Fucking cops!!!

Discussion in 'Politics' started by snickelfritz, Sep 4, 2009.

  1. snickelfritz

    snickelfritz Weed College Hall Monitor

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_re_us/us_shot_in_court
    Fire chief shot by cop in Ark. court over tickets

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    AP – In this Sept. 1, 2009 photo, Crittenden County Sheriff's Department Chief Investigator Thomas Martin …



    By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 6 mins ago
    JERICHO, Ark. – It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.
    The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.
    Payne ended up in the hospital, but his shooting last week brought to a boil simmering tensions between residents of this tiny former cotton city and their police force. Drivers quickly learn to slow to a crawl along the gravel roads and the two-lane highway that run through Jericho, but they say sometimes that isn't enough to fend off the city ticketing machine.
    "You can't even get them to answer a call because normally they're writing tickets," said Thomas Martin, chief investigator for the Crittenden County Sheriff's Department. "They're not providing a service to the citizens."
    Now the police chief has disbanded his force "until things calm down," a judge has voided all outstanding police-issued citations and sheriff's deputies are asking where all the money from the tickets went. With 174 residents, the city can keep seven police officers on its rolls but missed payments on police and fire department vehicles and saw its last business close its doors a few weeks ago.
    "You can't even buy a loaf of bread, but we've got seven police officers," said former resident Larry Harris, who left town because he said the police harassment became unbearable.
    Sheriff's deputies patrolled Jericho until the 1990s, when the city received grant money to start its own police force, Martin said.
    Police often camped out in the department's two cruisers along the highway that runs through town, waiting for drivers who failed to slow down when they reached the 45 mph zone ringing Jericho. Residents say the ticketing got out of hand.
    "When I first moved out here, they wrote me a ticket for going 58 mph in my driveway," 75-year-old retiree Albert Beebe said.
    The frequent ticketing apparently led to the vandalization of the cruisers, and the department took to parking the cars overnight at the sheriff's department eight miles away.
    It was anger over traffic tickets that brought Payne to city hall last week, said his lawyer, Randy Fishman. After Payne failed to get a traffic ticket dismissed on Aug. 27, police gave Payne or his son another ticket that day. Payne, 39, returned to court to vent his anger to Judge Tonya Alexander, Fishman said.
    It's unclear exactly what happened next, but Martin said an argument between Payne and the seven police officers who attended the hearing apparently escalated to a scuffle, ending when an officer shot Payne from behind.
    Doctors in Memphis, Tenn., removed a .40-caliber bullet from Payne's hip bone, Martin said. Another officer suffered a grazing wound to his finger from the bullet.
    Martin declined to name the officer who shot Payne. It's unclear if the officer has been disciplined.
    Prosecutor Lindsey Fairley said Thursday that he didn't plan to file any felony charges against the officer or Payne. Fairley, reached at his home, said Payne could face a misdemeanor charge stemming from the scuffle, but that would be up to the city's judge. He said he didn't remember the name of the officer who fired the shot.
    Payne remains in good condition at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. He referred questions to his lawyer.
    "I know that he was unarmed and I know he was shot," Fishman said. "None of that sounds too good for the city to me."
    After the shooting, Martin said police chief Willie Frazier told the sheriff's department he was disbanding the police force "until things calm down." The sheriff's department has been patrolling the town in the meantime.
    A call to a city hall number listed as Frazier's went to a fax machine. Frazier did not respond to a written request for comment sent to his office.
    Alexander, the judge, has voided all the tickets written by the department both inside the city and others written outside of its jurisdiction — citations that the department apparently had no power to write. Alexander, who works as a lawyer in West Memphis, resigned as Jericho's judge in the aftermath of the shooting, Fairley said. She did not return calls for comment.
    Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies want to know where the money from the traffic fines went. Martin said that it appeared the $150 tickets weren't enough to protect the city's finances. Sheriff's deputies once had to repossess one of the town's police cruisers for failure to pay on a lease, and the state Forestry Commission recently repossessed one of the city's fire trucks because of nonpayment.
    City hall has been shuttered since the shooting, and any records of how the money was spent are apparently locked inside. No one answered when a reporter knocked on the door on Tuesday.
    Mayor Helen Adams declined to speak about the shooting when approached outside her home, saying she had just returned from a doctor's appointment and couldn't talk.
    "We'll get with you after all this comes through," Adams said Tuesday before shutting the door.
    A white Ford Crown Victoria sat in her driveway with "public property" license plates. A sales brochure advertising police equipment sat in the back seat of the car.
     
