SNUFF VIDEO. SERIOUSLY NSFW

http://www.ktvu.com/video/18410140/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_K0PISpxx4

Haven’t heard lots of talk about it outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. On New Years in Oakland @ the Fruitvale BART (bay area rapid transit) Station some Oakland cops responded to a call about a fight on one of the trains. They have things more or less under control, then one of them pulls out his service pistol and shoots an unarmed youth who was already face down on the ground and handcuffed in the back, mortally wounding him.

I was standing where that kid got shot not a few hours before it happened. craaaaaaaaaazzzy world man.

Only two vids of the incident have leaked out so far because immediately after the shooting took place the cops went ape**** on the crowd and beat people over the heads with truncheons to get their cameras or video phones. No doubt they will be lost in the evidence locker as per Oakland PD SOP.

So, what say ye?

the first vid is best quality and rather creepy. the second is motion sickness waiting to happen until right after the 3 minute mark when the kid gets shot.

edit

oh yea, the fun parts.

1) confiscate all video evidence they can after the shooting

2) suspect had a weapon and tried to bumault an officer

3) ok, he was unarmed, but still tried to bumault officer

4)....ok, he was on the ground when he was shot but had no handcuffs, also, there was no surveillance tape from that station. only live feed which isn’t copied.

5).........oh ****, ok, so there are about 100 witnesses who saw it and a few raw videos, I guess we shot him with his handcuffs on while he was cooperating. also, there was a secondary feed we didn’t know about on a different security cam system that DID record. OOPS

This was the official line out of the Oakland PD office for the first 24+ hours.

Cheins Sanchez Posted:

It’s bull**** to die that young, I hope that piglet gets life in prison. But it will probably just be some leave and a slap on the wrist.

I’m happy though. This has proven that technology has advanced in a meaningful way, and will continue to do so. What now?

EDIT- You would figure that the police in San Fransico would be a little more relaxed.

EDIT EDIT- I missed the part where it says “Oakland” my extra chromosome is to blame.

SF police are about as bad as LAPD in terms of bat**** insane and racism, you should see how they deal with the poor bastards who live in Hunters Point or The Tenderloin. I once had a SF pig in uniform threaten to shoot me while fondling his holstered gun because he didn’t like me. That being said, Oakland cops (which is only a 20 minute drive away) are far worse. They shoot first and ask questions later.

Granted Oaktown is an utter ****hole, but the cops do nothing to change that, they only aggravate and escalate.

Cheins Sanchez Posted:

What now?

Get as many sons and guns as you can.

Realize that the primary purpose of the police is not to ‘protect and serve’

Also: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865

Honestly, I hear about **** like this happening all the time around here. The only thing that makes this special is that there is irrefutable video evidence of what transpired. I guarantee you if that person wasn’t shooting film on that train this whole thing would have just been a minor blurb on the news “police shoot gang member in latest crackdown, war on gang violence in the East Bay gains new ground as more arrests are made.”

That’s how it goes.

The job of a police officer is both simple and complex. Enforce the law. I have only seen two types of cops in my day. There are the modern day knights, and there are the pigs. The best way to kill of the pigs is to protect our civl liberties. And while we don’t have senators in our pockets, we at least have our pretty skulls and our shiny toys. I don’t like guns.

Cheins Sanchez Posted:

The job of a police officer is both simple and complex. Enforce the law. I have only seen two types of cops in my day. There are the modern day knights, and there are the pigs. The best way to kill of the pigs is to protect our civl liberties. And while we don’t have senators in our pockets, we at least have our pretty skulls and our shiny toys. I don’t like guns.

I’m not a fan of guns for the sake of having guns. I like guns because I trust the average person on the street with one a helluva lot more than some bumhole with a badge or a uniform that can do virtually no wrong in the eyes of the law unless they cross the line by a mile.

Drunkenlazybastard Posted:

In my experience the vast majority would fall into the former catagory. ****stain losers on a power trip. I may disagree with the social role the police play in American society, but I do honestly have respect for the few who try to discharge their duties in an honest way and have taken on the job because they believe they are helping people.

What we as Americans need to do then is to find ways hold police responsible for this kind of bull****. I live in Arizona, and the sheriff of maricopa county is worshipped for being a male reproductive organlip.

Drunkenlazybastard Posted:

Hahaha, oh god. Joe Arpaio (sp?) ???. That nut job is the last thing we need as being an example of what works. If he had his way anyone committing a crime worse than possession of one joint would get the chair.

