The wonderful world of "Police Brutality" I don't know whether or not those cops were outisde their authority, but the cries that the citizen's should have "Stopped them" might consider something, "stopping them" would have been assault on a three police officers and possibly the beginings of a riot, how many thousands of dollars in destruction and broken bones are you willing to accept to prevent one person from being arrested, and if they suceeded? More cops, more citizens, more violence more destruction, that sort of thing spirals out of anyone's control far too quickly, read your history, look up "Bloody Sunday" "Boston Massacre" hey don't even bother looking back that far, look at the Riots in Egypt. There is a reason for courts, its to take the violence out of deciding cases, let the lawyers and the judges do their jobs, find your jury and avoid seeing "25 dead in Riots after failed Arrest" in the 9 o'clock news.
(Excerpt) According to the Indiana Supreme court, residents DO NOT have the right to resist unlawful police entry of their home. — For now, this only applies to the state of Indiana!! Why is that? Well they claim “that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.” OR MAYBE IN REAL LIFE… it allows police to go inside ANY and EVERYBODY’S home to search whatever they’d like while people just have to sit back and let it happen! If this is not blatant disregard for the 4th amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures” I don’t know what is!…….
“The breath of the decision would absolutely allow a police officer to enter a home for no reason, whether there’s a warrant or not, whether there’s extenuating circumstances or not,” Berger told WBEZ Wednesday. “Citizens no longer have the right to even tell the officer ‘No,’ and close the door against the officer’s hand.” (End)
http://www.uaff.info/indiana_police_state.htm
Then there’s things like the Casey Anthony case where, when charged with felony child neglect, her bail was set at an outrageous $500,000. (
http://www.wesh.com/news/17113783/detail.html)
(Excerpt) Prosecutors say the law sets a high bar for proving felony child abuse and neglect. If there is a conviction , sentencing guidelines call for probation for someone without a criminal record.
According to state law, to prove felony child abuse or neglect, prosecutors have to show that it was a "willful act or omission" that led to serious injury or that had the potential to lead to serious injury……
Aadam Morgan's lawyer had cited a state Court of Appeals decision that overturned a mother's conviction on felony child neglect and child cruelty. The mother had left home to visit a neighbor while her children slept. A gas stove was left on, and both children suffered serious smoke inhalation in a fire that ensued. The appeals court said the mother's actions had not been a "willful act" or done with "bad purpose." (End)
http://findarticles.com/p/news-arti...rison-rare-felony-child-neglect/ai_n41458660/
Whether or not one agrees with the “not guilty” Anthony verdict the point is when sentenced for lying to the Police she was given the maximum for each count (4 in total) in order to justify the time she already spent in prison.
Why do they lock up people such as Casey? Was she a threat to society? Going only on circumstantial evidence was she likely to murder another member of society? She didn’t have a previous history of violence so does a missing child warrant charging someone with murder and taking away their freedom while authorities try to build a case? What harm could have come to society if she had been free while the investigation continued and the case built?
Or how about this one. (Excerpt) Not even two years after American taxpayers’ money was illegitimately used to bail out a handful of behemoth banks, JPMorgan Chase, one such bailout recipients, is responsible for getting an innocent man arrested and jailed, and also causing him to lose his job and his car — and it has been more than a year since the incident and Chase has yet to properly resolve the incident by at least reimbursing the victim.
The incident began after a teller at a Chase bank branch in Auburn, Wash., falsely accused 28-year-old Ikenna Njoku of trying to deposit a check that the bank itself had issued him as part of the first-time home buyer rebate plan. For some reason the teller became suspicious that the check was false, and proceeded to confiscate Njoku’s driver license and credit card.
When he returned the next day at the instruction of Chase customer service, he was greeted by Auburnpolicewho took him into custody on charges of forgery. And no properinvestigationinto the allegations prior to the arrest had taken place as they should have, which makes the Auburn Police Department (APD) equally as responsible for the error.
“They just threw me in jail; they called the police and said this guy has a fraudulent check,” said Njoku to reporters. “I was like ‘you’re making a mistake, you’re making a mistake, don’t take me to jail, I got work tomorrow. I can’t afford to miss work."
But the officers refused to listen, and instead left Njoku in a jail cell for five days after failing to check a message that was left the day after the arrest by Chase Special Investigations, notifying APD about the error. During this time Njoku was fired from his construction job for not showing up, and his car was towed from the Chase parking lot and subsequently sold at an auction.
“It’s one thing to make a mistake,” said Felix Luna, Njoku’s lawyer. “It’s one thing to make multiple errors of judgment like Chase has made and then, once you realize that your error has caused such harm to somebody else, to just ignore it for a year.”
Chase has since apologized to Njoku, but there is no indication that he will be reimbursed by the bank for losing his job and his car. It is also unclear whether or not APD will be held responsible for failing to follow protocol by arresting Njoku without first investigating the situation. (End)
Lost his job and car and spent time in jail all because of a false arrest. Who pays for that? The man even owned his own home. Where was he going to go? What possible threat to society would there have been if he were simply allowed to go home with a date for a court appearance?
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Sorry
From reading too many posts about militias and insurrection along with having blown the head gasket on my MG Thursday afternoon while motoring down the highway
......... Perhaps an hour or two in the back yard with a cold beer while I commune with nature and the pond fish will improve my outlook on life.
