To All Those That Live Under A Rock

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This post goes out to everyone that believes all cops are good and never and I mean never do anything wrong.

http://www.wsmv.com/news/15370841/de...=nash&psp=news

-- A man has now admitted to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation that he had drugs with him the night he was pulled over by Cookeville police.

Carlos Ferrell filed a lawsuit last week accusing Cookeville police of “excessive use of force” and “planting contraband" during a domestic assault arrest last year.

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One officer has been placed on leave because of the incident, and five others are named in the federal lawsuit.
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Police car video from the Cookeville Police Department captured the incident that triggered the lawsuit.

On the night of June 4, 2007, Ferrell was stopped by police on a domestic assault warrant. According to the lawsuit, Ferrell's ex-wife, Tiffany, saw Ferrell, called police and was involved in the initial chase.

Once Ferrell came to a stop, he was ordered out of the car by Cookeville police Officer Chris Melton.

“Put your hands up, and get out of the car,” Melton is heard telling Ferrell on the tape.

Ferrell, 28, exits the car with his arms raised while Officer Jeff Johnson is holding the department’s police dog. The video shows the dog bite Ferrell several times.

Attorney Blair Durham is representing Ferrell.

“The dog is released. The dog then chews into Mr. Ferrell's leg where, of course, he goes to the ground,” he said.

"Your dog just ate my leg off,” Ferrell said on the tape.

Durham also accused Melton of planting drugs on Ferrell. In the dash cam video, Melton is seen searching Ferrell's pockets a number of times.

Then, Durham said, another officer appears to give a signal with his hand, at which point Melton then reaches into his right pocket and looks into the camera. It’s at that point on the tape that Durham said Melton appears to put drugs in Ferrell's pocket.

“Whoa, Carlos, weed? Now you got you another freaking charge, how about that?" Melton told Ferrell in the video.

Melton has been placed on administrative leave with pay. The night of the stop, Ferrell was charged with evading arrest and possession of marijuana.

“That’s a complete drug plant is what I'm alleging. It’s a complete unlawful search, first of all, and it’s a planting of paraphernalia,” Durham said.

Cookeville police said they are "completely cooperating with the TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)." A representative said the department is not trying to hide anything and doesn’t want to look like it is.

Police took Ferrell to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries. Durham said Ferrell is no choir boy but that he's never been arrested on violent offenses.

According to his record, Ferrell has two DUIs and a previous drug possession charge.

Good for him on sueing the police..if everyone sued the police at least once in their lifetime it would keep the assholes in line.

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Even more assholes

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/hobart.....2.663381.html

Hobart Family: Video Proves Alleged Police Abuse
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Pamela Jones
HOBART, Ind. (CBS) ― A northwest Indiana couple claims several officers roughed them up in their own front yard, and they say it was all captured on this surveillance video.

CBS 2 Northwest Indiana Bureau Chief Pamela Jones reports in surveillance video, a woman's head can be seen snapping back. Her attorneys say a police officer punched her, then took her down in her front yard.

"I was shocked when I saw this. And I grew up in Hobart," attorney Ron Layer said. "I can't imagine what any woman could say to a police officer to cause him to take his gun out and point it in her face."

There's no audio in the surveillance footage, but the Olig family's own surveillance camera perched outside captured police arresting the mother, father and two sons August 30, 2007.

The Oligs' attorneys say those arrests were unprovoked

"There's no assertive moves by any of the Oligs against any of the officers before there's this punch by one of the police officers into Candace," said attorney Michael Babcock. "It actually knocks her to the ground."

Police reports the attorneys gave us tell it a little differently.

Corporal Paul Oliver states the wife, Candace Olig, came at him with a closed fist and hit him on the head three times, that he pushed her backwards in the chest, and that he pulled his handgun and pointed it towards her.

Attorneys say the video disproves those actions.

"Even once the melee kind of starts, with the officers grabbing each one of the Olig families, throwing them to the ground, you still at no point do you see them resisting at all," Babcock said.

Hobart police tell CBS 2 they've been called to the house on numerous occasions, and some neighbors say domestic turbulence inside often spills out onto the street.

"It's all the time; always got the Hobart police over there," said one neighbor.

But this time, attorneys say the police were causing the turmoil, even when the husband, David Olig, tried to lead his family to back away.

The Hobart city attorney said an independent investigation is being conducted by the Lake County Sheriff's Department.

Props to these heros that go above and beyond and don't take it up the ass with police corruption like so many here believe you should. I wouldn't have sued though i would have shot them.