The LEO that beat Floyd Dent in Inkster MI was convicted folks!

[JustAnotherGen]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/floyd-dent-trial-william-melendez-michigan-ex-cop-found-guilty-n466471

An ex-cop accused of using excessive force when he beat an unarmed driver during a traffic stop in suburban Detroit was convicted Thursday on two counts.

William Melendez, who was fired from the Inkster Police Department in April following the Jan. 28 incident, was found guilty of misconduct in office and assault with intent to do great bodily harm.

On a separate count of strangulation, he was found not guilty. Melendez's bond was revoked and he must remain in jail before he is sentenced Dec. 3. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

Driver Floyd Dent, 58, was repeatedly punched, kicked and Tasered in an incident caught on police dashcam video.

Remember - this was the man the Inkster Police accused of having drugs on him - those charges were dropped.
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/283844-story

the same day Inkster's Police Chief announced her resignation, the man at the center of the investigation into her department is officially cleared of charges.

Drug charges against 57-year-old Floyd Dent were officially dropped Wednesday morning in Wayne County. The charges were thrown out in the wake of former Inkster police officer William Melendez being charged with crimes related to his arrest and beating in January.

In court on Wednesday, the prosecutor's office cited insufficient evidence for the reason to drop charges against Dent.

The beating and arrest in late January was caught on police dash cam video. Dent admitted to running a stop sign that initiated the arrest but says police went to far and even planted cocaine in his vehicle to get the charges.

Mr. Dent also settled his civil suit for 1.4 million dollars. At the tax payers (not the cops) expense.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/03/floyd-dent-settlement-inkster-taxes_n_7495452.html

[bravenak]

1. YEAH BABY!!!!

THANK GOD, FINALLY SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS. This should be the norm when police officers are abusive and dangerous. They should be convicted just like anyone else committing a crime. Good news!

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I know

I figured best to post back here - and to avoid any nonsense in GD. I seriously don't want to read a bunch of bullshit about how the cop was actually innocent and Floyd Dent beat himself up.

[bravenak]

3. Oh my God, I know.

After Trayvon was armed with a sidewalk.... No. I skip the gd threads on police violence. I get too angry. Enraged.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Our usual suspects

Will be posting their 'flat zero tone' post about a black little girl who kicked a puppy any minute now.

Funny - two in particular have been VERY vocal about their tacit disapproval of the black university students STICKING UP FOR THEMSELVES. I'm sure you know precisely who I'm talking about.

They would never ever post a clap or an approval for the jury in this case. NEVER. It's what they are. I expect the 'but he shouldn't have been' post from one of the two any minute now.

Waiting.

[bravenak]

5. Some promote their pocness constantly but never find a poc that they like.

Amusing.

They will find a way to make anybody guilty even if they have to fsbricate things.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I saw someone got a hide

For calling you racist. True story - a member reach out to me because they were very angry.

Hopefully you will see his post back here later. I gave him a few tips - ie don't link to it and don't call out the poster -

So he can avoid an alert and hide.

[bravenak]

9. Oh yes!

Two in the last few days. Then three callouts hidden this morning, I thank the alerters and juries. It really never ends because you know how racist I am. And the whole not loving bernie after I got my snootfull is pissing some off. They seem to think people can treat folks like crap and they should just deal with it to help them win. Nope!

Somebody was mad at me or mad at that post?

[JustAnotherGen]

11. At that post!

It was wrong.

Not you!

[bravenak]

13. Awesome. It was nasty.

My pm was real though. I thought everybody knew since I say it over and over.

[JustAnotherGen]

39. I just read the funniest thing at DU

I can't post it here - but I'll pm you.

[bravenak]

43. OMG. Eating my tacos and cracking up over here!!!

Best thing all day, seriously. From bye felicia to ism giving it a big kick and rec... I'm on my way back in to looky loo.

[randys1]

40. Now they are posting your private messages in threads where they are complaining

about you.

This place has really lost all

something

cant think of the word

[bravenak]

44. And that makes ME the BULLY!!!! Isn't it funny!

That message, tho..... Somebody was telling it like it was. Me. I was.

[1StrongBlackMan]

24. LOL ... That made me laugh ...

Some promote their pocness constantly but never find a poc that they like.

On a truly, unrelated subject:

Theory and Research Concerning the Notion of Black Self-Hatred: A Review and Reinterpretation.
Baldwin, Joseph A., Journal of Black Psychology, v5 n2 p51-77 Feb 1979

Father Absence and the Black Child: A Multivariate Analysis.
Carter, Donald E.; Walsh, James A., Journal of Negro Education, v49 n2 p134-43 Spr 1980

I don't know what made me recall these two peered-reviewed studies, that I read years ago? TBH, I really don't.

[bravenak]

27. You know who..

And yes, self hatred on one end, and pure racial fantasies on another. Some people pretend things.

[JustAnotherGen]

41. Oh my!

Now now now - don't be an imperialist plutocratic oligarch overlord 1strong!

[sheshe2]

7. I hope Melendez

Gets the full 10 years and even that won't be enough.

Thanks JAG. I am glad he was convicted.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Me too

And his wife stormed out and the judge pretty much told her to get her butt back into the courtroom and to not disrupt her courtroom like that.

So - hmph! There!

[sheshe2]

10. Ha!

I would love to have watched a clip of that little scene.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I can't find video of it

Anywhere - but oh -

How I would have loved to have seen her try to flounce her ass out of there and get called to the floor for it.

[Starry Messenger]

14. This should be standard!

That poor man, I am glad one person got justice. If more cops were fired and charged, there might actually be a deterrent against willfully attacking Black people who were minding their own business. I could hope.

[Number23]

15. + a million!

[Starry Messenger]

17. Right?

The total lack of consequences has had an enabling effect. I think our entire justice system needs a vast overhaul, but if we could even just get more arrests of cops who kill or beat people of color, more cops might wake up and think "Wow, this might get me in trouble if I do this."

[Number23]

18. Agree completely. And even if it they aren't jailed, because many juries are loathe to do that for

some reason, I am really encouraged by the number of civil lawsuits -- in the tens of MILLIONS of dollars -- that are being waged against cops that kill with little to no provocation.

So fire them, jail them and/or sue. I'm good with all of those options.

[Starry Messenger]

20. + a million!

[randys1]

21. The one thing white cons notice, money. Take their money thru taxes and

you get their attention.

[JustAnotherGen]

37. Um

Check your pms. I'm dying from snorty laughing in NJ.

[randys1]

16. Civil lawsuit for millions is the only way to make change. Putting a cop here and there

behind bars wont do it. Helps sure, but the only way to stop this is to make it a financial issue.

Eventually, if the teaparty get their way, unbeknownst to them, they will be next so they should support these lawsuits.


By get their way I mean if they manage top give the Koch Bros everything, the Koch Bros will soon tire of their whining and they will be the next targets.

[Starry Messenger]

19. Like Number23 said above, all of it.

Just throw the book at them. Lawsuits, jail, trials, bad publicity. Loud and shining bright lights everywhere. I would like to get back to a form of community policing that actually helps society, but short of that, deterrents of all sorts are welcome.

[etherealtruth]

23. Floyd Dent has settled his lawsuit with the City of Inkster for $1.4 million.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/floyd-dent-settles-suit-with-city-of-inkster-for-14-million/33251644

This happened last May

Floyd Dent has settled his lawsuit with the City of Inkster for $1.4 million.

However for Dent, who was beaten by Inkster police in a shocking attack caught on video earlier this year, becoming a millionaire is less important than improving police relations with the communities they are supposed to serve and protect.

Given the choice, Dent would rather be broke and never have had this happen.

[JustAnotherGen]

22. You are right!

[1StrongBlackMan]

25. More cop convictions and more convictions of those cops that ...

saw; but, didn't intervene ... knew about; but, didn't report ... assisted in covering up ... such conduct.

[brer cat]

30. I want to see that, too.

Those who actively abet as well as those who stay silent when they know it was based on lies.

[Kind of Blue]

26. Saw this the other day and my heart sang!

Because this is how it should be done.

Woman Arrested After Pulling Gun On Black Man In 'Self Defense'

"According to News Channel 5 Nashville, Sherry McLain, 67, was leaving the retailer last Saturday when James Crutchfield, 52, asked her if she had a lighter. Frightened, McLain pulled out a gun and reportedly threatened to shoot him.

