@gamer00 Has Offered Me 1000 Steem if I Can Post 1000 Stories About Racist Policing in the U.S. (pt 5)

I'm glad I am halfway done with this project. Reading, selecting, and assembling these stories has been both depressing and time consuming.
Honestly, I am not actually expecting @gamer00 to pay me the 1000 steem. If nothing else, it will be permanently on the blockchain, for everyone to see, that he is a liar that doesn't pay up when he loses a bet.

1. June 30, 2017 BOSTON -- A police officer has been suspended without pay for posting a racially offensive video online, CBS Boston reports. Officer Joseph DeAngelo, a four-and-a-half year member of the force who patrols the Roxbury area, admitted to crafting the crude video depicting another officer with the tag line: "This summer, black people have met their match." The officer was suspended for a year, though will serve just six months of that, for posting the racist video.
2. June 30, 2017 Atkinson, Ga. - A southeast Georgia deputy has been fired following accusations of sexually assaulting someone while on duty.
3. July 4, 2017 Bartow police are reviewing a claim of excessive force after a video was posted online showing a police dog being released on a man who was later charged with resisting arrest. Marquis Wright, 21, of Bartow, was approached at his home as police tried to serve a warrant on Wright's younger brother. Three officers are present in the video, which shows Wright on the ground. A K9 appears to bite the man, and pictures show several places where Wright's skin was punctured. "He is a musician, he coaches basketball in the community, so you can't paint him as some thuggish person that is uncivilized," said Pastor Clayton Cowart.Family says police had the wrong guy, that it was really Wright's little brother who violated probation. Cowart says the incident parallels what African Americans have experienced in cities around the country.
4. June 30, 2017 Nashville, TN: Phillip Wise, a Franklin police officer, was fired and arrested for harassment after he reportedly made death threats to someone via text message and voicemail.
5. June 29, 2017 Marlin, TX: A police captain was arrested by Texas Rangers for sexual assault against an undocumented immigrant woman.
6. June 28, 2017 Pinellas County, FL. - A Pinellas County deputy has resigned after offensive content was found on his personal cell phone during a separate investigation into an alleged extramarital affair with a corrections deputy. Shawn Pappas, 46, was employed with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office for 10 years before he resigned at the end of February. He became a corporal approximately 3 years ago. The content on his phone was racist, sexist and pornographic in nature. There were dozens of pornographic photos of women and offensive memes that were sent and received while Pappas was both on and off duty. One of the memes mocked the Women's March in D.C. and said "In one day, Trump got more fat women out walking, than Michelle Obama did in 8 years." Another showed a white child next to a monkey and reads "Stop Racism, black children and white children are the same." There were also memes sent that mocked people with Down Syndrome, gay men and American Indians. Investigators also discovered videos Pappas made while on duty. When Pappas was confronted about the content, he resigned from the Sheriff's Office. Investigators say they would have fired him, had he not resigned.
7. July 3, 2017 Millville, NJ: An officer is under investigation for a possible inappropriate use of force during the arrest of a jaywalker that put that man in the hospital.
8. June 29, 2017 Jason Rouswell, an officer with the Department of Homeland Security, was indicted Thursday and accused of violating the civil rights of the handcuffed man during the Oct. 20, 2016, incident, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
9. June 27, 2017 Fort Worth, TX: Fort Worth police officer Courtney Johnson — whose charge of aggravated assault by a public servant for shooting a man who was holding a barbecue fork was dismissed last month after a mistrial — has been fired, police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Tuesday.
10. Lansing, Illinois: An officer was video-recorded threatening to kill a teen he detained on his property while he was off duty. The matter is under investigation.
11. Detroit, Michigan: The City and three officers are being sued for needlessly killing restrained dogs during a raid on a licensed marijuana grower. According to the filing, the officers killed the fenced-in dogs because they appeared to grow impatient for animal control to arrive and take the dogs into custody.
12. Chicago, IL: Three officers were indicted for misconduct, conspiracy, and obstruction for allegedly working to cover-up the Laquan McDonald shooting.
13. June 22, 2017 Dallas, TX: Former Balch Springs Officer Roy Oliver is facing additional charges for allegedly pulling a gun out on a woman who rear-ended him. The incident happened two weeks before the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Online court records show a grand jury on Wednesday indicted Oliver for two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant. In May, Oliver was arrested and charged with murder. He allegedly fired a rifle into a car full of teenagers on April 29, killing Edwards. He posted bond and was released while the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office continues investigating what happened. Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson refused to comment on the indictment because she said the grand jury has not yet formally announced its decision.
