(Raw video)Aerial video of controversial video of a police chase through Miami today.Police are accused of beating the suspect once he was apprehended.Check media reply video.
A wild high speed chase through the streets of Miami Dade came to a crashing end in a parking lot near Miami International Airport.
According to police, there was a report of an armed robbery suspect jumped into a gold-colored Volvo station wagon at 3328 NW 29th Street then jumped into and sped off.
Officers spotted the vehicle, went after him, pursuing him at high-speeds along 836 and surrounding roadway. The suspect weaved his way in and out of traffic, almost hitting pedestrians, a gas tanker and a retaining wall along the way.
Police say he also tried to ram two police cars.
At times during the chase, officers were practically bumper to bumper with the suspect then at other times, they backed off.
Finally, the suspect exited the Dolphin Expressway and sped up Perimeter Road, next to Miami International Airport. He turned again at 25th Street where his road ran out in a Customs warehouse area. After the driver skidded over a median between two police over a median and having nowhere else to go, the suspect slammed into a traffic barrier. He then took off of foot and tried to outrun police but they caught up to him as he jumped spread eagle into some bushes. He surrendered after at least six officers jumped on top of him.
Initial reports suggested three males committed an armed robbery at a lunch truck at the address where the chase started.
One eyewitness said "They took $60 from the lunch truck. They pointed a gun at me and told me to turn around."
Investigators are still working on the details and not confirming if the man subdued was part of the robbery.
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Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:43 pm
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re: Women Forcibly Strip-Searched By Male And Female Cops
Youtube deleted those two already, replaced one. Here's the vids from liveleak:
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CANTON OH, -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor.
Steffey says Stark County sheriff's deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip search 15 months ago, according to a federal lawsuit.
Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson denies the allegation.
Steffey's attorney says her clothes, including her underwear and bra, were stripped from her body by at least seven male and female sheriff's deputies and jail workers. She lay face down in handcuffs at the time.
"Hope begged and pleaded with her ... assailants to stop," the lawsuit says. "There was no forcible penetration but Hope felt as if she was being raped."
The sheriff denies this was a strip search.
The sheriff's policy requires officers conducting any strip search to be of the same sex.
Her attorney, David Malik, said Steffey, 41, was never asked to voluntarily remove her clothes.
In an e-mail, Swanson said Steffey was asked to remove her clothes but refused. He said deputies took them off for her own safety.
Swanson declined to comment further, saying the details would come out in court.
Channel 3 News obtained exclusive video of Steffey's night in the Stark County jail cell. You can click the link at the bottom of the page to view it. A warning: it is difficult to watch.
Steffey declined to be interviewed for this story. But her husband, a high school educator, talked to Channel 3's Tom Meyer.
Greg Steffey said his wife is still traumatized. But the couple wants the story told to prevent it from happening to someone else.
"This could be your wife or anyone's wife," Greg Steffey said.
He said he still can't believe this happened to Hope, a 125-pound woman who, earlier that night, turned to police for help.
"You don't treat people like this," Greg Steffey said. "I don't think murderers are treated like this much less people charged with disorderly conduct."
Steffey's ordeal with the Stark County Sheriff's deputies began after her cousin called police for help.
In a 9-1-1 call, her cousin said Steffey had been assaulted by another cousin.
When a Stark County deputy arrived, he asked for Steffey's driver's license. She accidentally turned over her dead sister's license, which she said she keeps in her wallet as a memento, the lawsuit says.
The deputy refused to give the license back and told Steffey to "shut up about your dead sister," according to her attorney.
The sheriff denied that in a written response to the lawsuit.
Eventually, Steffey was arrested and taken to the Stark County Jail. She was later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
After her clothes were removed, she was locked in a cell. To stay warm, she wrapped herself in toilet paper. She remained in the cell for six hours.
During that time, she was not allowed to use a phone or seek medical attention for injuries she suffered that night, including a cracked tooth, bulging disc and bruises, the lawsuit says.
Deputy suspended after dumping man from wheelchair
By: Mike Deeson
Tampa, Florida - The Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office held a press conference at 10:30am regarding the deputy who can be seen on video dumping a man in a wheelchair onto the ground.
They've announced that Deputy Charlette Jones has been relieved of her duties without pay pending the outcome of an investigation. She has not officially been terminated.
Jones has been employed by the Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office since 1996.
Chief Deputy Joe Docobo watched the video for the first time last night and said he found himself in "disgust" and was "appalled at every level."
