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And after being fired Patrick Pogan is still having his “Falsifying Business Records” case continued from court session to court session, even now. He’ll be up again April 14.
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HEIL HITLER.

Though how lying thug Sergeant Timothy Horohoe remains employed by the NYPD is a mystery. I guess it’s not easy enough to fire someone who’s had more than a few weeks on the force.
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Those brave heroes of the NYPD.. sick. It makes me fuckin sick to see people walking around with NYPD shirts/hats/etc. as though they are a group that we should all look up to and respect.
On another note, when will people realize that chanting “let her go” will never cause the police to stop the arrest and send the person on their way? Videotape the shit out of what is happening and file a complaint.

America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — opening lines of 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe

It would seem the NYPD thinks they are a law unto themselves. It also seems that the money they keep paying out is not teaching them a thing. I guess that’s not new, huh?

They need to start take funding from police stations when they get these types of lawsuits, will either force to fire the people responsible or force a re-training policy on there police officers.

Hell hopefully both.

Good.
The Straw Buyer´s last blog ..Where are we at? Has anything that we’ve written about made a difference?

The motto is “To Serve and Protect.” But it never really says who or what it’s serving and protecting. It’s certainly not us.

when you look at the NYC budget these lawsuits that bring $20-30,000 dollars per incident are merely “Pay them to go away” settlements and the city budgets for it – what we need is a massive class-action suit that threatens to put the city in bankruptcy before changes are made.

“what we need is a massive class-action suit that threatens to put the city in bankruptcy before changes are made.”

Never gonna happen. We need to stop scraping the bottom of the barrel when recruiting cops, perhaps a more thorough psychological examination is called for so we can weed out the “chip on the shoulder” types (yeah right). What’s worse than the cops at the street level are the prosecutors who help cover up their misdeeds. In the incident that this blog is about, the prosecutor should have never elected to pursue charges against Carlos, he should have been able to see the case as the steaming pile of $hit that it was, instead he chose to move forward and waste tax payers money on a purely bullshit case. Perhaps he had run out of real criminals to prosecute?

What few see is that although a shitty cop is a threat at street level, a morally and ethically deficient prosecutor is a far greater threat and worse, they have nearly absolute immunity from civil liability for their misdeeds.
The Straw Buyer´s last blog ..Where are we at? Has anything that we’ve written about made a difference?

Aside from the BS part of the arrests, the heavy handed way the NYPD conducts business and the waste of taxpayer money, there is something about this story that I really like:

Photographers and videographers, really saved the day here. Even though the photographers were being picked off one by one by the cops, many others bravely held the line and continued to film. These photographers helped everyone out, even though it might not have seemed like it at the time. If we stick together, post videos and photos, we can move mountains.
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looks like those cops took Creative Writing in school

Other than the death camps its hard not to make Nazi comparisons. An entire class of people being attacked and harrassed by authoritarian thugs. Not only that but an active attempt to put them out of business at times as well.

Its no wonder the police fear a citizenry armed with cameras and/or guns.

What would happen if you set up a program whereby the more a city pays out in satisfaction of civil rights suit damages resulting from police misconduct, the less bonus money the police union receives and vice versa (less civil rights damages = more bonus money)?

What happens when the police union has a direct financial motive to minimize civil rights law suit awards??

“The video contains close-up shots of each suspect’s arrest report, revealing a shocking discrepancy between what took place and what police said took place that night.”

This is the killer for me. Any cop that lies on an arrest report to cover their own @$$ or get someone else in trouble should be FIRED immediately and be charged with a crime. When civilians file a false report with the police no one has a problem calling that a crime, but when cops do it we’re just supposed to forgive and forget.

We can’t stop this fight until police are held accountable.
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The police union makes sure people are afraid to file suit or not left in a condition where they are able.
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New York cops are some of the worst pieces of shit in this country. New York City is barely American anymore and is slowly degenerating into a European cesspool.

I’ll be nice this time to “Johnny Law” and not say..”Go ahead “Johnny Law”, I’m waiting for your non-biased (NOT) reply to this one!!”

What I’ve been thinking though is.. “I can’t believe some photographer hasn’t turned these situations into a Gold Mine money maker”!

Legally take some pictures and turn the ensuing lawsuit into $$$$$!! Do this once or twice a week/month and before you know it you’re a Millionaire.. or at least a few hundred thousand’aire.

A enterprising photographer could rack him/herself up quite a tidy sum. Enough to retire on.. or at least upgrade their photo equipment.

Heck.. I’ll let myself be falsely arrested once a week and sit in jail for 24 hours if I can pocket a cool 40 or 50k every time it happens.. and I’ll even let “Johnny Law” be the one to do it too!

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Holy crap ! That sickens me to death ! Those poor people were arrested for WHAT ???? NOTHING BUT LIES !!!!!!! I hope those cyclists and photographers get what they deserve- they deserve a written apology from the officers, money for their time and lastly a week of officer service at their houses- cleaning, doing the laundry you name it ! Fuck we would have to do that shit…,