Media Matters

On Wednesday, a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York judge threw out a lawsuit brought against three NYPD cops by a TV cameraman who was arrested after climbing on a phone booth to get a better shot of an arrest at Occupy Wall Street in 2011.
Douglas Higginbotham, who was then working with TV New Zealand, brought the suit against police officer Curtis Sylvester, Sergeant Christoper Tomlinson, and Captain Taffe, whose first name is unknown.

Using logic, statistics and his experience from working 19 years as a police officer in the Chicago-area, Louis Hayes penned an article last month that is ruffling the feathers of his Brothers in Blue by proclaiming there is no such thing as the War on Cops.

A disturbing and infuriating video has surfaced showing a group of Texas jail guards piling on top of an inmate who repeatedly tells them he can’t breathe, only for him to be found dead in his cell the following morning.
Nineteen times in nine minutes is how many times Michael Sabbie told the guards, “I can’t breathe,” only for them to pepper spray him and tell him to stop resisting when the video shows him not to be resisting.

Update: We have the complete audio of the incident below.
Dallas Transit Police wrongly arrested a Texas man for taking photos in Rosa Parks Plaza near the city’s downtown bus station, now they’re facing a serious civil rights lawsuit, which you can see below.

A California man called police Saturday night, telling them he wanted to commit suicide by cop.
Long Beach police fulfilled his request within an hour, shooting him dead in the street in an incident captured on video.
Police say the man “charged” at them with a knife.
The vide shows the man crossing the street with his arm extended before he is gunned down by several bullets.
According to the Los Angeles Times:

Los Angeles police officers killed an unarmed man inside a city jail in 2012, claiming he was “violent and combative,” which required several cops to pounce on him, including one who placed him in a chokehold until he stopped breathing.
The incident led to the city of Los Angeles paying a $2.85 million settlement to the family of Rachel Howard in 2015, the 56-year-old man who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated before he was killed.

An Arizona police officer pulled over a drunk driver who turned out to be a cop and went through with the arrest anyway.
Not that Mesa Police Lieutenant Rick Van Galder didn’t try to use his badge to talk his way out of the arrest.
But the Gilbert police officers refused to give Van Galder the Blue Courtesy that he expected. At least at first.
As a result, Van Galder became belligerent and condescending. A man with a whopping .306 blood alcohol content. Almost four times the legal limit of .08.

Federal agents detained a Wall Street Journal reporter for more than an hour at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday, demanding she hand over her two cell phones to allow them to “collect information.”
When the reporter balked, citing her right to protect her sources, Homeland Security agents showed her a document stating they had the legal right to seize electronic devices without a warrant or probable cause within 100 miles of the border.

UPDATE: WSVN responded that their new website is off the google radar, and that they will restore the video to the report.

On Friday, a protest took place in downtown West Palm Beach, demanding justice for the slaying of local musician Corey Jones on October 8.
Jones was shot by Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja while he was just waiting for a tow truck at the side of the road. His car broke down early in the morning after a performance.
The Palm Beach Garden Police Department fired Nouman but no criminal charges were ever filed.