Thursday, February 09, 2023

cops are one moment away from being criminals, all it takes is getting busted on what they've done

Justin Smith, who also serves as a detective with the Wilson County Sheriff's Office, was the on-duty detective in a county issued vehicle, is now charged with DUI and possession of a weapon while under the influence.
 Smith was also the Wilson County Commissioner. 

Newton Police Officer Nathan Winters and Lt. Christopher Wing pulled over and arrested Tayvin Galanakis for not dimming his headlights for oncoming traffic. 

In a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 19 year old Galanakis, alleges the city and its police department are guilty of false arrest, civil rights violations and negligent supervision and training.

The cops falsely claimed Galanakis performed poorly on the variety of field sobriety tests although the police body-camera video shows otherwise. 

The cops told Galanakis he had sufficient cause to arrest him based on his inability to find his registration, his bloodshot eyes and the field tests. Galanakis asked for a breath test which showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.00.

Immediately after the breath test, the cops asked how much “weed” he had been smoking.

“I’ve had no weed tonight,” Galanakis can be seen in the video telling the officers. “Why are you saying — Wait, I blew a zero, and so now you’re trying to say I smoked weed. That’s what’s going on. You can’t do that, man. You really can’t do that.”

“Absolutely I can,” one of the officers responded.

Galanakis was taken to the Newton Police Station where drug recognition test and urine test concluded Galanakis was not intoxicated or showing any signs of drug or alcohol use.

The mayor, the city administrator, the police chief, the police command staff and the city attorney had each reviewed the incident and concluded the traffic stop “was handled according to police departmental policy and according to the law.”


An Ohio police department began Black History Month by unveiling a cruiser that featured a quote attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King. But the quote — “Be the peace you wish to see in the world” — was never said by the revered civil rights activist.


A Redding police officer has been placed on leave after he was seen "forcefully stepping" on a suspect's head after he and other officers arrested him, using a bean bag round, and a dog... THEN his head was stomped on.

The car thief suspect fought with officers, who shot him with a less-than-lethal bean bag round from a firearm and used a canine to subdue the man, Police Chief Schueller said.

"Ultimately, the man was taken into custody after a significant struggle. The end of the video shows one Redding police officer forcefully stepping on the head of the suspect," Schueller said. 


Dijon Sharpe was livestreaming his traffic stop on Facebook Live when police officer Myers Helms attempted to take his phone away because he said livestreaming threatened his safety.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Winterville town’s alleged policy that banned video livestreaming police during traffic stops was in violation of the First Amendment, ruling that if such policy exists that bans video livestreaming, it does violate the First Amendment. 

The ruling states that livestreaming police encounters provides information the same way recording police officers does. “Recording police encounters creates information that contributes to discussion about governmental affairs,” the ruling said. “So too does livestreaming disseminate that information, often creating its own record. We thus hold that livestreaming a police traffic stop is speech protected by the First Amendment.”

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