As the 15-year-old was put in a police vehicle, Walters confirmed with another trooper that the boy was the juvenile who had kicked his door. Walters then turned off his body-worn camera and walked to the police vehicle.

While the boy was handcuffed in the back of the vehicle, Walters punched him in the face, fracturing his right eye socket. Walters then walked around the vehicle and turned his body camera back on.

He felt comfortable and safe doing this in front of multiple cops from other departments. That's pretty telling.

Maybe next time instead of kicking his door someone will just light it on fire.

Dude, do not get me started on bullshit copaganda shows. I have rants.

Try reading the article before you start polishing those boots.

As for the city’s complaint that Galanakis claimed to have been “kidnapped then raped,” Judge Locher found that statement was a clear and allowable expression of opinion and rhetorical hyperbole.

Here's the video that Galanakis uploaded.

And here are the two goofballs. Tons-of-Fun is Nathan Winters, the other is Christopher Wing.

but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings

And the actual number of "failings" is going to be astronomically higher.

Eleven days after the shooting, Rayford and Glass were at a Highland High School basketball game. A teacher walked up to Glass and took him to a deputy. Rayford walked over to see what was happening. Both teenagers went to jail that night and didn’t get out for nearly two decades.

At the sheriff’s station, Glass remembered seeing a bulletin for his arrest on the wall, devil horns drawn with red ink on his photo. He said there were darts in the poster.

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“I was shocked, confused, scared, nervous. I couldn’t see myself going to jail for something I hadn’t done,” he said. “I always assumed … everything was going to iron itself out. I would have bet a million dollars I was going home that day.”

Prison was tough on the two lifers. As a juvenile, Glass started in county jail and eventually was sent to a Level 4, high-security, state correctional facility. There were nights that Glass went to sleep praying he wouldn’t wake up.

Subjecting two innocent kids to a 20 year nightmare. Imagine yourself at 17 suddenly thrust into this situation. Fuck the police and the prosecutors in this case.

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I am 100% for recording ALL of your interactions with the police. Up until recently (2020) in my state the police were abusing an anti-wiretapping law to prevent citizens from recording them, but since then:

This right was established in a case brought by ACLUM, Martin v. Rollins, 982 F.3d 813, 827 (1st Cir. 2020), which was consolidated with another case, Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins. There, the First Circuit said the Massachusetts Wiretap Statute’s criminalization of the secret recording of police officers in public spaces violated the First Amendment.

You're within your First Amendment rights to record police and your interactions, surreptitiously or not, at any time. State law cannot supersede the Constitution. You benefit because the police are often intentionally slow (see any number of articles posted here in this community) to release their own bodycam footage, and often go weeks if not months or years providing a false narrative to the public. Record it yourself.

“These charges are extremely troubling because there is no place for corruption in the NYPD,” Police Commissioner Edward Caban said.

Bruh, corruption is practically all the NYPD does these days.

Not everyone is doing nothing. Some people are doing something. You can do something today, too, even if it's small.

I'm not much of a coder, but the method for finding the devices is so simple and easy to repeat that anyone could make an app for it. While I was testing it I was also using Android apps called WiGLE and RF Party that can accomplish basically the same thing. With WiGLE, just adjust the settings to only display Bluetooth devices, and look for anything with a MAC address that starts with 00:25:df or has "Taser International Inc." in a name field.

I might try to make a simple APK for it, but if someone beats me to it, that'd be rad.

Yikes, you've got a real gem of a PD there.

I'm in MA and they're all about Axon here too. My local PD also uses IMC for their mobile and administrative backend, which I've been trying to find a monitoring surface for. They love to let everyone know on the radio when the system is down, too, which is pretty funny. Quick, do crimes!

If a pretty bizarre set of circumstances with the PI (operating as a driving instructor) and the non-criminal lawyer hadn't come together these kids would still be incarcerated. How fucking scary is that?

Lol I don't know, man. Your post was very "hey fellow kids, the po-po are total bastards BUT you also need to read the article to see why they're right" and then you rushed to defend them. Without reading the article. Which you were chiding people for not doing.

Edit 2 seconds later: you also called Galanakis a "stupid teen" which makes me think you're probably in the wrong community.

Instead it's the opposite. Just this year in my little area of the world, four BPD officers were acquitted of embezzlement basically under the basis that they didn't know it was illegal.

But they love to tell you that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

For example, calling out propaganda is doing something. :) Thanks, @JoJoGAH.

They will often keep trying. "OK, so you've requested a lawyer and we won't be able to talk to you after this, we can't help you at all. Are you sure you want to go to jail for life instead of just explaining what happened?" and then it becomes "subject changed his mind." It's harder than it sound sometimes, but you have to stick to it and not say a damn word.

Officer Jacob Lee Marsh. Watch out for him on the road if you live in CO.

“I think that we learn from our mistakes. We teach others about our mistakes and we move on that’s what I truly believe,” said Cordova, before adding, “In the long run to be to totally honest, I’m glad it was me and nobody else.”

The victim here is a genuine class act. I think he gives too much credit to the cops who are trying to weasel their way out of paying his medical bills, though.