Violence in America.....
What Path have We Chosen?

FBI probe of Burbank police focusing on alleged excessive force involving 12 officers The FBI investigation into the Burbank Police Department is focusing on allegations of excessive force by officers, court documents obtained by The Times show.Federal investigators have told the Burbank officials to turn over reports involving 12 current and former officers, according to a federal grand jury subpoena obtained by The Times.The subpoena specifies information related to "use of force, defensive tactics, Tasers, pepper spray, or the rules and ramifications pertaining to the use of excessive force or a violation of civil/constitutional rights."

Unarmed man in speedos shot dead by police An unarmed man wearing only swimming trunks was shot dead by a plainclothes police officer who had confronted him for driving erratically. Tyler Heilman, 24, had just arrived home in Kasota, Minnesota, after a day's swimming with friends when he was accosted by Todd Waldron, a sheriff's deputy, who had been following him in an unmarked car.According to the friends, the two men got into an argument and ended up wrestling on the ground.As Mr Heilman got up, he finally saw the police badge on Mr Waldron's belt, said Kris Hoehn.

"Then came the gunshots, just as my buddy's hands were going up," he said. "It was too late this officer flew up off the ground, gun in hand. If we would have known he was a cop, none of this would've happened."

California Police Officer admits to sexual assault while on duty A former California police officer accused of sexually assaulting a motorist during a traffic stop pleaded guilty in federal court, federal prosecutors said Friday.Feliciano Sanchez, 34, admitted in court Thursday that while on duty on May 16, 2007, he pulled over a female driver in a traffic stop and forced her to perform oral sex on him, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien, who heads the office for the Central District.

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According to the legal filing, quoted in the Mount Vernon Register, one deputy “physically pushed R.E. towards his bunk and shocked him repeatedly with a taser. … R.E. was tased multiple times to multiple locations on his person, including, but not limited to, his neck. Deputy Bowers shouted to B.B. to lie down in his bunk and physically forced him to lie down.

“Without physical provocation and/or physical gestures from B.B., Deputy Bowers held B.B. down on his bed and shocked him repeatedly with a taser. While he was tasing B.B., Deputy David Bowers threatened to sodomize B.B. As a result of this repeated and excessive tasing, B.B. urinated and defecated himself. Deputy David Bowers was aware that B.B. urinated himself after the tasing.”

“As Z.P. was being repeatedly tased, [17-year-old] Megan Geisler pleaded with Deputy David Bowers and Deputy Lonnie Lawler to stop. Deputy David Bowers ordered Deputy Lonnie Lawler to handcuff Megan Geisler. … Deputy David Bowers grabbed Megan Geisler by her arms, lifted her off her feet, and carried her through the male dormitory to a nearby closet. On the way to the closet, Deputy David Bowers lifted Megan Geisler off the ground, pressed her against a wall and choked her. While choking her, Deputy David Bowers said, ‘do you want to live or die bitch’ to Megan Geisler. Megan Geisler was then thrown into a closet. At this time she began vomiting and heaving.”

USA Patriot Act Defines Chemotherapy Pushers, CPS Aggressors as Terrorists

New Jersey police officer pounds man on tape

6/4/09Dallas ISD hall monitor held in road-rage case A Dallas Independent School District hall monitor is accused of waving a gun and threatening a woman in a road-rage incident Thursday morning. Bobby Strogen, 47, is being held on suspicion of aggravated assault in the Dallas County jail

5 Ala. officers fired for beating caught on tape BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Five Birmingham police officers were fired Wednesday for beating an unconscious suspect ejected from a car after a chase, an attack captured on a patrol car videotape that didn't surface publicly for a year. Police Chief A.C. Roper said the officers, who were not identified, were seasoned veterans but acted in a "shameful" manner

.4/20/09Epidemic Of Police Brutality Sweeps America An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country. Police are being trained that the general public are the enemy and that they can engage in outright brutality without recourse. Taser deaths are skyrocketing because the police have been ordered to use "pain compliance", otherwise known as torture, to subdue and oppress the citizenry. It is time for police to remember that their duty is to protect the general public from criminals and not act as enforcers for a tyrannical police state.

GVSU student, Derek Copp, shot in chest by police for smoking marijuana: Executing children for the War on Drugs. ALLENDALE -- Apartment neighbors of Grand Valley State University student Derek Copp say they cannot fathom what prompted police to shoot him late Wednesday in a drug-related raid.

Ohio ex-cop convicted in lover's death CANTON, Ohio - A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child 2/15/08

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Stepfather convicted in death of 'Baby Grace' A Southeast Texas man was convicted Friday of capital murder in the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.

