"To Protect and Serve"- Not in Seattle....(Police abuse, warning Graphic)

[n2doc]

Raymond Nix was beaten so badly by police officers outside of a Denny Regrade bar that he nearly died four days later from a lacerated spleen. This photo was taken shortly after his July 31, 2003, arrest. (Photo provide by King County Prosecutor's Office) (February 29, 2008)

Anti-Crime Team has a tough reputation -- maybe too tough
Unit racks up most 'obstructing' arrests

By ERIC NALDER, LEWIS KAMB AND DANIEL LATHROP
P-I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS

Carl Sandidge and his cousin had just finished watching a movie downtown and were walking to a bus stop when an ordinary-looking white guy in a pickup truck yelled something about a flag.

His much taller cousin -- black, like Sandidge -- walked over to the truck to ask what was going on. The guy jumped out and grabbed him, throwing the cousin over the hood of the truck, Sandidge recalled.

Sandidge objected. He was pushed against a wall, received several electric shocks from a Taser, was forced to the ground and, while handcuffed, took a blow to the midsection, all 150 pounds of him.

At 5-foot-9 he has a body made more fragile to violence by the medicine he takes for sickle cell anemia, a potentially fatal hereditary disease.

It was his first scrape with the law in his 22 years. He was arrested for the gross misdemeanor of obstructing a public officer, as well as resisting arrest and assault.

It was also his introduction to the Seattle Police Department's West Precinct Anti-Crime Team, or ACT.

more:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/353202_actmain29.asp

Peter Brian's 'obstruction' arrest could be case study
By ERIC NALDER
P-I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER

A big issue at trial was just how Peter Thomas Brian got his head cut open -- badly -- while running from Seattle police officers in Pioneer Square that night.

The cops claimed he hit a wall. That version was in a use-of-force report written just hours afterward.

On the stand, the first officer to reach Brian that night couldn't explain the gash.

Another told jurors he got there too late to see the action.

The officer who might have seen the action best didn't show up to testify, despite a subpoena and dozens of calls from the assistant city attorney prosecuting the case.

A witness who was at the scene testified the cops hit Brian on the head with what looked like a club. A doctor who treated Brian said that was "far more likely" than the cops' version.

more:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/353205_actbrian29.asp

Blacks are arrested on 'contempt of cop' charge at higher rate
By ERIC NALDER, LEWIS KAMB AND DANIEL LATHROP
P-I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS

When Seattle police arrest someone for "obstructing a public officer," chances are nearly dead even they're arresting an African-American -- in a city that's predominantly white.

Once arrested, the accused could spend a night in jail, but the odds are relatively favorable -- as good as a coin toss -- that the prosecutors will drop the case, often as a result of a review the next morning.

In fact, African-Americans are arrested for the sole crime of obstructing eight times as often as whites when population is taken into account, a Seattle P-I investigation of six years of Seattle Municipal Court records and data found.

more:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/353020_obstructmain28.asp

[acmavm]

1. The 'Protect and Serve' thing is just a steaming pile pretty much

everywhere you go in this country nowdays.

[Solon]

2. More like: "To Punish and Enslave"...

Fucking disgusting pigs.

[margotb822]

3. Another step towards fascism

People will be less likely to object if they thing the police have authorization to beat them within inches of their lives.

And another reason to get rid of this corrupt administration!

[liberal4truth]

9. You won't solve the police problem with * gone. This issue has been festering for many years....

Which one is it gonna be, folks?

A false hope of "safety", in the form of more laws, more police and more prisons?

Or some return to sanity with LESS insane laws, LESS out-of-control police
and a prison population of LESS then 1 out of 100 Americans in the slammer?

And, NO, you don't get to have it both ways, folks.

It doesn't work that way.

So take your pick, and make it a real good one, because neither Hillary, nor
Obama, are going to do one damn thing about this long festering "COP" issue.

[margotb822]

10. A lot of it has to do with personality

Maybe we need to do a better job screening our police applicants in order to make sure that we don't hire the Authoritarian personality types.

[michreject]

11. Most get corrupted

after getting the job.

[seabeyond]

4. no longer a few bad apple, .... a rotten tree producing hordes of bad apples.... n/t

[gateley]

5. Thank you for this. nt Recommend.

[superkia]

6. I agree with posts 1,2,3 and 4 on this one. Its only getting worse.

Not only can they call for martial law if they please but now if our own officers and soldiers didn't agree to come after us all, they now have an agreement with Canada that allows their police and soldiers to come and help here during martial law. Now why would we need help during martial law when we have the soldiers we do and the amount of officers in this country?

Business owners can now use lethal force to protect their property and FEMA has already announced that all of their detention camps are ready for action is needed, you know, due to a possible huge influx of illegal immigrants? At least thats their reasoning.

The future is getting darker everyday and I hope that American stand together when iut happens in increments like you know it will.


First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

[ixion]

7. I was debating with another DU'er a couple weeks back who just couldn't understand

why cops get such a bad reputation.

Well, here's why.

[L0oniX]

8. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc

[lonestarnot]

12. Yell FIRE!