This is another blood-boiler.

From NBC News:

"A 64-year-old Missouri woman with a history of mental illness has been declared innocent by a judge for a murder that she has spent more than four decades behind bars for and in which some now suspect a former police officer.

Sandra Hemme's innocence in the November 12, 1980, slaying of Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri, is “clear and convincing” the judge ruled last week.

But she remains behind bars, and Missouri's top prosecutor on Tuesday asked a court to put the brakes on releasing her."

Actually the evidence that the murder was committed by now-deceased St. Joseph, MO police officer Michael Holman, is overwhelming.  The fact that this woman spent 40+ years in prison because the police didn't want to arrest him is what it is.  But the way the AG is now wanting to double down on it is a serious problem that I have no idea how to begin addressing, like the situation with the missing indigenous women.

"Fellow police officer Michael Holman, who was found using the victim’s credit card the day after the murder; whose truck was seen parked near the victim’s home at the time she was killed; in whose closet the victim’s earrings were discovered; and who in the months before and after Ms. Jeschke’s murder, committed many other crimes against women," The Innocence Project said in a statement.

Anybody else would have been arrested right quick.  But the police had carte blanche with sex crimes in my day.  They just did.

This is another sick, sad, wrong situation in Missouri.  After the DOJ found systemic issues in Ferguson, did they fix anything?  I don't think so.  It's still a major septic tank as far as I can tell.  They'll have to show me that anything is better over there.

This citizen's name hasn't been released to my knowledge.  But I don't have strong enough words of praise for how he handled this situation.  He should really teach a seminar.  Because he's outnumbered 4 or 5 cops to one.  They're not his friends at all.  One of them is definitely trying to steal $900.  It's an away game, he's on their turf.  AND HE BEAT THEM AT THE GAME LIKE THE KING OF BOSSES!

This guy was totally set up to get robbed here.  It was his girlfriend's cash, that he was on his way to pay for her car.  So he didn't know the exact amount that was rubber-banded together.  He was stopped speeding in her car, and he had a warrant.

So before bodycam, he would have just kissed that money goodbye, even as a white man.  Because Officer Chapman was definitely gonna get him some as soon as he saw that wad, make no mistake.  Watch the whole bodycam video.

Everything about Chapman and his, "Who, me?  Check my pockets" bullshit suggests that he's done this many times.

Also infuriating is lady cop, who stands there telling the guy to just be calm while he's surrounded by cops who are fucking robbing him of $900 of someone else's money.  Fuck that facilitating bitch.  He's already amazingly calm under the circumstances.  He was 100% correct not to leave the sally port without having that investigated.  As soon as he walked away from that car fucking Chapman had that money secured.

But now Chapman is gone and off the force.  The turn-around from "Check my pockets" like the citizen is a crazy asshole, to "I'm sorry, Sarge," that 180 reality-slap -- SATISFYING.

WIN FOR THE PEOPLE!!!!

I write "true crime for survivors."  That's a very complicated subject in America, because all of our conversations about justice are so twisted here.  Basically every conversation has to involve everybody's personal craziness in their professional capacity.  We have to worry about the sexual or other criminal urges of every police officer we interact with.  They all work for mayors -- and I recently wrote about them being a new plague on society.  Then there's no telling how insane the judge will be.  That can be a disaster for both a defendant and a person who was harmed.  I can't possibly even blog all the ways.

Last week I blogged about woman arrested outside a bar in Georgia with her titty popping out.  She refused to identify herself.  The police officer said she punched him in a melee.  Whatever the case, she's disgraceful in the bodycam, intoxicated and belligerent.  Completely impossible to deal with.  She's doing the most cringey version of "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" with him, demanding that he call someone from the county and have that person identify her by her voice. 

She seems to expect that to be some big reveal moment, like on TV, where they're going to be like, OMG, she's a judge?!?  "Sorry ma'am, we'll take off these cuffs and drive you home right now," with their heads hanging in shame, while lightning bolts flash all around her and dark winds whip up her dress, perfectly accentuating her legs. 

