police state:Civil Forfeiture Under Presumption of Guilt

Police State USA: Civil Forfeiture Under Presumption of Guilt


Where in the world can police confiscate your money and your property, not charge you with any crime, then tell you there is absolutely nothing you can do about it?

The answer, which you may not have known (but might have guessed from the title), is none other than the USA, where people mistakenly presume the law says innocent until proven guilty.

Legalized Robbery

In a report called Stop and Seize, the Washington Post details how aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes.

The Washington Post noted there have been 61,998 cash seizures made on highways and elsewhere since 9/11 without search warrants or indictments. Law enforcement agencies confiscated more than $2.5 billion. Half of the seizures were below $8,800. Here are a few examples.

•A 55-year-old Chinese American restaurateur from Georgia was pulled over for minor speeding on Interstate 10 in Alabama and detained for nearly two hours. He was carrying $75,000 raised from relatives to buy a Chinese restaurant in Lake Charles, La. He got back his money 10 months later but only after spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer and losing out on the restaurant deal.
•A 40-year-old Hispanic carpenter from New Jersey was stopped on Interstate 95 in Virginia for having tinted windows. Police said he appeared nervous and consented to a search. They took $18,000 that he said was meant to buy a used car. He had to hire a lawyer to get back his money.
•Mandrel Stuart, a 35-year-old African American owner of a small barbecue restaurant in Staunton, Va., was stunned when police took $17,550 from him during a stop in 2012 for a minor traffic infraction on Interstate 66 in Fairfax. He rejected a settlement with the government for half of his money and demanded a jury trial. He eventually got his money back but lost his business because he didn’t have the cash to pay his overhead.

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John Oliver on Civil Forfeiture

The above examples are outrageous, but the following one detailed by John Oliver is far worse.

[video=youtube;3kEpZWGgJks]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&feature=player_embedded[/video]

Matt Lee, from Lake Station, Michigan was driving to California with $2,400 in cash his dad lent him to start a new business. In a routine traffic ticket pullover, police asked Lee if he was carrying any money. Lee told the police he had $2,400 from his dad and the police promptly confiscated the money.

The police officer told Lee "I have concluded my investigation and am keeping the money because you are traveling to California to buy drugs."

It is incredible to believe someone would travel all the way from Michigan to California to buy a mere $2,400 in drugs. Yet, that was the conclusion of the officer.

It is amazing, and scary, that this happens in the US.

But it happens all the time. "Everyday I do this. It's all I do for a living. It's drug interdiction and I get money," said the Nevada police officer.

Let's describe Civil Forfeiture as it really is: Police State USA in which police act as judge and jury, with a presumption of guilt, and steal what they want for their own benefit.

Traveling to the USA? CBC news in Canada explicitly advises of the American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogs...vil-forfeiture-under.html#3y1XZTJyivUIUeEu.99

all of "justified theft of property" will lead us down the road to your money in your own home will become scrutinized and seized. Police have become the new legitimate thieves.

 

here's a gem. If you don't believe cops can be corrupt, better think again:
[video]http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Police+Abuse+Caught+O n+Tape&Form=VQFRVP#view=detail&mid=B9622EC59422D70C2A04B9622E C59422D70C2A04[/video]

 

this is what get when you are disarmed:
[video]http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh977NPLtFNKZ27h v9[/video]

 

A police officer killed Robert Ethan Saylor in a movie theater when he wanted to watch Zero Dark Thirty again. Saylor had down syndrome and when police tried to get him to leave, he reacted violently. They used three sets of handcuffs, pinned him to his stomach before realizing something was wrong. The coroner ruled that he had died from asphyxia. The police response? They're not guilty, and since he was overweight, it contributed to his death.

http://thesource.com/2014/12/08/md-...n-with-down-syndrome-who-wouldnt-leave-movie/

 

again, with the same excuse, the cops blame the guy for being choked to death. We don't need thugs to operate in this country while hiding behind a badge

 

Agreed. Kind of makes you wonder why not just pay for another ticket? It's not hurting anyone and he likes the movie.

