Loss of Privacy

There are new questions swirling in the case of an IMPD officer accused in a deadly drunk driving accident. At issue: what were the cities two top cops doing the day IMPD officer David Bisard plowed into three motorcyclists, killing one of them.

The investigation continues.

From the Denver Post.

Denver officials are deeply divided over the proper level of punishment for a police officer who was seen on video tackling and beating a 23-year-old man who was doing nothing but talking on a telephone outside a LoDo nightclub.

The video of Officer Devin Sparks repeatedly hitting Michael DeHerrera of Denver with a department-issued piece of metal wrapped in leather, picking him up roughly and slamming a car door on his ankle has prompted Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal to push for the firing of Sparks and Corporal Randy Murr.

Rosenthal, who monitors police internal investigations, maintains Sparks and Murr are unfit for the force because they didn’t tell the truth about the April 4, 2009 incident. Rosenthal also believes the use of force by Sparks was excessive. The Denver City Council earlier this year agreed to pay $17,500 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by DeHerrera alleging excessive force.

In a perfect example of why stores should not check receipts, a deaf man is violently choked and assaulted when he unknowingly sets of the alarm of a Los Angeles Retail Store. The practice of searching customers personal property upon leaving a store has been a point of contention among some freedom groups. Why is personal property checked when the transaction has already taken place? Many American are refusing to “show the receipt” in a protest against corporate abuse of our civil liberties.

“This is what I know, The two guys who are deaf were in the Clothing store XXI and apparently they where shopping, Staff must have seen them do something to suspect them of stealing, but that doesn’t have any support or facts. Before I started filming. The Big Black dude in Jeans who mighta been a store detective jumps and tackles the large hispanic deaf guy. from there I remembered my new phone and turned on the camera,

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From the Telegraph:

Two police officers have been suspended after they were filmed smashing up a disabled man’s car while the terrified pensioner sat in the driver’s seat.

Pay close attention to the video. The woman is already past the cop when he has to turn around and push her.

You can read more about this incident here and here. The officer in question and the police department have apologized to the woman.