Jurors deliberated for 4 1/2 hours before finding Royce Clyde Zeigler II guilty in the death of the child known as "Baby Grace." He will receive an automatic life sentence because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. Jurors also could have convicted Zeigler of a lesser charge of manslaughter.

Zeigler and his wife, Kimberly Trenor, the toddler's mother, were accused of killing her during a discipline session that spun out of control. Trenor was convicted of capital murder in February and also received an automatic life sentence.

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Up to 6 Bodies Found at Ohio Home A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood, after police found as many as six bodies at his home. Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Anthony Sowell was walking down the street on the east side of Cleveland when authorities spotted him and took him into custody.

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Girl gang-raped outside California high school as onlookers laughed A 15-year-old girl was gang raped by up to 10 teenagers outside a California high school homecoming dance as others laughed and took photographs. In a crime that has shocked America up to two dozen passers-by were said to have seen the crime happening and failed to report it as the girl was subjected to an ordeal lasting two-and-a-half hours.

10/8/09

Gun-toting soccer mom, husband found shot dead A soccer mom who gained national attention when she openly carried a loaded gun to her 5-year-old daughter's game was shot dead Wednesday along with her husband in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said.Meleanie Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday night at their home in Lebanon, about 80 miles west of Philadelphia. Children said 'daddy shot mommy'.

10/1/09
2 sons arrested in Morgan Hill on suspicion of abuse of mom bitten by ferrets Brian Carter, 41, and Jon Carter, 50, who are their mother's primary caregivers, were booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on felony charges of elderly abuse likely to produce great bodily harm, according to police.

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Chicago: 3 Wounded in Uptown Shooting Three people were shot early Sunday while driving through an alley in the North Side Uptown neighborhood.

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Boy left beaten and starving in locked closet; 2 arrested A woman and her 16-year-old male roommate were arrested after authorities said they found her 5-year-old son locked in a closet, emaciated, battered and bruised. Desiree Gonzalez, 31, and the unidentified roommate were taken into custody Tuesday after San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies received an anonymous call saying a child was being held hostage and denied food and water. They also were told that he was being burned and beaten.

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4 Ariz. boys accused of raping 8-year-old girl Officers responding to a report of hysterical screams found an 8-year-old girl partially clothed and four boys, barely in their teens, running from an empty shed. The boys, ages 9 to 14, face charges ranging from sexual assault to kidnapping, police said Thursday. Authorities in Phoenix say it's one of the most horrific cases they've ever seen.All five children are refugees from the West African nation of Liberia.(and to make the matters worse, the parents are from a culture that blames the girl and has rejected her now, so she can't go home..these people need a big lesson in compassion and to examine their culture belief systems)

7/23/09

3 Kids Found Starved in Texas Hotel Bathroom DALLAS —  Three children were kept in a hotel bathroom for about a year and were "horribly emaciated" when police found them earlier this month, authorities said. One claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted. The children's mother, 30-year-old Abneris Santiago, is charged with injury to a child. Her 37-year-old live-in boyfriend, Alfred Santiago, is charged with aggravated sexual assault and continuous sexual abuse.

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6/10/09 Wilmington man stabs wife, two daughters A Wilmington man stabbed his wife and two stepdaughters Sunday when they returned home from church, police said Monday. William Zelazduez, 44, was arrested about 8:30 p.m. at his home in the 1000 block of East O Street, Los Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman said. Zelazduez was home drinking while his family was at church. When they returned, he stabbed his wife for unknown reasons, and the stepdaughters when they intervened, Eisenman said.

Teen gets 100 years for child sex abuse A teenager who has profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in a sex abuse case involving his 6-year-old neighbor.Aaron Hart, 18, of Paris, was arrested and charged after a neighbor found him fondling her stepson in September. The teen pleaded guilty to five counts, including aggravated sexual assault and indecency by contact, and a jury decided his punishment. Hart has an IQ of 47 and was diagnosed as mentally disabled as a child. He never learned to read or write and speaks unsteadily.Despite being a target of bullies, he was courteous, well-behaved and earned money by doing chores for neighbors, supporters said. His parents say he'd never acted out sexually.(There are 'others' who are not mentally retarded and have done much much worse and do not have sentences like that, indeed they get a slap on the wrist.....yes, Justice is blind)

6/5/09Pa. mom charged with beating infant with crib part A western Pennsylvania woman is in jail on charges she fatally beat her 3-month-old son with a piece of a crib she was assembling last August.Uniontown police say 25-year-old Lori Beth Workman fractured her baby's skull and inflicted other injuries when she became upset that he wouldn't stop crying. Police say she told them she concealed the beating from her husband because she was afraid he'd get mad at her.

