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a species that hires bodyguards to protect them looses
the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction


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San Francisco Homeland Security Agent Faces Child Porn Charges



A San Francisco Department of Homeland Security Agent faces child pornography charges after police say he had an elaborate computer set-up with more than 85 images and videos of child porn, according to KGO-TV ABC 7.

The investigation of Agent Gilbert Lam began in 2011 and ended last week.

“It was quite elaborate,” Esposto told KGO of the computer set-up. “His resources and electronic expertise he had. I remember being at the house and he had a whole closet downstairs, like he had his own independent server, several computers, several hard drives, electronic storage devices.”

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August 15, 2008

A retired NYPD sergeant likely helped three mob underlings whack a Staten Island jeweler so they could make off with a stash of precious stones, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The cop, Jason Aiello, 36, was himself shot and killed weeks later during a suspected "suicide by cop" episode, fearing that authorities were closing in on him for his alleged role in the murder.

Aiello's name does not show up in the indictment against Charles Santiago and Christopher Prince, both 25, and Anthony Pica, 29 - three suspected Genovese crime family associates busted yesterday for the armed robbery and murder of jeweler Louis Antonelli outside a Castleton Avenue restaurant.

Aiello, who sometimes worked for Antonelli as a bodyguard, remained inside the eatery during the shooting, raising suspicion that he was involved in a setup.

Sources said Aiello - who had spoken with FBI investigators a day before being killed by police - may have been included in the indictment had he still been alive.

Aiello was gunned down July 22 after firing at officers who confronted him when he took his wife and three children hostage outside their home. Aiello, who was in an SUV with his wife, fired seven shots at cops, who returned fire and killed him.

Antonelli, 43, was ambushed April 29 after he left the basement storage area of El Sabor Tropical restaurant.

According to the indictment, Pica and Prince cased the restaurant from Prince's Range Rover, while Santiago and another individual waited in a car parked nearby.

A surveillance camera captured both cars on tape.

After Prince signaled that Antonelli was walking out of the restaurant, Santiago and a fourth man approached Antonelli.

Santiago then pointed a handgun at Antonelli, squeezed off two rounds and ran off - leaving behind $260,000 in jewels and $9,000 in cash.

Antonelli was hospitalized but died from the gunshot wounds on May 12, 2008.

The fourth man, a cooperating witness, was not indicted.

The suspects all pleaded not guilty and were held without bail.

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DEA: Tennessee Sheriff’s Deputy Charged in Undercover Cocaine Bust


A sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee found himself on the wrong side of the law this week.

The Murfreesboro Post reports that Rutherford County Deputy Louis R. Parra-Flores, 36, was busted following an undercover drug investigation involving cocaine.

The DEA accuses Flores of attempting to deliver 7 kilograms of cocaine, the Post reported.

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DEA Tight-Lipped about Investigation into Prostitution Scandal in Colombia
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The DEA is refusing to answer questions about three of its agents who are still on the federal payroll despite their alleged involvement in a prostitution scandal in Colombia, the Washington Examiner reports.

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After 25 years on the air, COPS could finally be pushed out of primetime. FOX executives will be meeting shortly to decide whether to renew the controversial show. With its history of dehumanizing and racially inflammatory portrayals of people of color, COPS paints a damaging and distorted portrait of crime and the criminal justice system.

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3/21/13
Taser incident in Pittsburgh Following Complaints of Civil Rights Violations




The incident captured a national audience after a cell phone video caught Detective Frank Rende walking up to a man and pointing a Taser in his face.



The detective has a long disciplinary history, the Post-Gazette reported.

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Pittsburgh police road-rage lawsuit goes to jury
March 21, 2013 10:25 am


An eight-member jury in U.S. District Court must decide whether the city of Pittsburgh was at fault when then-detective Bradley Walker choked a Squirrel Hill man in a May 1, 2010, road rage incident.

Attorneys for Jarret Fate, 32, and for the city made their closing arguments this morning, with both sides agreeing that Mr. Walker should not have responded to a fender bender by grabbing the other driver by the throat, chasing him down when he fled and waving his gun around.

And they stipulated to 32 citizen complaints against Mr. Walker during a 17-year career that ended with his firing and subsequent criminal conviction on three misdemeanors following the incident.

"The city of Pittsburgh watched him attack person after person after person," said Josh Autry, representing Mr. Fate. "They put him back on the street, and he attacked Jarret Fate."