Docobo also announced that two corporals and a sergeant involved are now on administrative leave with pay, and the jail supervisor on duty did not have knowledge of the incident.
Brian Sterner broke his neck almost 14 years ago and is a quadriplegic.
Sterner, who can drive, was arrested on a traffic violation. When he was booked into the Orient Road Jail last month, Sterner couldn't believe what happened.
He says a deputy looked at him and didn't believe he was a quadriplegic. She walked behind him, took the handles on the back of the hospital-grade wheel chair and dumped it forward.
Sterner says he tried to roll as he was going down, but hit so hard he thought he had broken two ribs. Then, while he was on the floor, deputies frisked him and tried to get him back into the chair.
Sterner says he told them how to pick him up and put him back into the chair, but because he can't feel anything from his breastbone down, he says he was injured and didn't know it. Sterner thought he had broken two ribs, but jail x-rays showed that wasn't true.
The Hillsborough Sheriff's Office didn't know anything about the incident until we showed them their own tape. Now an investigation is underway.
J.D. Calloway, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, says this has all come to light today, so this review is very active.
While we tried to get a written report about the incident, the major who runs the Orient Road Jail told us there is no incident report, because as far as they are concerned, they didn't have a problem with, or cause a problem to, an inmate in a wheelchair.
But don't tell that to Brian Sterner.
Sterner says it's incredibly degrading and it's an example of how poorly trained the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office is. He adds, if they're trying to figure out if somebody needs to be in a wheelchair or not, there are many other ways to do it than to dump somebody on their face.
Chief Deputy Joe Docobo added at the press conference this morning, the sheriff's office will now try to "make things right for this gentleman."
CAIRO, Egypt -- The footage is shocking: A man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomize him with a wooden pole.
Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the police who made the film, and that they then transmitted it to the cell phones of the victim's friends in order to humiliate him.
For Egypt, the ordeal of 21-year-old Emad el-Kabir has been something of a Rodney King moment -- a sudden, stark glimpse of a reality which authorities routinely deny, but which human rights groups say is part of a pattern of police brutality.
Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:28 pm
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Woman Beat By Cop In Shreveport While In Custody
Officer fired after an incident with a female DWI suspect lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
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Feb 18 2008 Shreveport, Louisiana
A police officer has been fired after an incident in which a female prisoner, who was taken into custody on suspicion of DWI, wound up lying on the police station floor in a pool of blood.
Much of what happened was recorded on a videotape, but there is a gap of undetermined length.
During that time, the woman was believed to have been injured.
She said she was beaten up, the officer said she fell.
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Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:34 am
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Woman 'beaten'at same police station as man dumped out of wh
Woman 'beaten'at same police station as man dumped out of wheelchair.
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CCTV:This is the same police station that the female police officer that dumped a man from his wheelchair.Marcella Pourmoghani claims she was beaten by a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office detention deputy that she had to be taken from the jail to a hospital. Here is the surveillance video from the Orient Road Jail.
A woman who said she was beaten by a deputy at the Orient Road Jail has filed a federal lawsuit.
After seeing what happened to Brian Sterner, the wheelchair-bound quadriplegic, dumped from his chair at the same jail facility, Marcella Pourmoghani is speaking out.
The deputy involved in the Sterner case, Charlette Marshall-Jones, submitted her resignation Monday.
"Unprovoked, just as what happened to myself," she said after watching the wheelchair incident. "I could not breathe from the blood pouring from my mouth and my face,' Pourmoghani said. "And she had her knee on the base of my skull."
Pourmoghani said she was beaten so severely that she had to be taken from the jail to a hospital. At that time, Pourmoghani also was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer. But the state attorney's office dropped the charge after seeing the video.
On Friday, Pourmoghani's attorney filed a lawsuit in federal court. She's suing Hillsborough County, the sheriff's office and all the deputies seen on the video.
Because of the lawsuit, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office won't comment on the case. But last August, when the video first surfaced, a jail supervisor defended the deputy.
FULL STORY:http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/2/18/325777.html
Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:04 pm
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Raw Surveillance; Police Rough up Family in Front Yard
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Front yard tussle. An Indiana couple claims officers roughed them up in their front yard, and that it was captured on surveillance video.The family claims they had made a complaint to police who were not interested. When one said they were taking it up with the mayor, the police became aggresive.
