Keystone Kops

A 65-year-old Wisconsin man with Parkinson’s Disease dialed 911 for a medical emergency Friday, only for a SWAT team to arrive at his home and slam him to the ground,  hospitalizing him for days.
Thomas Smith’s family is outraged, saying their relative is unable to physically speak, so he had to resort to pushing buttons on the telephone to communicate with the dispatcher.
And somehow, the dispatcher understood he was being held hostage by a man with guns and explosives, which is why Oneida County sheriff’s officials say they were only trying to keep the neighborhood safe.

The Oklahoma security guard and reserve police officer who pulled out a gun and shot a fellow security guard during a weekend gun show is now facing charges – despite the victim insisting he did not want to file charges.
Brian Pounds, an appraiser at the Tulsa County Assessor’s Office as well as a reserve police officer for the Collinsville Police Department, was charged with reckless conduct of a firearm, a misdemeanor.

An Oklahoma security guard hired to keep patrons safe at a weekend gun show pulled out a loaded gun, pointed it towards people and fired, striking a former sheriff’s deputy, who was also working security that day.
Brian Pounds, who pulled the trigger, is not a cop, but he is wearing a shirt that says “police” on the back.

The award-winning Florida cop who made international headlines last year after shooting an unarmed caretaker who had his arms in the air, then claiming he had feared for his life after confusing a toy truck for a loaded gun, was informed by another cop seconds before the shooting that the object was not a gun, but a toy.

An Ohio cop deleted around  100,000 dash cam videos of Columbus cops traffic stops and call responses after a sworn officer working in the Technical Services Bureau made a few errant key strokes on March 8.
According to a recent press conference, Columbus Ohio police were not using a back up of any sort.
The mass deletion caused skepticism and distrust among many community members and activists who don’t believe the vanishment of 100,000 videos was an accident.
“To me, my first reaction was, this wasn’t accidental,” community activist Ruben Herrera told NBC4.

Minnesota police say they were in fear for their lives when they released an attack dog on an unarmed 82-year-old grandmother on her own property, mistaking her for a burglar.
After all, Coon Rapids police say the woman escalated the situation by turning off her flashlight when they confronted her early one morning as she was working inside her family’s backyard shed.
The woman did not speak English so she had no idea who the people were outside the shed barking orders while holding growling dogs.

Texas cops let a man who stabbed a victim 15 times last month walk out of the hospital scot-free because he was “knocked out” and  “pretty much in a coma” during the three days it took him to recover and flee on his own two feet.
Now the suspect is on the loose, presumably armed, definitely dangerous.
Beeville Police claim Gilbert Martinez got away because they were never notified he left the hospital, saying they “had no idea” if the department left any contact information behind so the hospital could notify them in the event the suspect was released.

Watching a man carjack a woman as they were chasing him Friday, Albuquerque police opened fire, striking both the suspect and the victim.
It was all done in the name of safety.
Both the victim and suspect survived the shooting, ending up with bullet wounds to their legs.
At first, Albuquerque police acknowledged the victim was shot, but refused to admit they did it.
But today, police confirmed that they were the ones who shot the victim.

It started off with “a call” to police. It always starts off with a call to police. This time, the call was to report a possible burglary in progress in a residential home in the Minneapolis suburb of Coon Rapids.
Coon Rapids police sped to the scene and spotted a person rummaging through a shed with a flashlight, issuing several orders to come out.
When the person did not come out, they sent a police dog to attack the suspect, who turned out to be an 82-year-old woman rummaging through her own shed in her own back yard.

A Florida deputy who was busted by his own body camera footage stealing money from a DUI suspect hasn’t been charged with a crime, according to First Coast News.
Volusia County sheriff’s deputy John Braman, 33, resigned on Monday after he was placed on paid administrative leave last Wednesday as the department began investigating “multiple” allegations that he had taken money from defendants during DUI arrests.