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Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:46 am**

dont know if this has been seen here... (sorry, the only link to vid i can find is on sternfannetwork.com)

video:

http://www.sternfannetwork.com/forum/sh ... did=432980

article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... QD96KR7B80

...In the video, a deputy kicks the girl, pushing her back toward the wall. The deputy then strongly backs the girl against the wall and slams her to the floor by grabbing her hair. A second deputy enters the holding cell, while the first deputy holds the girl face down to the floor. The first deputy appears to hit the girl with his hands. The girl is then lifted up and led out of the cell while the first deputy holds her hair...

charming fellows

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:58 pm**

I saw this yesterday c/o Raw Replay which was cited by sumbody in the recommended video thread re: another topic.

here it is:
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=3028

What really got me, beyond the deputy erupting in a violent attack apparently in response to her foot-tossing her left flip-flop at the deputy, possibly accompanied by an unheard (no audio) insult/put-down as she stands holding her elbows in a totally non-threatening pose -- was the deputy delivering two looping head-punches as she's on the floor with him sitting on her back and the other deputy is holding her left-wrist, prep to handcuffing her. Total overwhelming use of physical force, but apparently justified because she technically assaulted the officer with her flip-flop.

That's a felony, eh?

Silly girl.

It's a wonder if they don't charge her as an unlawful combatant.

This might go viral on youtube.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:16 pm**

I wonder how many departments test their officers for steroids?

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:22 pm**

From my neighbourhood. A native kid, too, Ojibwe or Cree.

Police Sued after Teen Girl Tasered

By Linda Nguyen, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 2, 2009

The father of a 14-year-old girl who was Tasered while inside a jail cell with two Ontario Provincial Police officers last summer has launched a $500,000 lawsuit against the province’s police force.

The girl, who is identified in court papers only as Jane Doe, was hit once in the leg “for three to five seconds” with a Taser inside the OPP detachment in Sioux Lookout, Ont., about 400 kilometres north of Thunder Bay.

The family’s lawyer, Jeff Roberts, told Canwest News Service on Monday that the girl was taken to the hospital for burn marks after the incident on July 10, 2008. The lawsuit claims that the girl was “left traumatized” when her leg went numb for a month.

More information was expected at a news conference scheduled for Tuesday.

Roberts said the two officers used the conductive energy device after the girl had been “sporadically peeling paint from the walls of her jail cell.” The lawsuit said she “remained motionless for nearly an hour.”

The girl, who is from the nearby Lac Seul First Nation, had initially been arrested the previous night for being drunk and disorderly. She eventually pleaded guilty to the charge.

“Police describe her as a dangerous girl. It’s not true.” Roberts said. “She has a cognitive impairment and her emotional responses have been stunted. She’s not a bad kid.”

The lawsuit claims police used unnecessary force to subdue the girl, after giving her only one warning.

It’s seeking $250,000 in response to negligence, assault and battery allegations. It’s also seeking $250,000 for punitive damages, an opportunity for the courts “to send a message,” Roberts said. It also is calling for an order to ban the weapon from being used on minors, except in life-threatening situations.

The lawsuit lists the OPP and the two officers - Mark Zappitelli and Andrew Hampson - as defendants.

None of the allegations has been proven in court.

OPP spokesman Insp. Dave Ross said Monday the force was not contesting that the girl had been Tasered, but that the OPP’s professional-standards bureau completed an investigation in December 2008 and cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.

“The OPP investigation was a result of a public complaint,” he said from OPP headquarters in Orillia, Ont. “The matter was unsubstantiated. The complainants are able to appeal the decision to the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services. I’m not sure whether they have done that.”

Ross said Tasers were only used by specially trained officers in situations “dealing with a dangerous or unstable individual.”

The conductive energy devices were only deployed in the interest of public safety, the safety of the officers, or the person in police custody, he added.

“As you recognize, conductive energy weapons are an intermediate form of force,” Ross said. “The use of force is a last resort.”

But Roberts called the subsequent police investigation “insulting and bizarre.”

“This is not a matter of us being anti-cop because we know that most cops do a great service for us every day,” he said. “This tool is something that is to be used only in emergency situations, and now it is being used frequently. I don’t understand why they feel the need to apply an electric shock to a 14-year-old girl presenting no danger to herself or anyone.”