 

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...wn-and-cops-still-kick-him-face-and-taser-him

After police officers Michael Chinn and Kip Bartlett chased down Timothy Whittle following a drug bust, there is some "confusion" as to what happened during the arrest. Apparently one kicked Whittle in the face. The officers claim that he got the cut from windshield in his car, but the video doesn't back up that story.

 

Off Duty Cop Kidnaps Woman From Jail, Drives Her To His House ‘For Personal Relationship’

One of the kidnappers fellow officers stated: "You arrested her, you can do whatever the f*ck you want to do."

By Jackson Marciana for Counter Current News | January 9, 2015

A police officer was recently found to have acted “inappropriately” after he pulled over an intoxicated Native American woman, and then drove her to his house to have a “personal relationship” with her.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was disciplined, and given seven days off off work without pay. The Canadian CBC News reported that adjudication documents said that “RCMP Const. Kevin Theriault took an intoxicated woman he had arrested out of a cell and drove her to his northern Manitoba home to pursue a personal relationship.”

Theriault and another officer had arrested the woman at a party back in 2011 according to the report. They placed her in a cell “to sober up” but six hours later Theriault came back, out of uniform, and requested that the woman be released into his custody.

The RCMP report says that he drove the woman to his house in his personal car, while officers taunted him via text message to find out “how far he would go” with his prisoner.

One of these officers even “jokingly made a comment about having a threesome,” according to the report.

One officer said that all of this “wasn’t right.”

But he eventually even conceded: “You arrested her, you can do whatever the f*ck you want to do.”

Once all of this came to light, the Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak called the incident “a gross abuse of power.”

“They have to hold one another to standards of conduct,” Nepinak said. “We expect to be protected, just as every Canadian expects to be protected by a policing agency.”

He noted that Theriault’s punishment, however, is just a “slap on the wrist,” but did not explain why he was not being punished more harshly.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/off-du...o-his-house-for-personal-relationship/200627/

eh??? WTF!!!! Are you serious???
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was disciplined, and given seven days off work without pay. was all he frickin' got.....and I thought this was just a US event

 

Civil forfeiture is a prime motivation for police abuse and should be abolished. Its clearly unconstitutional but has been upheld by the supreme court. Given the large amount of cash cops collect and the legal system that has abandoned all pretense of following the Constitution, its going to be extremely difficult to eliminate civil forfeiture.

 

Well what do you think happens when the common people no longer have the means of defending themselves and their property?
They are at the complete mercy of those appointed to protect them.

Sounds a lot like Communism in the Soviet Union.

 

yes, sir....and look how they have devolved since communism took over............

 

'Police State USA: Civil Forfeiture Under Presumption of Guilt "

if we can apply these laws to people, they we should be able to apply them to corps, I mean corps are people to after all

 

http://www.copblock.org/82702/brutality-police-state-usa/

[video=youtube;3ATcdymwd7c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ATcdymwd7c&feature=player_embedded[/video]

If one cannot see the US devolving into total corruption and chaos, one has his eyes wide shut

 

Police State USA: FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations

http://www.picassodreams.com/picass...-internment-and-resettlement-operations-.html

damn, if this ain't scary...........

 

Six Cops Kill Unarmed Man In Front of His House, Claiming It Was ‘Self Defense’

The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Department says that Daniel Satre, 43, was “screaming” and “walking in front of cars” around 11 p.m. when two Ballston Spa police officers killed him.

Once again highlighting the disconnect between law enforcement and the community, officers seemed to think that these allegations of minor misdemeanor activity would justify police over-reaction and violence.

Satre’s family, as you might expect, tell a very different story from the police, who claim that Satre “fought wildly with six officers.”

Daniel’s family writes the following:

As you read this, the official autopsy has been kept under wraps and still not made available. Those responsible are still patrolling the streets. The time is now for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to call for an independent investigation that is transparent and brings justice for the family and community.

The unprovoked and Herculean struggle with what police describe as a veritable super villain prompting them to repeatedly electrocute him just outside of his own home is so over-the-top that it is difficult to just take the word of the officers involved in this killing at face value.

