Bad Cop, No Donut

A Daniel Holtzclaw supporter poses for a gym selfie wearing a T-shirt sold on the Facebook support page that reads “Justice for Daniel Holtzclaw”.

A South Florida sheriff’s deputy who received an award for bravery after shooting and killing a man in 2013 was indicted for that same shooting Thursday.
Broward County sheriff’s deputy Peter Peraza was charged with manslaughter with a firearm, a first-degree felony that could land him in jail for 30 years.
But only because a photo emerged in May 2015 that showed Jermaine McBean was wearing headphones when he was shot and killed.
Prior to that photo surfacing, Broward sheriff investigators claimed that McBean had his headphones in his pocket.

Former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke was arrested this week for beating a man for breaking into his department-issued SUV in 2012 and stealing personal items, including pornography and sex toys.
Burke, who abruptly retired from the New York police agency in October 2015, was charged in federal court with assault and obstructing an ensuing civil rights investigation.
He pleaded not guilty and will be held at the federal jail in Brooklyn until he appears at his bail hearing Friday morning.

 
A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy with serious anger issues was arrested over the weekend on home invasion charges after storming into a home and punching a man in the face.
Surprisingly, Jonathan Lavoi, a Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s corrections officer, was placed on unpaid administrative leave.
Lavoi, 38, was taken into custody by fellow deputies Saturday after the sheriff’s office was alerted of a disturbance.

A sergeant for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is being investigated after deleting video footage and failing to arrest an off-duty officer who was caught soliciting a prostitute for sex during a major prostitute sting operation in Florida.
Busted!
Sergeant Oscar Cardenas, who oversees the Lake Worth division, allowed the disgraced Boynton Beach cop to leave the scene of a prostitution sting operation without getting arrested after he was caught requesting oral sex from an undercover officer posing as a prostitute.

Nebraska police arrested the founder of Omaha Cop Block for doing nothing more than “using four letter words” on a public sidewalk.
The Omaha police officer Lucpdo felt mocked, so he used his badge and gun to get street justice, punishing Floyd Wallace with a trip to jail for contempt of cop.
The YouTube effect doesn’t happen for police quite the same as it does for activists, since the officer’s video hasn’t yet surfaced.

After 16 hours of deliberation, a jury acquitted a Delaware cop on Tuesday for kicking a suspect full force in the head, causing his jaw to shatter.
Dover police officer Thomas Webster IV was acquitted of felony assault and misdemeanor assault charges after deliberations spanned three days.

Fort Lauderdale cops Brian Dodge and Billy Koepke got off the hook in October after being acquitted for perjury, but couldn’t avoid the consequences from their department.
According to the Sun Sentinel, both cops lost their jobs on Saturday. Dodge resigned before he was officially booted out, while Dodge and their supervisor –Sgt. Michael Florenco – are appealing their dismissals.

A Miami-Dade police detective has come clean about stealing some bling.
Karel Rosario, a 19-year veteran, pleaded guilty earlier this week on Tuesday to stealing expensive jewelry while on-duty during a search warrant.
According to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Rosario came clean about taking a Cartier watch, a bracelet and a couple of other pieces of jewelry in May from a suspect’s home. The suspect was being investigated for allegedly selling pharmaceutical drugs.

A Philadelphia cop was arrested and is facing assault charges after being involved in a physical altercation with a woman.