Roberts said a surveillance video taken in the jail cell that has been viewed by the girl’s father and the native band chief allegedly showed the girl scream as she was pinned down and Tasered for three seconds by the officers. He said police have refused to turn over the video to him.

Tasers have been under intense scrutiny in recent years after the use of the weapons resulted in civilian deaths, including that of Robert Dziekanski. The Polish immigrant died of cardiac arrest at the Vancouver International Airport in October 2007, after being Tasered five times. An inquiry is now being held to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.

Late last year, the RCMP and several municipal police forces in B.C., Alberta and Ontario pulled several X26 model Tasers for testing under claims that some may have been generating more power than regulated.

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

Real appropriate guys. Shocking a drunk kid already in lock-up.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:54 pm**

Pele'sDaughter wrote:I wonder how many departments test their officers for steroids?

Did they steroid-test during the Stanford Prison Experiments? Come on.

Steroid testing is very expensive vs. the marijuana/coke/speed/painkiller category, because men and women both already have testosterone. Likewise steroids have about three negative impacts on health: raised blood pressure, increased likelihood of joint injury (a secondary, not direct, effect) and liver damage for oral (rather than injected) steroids. When used in tandem with anti-estrogen drugs like Amridex or Clomid, usually prescribed for breast cancer patients, to prevent side-effects like growth of breast tissue, etc., they exhibit some beneficial effects, like anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory mechanism.

Furthermore, how likely is a regular person to be on a sex hormone modulating compound? I had one friend who used androgel (an androgenic steroid) every day because his pituitary gland didn't function. I know people who take propecia/proscar, which lowers testosterone; I know plenty of women who take birth control, and know people who take spirolactone. All of those are in fact steroids--so is cholesterol. In fact, the UN has looked into the use of testosterone undecanote as a means of birth control for the developing world.

The biggest reason androgens are illegal is not because they are dangerous--they're not, especially if your doctor knows you use them (pro athletes, cough cough). They're illegal because the Internat'l Olympic Committee wanted to make its job of testing easier. You can look that up.

Similarly, most steroid users from what I can gather *don't* use them in some year-round manner, making catching someone difficult, never mind the fact that steroid use might only push testosterone into the "high normal" range. They use them in 4-12 week "cycles" and likewise plan "post-cycle" periods where they do crap like eat milk thistle etc. to clean their livers out and to restore their endocrine system to normal functionality.

I was going to post "the psychological effect of androgens is way overblown, the vast majority of them have been demonstrated to improve mood, etc. in men and the average self-admitted steriod user earns more than the the national median" etc., but then I was also going to write, "with the exception of IIRC primobolan and a minority of other androgens, shown to make some individuals more prone to violence, though only so in men already thus predisposed"--then I realized cops and prison guards fall into that category.

:backtotopic:

Let's not hop on the Media Fad category, when there's a simpler explanation: the dudes were cops.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:49 pm**

I'll add to nathan28's thread-hijacking attempt that there's a pretty interesting documentary film out there called Bigger, Faster, Stronger, or something to that effect, which looks into steroids and the American obsession with being the best.

As to the film, it is truly shocking. The cop manhandles the girl with a force so disproportionate it would be comical if the event were not really happening. I think Raw Story is doing an excellent job (in addition to all the other investigative journalism they're doing) of covering American police brutality and police-state aspects of American society.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:41 pm**

A couple of comments from the end of sternfannetwork thread:

She deserves every dollar of any lawsuit, those pig bitches are raging homosexual dickheads that need to be made an example of what you dont do, they are just looking for an excuse to beat someone up. Those cops need to get fired, executed and their charred remains need to be stuffed up their parents ass.

posted by Eat Me

Couldn't agree more. If the police department does not takes steps to monitor the fragile psychological and emotional state of cops, who are high risk due to their repressed homosexuality and steroid use then the police department must be held responsible.

posted by K.Waldheim III

free speech i say

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:48 pm**

Let's not hop on the Media Fad category, when there's a simpler explanation: the dudes were cops.

Exactly.

I appreciate that everyone is upset about this, good.

But its not unusual. When I was growing up it was the norm. Everyone I know has copped a flogging from the cops, usually for being a smartarse, and usually when we wwere between 13 and 16. Most kids I knew spent a couple of hours in the back of the cop shop getting the phone book treatment.