Assistant city solicitor Mike Kennedy said the city of Pittsburgh wasn't responsible and shouldn't have to pay.

"This was a purely personal incident for Mr. Walker," said assistant city Solicitor Mike Kennedy. "Our police officers are paid to keep the peace, to investigate crimes, to enforce the law. Mr. Walker wasn't doing any of that."

Mr. Kennedy told the jury that Mr. Walker was off duty and driving his son to work when the incident happened on a ramp from the Parkway to Oakland. He didn't identify himself as a police officer, and didn't arrest or cite Mr. Fate.

Mr. Autry countered that Mr. Walker asked for Mr. Fate's license, registration and insurance, used his city-approved gun to intimidate Mr. Fate and onlookers and then called his home station -- and not 911 or the station that covers Oakland -- to report the event.

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Did California police use a Taser on an unarmed, legless man in a wheelchair?

Why did police Taser wheelchair-bound Merced, Calif., resident Greg Williams?
Greg Williams



MERCED, Calif. — The Merced Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is investigating whether an officer twice used a Taser on an unarmed, wheelchair-bound man with no legs.

The man who was Tasered, Gregory Williams, 40, a double-leg amputee, spent six days in jail on suspicion of domestic violence and resisting arrest, but the Merced County District Attorney's office hasn't filed any charges.

Williams is black, and the two main arresting officers are white, but it's unknown whether race played any role in the incident.

Williams, who was released from jail on Friday, said he was manhandled and Tasered by police, even though he said he was never physically aggressive toward the officers and didn't resist arrest.

Williams said he was humiliated after his pants fell down during the incident. The officers allegedly left him outdoors in broad daylight, handcuffed on the pavement, nude below the waist. Williams said the Sept. 11 arrest also left him with an injured shoulder, limiting his mobility in his wheelchair.

A handful of residents in Williams' apartment complex said they witnessed the incident and supported Williams' charges. A short video clip, shot by a neighbor and obtained by the Sun-Star, shows Williams sitting on the pavement with his pants down, his hands cuffed behind his back.

A Merced police report, written by the responding officers, says that police tried to reason with Williams before the arrest, to no avail. The officers wrote that Williams was uncooperative and refused to turn his 2-year-old daughter over to Merced County Child Protective Services, among other allegations.

In the report, police also say a hostile crowd gathered as the officers tried to perform their duties.

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Retired LAPD homicide detective admits killing wife
Dan DeJarnette, who had retired to Hawaii, pleads guilty to manslaughter after bludgeoning his wife, Yu, with a jack stand for a car.

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Retired LAPD homicide detective guilty of killing wife


March 26, 2013

A retired LAPD homicide detective pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the fatal beating of his wife in Hawaii seven years ago, authorities said Monday.

Dan DeJarnette, 59, who was arrested at his Big Island home in May, pleaded guilty March 15 to manslaughter while under extreme emotional distress. He faces up to 20 years in prison in connection with the slaying of his wife, 56-year-old Yu DeJarnette, whose body was found in November 2006 on a lava embankment about 20 feet from the couple's home in Ka'u on the southern end of the island.

Police said he bludgeoned her with a jack stand for a car.

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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
March 26, 2013, 11:55pm


Dirty cops go down in Miami and New York, so does a jail guard in DC, and a Long Island dope squad's problems continue to mount. Let's get to it:

In Southampton, New York, drugs have gone missing from the police department evidence room. Crack cocaine, prescription pain pills, marijuana, and other drugs tied to a now disbanded Southampton Police Department drug unit are gone. An internal investigation is now underway. The drug unit was disbanded after unit supervisors, including current Police Chief Robert Pearce, allowed a member addicted to pain pills to return to duty with only a doctor's note. Prosecutors have so far dropped three cases where the evidence has gone missing.

In Washington, DC, a DC jail was indicted last Friday for smuggling marijuana and other drugs into the jail. Guard Jonathan Womble was arrested last month after a police dog detected the scent of marijuana inside his work locker while the dog's handler was going to the bathroom. Upon investigation, local authorities found that Womble had been working with another man, who supplied with drugs to be delivered to a prisoner. That man has been arrested, too. Womble faces charges of distribution of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin.

