Sheriff's Deps slam innocent man into coma

[Giggan]

Video, quite disturbing...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70a_1243358882

A Washington state man who was incorrectly identified as a suspect in an assault on May 10, is now clinging to life in critical condition.

Christopher Harris, a 29-year-old Edmonds man is in a coma, with skull fractures after being pushed into a wall by a King County sheriff's deputy working the Metro Transit overnight shift on foot patrol. Harris had started to run after deputies ordered him More..to 'stop,' and sustained his injuries after deputies caught up with him near a Seattle 'Cinerama.' It remains unclear why Harris decided to run.

After Harris is slammed into the wall, the deputy then drags him away from the wall by one arm, and attempts to handcuff him before seeming to realize the seriousness of Harris' injuries and calling for help.

The King County sheriff's department released a surveillance video, along with their internal investigation results of the incident last week. The investigation of their deputy found in a preliminary review that he 'appeared' to have acted lawfully. SeattlePI reports:

A Metro Transit police officer appears to have acted lawfully when he plowed into an Edmonds man during a foot pursuit in Belltown this month and caused the man's head to slam against a wall, the King County Sheriff's Office reported Thursday.

Christopher Harris, 29, has been in a coma since May 10, the day that he inexplicably ran from two police officers who were incorrectly told that Harris was involved in a robbery at a convenience store at Second Avenue and Bell Street.

After announcing the investigation's results, the Sheriff's Office released video from three security cameras that captured the chase, including the final seconds when Deputy Matt Paul overtook Harris and shoved him into a wall at the Seattle Cinerama Theater at Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street.

A Sheriff's Office spokesman said that upon a preliminary review, the deputy's conduct appears to be lawful. The investigation, however, will be reviewed by the Prosecutor's Office, Sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart said during a news conference at the alley where the chase started.

"We're looking at this as a tragic accident. Nothing more than that," he said.

The sheriff's department is expected to conduct another investigation to determine if the deputy involved followed departmental policies, and is continuing to seek more witnesses in the case.

[akmisrmaadi]

king county suck my balls

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[freeborn]

It's not a tragic accident, it is police Gestapo doing what they love to do.

[akmisrmaadi]

king county suck my balls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwLdI947Rk4&feature=player_embedded

[EthanLeeVita]

Driving from Pierce(Tacoma) County to King(Seattle) County on I-5, you notice an immediate change in the condition of roads. Allow me to use onomatopoeia to explain. "      " to "clunkety clunk clunk".

[Raineyrocks]

Not guilty, disgusting!  Another scum gets away with this shit!

NY officer acquitted in video body-slamming case

By JIM FITZGERALD – 1 hour ago

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A policeman who was caught on video apparently body-slamming a woman to a restaurant's tile floor was acquitted Wednesday of violating her civil rights.

Jurors in federal court in White Plains found Yonkers Officer Wayne Simoes, 39, not guilty after a five-day trial and five hours of deliberations.

Several times during the trial, they were shown a recording from a restaurant surveillance camera which seemed to show the officer lifting Irma Marquez, 44, by her waist and throwing her face-first to the floor. The takedown knocked her unconscious and broke her jaw.

Simoes seemed stunned when the verdict was read. He expelled his breath loudly several times, then wiped his eyes with a tissue and hugged his lawyers and his wife. Several of the two dozen off-duty Yonkers officers in the gallery clapped each other on their backs.

The officers then assembled just outside the courtroom and applauded Simoes, the jurors and defense lawyer Andrew Quinn as they walked out.

Simoes said outside that he felt bad for Marquez. He thanked his lawyers, his wife, his colleagues and everyone who "saw through all the garbage."

Quinn said that by showing the jurors stills from the video, he was able to prove that the takedown of Marquez was an accident and that Simoes had "no intent or desire to hurt Ms. Marquez or violate her civil rights."

Quinn had claimed during the trial that the soundless, dimly lit video was misleading because it caught only 15 frames per second. He said Simoes was simply trying to keep Marquez from interfering with medical technicians who were treating her niece after a bar fight.

He said Marquez was "stumbling drunk."

Marquez, of Yonkers, was arrested at the scene but acquitted of obstruction charges. She is suing the city Police Department for $11 million.

Prosecutor Anna Skotko had told the jurors, "Trust your eyes." And an FBI expert said the video's quality was good enough to show what happened.

In addition, a fellow officer, John Liberatore, who was at the scene on March 3, 2007, said he saw Simoes lift Marquez off the floor from behind and throw her down. The witness said he then turned to his partner and, using an expletive, asked "What the ... just happened here?"

The police captain at the scene, Edward Geiss, testified that at the time, he felt Simoes' action "probably involved excessive force." On the other hand, he said he didn't think Simoes intended to hurt Marquez "the way he did."

Simoes was acquitted of violating Marquez's constitutional protection from excessive police force. Had he been convicted, he could have faced up to 10 years in prison.

The Justice Department has been investigating charges of brutality against the Yonkers force since long before the body-slam incident.

[geoff]

If the woman had done that to the thug she would probably have been killed instantly by the other gangsters.  All you can do is hope that moment to moment you don't become the victim of one of the police gangs' random acts of violence towards those they think are in their way.

[Kat Kanning]

This is not new, a friend of mine when I was a kid got killed by cops when he was incorrectly identified as the perpretrator of a robbery.   

Is this brutality built into their training, or is it the people who are drawn to this line of work, or just the nature of the job?

[Kat Kanning]

Hey, they're doing it to each other:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_re_us/us_cop_shoots_cop

[akmisrmaadi]

Is this brutality built into their training, or is it the people who are drawn to this line of work, or just the nature of the job?

E) all of the above (LE has been corrupted for years and year... no longer an honorable profession)