I know. Check this out.

“You probably know him as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” a name given to him years ago by the media. It’s a name he certainly has earned as head of the nation’s third largest Sheriff’s Office which employs over 3000 people. But even before he became Sheriff in 1993, Joe Arpaio was one tough lawman. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1953, and as a Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, NV, police officer for almost five years, Arpaio went on to build a federal law enforcement career and a reputation for fighting crime and drug trafficking around the world.

He began his career as a federal narcotics agent, establishing a stellar record in infiltrating drug organizations from Turkey to the Middle East to Mexico, Central, and South America to cities around the U.S. His expertise and success led him to top management positions around the world with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He concluded his remarkable 32-year federal career as head of the DEA for Arizona.

In 1992 Arpaio successfully campaigned to become the Sheriff of Maricopa County. Since then he has been reelected to an unprecedented four 4-year terms. During his tenure as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arpaio has consistently earned extraordinarily high public approval ratings.

With over four decades experience in law enforcement, Arpaio knows what the public wants, “The public is my boss,” he says, “so I serve the public.” He has served them well by establishing several unique programs.

Arpaio has over 10,000 inmates in his jail system. In August, 1993, he started the nation’s largest Tent City for convicted inmates. Two thousand convicted men and women serve their sentences in a canvas incarceration compound. It is a remarkable success story that has attracted the attention of government officials, presidential candidates, and media worldwide.

Of equal success and notoriety are his chain gangs, which contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to the community. The male chain gang, and the world’s first-ever female and juvenile chain gangs, clean streets, paint over graffiti, and bury the indigent in the county cemetery.

Also impressive are the Sheriff’s get tough policies. For example, he banned smoking, coffee, movies, pornographic magazines, and unrestricted TV in all jails. He has the cheapest meals in the U.S. too. The average meal costs about 15 cents, and inmates are fed only twice daily, to cut the labor costs of meal delivery. He even stopped serving them salt and pepper to save tax payers $20,000 a year.

Another program Arpaio is very wellknown for is the pink under shorts he makes all inmates wear. Years ago, when the Sheriff learned that inmates were stealing jailhouse white boxers, Arpaio had all inmate underwear dyed pink for better inventory control. The same is true for the Sheriff’s handcuffs. When they started disappearing, he ordered pink handcuffs as a replacement. And later, when the Sheriff learned the calming, psychological effects of the color pink—sheets, towels, socks— everything inmates wear, except for the old-fashioned black and white striped uniform, were dyed pink.

Arpaio has started another controversial program, the website WWW.MCSO.org, so that all those arrested (about 300 per day) are recorded on the Sheriff’s website as they are booked and processed into jail. Just under a million hits daily come into the website, making it one of the most visible law enforcement sites on the World Wide Web.

In addition to these tough measures, the Sheriff has launched rehabilitative programs like “Hard Knocks High,” the only accredited high school under a Sheriff in an American jail, and ALPHA, an anti-substance-abuse program that has greatly reduced recidivism.

As chief law enforcement officer for the county, Arpaio continues to reduce crime with hard-hitting enforcement methods. His deputies and detectives have solved several high-profile murder cases, including nine child murders. The posse, whose ranks have increased to 3,000 members under Arpaio, is the nation’s largest volunteer posse. Posse men and women help in search and rescue and other traditional police work as well as in special operations like rounding up deadbeat parents, fighting prostitution, patrolling malls during holidays, and investigating animal cruelty complaints. The posse’s contributions are invaluable and essentially free to taxpayers.

No wonder Sheriff Arpaio has been profiled in over 2,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers, magazines, and TV news programs. His leadership and the excellent work of his staff have catapulted the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office into the ranks of elite law enforcement agencies.

On a personal note, Sheriff Arpaio and his wife Ava have been married for over 48 years and have two children, both residing in the Phoenix area. The Arpaios have four grandchildren.

Arpaio looks forward to many more years as Sheriff of Maricopa County.”

He has cost taxpayers 41 million in lawsuits. People die every year in his ****ing gulags.

He almost violates the constitution of the United States. On his website:

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“See people who have been arrested in the past 3 days.”