14. June 23, 2017 Cincinatti, OH: A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury deadlocked in the case of a former University of Cincinnati police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man during a 2015 traffic stop, the latest in a series of high-profile law enforcement shootings that spurred charges but not convictions. The mistrial was the third time in a week that jurors weighing a fatal shooting by a police officer did not convict the officer involved, following acquittals in other cases. It was also the second time a jury has deadlocked considering this particular shooting. Judge Leslie E. Ghiz, speaking from the bench, read from a note sent by the jurors who said they were “almost evenly split regarding our votes toward a final verdict” and unable to reach a unanimous decision. The outcome came just days after officers were acquitted of deadly shootings in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and it concluded the second trial of Raymond Tensing, who was charged with murder after fatally shooting Samuel DuBose during a routine traffic stop.
15. May 2, 2017 Anne Arundel County, Maryland: The County was ordered by a jury to pay a family $1.26 million because an officer fatally shot their dog.
16. June 21, 2017: The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing police in Washington, DC, of violating the constitutional rights of protesters, journalists, and legal observers during mass arrests on President Trump's Inauguration Day. The lawsuit accuses Metropolitan Police Department officers of making unlawful arrests and using excessive force, pointing to the use of pepper spray, tear gas, and restraints that were so tight they reportedly caused one of the plaintiffs' wrists to bleed. "In the course of the roundup and subsequent processing of demonstrators, police held detainees for hours without food, water, or access to toilets; handcuffed detainees so tightly as to cause injury or loss of feeling; and subjected some detainees to manual rectal probing," lawyers from the ACLU of the District of Columbia wrote in the complaint.
17. Tucson, AZ: A 16-year-old Mexican teenager killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent appeared to be on the ground as the agent fired 13 of the 16 shots through the border fence in Nogales, a partial video of the 2012 killing showed Monday. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguezwas lying facedown on the ground and did not appear to be moving as Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz fired two of the three volleys that hit Elena Rodriguez in the upper back, upper arms and head, a video reconstruction by federal prosecutors showed.
18. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The officer who was recently acquitted of fatally shooting Terence Crutcher is being sued for excessive force.Terence Crutcher’s estate filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday that alleges excessive use of force against the officer who fatally shot him and racially biased policing against the city of Tulsa.
19. Alamagordo, NM: An Alamogordo Police officer’s public comments on social media have landed him in trouble with his department.Facebook comments made by Welles have landed him in hot water. It all stems back to a “meme” on a public Facebook page that shares images for laughs. In this case, the topic of the picture was marijuana and police. A man from out-of-state, who asked not to be identified, commented “F*** the police,” on the post. In response to that man’s comment, Welles jumped in the thread and wrote, “Wouldn’t mind collectin your head and mountin it on a spike,” followed by “ignorant f” and “…you are the dumbest fing idiot retard I’ve ever come across.”
20. June 10, 2017 Jacksonville, FL. - For the second time in less than a month, an officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office was arrested Saturday, JSO Undersheriff Pat Ivey announced. Ivey said the agency arrested Officer Timothy James, 38, who has had more than three years of experience with JSO. He is facing one count battery charges following an incident that started at a gas station around the 1900 block of Atlantic Boulevard around 4 a.m. A patrol sergeant was flagged down by an off-duty JSO recruit who said he had information about two individuals who were wanted in another jurisdiction. During this discussion, a truck pulled up and the JSO recruit said the individuals were in the truck. The sergeant called for back-up who ended up being Officer James. The officers made contact with the suspects, ran their backgrounds, then detained them after they got a "hit," Ivey said. Both the suspects, a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old were handcuffed and placed in Officer James' patrol vehicle. The 18-year-old was identified as Abel Campos from Orlando, according to JSO. First Coast News has chosen not to identify the 17-year-old because he is a minor.
21. Sweetwater, FL: Two officers charged with racketeering, theft and more officers may be charged. Allegations include acts of torture, including waterboarding. According to the report, prosecutors said that the officers displayed “disturbing pattern of theft and physical violence."
22. Lafayette, Louisiana: A city marshal has been indicted for perjury and malfeasance. Now a recall effort is underway.
23. August 31, 2017: The Georgia police officer who was captured on camera telling a woman during a traffic stop that law enforcement personnel “only kill black people” says he’ll retire amid the backlash.