Two officers from the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office along with the two responding state troopers say that they could not physically restrain one man without using a weapon… and without using that weapon over and over.
The image that police paint is so bizarre that if true it is clear Satre was either the strongest man in history, or these officers had no place in law enforcement if they could not – together – handle one man. This leaves the more likely scenario, that police are fabricating their version of the events of that night.

At a news conference Village Police Chief Charles Koenig claimed that Satre “was warned several times that officers were preparing to stun him.”

But Koenig added that the criminal and internal investigations being conducted will be carried out by the police, rather than by an external third party. He further added that no disciplinary action would be taken against the officers involved.

Satre’s daughter and girlfriend described Satre as a “beautiful person” who wouldn’t hurt anyone without provocation. The police allegation that Satre just went “wild” and started assaulting people for no reason is not supported by anyone who knew the man, nor by toxicology reports.

“The last time I saw him, he was cuddling with his cat and he said, ‘I love you, '”Amanda Conant, Satre’s daughter explained. “That was the last thing I heard from him. That’s the person he was, you know? That’s how I want to remember him.”

Goss’ father, George Goss III, explained that Satre had never had any run-ins with the police there before.

“He was a good guy,” Satre’s girlfriend Mila, said. “He would never hurt anybody.”

Now Daniel Satre’s family and friends have started a petition calling for “justice” which they say can only come through an external, third-party review of this police killing. In spite of this very reasonable request, police have resisted this proposal at every turn.

Watch the video below…
[video=youtube;1FuIUmCmfuo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1FuIUmCmfuo[/video]

http://alternativemediasyndicate.co...nt-of-his-house-claiming-it-was-self-defense/

this is outright murder.....................

 

Notorious Albuquerque Cops Charged with Murder in Fatal Shooting of Homeless Man at Campsite
Murder charges would be the first time an officer with the department had faced criminal charges for shooting someone in the line of duty.

A New Mexico prosecutor has bypassed a grand jury and filed murder charges Monday against two Albuquerque police officers who shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man last year at his illegal campsite.
James Boyd had been camping March 16 in a restricted area in the foothills above the city after homeless shelters were closed, friends said.
Police negotiated for nearly five hours with the 36-year-old Boyd before an officer fired a flash-bang grenade at the homeless man, who appears disoriented and grabs a knife.
Boyd, who was a paranoid schizophrenic, was shot to death after taking a step toward officers.
KRQE reported that District Attorney Kari Brandenburg would file open murder charges against Dominique Perez, a SWAT officer, and former detective Keith Sandy, who retired from the department eight months after the fatal shooting.
The charges were announced Monday morning.
Albuquerque has one of the highest rates of police shootings in the nation, but the murder charges would be the first time an officer with the department had faced criminal charges for shooting someone in the line of duty.
New Mexico law permits prosecutors to file charges without a grand jury indictment, although the practice is rare.
The officers will be permitted to contest the charges at a preliminary hearing, and a District Court judge will then decide whether there is probable cause to bind the cases over for trial.
A jury would consider a range of charges – including voluntary manslaughter, which carries a maximum six-year prison term, to first-degree murder, which carries a possible life sentence.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...s-man-campsite

'bout damned time. These two are facing Life in prison...............

further more:
The FBI is also investigating the fatal shooting. After a review last year found probable cause for a pattern of civil rights abuses at the APD the Department of Justice appointed a federal monitor to negotiate policy reforms with the APD and the city.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/12/al...d-james-boyd-c

At least the prosecuting attorney had the wherewithal to go against these two. Phoenix has one of the nation's highest rates of civilian shootings. About time they reassess their game plan.

 

Improper training+being blind from a flash bang+ shooting at random= a 7 year old girl sleeping on a coach dying. On May 16th 2010, police were looking for a murder suspect when a SWAT team went up to the Stanley-Jones household. Officer Joesph Weekley fromt the Detroit Police was the first to enter and because of a flash bang blinding him, shot Aiyana Stanley Jones as she slept. Charges were filed but recently the courts said he was not guilty.

