[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')olice opened fire on an unarmed couple during a routine traffic stop late Tuesday night because one officer "thought he was shot," a high-ranking Salinas Police Department official said Thursday.
"He saw what he perceived as a threat and thought he was shot, and based on that both officers discharged their firearms," said Dino Bardoni, commander of investigations.

[Nefarious]

What kind of BS is this? In order for one to think they have been shot, wouldn't that entail the sound of a gunshot? It states he didn't hear anything but instead saw what he perceived as a threat. If I personally think I see a gun, thinking I have been shot is not a natural conclusion I come to.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') Canadian who demanded courtesy from a U.S. border security guard says he was pepper sprayed and held in custody for three hours for asking the disrespectful officer to "say please" when ordering him to turn his car off during a search.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ith rock music blaring in her squad car, Rindal activated her police lights and siren to chase after the man she claimed had made a lane change without signaling. Salter is seen in the video carefully pulling toward the right, turn signal on, within ten seconds. Salter, concerned for his family's safety, did not want to pull into the snow-filled highway shoulder. He took less than a minute to reach the exit to Highway 61, driving slowly. Twenty-two seconds later, as Salter turned onto Burns Avenue away from the high-speed traffic, Rindal rammed the minivan from the side and then once more from behind.

"What are you doing?" Salter screamed as he exited the minivan. "I have three kids in my car and you just hit me."

Rindal held the man at gunpoint while his children watched their father placed under arrest. Salter was incarcerated for the next 37 hours for making an illegal lane change and "eluding police." His damaged car was also impounded and he was mailed a $130 ticket, even though prosecutors declined to charge him for any crime. A police review board investigating the incident supported Rindal on her choice of a gunpoint arrest and suggested there were places on the icy highway where Salter could have stopped. The board did not, however, believe Salter was fleeing police during the one minute-twenty second low-speed chase. For that, the state police chief labeled the entire incident "regrettable."

[mattduke]

Your hero mattduke was enjoying a quiet weekend evening on his way to pick up some gardening supplies when a gunman forced him to the side of the road. The armed individual claimed mattduke had failed to pay a previous extortion demand, for which there was a hefty additional penalty. The gunman, also sporting an electrical torture device, said the $140 was "unfair" but "there was nothing he could do about it." He suggested mattduke beg a bureaucrat in a funny Halloween costume, indicating the high likelihood I could get the extortion demand reduce to $20 due to the odd nature of the situation. At first, mattduke preferred to pay $140 rather than miss work in order to beg a bureaucrat for mercy, but on second thought decided it was his civic duty to deny the thugs the $120 with which they could expand their operations. When asked what he would do with the $120 he said that he, "would send it to some charity instead". Unfortunately, the garden store was closed by the time mattduke arrived, resulting in a thoroughly unpleasant outing.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') man killed while apparently exercising with his wife on a trail in Loudoun County over the weekend had worked for the CIA until 2000, sources said.

A neighbor describes a slain ex-CIA contractor as a reclusive man who only went out at night.

Early Sunday morning, deputies found William Bennett's body in a grassy area next to Riverside Parkway in the Lansdowne area. His wife, Cynthia Bennett, was found injured nearby. She was airlifted to an area hospital, where she remains in critical condition, unable to talk.

The couple may have been attacked by three people seen driving suspiciously in the area in a white-panel van, investigators said. The Bennetts were wearing jogging outfits.

[IgnoranceIsBliss]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') man killed while apparently exercising with his wife on a trail in Loudoun County over the weekend had worked for the CIA until 2000, sources said.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IgnoranceIsBliss', '.').. I would never go out jogging by myself (as a woman) even during the day. We had a serial killer in our area back in 2008 and that was my final wake up call that things can happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s a storm of outrage gathered over his department, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle called a news conference Thursday to apologize for the behavior of an officer who detained a distressed family outside a hospital emergency room.

Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell had been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with the incident last week, in which he stopped a family rushing to visit a dying mother, keeping them for 13 minutes to write a traffic ticket. The woman died before two of the family members were able to see her.

Moats stood outside the emergency room pleading with the officer to let him go so he could say goodbye to his mother-in-law. The officer was unmoved.

"I can screw you over. I’d rather not do that. … I could charge you with fleeing right now. Understand what I could do. … I could make your life very difficult."

[mattduke]

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[mattduke]

Police raid home of blogger critical of police.

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[dinopello]

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[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') Canadian who demanded courtesy from a U.S. border security guard says he was pepper sprayed and held in custody for three hours for asking the disrespectful officer to "say please" when ordering him to turn his car off during a search.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')
Go trail jog in the woods for Christ's sake.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')fficer J.A. Miller said he was concerned Ferrell was reaching for a gun. Miller withdrew his gun, grabbed Ferrell, swung him around and slammed his head into the rear windshield.

"He was trying to show his identification to the officer so that the officer would know that he was simply unable to communicate with him on a normal basis," Goetz said.

Ferrell was then forced into the car.

"It did break his nose," Goetz said of the incident. "There was a lot of blood."

Fort Worth police did discipline Miller over the incident.

"He was suspended for two days without pay for rough handling Ferrell, and for bumping the back of his car," "Miller is currently appealing this decision."

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')oderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery.
Police in the small East Texas town of Tenaha are accused of unjustly taking valuables from motorists.

Police in the small East Texas town of Tenaha are accused of unjustly taking valuables from motorists.

The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had with him to buy a new car.

But Daniels couldn't go to the police to report the incident.

The men who stopped him were the police.

Daniels was stopped on U.S. Highway 59 outside Tenaha, near the Louisiana state line. Police said he was driving 37 mph in a 35 mph zone. They hauled him off to jail and threatened him with money-laundering charges -- but offered to release him if he signed papers forfeiting his property.

[IgnoranceIsBliss]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')
Go trail jog in the woods for Christ's sake.

[mattduke]

Insane policeman impacts citizen. Citizen arrested.

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[mattduke]

Goons attack an EMT rushing someone to the hospital. At one point the goon has him by the throat. The victims should always sue the individual goon, not the goon department.

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