... the unmitigated evil of the all-powerful, accountable-to-no-one, police state.

(For the record, my younger stepson's a cop. we don't agree on much.)

Maybe you can get your spouse to disown him so you won't have to deal with that ugliness anymore?

... but it pains both of us that he's abandoned so much of what we tries to teach him. Not much to be done about that, I'm afraid. But I would not disown him... yet.

. . . we don't agree on much either.

The arrogance of those assholes, with no search warrant, is astounding, as if the 4th Amendment doesn't exist.

Too many cops all over the country seem to think there are no limits on their behavior.

Sickening...

it's clear to a five-year-old they were in the wrong.

There must be hundreds of good lawyers who would jump at this case.

What part of Constitutional rights and protections do these thugs not get?

calls the police about not seeing a 90 year old not picking up their mail or newspapers. The can bust down the door to check on the person. I bet that is what the police will claim.

I am willing to bet is against procedure to break in without knocking first in which case they should be disciplined severely with atleast a month suspension without pay.

Can they work another job when they are suspended, or do they have to sit at home.

Would be nice to see them suspended without pay for a month...not allowed to work another job...miss rent/mortage and get foreclosed/evicted... XD XD XD

have no savings at all its not worth it.

suffer the financial loss. Maybe losing their home or having a spouse leave them because they can't provide would serve as a warning to the others.

atleast with maybe as many as 6 months is about as far as it should go unless of course there have been other such instances by this department and its officers of doing this same thing.

The punishments aren't working. People need to start losing their livelihoods and freedom.

unbelieveable

couldn't she legitimately claim she was standing her ground? Texas has a strong Castle Doctrine.

All the laws in the world don't matter when the police/courts are run by criminals.

That much is obvious, if they claim that it will be shot down. You don't slam someone to the ground, sit on their back while cuffed looking for someone a relative called in as missing. This is sick and disgusting and these fucking criminals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the fucking law. I am so sick of this shit - especially when the cops get off on reprimands or light (usually no) sentences behind actual bars. One would think that a bad cop would be made an example of each and every time they break the law, logically they have the least excuses for criminal behavior. 1 they know the law, 2 they are sworn to uphold it, 3 their behavior should be shown to NOT be beneficial to their careers - thereby showing other law enforcement the negative effect on your career and life for breaking the law you knew of and swore to uphold. Sick and disgusting.

Pfuck the Pflugerville Police.

Let Chief Officer Hooker know your thoughts on this here:

chooker@pflugervilletx.gov

Office of the Chief
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Pflugerville is experiencing change. Law enforcement success in making Pflugerville a safe city are the result of many individuals, working together. In Pflugerville, we have a strong team dedicated to providing the citizens a safe and pleasant place to live.

In 2013, the City of Pflugerville’s population was close to 51,894. As the community grows, the Police Department is committed to meeting Pflugerville’s needs by improving and expanding the services that we offer. This is and will continue be achieved through the implementation of proactive policing methods and a series of crime prevention initiatives.

The department is recognized as one of the area’s leading law enforcement organizations and has set a new bench mark with the 2012 Citizen Survey. The results of this survey confirm what I and many others have believed for many years concerning the quality of this department. The results of this survey, as it relates to our department, are OUTSTANDING. Each and every employee can be extremely proud of our accomplishments.

We will continue to work diligently to maintain our position. We will also strive to make Pflugerville one of the safest and livable cities in Texas and the nation. The department’s main goal has always been to make Pflugerville one of the safest communities in Texas. This goal can only be accomplished when the police department and the community work together.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call upon us.

Sincerely,

Charles K. Hooker

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are not one and the same. The Travis County Sheriff’s Department is featured in the video.

at being the worst.

The gang in blue strikes again.

"If she had just done what they asked her to do, they would never have treated her that way."

Just saving us all the problem of waiting for the apologists to come to their defense.

Jack-booted thugs comes to mind.

Exactly who do they protect and serve anymore?

Disgusting!

Whenever I hear someone invoking, in all seriousness, that particular metaphor, I like to remind them that they seem to have forgotten the second half of the aphorism, which is . . .

". . . spoil the bushel." That usually shuts them up.

This is the problem that we have in this country......people who do not have this happen to them think that it is ok, since if you don't have anything to hide or haven't done anything wrong, this won't happen to you. I hear this so often. Too many people think that the only ones who are in danger from the police are the ones who are criminals. So they allow the abuses to continue...to other people.

Is the contact information for this video in the thread for real? This is Texas again?

Kick

Yeah, I agree… screw this.

Christine may have been a person of interest related to something else. This poor woman, she probably now has PTSD. I wouldn't be surprised if she has trouble sleeping.

I suggest you Google "Travis County Sheriff brutality."

This happens every single day in America.

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Any violence would have been excessive. But as violence goes within such an anodyne context, it was outrageous.

Also, without knocking for whatever reason, the woman became an unambiguously innocent victim of the whole violent episode, and the police, no better than burglar thugs. What was their rationale for violently subduing her and arresting her. Notably, since she had offered no violence, what was there to subdue. If anyone was entitled to show violence it was she, but as far as we know, she didn't even swear at them.

What could make technically grown men so readily inflict violence on a woman, in this case, clearly, on the entirely spurious grounds of official authorisation by reason of their badge. I'm not entirely convinced that they feel inadequate in the genital department, never having heard it as a medical fact, but that kind of disproportionate bullying seemed more of a characteristic of spiteful girls in my primary school.

Just like the KKK

Citizens actually have a remarkable capacity to solve many, if not most, problems by themselves if you let them.

After Thayer’s story made local news, however, the department made an attempt to censure their misdeeds by using threats to gag those who would spread this story and video.

In a statement sent to FOX 7, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s department said an investigation is underway and that , “any further statement or publication of evidence in the case, on television or social media, before a thorough investigation is completed is inappropriate and interferes with the integrity of the investigation.”




Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-invade-womans-home-warrant-assault-her-demand-job/#F0EfqjfYX5DQgCey.99

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might as well have been women, themselves. Imagine becoming unnerved because this lone woman was yelling at them. There is the fact, I suppose, that they had acted like lunatics, taking a sledge-hammer to crack a nut, and could not have given the lady any justification for their completely gratuitous vandalism.

Are they in the right profession, even - without a brain-cell between them?