Sunday, November 3, 2013
Police Officer Beats Up Store Clerk "Say Something, I Double Dare You Motherfucker"
Say something again. Say something again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say something one more Goddamn time! - KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - http://policecrimes.com/police.html - The Supreme Court recommends that you DON'T talk to police officers, but you must say out loud "I'M GOING TO REMAIN SILENT." There's no law that requires you or your teenagers to talk or answer any questions from a police officer, just say "I'M GOING TO REMAIN SILENT." Talking to a police officer can be very dangerous!
WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Dramatic footage is released of a D.C. police officer assaulting an employee at a store in Northeast D.C. because the employee allegedly made a sarcastic remark at the officer.
Officer Clinton Turner, 42, pleaded guilty to simple assault earlier this week in connection with the 2011 incident.
Turner is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 1. The offence carries a maximum 180 day jail sentence.
It all took place at the downtown Locker Room store at Minnesota and Benning northeast on January 20, 2011.
Store clerk Daniel Fox and the officers, who were seated in the store, were friendly at first. Then something happened. Fox became angry, gestured at the officers, walked away and sat down near the register.
Turner followed him, and according to court documents, said, "don't let us get you locked up on your birthday."
Fox replied, "why."
"Say something else and will be locked up," the officer said.
Fox, sarcastically said "something else."
Turner grabbed the clerk and started beating him, authorities say and the video shows. Court records say he pulled out clumps of his hair and put him in a choke hold and arrested him for assault.
The problem for the officer is that when authorities viewed the surveillance video, they charged him with assault. And after the beating, the video shows Officer Turner lecturing Fox.
"He could have talked to him in a more calm manner. Violence should never have been used in that manner," says D.C. resident, De-An Owen.
Initially, Turner's partner was also charged but those charges were later dropped.
The defense attorney for Turner, James Rudasill, said: "It's very unusual for a police officer to be charged when there's not substantial injuries or injures requiring hospitalization."
But as U.S. Attorney Ron Machen insisted in an issued statement: "Police officers have a difficult job. When the few cross that line, they will be held accountable. As the judge found in this case, there was no justification for Officer Turner's actions."
Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford takes a hard line on alleged police brutality case
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- As a police officer, where do you draw the line between protecting and serving your community, and protecting yourself?
Sheriff John Rutherford is defending his deputies after an arrest that left a woman with two black eyes ... but her mother says what they did was wrong.
"That's her mug shot. And that is not how my baby normally looks," said Dawn Rosier.
Rosier said she can barely recognize her own daughter after her arrest.
Reading through Auriel Harris' police report, she said it just doesn't make sense.
"I'm going to do everything in my power to fight this," she said.
According to the police report, Harris was drunk and when an officer tried to arrest her, she bit him.
The report said he struck her 3 or 4 times in the face, but Rosier said neighbors tell a different story.
"She can hear my daughter just screaming, begging for her life, pleading for the officers to stop," said Rosier.
"They were beating her. They were honestly beating her because you could hear it," said a neighbor.
Rosier wants to know why they didn't stop.
"What happened to their police training? It just went totally out the door. Because you beat her. You beat her," she said.
But according to Sheriff John Rutherford, the officer did follow his training, to a T.
"If you bite one my of my officers, you can expect to get punched in the face," said Rutherford.
Rutherford called Rosier personally after she called JSO to complain.
And while he said he will look in to the allegations, on the face of it, he thinks the officer did the right thing.
"I stand completely and totally behind my officers for punching somebody in the face who was locked on to their arm to get them off. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that," said Rutherford.
Looking at the blood on her daughter's purse, Rosier said everything is wrong with that.
"When I thought JSO would protect my child's life and save my child's life if she needed it, they damn near took it," she said.
Rosier has just filed an excessive force complaint against the officer.
Auriel Harris is still in jail on charges of assaulting an officer.
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