Columbus PD is pretty toxic

[themaguffin]

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[Omnipresent]

1. Bad cops have no where to hide anymore.

We will be coming after you!

[wnylib]

17. But what do you do when it is the entire police force

of a community? How do you deal with all of them?

[Omnipresent]

21. That's ok...

We have enough prisons to split them all up in.

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

[Bettie]

3. Well, those white kids were celebrating, don't you know!

That's just good old 'Murikan fun!

Those other people were CLEARLY dangerous criminals...sandwiches, standing in a garage, being in the ER! Everyone knows that's all dangerous activity.

Why would we doubt that these "public servants" are on the level?


Also, good to know they are using their helicopter for "needed services"...FFS.

[sop]

4. The Casey Goodson Jr. and Andre Hill shootings were horrible, the officers must be prosecuted.

Thanks for the reminders.

[yardwork]

5. Something evil in the Columbus Police Dept. Where is the community?

[Botany]

8. Columbus P.D. has some real right wingers in it. Vice cops were up @ 1AM to arrest Stormy Daniels

Vice Officers Fired Over Stormy Daniels’s 2018 Arrest at Ohio Strip Club

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/stormy-daniels-columbus-vice-officers.html

Two vice officers were fired on Thursday by the city of Columbus, Ohio, for their role in the wrongful arrest of the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels at a strip club in 2018, an arrest that a lawyer for Ms. Daniels said was the result of a “conspiracy of dunces.”

The officers, Steven Rosser and Whitney Lancaster, were found to have violated police rules when they arrested Ms. Daniels on three counts of illegal sexually oriented activity and then lied to internal affairs investigators about the basis for the sting, city officials said.

The charges against Ms. Daniels were dropped within 24 hours, but not before the arrest, at Sirens Gentlemen’s Club in Columbus, drew national headlines. Ms. Daniels is best known for saying that she had an affair with Donald J. Trump before he was president.

Amid scrutiny that the arrest had been politically motivated, the city later paid $450,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Ms. Daniels. It also disbanded the troubled vice squad after a federal corruption investigation.

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Backstory .... Daniels came back to Columbus and did 3 sold out shows.

[yardwork]

9. I remember that. The community needs to speak up.

I grew up near Columbus - decades ago - and it's disappointing to see this. Columbus is a diverse, progressive city.

[Botany]

14. Funny thing the Columbus P.D.'s had an out and proud lesbian as Chief of Police ... now retired.

But still a lot of the regular cops are very right wing. I have known some and some were and
are really good people but either generational thoughts and or right wing hate talk has really
effected their thinking. Days off were spent playing golf, drinking beer and listening to Rush
& Hannity.

Although I don't know enough about the current shooting to make a comment on it.

[luvs2sing]

6. They've been terrible for a long time.

I’m in a demographic that one would think would have nothing to fear from them (older, white, female), and they scare the hell out of me.

[sop]

15. The cop who shot Casey Goodson Jr. called use of force "righteous release" and an "opportunity"

"The Franklin County Sheriff's SWAT deputy who shot and killed Casey Goodson Jr. on Dec. 4 is also a Baptist pastor and has used his faith to justify law enforcement's use of force."

"Michael Jason Meade, a 17-year sheriff's department veteran who goes by Jason, described use of force as 'righteous release' in a 2018 video interview posted on YouTube by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office."

"'Every now and then you have to actually use force,' Meade said in the video, called 'Connecting with the Community.'"

“'We don’t go around looking for it because we don’t have to,' he said. 'Plenty of people out there will give you that opportunity ...'"

"He says that people say Jesus said to turn the other cheek, but he responds by telling them to read the Bible. He said Jesus isn't talking about physically getting slapped in the side of the face."

[themaguffin]

7. Also, remember when they arrested Stormy Daniels?

Clearly, they had no reason except that she was against trump.


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[dalton99a]

10. +1

[teach1st]

11. Video of Ohio State football scrimmage riot

Last edited Wed Apr 21, 2021, 11:37 AM - Edit history (1)

I don't know how long it took for CPD to show up, but they did show up. No arrests.

Police break up large block party near Ohio State campus; several cars flipped over
10 WBNS, 4/18

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Several cars were damaged during a large block party Saturday night near the Ohio State University campus.

Police estimated 1,000 people were in attendance of "Chittfest," a large party typically planned every year on Chittenden Avenue between North High Street and Summit Street.

CPD Commander Dennis Jeffrey said that police were aware the event was going to happen but didn't expect this many to attend. The party started to get "out of control" around 10:45 p.m. and multiple officers were sent to the scene.

Edited to add:

This news report says that police arrived at 3 a.m., "hours after the chaos started."

https://fox8.com/news/off-campus-party-leads-to-destruction-near-ohio-state-university/

[-misanthroptimist]

12. It's pretty obvious...

...that the police in this country are out of control and unaccountable. Personally, I think this is all due to the pointless and hopelessly lost War on Drugs.

End the War on Drugs and reform the police.

[themaguffin]

13. Well, the war on drugs was really a proxy race thing anyway

[wryter2000]

16. Right wing infiltration

Police forces must start screening for it. Same with the military. And especially military applying to be police.

[-misanthroptimist]

23. +1

[Maraya1969]

18. Did he have a gun or not? How did he get all the way into a hospital with a gun?

And if he didn't then that is just fucking murder.

[Sympthsical]

19. "Horrific slaying"

Cop saves a young black girl's life. But nah. "Horrific slaying!"

That hospital story is a peach. I don't think that's one you want to lead with. An armed, intoxicated man. The gun goes off. They use the taser several times.

People are picking some interesting hills to die on these days.

As for the rest, what are the contexts of the shootings? We're told there were shootings and given no details. It's all in the implication.

Sometimes I think there are people who want riots and discord and polarization. Gets more views, gets more outrage, and gets more attention to themselves.

"Horrific slaying."

Jesus.

[BobTheSubgenius]

20. I can't understand how two cities with at least some superficial similarities...

...can have such a different outcome in policing. Victoria, where I live, and Columbus OH are both university towns, similar in size, although Columbus is larger, with a population of about 800,000, while Victoria's is about 670,000.

The stats on police-involved shooting deaths aren't at all similar, though. Columbus has had 32 since 2015, although I don't know how up to date that number is. Good enough for illustration, anyway. Since 2014, Victoria has had 1. In fact, since 1900, it has had that one 2014 death.

What could possibly account for this disparity in any kind of rational way???

[Duppers]

22. 😫 OMG! Extremely disturbing.

Bookmarking.

TY!