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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsfeel safer yet ... pedestrian beaten up by police framed w/2 felonies.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/ronald-jones/Officer Antkowiak begins the encounter by ordering Mr. Jones to the front of his police cruiser. Jones complies and places his hands on the hood. For no apparent reason, Antkowiak began to place Jones in handcuffs. When the officer aggressively wrenched Mr. Jones arms behind his back, he spun around, as if to try and understand the cause for the arrest.
Officer Antkowiak escalated the violence by slamming Jones backward onto the hood and placing him in a chokehold. The unhinged officer had placed a hand around his victims neck.
As the struggle continued, the pair tumbled off of the hood onto the concrete street. Soon after, more officers arrived and began to repeatedly kick the 62-year-old man.
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Officer Antkowiaks report was filled with lies. He had claimed the encounter began when he witnessed Mr. Jones throw a beer can at his car. The video later showed that was not true.
Dallas Officer Matthew Antkowiak says hes not sorry for doing his job.
The officer claimed that he had been choked and kicked by Mr. Jones. The video showed that it was Jones who was the recipient of the choking and kicking.
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Antkowiak exaggerated his story to the point of saying that Jones lifted him off the ground by his neck and made him dizzy.
Before the stop was over, cops conspired to shut off one of the dash-cameras. Conveniently, officers then produced a crack pipe from under a squad car and claimed it belonged to Mr. Jones. Police claimed Jones was intoxicated.
The officers version of the events was accepted as truth, and the dash-cam evidence was kept under wraps. Ronald Jones was charged with two felonies: aggravated assault of a public servant and cocaine possession. Jones sat in jail for 15 months as a trial loomed.
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Finally, Jones lawyer arranged for the release of the dashboard camera video. On the day which he was scheduled to go to trial in 2011, prosecutors finally dropped the charges. Evidently Jones had been allowed to sit in jail for over a year without the prosecution glancing at the primary piece of evidence. But what was the police departments excuse?
Even though the entire arrest was a sham, the department backed its officers. Chief David Brown said they could find no evidence of excessive force.
Antkowiak resigned from the department in 2012 due to unrelated health issues, 3 years after the incident.
Finally, in March 2014, Ronald Jones lawsuit resulted in a $1.1 million settlement for his false imprisonment. Jones is now 66 years old.
Am I angry about the way this all went down? Damn straight I am, Antkowiak said. But that doesnt mean that Im going to back into a corner and say, Im sorry for doing my job.
Antkowiak is now the CEO of a private security company and helps to train police officers.
more at the link.
long story short: cop is dispatched to an area to look for 2 white men fighting. sees old black man, attacks him and lies about it
tries to disconnect the dash cam and his buddies show up and kick
this old black man and magically produce a crack pipe and state
that they found it on him. good thing his lawyer got that dashcam
video released. and the DA and cops never looked at the video
just took the nice police officers word for it.
and this jackass now helps TRAIN Dallas cops.
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feel safer yet ... pedestrian beaten up by police framed w/2 felonies. (Original Post)
littlewolf
Apr 2014
OP
The officer, magistrate and prosecution should spend at least 15 months behind bars
seveneyes
Apr 2014
#3
We need a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices.
Comrade Grumpy
Apr 2014
#8
frylock
(34,825 posts)1. fuck tha police
Iggo
(47,571 posts)2. Yay, Cops!
They're the best!
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)3. The officer, magistrate and prosecution should spend at least 15 months behind bars
You don't even need to be a victim of this abuse to appreciate how wrong these players were in what they did and failed to do. The tag team Wyatt Earp's out there have damaged many lives and it seems to be getting worse.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)4. this is why it is and will continue to get worse....
Antkowiak suffered no consequences for his attack on Ronald Jones, his false police report, and his role in attempting to ruin an innocent mans life. He had been cleared by internal investigations. The other officers including the one who runs up and kicks Jones multiple times were cleared as well.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)5. Exactly, Sir
Every officer involved should be doing hard time, and looking at years more of it to come, while the prosecutors who brought charges should be disbarred at minimum.
rudolph the red
(666 posts)6. Sickening...
His ass belongs behind bars.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)7. it just seems there is more and more of this
or maybe it is getting reported more.
also this "cop" is CEO of a private security company
that helps train Dallas PD ... that is the scary part.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)8. We need a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices.