Did San Antonio Police Cover Up a Cold Blooded Murder By A Drunk SAPD Off Duty Cop?

Parents of a black man shot to death by San Antonio police claim he was shot in the back as he walked away from a restaurant drive-thru, according to a lawsuit.
Courthouse News Service reports that Jones’ parents have named the city, Officer Robert Encina, Quinonez Food service and John Burke, president of Quinonez and Chacho’s, in their claim.
Their son Marquis Jones was riding in a car driven by Fabian Garcia, with three other passengers, including Jones’ sister. Garcia’s car bumped into the car in from of him while in the drive-thru of Chacho’s and Chalucci’s, a restaurant in San Antonio. There was no damage and after Garcia apologized to the other driver, she went back to her car to wait for her order.
“Out of nowhere, defendant Encina approached Garcia’s car and demanded that he turn off his vehicle and get out of his car for no lawful reason,” reads to the complaint. “Defendant Encina searched and handcuffed Garcia and used inappropriate force on him. Jones, witnessing how defendant Encina was treating Garcia, became afraid and decided he would leave so that he would not be attacked by defendant Encina.”

The cop went on to shoot the fleeing Jones multiple times, killing him for no reason.

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/04/san-antonio-police-sh%ce%bft-unarmed-black-man-in-the-back-lawsuit-claims/

Dallas Police Officers Beat 62 Yr Old Man Based on False Claims, City Settles for Over $1 Million

DALLAS — The City of Dallas gave $1.1 million to Ronald Jones on Wednesday for his claims that he was beaten and falsely arrested by Dallas police  — and then spent 15 months in jail as a result.
On December 18, 2009, Dallas police got a call of two white men fighting in downtown Dallas.
But then Dallas police Officer Matthew Antkowiak saw Jones — who is African-American — crossing Reunion Boulevard.
"Mr. Jones is walking down the street. Doesn't fit the description at all," said his attorney, Don Tittle.
The officer claimed Jones was throwing beer cans, so he pulled him over to arrest him.
"From there, he pulls one of Mr. Jones' arms up very aggressively and Mr. Jones turns around to see what is going on and why was he being placed under arrest, and from there it goes,” Tittle said.
The officer took Jones to the ground and hit him a few times. The two struggled as more officers arrived.
Two dash camera videos obtained by News 8 show multiple officers on top of Jones; one officer is seen kicking him several times.
Jones' attorney his the 62-year-old client was crying for help.

In his report, Officer Antkowiak stated that Jones "...took his right hand and grabbed the officer by his throat, choking him and lifting him off the ground."
But take a closer look at the dash camera video; it's Antkowiak who is on top of Jones, choking him. 

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Dallas-settles-for-11-million-in-false-arrest-case-252564441.html

Innocent Brazilian Woman Shot in Police Crossfire But Police Drag Her Behind Car

Three Brazil police officers have been arrested after dragging 38-year-old Claudia Ferreira da Silva behind a squad car after she was shot during a shootout between police and suspects in Congonha, a shanty-town in Rio.
De Silva was an innocent bystander simply walking to work when she was shot.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Ms. da Silva had been hit by a bullet during a shootout Sunday between police and bandits in Rio’s Congonha slum. The three officers who “participated in the rescue” of Ms. da Silva were arrested on charges of “disciplinary transgression” as soon as authorities found out what had happened, police said, noting that a separate investigation could bring additional charges.”
The three officers threw de Silva into the back of the vehicle, allegedly to take her to a nearby hospital.  En route, she fell out of the vehicle and was dragged approximately 1,000 feet.
After stopping at a red light, the officers realized they were dragging de Silva, so they hopped out and dumped her back in before speeding off.
She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

http://newsone.com/2995010/brazil-police-officers-arrested-after-dragging-an-injured-woman-behind-squad-car/?omcamp=EMC-CVNL

New Jersey Police Caught in Blatant Lie By Their Own Dashcam Videos, Violently Beat Cooperative Unarmed Motorist

This particular case is very disturbing and shows how increasingly America is becoming a police state. As evidence of this, keep in mind that the current White House/Congress have attacked the habeas corpus part of the Constitution to where a citizen can be held indefinitely without a charge...

Marcus Jeter faced a years-long prison sentence.

The New Jersey DJ, 30, was arrested in a 2012 traffic stop and charged with eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. Prosecutors insisted that Jeter do prison time.

"The first plea was five years," Jeter said.

But after Jeter's attorney, Steven Brown, filed a request for records, all of the charges against him were dropped, with dash-cam video apparently showing what really happened June 7, 2012. Now, the officers are facing charges.

The video, which prosecutors say they never saw before filing the initial charges, shows Jeter holding his hands above his head.

"The next thing I know, one of them busts the [car] door and there is glass all over my face," he told ABC News station WABC-TV about the arrest.

"As soon as they opened the door, one officer reached in and punched me in my face. As he's trying to take off my seat belt, I'm thinking, 'Something is going to go wrong.'"

Jeter says the cops continued hitting him, telling him not to resist arrest.