In Detroit, a former Highland Park police officer pleaded guilty last Friday to taking money from people he thought were drug dealers to protect their shipments. Craig Clayton, 55, is one of four Highland Park officers charged last year with accepting bribes, conspiring to distribute cocaine, and carrying a firearm in the furtherance of a drug crime. In a plea bargain, he copped only to a single count of conspiracy to commit extortion. He's looking at up to 20 years in federal prison when sentenced. The case against the rogue cops began in August, when two of them arrested a man for carrying a firearm. They beat him and stole his money and jewelry, then told him if he paid them money, they could make the charge go away. The Highland Park police chief received a complaint, and the man agreed to work with investigators. He then delivered $10,000 in cash to the two officers, who then failed to show up for his arraignment. Then, the officers agreed to help the man with drug trafficking, and that's when Clayton entered the picture. In January, he drove a car containing what he thought was two kilos of cocaine and accepted $1500 cash from an undercover FBI agent for his services.

In Miami, a former Miami police sergeant was sentenced last Friday to four years in federal prison for planting cocaine on a suspect, stealing drugs and money from other suspects, and lying about it to investigators. Raul Iglesias, 40, was convicted in January of eight counts, including two civil rights violations, conspiracy to possess and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, obstruction of justice, and making false official statements. He must also do three years probation when he gets out of prison.

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25 Feb 2013 at 6:03 PM


Mouthy, Gun-Toting Law Student Talks Back To Police Officer, Doesn’t Get Shot 51 Times
By Elie Mystal

I think I’m supposed to like this story: A man was walking along the street, enjoying a legal activity. He was stopped and harrassed by a police officer, and instead of giving in, he used his legal training to argue with the officer and defend his rights. Truly one of the best uses of a law degree is intellectually defending yourself “when they come for you” as it were.

Normally, I’m a fan of this kind of thing.

But the “legal” activity this guy was “enjoying” was walking around with a firearm. And his way of talking to the police officer sounded less like Atticus Finch and more like a punk &!@$#.

And I can’t shake the feeling that if this guy were black, if this was an African-American male strutting around with a firearm who then got mouthy with the police and refused to show ID, he be sitting in The Tombs right now.

Or the morgue…

Look, I’m a black man in New York. I know that I can get stopped for any reason or no reason whatsoever. In this city, they stop black people for carrying a backpack.

When I get stopped or have any interaction with the police, Elie the aggressive internet guy disappears and is replaced by Elie the guy who wants to live. I say “sir.” I make no sudden movements. I say “may I please reach into my back pocket and retrieve my identification for you, sir?” That’s right, when confronted by law enforcement, I’m Christoph Waltz, not Django.

But I guess the rules are different for white people. Check out this cell phone video of a guy getting stopped by an officer for walking around with his gun. The incident happened a while ago, but I’m just now seeing the video.

The officer here isn’t well trained and seems, shockingly, intimidated by the guy’s legalese.

But contrast the officer’s behavior here to this recording captured by a black guy named Alvin who was stopped for, as far as anyone can tell, walking around with a backpack. From the Nation:

In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, “You want me to smack you?” When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, “For being a @#$!%&! mutt.” Later in the stop, while holding Alvin’s arm behind his back, the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your fuckin’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the fuckin’ face.”

“He grabbed me by my bookbag and he started pushing me down. So I’m going backwards like down the hill and he just kept pushing me, pushing me, it looked like he we was going to hit me,” Alvin recounts. “I felt like they was trying to make me resist or fight back.”

Yeah, black guy with a backpack asks about probably cause, and gets threatened with assault. White guy with a firearm does the same thing, and the cop starts bumbling like an idiot.

And, unlike the situation with the black guy and the backpack, this cop had a pretty legitimate (if not legal) reason for stopping the guy. Let me remind you that he was carrying around a freaking gun. And this isn’t an isolated incident. In the very same city where this kid mouthed off to this cop, a guy brazenly walked around with an assault rifle a few days after the Newtown massacre. In both cases, these guys were taking advantage of Maine’s open carry laws, right after the Newtown shooting, apparently to prove some kind of stupid point about liberty.

Maine is so white they call the ice black. But I gotta think that if I was walking around with a weapon, there wouldn’t have been the same kind of respect for Maine’s dangerous gun laws. It’d be great if people in Maine pulled these stunts to illustrate that the law is stupid instead of menacingly glorifying their sense of liberty.

Not that I would be the one trying to prove such a point to any police officers in the area. I’ve decided to accept that there’s a double standard here. I don’t like it, but I’m leaving the “picking a fight with police officers about firearms” to the white guys in the audience.

Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F**king Mutt’ [VIDEO] [The Nation]

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Rudi Dekkers and the American Oligarchy
March 28, 2013 by Daniel Hopsicker

If you’re the kind of man who occasionally relinquishes the remote and “watches what she wants for a change,” you may already understand that there are strange and valuable truths which conjoin very different worlds.

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Texas Inmate To Become 1st U.S. Woman Executed In Nearly Three Years
January 29, 2013,
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Policing the police
Chronicling police oversight in West Virginia
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Troopers Association barred from State Police Academy
The commandant of the State Police Academy has contacted the Troopers Association to say the ...
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Troopers transferred; Was move political?
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Pack stepping down as State Police superintendent
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Princeton cop hurt at academy charged with sex bribery
Christopher Winkler solicited teen boy in parking lot, State Police say
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Jury says ex-trooper didn't force woman to have sex
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No one to call for help, woman testifies in trooper case
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February 28, 2011
Ex-trooper at trial: 'I made a bad decision'
Derek Snavely is accused of forcing woman into sex
Former West Virginia State Police trooper Derek Snavely testified Monday that he didn't force a ...
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Police associations backing oversight bill
The bill that will stop problem police officers from moving from department to department now h ...
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Ex-Pocahontas officer could get certification back
A former Pocahontas County sheriff's deputy whose certification was revoked after he drunkenly ...

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a species that hires bodyguards to protect them who are returning serial killers from the Iraq war
looses the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction when the bodyguards turn on them

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Former Pennsylvania state trooper kills wife then himself

By Brendan O'Brien

(Reuters) - A former Pennsylvania state trooper killed his estranged wife on Thursday before taking his own life in a Decatur Township grocery store, according to state police and local media.

Investigators said Mark Miscavish, 51, went to the County Market, where his wife Traci worked, found her in an upstairs office and shot her with a shotgun before shooting himself at about 10 a.m.

Traci Miscavish, 49, filed for divorce on Friday, according to Centredaily.com. Her husband was a state policeman for 15 years, the Web site said.

Mark Miscavish was arrested on January 23 after he allegedly assaulted his wife and threatened to kill her, according to Centredaily.com.

Traci Miscavish was granted a protection-from-abuse order while her husband faced charges stemming from the incident, the site said.

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Weekend Edition March 29-31, 2013
From Western New York, 1779, to Honduras, 2013
Honduran Cops, The Latest U.S.-Backed Killers
by NICK ALEXANDROV

Official U.S. support for bands of killers dates back to the nation’s inception, likely one reason H. Rap Brown called violence “as American as cherry pie.” The country’s founding father helped start the trend when he sent General John Sullivan to Iroquois territory in 1779, giving him explicit instructions “that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed.” “It will be essential to ruin their crops,” the Town Destroyer—as Washington became known—emphasized. Sullivan and his men brought their adventure to a close when they “skinned the bodies of Indians from the hips downward, to make boot tops or leggings,” historian Ernest Cruikshank wrote in the late 1800s, prompting a contemporary, John Watts de Peyster, to wonder “which were the savages, the Continental troops or the Indians,” in the situation just described.

Scholars today tend to remark only that Washington seems “more a monument than a man,” as Gordon Wood never tires of pointing out; Wood spoke a month ago at an event celebrating Washington’s birthday, beginning with the premise that the first U.S. president was great, and proceeding from there. Bertrand Russell once criticized medieval philosophy for assuming in advance it knew the truth, thereby avoiding genuine inquiry—still apparently a prerequisite for academic success, given Wood’s reputation.

The belief that indigenous groups wasted the opportunities the land provided drove policies of dispossession and extermination, the latter being the term Jefferson, Jackson, and other luminaries favored. Little wonder Hitler admired this facet of U.S. history. During the California Gold Rush, whites murdered and raped the region’s native inhabitants, some of whom had known there was gold in the area, without valuing it as an exploitable resource. What could the land’s rightful owners do with such people? “Why not annihilation?” Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum asked in an 1890 editorial, capturing the zeitgeist.

