Woman’s Eyes “Blown to Pieces” by Cop With Gunpowder Powered Pepper Gun

[Cebu_4_2]

“Her eyeballs were literally blown into pieces, and the person who did this was a police officer.”

May 14, 2014
Monique Hernandez was pulled over in February of 2012 by Beaumont police officer, Enoch Clark. When Clark attempted to subdue Hernandez, he said she ‘resisted.’
Although the dashcam footage tells a different tale, Clark said that in order to get her in handcuffs, he had to use his department-issued JPX gunpowder-propelled pepper spray weapon and fire it less than a foot away from her face.
The gunpowder powered JPX Pepper Gun (http://jpxpeppergun.net/) launches OC (pepper spray) at 405 mph.
http://www.defenderpepperguns.com/assets/images/JPXBlackwithlaser.jpg
The results from firing the gun at such a close proximity were catastrophic.
The blast of pepper gel sliced her right eye in half, fractured her right orbital bone and severed the optic nerve in her left eye.
Clark was indicted on four felony counts of assault by a police officer and causing great bodily injury.

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The jury is expected to begin deliberations today over whether or not Clark used excessive force in Hernandez’s arrest.
According to the Press Enterprise,

Deputy District Attorney Michael Carney on Tuesday during closing arguments showed the jury a police dashcam video in which Hernandez was seen with her hands behind her back while Clark asked about her blood alcohol concentration. Clark told her to stop resisting or he would “JPX” her. Hernandez told Clark she wasn’t resisting.

As Clark attempted to handcuff Hernandez, the video shows Clark shining a laser toward her face and firing a double-barrel charge of pepper spray.

Hernandez’s family audibly gasped in the courtroom. Hernandez sat in the second row of the courtroom and had to be escorted in and out of court.

Clark no longer works for the city of Beaumont or the Police Department. Hernandez has filed a lawsuit for damages against Clark and the Police Department. That lawsuit, being heard in Los Angeles, is separate from the criminal trial.



“Every single day, she goes to bed at night, dreaming of a time when she used to be able to see,” Carney said. “When Monique Hernandez wakes up, the world is still dark because her sight was violently taken from here. Her eyeballs were literally blown into pieces, and the person who did this was a police officer.”

Enoch Clark, 38, could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted of the disabling assault.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/womans-eyes-blown-pieces-cop-gunpowder-powered-pepper-gun/#AEHKsLcuyWd6VeCx.99

[Shami-Amourae]

Enoch Clark, 38, could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted of the disabling assault.


I call bullshit on that. He'll get a paid vacation and be back on the job in a week.

[Ares]

I call bullshit on that. He'll get a paid vacation and be back on the job in a week.

Doesn't look to be bullshit this time. Dude went to trial. Still unable to find the outcome though.

http://www.recordgazette.net/news/article_bef2a282-9a6d-11e3-894d-0019bb2963f4.html

[Cebu_4_2]

Beaumont Officer's Trial Pushed to Sept. 5

Both Enoch Clark and Monique Hernandez, the woman he’s accused of assaulting, appeared in the Riverside County Courthouse on Thursday.
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The trial for Beaumont police officer accused of blinding a local woman with pepper spray was pushed to Sept. 5 on Tuesday.
Both Officer Enoch Clark and Monique Hernandez, the woman he’s accused of assaulting, appeared in the Riverside County Courthouse Thursday morning, said John Hall, spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney's Office.

Milton Grimes, the family attorney for Hernandez that his client will be at every hearing Clark is at.

“Every time he comes to court, we will be here,” Grimes told Patch outside the courtroom on May 29. “Because we want to show that we’re concerned and want to see justice, and we don’t want anything happening and we not be here to witness it.”
Clark is free on $50,000 bail.

On April 26, Clark was arraigned on four counts: assault under the color or authority, assault with a less lethal weapon, use of force causing serious bodily injury, and assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury. There is also an enhancement that he personally inflicted great bodily injury.

The officer remains on administrative leave from the Beaumont Police Department.

[Cebu_4_2]

Beaumont, California Woman Monica Hernandez Blinded With Pepper Spray for “Contempt of Cop” (http://www.republicmagazine.com/news/beaumont-california-woman-monica-hernandez-blinded-with-pepper-spray-for-contempt-of-cop.html)

Posted on 11 May 2012 by george
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Thanks to Beaumont, California Police Officer Enoch Clark, 32-year-old Monique Hernandez (http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-clark-beaumont-pepper-spray,0,40793.story) will never see her ten-year-old daughter again (http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=8644601&pt=print).

