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May 25, 2019 at 1:57 pm #101654znModeratorMay 25, 2019 at 2:01 pm #101655znModerator
Boulder Officer Resigns Following Confrontation With Naropa University Student
May 16, 2019
Boulder Officer Resigns Following Confrontation With Naropa University Student
BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – John Smyly, a Boulder police officer, has resigned after his department says he violated two rules when he questioned and followed a Naropa University student who was outside his home. The situation — which was captured on video — drew criticism for what student Zayd Atkinson said was an instance of racial profiling.
Smyly resigned on Wednesday before the start of a planned administrative hearing into the matter. The Boulder Police Department says the rules that were violated were conduct and violation of police authority and public trust.
On March 1 Smyly stopped Atkinson while he was picking up trash next to the building he lives in using a pole and asked him numerous questions. Body camera video of the incident that was released on Thursday shows Atkinson getting upset after the officer asked him what unit he lives in and asking him to provide identification that showed his address. Smyly said he was concerned Atkinson might have been trespassing.
Atkinson showed a Naropa ID but at one point refused to comply with the officer’s orders anymore and began picking up trash once more. The officer requested backup and followed him, ordering him to sit down.
“I was not going to just fall in line again and just be a dog,” Atkinson told CBS4 on Thursday.
Smyly also threatened to use his stun gun on Atkinson because he “had a weapon,” referring to Atkinson’s pole.
“You’re an idiot. Why would you think that you could tase me? I’m freaking picking up trash on my property which is where I live. I’m not doing anything illegal, and you’re not going to f—— tase me,” Atkinson said in the video.
Looking back on the incident, Atkinson says that when he saw the officer get out the stun gun, he thought ‘Oh my gosh, he’s going to shoot me.”
After other officers arrived Atkinson berated them for many minutes for their response to a non-situation.
The City of Boulder concluded the investigation into a March 1, 2019 incident involving an encounter between Zayd Atkinson and Boulder Police officers.
The department issued a statement saying the “officer’s decision to attempt to detain Mr. Atkinson was not supported by reasonable suspicion that Mr. Atkinson was committing, had committed, or was about to commit a crime, therefore he did not have authority to detain Mr. Atkinson.” They said they didn’t find any evidence of racial profiling.
When asked about the resignation of Smyly, Atkinson said he’s glad “he’s being held accountable for something but it seems like it’s just bare minimum things.”
Smyly resigned under an agreement that allows him to collect $69,000 in salary.
May 25, 2019 at 7:19 pm #101661
wvParticipantVery Slowly things are changing with regard to racial profiling, I think.
Thanks to all the conversations spawned by situations caught on CAMERAS.
Phone cameras, police-cams, etc.There’s a lot of police that hate cameras. I’ve talked to a lot of em about it.
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vMay 25, 2019 at 11:07 pm #101668znModeratorVery Slowly things are changing with regard to racial profiling, I think.
Thanks to all the conversations spawned by situations caught on CAMERAS.
Phone cameras, police-cams, etc.There’s a lot of police that hate cameras. I’ve talked to a lot of em about it.
w
vAs Will Smith said, “Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.”
May 28, 2019 at 1:33 pm #101719znModeratorIt was so easy for him to yell, “he’s got a gun!” So he could kill him SMH! I wouldn’t shut my car off either that’s just an excuse so they can say you were reaching for something! #StayWoke pic.twitter.com/99E6zyBDUV
— Reggie Bush (@ReggieBush) May 28, 2019
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Arkansas Cop Pulls Gun on Man Recording, Claiming he had Seen an Imaginary Gun
An Arkansas man came close to losing his life Sunday when a cop pulled a gun on him, accusing him of holding a gun as the man sat inside his car with his hands extended out the window.
“Shut the car off!” the Helena-West Helena cop ordered, keeping his gun pointed at the man.
“He’s got a gun!” the cop yells to his fellow cops.
“Where?” Edrick Truitt asks, keeping his hands extended out the window.
“Gun! Shut the car off!” the cop says.
“Where? Where? My hands are in the air,” Truitt responds, refusing to shut his car off because that would require him to bring his hands back into the car where the cop has already imagined seeing a gun.
Truitt did have a gun in the back seat but it was legal and out-of-reach and it was not visible to the cop. And Truitt had not done anything to give the cop probable cause that he was armed and dangerous.
It appears as if Truitt was part of a group of black people hanging out in the parking lot of a convenience store/gas station at 3 a.m. Sunday morning when police arrived and ordered them to disperse.
Truitt says he was trying to leave when another car blocked him in, which the cop took as a deliberate refusal to follow his orders.
Helena-West Helena police say they will release body cam footage to show what “truly transpired” as News Channel 3 phrases it.
May 28, 2019 at 8:15 pm #101741znModeratorGun-toting ‘Kampground’ employee threatens Black couple spending a day in the park
Add “camping while Black” to the long list of things white people find objectionable when they see it.
An employee at the Kampgrounds of America (KOA) took issue with a Mississippi couple walking through a park with their dog Sunday, The Clarion-Ledger reported.