"And when they open the [police cruiser] door, about to put me in, the officer hits me in the back of the head again," Jeter said.

The incident began when police responded to a domestic violence call at the Bloomfield home Jeter shares with his girlfriend. No charges were filed, and Jeter says he left after briefly talking to officers.

Police followed, trailing him along the Garden State Parkway. Dash-cam video shows Jeter pulling over and stopping on the highway shoulder.

The two officers pulled out guns.

Jeter didn't get out of the car. He was afraid.

"There was a cop on my left with a gun pointed at me, a cop on the other side with a shotgun," he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dash-cam-video-clears-nj-man-violent-traffic/story?id=22660928

Motorcyclist's Helmet-cam Videotapes Officer Misconduct, His Parent's Home is Raided and the Video Confiscated

That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes.

But it wasn't his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket.

It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later -- taken with his helmet camera -- of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore.

In early April, state police officers raided Graber's parents' home in Abingdon, Md. They confiscated his camera, computers and external hard drives. Graber was indicted for allegedly violating state wiretap laws by recording the trooper without his consent.

Arrests such as Graber's are becoming more common along with the proliferation of portable video cameras and cell-phone recorders. Videos of alleged police misconduct have become hot items on the Internet. YouTube still features Graber's encounter along with numerous other witness videos.

"The message is clearly, 'Don't criticize the police,'" said David Rocah, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland who is part of Graber's defense team. "With these charges, anyone who would even think to record the police is now justifiably in fear that they will also be criminally charged."  

http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/videotaping-cops-arrest/story?id=11179076

New Orleans Plain Clothes Officers Attack Two Young Men Viciously Without Cause, Walk Away

Updated: Feb 20, 2013 10:56 PM CST

New Orleans, La. - 17-year-old Sidney Newman and 18-year-old Ferdinand Hunt say they were hanging out together in the 700 block of Conti Sunday night after going to a parade.
Hunt's mother, an 8th District NOPD officer, was working nearby.  The young men say Hunt's mother had gone to grab them something to eat.
Surveillance video obtained by FOX 8 shows Hunt leaning up against the building while Newman sat next to him.
"We were just sitting there laughing and out of nowhere, I saw two guys grab Ferd," says Newman.
"All of a sudden, I'm on the wall. A whole bunch of people just came up and threw me up against the wall," says Hunt.
Those people were plain clothes law enforcement officers, nine of them State Troopers and one NOPD officer.  The two young men were taken down to the ground.
"I was scared. I didn't know what was happening. I thought they were trying to rob us," says Hunt.
"At that point another guy came up and grabbed me by my hair and he was on top of me. At the same time, I'm calling, 'Ferd.'  I'm asking Ferd, 'Where's your mother?'" says Newman.
Hunt's mother does approach and the two young men are allowed to get up.  Not long after releasing the two men, the plain clothes officers simply walked away.
"Why take a child or a young man that's 130 pounds and sling him across? Why not just walk up to him and say, 'What are you doing? What's your name or why are you here?' That's a human being" says Sidney's mother, Hazel Newman.  "I would hate to think that it was because these boys were young black boys. I would hate to think that."
State Police say any allegations of racial profiling are absurd.
The troopers were part of the Mardi Gras plain clothes detail. They say they were looking for juvenile violations, illegal weapons and narcotic activity at the time. 

http://www.fox8live.com/story/21192937/police-misconduct-allegations

Boston is Prying and Spying More on Citizens

Transportation officials in Boston, Massachusetts began outfitting the city’s metro busses this week with a $6.9 million surveillance system funded entirely by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
This week the city began installation of the high-tech and internet-ready cameras on 10 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority busses across the greater Boston area, but by summertime they expect to have a fleet of 225 vehicles totally equipped to monitor the activities of MBTA passengers.
Those cameras, a local CBS affiliate reported, consist of new 360-degree lenses that can be embedded in the ceilings and walls to “capture everything.”
“What we’re trying to do is make everyone on the bus work as an extra set of eyes to help report suspicious behavior or criminal activity,” Randy Clarke, the senior director of security and emergency management for the MBTA, told the Boston Globe.
But while law enforcement officers and MBTA officials may soon benefit from those extra sets of eyes, they won’t be given the benefit of monitoring bus ride conversations with additional ears: for now, the busses will be absent of any sort of audio recording devices.
That isn’t to say that the abilities of the intricate, DHS-funded surveillance system stops right there, though. Journalist Joe Shortsleeve of WBZ-TV says transit police at a downtown dispatch center will be able to tune-in to any live camera feed on-the-fly and remotely view all of the action from a computer system inside the facility. Officers of the law elsewhere in the city will be awarded similar abilities as well, Shortsleeve added, noting that 80 police cruisers will be outfitted with the technology needed to let those cops access video feeds while on patrol.
“It is pretty amazing,” MBTA Transit Police Officer Luke Sayers told the CBS station. “You pull up the camera system, then you already have a description of the suspect. He could be looking at the cameras as you are following the bus.”

http://rt.com/usa/boston-surveillance-camera-bus-602/