CAMPOS, ANTONIO #P498595

Booked: 01-04-2009

Sex: MALE

Race: HISPANIC

D.O.B: 02-24-1971

Height: 5’06

Weight: 150

Eye: BLACK

Hair BROWN

In Custody For:

003 FELONY COUNT OF AGG DUI-LIC SUSP/REV FOR DUI

GRANADOS, LUPE THERESA #P498416

Booked: 01-04-2009

Sex: FEMALE

Race: HISPANIC

D.O.B: 04-30-1982

Height: 5’02

Weight: 170

Eye: BROWN

Hair BROWN

In Custody For:

001 FELONY COUNT OF AGG DUI-LIC SUSP/REV FOR DUI

LOPEZ-RIVAS, LUIS ENRIQUE #P498403

Booked: 01-04-2009

Sex: MALE

Race: HISPANIC

D.O.B: 04-19-1978

Height: 5’11

Weight: 185

Eye: BROWN

Hair BLACK

In Custody For:

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF FAILURE TO PAY FINE, FEES

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF DUI-LIQUOR/DRUGS/VAPORS/COMBO

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF DUI W/BAC OF .08 OR MORE

MARTINEZ, MICHAEL #P498412

Booked: 01-04-2009

Sex: MALE

Race: HISPANIC

D.O.B: 07-24-1972

Height: 5’11

Weight: 250

Eye: BROWN

Hair BROWN

In Custody For:

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF DUI-LIQUOR/DRUGS/VAPORS/COMBO

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF DUI W/BAC OF .08 OR MORE

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF EXTREME DUI-BAC .15 OR MORE

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF bumAULT-TOUCHED TO INJURE

MIGUEL, MICHELLE LYNETTE #P498488

Booked: 01-04-2009

Sex: FEMALE

Race: AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKAN NATIVE

D.O.B: 07-07-1973

Height: 5’00

Weight: 190

Eye: BROWN

Hair BLACK

In Custody For:

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF DUI-LIQUOR/DRUGS/VAPORS/COMBO

MORALES-LUCAS, JAIRON E #P498503

Booked: 01-04-2009

Sex: MALE

Race: HISPANIC

D.O.B: 08-29-1986

Height: 5’06

Weight: 135

Eye: BROWN

Hair BLACK

In Custody For:

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF DUI-LIQUOR/DRUGS/VAPORS/COMBO

001 MISDEMEANOR COUNT OF LIQUOR-POSS OPEN CONT IN VEH

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Let’s forget that people in this country are innocent until proven guilty, or that Maricopa pigs make Keystone look like Berkley.

He posts **** like this on his website.

God, I live in Maricopa county, I hate Arpaio so much, I voted against him in November. He won by a landslide still. Log in to see images!

Also to address the video, I wish people would have just mobbed the guy like in V for Vendetta when the cop shoots the girl.

BLOOD ON ARPAIO’S HANDS

Imagine you are the mother of a mentally handicapped thirty-three-year-old-man. Your son functions on the level of a twelve-year-old boy. His disability often causes him to act erratically, but you still hope that one day, he can lead a normal life. One night in August, 2001, he is arrested on a misdemeanor loitering charge when he begins acting strangely in a convenience store. When officers arrive to arrest him, he is clinging to the store’s coffee machine and won’t let go. Four officers forcibly remove him from the store, handcuff him, and throw him to the ground to be hogtied. The force seems excessive, since your son is disabled and only weighs about a hundred and thirty pounds. A few minutes later, his limbs bound behind his tiny frame, officers load him into the squad car to take him away. Before they pull away, your son asks you, like a little kid:

“Mom, will you ride in the car with me?”

“I can’t,” you tell him, “the police won’t let me.”

You figure that the police will probably hold your son overnight, and you head home to get some rest.

Two hours later, your son is dead.

When Charles Agster arrives at Madison Street Jail, he is confused, as is typical of his condition. He tries to wriggle underneath a bench, and although he is still hogtied, three or more officers and a sheriff’s deputy jump on him, punch him, and knee him in the side. One officer grips his face, pressing upward toward his chin. Although he is now unresponsive, the officers drag him, face down, into the Intake area and strap him into a restraint chair. They place a spit-hood over his head, encasing him in darkness. Minutes later, he stops breathing. The original autopsy lists “positional asphyxia due to restraint” as his cause of death.

Videotape of the incident shows guards trying to resuscitate Agster, but he’s already brain dead. A 2002 Amnesty International report expresses concern “that the degree of force used against Agster was grossly disproportionate to any threat posed by him.”

