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I love how the cops can essentially pay him off while no one gets charged with a crime. Try doing that without a badge. The good citizens of Boise /should/ be heading for the police station with torches and pitchforks to protest how THEY have to pay for a non-charged crime from one of the people who swore to uphold and protect the law for them.

BTW this isn’t a civil rights violation, this is simple human decency violation — the cop that used the taser on this man should have the exact same thing done to him. Twice.

Maybe that would stop the bullying cops from committing crimes behind their badges.

they should make the cops pay!!!!

I should be shocked and appalled. Unfortunately, give a sociopath a government paycheck and this is what you get.

I have long said that, sadly, it is plain in this day and age that the only way to keep this kind of thing from happening will be secret, organized and well funded squads of highly trained citizen agents, willing and able to find, capture and punish those who torture and abuse and are ignored by the law.

There is no justice, really, anymore..at least not for the poor or middle class..justice must be taken, and demanded, and shown to be fair and sensible. A secret commitee would meet regularly and examine the most egregious cases of police abuse and determine what action should be taken to bring a just conclusion to the matter.

Since the police and courts have failed to even try to stop these sickening and incredible acts of barbarity and actually encourage it by their protection of guilty cops , there are no other alternatives left. If some cop like this one was escorted to a secluded and private place where a detailed examination could be conducted I have no doubt that the truth could quickly be found and the appropriate punishment meted out.

Of course the punishment should fit the crime..after all, we are not supposed to be as sick and depraved as they are..and most all cops could be returned to their point of embarcation and allowed to return to their lives, chastised and humbly aware that at any time future acts of serious misconduct could result in less sympathetic treatment , thus discouraging any more acts
that deserve such attention.

We want our cops humble, polite, respectful and with the attitude of a SERVANT..someone taking taxpayer money is bound to treat their employers with due deference and not as is currently normal. it would not take long before all abusive and torturing cops would think about when the squad was coming for THEM, as they did for the others who returned with tales that made every cop shiver..and they might not violate rights anymore...a rEAL deterrent!!

Did the cop clean the taser before he put it back into the holster? I mean how’d you like to be the next person assaulted with that dirty taser?

Although it’s nice that some sort of justice gets dolled out, this doesn’t even scratch the surface of curbing the misconduct. We need to start looking into why DAs are not prosecuting these bad cops and find someone who will uphold the Constitution.

The more I hear, the more I imagine sitting on a jury and making the assumption that police testimony, on its face, is not reliable. When a adequate number of people reach this decision, there will be no reason to have police. Anarchy comes at that point in time.

no one is commenting on the most disgusting part of this story, that the cop is suing for 2 million dollars… which is more than ten times the amount of money HIS VICTIM WILL RECEIVE.

WTF?

I saw that – $2 mil because he feels like he’s ‘singled out’?!?! Maybe he should go to a country where he can get away with actions like that (China, Iran, N. Korea etc…)

I really wish just once that when somebody has a solid case against the cops like he did to take it all the way up and demand that the city/PD admit fault and strip the certification from the LEO(s). This payoff without admitting fault crap means there’s no accountability and its business as usual for the PD
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I like the fact this guy is being compensated for his ordeal, but…

I really think that settlements like this send the wrong message. I read that message to be that if a cop screws up (or shoves his taser up someone’s ass) he/she will not suffer any consequences. If a private citizen shoved ANYTHING up a cops ass, it would go to trial and that citizen would then PERSONALLY owe money. Cases like this should not be settled out of court. They should go to trial. The individual cops should be held accountable, and they should have less money in their personal bank account as a result.

A non-admission of guilt and a payday by taxpayers lets the offending cops get off scott-free.
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As much as I would like to see every member of the filth(cops) involved in this incident lined up in a public square in front of a firing squad at least the victim got something, usually the victim ends up in jail charged with contempt of cop because they did not respect their “authority.” Is it mandatory that someone be a total prick in order to become a cop nowadays? The one positive from the depression is the chance that all levels of government will be broke and have to fire all these asshats.

Michael, I recently served on a jury where the defendant was a police officer and there were police testifying on behalf of both sides.