24. June 13, 2017: Omaha, Nebraska: Two officers were recommended to be fired by the chief and two others were placed on leave pending an internal investigation into a fatal use of force, including repeated taser use, against Zachary Bearheels. Bearheels was subjected to 12 taser shocks, at least three of which were applied while he was not resisting. He was also punched repeatedly in the head.
25. Boynton Beach, Florida: Four officers were charged with beating a car passenger after a police chase. The driver, who was convicted for unrelated crimes, received a $600,000 settlement for the injuries he suffered in the same incident.
26. Austin, Texas: An officer was suspended 20 days for tasing a suspect who was not resisting arrest.
27. June 10, 2017 CARTERET, New Jersey: A New Jersey police officer is under arrest, accused of assaulting and causing injury to a teenager. Repeatedly punched, kicked, and cuffed following a car crash at Edwin and Bergen Street last week, criminal charges were filed Friday against a Carteret police officer accused of beating a 16-year-old boy. The teen's family posted pics of his injuries on social media and are now speaking out demanding justice. "I just wanted to get my son to the hospital as quick as possible," said Russell Stewart, the boy's father. "It looked like his jaw, head was broken." Stewart describes his 16-year-old son as good kid who didn't deserve a beat down like this. "He needed to be rushed to the hospital, and I was wondering why they didn't do that at the scene," Stewart said. Bloodied with his eyes swollen shut is how Stewart found his son at the Carteret Police Department last Wednesday after the teen got into a car crash. Stewart's son was being pulled over by Officer Joseph Reiman, 31, just before the accident occurred. Investigators say when the teen crawled out of the car, Reiman delivered a series of blows and eventually placed him in the back of a patrol car instead of calling for an ambulance. "I looked, he hopped out the car, he went on his knees, hands in the air, the cop just hopped out the car and started attacking him," said Richard O'Neill, a witness. Witnesses say the teen was screaming for help and other officers participated in the beating as well. "I'm hearing him screaming, 'please I'm sorry, stop, somebody help me,'" O'Neill said. "The conduct engaged in by this Officer Reiman far exceeded the force that was necessary to do anything, it's our opinion that there was no force necessary," said Eric Pennington, Stewart Family Attorney. Investigators say Reiman failed to activate his body camera, but the patrol car video captured most of what happened. That video along with witness accounts is now a part of an ongoing investigation by the Middlesex Prosecutor's Office who charges Reiman with assault and misconduct Friday. "I'm happy that the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office conducted the investigation with integrity," said Hassen Abdellah, Stewart Family Attorney. "I just want justice for my son," Stewart said. "I just want not to see things like this happen to anybody else's kid." Reiman turned in his gun and badge and is suspended without pay. The teen is now out of the hospital and recovering at home.
28. Harris County, Texas: A deputy and her husband were indicted for murder for choking a man to death outside of a Denny’s. She was off duty at the time.
29. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin: The County was ordered to pay a now-former inmate who was repeatedly raped and forced to give birth while shackled during her stay in the county jail $6,700,000.
30. June 5, 2017 Las Vegas, NV: Metropolitan Police officer will be criminally charged in the death of an unarmed black man last month outside the Venetian casino, authorities said Monday. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Kenneth Lopera was expected to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and oppression under the color of office — each count carrying a maximum sentence of four years in state prison.
31. July 21, 2001: Carlo Giuliani, protesting at the 27th G8 summit was shot dead by police in Genoa, Italy; the officer was tried, but acquitted on the grounds that he had acted in self-defence.62 other protesters were hospitalized (including three comatose) after a brutal night-time raid on the Diaz school where they were sleeping. In a trial that concluded in 2010, twenty-five police officers were convicted of grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest.
32. 23 May 2003: Ousmane Zongo, a Burkina Faso national, was unarmed as he was shot four times by a New York Police Department officer during a raid at a warehouse. Bryan Conroy was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to five years probation.
33. 1 April 2009: policing at the 2009 G-20 summit protests included the controversial technique of kettling. A bystander, Ian Tomlinson, died shortly after being pushed to the ground by a police officer. An inquest found that Tomlinson was unlawfully killed. An officer in the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Support Group was charged with manslaughter, but found not guilty.