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/aiyana-stanley-jones/

 

Florida Police Department Used Black Mug Shots For Target Practice

Family outraged after North Miami Beach Police use criminal photos as #HumanTargets. VIDEO: http://t.co/0hzALWdpdW pic.twitter.com/zJ7HFGntNB
— NBC 6 South Florida (@nbc6) January 15, 2015
National Guard Sgt. Valerie Deant and her fellow soldiers went last month to a firing range in Medley, Fla. What they saw there made them angry. Not only had North Miami Beach Police snipers who had used the range before them used mug shots of six African-American men as targets, but one of the men pictured was Deant's brother. The mug shots were riddled with bullets.
"I was like, 'Why is my brother being used for target practice?' " Deant told NBC6, which first reported this story on Thursday.
The mug shot of Woody Deant, her brother, was taken 15 years earlier. She said it had bullet holes in the forehead and an eye.
Woody Deant had been arrested in connection with a drag race in 2000 that left two people dead; he spent four years in prison.
"I'm not even living that life according to how they portrayed me as," Woody Deant told the NBC6. "I'm a father. I'm a husband. I'm a career man. I work 9 to 5."
North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis acknowledged that his officers, who had selected the targets, could have used better judgment. But he denied racial profiling was at play, noting that the sniper team included minority officers. He said his department also uses pictures of whites and Hispanics for target practice.
But, he said: "Our policies were not violated. There is no discipline forthcoming for the individuals who were involved with this."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...arget-practice

Some time back, it was found out that the cops and Feds were using pictures of women, old men, old women, and children for target practice. Now they are using pictures of real people for target practice, then justifying it. WTF???
Must be fun practice on the real deal that gets them off, or as close to the real deal. This is sending a message to America that they are indeed thoughtless bastards, IMO.
this only supports the following:
[video=youtube;G63FEamhpA0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G63FEamhpA0[/video]

 

Former New Mexico sheriff to serve 10 years for rights violations

By Joseph Kolb 14 hours ago

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - A former New Mexico sheriff was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal court on Wednesday after he was found guilty of violating a motorist's civil rights last year when he dragged the man from his car and threatened him with a gun. Tommy Rodella, 53, was sheriff of Rio Arriba County but was in plainclothes and brandishing a pistol when he and his son confronted the motorist in March 2014. When the victim asked to see some identification, prosecutors said, Rodella slammed his sheriff's badge into the man's face.
Rodella was convicted in September. He had faced up to 17 years behind bars, but U.S. District Judge James Browning gave him seven years on a firearm charge, and three years and one month on a charge of violating the victim's civil rights. He was also ordered to pay a $200,000 fine and restitution.
"When he attacked a defenseless innocent civilian, Sheriff Rodella chose to abuse his power rather than uphold his oath to protect the public," Damon Martinez, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, said in a statement.
He said the Justice Department will "vigorously" prosecute any officer who crosses the line, because they discredit their colleagues and weaken public trust in law enforcement.
According to court papers, Rodella was driving an unmarked vehicle when he pulled over the motorist, Michael Tafoya. He entered Tafoya's vehicle and struck him with a silver revolver, prosecutors said, while the victim begged not to be shot.
Rodella and his 26-year-old son, Thomas Rodella Jr., were arrested by FBI agents in August. His son avoided prosecution due to doubts about his cognitive ability, court papers said.
Rodella's controversial career spanned almost three decades. The Albuquerque Journal said that as a state police officer in the 1980s he was disciplined for marijuana use, physical abuse and improper use of a weapon. In 1993 he allegedly shot at a deer decoy set up by state game wardens to catch poachers.
In 2008 the New Mexico Supreme Court fired him from his post as a magistrate court judge in Rio Arriba County for "willful misconduct" after he involved himself in a friend's drunken driving case, and also promised to rule in favor of campaign supporters if they faced any litigation in his court.

http://news.yahoo.com/former-mexico-...222112562.html

.....one down and so many more to go........
I am absolutely amazed this guy was allowed to continue his "rampage" through society this long. Well, it won't happen again with this thug

 

Fight the Power!

