Exposing City of Superior,Wi & Dirty Cop George Gothner

A Superior police officer accused of punching a woman in the face earlier this month has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of a private investigation ordered by the department.

Officer George Gothner is accused of assaulting 28-year-old Natasha Lancour outside the Keyport Lounge on Jan. 5. Gothner, responding to a fight call, arrested Lancour, who has been charged with battery of an officer and disorderly conduct.

Superior Police Chief Charles LaGesse said in a statement Friday that the department is seeking all facts and interviews of available witnesses before reaching a conclusion.

"All records of the incident have been sent to an outside use of force instructor to allow an unbiased opinion on the appropriateness of the force used by the arresting officer," LaGesse said.

Earlier in the day, Lancour's attorney, Rick Gondik, expressed concern that Gothner was allowed to continue working on the streets during the investigation.

"It's quite obvious from his demeanor, his aggressiveness, that there's something going on," Gondik told the News Tribune. "I'm not saying he should be fired, but he should be taken off the force and be evaluated. The chief can decide after the evaluations are done."

Both Gondik and the department have asked citizens to come forward with videos or eyewitness accounts of the incident, which occurred just after 7 p.m.

Squad car footage of the incident shows Gothner arriving to find a group of people talking to other officers on the scene. Gothner immediately exits his car and approaches Lancour, who is yelling and gesturing with her arm.

After a brief confrontation, Gothner is seen dragging Lancour to the front of the squad car, where he slams her down on the hood. He then appears to punch her in the face with a closed fist at least once.

In his report, the officer wrote that Lancour scratched him in the face.

"Suddenly Lancour reached up with her left hand and struck and scratched me across the right side of my face. My reaction was that I gave her a closed-fist punch to the left side of her face," he wrote.

The banter between Lancour and Gothner continued en route to the police station.

"You didn't even warn me," Lancour told the officer. "You didn't even give me a chance. You just walked up to me and hit me."

She then told him she would pray for him. Later, Gothner responds.

"There is no God, so be quiet," the officer told her. "You're saying what you believe. I can say what I believe."

Gothner also pointed out the in-car camera to Lancour.

"When you watch the video with your big lawyer, Mr. Gondik, you'll see where you're wrong," Gothner said.

Superior Police Department attorney Gregg Gunta told the Northland's NewsCenter earlier this week that he had analyzed the video and believes it is a highly defensible case.

One person has already come forward with a cellphone video of the incident. The video was submitted anonymously to police and Gondik on Thursday.

Lancour will be in Douglas County Circuit Court on Friday for a preliminary hearing on the charges. Gondik said he intends to challenge probable cause and believes he has good reason for the charges to be dismissed.

"We're hoping that the DA's office does the right thing, although that remains to be seen," he said. "I'm fairly certain that you couldn't find 12 people on the planet, much less Douglas County that would convict her of battering a police officer. Besides, she's been through enough with the police.

Post Racial America: Violent, Racist Fraternity Banned For Offensive MLK Day Party

"Arizona State University announced Thursday evening a fraternity was kicked off campus following a racist party the Greek organization held in conjunction with the national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tau Kappa Epsilon was notified this week its recognition as a fraternity at the university was permanently revoked by ASU, spokeswoman Sharon Keeler said. TKE was suspended Monday for holding an "MLK Black Party" where attendees were encouraged to wear jerseys, drink from watermelon cups and guests posted photos on Instagram with the hashtags #blackoutformlk and #hood.

The party took place Sunday. After photos made their way to social media, the university suspended TKE on Monday while it began speaking with fraternity representatives.

"* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

North Carolina Schools Face Complaint Of Racially Targeted Suspensions After Teen Is Needlessly Handcuffed

SMH…The South strikes again. A 74-Page complaint filed against Wake County N.C. schools alleges that there is a system in place to put Black children, especially those with learning disabilities, on school suspension and when possible, in juvenile detention.

