Jokersvirus
07-06-2010, 07:40 PM
First story:
Background story: Officer was called to a daycare center back in March of this year to a call of a unruly child. When he got there he saw a child out of control hitting the adults in charged and hit the officer. The officer took out his taser removed the prones and gave the kid a two- three second shock.
This officer did what he was trained to do, use enough force to get the child under control. Law enforcement will tell you they are trained on how to handle adults not little kids.
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (WISH) - The Martinsville board of works handed down its recommendation for Officer Darren Johnson Tuesday evening. Johnson is accused of using a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old child in March.
The board recommended the following:
45 days suspensions with five days already served
Two-year probation with daily evaluation
Written apology to all affected parties including the board members who had to meet on the matter
But it wasn't all bad news for Johnson. The board did find that he acted in a somewhat reasonable manner. Meanwhile, Martinsville Mayor Phil Deckard called Johnson a good officer.
Last week, Officer William Jennings submitted his resignation after his involvement in the incident.
Jennings and Johnson went to a daycare back in March to check on an unruly 10-year-old. The police department says the officers used a stun gun to get the child under control.
Last month, a special prosecutor announced there will be no criminal charges filed against Jennings or Johnson .
Johnson has been on paid leave for the past few months.
Second Story:
Eric Holder not to press charges on Black Panthers.
I saw this on Foxnews, im not entirely sure of what is going on here but as far as i can tell Black Panthers were dressed up military style and one was carrying a night stick scaring voters back in 2008 away and a former justice offical is calling bias
In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
J. Christian Adams, testifying Tuesday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said that "over and over and over again," the department showed "hostility" toward those cases. He described the Black Panther case as one example of that -- he defended the legitimacy of the suit and said his "blood boiled" when he heard a Justice official claim the case wasn't solid.
"It is false," Adams said of the claim.
"We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens," he later testified.
The department abandoned the New Black Panther case last year. It stemmed from an incident on Election Day in 2008 in Philadelphia, where members of the party were videotaped in front of a polling place, dressed in military-style uniforms and allegedly hurling racial slurs while one brandished a night The Bush Justice Department brought the first case against three members of the group, accusing them in a civil complaint of violating the Voter Rights Act. The Obama administration initially pursued the case, winning a default judgment in federal court in April 2009 when the Black Panther members did not appear in court. But then the administration moved to dismiss the charges the following month after getting one of the New Black Panther members to agree to not carry a "deadly weapon" near a polling place until 2012.
In a statement Tuesday, a Justice spokesman said the civil rights division determined "the facts and the law did not support pursuing claims" against the two other defendants and denied Adams' allegations.
"The department makes enforcement decisions based on the merits, not the race, gender or ethnicity of any party involved. We are committed to comprehensive and vigorous enforcement of both the civil and criminal provisions of the federal laws that prohibit voter intimidation," the spokesman said.
The Civil Rights Commission, which subpoenaed Adams, has been probing the incident since last year. Adams said he ignored department directives not to testify and eventually quit after he heard Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez testify that there were concerns the Black Panther case was not supported by the facts.
Adams has described the case as open-and-shut and said Tuesday that it was a "very low moment" to hear Perez make that claim.
But he described the department's hostility toward that and other cases involving black defendants as "pervasive." Adams cited hostility in the department toward a 2007 voting rights case against a black official in Mississippi who was accused of trying to intimidate voters. Adams said that when the Black Panther case came up, he heard officials in the department say it was "no big deal" and "media-generated" and point to "Fox News" as the source.
But as the investigation unfolded, he said he discovered "indications" that the Black Panther Party was doing the "same thing" to supporters of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary season in early 2008. He urged the commission to pursue testimony from other Justice officials to corroborate his story.
It's unclear how far the commission will get. The commissioners want to hear from Christopher Coates, the former chief of the Justice Department's voting section, but the commission claims the Justice Department is blocking Coates from testifying about why the case was dropped.
In a written statement last week, the department questioned the motives of Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a blogger for Pajamas Media.
"It is not uncommon for attorneys with the department to have good faith disagreements about the appropriate course of action in a particular case, although it is regrettable when a former department attorney distorts the facts and makes baseless allegations to promote his or her agenda," the statement said.
Adams said Tuesday that his personal views played no part in his handling of the case. He also said he did not fight to testify before the commission but resigned after the department would not take action to quash the subpoena.