5/22/09Ga. father gets 100 years for poisoning kids' soup A Georgia man is sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his children to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co.William Cunningham was sentenced Thursday after a jury found him guilty on seven counts of aggravated assault for forcing the children in 2006 to eat soup laced with prescription drugs and lighter fluid.His 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter were hospitalized twice. A family member said the youngsters may suffer lifelong respiratory problems from lung damage caused by the lighter fluid.

Shootings erupt in West Palm Beach after Easter Sunday suspect released WEST PALM BEACH - Authorities are looking for whoever shot two people in a drive-by shooting near Fifth Street and Division Avenue over the weekend, police said. Police suspect the shooting, which happened about 5 a.m., was related to a drive-by shooting on Easter Sunday that left a 15-month-old boy and a 34-year-old man wounded.

4/19/09Md. Father Kills Wife, Kids Before Taking Own Life An accountant for a railroad operator killed his wife and their three children before fatally shooting himself in a northwest Maryland home, leaving a gruesome scene that was discovered Saturday by the youngsters' grandfather, authorities said.

4/17/09MA woman accused of killing unborn child, daughterOhio dad who shock-collared kids gets 16 years David Liskany of Jamestown had pleaded guilty to charges of felonious assault and attempted felonious assault.The judge said Liskany punished the children in 2006 and 2007 by putting them in cold showers, holding them underwater and using the shock collar, which is commonly used to train dogs

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DNA tests confirm remains are Caylee Anthony Skeletal remains found in the woods are the Florida 3-year-old who has been missing since June, but they don't reveal any clues about how she was killed, a county medical examiner said Friday. A utility worker stumbled upon the remains last week, less than a half-mile from where the girl lived. DNA tests confirm that the remains match Caylee Anthony's genetic profile, said the medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia.

6 dead, 2 wounded in Wash. state shooting spree ALGER, Wash. - A shooting rampage Tuesday afternoon in northwest Washington has left six people dead, including a sheriff's deputy, the State Patrol said. A suspect in the shootings has surrendered. Two people were wounded during the violence in Skagit County, including a state trooper who reportedly was grazed in the arm by a bullet.A man was arrested after turning himself in at the Skagit County sheriff's office in Mount Vernon, Trooper Keith Leary said. The man was not immediately identified but Leary said he is known to authorities as "someone with a mental illness."The dead were found at multiple crime scenes. They included the deputy shot while responding to a call and a second person killed at the same location near the small town of Alger; two construction workers found shot nearby, and a third body found a few houses away, Leary said. Authorities were investigating any connection among those sitesReport:

Son Dismembered Dad After Being Raped CORTEZ, Colo. -- A 20-year-old man accused of killing and dismembering his father told police that after his father raped him, he shot his father, skinned and decapitated him and then fed his flesh to coyotes, according to court documents obtained by the

Cortez Journal.Teen Accused In 'Mortal Kombat' Killing Makes Court AppearanceGREELEY, Colo. -- The teenaged girl accused of killing her 7-year-old step-sister appeared in court in Weld County Wednesday. Heather Maria Trujillo, 16, and her boyfriend, Lamar Roberts, 17, have been charged as adults with felony child abuse resulting in death in connection with the Dec. 6 death of Zoe Garcia. Trujillo told Johnstown Police that she and Roberts were imitating the Mortal Kombat video game when they began attacking Garcia. An arrest affidavit said the two kicked, karate-chopped and body-slammed slammed Zoe while imitating the video game

Man opens fire outside California church LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man with a rifle opened fire near a church Saturday morning in the San Fernando Valley and wounded three people, Los Angeles police said. Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, said Los Angeles Police Officer Ana Aguirre. He was held in Van Nuys jail in lieu of $1.5 million bail."I don't really have too much to say about that. It's a personal thing between me and the church," Diaz said to The Associated Press before being taken to jail.

Disabled pregnant woman used as target practice ALTON, Illinois (AP) -- Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor. Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle.Dixon -- six months pregnant -- died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town.

3/22/08 Dad gets 20-plus years in prison in tot's killing PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man who killed his 17-month-old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox was sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Prosecutors said Tyrone Spellman, 27, killed Alayiah Turman in September 2006 with at least five blows to the head when she pulled down his Xbox console. The force of the blows cracked the toddler's skull several times.