We did find some of them highly credible, some less credible, and one we did not believe at all.

We gauged their reliability the same as we did for the other witness.

This incident was discussed in depth in a previous posting by Carlos so I won’t rehash it all over again. However don’t get so excited about the settlement. Cities settle lawsuits all the time simply because they don’t want to roll the dice with a jury. $150k is much cheaper than the possibility of a multi-million dollar judgement.

It doesn’t mean the officers actually sodomized someone. Just because Carlos calls it that doesn’t make it true.
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Yes, it’s hush money.

I doubt it is as nefarious as that. Most cities are spineless when it comes to defending their police departments and would simply rather minimize their potential losses. I know of many cases where a ridiculous suit was filed and the city settled for a minor amount even though it was an obvious bullshit case. It is common for larger cities to even have a certain amount of money budgeted each year for such settlements.

I will admit that the unprofessional language of the officers makes it more of a crap shoot with a jury so the city probably was smart taking this deal.
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@Johnny Law,

Unprofessional language? That was the only thing wrong with this encounter??? Forget the fact that the suspect was already prone, in cuffs and being suffocated by the LEO’s. Forget the fact that the officers never identified themselves as officers, and the suspect has reason to believe that they might be someone else. Forget the fact that the supervisor on duty erased the audio recording of the interrogation and then lied about it.

JL, I had some respect for your opinions and tried to see things from your perspective, but your bias in this case has made that difficult.

Tom,

Sorry you feel that way. I think that they could have handled it differently but I can also look at it from the perspective of an officer who just had a confusing struggle at the door in which the officers had to fight their way in. I am not saying that they didn’t use some bad judgement but I do get defensive with it is constantly stated that the officers literally stuck their taser up a person’s anus and tortured him. That is obviously not the case in this incident.

The fact that everyone acts like it actually happened that way shows their bias in the other direction. If you read the police report (http://www.boiseweekly.com/pdf/Amidon_police_report.pdf) it is obvious the officers were trying to get in the residence due to exigent circumstances and that the arrested person was trying to stop them. I think his claim that he didn’t know it was the police is bogus. After all the girlfriend seemed to know who it was and the police were in full uniform.

People here want to make this into the police just deciding to kick in a random door and torture someone. It is nowhere near as black and white as that. In reality it was the police responding to a call for assistance and trying to help the person in need. They had to fight with this guy and used the taser to control him. The threats about the taser and sticking it up his ass were used to intimidate him into compliance so that no more force had to be used.

I don’t expect anyone here to even attempt to look at from the perspective of an officer who just had to kick in a door at 9:oo at night while answering a call for help and having no idea if the person blocking the door is armed or not. I also don’t expect you to understand the adrenaline dump and the fact that the officer was trying to get the situation under control with verbal threats. However I do expect folks here to understand the actual definition of sodomy.
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Unfortunately, the only way I’d believe a police report when there is potential for a cop to get in trouble from said report is if were delivered to me via unicorn or fairy. Many of these cops aren’t truthful, why would their reports be?

A threat of sticking something up someone’s ass might be justified in the heat of the moment. Actually doing it? Criminal. Period.

“I also don’t expect you to understand the adrenaline dump and the fact that the officer was trying to get the situation under control with verbal threats.”

Translation: excuses and at the very least verbal torture.

“However I do expect folks here to understand the actual definition of sodomy.”

Once again back to “he (probably) didn’t TECHNICALLY get inside the anus!” Which is really a lot like the classic “Why do you keep hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!” technicality logic of the typical bully.
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Johnny Law: “They had to fight with this guy and used the taser to control him. ”

Misuse of the TASER at the very least. Cops everywhere like to portray using the TASER as an alternative to using lethal force, but here Johnny admits that this is not always the case. He admits that the TASER was, and should have been, used as a tool of coersion, control, and intimidation as a routine matter.

Yes, I said routine, and I meant it. Other than the cops’ misuse of the TASER, this was a pretty routine call. Further, the fight was over and the cops were in control by the time they tased his ass and threatened to tase his genitals.