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Forty-year-old Brian Crenshaw was serving a short sentence for shoplifting. Although Crenshaw had been in and out of jail for years and had a drug problem, he had never been accused of a violent crime. He was also legally blind. After an altercation with officers, Crenshaw reported injuries to jail medical personnel. His eye and nose were sutured, and his vitals were taken. Crenshaw stated that he was pushed to the wall, punched and kicked by officers. Apparently, the struggle ensued when Crenshaw refused to show his ID in a lunch line. Due to the altercation, Crenshaw was placed in lockdown.

For the next six days, nobody entered or left his cell. On March 14, Crenshaw was found unconscious next to his bunk. He had a broken neck, several broken toes, and extensive internal injuries. He was comatose, his intestines had ruptured, and his vertebrae needed to be straightened with a halo. Doctors told Crenshaw’s mother that his internal injuries were so severe they had to surgically open his stomach to relieve swelling. The sheriff’s office bumerts that Crenshaw’s struggle with guards did not cause the injuries that led to his death. Despite the severity of Crenshaw’s injuries, the sheriff’s office maintains that these injuries were incurred when he fell from his bunk.

On a CBS 5 program after the incident, interviewer Chris Hayes asks Arpaio, “Is it possible your guards beat Brian Crenshaw to death?

“Is it possible?” Arpaio sneers. After an uncomfortable pause, he continues, “No, they did not, they did not, and if that’s what your critics, or that you’re insinuating we went into that cell block and beat him up and threw him to the floor is ridiculous. We did a thorough investigation on that. The man fell off a bunk.”

Crenshaw’s bunk was 4’2” high, about a foot shorter than a child’s bunk bed , or as Chris Hayes pointed out in his investigation, a little taller than a desk.

You don’t have to be a softy or an advocate of prisoners’ rights to become outraged at reports like these. We all want a sheriff who is tough on crime—and we don’t want our tax dollars to be spent on luxurious accommodations for inmates. Rest bumured, the conditions in Maricopa County’s jails aren’t lavish, comfortable, or even tolerable. The temperatures inside Tent City often reach 120 degrees in the summer, and with only four guards for every thousand prisoners, Arpaio is cutting dangerous corners and endangering both inmates and detention officers. The sheriff brags that he spends more money feeding police dogs than he does inmates. The dogs, he argues, deserve better, since they haven’t done anything illegal. What’s important to remember is that Tent City doesn’t just house hardened criminals—it also houses people who are awaiting trial; people who haven’t been convicted or even accused of any crime. One young man spent four years in Arpaio’s jails before being released—and acquitted on all charges. Arpaio boasts that he’s saving money by keeping inmates in these conditions, but the cost of humiliating inmates is beginning to skyrocket.

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Phillip Wilson, 40, was beaten to death by inmates. When officers returned the contents of Phillip’s wallet to his mother, family photographs, his identification, and other personal items were missing. What she got instead was his Fry’s card and a handful of old receipts. Officers gave his mother a number of different explanations for the bumault. They claimed that Phillip owed money to other inmates who attacked him in retaliation. Maricopa County officials have failed to produce any evidence to substantiate this claim. They also suggested that Phillip was murdered in an aggressive attempt to steal his onyx ring, which would have been taken from him when he was processed in the intake area. The ring was never returned to the family. Robert Butler died in a restraint-chair related incident. Charles Ward’s body was removed from the Durango Jail a few hours before country crooner Glen Campbell started his set. Campbell had been picked up on a DUI, and received star treatment. He was allowed his own private cell in a Mesa jail. Apparently, Arpaio’s tough-on-crime, tough-on-inmates doesn’t apply to celebrities. Men and women have died and will continue to die in Arpaio’s dungeons as long as he is in office.

The cost of all these lives lost has been immense for the families of the victims. Unfortunately, all this blood comes with a bill, too, and it’s tens of millions of dollars. So the next time Joe brags about how much money he’s saving us by cramming inmates into his sweltering dungeons where they eat green bologna, Consider this: when all of the cases pending against Arpaio settle, the wrongful death suits may have cost Maricopa County taxpayers more than fifty million dollars, and will continue to cost us even long after he’s out of office after these cases progress. In fact, the debt Joe has straddled us with may well be his biggest legacy. It’s probably an easier pill to swallow if you’re in an air-conditioned penthouse in downtown Phoenix, but for Maricopa County taxpayers, the effects can be devastating. Currently, Arpaio is listed as the defendant in over fifteen hundred cases. Maricopa County taxpayers shouldn’t have to keep paying for the blood on Joe’s hands.