These assumptions about the right to control territories, and the obstacles blocking enlightened developers from achieving their aims, grew more expansive after the Native American genocide. As WWII drew to a close, U.S. planners outlined a system of “foreign missions throughout the world” in conformity with corporate aims. “We are colonizing to some extent,” Representative Eugene Worley (D-TX) affirmed, not quite doing justice to Washington’s plans to copy the British imperial model—“a good goal to shoot at, because they are the masters,” the American Maritime Council’s John E. Otterson argued, voicing views his audience, a House subcommittee, received well. After listening to Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle’s 1943 discussion of U.S. intentions to govern the planet’s skies, Representative Charles A. Eaton (R-NJ) asked him to “define for us the difference in principle between Mr. Hitler’s program to obtain control of all land and all peoples and all oceans and seas, and the proposed program now for America to obtain control of all the air on earth[.]”

One of Eaton’s colleagues clarified the distinction: the U.S. sought “world power as trustee for civilization,” while Hitler wanted it merely “for the benefit of a bunch of Nazi gangsters.” Any student of U.S. history should have been able to recognize the country’s pure intentions—and if, for some reason, the examples of Town Destroyer and the Gold Rush proved unpersuasive, the coming decades would further testify to its benevolence. In 1976, we see that Secretary of State Kissinger encouraged the Argentine government to carry on with its dirty war, in which the military “disappeared” as many as 30,000 people. “The quicker you succeed the better,” the Nobel Peace Laureate stressed, and by the late ’70s the CIA was bringing Argentine officers into Honduras, so they could teach their Central American counterparts what they had mastered.

Doris Rosibel Benavides Tarrius, a young psychologist, experienced first-hand the Honduran students’ aptitude. Security forces abducted her in March 1987, taking her to a facility where they raped her, and strung her up on a metal bar to shock her feet and breasts, in what was called an “airplane position.” A decade earlier, an Argentine mechanic named Marcos Queipo watched as military planes passed over the Paraná Delta, dropping mysterious packages that plummeted to the riverbanks far below. Horacio Verbitsky, an investigative journalist, learned about these flights years later, when a stranger approached him in the Buenos Aires subway. “I want to talk to you,” the man said, explaining he had helped prosecute the dirty war. “You’ll see that we did things worse than the Nazis,” Adolfo Scilingo continued, subsequently telling of how he pushed several thousand suspected subversives, each drugged into a stupor but still alive, out of airplanes. Queipo saw some of their bodies in the packages he opened, though most of the murdered have never been found.

The killings continue in Honduras, where violence targeting lawyers, human rights defenders, LGBT people, women and others has intensified since the June 2009 coup. Two School of the Americas graduates helped topple the democratically-elected leader that month, and Obama supported the ensuing presidential election, a farce the mainstream media would have ridiculed had it taken place in, say, Venezuela. Last fall, the Honduran Commission of Truth identified several patterns of repression endangering the public, which the World Bank never mentions in the summary of its “Safe Municipalities Project,” ostensibly aimed at promoting “citizen security.” One of the Bank’s real goals seems to be expanding the Honduran police’s reach into areas like Choloma—“a dustbin industrial mecca for maquiladoras,” as scholar-activist Adrienne Pine described it. Juan Carlos Bonilla, accused of extrajudicial killings, oversees the entire Honduran National Police, even though the State Department tried to claim otherwise, saying it directed U.S. funds only to vetted units outside his purview.

Allegations of death squad-style murders have been leveled at Bonilla’s men in recent years, indicating the Bank’s “security” aims apply less to human beings then they do to the current economic model, in which agribusinesses thrive, while displaced peasants are forced into manufacturing work. The situation brings to mind the Bank’s steady lending to Guatemala in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when the genocidal government was slaughtering Mayans to free up the areas designated for the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam.

As in the past, only an enlightened few seem to grasp the land’s enormous potential as a profit source. The rest pay for their ignorance, often with their lives. It’s an old story, but no less infuriating for that—and the trend’s deep roots in the past indicate a combination of radical thinking and enormous effort is required to end the system enabling it.
Nick Alexandrov lives in Washington, DC. He can be reached at: nicholas.alexandrov@gmail.com.

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Guy Banister was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on March 7, 1901. After studying at the Louisiana State University he joined the Monroe Police Department.

In 1934, Banister joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Originally based in Indianapolis, he later moved to New York City where he was involved in the investigation of the American Communist Party. J. Edgar Hoover was impressed by Banister's work and in 1938 he was promoted to run the FBI unit in Butte, Montana. He also served in Oklahoma City, Minneapolis and Chicago before he retired from the FBI in 1954.