3/15/08 Dad accused of forcing girl to kill pet cat MUNCIE, Indiana (AP) -- A man was jailed Thursday on charges that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet.Danield J. Collins, 39, told his children during a visit to his home Sunday that he wanted them to "learn how to kill" and gave his 11-year-old son a knife to do it, according to an affidavit filed in the case.The boy tried to save the cat by hiding it under a sofa bed and putting ketchup on a knife when Collins went to the bathroom. But when the father realized that the cat was not dead, he forced his daughter to hold the knife and then held her hand tightly as he drove the knife into the animal, Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said.

3/15/08 Family Massacre Casts Pall Over Town EMORY, Texas —  Penny Caffey played piano in a gospel band and her husband studied to be an ordained minister. They were asleep when police say their teenage daughter's boyfriend crept into their bedroom around 4 a.m. and started shooting.

3/8/08 Louisiana Mother Says Revenge-Seeking Woman Tortured, Killed Her Baby
BOGALUSA, La. —  A mother whose 6-week-old baby died after being burned, beaten and drugged says she thinks the motive was revenge, a Bogalusa newspaper reports.The child's mother, Lindsey Daigle, 19, told The Daily News she believes Amy Leighanne Thomas, 22, harmed the baby after finding out that Daigle had tattled on Thomas for taking something from a co-worker's locker.

3/8/08 Pennsylvania Hair Stylist Shoots Client Unhappy With Cut
She thought she was getting a bad haircut, but police in southwestern Pennsylvania say when Lauren Newton complained, she got a bullet in the back. Newton's hairstylist is now facing charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

3/8/08 Acid poured on slain soldiers TACOMA, Wash. - A Fort Lewis soldier killed a married couple — both fellow soldiers — and poured acid on their bodies in an attempt to dispose of them, a prosecutor said Monday.Spc. Ivette Gonzalez Davila also is accused of taking the couple's 6-month-old girl. The 22-year-old was ordered held without bond for investigation of aggravated first-degree murder and kidnapping.

3/3/08 6 dead, including 2 children, in Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Police found the bodies of six people, including two children, as well as three critically wounded children in a Memphis home on Monday in a case authorities were treating as a multiple homicide.

3/3/08 Police: Dead student victim of serial rapist 

2/17/088 wounded in Los Angeles street shooting LOS ANGELES - A gunman fired into a crowd of children and adults at a South Los Angeles bus stop just after schools let out Wednesday, wounding eight, authorities said.

2/27/08 Man randomly stabs two in theater during horror film Two men were stabbed while watching a horror film about brainwashed killers in what appears to have been a random attack, police said.Officers were sent to the AMC Fullerton 20 shortly before 7:30 Sunday night for a report of a bag being found containing illegal substances, police Lt. Tom Basham said.While officers were on the scene, people started running out of the theater showing "The Signal," including two bloody men

.Iraq war veteran charged with raping 3-month-oldJACKSON, Mich. -- A former Army paratrooper who served two tours of duty in Iraq has been ordered tried on charges of raping and critically injuring a 3-month-old girl.

Kirk Coleman is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree child abuse, charges that carry up to life in prison.

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Cops seek clues in NYC therapist slaying NEW YORK - Psychologist Kathryn Faughey didn't sound worried about her safety in the hours before she was butchered in her office, said a friend who exchanged e-mails with her that evening.

2/15/08 NIU gunman stopped taking medication DEKALB, Ill. - The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage became erratic after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday.

6 dead in N. Illinois U. hall shooting DEKALB, Ill. - A former student dressed in black walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday, killing five students, wounding 16 and setting off a panicked stampede before committing suicide

2/14/08 US Marine accused of rape in Japan

2/11/08NYC jury hears gruesome child-death case  NEW YORK - After police discovered the frail, battered body of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown in her home in 2006, authorities say her stepfather was quick to admit he had bound her to a chair with duct tape and beat her on a daily basis.

2/11/08 Woman kills 2, herself at La. college BATON ROUGE, La. - A young woman killed two female students in a college classroom at a vocational college Friday, then killed herself, police said.

2/8/08 Quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence: CDC 2/7/08
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About a quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday, with ongoing health problems that one activist likened to the effects of living in a war zone.

6 dead after gunfire at Mo. meetingBy CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago KIRKWOOD, Mo. - A gunman with a history of acrimony against city leaders stormed a council meeting Thursday night, killing two police officers and three other people before law enforcers fatally shot him, authorities said. The man's gunfire injured the mayor, a newspaper reported.

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Louisiana teen held in infant's killing, police say
A 17-year-old Louisiana man faces first-degree murder and aggravated rape charges in the beating death of his girlfriend's 8-month-old son, police said.