  2. skunkrnaught

    skunkrnaught Flying magic hemp carpet

    Thats fucked up
     
  3. blackprince11

    blackprince11 Prince of the Hindu Kush

    It's tha "Dirty South", man!!!


    They took that guy to the hospital in Midtown, the Med. People are pissed down here! We've known about this crap for ages down here and it's about time that this kind of corruption is brought to the national press because 10 or 15 years ago the national press wouldn't have even covered this story. It might have gotten a couple of paragraphs in the Metro section and probobly never heard of in the news again. I'm glad people are starting to see that this stuff really goes on still today and isn't a figment of the liberal imagination or eggzagerated (So, what? I'm a grown man that dosen't know how to spell that previous word, deal with it!), but hey they don't call it the "Dirty South" for nothin'!!!
     
  4. mt.king

    mt.king mud drags champion

    bad cops bad bad cops


    i heard from my cousin {WHOS DEA IN ARK.} that the state district attorny is currently investigating with the help from the FBI .... but thats just heresay hope they are charged & convicted the commy bastards..


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  5. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    Did some business in Mississippi a few years back. Couple of notable politicians were raking in the dough in the background as "land owners". After we all signed commision contracts I told them folks who do this shit in my town go to jail. They thought I was being funny but I was serious.


    Hope those fuckers with the speed trap go to jail. $150 a pop?!! 7 cops with 174 residents???!!! That's some seriously twisted shit. It equates to around $4600 per household in salary costs alone. No idea what facilities, equipment, fuel, licensing, insurance, education add in. But I'm pretty sure it would bring the number to around $6900 per household. These are numbers off the top of my head and could be WAAAAAaaay off either direction. But I do know the costs of an office and staff of that size in the general workforce.


    Fuck, that's alot of $$. Sad part is most of them will end up in some other department in some other town doin the same shit.
     
  6. nobogart

    nobogart Cured Fat Sticky Bud

    i fear we are reaching a point where it is time to clean house and take out the trash i myself have taken an oath to defend against all enimies foreign and domestic.
     
  7. the_red_bull

    the_red_bull Guest

    This isn't something out of character for the police and you're the last person I would think would make a statement like that. Seriously, if you're not willing or able to defend your person and your rights with force, then stay the fuck home.
     
  8. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    TRB- Who the fuck are you talking to?
     
  9. blackprince11

    blackprince11 Prince of the Hindu Kush

    This is a perfect example of a situation where a big, strong, effective federal government is a good thing! Has anyone seen an HBO Pictures movie made in 1999 called "The Jack Bull" with John Cusack and John Goodman? It's kinda sorta like this situation from a perspective. What's the alternative to the Feds investigating and prosecuting these common criminals in courts that their LOCAL corruption cannot penetrate? Mobs taking to the streets and going gunnin for em? I prefer the first option over the second any day of the week. I'm a Federalist for this exact reason. But I also think radical changes need to be made to the federal govt. like auditing the fed and the end of the drug war and the reinstituting of the war on poverty.
     
  10. blackprince11

    blackprince11 Prince of the Hindu Kush

    Hey, check this out!


    Here's how it works. The judges and the lawyers have privy info on where the people come from that get arrested for certain types of crimes, they have a thorough understanding of real estate values and how they are calculated and have formed an alliance w/ law enforcement and the private prison industry to not only go on giant real estate ventures of gentrification but just a couple of years ago there was an investigation into whether juvinile court "referees" were sending juviniles to several juvinile incarceration facilities for cash donations to their re-election campaigns through dummy corporations in exchange for a certain amount of juviniles being sent to those facilities monthly to secure money from the federal govt. to suppliment the housing and feeding of these juvinile offenders. Once again, a couple of mentions in the metro section and poof! I and several of my friends were victims of this corruption on the local level. Juvinile records are destroyed after 7 years of non-criminal activity after age 18 so me and a couple of my homies are ok but the rest.......that's complicated. Prison at that age changes some people for the worst, and it was all done for money. Noone gave a shit! We were just cattle to them. I wish our govt. would've protected us but no dice! Some of us presevered and came out stronger and some of us well that's another story.
     
  11. Gratitude

    Gratitude Smokin' Fat Sticky Buds

    So you are suggesting that ppl should drive with weapons and shoot cops who pull them over?


    I can't really see another way to interpret your post.


    And like RR asked, who are you talking to? "you're the last person"?