Banister moved back to Louisiana and in January 1955 became Assistant Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department where he was given the task of investigating organized crime and corruption within the police force. It later emerged that he was also involved in looking at the role that left-wing political activists were playing in the struggle for black civil rights in New Orleans.

Banister developed extreme right-wing views and worked as an investigator for the Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee. He also published the racist Louisiana Intelligence Digest. Banister had a deep hatred of the civil rights movement and believed that the policy of racial integration was part of a a plan formulated by Joseph Stalin to create racial conflict in America.

Bannister claimed that members of the American Communist Party were involved in a plot to contaminate crops in the United States. He also told the Special Committee of the Arkansas State Legislature that left-wing activists were behind the race riots in Little Rock.

Banister was suspended by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) for an incident with a gun in a bar. His suspension ended in June 1954, but when he refused to be transferred to the NOPD's Planning Department, he was dismissed from the force. After leaving the police he established his own private detective agency, Guy Banister Associates.

In 1963 Banister and David Ferrie began working for the lawyer G. Wray Gill and his client, Carlos Marcello. This involved attempts to block Marcello's deportation to Guatemala.

Later Banister was linked to the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy. On 9th August, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald distributed leaflets that supported Fidel Castro and his government in Cuba. On these leaflets was the address 544 Camp Street, New Orleans. This was also the office of Carlos Bringuier, an anti-Castro exile. Around the corner from 544 Camp Street, located in the same building, was 531 Lafayette Street, which housed the detective agency run by Banister. This raised suspicions that Oswald had been involved in a right-wing conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

On the afternoon of 22nd November, 1963, Banister and Jack Martin went drinking together. On their return to Banister's office the two men got involved in a dispute about a missing file. Banister became so angry that he he drew his Magnum revolver and hit Martin with it several times. Martin was so badly injured that he had to be detained in the local Charity Hospital.

Over the next few days Martin told friends that Banister and David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to Martin, Ferrie was the getaway man whose job it was to fly the assassin out of Texas. He also claimed that Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol and had given him lessons on how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight.

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If you had your own volunteer civilian review board to set and enforce standards for your local police department
the board would need subpoena powers. As a voter and taxpayer you fund a system that is being run by the inmates.
Shame on you.



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Please understand that FBI agents organized the President Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassination.
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Justice Department to Review Case of Cops Who Framed Mentally Challenged Teen


Anthony Caravella, who is mentally challenged, served 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit in Florida, and the two Miramar cops who framed him may never see time behind bars, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

The case drew the attention of the Justice Department after a civil lawsuit ended last week in a $7 million payout to the victim, who was a teenager when sent to prison.

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New York Police Allegedly Pepper Spray a Five-Month Old Baby and Entire Family
April 3, 2013.

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Berkley Copwatch represents the 1st step in taking back control of your criminal
justice system. Created over 20 years ago by School Teacher Andrea Pritchett and others,
it represents a healthy model of what a copwatch group does.
Want to start one in your neighborhood?
Call Andrea and tell her I sent you.

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Lawsuits piling up on ex-trooper
Sat, 04/06/2013
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The lawyers representing clients suing embattled former Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Lisa Steed say it may be hard to tell exactly how many lawsuits have been, or will be, filed against her.

Steed, named Trooper of the Year in 2007 when she logged more than 200 DUI arrests, was fired in November after allegations surfaced she was falsifying reports on her record numbers of arrests. She patrolled Davis and Salt Lake counties.

In January, Salt Lake lawyer Rob Sykes, in concert with two other lawyers, including Ogden’s Mike Studebaker, filed a civil rights suit against her and the state of Utah on behalf of two of those she arrested.

Once the state’s lawyers have filed a response, the plaintiff’s attorneys will begin the process of having the suit deemed a class action suit. Sykes and Studebaker say they envision having as many as 800 people once arrested by Steed added as class action plaintiffs.

The suit is pending without date before 2nd District Judge Mike Allphin in Farmington.

The lawyers note, as has been reported in the media since February, that a number of their clients have been interviewed by FBI Agent Cameron Saxey, of the agency’s Salt Lake City field office. The FBI never confirms or denies the existence of an investigation.

As a subset to the civil rights suit, Studebaker has been filing post-conviction relief lawsuits against Steed on behalf of people convicted of DUI when they were sober.

Most of those are being filed in justice courts, where the majority of DUI cases are heard. The post-conviction relief suits name as defendants the town or county of the justice court, not Steed by name.