When it comes to indigenous kids, every one I know, cept 2, had violent run ins with the police between the ages of 12 and 16.

They know if they get em young those kids will be trouble for the rest of their lives and they will be in a job for the rest of their lives. Basically.

Thats why it happens. The cops know they need to have a section of the population who they can target and who has a reputation for violence. It is a useful justification for their existance. "We are protecting you from the violent oinks and darkies".

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:02 pm**

I've only got a moment to say: that police officer who lost control and shot at her in a violent rage should never work in enforcement again.

I've only seen the video; have yet to read your comments. Posting for email updates. I'll be back.

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:33 am**

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

Not to make light of the serious things pointed out here; but this did make me laugh! Abuse of authority a laughing matter? What a world we live in!

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:22 am**

when did it stop being cowardly to hit women/children/the defenceless and start being macho?

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:07 am**

About 3 and a half thousand years ago?

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:10 pm**

King County deputy charged with fourth-degree assault on teen girl

Following an investigation initiated by his own department, a 31-year-old King County Sheriff's deputy was charged Thursday with fourth-degree assault, accused of physically assaulting a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell in November.

Authorities say the incident was caught on camera.

King County prosecutors charged Deputy Paul Schene with the crime, a gross misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail. King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Gary Ernsdorff requested bail be set at $10,000.

Schene, an eight-year veteran, was placed on paid administrative leave in early December after the Sheriff's Office assigned a detective from a work site other than his to investigate. Schene is slated to be arraigned Feb. 26 at the King County Courthouse.

The P-I is not using the girl's name because she is a minor.

Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, said with the criminal investigation completed, the department will launch an internal investigation.

Schene was last in the news in 2006 after he fatally shot a mentally ill man during a struggle after a traffic stop on Interstate 5. It was the second officer-involved shooting in his career.

According to court papers filed Thursday, the incident in which Schene was charged began around 3:45 a.m. Nov. 29.

The criminal case against Schene came to light Dec. 1, when a detective following up to investigate the case of auto theft and assault for injuring Schene against the 15-year-old girl checked a security video of the arrest process. The detective immediately contacted her supervisors, who in turn informed the department's internal investigations unit, Urquhart said in a news release.

Schene and another deputy had arrested two 15-year-old girls for auto theft, stopping them as the drove in a stolen car. The girls were driven to a holding cell at SeaTac City Hall to be fingerprinted before being booked into the juvenile detention center.

According to an affidavit accompanying the charges, Schene, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 195 pounds, and the girl exchanged words as he led her toward the cell.

The affidavit, which is based upon King County Detective Jeff Johnson's investigation and security camera video, said that "once inside the cell, (the girl) was removing her shoes and kicked her left shoe off and it struck Deputy Schene below his right knee. Deputy Schene entered the cell and did a front kick at (the girl) which appeared to strike her in the upper left thigh area."

The girl later told an investigator that her basketball shoe had "flipped" out and hit Schene, who then told her that constituted assaulting an officer. The girl denied resisting arrest at any time, the papers said.

When the girl stepped back after the kick, "Deputy Schene pushed her onto the back wall. Deputy Schene then took (her) down to the floor by her hair and had her in a handcuffing position. While on the floor, Deputy Schene looked to have (her) in a hair hold and was pulling her head and neck upward," court papers said.

The affidavit said Schene in the video makes "two overhead strikes down towards" the girl, but the camera angle does not capture where they landed.

A second deputy, who has not been charged, was doing paperwork but witnessed some of the incident, and said the strikes hit the girl in the chest, the court papers said.

Following the alleged assault, the girl complained that she had difficulty breathing and an aid car was called. SeaTac firefighter medics checked her but did not transport her to a hospital.

Schene was not interviewed by Johnson. Through his lawyer, Anne Bremner, he replied to questions sent via e-mail, prosecutors said.

According to court documents, Schene answered that he re-entered the cell to put handcuffs on the girl to prevent another assault after she hit him with her shoe. Schene said the girl "provided resistance and failure to comply with the instructions in the holding area."

The affidavit said Schene did not explain why he made two strikes toward the girl in the holding cell, or whether those strikes connected.