“All you had to do is tell us you have to have a reservation and we would have left,” said the woman filming the video. “You didn’t have to pull a gun.”
The gun-toting campground employee slowly put her handgun back into her pocket.
“Well I’m just telling you — you need to leave because it’s under private ownership,” she said. “You can’t be out here.”
The Black couple tried to explain to her why they didn’t think they needed a reservation to use the Oktibbeha County Lake, but the woman seemed disinterested.
Kampgrounds of America (KOA) is the world’s largest company with privately held campground.
“KOA Inc. is aware of the situation that occurred Sunday, May 26th at the KOA franchise in Starkville, Mississippi,” the company said in a statement. “KOA is currently looking into the matter and reaching out to all of the parties involved. Kampgrounds of America prides itself on providing a welcoming, safe environment for everyone to enjoy the outdoors.”
May 30, 2019 at 1:51 am #101778znModeratorThis Guy 2020 pic.twitter.com/NTK9W49PfQ
— Talk, Dark & Sad (@cxcope) May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 10:40 am #101782
joemadParticipantVery Slowly things are changing with regard to racial profiling, I think.
Thanks to all the conversations spawned by situations caught on CAMERAS.
Phone cameras, police-cams, etc.There’s a lot of police that hate cameras. I’ve talked to a lot of em about it.
w
vAs Will Smith said, “Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.”
28 years ago…
May 31, 2019 at 6:33 pm #101822znModeratorBaratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of … eating, walking or generally “living while black.” In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing — while challenging us all to level up.
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June 15, 2019 at 7:39 pm #102182znModeratorOver a toddler “shoplifting” a Barbie. You’d think the child was holding a grenade launcher. Serving and protecting who? pic.twitter.com/m0cbU5uEfS
— Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) June 14, 2019
June 16, 2019 at 3:15 pm #102201znModeratorOver a toddler “shoplifting” a Barbie.
Chilling Video Shows Cop Aiming Gun At Black Family After Girl, 4, Takes Doll From Store
“I’m going to shoot you in your face,” a Phoenix officer shouts at a couple in front of their two children.A disturbing video captured a Phoenix police officer aiming a gun, yelling obscenities and threatening to shoot a black family after their 4-year-old daughter walked out of a store with a doll last month.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego reacted in a statement Saturday that “there is no situation in which this behavior is ever close to acceptable.”
Police Chief Jeri Williams launched an investigation into the confrontation after recently receiving the video that was recorded by a bystander. “I, like you, was disturbed by the language and the action of the officer,” she said in a Facebook posting. “I assure you this incident is not representative of the majority of our Phoenix police officers.”
Police released the video (shown below) to the public. Another video shot from a different angle, also taken by a witness, was posted to YouTube (shown above).
The officers involved in the confrontation have been assigned to desk duty. The couple is now suing the police department and the city of Phoenix for $10 million.
The incident began as officers responded after receiving a shoplifting report on May 27. They shouted at 22-year-old Dravon Ames, his pregnant fiance, Aisha Harper, 24, and their two young children to get out of their car, which Ames had just driven to their babysitter’s apartment complex. As Harper, who was in the backseat with the children, told police that she couldn’t open the stuck door and that she had her year-old baby on her lap, an officer can be heard on the video becoming increasingly agitated.
He yelled repeatedly: “Get out of the fucking car.” Then: I’m going to shoot you in your fucking face.”
He also warned: “I’m gonna put a cap right in your fucking head.”
At one point a tearful Harper pleads: “Don’t point it at my kids.”
According to the couple’s account, Ames was shoved to the pavement by an officer as he exited the car and handcuffed. He was then stood up, pushed against the vehicle and kicked in the right leg.
When Harper emerged, the couple said police tried to wrestle her younger child away from her. She can be heard ordered on tape to put the baby down, and she responds: “She’s a baby, she can’t walk.” The baby can then be heard screaming.
At one point the man recording the scene and a friend yell at the cops to “calm down.”
Though the couple was detained, neither Ames nor Harper were arrested or ticketed, The Phoenix New Times reported. The store did not press charges.
Gallego said she was “sick over what I have seen in the video,” calling the confrontation “completely inappropriate and clearly unprofessional.”
She added: “As a mother myself, seeing these children placed in such a terrifying situation is beyond upsetting.” She apologized to the family and vowed to speed up the schedule for equipping all officers with body cams.
An initial police report said that the family drove away from the store even though they were ordered to stop, and that Ames yelled at an officer when he eventually pulled into a parking lot, according to ABC News 10. Harper and her children were “moving frantically” in the backseat and officers suspected she may have been armed, they claimed.
A police report posted to Facebook on Saturday didn’t mention those details. It said that Ames told them when he was stopped that he had shoplifted a package of underwear, and that he was driving with a suspended license.
The lawsuit alleges the police officers “committed battery, unlawful imprisonment, false arrest, infliction of emotional distress, and violation of civil rights.”
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