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:10 pm
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A lawsuit was filed accusing Cookeville, Tennessee police of "excessive use of force" and "planting contraband" during a domestic assault arrest last year.
One officer has been placed on leave because of the incident, and five others are named in the federal lawsuit.
Police car video from the Cookeville Police Department captured the incident that triggered the lawsuit.
On the night of June 4, 2007, Carlos Ferrell was stopped by police on a domestic assault warrant. According to the lawsuit, Ferrell's ex-wife, Tiffany, saw Ferrell, called police and was involved in the initial chase.
Once Ferrell came to a stop, he was ordered out of the car by Cookeville Police Officer Chris Melton.
"Put your hands up, and get out of the car," Melton is heard telling Ferrell on the tape.
Ferrell, 28, exits the car with his arms raised while Officer Jeff Johnson is holding the department's police dog.
The video shows the dog bite Ferrell several times. Attorney Blair Durham is representing Ferrell.
"The dog is released. The dog then chews into Mr. Ferrell's leg where, of course, he goes to the ground," he said.
"Your dog just ate my leg off," Ferrell said on the tape. Durham also accused Melton of planting drugs on Ferrell.
In the dash cam video, Melton is seen searching Ferrell's pockets a number of times.
Then, Durham said, another officer appears to give a signal with his hand, at which point Melton then reaches into his right pocket and looks into the camera.
It's at that point on the tape that Durham said Melton appears to put drugs in Ferrell's pocket.
"Whoa, Carlos, weed? Now you got you another freaking charge, how about that?"
Melton told Ferrell in the video. Melton has been placed on administrative leave with pay. T
The night of the stop, Ferrell was charged with evading arrest and possession of marijuana.
"That's a complete drug plant is what I'm alleging. It's a complete unlawful search, first of all, and it's a planting of paraphernalia," Durham said.
Cookeville police said they are "completely cooperating with the TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)."
A representative said the department is not trying to hide anything and doesn't want to look like it is.
Police took Ferrell to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries.
Durham said Ferrell is no choir boy but that he's never been arrested on violent offenses.
Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:09 am
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SC Highway Trooper ramming a man running down a side street, and flipping him into a ditch
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More trouble for the South Carolina Highway Patrol after more videotapes were released which show officers behaving badly.
3 weeks ago, Governor Mark Sanford accepted the resignations of both the public safety director James Schweitzer and the Highway Patrol commander Russell Roark.
This, after he viewed tapes, including one from 2004, showing a trooper using a racial slur and threatening to kill a man during a foot chase.
Civic leaders and some lawmakers now want an investigation into the patrol. Those same leaders brought videos showing a patrolman ramming a man running down a side street, and flipping him into a ditch. The trooper later brags he was trying to hit the man.
When asked on the tape you can hear the trooper say, "Yeah, I was trying to hit him. I hit the **** out of him."
"You have to understand the arrogance of these troopers who know they're being recorded," says Rep. Hart. "To still do this type of activity and say look we don't care, we'll do whatever we want to do."
"He needs to be arrested," says Rep. Christopher Hart of Richland County. "He needs to be charged, he needs to be brought before the law and prosecuted for that."
State representative Hart calls the tape "despicable," adding he believes most law enforcement officers follow the letter of the law while the actions of a few "bad apples" give the entire patrol a bad name.
South Carolina NAACP President Lonnie Randolph adds, "A lot of these things occur because it is allowed."
Dr. Randolph says the kind of the activity on the tapes represents a "culture" that has been allowed to develop. But, he points out the chance for change is here. In the next two weeks, Governor Mark Sanford is expected to name possible successors to public safety director James Schweitzer, who resigned three weeks ago. Lawmakers and civic leaders plan to put candidates under the microscope.
"It's our job to do what we do to ensure that all human beings are treated with the decency and respect they deserve," says Dr. Randolph.
Representative Hart adds, "The first thing is we need to get rid of the good ole' boy system. We really need someone completely from the outside who has no ties to any political person or any political director so they can come in and really do a thorough job and make sure we get rid of this."
In the two cases described, the troopers involved either received 2- or 3-day suspensions, or were sent to stress management or diversity classes.
A source tells there are more tapes out there that have not been released, possibly 40 of them. The issue extends beyond racial discrimination, those tapes show troopers treating people of all races with a "wild west mentality."
That same source says there are plans in place to urge the Richland County Sheriff's Department and solicitor's office to re-open an investigation into the apartment complex chase and pursue charges against the trooper involved.
