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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (929086)	4/4/2016 4:46:57 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576601

why is police brutality skyrocketing under Obama? +++ MOM CALLS 911 TO REPORT MISSING 12-YO SON – COPS SHOW UP SMASH HIS FACE IN, BREAK HIS TEETH Published: April 4, 2016 SOURCE: MATT AGORIST Idaho Falls, ID — On March 13, after not being able to find her 12-year-old son for an extended period, Amy Olzak called the Idaho Falls Police Department to report him missing. Instead of helping her son, however, according to Olzak and multiple witnesses, the officer who responded brutally attacked this young boy. “I just wanted them to help me find where he was,” said Olzak. Ironically, this would never happen. After spending all day looking for him with friends, Olzak finally located her son. Olzak then called the police to inform them that she no longer needed their services. However, police were not done yet. “I just wanted them to be aware. They came over. I talked to an officer for a minute, and he walked over to my son. Then he put my son’s hand behind his back and like lifted him up in the air and slammed his face into the trunk of a car,” said Olzak. The car belongs to Olzak’s friend, Courtney Beck, who also witnessed the officer attack this child. “He put his arm behind his back and his head into the back of trunk hard enough that it chipped his tooth and then placed him under arrest,” said Beck. There was “absolutely no reason for it,” she added. Another witness Jessica Bowles said she was in awe as she watched a full grown male police officer attack a small child. “I walked up closer and saw a chipped tooth, blood, and two fats lips,” said Bowles. Olzak’s son was bleeding from his mouth and crying when he was placed under arrest for no apparent reason other than he was missing. At this point, Olzak called the police again to inform them of what was happening. “Another officer came over, and they decided he needed medical attention,” said the mother. “He was kept in handcuffs until I took him home.” Olzak is still confused as to why her son was arrested as she claims that the officer never gave her a reason. “In this particular case there was a juvenile that was signed as a runaway,” said IFPD Capt. Royce Clements. Clements explained to Local 8 News that Idaho law gives police the authority to arrest children and place them in detention centers if they are declared runaways. However, the law also allows police to release the child to the parents as well. But apparently that was not an option for this brutal cop. Clements noted that the officer involved in the incident is being investigated. “In this particular case it was determined that we did send this to internal affairs and that is ongoing. When a case goes to internal affairs there is a process by which we go through that. Once that investigation is completed the full results of that come back to the chief of police and as an administrative team we discuss that and make a determination as if or what sanctions will or need to take place,” Clements said. This attack on a child is but a symptom of relying on the force of the state to solve problems. This mother thought that she would receive help from the police when calling them to report her son. Instead, the officer resorted to violence to provide his ostensible public service, and now a child is permanently damaged, and the taxpayers will likely be held to the fire for it.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (929086)	4/4/2016 4:51:36 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1576601

Blytheville, AR — In the Land of the Free, playing your music at an arbitrary volume can and will result in agents of the state initiating violence against you. A recent body camera video, released from Easter Sunday illustrates this notion. Patrick Newbern Jr. was enjoying Easter Sunday in a parking lot with several friends when Blytheville police showed up allegedly responding to complaints of loud music. Instead of merely asking Newbern to turn down his music, the Blytheville police officer decided to issue a citation. Newbern began to move forward in his vehicle, but after moving 20 feet, he stopped. “Get his ass out of the car,” says the officer. Police claim Newbern refused to get out of the car. However, the officer’s body cam clearly shows that they gave him no chance to comply before dragging him from the car and throwing him on the ground. They began pulling on him before he could even unbuckle his seatbelt. “When you ask me to get out the car, you open up the door snatching me out the car without letting me get out my seat belt,” Newbern said. “How can I get out the car in my seat belt?” Not wanting to have his face rubbed in the pavement or his arms broken, Newbern struggled to comply without causing himself injury. The mere act of not wanting to get hurt was considered a threat to the officers who then escalated to multiple levels of forced compliance through pain. Police, predictably so, claimed that Newbern went for the officer’s weapon and ‘tried’ hitting one of them. He was tasered multiple times and sprayed with a chemical agent as officers rammed their knees in his back and his face. “I’m not resisting, bro,” pleads Newbern as the assault continues. “As soon as I saw the video, it made me sick to my stomach,” Tony Hollis, president of the Mississippi County Chapter of the NAACP, said, After Newbern was placed in handcuffs, the situation became tense as bystanders crowded around police and demand they let him go. The officers, clearly outnumbered, allowed bystanders to clean the pepper spray from Newbern’s eyes. According to the police report, Newbern was charged with violating the city’s noise ordinance, fleeing, and resisting arrest. All of this over the volume of his music. Hollis is now demanding that the officer in the video be disciplined.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (929086)	4/4/2016 4:54:26 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576601

embargos are cool Don't you fondly recall Clinton starving 500,000 Iraqi children to death?