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demmiblue

(36,744 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:21 PM Jan 2015

Lawyer: Cops break woman’s ribs for ‘disrespect’ after asking about a crime committed...

Source: Raw Story




A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against three police officers in Victoria, claiming that they brutally beat her and broke her ribs without a good reason.

Mary Frances Jones told the Victoria Advocate that the three police officers woke her up early in the morning on Dec. 22, 2013 over reports that a truck that she had purchased the day before had been seen driving in a local creek.

Jones said that she had been unaware at the time that her sons borrowed the truck while she was sleeping. After officers claimed that she was lying about owning the truck, Jones said she tried to go back inside her home, and that’s when they forced her to the ground.

“One of them had his foot on my arm, and the other kicked me and broke my ribs,” she recalled. “They hurt me. They hurt me bad, and they know they did.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/lawyer-cops-break-womans-ribs-for-disrespect-after-asking-about-a-crime-committed-while-she-was-asleep/

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Lawyer: Cops break woman’s ribs for ‘disrespect’ after asking about a crime committed... (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2015 OP
Even with all the police brutality protests recently, the cops still don't get it. Jacoby365 Jan 2015 #1
Unfortunately, many "good cops" are getting fired or bullied into silence 99th_Monkey Jan 2015 #10
There is no justice. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2015 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author 99th_Monkey Jan 2015 #20
Police departments need to change their psych tests Jacoby365 Jan 2015 #2
Actually, I think they DID change their requirements... gregcrawford Jan 2015 #12
Bingo workinclasszero Jan 2015 #16
They've changed their hiring practices. They exclude people with 'high IQ's'. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #17
so, IQ does exist then... AngryAmish Jan 2015 #19
My sister is a cop. Don't know how she passed the test SummerSnow Jan 2015 #3
One of my brothers is -was-a cop dixiegrrrrl Jan 2015 #7
The cop culture in America... isn't something I would like my children to adopt... I don't think I'm uponit7771 Jan 2015 #4
Disgusting Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #5
Parents are finally starting to get it. Trillo Jan 2015 #6
Yay, Cops! Iggo Jan 2015 #8
While I know all cops aren't bad, lark Jan 2015 #9
First, they came for African Americans and I said nothing........ blackspade Jan 2015 #11
The police chief in our town went to prison for coercion. Another cop had his son alfredo Jan 2015 #13
Apparently the cops in Victoria Texas have the NYPD disease workinclasszero Jan 2015 #14
fuck tha police frylock Jan 2015 #15

Jacoby365

(450 posts)
1. Even with all the police brutality protests recently, the cops still don't get it.
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:30 PM
Jan 2015

Until good cops start admitting there is a problem, and calling out the bad cops, this shit will continue.

Response to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #18)

Jacoby365

(450 posts)
2. Police departments need to change their psych tests
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:40 PM
Jan 2015

so they can find the right type of personalities to fit the supposed purpose of policeman "to protect and to serve", and to start hiring people who are not self-centered, power-hungry, aggressive holier-than-thou thugs.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
12. Actually, I think they DID change their requirements...
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:21 PM
Jan 2015

... so they could recruit frothing-at-the-mouth psychopaths to crush any and all dissent when the proverbial substance REALLY hits the fan, as it is sure to do once people realize what the corporatists are up to with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and all the other schemes aimed at total dominion over the lives of others, namely US. There will be blood.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
16. Bingo
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:32 PM
Jan 2015

I think many people are starting to wake up to the truth about our militarized violent police forces in America

They serve and protect the 1% and crack the skulls of everyone else.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
7. One of my brothers is -was-a cop
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:23 PM
Jan 2015

and a raging alcoholic.
The other brother who was a cop ( now retired) was not a drinker.
but both of them had serious control issues,loved to tell people what to do.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
4. The cop culture in America... isn't something I would like my children to adopt... I don't think I'm
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:04 PM
Jan 2015

... alone

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
6. Parents are finally starting to get it.
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:14 PM
Jan 2015

when you call the cops on your kid when all he or she did was look crosseyed at you because they had a stomach ache, these are the people to whom you are sending your supposed loved one.

lark

(23,003 posts)
9. While I know all cops aren't bad,
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:30 PM
Jan 2015

how does the public know if they are getting the good or bad versions when they call? I would be hard pressed to call the police to my house with the way things are now, because they could be worse than the problem I'm calling about. So sad when the cops are the real criminals.

alfredo

(60,065 posts)
13. The police chief in our town went to prison for coercion. Another cop had his son
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:28 PM
Jan 2015

bait his classmates into drag races. His dad would be down the road waiting. The son became a cop, was a brutal racist asshole. One day he was assassinated.

Our local fire department was where the KKK met. The fire department and police department shared the same building.

One of my classmate's dad killed a man. The cops went to his house and told his kids they had 24 hours to leave town. The three boys were not teen and preteen, and couldn't fend for themselves. They left town with what they could carry on their backs.

When a black family moved to town, someone threw dynamite into the house. The cops blamed the man that sold the house to them. They said it was his fault for selling the house to a n..... The perp was never caught.

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