Detroit-area cop charged with assault in beating on video

[mick silver]

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area police officer who hauled a man out of his car and repeatedly punched him in the head was charged Monday with assault stemming from a January traffic stop, which wasn't publicly known until a video was broadcast in March.



"The job of a peace officer can be dangerous," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. "But we cannot tolerate those who abuse their authority, violate their oath and prey on citizens rather than protecting them."
Recently fired Inkster Officer William Melendez was charged with mistreatment of a prisoner and assault, both felonies. Melendez has declined to discuss any specifics of how he treated Floyd Dent but said last week that "there are always two sides to every story."
The dashcam video shows Dent, 57, being pulled from his car by two officers during the stop on Jan. 28. He was repeatedly punched in the forehead by Melendez while on the ground, and is bloody when he stands up.
Worthy said her office didn't know about the incident until March 23, when WDIV-TV aired the video. Melendez, 46, a former Detroit officer, had not been disciplined until the story broke.
"We probably wouldn't know about it" without the video, Worthy said. Nonetheless, she declined to criticize the Inkster department.
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A drug charge will be dropped against Dent, who claims a bag of cocaine was planted in his car during the arrest. A judge already has dismissed a charge of resisting police.
In 2004, Melendez and seven other Detroit officers were acquitted of lying, falsifying reports and planting evidence. Federal prosecutors had accused him and another officer of being the "masterminds" of a conspiracy to "run roughshod over the civil rights of the victims."
Separately, Worthy said there would be no charges in a Jan. 12 incident involving officers from Grosse Pointe Park and Highland Park who were investigating a car theft. An armed carjacking suspect, Andrew Jackson, was kicked and punched on the ground during an arrest in Detroit. A video was recorded by a woman in her home.
Some actions by the officers were "disturbing and inexplicable" but don't rise to criminal conduct, said Worthy, who added that it's up to the respective departments to order any discipline.
Jackson, who has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the officers, didn't cooperate with investigators who wanted to ask him about the arrest, the prosecutor said.
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[mick silver]

comment from the site ...http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-address-possible-charges-2-police-beatings-124325941.html ... Let me tell you what it was like to grow up white in Detroit.

1. We had to move every few years because every neighborhood we ever lived in turned black and as it did, crime went up, property values and schools went down. If you blamed blacks, they blamed 400 years of oppression for making them the way they are.....in other words, whitey's fault.

2. Every person in my family was assaulted by blacks. Dad was robbed at gunpoint at the 7/11. Both sisters grabbed and asked for sex by total stranger black males as the walked down the street.

3. Mom had her purse snatched.

4. Brother had a knife pulled on him by a young black girl.

5. I was spit at as I drove down the street and nearly robbed by a pack of blacks, but not much else. I ran with a bunch of fairly street wise white guys so we knew to avoid blacks. I also witnessed a black kid stab a white kid in my elementary school. Most blood I ever saw in my life. I had totally forgotten about this until I ran into some old school mates and we started exchanging stories. I carried my own knife for protection in elementary school.

6. I attended a Finney, a Detroit high school for ONE semester. There were black guy attending school there that I swear were 25-years-old, huge black dudes with full beards. I think they lied about their age to play football and to get free lunches and nail chicks. I never set foot in the bathroom the entire semester...I was afraid to. I held it all day and ran to the nearest gas station on my walk home. God as my witness that is a true story.

7. At that same high school a white friend was shot by blacks for his coat.

8. My dad was literally a hillbilly from Kentucky with a sixth grade education. He would actually tease me about being "afraid of the N-WORDS" and he had to send me to a private high school. Most families with any money at all did this. I remember the tuition being $1,200 per year back in the 1970s....and that was a lot of money to my dad.

9. I ended up getting a Masters and a great corporate job where I was discriminated against for being a white man. So now I have my own business, I guess being afraid of the N-WORDS paid off. The intent of sending me to a private school was to protect me from the blacks. However, I inadvertently received a college prep education at the hands of Catholic Nuns. Going from Finney High School in Detroit to a suburban Catholic High School was like going from the Black Board Jungle to 90210. I was pretty damn happy.

10. The last neighborhood we lived in is now an all black war zone. It was the far east side of Detroit, Cadieux and E. Warren if anyone knows the area. I sold my house for 40k 18 years ago. Today the houses are worth about 9k.

11. If I told this story and said I was Chinese and the Japanese did this to us, there would be international outrage, a book and TV movie about the suffering of my people who were constantly dislocated by violence and racism. But in Detroit it is just a way of life and my story is no different from the other 1 million whites that fled the city. All the whites who were ran out of Detroit should be diagnosed with PTSD and given disability checks. Instead the people who ran us out are getting the disability checks.

Just business as usual in "the D" as we call it.

[Cebu_4_2]

Short video at this link: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/30/floyd-dent-police-inkster-michigan-beating

This is a very dirty pig.

[ximmy]

Natural criminals placed on the earth to destroy productive societies.

We should send them all back to their "We started civilization" bullshit Africa so they can kill each other there.

[Gold Rules]

comment from the site ...http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-address-possible-charges-2-police-beatings-124325941.html ... Let me tell you what it was like to grow up white in Detroit.

1. We had to move every few years because every neighborhood we ever lived in turned black and as it did, crime went up, property values and schools went down. If you blamed blacks, they blamed 400 years of oppression for making them the way they are.....in other words, whitey's fault.