North Carolina Schools Face Complaint Of Racially Targeted Suspensions After Teen Is Needlessly Handcuffed

One of the latest cases included in the complaint is one of a teen who was handcuffed, tossed over a wall, and pepper-sprayed by a police officer…after simply cutting the line in the school cafeteria. As Huffington Post reports:

The students listed in the complaint include “T.S.”, a 15-year-old black student described as introverted and mild-mannered. His problems with school authorities began after he cut in line at lunch one day and drew the attention of a security officer, who grabbed his arm. When T.S. tried to pull away, the officer twisted his arm behind his back, pushed him over a 4-foot dividing wall, and led him out of the cafeteria in handcuffs, the complaint said.

T.S. was suspended for three days. When he returned to school, some fellow students assaulted him, knocking him to the ground and jumping on him, for reasons that aren’t explained in the complaint. The same officer who had handcuffed him three days earlier then pepper-sprayed his face. T.S. was handcuffed again, and ordered to appear in juvenile court and spend nine months on probation.

That was just one of a long string of similar occurrences in Wake County. Apparently, incidents like these are on the rise not only in North Carolina, but nationwide, as there is a steady increase of law-enforcement placement in public schools.

The presence of law-enforcement officers in schools throughout the country has grown in recent years, according to Nancy Trevino, a spokeswoman for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a group that advocates on behalf of students who are removed from schools because of disciplinary issues.

“What we’re seeing in Wake County isn’t something that’s exclusive to North Carolina, but more of a national trend,” she said.

Activists call it the “school-to-prison pipeline,” and they attribute its growth to fears of school violence.

“It stems from the heavy saturation of the public with images of juvenile predators and high-profile school shootings that started with Columbine and has increased since then,” said Jason Langberg, an attorney with Advocates for Children’s Services, a project of Legal Aid of North Carolina.

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Day 107 | Baltimore Families Speak Out Against Police Brutality at Maryland Black Caucus Town Hall

November 02, 2013 - Baltimore Families United Against Police Brutality attend the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus Town Hall meeting on "The State of Black Maryland"

Twenty-seven anti-police brutality activists attended the meeting, which included the mother of Christopher Brown, ex-boyfriend of George Booker Wells III, sixteen family members of Tyrone West, and a man who was beaten by some of the same officers involved in the death of West. 

After the moderator, Delman Coates, the Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, neglected to call on any family members who wanted to ask the panel questions, members began speaking out demanding that their concerns be heard. Four different family members made statements, and in response to each the Coates simply guided the discussion elsewhere, as to avoid any meaningful response from the panel. 

Coates' disinterest towards the experiences of these citizens "State of Black Maryland" is quite evident through his display of body language during Delegate Aisha Braveboy's (District 25) speech at the end of the video. However Braveboy's comments, in particular about opening the Law & Justice committee to the public so that together, citizens and representatives could draft legislation to address their concerns were appreciated, but accepted cautiously. 

Now Family and Friends continue to organize while waiting to see what members of the community, in particular, representatives, do to join the movement against police corruption.

Police brutality against black people.englewood

Fed up white woman goes off on englewood police,englewood ohio for falsely identifying her boyfriend and tazing him for no reason. See video on Beth Fox's facebook englewood ohio.

Cops harass and arrest a father for nothing

I got to tell the truth on this one. This is clear harassment of black men. Just about all of us have had this experience with the police. Why can't we live in peace and be left alone? I could understand if a crime was committed but to arrest a father in front his kids just to show them who's boss. Keep your cameras rolling at all times and know the law.

Cops arrest black guys in white church in Huntsville, Alabama

Joshua Chukwuedozie Ude and his brother, Chukwudi Udeh, along with a third friend visited Huntsville's First Baptist Church on Sunday. Shortly thereafter, Joshua is handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser, screaming in pain with mace in his eyes while the other two men are also detained, but nevertheless allowed to continue filming him.

What isn't on the video is whatever event precipitated their arrest. On the video the men can be heard protesting their innocence, and the police appear to try to arrest the men without resorting to excessive violence... at least in the beginning. One officer explains to the third man that they were trespassing on the church's property, disrupting a service by taking pictures, and wearing strange clothes. For their part, the church says the men were welcome, but clearly somebody called the police to report them for trespassing on a public church service.

