NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) -- A Louisville attorney says one of her clients was stripped naked and left for hours inside a Floyd County Jail cell and she said she has reason to believe it happens all the time.
Attorney Laura Landenwich represents Tabitha Gentry of New Albany, who was arrested and booked into the Floyd County Jail on March 30. After reviewing surveillance video that captured the actions of staff members during Gentry's incarceration, Landenwich says what happened inside the jail during the next few hours should be discussed in front of a judge.
She reviewed the video with WDRB in her downtown Louisville office on Thursday.
"This is 4:07 a.m., and this is an Indiana State Police officer that picked her up," she explained.
Gentry had been arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement.
"Almost immediately upon entering the jail, she's assaulted by four officers. They grab her around the neck, they grab her body," Landenwich said. The video shows officers then taking Gentry to what's called the padded room.
"They hold her down," Landenwich said. "There are two male officers and two female officers and they forceably remove her pants, her shoes, her underwear and her shirt and bra.
"Terrified and humiliated, she's banging on the door asking someone to give her her clothing and someone comes to the door and says, 'If you don't shut up, I'm going to pepper spray you,' and sure enough, they open the door, spray pepper spray into the room and they leave -- and they leave her in there for 40 minutes, naked, in a cell filled with pepper spray."
Landenwich says Gentry was then handcuffed and taken to wash out her eyes.
"She has a blanket draped over her shoulders, she's paraded through the booking area in full view of anyone who happened to be there," Landenwich said.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/25707898/woman-arrested-stripped-naked-plans-to-sue-floyd-co-jail
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
David Letterman Demands Gun Control, Attacks Second Amendment
The nearly four minute segment was little more than a ploy to attack the Second Amendment, with Letterman setting aside comedy in favor of asking loaded questions designed to make the audience believe that support for gun control is much larger than it actually is.http://www.infowars.com/david-letterman-demands-gun-control-attacks-second-amendment/
“Daily in this country, a child or an underaged boy or girl is shot and killed by a gun,” he said. “And then we had the situation in Santa Barbara, California where a fellow was unbalanced and killed people, then killed himself.”
“I certainly thought that Newtown [Sandy Hook] was going to be the landmark, changing, touchstone point in this country where we changed our understanding and awareness about gun ownership.”
Letterman then claimed that gun control would somehow “improve” gun ownership without “eliminating guns,” a common lie considering that gun control ultimately leads to the confiscation of once-legal firearms.
“People are shot and killed each and every day by private handgun ownership,” he said. “You can’t tell me that this isn’t an insoluble problem.”
Letterman also asked how the case for gun control is not “cut and dry.”
“I’m not anti-gun,” he claimed, “but for the love of Christ, when are we going to do something about this nonsense?”
It’s no accident that anti-gun propaganda is becoming more common on TV shows, movies and other forms of mass entertainment.
For one thing, the gun control movement did not originate from the grassroots but is rather a top-down movement bankrolled by powerful politicians such as former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg who want nothing more than to expand government powers at the expense of individual liberties.
Friday, June 6, 2014
Dallas Police Internal Affairs Abuses Power By Sabotaging New Recruits, Intimidating Veteran Officer
DALLAS -- A Dallas police manager is alleging that an internal affairs supervisor attempted to bully and manipulate his answers in an investigation of the department’s training academy.http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/dallas/DPD-manager-accusing-internal-affairs--261831591.html
Gene Hagen filed the grievance last month. He alleges that he was transferred to the auto pound after he refused to bow to pressure. He is retiring this month after 34 years in the department, including 17 years as an officer.
“Gene Hagen’s grievance raises some serious questions about the propriety of the DPD internal investigation of Dallas Police Academy training programs,” his attorney, Bob Gorsky, said in a statement. “Bullying and manipulating officers and civilians into providing manufactured statements that fit with what the command staff may be looking for falls far short of the integrity expected from an internal investigation.”
Hagen had been called to internal affairs to give a statement in an investigation of the department’s pursuit vehicle operations training program. The department is investigating allegations that a recruit’s score was “reduced improperly” and “intentionally altered,” so he failed.
The recruit was the same one that DPA officials had alleged the department was "attempting to circumvent" its own rules by letting the recruit keep taking the test until he passed.
Dallas Cop Pulls Over Law Abiding Near Deaf Man, Beats Him Outside Dashcam View For No Reason
DALLAS -- A man is suing the Dallas Police Department because he says his civil rights were violated.http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Man-claims-Dallas-police-officer-beat-him-for-no-reason-262199111.html
Dash camera video shows Albert Butler driving down the road after a trip to the grocery store. He abides traffic signals and drives safely, yet he is pulled over for an unsafe lane change.
“I didn't do anything," Butler said.
The video shows him waiting several minutes until Officer Brian Bradley orders him out of the car and then begins searching him immediately.
"He was not resisting," said Butler's attorney, Daryl Kevin Washington. "He was not being disrespectful."
The officer ordered Butler, who is 59 years old, hearing impaired, and has a leg brace, to the side of the vehicle. He seems confused.
Then you see the officer push Butler from the view of the camera. Butler says that's when the officer beat him.
Monday, June 2, 2014
FL Police Stop and Detain 11 Yr Old Black Boy w/Hoodie For No Reason
by April Taylor
A recent investigation by the Miami Herald has unearthed a Miami Gardens, FL police program that appears to be far worse than the notorious New York City stop and frisk policy. A Fusion investigation discovered that numbers equivalent to half of the city’s population have been stopped under the program between 2008 and 2013. Thousands have been arrested with more than 56,000 people stopped.
In an illustration of just how absurd the program is, police stopped an 11-year old African-American boy, who was on his way to football practice, citing that they had just cause to stop him as a “suspicious person” because he was “wearing gray sweatpants, a red hoodie, and black gloves.”http://naturallymoi.com/2014/06/news/fl-police-frisk-suspicious-11-year-old-wearing-baggy-pants-and-hoodie/
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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