That’s when a strange man approached, surprising her, and she pulled her revolver. I have never been so afraid of anything in my whole life I don’t think, said McLain. This guy is the bad guy and I’m the one in handcuffs walking away."



http://newsone.com/3253062/white-woman-pulls-gun-on-black-man/

[Starry Messenger]

28. OMG.

Please, let this be a trend. That poor man, I'm glad she didn't shoot him and the other innocent bystanders in the parking lot.

[Kind of Blue]

34. I'm hoping this is the way of future, as well.

I've been seeing more and more arrests/trials/convictions of cops. Yet still more fresh cop violence, too.

It's interesting that what the "threat" is was never mentioned in the video. It's just a foregone conclusion in her mind that black male means violence and we all should get that But this is really a positive move to charge her. Kudos to that Nashville PD.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. I don't believe her

He was ten feet away and she's got an innocent little boy and his grandmother in her cross hairs?

Guess what lady - you ARE the problem and you deserved to be arrested. Now get those guys Zimmerman's daddy bought him and plead your case.

[Kind of Blue]

35. Yes, she should become the face

of the fear WE live with, the fears of those who demand protection and cry out for freedom from those whom they dominate. She makes me sick, pulling out a gun not giving a damn of the innocents nearby. I just hope after the conviction of Trayvon for his own murder that this is what we will get more of.

[JustAnotherGen]

36. I do too!

And I'm proud to have you in my clique!

[Kind of Blue]

38. Aww, don't make me cry, JAG!

Those daggone tears pop up when I least expect it.

I'm proud of YOU and very happy to be here

[randys1]

42. Projection I think we call her fear.

[Kind of Blue]

45. Indeed! And hers is on another level

and dangerous. She's not the first to do this and actually kill someone seeking help. I totally forget the name of the man, but I think it was this summer that he was convicted for the shooting death of a young black woman whose car stalled and went to his house looking for help. She did nothing but knock on his door before blasting her into oblivion. He cried like a baby during conviction, I'm sure fully realizing how sick he is besides snuffing out a life.

[Digital Puppy]

46. Amen!! n/t

[Enthusiast]

29. Wow! I love it!

[LiberalArkie]

31. Maybe thing are about to turn around. All it will take is some convictions to make the

officers start behaving as human beings again.

[Kind of Blue]

32. This is wonderful and handled relatively quickly

It took my family 5 years, 5 fucking years to clear my brother of all charges. I just can't imagine the agony of so many men and women who've languished and are languishing for years without recourse.

In our case, without any video, those assholes were tenacious and kept popping up again and again no matter how many cases won, or how many felonies they were racking up on themselves. My blood is boiling right now but I say it once and I'll say it a million times, it's about awareness and, worse still, perception. I hate to sound like a broken record but how could a jury acquit in less than 15minutes on proven trumped charges convicted on, if it was not for the horrific murder of Freddy Gray.

Unless they see video of the actual brutality/murder, Sandra Bland's case and many others remain in limbo, still "under investigation." So many people require actual real-time blood and gore to be moved to see us, as well as the poor, as human beings. Good Lord, I saw a dashcam of a police stopping a man racing his pregnant wife to the hospital. Yes, he was brutally beaten for pleading for his wife's and baby's lives. One cop says to the other, "The camera is on." Reply, "I don't care about the damn camera," and kept on beating.

The judges, the prosecutors and public defenders are all in cahoots and I just hope it doesn't take too many more vicious killings on camera to get the public to wake up and act as one.

[Digital Puppy]

48. I hear you, KOB...I really do....

...gotta keep shinning a light on these incidences and not diminish or put down the experiences of others who have these 'encounters'.

Damn, I feel your pain and your need to just shout!

Let's celebrate this victory and understand the battle still goes on.

[Kind of Blue]

50. Aww, Digital Puppy...

Thank you! It is a celebration and I get so caught up in anger for those who I'm/we're powerless to help right now. Melendez was fired, facing criminal charges. There's an interim police chief in charge. Dent is victorious. My brother is victorious, this of course changed his life converting him to an energetic activist helping with cases of the many young men he met while incarcerated. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I will take your advice for Balance. I will celebrate while understanding the battle still goes on Thanks.

[awoke_in_2003]

47. It is a start...

and needs to start happening with regularity.

[JustAnotherGen]

49. I'm In total agreement! N/t