34. June 12, 2017 Harris County, Texas: A deputy and her husband were indicted for murder for choking a man to death outside of a Denny’s. She was off duty at the time.
35. June 9, 2017 Fort Pierce, Florida: Two officers were fired for rules violations during an officer-involved shooting. One of the officers alleges ethical lapses in the department’s crime reporting.
36. June 5, 2017 Las Vegas: A Metropolitan Police officer will be criminally charged in the death of an unarmed black man last month outside the Venetian casino, authorities said Monday. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Kenneth Lopera was expected to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and oppression under the color of office — each count carrying a maximum sentence of four years in state prison.The charges stem from an early-morning incident on May 14 when 40-year-old Tashii Brown approached Lopera and an unidentified officer at a coffee shop at the Venetian. Brown was described as acting erratically and told officers he was being chased. But then he took off and Lopera ran after him — activating his body camera in the process. What his video captured — as did other surveillance footage — was Lopera, who has said he thought Brown was trying to hijack a vehicle, firing his Taser seven times. He then punched Brown and administered a chokehold once he was lying on his stomach. When Brown was subsequently unresponsive, CPR was administered and he was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. On Monday, the Clark County coroner and medical examiner ruled Brown’s death a homicide.
37. New York, New York: An officer is being sued for false arrest by a man who spent two years in jail awaiting trial for an attack with a pipe he was incapable of committing. He was acquitted of the charge, in part because he is missing several fingers on his hand due to a case of frostbite when he suffered when he was homeless.
38. Miami, FL: An autistic man’s family is suing the city of North Miami and four police officers, claiming the disabled man’s civil rights were violated.The police interrogation of Arnaldo Soto was released Monday nearly a year after the autistic man was taken in handcuffs to the North Miami Police Department. On July 18, 2016, Soto was in the street with his caregiver who was trying to coax him back into his group home. Soto had a toy in his hand, which was mistaken for a gun. North Miami police opened fire and shot caregiver Charles Kinsey in the leg while his hands were raised. After the shooting, Soto was taken to the police department and interrogated in a small room. In the video, you see an officer try to question Soto about the incident and it is clear Soto is unable to communicate. At one point he indicates he wants to have his shackles removed and the request is denied.Speaking to reporters on Monday, Soto’s mother and sister say they were deeply disturbed by what they saw on the interrogation video. “I’m heartbroken. I feel so guilty I couldn’t be there for him. I’m upset in this day and age they can’t tell that he’s autistic,” said Miriam Rios, Soto’s sister. “There is no constitutional right that wasn’t trampled by North Miami police on that day,” said attorney Matthew Dietz. Kinsey, who no longer works as a caregiver, is also suing the city. He continues to recover from his gunshot wound 11 months after he was hit in the leg. Soto now lives at a special needs facility in Central Florida. His mother and sister moved from their Kendall home to be near him.
39. Garland, Texas: An officer was suspended 56 days for uncuffing a suspect who had earlier challenged the officer to a fight and then beating him up. The officer was also recorded bragging about the incident. His partner was reprimanded and his supervisor was suspended for three days.
40. Auburn, CA: Two correctional officers and a Placer County sheriff’s deputy were arrested after an investigation into alleged excessive force at the Placer County Jail in Auburn, authorities said. Sgt. Megan Yaws, Deputy Robert Madden and Officer Jeffery Villanueva were taken into custody Wednesday morning, Placer County Sheriff Devon Bell said. The arrests stem from an investigation by the sheriff's office and the Placer County District Attorney's Office, which focused on allegations of excessive force against inmates while they were housed in the Placer County Jail in Auburn. Criminal defense attorney Kresta Daly said she represents clients who have made similar allegations against officers at the Placer County Jail in Auburn. "It's not surprising at all," Daly said. "It's more surprising that it's on tape. The abuse of inmates is chronic. It goes on inside every county jail."
41. Volusia County, Florida: A now-former deputy was charged with grand theft and steroid possession after he was caught stealing cash from a driver by his body camera.
42. Howard University (Washington, DC): Two officers were fired for dumping a hospital patient out of her wheelchair at a bus stop. Their supervisor was also fired for ordering the patient out of the hospital.
43. Gates County, North Carolina: A deputy was charged with sexually assaulting a female prisoner who was in his custody. He was also charged with obstruction of justice.