As for the police report? I’ll quote the Boise Guardian: “The police accounts are full of lies, including a female officer repeatedly saying the police outside the door identified themselves–which according to recordings and the Ombudsman’s report they failed to do.”
http://boiseguardian.com/2009/07/25/high-voltage-case-low-key-response/

Cops lie. They lie in the official reports, they lie to the innocent about breaking laws that don’t exist, they lie to the press, and they lie on the stand. I’d not give a cop any more benefit of the doubt than I would a drug-addicted burglar at this point.

It’s interesting that Jonny Law proclaims that the policy report is the Truth, when in fact the recording prove otherwise. It’s a real shame that he’s wedded to the false reality that police reports are the absolute truth. You’d have hoped that a cop would have an independent mind instead of one that slavishly clings to the stupid idea that police reports always state the truth.

Taser, flashlight, whatever happens to be on the belt .. a person with a gun and powers of arrest simply can not threaten to place objects in someone’s anus, much less threaten their genitals.

I will concede the common, colloquial cliche such as “[do something] or I’ll put my foot up your ass!” To many people, that is simply a figure of speech and easily uttered when flustered. Its widely understood to not be a _literal_ threat.

“If you move again I’ll taze your balls” leaves very little room for interpretation. That is threatening someone with torture while being in a position of authority. What’s next, “Screw your fifth amendment rights, tell me where you were yesterday or I’ll taze your nuts?” while handcuffing someone of interest?

I will agree that most cities would rather settle, its a lot cheaper to put $20k into an annuity for a structured settlement than pay out $2M cold. I will also agree that there are some cases where the city should have defended its officers much more vehemently.

This is not one of those cases. This was “Dear God just make this go away…”
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“I don’t expect anyone here to even attempt to look at from the perspective of an officer who just had to kick in a door at 9:oo at night while answering a call for help and having no idea if the person blocking the door is armed or not. I also don’t expect you to understand the adrenaline dump and the fact that the officer was trying to get the situation under control with verbal threats.”

I did attempt to look at it from that perspective. As soon as the victim realized the police officers were actually police officers, he cooperated. Threatening to tase the guy’s balls was over the top.

Granted, the officers did not stick the taser up the guy’s ass, but they did tase the victim on the inside of the cheeks. Pretty close to the rectum if you ask me. Close enough that I wouldn’t quibble about calling it sodomy.

tall trees, short ropes

So, JL he burned his own anus? Threats do not de-escalate a situation. Threatening me sure doesn’t make me want to comply.
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The Nazis were just following orders and the German people just went along for the ride, will that be you excuse Mr. Law? Good God, I hope every police department in North America goes broke and has to fire everyone, good fucking riddance.
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Roll the dice? Implying that there is a possibility that this dirty cop might NOT be guilty as hell?

Idiot.

This is stuff that even the worst Guantanamo guards would be embarrassed to be caught doing.

Mepsipax,

The threat of violence is actually a very good way to descalate a resistant subject. You can’t “pretty please” everyone into handcuffs. You comment just shows your lack of knowledge about violent conflicts.

LMAO @ Chris. Johnny how do you ignore the transcript. Pretty clear cut if you ask me. The cops started this whole violent conflict. They had him down on the ground and could’ve just cuffed him. You can’t make excuses for this—at that point it’s all about physical strength. You either have the physical strength to restrain him or you don’t. This was not necessary force; they did this because they’re some sick SOB’s.

What some of the facts that people are missing are.
1. The police recorded this and their statements do not match the facts
a. The never said it was the police when the tried to get in to the house.
b. I held the taser only to the small of his back.
c. They said that he was cussing. It’s not on the recording!
2. Officer #10 deleted the integrations tapes and lied about it.
You need to read the report by the city.
http://www.boiseweekly.com/pdf/taser_report.pdf

You’d be amazed at the state of denial that cops go in to when confronted with the FACTS of one of their own breaking the law. I can from reading this guy’s blog that you could show him a video of a cop walking up to a random person on the street and putting a bullet in the person’s head and he would still not say the cop is at fault for anything. It’s really beyond pathetic.

forgot the word “tell”
I can tell…..
Sorry.