On February 21, Clark conducted a traffic stop involving Hernandez, who was suspected of drunk driving. When Clark attempted to handcuff her, Hernandez resisted. The officer responded by using a JPX device – a weapon that uses a gunpowder charge to fire a stream of pepper spray at roughly 400 miles an hour.

The JPX weapon is designed for use at a distance of 6 to 15 feet, and training presentations depict it being used against aggressive, armed assailants. Promotional literature for the JPX weapon – which isn’t categorized as a firearm, because it doesn’t fire a projectile – boasts of “devastating stopping power.”

http://www.republicmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Enoch-Clark1-200x200.jpg (http://www.republicmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Enoch-Clark1.jpg)Officer Enoch Clark

The payload of weaponized OC spray is propelled over the prescribed distance at less than three one-hundredths of a second, making it “too fast to avoid…. The effect is immediate; there is no chance to resist.”

Clark’s attorney insists that the officer’s attack was justified in order “to gain compliance and in defense of his person.” The JPX is not designed to induce “compliance,” but rather to incapacitate an aggressor at a distance. Clark – who was armed and wearing body armor — fired it into Hernandez’s temple from a distance of roughly ten inches, blowing apart her right eye and leaving the left with severe, irreparable damage.

Anyone who had undergone rudimentary training with the JPX would understand that the weapon should not be fired directly into the head or face of a non-violent suspect. Clark’s actions suggest that his intention was not to gain “compliance,” but rather to inflict summary street punishment for “contempt of cop.”

Hernandez was taken to the hospital and never charged. Following an investigation by the county Sherriff’s office, a grand jury indicted Clark on four felony charges (http://banning-beaumont.patch.com/articles/beaumont-police-officer-indicted-by-criminal-grand-jury-assault-in-dui-traffic-stop): Assault under color of authority, assault with a less lethal weapon, use of force causing severe bodily injury, and assault with force likely to cause severe bodily injury. Free on $50,000 bail, Clark faces up to 20 years in prison. At present, the officer – who is chairman of the local police union — was placed on administrative leave, which is to say that he was given a paid vacation.

http://www.republicmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JPX-Stormtroopers2-200x200.jpg (http://www.republicmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JPX-Stormtroopers2.jpg)Stormtroopers armed with JPX pepper spray guns

Interestingly, the law firm representing Clark in his criminal trial is involving in a union lawsuit against Beaumont Police Chief Frank Coe, claiming that the chief retaliated against critics on in the department by denying them promotions, thereby leaving several positions vacant.

Tragically, the blinding of Monique Hernandez arose out of a domestic disturbance that led to a 911 call. Two officers responded to the call, one of whom reportedly witnessed the assault while speaking with Hernandez’s family.

It should be remembered that any time someone calls for police “assistance,” he’s inviting the intervention of people who consider themselves licensed to inflict potentially lethal violence as punishment for non-compliance. It should be assumed that if the police get involved, somebody is going to injured or killed – generally without just cause.
Read more here (http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/05/01/32266/beaumont-woman-blind-police-pepper-spray-plans-fil/).

[Ponce]

Well......?????????????????????????????

V

[Spectrism]

I guess the video is not available.

The outcome speaks for itself. At best it is criminal negligence. Yet.... he is on ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. Should be held in jail. If they can keep delaying the trial, it might go away.

On the other hand, if that were my wife or sister or cousin, he would never make it to trial.

[midnight rambler]

I call bullshit on that. He'll get a paid vacation and be back on the job in a week.

Yep, it's Beaumont PD and their reputation proceeds them.

ETA: Oops, thought this was the Beaumont, Texas PD. Still, no real difference.

[midnight rambler]

Promotional literature for the JPX weapon – which isn’t categorized as a firearm, because it doesn’t fire a projectile

Sure...it uses gunpowder to discharge, I'm wondering if it's available to us lowly 'civilians' without having to go through a FFL.