In June 2006, Schene fatally shot a suspect, Pedro Yo, who attacked him during a traffic stop. Yo had run back to his car and disobeyed Schene's orders to stop. Schene said he saw Yo reach for something in the seat, so he fired 11 times after he ran back to his car. An inquest jury found Schene's shooting was justified.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/399 ... web13.html

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:39 pm**

Mistrial declared in assault trial of former deputy

A mistrial was declared today in the case of former King County sheriff's Deputy Paul Schene, after jurors were unable to decide whether he assaulted a teenage girl during a videotaped encounter in a SeaTac City Hall holding cell in 2008.

By Steve Miletich and Jennifer Sullivan

Seattle Times staff reporters

A mistrial was declared today in the case of former King County sheriff's Deputy Paul Schene after jurors were unable to decide whether he assaulted a teenage girl during a videotaped encounter in a SeaTac City Hall holding cell in 2008.

The 12-member jury told Superior Court Judge Michael J. Fox this afternoon that it was unable to reach verdict on a charge of fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. After conferring with attorneys for both sides, Fox declared a mistrial.

The jury had begun its deliberations late Wednesday afternoon.

Schene displayed no obvious reaction when the judge announced his decision. His lawyer, Peter Offenbecher, placed an arm around Schene's shoulder.

Prosecutors immediately announced they would retry Schene.

Offenbecher said he was disappointed that he was unable to sway the jury into finding Schene not guilty of the charge. He said he is prepared to defend Schene at a new trial.

Schene declined to comment. When asked by a reporter how he was feeling, the former deputy shrugged his shoulders.

During the trial, prosecutors alleged Schene, 32, assaulted Malika Calhoun, then 15, when he kicked her, grabbed her hair, shoved her into a wall and twice punched her while she was on the ground after she flipped an athletic shoe from her foot at him.

Calhoun, who was being booked for allegedly stealing her guardian's car, had been told by Schene to remove her shoes at the cell door.

Schene testified during the trial that the shoe came toward his groin before hitting his right leg, prompting him to subdue Calhoun before she could kick her other shoe at him. He said he considered her act to be felony assault on a police officer.

Calhoun, 16, testified she removed the shoe in a routine fashion and didn't intend for the shoe to strike Schene.

The case drew widespread publicity when the video was released in February 2009, shortly after Schene was charged with assault.

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In closing arguments Wednesday, Deputy Prosecutor Gary Ernsdorff asked jurors to uphold the rule of law, declaring Schene used unreasonable force.

"There is a reason we have adults" serve as police officers, Ernsdorff said. "We expect them to to act like adults at all times."

Ernsdorff asserted Schene snapped after swapping insults with Calhoun while booking her in the early hours of Nov. 29, 2008, along with another teenage girl who was driving the car.

Defense attorney Offenbecher told jurors Schene acted lawfully and like a "true professional," adhering to his training when he entered the cell to handcuff Calhoun.

Schene's actions represented a "textbook example" of how to take a person into custody, Offenbecher said.

Without injuring Calhoun, his client applied adequate force to assure he gained control of her and didn't allow her to take weapons from him.

"As violent and dramatic as that looks," Offenbecher said, referring to video of encounter, "there is not a bit of harm to her."

At the conclusion of his remarks, Offenbecher asked jurors to send a message that tossing objects at police officers isn't acceptable and that it's "not open season on police officers in King County."

Schene's trial began in November but was recessed until Jan. 11 when it was disclosed that Christopher Monfort, the accused killer of Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween, might have been motivated by the Schene case. Jury selection in the Schene case was delayed because of concerns about the timing of the proceedings.

Schene's written address was found in Monfort's apartment when Seattle police searched it shortly after Monfort was apprehended Nov. 6 as a suspect in Brenton's killing, according to law-enforcement sources.

Monfort, 41, was charged with first-degree aggravated murder and other charges, including the Oct. 22 firebombing of four Seattle police vehicles at a city maintenance yard. Prosecutors contended he randomly targeted Brenton and other Seattle officers solely because of their law-enforcement jobs.

Schene's name was mentioned in a threatening note left at the maintenance yard, according to court documents.

Calhoun sued the county and the case was settled in April, with the county paying $125,000 into a trust in the girl's name, according to the King County Prosecutor's Office.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ne22m.html

(Kinda funny, the judge's name is Michael J. Fox)

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:04 pm**

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caught on video: two male cops brutalize 15 year old girl

caught on video: two male cops brutalize 15 year old girl

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