The Blue Line

The Imperial Police Chief Miguel Colon just got sued by a pair of detectives who work at departments nearby his Southern California border town for refusing to prosecute their rape complaint against a federal border patrol officer, instead contacting their employing superior officers to try and hush the victims.
The federal officer confessed 96 days ago.
Imperial Chief Colon won’t refer the case for prosecution.

A Pennsylvania cop arrested for ripping a phone out of a woman’s hand because she was recording, then slamming it on a sidewalk and punching her in the face was acquitted of all charges Wednesday.
This despite video evidence proving Reading police officer Jesus Santiago-DeJesus violating the woman’s First Amendment right to record as well as proving he lied about why he had pulled her over in the first place.

A California man with diabetes is suing Long Beach police for attacking him while injecting the insulin that keeps him alive after mistaking his medicine for heroin.
The complaint states that 67-year-Miguel Angel Llamas was hanging out at his neighbor’s home when several cops rushed up to him brandishing their handguns and grabbing his arm, pulling out the medical-tubing attached to his arm for the dialysis treatment he undergoes each week – resulting in a bloody, painful experience.

An off-duty NYPD officer was caught on camera pulling his gun on a group of bicyclists in another case of cop road rage in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village Monday.
However, responding officers allowed the cop to leave the scene, arresting one of the cyclists instead, accusing him of “lunging” at the off-duty cop with an eight-inch ice pick.
The video doesn’t show the cyclist lunging at the cop with an ice pick nor is there an even an ice pick even evident in the video.

Since the Orlando nightclub mass shooting over the weekend, many on the internet have been speculating about the possibility of there having been more than one shooter because of the extraordinary amount of people that were killed and injured as well as the fact the shooter had only two guns, which would have required him to change magazines several times throughout the rampage.
But now it’s beginning to look like some of those killed or wounded in the Pulse gay nightclub massacre were actually shot by policemen in what is called “friendly fire.”

The Alabama police department that had a man arrested on a felony charge of jamming up their emergency lines – even though he did not make a single call – is now taking heat from the local ACLU as well as the local newspaper.
But the Wetumpka Police Department is still sticking to its guns, threatening to arrest anybody else who posts their non-emergency phone number of  (334) 567-5321.

A New Jersey police department deactivated its Facebook account after local activists posted unfavorable comments on their page over the arrest of a prominent businessman and weed activist known as NJ Weedman.
Trenton police raided Ed Forchion’s restaurant, NJWeedman’s Joint back in April.
In March, police arrived at his religious cannabis temple, recognized by the state of New Jersey’s tax authorities, Liberty Bell Temple III, and asked the congregants inside to vacate the premises.

Georgia cops responding to a call of a woman in distress ended up responding to the wrong home, shooting and killing a 63-year-old man who had stepped into his garage with a gun to investigate what he thought were intruders.
Henry County police claim Sergeant Patrick Snook killed William David Powell because he ignored commands to drop his gun.

Boston police officer Edward Barrett, the off-duty cop seen attacking a pedestrian in a viral video, is being allowed to work during an internal investigation because he is not a “threat,” Commissioner William Evans said Tuesday during an appearance on Boston Public Radio.

A man who was on the phone with his mother when a Seattle police officer pepper sprayed him as he walked by will receive a $100,000 settlement.
Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher, had just given a speech during a Martin Luther King, Jr. event last year when Seattle police officer Sandra DeLaFuente pepper sprayed him, ordering him to get back, even though he was already walking away from her and was never that close to begin with.