But those cops don't even work for the county.  And that's not how arresting people works.  Because she's drunk.

So watching her bawl her eyes out here, while they go over the 30 -- count them 30 -- counts of judicial misconduct she did, her capricious, mean-spirited, punitive self-serving bullshit, tossing people in jail, demanding to be treated like royalty, so satisfying.  No more stomping around shouting, "Off with their heads!" for you, ma'am.

She's another one like Tiffany Henyard, who expects African-Americans to be proud of her even when she's screwing and shaming them.  You're nothing to be proud of, ma'am.  Especially since she did all of this nonsense with the police after the judicial misconduct hearings.  And then she had the audacity to go on TV with her lawyer and cry victim, even after having been resoundingly stomped off the bench by the voters. Bless her heart.

From NBC News:

"Political leaders across the spectrum denounced the alleged attack, which has been described as antisemitic, with France in the midst of snap parliamentary elections where the far right is leading.

Two adolescent boys in a Paris suburb have been given preliminary charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and religion-motivated violence, French authorities said Wednesday.

The incident has sparked a widespread outcry in France as the country contends with rising antisemitism since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, and has inflamed accusations of antisemitism ahead of contentious elections set for June 30 and July 7.

The prosecutor’s office for Nanterre, the western suburb of Paris that launched the investigation into the alleged attack, did not specify the girl’s religion or release her identity in order to protect the victim, in line with standard practice for hate crimes in France.

However, lawyer and Jewish leader Elie Korchia said in an interview with French broadcaster BFM that the girl is Jewish, and leaders from across France’s political spectrum have condemned what they describe as an act of antisemitism."

Okay, wait.  Did they know the girl was Jewish?  How so?  Or was it just that they were Moslem or immigrants from a certain country?  Because I don't feel that either (a) the war in Gaza or (b) the upcoming election and the agitated far right have anything to do with the sexual violence inflicted on that girl, or they shouldn't be included in this reporting.  They should tell why specifically the religious hate crime charges were added, unless those two reasons were why.

I'm well and truly sick to death of the politicization of rape.  I would like every person who feels the need to glom their agendas onto the rape of any person, including and especially children, to add their names to the list of rapists.  Because that's all they are in my eyes.  I had to stop reading about the war in Ukraine because of all the righteous bros who couldn't stop sharing the outraged rape porn about it, and shouted me down when I protested.

Every day I hear people talking about the war in Gaza.  They're frequently "outraged" about all the rape in particular, without knowing anything specific about the conflict.  But it's interesting to me how some stranger in an elevator will admit they don't understand what's going on in Gaza any great detail, yet won't hesitate to mention how rapey the Palestinians are.  Unraped people are full of untested opinions, and very confident in them.

Even if the boys did target the girl because they knew she was Jewish, Elie Korchia should go fuck himself.  You know why?  Because that girl is super traumatized right now.  And he's just another person grabbing her like an object and waving her around because she suits his agenda.

I'm too weary to write about this right now.

A truck driver, who immigrated here from Ethiopia, was unable to complete his delivery to Aldi.  Since he had to wait until the next day, he went to a local bar 

While he was there, he became the focus of two off-duty police officers, who themselves became the subjects of an FBI investigation after they decided to detain him because they imagined he was an illegal immigrant.

"This guy's not from this country," one of them explains.  "So we started fighting with him.  He's like I'm, you know, whatever.  So here we are.  He's holding him down."

"Regardless if he's from this country or not, what happened?"

"He's not from this country."

"Yeah, okay.  What happened, though?"

The anti-immigrant rhetoric in this country, constantly referencing everybody's nationality and immigration status, leads to bullshit like this. 

One of these clowns is on a DEA task force, the other a Cleveland police officer on their ATF task force.  Their reason for pinning this Texas truck driver to the ground?  He's not from this country. 