    Whatcha sayin?


    Grat
     
  12. the_red_bull

    the_red_bull Guest

    everyone except for you and anyone else that just can't let it go.
     
  13. snickelfritz

    snickelfritz Weed College Hall Monitor

    It just keeps getting worse...


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    Georgia drug agents shoot and kill pastor, leaves behind wife and unborn child, no drugs found


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    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm | By: Radical Russ


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    ) STEPHENS COUNTY, Ga. — A pastor was shot and killed following a drug sting in Stephens County, Ga., on Tuesday, and the officers involved and friends of the pastor are giving different versions of what led up to the shooting.


    The Stephens County coroner confirmed that 28-year-old Jonathan Ayers was pronounced dead at Stephens County Hospital on Tuesday.



    [​IMG]Shoot first, apologize to pregnant widow later... (photo from Jonathan Ayers's blog, click to read)


    Ayers, a father-to-be, was the pastor of the Shoal Creek Baptist Church. He maintained a personal blog linked off the church’s Web page,

    jonathanayers.blogspot.com

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    Sheriff Randy Shirley said that officers had been involved in an undercover drug sting at an unnamed establishment in Toccoa. He said the target of the sting was a passenger in Ayers’ car. Shirley said Ayers dropped the woman off and went to the Shell station. He said the officers followed Ayers there.



    Shirley said, outside the Shell station, the plain-clothes officers identified themselves with a badge. The officers said that Ayers put his car in reverse and struck an agent. They said they opened fire on Ayers when he drove toward the second officer. Two shots were fired in the car, one hit Ayers. The officers said Ayers sped away and crashed about a half mile from the Shell station. They said they found him conscious and alert, but he died a short time later.


    The woman who was the subject of the drug sting was arrested, but police are not identifying her yet. She is charged with selling cocaine. Other charges against her are pending.


    Investigators said they did not find drugs in Ayers’ car.



    Just how dangerous must this woman have been to have three undercover plainclothes officers firing bullets around a public gas station? Apparently dangerous enough to risk hitting a gas pump and causing a huge explosion that could’ve killed everyone at this busy gas station in broad daylight.


    So why did the pastor flee when police “identified themselves with a badge”? Well, when you have three aggressive men not dressed like cops running toward you in a public place waving guns, you might just not notice the badge (if, indeed, the cops aren’t lying about producing their badges). Or maybe the pastor was having an affair with the woman and didn’t want his pregnant wife to find out. Maybe he saw the badges, but the woman was a prostitute and he didn’t want the negative press for his church. Or maybe he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person…

    One of many e-mails received by WYFF News 4 said:


    “Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, Jonathon Ayers was shot and killed by a Toccoa police officer. Ayers was at a walk-up ATM machine to get money to have tires put on his wife’s car. After getting his money, he saw men running at him. Thinking he was to be robbed, he ran for his car. He was shot through the door and the bullet went through his lung and liver. He eventually wrecked his car and was taken to Stephens County Hospital. The bleeding of his liver could not be stopped and Ayers died in surgery.


    “Later, it was found that the police officer who shot him thought Ayers was involved in a drug deal. When Ayers ran, the officers open fired.”


    News 4’s Kisha Foster spoke to a woman outside Shoal Creek Baptist who identified herself as Jonathan Ayers’ sister-in-law. She described him as a “godly man.” She said there are “a lot of lies going around about what happened, and the police department is trying to cover up what they did.”


    The two agents are on administrative leave with pay until the investigation is complete.



    The War on (Certain American Citizens Using Non-Pharmaceutical Non Alcoholic Tobacco-Free) Drugs™ demonizes and dehumanizes to such an extent that on the mere suspicion that a man might be buying them from a woman, police feel justified in shooting at the suspect in a crowded public place, risking a devastating gasoline explosion by doing so. Shoot first… get a paid vacation from work… and apologize to the pregnant widow later.
     
  14. mt.king

    mt.king mud drags champion

    cops everyone run


    this tweek here in town his daughter of 7 years old heard anoise outside her window looked to see a mans face peeking in her window & ran & told her dad he went outside and saw a man hideing behind a bush nex to his porch he told the peeping tom to freeze and the cop pulled his semi auto hand gun and shot behind himself as he ran away emptyed the gun allover the the front of the house grazing the 7 year old just a scratch no big deal right any way the cop is still a cop & the tweek got 18 months for threatining an oficer oh and no weapons or illeagal drugs were found


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