Because her name is not on them, it is difficult to track the actions against Steed, they said.

“So it’s hard to say how many have been filed,” Sykes said.

To date, Studebaker has filed 18 in Davis and Salt Lake courts. Recently, six of the suits passed their first hurdle, earning an order from a judge requiring a response by the defendants, meaning the suits are not considered frivolous, Studebaker said.

So far, Studebaker said, he has talked to 63 people who experienced a questionable arrest by Steed. In addition to the 18 cases filed, another 18 have declined to proceed with a lawsuit, and 12 already had their case dismissed, he said.

He plans to file 15 more out of the initial batch of 63 interviews, he said.

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Arrested East Haven cops’ paid leave tops $300,000

Sunday, April 07, 2013


EAST HAVEN — Prohibited from performing police work, four officers arrested in early 2012 after a federal probe into alleged racial profiling collected salaries, retirement payouts and stipends totaling more than $300,000 while on paid administrative leave, documents show.

Officers still accrued sick and holiday time, despite never having to take a sick or vacation day because they were not permitted to work.

They also collected uniform stipends, despite not having to wear them, rewards for not smoking, and one even earned a perfect attendance stipend for $400. These stipends are stipulated in their union contract.

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“Oh I’m Sorry… I Thought This Was America”
March 20, 2013

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Former DA investigator pleads guilty to drug charges
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Posted on April 9, 2013


McALLEN – A former investigator with the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office and another defendant pleaded guilty to their roles in a marijuana trafficking ring that was under surveillance by an ICE agent last summer when that agent was shot.

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TWO STORIES


1st story
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2nd story
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Feds drop 8 WVC PD drug cases as scandal grows

April 9, 2013



WEST VALLEY CITY — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah confirmed Tuesday it has dismissed eight drug cases involving the West Valley City Police Department’s disbanded neighborhood narcotics unit, as the FBI begins a probe into the department.

In a statement to FOX 13 late Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said it is still reviewing its cases involving the police department’s narcotics unit.

“As of today, we have filed motions dismissing eight cases. These motions, which have been granted by the court, were filed in the interests of justice,” the statement said. “Because there is are ongoing investigations related to these matters, we cannot comment beyond the information in this statement.”

The FBI has begun investigating the West Valley City Police Department particularly its neighborhood narcotics unit. Acting Police Chief Anita Schwemmer insisted to reporters on Tuesday it was she who requested the agency become involved.

Asked if she believed there were systemic and widespread problems with the department and the narcotics unit, she told FOX 13: “No, I don’t think so.”

“I think the FBI audit will bear that out,” Schwemmer said.

It came as lawyers for a police officer at the center of the growing scandal appeared before the West Valley City Council to ask the city to delay any action against him.

“The reason I am here is to encourage you to tell the police department to do the right thing,” said Lindsay Jarvis, the attorney for Detective Shaun Cowley.

Jarvis and an attorney for the Fraternal Order of Police, the officer’s union, asked the council to wait to take any action until after the FBI completed its investigation into the narcotics unit and the police department.

Cowley is at the center of the shooting of Danielle Willard during a drug bust last year and a series of dismissed cases involving allegations of questionable conduct. Jarvis told reporters outside the council meeting that her client is a “scapegoat.”

“What you’ll see, what will unravel in this FBI investigation is there’s issues associated with the custom and practices of this department and what they’ve allowed to happen and what they’ve trained these officers to do,” she said. “And now they’re pointing the finger at him for merely going forward with the advice of his supervisors.”

Asked about Jarvis’ claims, Schwemmer told reporters that narcotics unit detectives were “not rookie officers.”

Speaking to reporters, West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder said he believed the FBI investigation will provide recommendations for improvements and suggested “changes” when a new police chief is hired within the next four to six months.

“If there are areas where things are corrupt we want to fix that. It’s imperative as the elected officials of this city that we root out any corruption, that we fix any processes and we continue to give West Valley City Police Department the good reputation that frankly it deserves,” he told FOX 13.

Also on Tuesday, the West Valley City Council got a look at proposed changes to a civilian review board created to investigate complaints about police officers. The board has been criticized for a lack of transparency.

A proposal put forward by West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle would take oversight of the Professional Standards Review Board from the police department itself. The manager and city council would appoint members. Among the other recommended changes would require more public reporting of investigation outcomes — though the details of the investigations could be kept confidential, Pyle said.

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