The independent, law enforcement conducted investigation concluded that he didn’t know they were police. This was because the police, contrary to their own requirements, never identified themselves as police. Also, he was telling people to call the police at the time they were trying to get in the door. And, his reaction once they were inside indicates A) surprise and then B) cooperation.

Given the witness statements by the other police, the physical evidence, and finally, the non-police witness, I’m not sure this is one to go to bat for the proposition that the police are being rail-roaded. Seems he’s lucky he’s not getting fired.

Why is it they seemingly get away with no charges?

You sure you went to the right blog?

http://law-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-to-de-escalate.html

http://law-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/can-of-ass-whipping.html

http://law-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/02/commenter-to-my-previous-post...

http://law-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-two-cents.html

Yep, I never criticize other cops.
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Whatever the pigs do, there is always some apologist cop who rushes to their defense. Sorry Johnny, in most cases, I’ll take the word of the citizen over the cops any time. Cops are proven liars, thugs and dirtballs. What is disgusting is the cop will suffer NO consequences for his criminal behavior, not any jail time, not any financial penalty, not even the loss of his job. As was mentioned, if a citizen did this to a “only one”, he would be financially ruined and sent to prison for decades. SICK!

how would you like me to stick my tazer or night stick up your annus and then threaten you with harm to your nads. a duch bag like you would be screaming for 10 figures or the death penelty at the very least.

Welcome to the system. This is commonplace and you know it if you’ve ever been a cop. If you’re lucky, you will have the whole station, judge, DA, AND the plaintiff’s attorney on your side. A quick settlement is good for everybody except the plaintiff but he was encouraged to settle with a promise of some quick bucks and a threat of never seeing a penny after a lenghty trial.
Let’s face it, he is just as part of this as the cops. He should have fought to go to trial which would have ended with proven wrongdoing on the cops’ part and who knows how much in punitive damages etc…instead he chickened out with some cash now.
Cops in question have dirt on many…blue politics is worse than any other…

jhonny law is a militerized cop. he dose not believe in to protect and to serve. his motto is we treat you like a king (rodney that is)

i used to be a texas ranger but i quit because i would not lie for a fellow ranger who was drunk on duty and hit a familly with his vehicle and killed them. because i would not lie for the so called brother ranger, texas d.p.s. made my life a living hell

When you say you looked at my Blog, did you get past the title? There are many entries that show you don’t know what the heck you are talking about. No surprise there.

It is good that you have an open mind about the subject then isn’t it?

I have a good friend that was also sexually assaulted, but not with a tazer, by a city road pirate. The case is presently under investegation by the state road pirates. Kind of like the monkey guarding the banana plantation.
I myself was just last week pulled over and kidnapped as my vehicle was being carjacked and hauled off to jail where I too was assaulted and coerced into their tyranny before released. No charges ever presented. Just policy. Never arrested in my life before.
These nazi drones we call law enforcement officers are out of control while the courts continue to sanction this criminality because they are criminals themselves. They are all too stupid to see that they too are being controlled by the greed of mammon and power only to be contributing to the end agenda of world control by the real button pushers on this planet.
Most of these adrenaline addicted thugs have all grown up on violent video games and swat team movies to begin with. It is all soon to break loose and then the stage will be set to implement aggressive martial law. They are just doing their job like they did in Germany at the death camps 70 years ago. Fasten your seat belt because here they com.

Whoa, jack. Back it up with that violent video games reference. There’s no correlation between criminal violence and video games, and more than enough evidence that “adrenaline dumping” on a computer or TV screen is BETTER than either holding it in or punching a god forsaken pillow.

Repeating mouthpiece crap you heard that there were “studies” about doesn’t make your point more valid, in fact, it makes people like me get bent out of shape that someone is wrong on the internet.

Give me a break. If anyone’s close-minded on this, it’s YOU. The recordings prove the police reports to be a bunch of lies, and what do you believe? The police reports.

Your mind is so “open” that your brain fell out.