More Dallas cops: Alleged taser misuse, improper force while suspect already handcuffed

[rainbow4321]

On the same day that Powell (finally) resigns, it's announced other officers are being accused of misusing a taser/improper force. This time around, DPD will NOT release the dashboard cam video which they say may be used in building a criminal case against the officers.

More details at the link..including one officer putting his flashlight to the suspects throat, knee to the back, dragged across the pavement. Others in the department who HAVE seen the video say there didn't seem to be any "resisting arrest" activity on the part of the suspect.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/040109dnmettaser.392c305.html


Dallas police are investigating whether officers used improper force when subduing three suspects and using a Taser on one as he was placed in a police car.


"Take it, take it," yells a Dallas police sergeant as another officer jolts a handcuffed suspect with a stun gun, according to senior police officials who reviewed the dash cam recordings.

The Taser incident took place off-camera, but was captured on audio. "Take it like a man," Martinez yells as Eric De La Garza is stunned by a Taser as he was being placed in a squad car, according to a report filed because the stun gun was used. The report was written by another officer, rookie Officer Mark Dewald, who had arrived after the suspects were handcuffed.

"Everything that was done to me was done while I was in handcuffs," De La Garza told The Dallas Morning News. He declined further comment under advice from his lawyer.

[MadMaddie]

1. Oh boy..

Dallas has a problem

[ret5hd]

2. and NYC, and NOLA, and LA, and Tulsa, and Wichita, and Phoenix, and Gulfport, and...

(need I go on?)

[MadMaddie]

3. It is a nation wide epidemic

[stillcool]

4. The thing that gets me about Texas..

is what they've been caught doing to juveniles.

[ret5hd]

5. Really? Did you hear about the 2 juvie judges in Philadelphia?

[stillcool]

7. No..I didn't...

I posted something a while back about the prison system in this country. Actually it was in May of 2007 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=927120
The two stories that got me started on it were these...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28youth.html?_r=1&ex=1179720000&en=e9d1750f3b906e9b&ei=5070
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Published: February 28, 2007
Texan Calls for Takeover of State’s Juvenile Schools
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 27 — A long-simmering scandal over sexual abuse of juveniles at schools for youthful offenders broke into the open on Tuesday with an outraged state senator calling for a takeover of the troubled Texas Youth Commission.
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Senators questioned Mr. Nichols about the transfer in 2003 of one supervisor, Ray Brookins, to the West Texas State School from another school for juvenile offenders at San Saba, after pornography had been found on his computer. Mr. Brookins later became assistant superintendent at Pyote and was cited by the Texas Rangers for sexual contact with juveniles there, senators said.Another supervisor at Pyote, John Paul Hernandez, was also reported by the Texas Rangers to have engaged in sexual contact with students, senators said.

Both supervisors left the youth agency and are under investigation, said the Ward County district attorney, Randall Reynolds.
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Mr. Hernandez became principal at a charter school in Midland, the Richard Milburn
Academy, said Norman Hall, the school’s superintendent. The school did not know of Mr. Hernandez’s history when it hired him, Mr. Hall said, and put him on leave several weeks ago.
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The superintendent at Pyote, Chip Harrison, who knew of the accusations against Mr. Brookins and Mr. Hernandez and kept them on the staff, senators said, is now director of juvenile corrections for the commission, in charge of several schools.
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Mr. Nichols called him “one of our most experienced superintendents,” setting off a gasp from parents.
Stacie Semrad contributed reporting.

To some in Paris, sinister past is back
In Texas, a white teenager burns down her family's home and receives probation. A black one shoves
a hall monitor and gets 7 years in prison. The state NAACP calls it 'a signal to black folks.'
By Howard Witt
Tribune senior correspondent
Published March 12, 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703120170mar12,0,1435953.story
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There was the 19-year-old white man, convicted last July of criminally negligent homicide for killing a 54-year-old black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck, who was sentenced in Paris to probation and required to send an annual Christmas card to the victims' family.

There are the Paris public schools, which are under investigation by the U.S. Education Department after repeated complaints that administrators discipline black students more frequently, and more harshly, than white students.

And then there is the case that most troubles Cherry and leaders of the Texas NAACP, involving a 14-year-old black freshman, Shaquanda Cotton, who shoved a hall monitor at Paris High School in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun.The youth had no prior arrest record, and the hall monitor--a 58-year-old teacher's aide--was not seriously injured. But Shaquanda was tried in March 2006 in the town's juvenile court, convicted of "assault on a public servant" and sentenced by Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21.
Just three months earlier, Superville sentenced a 14-year-old white girl, convicted of arson for burning down her family's house, to probation.

[ret5hd]

10. read this:

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/02/philadelphia-judges-admit-taking-bribes.html

[stillcool]

12. I remember that now..

it's amazing how de-sensitized I get to this crap.

[rainbow4321]

8. The sad thing is that this won't get as near as much

Attention or outrage because the video and audio won't be released. Reading the article is one thing but people tend to react more when they see it unfolding with their own eyes. Ther DPD knows this so they are sitting on the video.

[marmar]

6. A friend of mine from Dallas says that Driving While Black or Latino can be quite the adventure.....

..... and not in a good way.

[RB TexLa]

13. Black, Hispanic, Asian, White, doesn't matter. They'll "crack skulls" on whoever

it's just what kind of human beings they are.

[Echo In Light]

9. No shortage of this sicko shit nowadays

[Fumesucker]

11. A now deceased relative of mine was a high ranking police officer..

And a good guy..

He told me quite a few times that police work changes a lot of people for the worse and that a lot of officers that start out good and well meaning drift over the line into bad cops. He said that there are a lot of officers who shouldn't remain officers for too long.

Take it for what it's worth.