270 pound cop kicks his daughter because she ate carrots, police chief did nothing with video

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/berthoud-police-officer-jeremey-yachik-arrested-on-child-abuse-false-imprisonment-charges

Berthoud Officer Jeremy Yachik admits physically abusing 15-year-old girl for years
Affidavit: Berthoud chief failed to act on video

LOVELAND, Colo. - A Berthoud police officer was captured on a video punching, kicking and choking a screaming 15-year-old girl to punish her for eating carrots out of a refrigerator, according to court records.

The girl told Loveland police investigators that Berthoud Officer Jeremy Yachik abused her almost daily for years. The abuse allegedly included restraining her hands with handcuffs or plastic zip ties and then slamming her head into a wall hard enough to leave a hole and choking her until she blacked out, according to a Loveland Police Department arrest affidavit. He also beat her with ropes, restricted her food, shackled her in a darkened room for hours and force-fed her "ghost pepper sauce" that's roughly 10 times hotter than habanero peppers.

During a voluntary Sept. 27 interview with Loveland investigators, Yachik, who is 5-feet-11-inches tall and weighs 270 pounds, admitted doing many of these things to the girl, the affidavit said. The officer also confirmed he was the man shown in the video abusing the teen in July 2012.

Asked why he did these things, Yachik told investigators the teen "won't communicate" with him, the affidavit said. He didn't cite anything the girl had done to warrant these punishments, police wrote.

Yachik was arrested Wednesday on a warrant charging him with four counts of child abuse resulting in injury and one count of false imprisonment, all misdemeanor charges, according to police records.

The criminal investigation led Berthoud town officials to suspend Yachik and Berthoud Police Chief Glenn Johnson earlier this month. Town officials also arranged to have Larimer County sheriff's Sgt. John Feyen serve as interim police chief until the criminal investigation is completed. The Sheriff's Office is also conducting an internal affairs investigation into how the Berthoud Police Department handled the accusations of police misconduct.

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Saint-Roberts said she began going public with the video after she sent it to Yachik's boss, Chief Johnson, and he did not respond to her. However, Saint-Roberts said Yachik did call her and said, "Nice try…trying to get me fired…it's not going to work," according to the affidavit.

[NuclearDem]

1. I can't even bring myself to watch that video

Just reading the article has made me utterly furious.

Fucking pig.

[pacalo]

2. He was reported by his ex-fiancee to his employer & to the child protective authorities

& neither took any action. Thankfully, the monster lived in a different police district & they arrested him.

I wish I could hug that girl.

[gopiscrap]

3. Fucking pig..this is so typical of how cops

treat their families and also so typical of the asshole chief doing nothing about it. I swear to God a friggin cop can eat a live baby in the station and these stains would still stick up for one another.

[cali]

19. what evidence do you have that "this is so typical of how cops treat their families"?

[noamnety]

20. It's much more prevalent among police

as it is with people in the military, as well. It shouldn't be a surprise that people with authority and power, who are trained to use violence as a means of controlling people, have a hard time shutting it off at home.

It's also typical that when it is reported, not much is done about it if the abuser is a cop.

http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp

[gopiscrap]

22. exactly!!!

I was a social worker and one of the highest professions of parents abusing their kids were fucking cops, way more than the military

[Arugula Latte]

23. Also, a higher percentage of people who get off on being "in control" tend to become cops in

the first place.

[Paulie]

4. Fucking monster!

[Gravitycollapse]

5. Another victim of the Blue Curtain. Fucking pigs.

[backscatter712]

6. Fuck. I grew up in Loveland.

Can't say I'm sad to not live there anymore.

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. My blood boils

[Northerner]

8. Stupid violent vicious thug. Too many of these goons are hired as cops.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Belated welcome to DU...

There should be stricter psychological testing for police officer candidates. Just about anybody can become a cop down here, and it scares the hell out of me.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. If this ever makes it to court and he is found guilty I hope his time in the general population

is well served by giving the inmates the chance to give him regular beatings.

But no, he probably will get off with a slap on the wrist.


His daughter on the other hand will be messed up for years to come.

When I was a kid a police officer and his family lived next door. We didn't know, since their house was a little distant that the father was abusive. We found out years later from a neighbor that the kids tried to escape a beating by jumping out of a second story window.

We also found out that nobody liked this cop in the town where he worked. Fucking abusive asshole that he was.

So forgive this humanist when he wants a monster to suffer for his actions.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. That's nowhere near abuse.

That's attempted murder.

[freshwest]

11. Hope she ends up owning Loveland through a good lawyer. Torturous abuse, plain and simple.

[JI7]

13. Chief Glenn Johnson needs to be fired also, all these other cops and superiors who do nothing

need to lose their jobs also.

[Tigress DEM]

14. He should be made to pour "ghost pepper juice, with plenty of seeds in it" on his privates.

AND not be allowed to rinse it off. His skin should melt or slough off in a few days.

[IronLionZion]

15. WTF is wrong with people? People are the worst. nt

[derby378]

16. Pig

As in bacon. As in I smell it. Let that cop come fuck with me instead of his 15-year-old daughter. I eat ghost pepper sauce as a thrill.

Sorry, but it's best that I never meet Yachik, or his shit will get fucked up.

[okaawhatever]

17. I couldn't watch the video either. I can't believe they only charged him with misdemeanors. I don't

know why they don't consider a charge of withholding evidence for the Police chief. I would consider that a minimum starting point. Also review anyone else on the force who knew and didn't do anything. Police have a higher duty when they know a crime is being committed. They are supposed to be the solution, not the problem.

[derby378]

18. Sometimes, investigations promote misdemeanors into felonies

We can only hope...

[Iggo]

21. Yay, Cops!

They're the best!

[Taitertots]

24. I might get flamed for this; but violence against this man is justified if he isn't punished

He is a corrupt police officer that tortures his own child. This is the physical embodiment of evil. It is video taped AND he admitted to most of it.

After reading some of Franz Fanon's case files from French controlled Algeria, anything this officer has done should be brought into question. Many of the people who tortured their own countrymen for the French would go home and abuse their family; especially their children. Being a police officer, he spends 40+ hours a week in a situation where he can respond to the slightest perceived challenge to his authority with violence.

[RedCappedBandit]

25. Police are trained that violence is a tool.. No surprise.

[Ikonoklast]

27. Escalate until control is achieved.

[madamesilverspurs]

26. Less than an hour

from where I live.

And when I first saw that video and heard the backstory, I prayed to God to keep me from crossing paths with this horrible man, because this otherwise sweet old lady WOULD go to jail for what I'd do to him.