Adam Coy found guilty of murder in fatal 2020 shooting of unarmed Black man Andre Hill

Former police officer Adam Coy was found guilty of murder on Monday by a jury in the 2020 fatal shooting of Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed Black man who was shot four times after the defendant ordered him to emerge from a darkened garage while holding a cellphone and a large set of keys.

The jury in the high-profile Franklin County Court of Common Pleas case announced its verdict after deliberating for about two-and-a-half days.

Besides murder, the jury also found Coy guilty of felonious assault and reckless homicide.
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In May 2021, the City of Columbus agreed to a $10 million wrongful death settlement with Hill's family, the highest amount ever paid by the city.

The indictment of Coy in February 2021 came just days after the Columbus City Council also passed Andre's Law, which was named after Hill and requires Columbus police officers to turn on their body cameras when responding to calls and to immediately render first aid after a use-of-force incident.

[Pyperkub]

Cross posting from the new Flori-duh thread, because this is disgusting that they cited a 12 year old girl for a false report instead of actually investigating, and that she got raped by her step-father because of it:

I guess this one goes here too. Not only the rapist father, but the cops..

https://www.theledger.com/story/news/lo ... 942133007/

Less than an hour after being raped by her adoptive father along the side of a country road, the 13-year-old girl stood in the darkness, clutching the cell phone that held video and photographic evidence of his crime.

Preparing to dial 911, the girl paused, thinking back to a year earlier, when she had gone to law enforcement to report Henry Cadle’s sexual abuse, only to have an investigator from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office accuse her of lying...

... the Polk County Sheriff’s Office not only declined to arrest Henry Cadle but charged Taylor with filing a false report (after the incident a year earlier).