[Hitch]

The JPX weapon is designed for use at a distance of 6 to 15 feet, and training presentations depict it being used against aggressive, armed assailants. Promotional literature for the JPX weapon – which isn’t categorized as a firearm, because it doesn’t fire a projectile – boasts of “devastating stopping power.”
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I have never even heard of this new weapon. I surely hope it's not used anymore. This trend of new crazy police defense weapons is really disturbing. The regular OC spray works too well, imo. I believe if a cop wants to carry a self defense weapon he must experience it on himself. I doubt this cop was shot in the face with his JPX weapon.

[Santa]

I call bullshit on that. He'll get a paid vacation and be back on the job in a week.

A week? That's much too short of a paid administrative vacation for a cop. Though, he didn't actually kill the woman. If he had killed her,
maybe he'd have received a good 6 months to enjoy at a beautiful tropical ocean front resort, fishing and frolicking in the waves. :)

[madfranks]

fire it less than a foot away from her face

Good Lord. Unfortunately, the American people love their police, they are heroes to them and can do no wrong, so I bet the guy gets off with a slap on the wrist. No way he's going to jail for this, after all he is a "hero".

[midnight rambler]

Good Lord. Unfortunately, the American people love their police, they are heroes to them and can do no wrong, so I bet the guy gets off with a slap on the wrist. No way he's going to jail for this, after all he is a "hero".

No doubt she *deserved* it.

So what's the big deal?

[Hitch]

Good Lord. Unfortunately, the American people love their police, they are heroes to them and can do no wrong, so I bet the guy gets off with a slap on the wrist. No way he's going to jail for this, after all he is a "hero".

I wager a 1 oz silver round he does go to jail. Any takers? I'll wager he goes to prison with a 10 or more year sentence. 1 oz ugly silver round, to the first person who accepts this wager.

[Spectrism]

I wager a 1 oz silver round he does go to jail. Any takers? I'll wager he goes to prison with a 10 or more year sentence. 1 oz ugly silver round, to the first person who accepts this wager.

I think he should do time but he won't get 10 years. My guess is he will get 3-5 years.

[7th trump]

I doubt he gets anything considering the crime rate there.
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Beaumont-Texas.html
Theres always two sides to every story people....take in all the facts and keep your emotion separate from any truthful conclusion..
Usually the higher the crime rate the more police brutality.
I don't know....would you use more force to over take a tribe of poorly armed Africans that arent trained in modern warfare over say....a formidable force such as a bunch of marines?
Around here the west end of town is a rough part of town where the SAME police debt doesnt give much for leeway compared to the north and east parts of town.
She's obviously Mexican in a town with high crime rates.....hey imagine that...profiling does work!
Look at Midnight rambler...he profiles the PD every chance he gets!
Is it fair?...no, not at all, but its ok for midnight to profile.


564 registered sex offenders in just that little area.....wonder what the ethnical statistics are?
Mexican on white crime I bet is #1.


Not saying this person is a scumbag thug, but treat scumbag thugs like scumbag thugs like being treated.
You a big bad tuff guy?
Well allow the PD to treat you like one then...tuff guy!!!
I have an exsister-in-law who's on the Cedar Rapids police debt up there...some of the stories I was told would turn any person into a racist.
I don't have a damn problem with the police dropping the hammer on these scumbags....if they didn't these scumbags most surely would be dropping the hammer on the innocent.

[Cebu_4_2]

You surely have my respect 7th

:rolleyes:

[Hitch]

I wager a 1 oz silver round he does go to jail. Any takers? I'll wager he goes to prison with a 10 or more year sentence. 1 oz ugly silver round, to the first person who accepts this wager.

Bump my post. Who will accept my wager? Threads like this are never followed up on. Everyone posts their personal grievances, but it's never followed up on. It's all to soon forgotten, and it's on to the next police brutality case. The thread dies a death without any closure.

I bet justice will occur in this particular case. I'll put my silver where my mouth is, so to speak.

[Cebu_4_2]

Bump my post. Who will accept my wager? Threads like this are never followed up on. Everyone posts their personal grievances, but it's never followed up on. It's all to soon forgotten, and it's on to the next police brutality case. The thread dies a death without any closure.

I bet justice will occur in this particular case. I'll put my silver where my mouth is, so to speak.

Allrighty mr police man. I don't have any .999 silver left but will wager a morgan silver against you. He has been on vacation more than 2 years, what a job!

Want to go with that? I am not sure of the years or mint facilities but I stopped selling them after silver dropped below $35.00

[Hitch]

Allrighty mr police man. I don't have any .999 silver left but will wager a morgan silver against you. He has been on vacation more than 2 years, what a job!

