The Legal Arena

Award-Winning Florida Cop Exposed as Liar by Surveillance Camera

Surveillance video from a gas station shows a Florida cop fabricated a felony charge against a woman when he falsely accused her of battery on an officer.
In fact, the video shows Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy Wayne Wagner committed battery on Paige Taylor, a 26-year-old woman whom he grabs, throws to the ground, then piles on top of after ordering her out of her car.

Georgia Cop Indicted for Murder After Grand Jury Views “Persuasive” Dash-Cam Footage Disproving Official Narrative

The footage was so persuasive, it took jurors less than ten minutes to return the murder indictment against a Georgia cop last week.
“He clearly lied and had there not been any cameras in the car he possibly would have gotten away with it,” Grand Juror No. 7 told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Atlanta police officer James R. Burns had told investigators an unarmed black man was trying to kill him with his car on June 22, which made him fear for his life.

North Carolina Cop Indicted for Manslaughter After Tasering Man to Death

A North Carolina cop who tasered an unarmed man to death earlier this year was indicted by a grand jury on manslaughter charges Tuesday.
The incident took place on March 3 when Kenly police officer Jesse Craig Santifort tasered Alexander Warren Thompson after a high-speed car chase through two counties that ended when Thompson wrecked his vehicle.
Santifort claims Thompson came charging towards him, which was when he tasered him four times.
“Central, I have tased him,” Santifort reported to dispatch, according to an audio recording.

Massachusetts Town Settles With Family of Innocent Grandfather Killed by “Accident” During SWAT Raid

Eurie Stamps, 68, a grandfather and retired Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority worker, was not suspected of any crime when police assaulted him inside his home and shot him dead shortly after midnight on January 5, 2011.
Now, more than five years later, Stamps’ family has reached a settlement with the town of Framingham, which to this day employs Stamps’ killer.
Details of the settlement, which was made Friday, have not yet been made public.
But the one thing that is clear is that Stamps is one of the countless victims of the government’s war on drugs.

LAPD to Charge Playboy Model Dani Mathers for Posting Photo of Naked Woman in Shower

The culprit is a Playboy model in her 20s, blessed with good looks and fake breasts and popular on social media.
The victim is a woman in her 70s, cursed with old age and sagging breasts who never expected her naked photo to go viral on social media.
But Playboy model Dani Mathers thought it would be funny to photograph the woman as she showered inside an L.A. Fitness locker room back in July, posting the photo on Snapchat with the caption, “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.”
Now Mathers may face criminal charges.

NYPD Beat Gay Man Having Asthma Attack, Lawsuit Claims

A 53-year-old gay man was walking down the street in Manhattan last year when he began suffering an asthma attack, so he sat on some steps and pulled out his inhaler to use it.
That was when two NYPD cops pulled up in a patrol car and stepped out and demanded his identification, one of them calling him a “fucking faggot,” according to a federal lawsuit filed by the man on Monday.

Indiana Jury Awards Man $1 After Cops Enter Home Without Warrant to Unlawfully Arrest Him in Mistaken Identity Case

It was 2012 when Indiana police entered a home without a warrant and shook awake a sleeping 18-year-old high school student, punching him six times, then tasering him before dragging him outside and stuffing him into a patrol car.
Handcuffed in the back of the car, DeShawn Franklin demanded to know what he had done wrong.
A South Bend police officer told him he had matched the description of a man they were looking for, specifically, he had the same hairstyle; dreadlocks.

Department of Justice Seeks to End Jailing People Indefinitely who Cannot Afford Bail

The federal Department of Justice just made a landmark filing declaring that bail systems which don’t take into account the suspect’s ability to repay are unconstitutional.
The motion seeks to end the practice of jailing people who cannot afford bail if they are not an actual flight risk.
It’s also a major blow against the parasitic bail bonds industry which privileges a few private companies to pocket bond money from poor people who cannot afford high bail for minor offenses.