This world is messed up, people cant even get justice anymore when a crime is commited against them. Bah
Background story: Officer was called to a daycare center back in March of this year to a call of a unruly child. When he got there he saw a child out of control hitting the adults in charged and hit the officer. The officer took out his taser removed the prones and gave the kid a two- three second shock.
This officer did what he was trained to do, use enough force to get the child under control. Law enforcement will tell you they are trained on how to handle adults not little kids.
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (WISH) - The Martinsville board of works handed down its recommendation for Officer Darren Johnson Tuesday evening. Johnson is accused of using a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old child in March.
The board recommended the following:
45 days suspensions with five days already served
Two-year probation with daily evaluation
Written apology to all affected parties including the board members who had to meet on the matter
But it wasn't all bad news for Johnson. The board did find that he acted in a somewhat reasonable manner. Meanwhile, Martinsville Mayor Phil Deckard called Johnson a good officer.
Last week, Officer William Jennings submitted his resignation after his involvement in the incident.
Jennings and Johnson went to a daycare back in March to check on an unruly 10-year-old. The police department says the officers used a stun gun to get the child under control.
Last month, a special prosecutor announced there will be no criminal charges filed against Jennings or Johnson .
Johnson has been on paid leave for the past few months.
Second Story:
Eric Holder not to press charges on Black Panthers.
I saw this on Foxnews, im not entirely sure of what is going on here but as far as i can tell Black Panthers were dressed up military style and one was carrying a night stick scaring voters back in 2008 away and a former justice offical is calling bias
In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
J. Christian Adams, testifying Tuesday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said that "over and over and over again," the department showed "hostility" toward those cases. He described the Black Panther case as one example of that -- he defended the legitimacy of the suit and said his "blood boiled" when he heard a Justice official claim the case wasn't solid.
"It is false," Adams said of the claim.
"We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens," he later testified.
The department abandoned the New Black Panther case last year. It stemmed from an incident on Election Day in 2008 in Philadelphia, where members of the party were videotaped in front of a polling place, dressed in military-style uniforms and allegedly hurling racial slurs while one brandished a night The Bush Justice Department brought the first case against three members of the group, accusing them in a civil complaint of violating the Voter Rights Act. The Obama administration initially pursued the case, winning a default judgment in federal court in April 2009 when the Black Panther members did not appear in court. But then the administration moved to dismiss the charges the following month after getting one of the New Black Panther members to agree to not carry a "deadly weapon" near a polling place until 2012.
In a statement Tuesday, a Justice spokesman said the civil rights division determined "the facts and the law did not support pursuing claims" against the two other defendants and denied Adams' allegations.
"The department makes enforcement decisions based on the merits, not the race, gender or ethnicity of any party involved. We are committed to comprehensive and vigorous enforcement of both the civil and criminal provisions of the federal laws that prohibit voter intimidation," the spokesman said.
The Civil Rights Commission, which subpoenaed Adams, has been probing the incident since last year. Adams said he ignored department directives not to testify and eventually quit after he heard Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez testify that there were concerns the Black Panther case was not supported by the facts.
Adams has described the case as open-and-shut and said Tuesday that it was a "very low moment" to hear Perez make that claim.
But he described the department's hostility toward that and other cases involving black defendants as "pervasive." Adams cited hostility in the department toward a 2007 voting rights case against a black official in Mississippi who was accused of trying to intimidate voters. Adams said that when the Black Panther case came up, he heard officials in the department say it was "no big deal" and "media-generated" and point to "Fox News" as the source.
But as the investigation unfolded, he said he discovered "indications" that the Black Panther Party was doing the "same thing" to supporters of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary season in early 2008. He urged the commission to pursue testimony from other Justice officials to corroborate his story.
It's unclear how far the commission will get. The commissioners want to hear from Christopher Coates, the former chief of the Justice Department's voting section, but the commission claims the Justice Department is blocking Coates from testifying about why the case was dropped.
In a written statement last week, the department questioned the motives of Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a blogger for Pajamas Media.
"It is not uncommon for attorneys with the department to have good faith disagreements about the appropriate course of action in a particular case, although it is regrettable when a former department attorney distorts the facts and makes baseless allegations to promote his or her agenda," the statement said.
Adams said Tuesday that his personal views played no part in his handling of the case. He also said he did not fight to testify before the commission but resigned after the department would not take action to quash the subpoena.
This world is messed up, people cant even get justice anymore when a crime is commited against them. Bah