"I'm not gonna be the guy in the news like, oh, you're on a fuckin'  security cam, this guy ends up blowing the fuckin' mall up tomorrow.  Don't care who I offend, dude."

Bartender:

They were really being aggressive with him.  He was sitting here.  They were trying to snatch his phone.  They were turning his arm.

Investigating officer:

"They're drunk, and this guy came up to them and started saying some stuff.  And they were like, oh, this guy's a terrorist.  We can't let him go."

Other investigating officer:

"That's what I mean.  Does that sound sane to you?"

First officer:

"No."

Same.  Fuck these two.  They're being investigated by both the county and the FBI.  They're off their task forces now.  I hope the one who said he didn't care about giving offense gets un-policed altogether because he's a menace.  They both are.  Their coworkers seemed well aware of it, so maybe.

I learned in fire academy never to call anybody a hero while they're still alive.  Because if you do, his coworkers will never let him hear the end of it.  But what he did here was absolutely phenomenal, God bless.  Just watch the video.

So I'll just say that this officer will surely receive a commendation after he gets treated for smoke inhalation.  Hopefully his lungs didn't get burned too bad and there wasn't anything horribly toxic in that smoke so he doesn't get cancer from it. 

The boldness of this perpetrator, to walk up and snatch a toddler away from its parents in broad daylight, at a busy mall in the summertime, speaks to (a) his degree of desperation to carry out his desires and (b) his level of disconnection with reality, loss of ability to perceive potential consequences that would be very obvious to others.  Basically whatever he wants those children for, it has overtaken his ability to process other information.  All of the RAM in his brain is busy with his thoughts of small children, and getting one to himself.

So hopefully the police have found and arrested the right person.  Because JFC, what this person in the Satriale's T-shirt is describing is horrifying, that someone walked right up to his family and casually grabbed their 5-year-old to walk off with her.

Also the fact that this happened twice, at the same place, within a few days, suggests someone whose world has collapsed.  It's a situation that has gone bad and will only end with civic intervention.  So I very much hope they've found the right guy.

Oh, America.  You have police officers nicknamed "Taser Face."

Colin Berryhill had three excessive force complaints in his first year on the force, including one against a minor.  And his supervisor gave him the cutesy nickname "Taser Face" before allowing him to resign under investigation.

Then he was quickly hired at a different agency in a neighboring state, no problemo.  Until -- SURPRISE! -- he got in trouble and had to resign before they could fire him from there, too.

He's not currently working in law enforcement.  But he does still have certification in two states.  So he could get another cop job.  That happens all the time in America.

We need a national "No Donut For You List," in America that would prevent them from working as cops again.   It should be something like the Sex Offender Registry but for people like Pablo Cano and Taser Face.

These two EMTs have resigned, rather than being fired.

How incredibly shameful.

We have equipment that allows us to carry people down stairs.  The newest generation of the stair chair is truly a marvel, allowing responders to move quite a heavy person downstairs without having to lift them at all.  Even an older model does the trick quite well, and every truck I ever rode on had a stair chair.

Even if these two were too lazy to pull out their stair chair and help the man down, for sure this town has a fire department.  They can be called upon to do "lift assistance," bring more personnel to physically carry someone who is too big to move themselves or to be safely moved by the two EMTs.

But also, we learned a lot of different ways to move people in EMT school, including placing them on sheets to get them onto our nifty gurneys, which roll.  So there's not a single excuse in the world for anything shown in this video.

Even assuming this guy is a frequent flyer who calls them all the time with total bullshit.  You know what?  That's why you get the big bucks, fuckers.  You don't make him walk all the way out to your truck and climb up onto your stretcher unassisted.  At a bare minimum, you call fire and have them help him if you're too lazy to do anything at all.

The part where they're mocking him and tugging at him like he's a bag of potatoes, just sickening all the way around.

Shameful.  They're "investigating," for whatever that's worth.  Investigating what, whether to pull their patches?  Press charges?  Their chain of command?  Not the last one for sure.