The reality is that First Baptist is a white church close to a densely populated black neighborhood. Police, black or white, like elsewhere in the country, primarily employ themselves by patrolling areas with higher property value and reinforcing the social order. While people continue to argue about whether or not the police's use of force in arresting Joshua was justified, it seems very likely that the men did nothing to deserve being arrested except making some white folks uncomfortable at church.

Texas Incident Caught On Tape

A stunning incident of police brutality in Paris, Texas, was caught on tape and has led to ramifications.

Cornelius Gill was slammed up against a car in the town about 90 miles northeast of Dallas, and his friend was grappled alongside him.

Gill said of the incident: "It really hurt. I couldn't breathe or anything. I just couldn't believe he would do [that to] somebody like that."

Paris Police Chief Bob Hundley admitted that "the emotions and frustration got a little out of line" and said the department takes allegations of police abuse seriously. The officer involved was suspended for two days without pay.

Paris, Texas, was also the sight of state police breaking up outbreaks of racial riots a year ago.

Police man takes down two black males

This white police officer takes down two black males with extreme force which was not needed because if you look closely you can see the suspects were not resisting arrest or fighting at all.

BLUE ON BLACK CRIME - Police Brutality/Total Incompetence in the East Village 4/24/10 PART 1 of 2

Before you watch these videos you need to know what went down before the camera rolled: This teenage girl was unruly, loud, and having words with a woman and being disruptive on 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. When the police arrived she ran and got one block away with two officers in pursuit. They caught up to her and dropped her on the sidewalk. The two officers jumped on her, kicked her, cuffed her, smashed her face into the sidewalk, dragged her up and lifted the cuffs behind her back as to put pressure on her shoulders, her pants were falling down and they raced her back to the police car. She was crying and screaming the whole time. When back at the police car the two officers put her in the car and then pulled her out- this is when we began filming. As you watch note how many police officers, cars arrive. Note the tone of the officers as they speak to the young girls who arrive on the scene, note the panicky energy as they tell us to move back (they have a teenage girl cuffed on the ground, not a hulking brute) and you can see the non-"courtesy professionalism and respect", note the woman with a little dog in her hand instigating the young girls who are upset at seeing a peer in pain, this woman who is doing nothing but trying to rile up the crowd... A few others showed up with cameras and that made the police very aware and agitated. WHY WHEN SHE WAS IN THE CAR DID THEY NOT DRIVE HER TO THE PRECINCT TO DIFFUSE THE SITUATION OR EVEN AROUND THE CORNER? WHY DID 20PLUS OFFICERS SHOW UP FOR A TEENAGE UNRULY GIRL? WHY DID THEY KICK HER AND TREAT HER LIKE AN ANIMAL?

Police Used Occupied Housing Complex For Training Exercises, Firing Blanks & Detonating Grenades

ALBANY, NY -- Police used a poor, primarily-black neighborhood to practice realistic SWAT training, because it looked "realistic." SWAT members conducted mock raids on empty sections of a housing complex that had people living nearby. The drills involved police dressed in military fatigues, carrying rifles, shooting "blanks" inside the building, and detonating flashbang grenades and deploying tear-gas. Fake blood and shell casings were left in and around the living quarters. 

"We wake up to the sound the next morning of literally small bombs," said an Ida Yarbrough resident and state worker, who spoke only on condition she not be identified. "All you could hear was 'pop, pop, pop' of an assault rifle, police screaming 'clear!' I really thought I was in the middle of a war zone — and I have a four-year-old."

Police taser man dressed as Statue Of Liberty 3 TIMES for refusing to leave public sidewalk

FORT WORTH, TX -- A man was employed to stand on the sidewalk in a Statue of Liberty costume and wave to attract customers. Police wanted him to leave so that traffic would not be distracted. The costumed employee said he had a right to be there and told police to go talk to his boss. That's when police began tasering the man. The costumed lawbreaker got three electric shocks, one in the head. He also lost his job.