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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/police-taser-and-beat-innocent-disabled-vet-hold-quadriplegic-wife-gunpoint-demandThe cops were raiding the home of Lisa Hayes' mother, with a search-warrant, where Ruther and Lisa Hayes lived. The cops were looking for their nephews, Joey L. Guy, 30, and Louis H. Scott, 33.
The cops busted in, found the two men in the living-room and handcuffed them without incident. The two men told the cops that their aunt is in the back and that she's quadriplegic.
The cops busted into the backroom where Ruther Hayes was giving the quadriplegic Lisa Hayes, which was lying naked on a bed, a sponge-bath.
- They screamed at her at gunpoint to stand up.
- Ruther Hayes identified himself as a disabled veteran and gave the police-officers his military ID-card. When he attempted to pull a bedsheet over his naked wife, the cops beat him up, then they tasered him, then they beat him up some more, then they arrested him for resisting arrest.
Ruther Hayes was later released without charge.
Joey L. Guy and Louis H. Scott got a single charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
tblue37
(65,270 posts)classykaren
(769 posts)Duppers
(28,117 posts)Hope the couple are awarded a ton from the Delaware State Police. This is inhumane and insane.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's the city's money. And if the city needs money they raise taxes or ask the cops to find more people they can fine something.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)These scummy bad cops are costing cities money.
Cops fining more people? Indeed that's exactly what they're doing in Baltimore! My son just yesterday got a refund on a $285.+ fine that he was able to prove was illegal! His car was illegally towed and impounded.
Shit just goes on and on.
1monster
(11,012 posts)insurance companies refuse to insure drivers who have three minor accidents (like hitting the rear view mirror against a sign post on a very narrow street). Drivers who have one medium to major accident are dropped by the insurance companies immediately.
Drivers who are dropped from the insurance policies are let go because they can no longer drive for the company.
Insurance companies insuring law enforcement agencies could and should set up a system that does hold the individual LEO responsible for his/her own behaviors. Insurance agencies can and should refuse to insure law enforcement agencies and municipalities that refuse to effectively train and police its officers.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)It really is sick and demented.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-killed-parakeet-staten-island-mom-article-1.1541112
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)of respect and decency their son's and maybe daughters were exhibiting. I doubt it was female cops, I don't think they would stand for that either.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)uponit7771
(90,329 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)bonniebgood
(940 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)shithead cops cost the taxpayers in lawsuits every year. That sounds callous, but seriously the only way to wake up some people is to hit their wallet. Obviously, no one is charging cops with crimes (the occasional token sacrifice maybe) and lawsuits don't deter bad cops. The city just pays up, or shuffles the shithead to another unsuspecting community.
How the fuck do you look in the mirror everyday knowing that you beat up an innocent person for shits and giggles?
I do not believe all cops are bad - I have worked with and known some very good ones. But good lord, the bad shit outweighs the good.
Sorry for my potty mouth, I am unable to read stories like this without cussing - its get angry or cry.
PatSeg
(47,357 posts)Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)to execution without appeal and quickly, since the evidence, even when not not on film, is compelling. If necessary, in view of the incorrigible racism of so much of the populace, dispense with juries, as they did in Norther Ireland.
The torture and slaughter of innocent citizenry is morphing from an epidemic into a pandemic. The Nazis had nothing on these home-bred American scum. In fact, I believe many are 'white supremacists', who worship Hitler, who himself proclaimed that barbarism was not something to be ashamed of.
The result was a most bitter irony: the very people who had been exemplars of drawing order out of chaos, a divine commission laid on us all, found themselves led into the ultimate meat-grinder by the ultimate Lord of Misrule and agent of chaos. The US has been heading down that road for a long, long time. From 30% plus of the German population voting for Hitler, it went to 93%, as a result of the intimidation of his Nazi street thugs, bawling in the street at the houses to wake people up early to vote - with the tacit threat of reprisals. A clear indication is that the vote of the political prisoners in for Hitler in Auschwitz of all places was in the high nineties! I kid you not. How the Republican purgers of your electoral rolls must eat their heart out at that thought!
Every drop of innocent blood shed by those African Americans will be avenged by God almighty. 'Vengeance is mine. I WILL REPAY: were his words.' What fun it will be for the many good African Americans to see justice satisfied at last. And never ever ending. How about that!
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... ever since Bratton's "Broken Windows" theory of law enforcement gained popularity, police departments have been actively recruiting psychopaths, while encouraging blatant bigotry, and the infiltration of white supremacists. The brass promote a siege mentality that regards even the most law-abiding citizens as "The Enemy." Their needless savagery intimidates the populace into submission, and those who don't submit IMMEDIATELY get killed.
When the Trans-Pacific Partnership completes the corporate takeover of our government and the abandonment of even the pretense of democracy, the militarized police forces will be required to obliterate any hint of dissent, so most of us will probably be targeted.
Stories like this one are now a daily occurrence, and the frequency will only accelerate, so don't buy any green bananas. The proverbial substance is going to hit the fan with a resounding splat a lot sooner than you think.
The Wizard
(12,541 posts)Take all their worldly possessions. Repay the damages in kind.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)and know that they would never act like this, nor would they condone/cover-up for any other "officer" who acted like this.
I hear chatter all of the time, and some of it is that there is going to be a lot of backlash against abusive pigs like this. My only hope is that none of the good ones get caught up in the fray.
NOTE: I am in NO WAY condoning violence against ANY Officers, just repeating some things I have heard. I have a nephew in the Academy in Georgia right now, and my sister is worried sick about him once he graduates. I think he will be alright though, he was an Army M.P. for a few years before getting out of the service, so he has more training skills to start with.
Peace.
Ghost
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)mentalsolstice
(4,460 posts)Yet this thread and any other bringing this to light will sink like a rock. Because....
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Sigh.
mentalsolstice
(4,460 posts)Sorry, people with disabilities have been historically harassed and brutalized by LEOs, regardless of race or gender. I'm outraged that this post and the other, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027215811, are getting little attention from from the folks with BLM or Bravenak avatars. We're all in this together, and each group should show support for one another. I give credit to the 12-20 people who respond to posts about police brutality against PWDs. However, it's disheartening to these posts sink like a rock.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and somehow a comma got stuck to your link, rendering it useless.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027215811
niyad
(113,213 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)they are nothing more than jack booted thugs with a license to maim and worse.
pansypoo53219
(20,968 posts)stage left
(2,961 posts)Out of control psychopaths.