Tag: Corruption

LAPD Releases Footage Showing Them Laughing After Killing Another Unarmed Black Man

Via NY Daily:

Los Angeles police officers found reason to laugh after struggling with a schizophrenic man who died in their custody, new video showed Thursday.

The city paid the family of 56-year-old grandfather Vachel Howard a $2.85 million settlement after they filed suit over his June 2012 death at the LAPD’s 77th Street Station Jail.

The video of the fatal clash between Howard and several officers remained out of public view until ProPublica published the silent security camera footage Thursday.

It’s not clear why the officers were chuckling after a nurse examined the motionless Howard, then walked away to get her stethoscope. A lawyer for Howard’s daughter told the investigative news outlet that the video shows how unnecessary it was for him to die.

“Mr. Howard posed no threat whatsoever,” said V. James DeSimone. “He was down on the ground, six officers on top of him, no guns in the nearby vicinity executing a chokehold where there was no threat to the officers or to anybody else. It’s out of policy, it’s unlawful, and in this case it’s murder.”

The police department and the city attorney’s office, which negotiated the settlement last fall after two years of litigation, declined ProPublica’s request for comment.

The officer believed to have used the chokehold received a 22-day suspension. Other officers at the jail that day said they feared for their own lives.

Howard was arrested June 4, 2012, on charges of driving under the influence, according to a 2013 review by the Board of Police Commissioners. Police suspected he had smoked crack and marijuana and possibly taken PCP.

He told one officer after a strip search that he had a history of paranoid schizophrenia and had not taken his medicine recently. The officers described him as apparently hallucinating after his arrest but cooperative during the search.

The struggle began afterward, when police said he became agitated while handcuffed to a bench and advanced toward a nurse in the jail’s dispensary moments later.

SMH! Another travesty. When will it end? Or has it just begun?

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WATCH: Perverted Police Officer Caught On Tape Trying To Talk Teenager Into Sex 

I have no words. Seriously. This police corruption has got to stop. So now cops are soliciting underage girls? for sex?! Really?!

An officer was terminated by the Jackson Police Department after a video of him flirting suggestively surfaced on Facebook, authorities said. 

The minute-long video, which includes graphic language, was posted to social media Tuesday and has been shared hundreds of times. “The Jackson Police Department does have possession of the video that was posted to Facebook (Tuesday) by the young lady,” Cmdr. Tyree Jones said. 

“Chief (Lee) Vance found the video to be very disturbing. He is very disappointed due to the content that’s in the video.” Officer Darryl Stasher was terminated as a result of an investigation into the video, Jones said. Stasher was initially relieved of his police officer duties and assigned to administrative desk duty, Jones said. He was later fired. 

Stasher, who worked for JPD for at least eight years, was assigned to Precinct 2, Jones said. 

The girl’s family said she is 17 years old, but her Facebook page says that she was born in 1990. 

Jones said the content of the video is inappropriate.

Source: Bossip

Atlanta’s Controversial Minister Eddie Long’s Dramatic Weight Loss Raises Eyebrows

Scandalous church pastor Eddie Long has shed alllllot of weight in about a 2-3 month span.

Last time he was in the news he was accused of taking the church’s money to fund his down low lifestyle with male parishioners of his mega church, New Birth.

Eddie Long prior to the gay scandal

Well now his critics are crying foul again, but this time questioning how he could drop so much weight in such a short period of time and leading to the notion that the big money minister doesn’t look healthy.
I’ll let you be the judge & jury of that.

Eddie Long drops 30lbs (or more) after changing his diet.

According to MediaTakeOut:

Bishop Eddie Long is a popular MEGACHURCH pastor from Atlanta, who was caught up in a gay/pedophile scandal a couple of years back. Multiple teenage boys from his church claimed to have been involved in physical relationships with the Pastor.

It was not clear whether the relationships began when the teenagers were over the age of consent in The State Of Georgia, which is 16. Bishop Long was never charged with any crime, but it was a salacious scandal.

Anyways, now fast forward until yesterday. Check out these new pics of the pastor who lost a GANG of weight. He claims the weight loss is due to a raw food diet.

We hope that’s all it is. Cause to us it looks like he got something only prayer can cure.

So what do YOU think of Eddie Long’s rapid weight loss? He and thee Reverend Al Sharpton must have the same errrrrrrrr, diet.

I had the chance to witness Eddie Long in action as a guest speaker at my church right before the gay/pedophile creep scandal surfaced back in 2010-2011.

For the record, I personally found him to be one of the most arrogant preachers that I have ever seen in my life. He spoke of himself in 3rd person and insisted that the congregation “stand and worship” him when he stepped into the room.

That day I formed an opinion of Eddie Long, and it wasn’t a particularly holy one.

When the gay scandal broke I was not surprised that he was cocky enough to think he could do the things he was being accused of and get away with it. From my observation the man thought he was God. I didn’t respect that.

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