I’m guessing that the other officer complied w the order to arrest him bc the guy giving it was a commanding officer (Sgt perhaps). Hopefully protects him from any blowback.
I saw this yesterday on Reddit. Someone mentioned the guy who took the swing and was arrested was a rent-a-cop. That’s why his jacket says officer where all the others say police.
Needed a separate “good cops” thread for the 3 Twitter videos per year featuring cops giving a lollipop to a minority child.
I am pretty sure the "Good Police" literally exists somewhere on this board. Think it was a Farva thread in response to this one existing. As for this thread's title BellottiBold , I'm open to suggestions. I would like to avoid labeling it as all police being problematic though because obviously that's unfair to people like the commanding officer in the most recently posted video in this thread. There are definitely some (although they feel painfully too few and far between) law enforcement officers who hold their colleagues accountable that we should shine a positive light on in this thread. Maybe the Police Accountability thread or something? You tell me, sir.
It definitely does and it is specifically for the “officer masquerades as a real human being for a day” stories some posters felt the need to reflexively reply with as a counter to the many “officer’s gun accidentally murders unarmed man/woman/child, police union says ‘whoopsie poopsie’” stories that have been shared.
North Texas man sues two Keller police officers after August arrest A new lawsuit filed against the two officers says Keller police leadership called the use of force and arrest of Marco Puente “inappropriate.” A North Texas man is suing two officers in the Keller Police Department following his arrest in August. Keller PD demoted Sergeant Blake Shimanek for his role in the incident. The arrest occurred Aug. 15 when 22-year-old Dillon Puente was pulled over for making a wide right turn. Puente was on his way to his grandmother’s house when he was stopped in the Riverdance neighborhood. Bodycam video shows Shimanek ask Dillon to get out of the car before he places him in handcuffs. In a police report obtained by WFAA, Shimanek said he detained Dillon because he was worried about his safety. “He was ticketed and taken to jail for a wide right turn,” said Dillon’s dad Marco Puente in an interview with WFAA. Spoiler Marco Puente was following Dillon to his grandma’s house, and he pulled up his vehicle after he saw his son was pulled over by police. Bodycam video shows Shimanek threaten Marco Puente with arrest if he continued to remain in the roadway with his truck. After obeying the order to move his vehicle, Marco started recording his son’s arrest on his cellphone, while he was waiting on the sidewalk across the street from the scene. “The officer didn’t like me being there recording anything,” Marco told WFAA. Bodycam video shows Shimanek ordering Officer Ankit Tomer to arrest Marco too. “Put your phone down,” Tomer said, while his body-worn camera recorded. “Put your hands behind your head.” “This guy is arresting me for just standing here,” Marco said in video captured by the body-worn camera. “They tried to take me down and pepper spray me, and it was a fiasco,” Marco told WFAA. Dillon Puente ultimately paid a ticket for his wide turn. But a new lawsuit filed against the two officers said Keller PD leadership called the use of force and arrest of Marco Puente “inappropriate." The lawsuit says two days after the incident, the police chief met with Marco to apologize for the officers’ conduct “and to reiterate that Officers Shimanek and Tomer were in the wrong, not Mr. Puente.” When contacted, Keller police were quick to provide WFAA documents into their investigation of this incident, but said they cannot publicly comment due to the ongoing lawsuit. Scott Palmer is Marco's attorney. He said the lawsuit is about accountability. “Marco is not a criminal. This is a man, a concerned father, and if this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone,” Palmer said. “These officers knew better. I believe they were trained better, but why did they not execute better? I don’t know.” Police records show Shimanek has had previous problems as a Keller officer. In 2016, an Internal Affairs review found that he entered a home without a search warrant and without approval from the homeowner. In 2018, Shimanek's discipline file shows that he was reprimanded after he made a comment in reference to "women not carrying guns because they would not be able to protect the children during a school shooting." Now, in this 2020 incident, another Internal Affairs review has found misconduct. This time, it is has led to Shimanek's demotion from his rank as a sergeant to officer. Keller police said Officer Tomer, also named in the lawsuit, was not punished as he arrived later and was working under the orders of his then sergeant. “It’s disturbing to know that these are the people we are entrusting with providing safety in the community and they are abusing that power,” James Roberts, an attorney in Palmer’s law firm, told WFAA. “I know that they knew better. I know that they knew what they were doing was wrong, yet they still did it.” Now three months later, the Puente family remains troubled by the August incident. “Who gets pulled out of a car and cuffed for a wide right turn?” Marco said. “Nobody. Nobody.”
I'll fucking be Police records show Shimanek has had previous problems as a Keller officer. In 2016, an Internal Affairs review found that he entered a home without a search warrant and without approval from the homeowner. An internal investigation found he searched a woman’s home without permission and threatened to call Child Protective Services without just cause. The internal affairs investigation found the Shimanek showed conduct unbecoming of an officer Shimanek was demoted from sergeant to officer. In 2018, Shimanek's discipline file shows that he was reprimanded after he made a comment in reference to "women not carrying guns because they would not be able to protect the children during a school shooting."
If you're so scared to approach a home that a man peacefully walking out of the garage is going to cause you to shoot him, you shouldn't be doing the job. And smh at "roll over and show me your hands" after the dude was just shot multiple times. Really? That's like "don't move while I grind my knee into your back!" Some cops just don't have any common sense.
Very infuriating. I don’t necessarily buy that Tomer shouldn’t have been reprimanded just because the other officer was his sergeant. When I was in CBP, we were always told that we have to come up with our own reasoning for our use of force or any detention, because we were the ones who’d be held accountable. I saw a chief (two ranks above officer) tell another officer to spray a detainee in a cell for not wanting to get up to get searched. The circumstances didn’t call for it, so the officer said tried to hand his spray to the chief and said if he wanted to spray him and cuff him, to go right on ahead. The chief walked out and was later demoted to supervisor because of the report that was filed by me and a supervisor. Accountability is absolutely imperative to any sort of proper law enforcement.
Sgt. Blake Shimanek pulled him over on a street inside the subdivision for making a wide right turn. Kids father deserved it for not teaching him how to drive better.
my buddy trains people all the time for gun safety, drills, etc etc. Says women are great handling weapons because unlike men they actually listen. Lol.
Cops are held to such a Low standard by their superiors. It’s unreal. The problems are as clear cut institutional problems as can be.
He was hacked!! https://www.fox5dc.com/news/prince-william-county-cop-fired-after-threatening-social-media-posts
Clearly photoshopped. It’s obvious someone from his Neo Nazi message board where he’s a mod is trying to set him up.
Portland's mayor is now vowing to crack down on "antifa anarchists" over rioting on NYE. Cool narrative, Ted. There's a reason that everything trending on "Portland" is from wash examiner, fox, oan, andy ngo...
I support you. How dare you enforce laws on me! Fuck those people, especially the "We pay you!" guy. They've been terrorizing minorities for decades and they work for them too.