44. Five Inglewood police officers who fatally shot a young couple, firing 20 bullets into them as they appeared to be unconscious in a parked car, are no longer police officers in the city, Mayor James T. Butts said Tuesday. The announcement marked the end of an internal probe of the Feb. 21, 2016, slayings of Marquintan Sandlin and Kisha Michael, but it offered scant information about the incident, which has stoked protest and calls for greater transparency in the Inglewood Police Department. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office is continuing to investigate the shooting. “The officers involved in the incident are no longer members of the Inglewood Police Department,” Butts said in his statement. “The department’s report and any discipline that results from the report are confidential.”
45. MINNEAPOLIS -- A man whose interaction with Metro Transit Police went viral after an officer asked him about his immigration status is being deported, reports CBS Minneapolis.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say Ariel Vences-Lopez was detained for immigration violations on May 15. The day before, Vences-Lopez was captured on cellphone video being questioned by a transit officer aboard a light rail train. The officer asks Vences-Lopez if he is in the country illegally. The man who shot the video, Minneapolis artist Ricardo Levins Morales, interrupts the officer and questions his authority in terms of immigration matters. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers took Vences-Lopez into custody on May 16. Metro Transit Police Chief John Harrington said in a statement posted on the department's Facebook page that the officer who questioned Vences-Lopez had been terminated.
46. An NYPD sergeant committed murder when he shot a mentally ill woman last October inside her Bronx home, prosecutors charged Wednesday. The indictment of Sgt. Hugh Barry marked the first time since 1999 that a city cop faces a top homicide count. In leveling the severe charge — rather than just manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, as has been the case in other high-profile NYPD shootings — a Bronx grand jury rejected Barry’s testimony aimed at showing he had been justified in firing at 66-year-old Deborah Danner. The eight-year veteran, who is white, stood silently as his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty to one count of second-degree intentional murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the shooting of the black victim. He later posted $100,000 bond and departed without comment — bolting through an underground garage to a waiting car after the hearing. “Debbie had no reason to die, and the cop had no reason to shoot her,” said Wallace Cooke, 74, an NYPD retiree and Danner’s cousin. Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark had asked the state to impanel a special grand jury. At the time, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has the authority to probe police shootings of unarmed people, declined after concluding that preliminary evidence showed Danner was armed at the time. Bronx prosecutors said Barry had failed to get critical background information about Danner’s mental health and that he had disregarded his NYPD training “in dealing with emotionally disturbed persons, by rushing into Ms. Danner’s apartment.” Danner’s family blamed the incident on race. Cooke pointed the finger at Barry for mishandling the situation after a neighbor had called police to report that Danner was screaming inside her home on Oct. 18. When cops arrived, Danner was alone in a rear bedroom clutching a pair of scissors. Barry convinced Danner to put down the scissors. But he opened fire once she grabbed a baseball bat and allegedly rushed at him. It wasn’t long until he was publicly denounced by NYPD top cop James O’Neill and Mayor de Blasio. “The loss of Deborah Danner was a tragedy felt deeply by our city,” the mayor said Wednesday. “Now that the grand jury has made its decision, we have full faith in the district attorney to lead a fair and thorough prosecution.” Cooke told the Daily News he agreed the 911 call response for Danner was botched. He also suggested his cousin would still be alive if she were white.
47. Cleveland County, North Carolina: A deputy was fired after he was arrested for assault as a result of an armed, off-duty conflict with his neighbors
48. Northglenn, Thornton and Westminster, Colorado: The three police departments and three officers (one from each department) are being sued for a fatal drug raid that killed James Strong Jr. The plaintiffs allege that the officers blindly shot through walls and therefore needlessly endangered the other people who were in the house during the raid.
49. A jury has found Richmond Police officer David Cobb guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the 2015 shooting death of an 18-year-old Paterson Brown. He was found not guilty of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. David Cobb was originally charged with shooting and killing Brown at a car wash in Chesterfield back in November 2015. Earlier this week, Cobb took the stand, recalling the shooting. He said Brown would not get out of his car even when he identified himself several times as a Richmond Police Officer. Cobb also said Brown’s actions were threatening and said that is why he shot him. In the state of Virginia, it is against the law to use deadly force in defense of property. However, the defense claimed it was not about the car. Cobb’s previous trial ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury. The jury has imposed a recommendation of three months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
50. May 24, 2017 Clearwater, Florida: An officer was fired for excessive force after an investigation into his actions against a 13-year-old caught on video.

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