Within only the past few months, innumerable cases of police brutality in the United States have hit the headlines. Unfortunately, few of these make the national news, but here are some that really could have been featured on a national level for being diabolical and/or just simply bizarre.
Some of these reports are so outrageous
that they're hard to believe. And although most of us like to think the police are around to protect and be of service to us - and most undoubtedly are - when cops become extremely mean-spirited, angry, violent and even evil, the results can become sinister, strange, and sometimes deadly.
Copwatch websites never seem to run out of material to slap up on their pages. New entries are posted throughout the day and night, and this is a constant. There are so many recent incidences of cops caught doing atrocious and heinous acts that at least one more article on OpEdNews.com will be posted within the next few days just to cover the most recent of the worst of the worst of law enforcement's transgressions
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* Mum's the word with the Charleston, S.C. police
authorities in relation to the death of 19-year-old Denzel Curnell, who was
shot and killed Friday, June 20, reportedly by a Charleston police officer. Called by family and friends with the nickname "JaBa," Curnell hardly fits the profile of a dangerous criminal.
Circumstance surrounding Curnell's killing are nebulous and the case is under investigation. The shooting was reported about 10:30 p.m., June 20, at Bridgeview Village, a 300-unit apartment complex on North Romney Street. Eyewitnesses reported seeing an evil scene where Curnell was shot while he was unarmed and on his knees.
A possible cover-up? Perhaps. WCSC reported that an email sent to Charleston City Council members and other local government officials a few hours afterwards referred to JaBa's death as "a possible suicide."
A note from a girl named Sunshine succinctly sums up JaBa's
personality in the wake of this evil: "JaBa was always a good person. He never
bothered anyone. One day he was walking in the back of Bayside (the Bridgeview
area's former name) and he heard a voice that said, 'Put your
hands behind your back', and he did that, and then the police shot him in the
back. And we want justice for JaBa."
Over the weekend, handmade paper signs were put up and dozens of folks gathered, demanding "Justice for JaBa." This would be the 23rd officer-involved shooting in the area for 2014. (See: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140621/PC16/140629818 and http://thefreethoughtproject.com/witnesses-cops-teen-kneel-shot/.)
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*A video of the March 8, 2013, shooting death of Daniel Saenz was released during the middle of this month after the Texas Attorney General's Office ordered the city to comply with an open-records request made by the El Paso Times. The newspaper requested the video be released in February after a grand jury decided not to indict El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores in shooting Saenz. In the video, Saenz is handcuffed when he is being shot.
Saenz was being taken from the jail to a hospital during the time of this incident. Jail staff refused to accept him because when he was being led into the jail "he struck his own head into the doorway causing himself injury," according to a Custodial Death Report.
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