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America’s police force can claim many victims this year: From senior citizens gunned down in their own homes during botched drug raids to non-violent offenders murdered via police neglect for their most basic needs.
The Daily Caller chronicled the worst police abuse stories of 2013, and has learned a few unfortunate lessons: You can be killed by police for possessing trivial amounts of marijuana — or even no drugs at all. If your autistic son tells you he met a new friend at school, that friend could be a narcotics officer trying to trick him into selling drugs. And whatever you do, stay the hell away from New Mexico cops.
Without further adieu, here is TheDC’s Dirty Dozen: The 12 most terrifying, representative police abuse stories of 2013.
12) Father arrested for picking up his kid from school — Parent be warned: If you do not rigorously adhere to the Orwellian pick-up laws at your kids’ elementary schools, you can and will be hauled off to jail. Tennessee father Jim Howe recorded his exchange with a school administrator and safety officer, in which he was told that trying to bring his kids home a little early was “disorderly conduct.”
The officer also threatened to arrest Howe’s girlfriend for recording the incident. If the cops let everybody record them, how would they get away with their bad behavior?
11) Shock video: Police slams inmate’s head against wall, producing bloody smear – Mistreatment of suspects and jail inmates is a sad, recurring police motif. But few were as visceral as this one. Drunk driving suspect James Duckworth was handcuffed and cooperative when officer Charles Broaderick slammed his head into the wall. Duckworth was bleeding and barely conscious as the abuse continued: Broaderick even tried to wrap a plastic bag around the suspect’s head.
Kudos to the Marion County police department for charging Broaderick with assault and bringing a measure of accountability to the situation.
10) Felony weapons charge for student who brought fishing supplies to school — This is mostly the fault of the school district for having in place a draconian ban on weapons both real and imaginary. Still, it was an unwarranted police search that led to the discovery of the cache of weapons — a dreaded fishing tackle box! — in student Cody Chitwood’s vehicle.
Chitwood, an avid fisherman, is worried the felony charge will interfere with his dream of joining the Air Force. But at least his school is safe from the terrible threat of a couple fishhooks.
9) Police allegedly beat 13-year-old with cell phone, broke his nose — This Chicago-area teen evidently knows more about his Constitutional rights than the police do. After wisely declining to answer police questions without first consulting a lawyer — or at least his mother — an officer smashed his face in with a cell phone, according to his lawsuit. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Garcia left the police station with a broken nose and considerable skepticism about police authority.
“If the police is doing this, who do I call if I’m in danger because they’re the ones doing the danger,” he said in a statement.
8) Kids no longer sure who to trust after police arrest all their friends; Autistic kid entrapped — The sheriff’s department in Riverside County, California must be obsessed with the recent movie “21 Jump Street,” which follows the exploits of two fictional narcotics officers pretending to be high school students in order to bust a local drug dealer inside the school. Maybe it’s funny when Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill do it, but in real life, it’s just awful.
At the end of the semester at Perris High School and Paloma Valley High School, students watched as dozens of their classmates were hauled off to jail for possessing or selling various drugs, including marijuana and cocaine. The arrests were made by undercover officers who had posed as high school students.
Even worse was a story of an earlier sting operation at a different high school, where one of the arrested students was an autistic boy. His parents said he had always had trouble making friends, and was caught off guard by the sudden friendship of another student, who proved to be an undercover narcotics officer. The officer tricked the boy into selling him drugs, according to the parents.
But hey, what’s more important: an autistic teenager’s trust issues, or relentlessly prosecuting the War on Drugs?
Read More:
TheDC's Dirty Dozen: 12 shocking police abuse stories of 2013 | The Daily Caller
The Daily Caller chronicled the worst police abuse stories of 2013, and has learned a few unfortunate lessons: You can be killed by police for possessing trivial amounts of marijuana — or even no drugs at all. If your autistic son tells you he met a new friend at school, that friend could be a narcotics officer trying to trick him into selling drugs. And whatever you do, stay the hell away from New Mexico cops.
Without further adieu, here is TheDC’s Dirty Dozen: The 12 most terrifying, representative police abuse stories of 2013.
12) Father arrested for picking up his kid from school — Parent be warned: If you do not rigorously adhere to the Orwellian pick-up laws at your kids’ elementary schools, you can and will be hauled off to jail. Tennessee father Jim Howe recorded his exchange with a school administrator and safety officer, in which he was told that trying to bring his kids home a little early was “disorderly conduct.”
The officer also threatened to arrest Howe’s girlfriend for recording the incident. If the cops let everybody record them, how would they get away with their bad behavior?
11) Shock video: Police slams inmate’s head against wall, producing bloody smear – Mistreatment of suspects and jail inmates is a sad, recurring police motif. But few were as visceral as this one. Drunk driving suspect James Duckworth was handcuffed and cooperative when officer Charles Broaderick slammed his head into the wall. Duckworth was bleeding and barely conscious as the abuse continued: Broaderick even tried to wrap a plastic bag around the suspect’s head.
Kudos to the Marion County police department for charging Broaderick with assault and bringing a measure of accountability to the situation.
10) Felony weapons charge for student who brought fishing supplies to school — This is mostly the fault of the school district for having in place a draconian ban on weapons both real and imaginary. Still, it was an unwarranted police search that led to the discovery of the cache of weapons — a dreaded fishing tackle box! — in student Cody Chitwood’s vehicle.
Chitwood, an avid fisherman, is worried the felony charge will interfere with his dream of joining the Air Force. But at least his school is safe from the terrible threat of a couple fishhooks.
9) Police allegedly beat 13-year-old with cell phone, broke his nose — This Chicago-area teen evidently knows more about his Constitutional rights than the police do. After wisely declining to answer police questions without first consulting a lawyer — or at least his mother — an officer smashed his face in with a cell phone, according to his lawsuit. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Garcia left the police station with a broken nose and considerable skepticism about police authority.
“If the police is doing this, who do I call if I’m in danger because they’re the ones doing the danger,” he said in a statement.
8) Kids no longer sure who to trust after police arrest all their friends; Autistic kid entrapped — The sheriff’s department in Riverside County, California must be obsessed with the recent movie “21 Jump Street,” which follows the exploits of two fictional narcotics officers pretending to be high school students in order to bust a local drug dealer inside the school. Maybe it’s funny when Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill do it, but in real life, it’s just awful.
At the end of the semester at Perris High School and Paloma Valley High School, students watched as dozens of their classmates were hauled off to jail for possessing or selling various drugs, including marijuana and cocaine. The arrests were made by undercover officers who had posed as high school students.
Even worse was a story of an earlier sting operation at a different high school, where one of the arrested students was an autistic boy. His parents said he had always had trouble making friends, and was caught off guard by the sudden friendship of another student, who proved to be an undercover narcotics officer. The officer tricked the boy into selling him drugs, according to the parents.
But hey, what’s more important: an autistic teenager’s trust issues, or relentlessly prosecuting the War on Drugs?
Read More:
TheDC's Dirty Dozen: 12 shocking police abuse stories of 2013 | The Daily Caller
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