[video=youtube;8PaoLy7PHwk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk[/video]

Note: I do not support the song's characterization of Elvis or John Wayne.

 

Got to say that these so called "peace keepers" are absolutely disgusting.

 

Unfortunately, this story is the exception instead of the rule. The vast majority of cops get away with abusing, false arrest, and perjury against citizens on a daily basis.
What people need to realize though is that the cops are only the enforcement branch of a corrupt government which has evolved from being the servant of the people to a tyrannical master that now is completely out of control. Government is evil by its very nature, and the Federal and State governments of the US are now as corrupt and illegitimate as any dictatorship.

 

that's why we posts these stories in here. Jump in

 

Two Philadelphia police officers charged in beating of motor scooter rider
By Daniel Kelley
16 hours ago

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A grand jury has criminally charged two Philadelphia police officers with knocking a man from his motor scooter, beating him and then falsely accusing him of assault, in the latest case of alleged police misconduct in the United States.

Officers Sean McKnight, 30, and Kevin Robinson, 26, were charged with aggravated assault and related offenses in the May 2013 incident which occurred after a traffic stop in a gritty section of north Philadelphia, said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams.

The victim, Najee Rivera, said he fled in fear on his scooter after officers exited their vehicle with their batons extended. That, according to Williams, enraged the pursuing officers.

One of them hit Rivera in the head with a baton as their patrol car knocked him off his scooter, prosecutors said.

Rivera was hospitalized with a fractured orbital bone and numerous lacerations to the head. But McKnight and Robinson filed paperwork claiming Rivera attacked them.

Rivera's girlfriend, however, had canvassed the area of the beating, and turned up surveillance video of the beating.

“The video undermined every aspect of the officers' account,” Williams told reporters at a news conference on Thursday. “None of it was true except for the blows inflicted on Najee Rivera.”

The police brutality charges come after months of nationwide protests over what demonstrators say is police abuse of force against minorities.

Unrest touched off by the August killing of an unarmed black teen by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted President Barack Obama to form a task force to improve police and community relations. He tapped Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to help lead the task force.

Last year federal corruption charges were filed against a band of rogue narcotic officers from the Philadelphia Police Department who were accused of dangling people from high-rise balconies as an interrogation technique and stealing dealers’ drug stashes.

Last month, a Philadelphia detective was charged with helping his girlfriend, who was a murder suspect, hide from police.

Ramsey acknowledged that the multiple cases could erode the community's trust in his department.

“It is painful, it is embarrassing,” Ramsey said. “It does bring up a lot of issues you see across the country.”

Ramsey said McKnight, a seven-year veteran of the force, and Robinson, a six-year veteran, have been suspended with intent to dismiss.

Charges against Rivera were dropped after the video surfaced. His civil lawsuit against the city was settled for $200,000.

http://news.yahoo.com/two-philadelphia-police-officers-charged-brutality-motorist-162556151.html

As we peer through the many layers that hide the police, we expose more of their corruption............

 

I want to answer to who is criticising the law enforcement in a so strong way. Some policemen are corrupted, some others are brutal, violent, disrespectful of the laws they sworn to defend. These police officers should be punished, should be dismissed and should pay for their crimes.
However, I also think that bad stories are the ones that always generate more interest, especially for what concerns the police.
So I wanted to tell a good story, one that was nothing special or extraordinary or whatsoever, but it really is difficult to choose among many of them and so I decided to speak about them all. When a citizen is in danger and call 911, the cops will arrive and protect him. No matter if it is a call for a silly thing or if it is a call for a man with a gun threatening somebody. No matter if it is dangerous or extremely risky. These man and women risk their life, day after day, year after year, to protect any citizen, with commitment and passion. And if the Lord call them in the course of their duty they will answer "present", and will leave knowing that they have dedicate their whole life to help others, and that they did the right thing. Police officers know what they risk, but still never step back from the life they chose to live.
My respect and my thanks to those people who proudly arise as the prop of our society.
NYPD cops are called the "finest of New York". Well, I think that this definition should be extended to any police department of the world.