Want to go with that? I am not sure of the years or mint facilities but I stopped selling them after silver dropped below $35.00

My ugly silver round isn't worth a morgan. But I do have morgans. You can choose which you would prefer. We've got a bet. If this guy gets a less than 10 year sentence, I will send you a morgan, or an ugly 1 oz round (your choice). If he gets 10 or more years, you owe me one.

(internet handshake).

[singular_me]

lol 7th trump, in another thread was alluding to 2 wackos wandering... another poster asked him: you would be one and who is the other... ?

well it seems like his posting above may have answered the question

[7th trump]

lol 7th trump, in another thread was alluding to 2 wackos wandering... another poster asked him: you would be one and who is the other... ?

well it seems like his posting above may have answered the question
You definitely lack a higher understanding capability.
Some will never get to that point of understanding.
Why drag yourself into this?

[singular_me]

profiling is never good, it works both ways, violence can only increase.

[Cebu_4_2]

My ugly silver round isn't worth a morgan. But I do have morgans. You can choose which you would prefer. We've got a bet. If this guy gets a less than 10 year sentence, I will send you a morgan, or an ugly 1 oz round (your choice). If he gets 10 or more years, you owe me one.

(internet handshake).

1889 Morgan, my wife read it so it's probably true. Your on pig man.

[Hitch]

1889 Morgan, my wife read it so it's probably true. Your on pig man.

I reckon I'd believe your wife over you. OK then, we have a bet, Internet slackjaw.

[Cebu_4_2]

I reckon I'd believe your wife over you. OK then, we have a bet, Internet slackjaw.

Fuck off pigman If we has any light in here I could read them too. Anyways the bet is on... What you betting anyways?

[Hitch]

Fuck off pigman If we has any light in here I could read them too. Anyways the bet is on... What you betting anyways?

I am betting a morgan or silver round, you choose. You backing out already on our bet? I already backed up my post. Now you turning turtle?

I can't believe how folks have no honor.

[milehi]

This happened in California, not Texas. Beaumont is rural horse country with rolling grass hills and some golf courses with I10 passing through. Theres nothing really out there. You drive through in a minute or two.

[zap]

This happened in California, not Texas. Beaumont is rural horse country with rolling grass hills and some golf courses with I10 passing through. Theres nothing really out there. You drive through in a minute or two.

Yep I have drove through there way back when, Beaumont and Banning, not much in either town, back in 89.

[Dogman]

This happened in California, not Texas. Beaumont is rural horse country with rolling grass hills and some golf courses with I10 passing through. Theres nothing really out there. You drive through in a minute or two.


Yep I have drove through there way back when, Beaumont and Banning, not much in either town, back in 89.


HUmm?

The outrage expressed without doing homework on the story, is just totally normal here! Hell was looking for this story from the texas city, and zip!. But cali bingo!...

I wonder how many actually look to see if any story's posted here are real, just a simple web search with right wording. But hot button topics , everyone piles on without first checking if the story can hold water, in some ways that reminds me of a northern critter called a lemming, they follow what everyone else does and does not check facts.

Thank you Milehi and Zap for conformation.

Then again , I could be wrong, and everyone knew it was the Californian city and not the bigger texas one. But one of our comrade members jumped the gun and started posting/spouting without doing homework.

https://www.google.com/#q=beaumont+cop+blinds+woman

[zap]

Well you know those Mexican women get pretty mouthy maybe she should have just shut up? and submitted, But who knows maybe he just wanted to try his new toy?

[Dogman]

Well you know those Mexican women get pretty mouthy maybe she should have just shut up? and submitted, But who knows maybe he just wanted to try his new toy? Most women I have known will ether be quiet and burn or explode. They will burn and turn loose on the first safe target, or explode in your face nomaterwhointhehellyouare. if she felt she was right.

Here we call it she has spunk!

But bunch of submissive ones here also.

[madfranks]

Well you know those Mexican women get pretty mouthy maybe she should have just shut up? and submitted, But who knows maybe he just wanted to try his new toy?

I think he wanted to try his new toy, but did not know how it works, so to him it was simple pepper spray, so he puts it right up to her face and pulls the trigger and before he knows it, her eyeballs are torn to shreds.

Why do you need gunpowder propelled pepper spray anyway? To pepper spray someone from 50 feet away?