More Bullying by Cops: "Lynn police block complaints with threats of arrest"

[99th_Monkey]

Lynn police block complaints with threats of arrest
By Maya * September 26, 2014 * Bay State Examiner

While I was covering the one year memorial march for Denis Reynoso on September 5, I saw Lynn police officers, some in plainclothes, monitoring the protesters. Reynoso’s family have staged about half a dozen rallies in the year since a Lynn police officers ended Reynoso’s life under questionable circumstances and I have attended all but one of them. I have not seen any violence or criminality (or any calls for such) at any of these gatherings.

As we marched, I spotted an undercover police officer shadowing us in a beat-up Camry. I wondered why police were monitoring a peaceful protest, so I approached the officer’s vehicle and asked him for his ID. I intended to include his presence in my story about the march and I wanted to follow up with the department about why police had been assigned to monitor the protest.

I cannot speak to the officer’s intent when he drove into me but I can say that he was very clearly aware of my location in proximity to his vehicle when he began driving and when he hit me with his mirror. Just before the officer began to drive, he waved to me and then he stared at me as he drove. He hit me with enough force that the side mirror folded back. I was not injured.

The officer stopped after he hit me and got on his radio, but at no time did he check on me, identify himself, or offer any aid. I left at that point because it was clear that the officer, who had not even rolled down his window, had no desire to speak with me. The officer drove past me a short while later without any attempt to get my attention as he returned to the police station.

http://baystateexaminer.com/lynn-police-block-complaints-with-threats-of-arrest/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. the police chief's email

[e-mail]

[99th_Monkey]

2. Sweet! I'm sure he'll love seeing this video

for the 200th time.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. lol

[99th_Monkey]

6. Here's a copy of my email to the Police Chief

Dear Chief Coppinger,
I hope you will review this video and administer some appropriate accountability for these officers' atrociously bullying behavior, toward a woman attempting to identify an officer, then getting threatened with arrest for doing so,

#t=256

Thank you for whatever you can do to reign in your bullies with guns.
Sincerely, ~

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. good one.

[Live and Learn]

8. Thanks, I am going to make use of it.

Not that I expect them to care much.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. good. let him know the world is watching

[Live and Learn]

11. Here is the email I have drafted and am ready to send

Let me know what you think and still I need a good title for the subject field.

Dear Chief Coppinger,

I just watched a video that included several of your officers involved in a multitude of illegal activities including assault with a vehicle, failure to wear a seat-belt, expired tags, failure to submit a police report after damaging public property, failure to stop after hitting someone with a vehicle, failure to provide officer name and badge number upon request and intimidation of a witness.

These may not seem like a big deal to the officers involved, but I assure you that to the public they are a very big deal. We expect police officers to be held to an even higher standard of the law than we are and yet your department seems to think they are exempt from laws. It is vital to the American system of justice that people be able to trust our officers.

If officers themselves feel free to break laws, there is no longer any reason to trust them. In light of the fact that they are given the power to arrest and possess weapons, public trust is imperative. Without that earned trust, officers are more dangerous to the public than any street thug, gang, mafia member or terrorist since most of us are more likely to have an encounter with an officer than any of the others and they wield significantly more power.

Please view the extremely well presented video yourself and ensure that your officers understand that they too must respect laws.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. another good one

[Live and Learn]

13. Went with, 'Please do something about this' for the subject.

Hope he at least reads it.

[99th_Monkey]

14. Awesome email

I hope the good Chief appreciates all the DU Luv

[VScott]

4. Expired inspection sticker, and the cop in the parking lot doesn't have his seat belt on

Both violations of MA law, even if technically, the seat belt violation is a secondary
offense.

She should have asked them to explain those ones.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Laws don't apply to cops...

or at least it sure seems that way.

[Live and Learn]

7. Wow, officers breaking laws and intimidating witnesses on camera.

Did anything ever happen because of this?