2. Every person in my family was assaulted by blacks. Dad was robbed at gunpoint at the 7/11. Both sisters grabbed and asked for sex by total stranger black males as the walked down the street.

3. Mom had her purse snatched.

4. Brother had a knife pulled on him by a young black girl.

5. I was spit at as I drove down the street and nearly robbed by a pack of blacks, but not much else. I ran with a bunch of fairly street wise white guys so we knew to avoid blacks. I also witnessed a black kid stab a white kid in my elementary school. Most blood I ever saw in my life. I had totally forgotten about this until I ran into some old school mates and we started exchanging stories. I carried my own knife for protection in elementary school.

6. I attended a Finney, a Detroit high school for ONE semester. There were black guy attending school there that I swear were 25-years-old, huge black dudes with full beards. I think they lied about their age to play football and to get free lunches and nail chicks. I never set foot in the bathroom the entire semester...I was afraid to. I held it all day and ran to the nearest gas station on my walk home. God as my witness that is a true story.

7. At that same high school a white friend was shot by blacks for his coat.

8. My dad was literally a hillbilly from Kentucky with a sixth grade education. He would actually tease me about being "afraid of the N-WORDS" and he had to send me to a private high school. Most families with any money at all did this. I remember the tuition being $1,200 per year back in the 1970s....and that was a lot of money to my dad.

9. I ended up getting a Masters and a great corporate job where I was discriminated against for being a white man. So now I have my own business, I guess being afraid of the N-WORDS paid off. The intent of sending me to a private school was to protect me from the blacks. However, I inadvertently received a college prep education at the hands of Catholic Nuns. Going from Finney High School in Detroit to a suburban Catholic High School was like going from the Black Board Jungle to 90210. I was pretty damn happy.

10. The last neighborhood we lived in is now an all black war zone. It was the far east side of Detroit, Cadieux and E. Warren if anyone knows the area. I sold my house for 40k 18 years ago. Today the houses are worth about 9k.

11. If I told this story and said I was Chinese and the Japanese did this to us, there would be international outrage, a book and TV movie about the suffering of my people who were constantly dislocated by violence and racism. But in Detroit it is just a way of life and my story is no different from the other 1 million whites that fled the city. All the whites who were ran out of Detroit should be diagnosed with PTSD and given disability checks. Instead the people who ran us out are getting the disability checks.

Just business as usual in "the D" as we call it.

Remember the Midus Shop on the corner of Warren & Outer Drive ( friends of mine owned it back in the day)

My Shop was over by Shitty Airport..... total war zone at the time

[ximmy]

comment from the site ...http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-address-possible-charges-2-police-beatings-124325941.html ... Let me tell you what it was like to grow up white in Detroit.

1. We had to move every few years because every neighborhood we ever lived in turned black and as it did, crime went up, property values and schools went down. If you blamed blacks, they blamed 400 years of oppression for making them the way they are.....in other words, whitey's fault.

2. Every person in my family was assaulted by blacks. Dad was robbed at gunpoint at the 7/11. Both sisters grabbed and asked for sex by total stranger black males as the walked down the street.

3. Mom had her purse snatched.

4. Brother had a knife pulled on him by a young black girl.

5. I was spit at as I drove down the street and nearly robbed by a pack of blacks, but not much else. I ran with a bunch of fairly street wise white guys so we knew to avoid blacks. I also witnessed a black kid stab a white kid in my elementary school. Most blood I ever saw in my life. I had totally forgotten about this until I ran into some old school mates and we started exchanging stories. I carried my own knife for protection in elementary school.

6. I attended a Finney, a Detroit high school for ONE semester. There were black guy attending school there that I swear were 25-years-old, huge black dudes with full beards. I think they lied about their age to play football and to get free lunches and nail chicks. I never set foot in the bathroom the entire semester...I was afraid to. I held it all day and ran to the nearest gas station on my walk home. God as my witness that is a true story.

7. At that same high school a white friend was shot by blacks for his coat.

8. My dad was literally a hillbilly from Kentucky with a sixth grade education. He would actually tease me about being "afraid of the N-WORDS" and he had to send me to a private high school. Most families with any money at all did this. I remember the tuition being $1,200 per year back in the 1970s....and that was a lot of money to my dad.

9. I ended up getting a Masters and a great corporate job where I was discriminated against for being a white man. So now I have my own business, I guess being afraid of the N-WORDS paid off. The intent of sending me to a private school was to protect me from the blacks. However, I inadvertently received a college prep education at the hands of Catholic Nuns. Going from Finney High School in Detroit to a suburban Catholic High School was like going from the Black Board Jungle to 90210. I was pretty damn happy.

10. The last neighborhood we lived in is now an all black war zone. It was the far east side of Detroit, Cadieux and E. Warren if anyone knows the area. I sold my house for 40k 18 years ago. Today the houses are worth about 9k.

11. If I told this story and said I was Chinese and the Japanese did this to us, there would be international outrage, a book and TV movie about the suffering of my people who were constantly dislocated by violence and racism. But in Detroit it is just a way of life and my story is no different from the other 1 million whites that fled the city. All the whites who were ran out of Detroit should be diagnosed with PTSD and given disability checks. Instead the people who ran us out are getting the disability checks.

Just business as usual in "the D" as we call it.

Judge Olu Stevens is deeply offended by these remarks...

“I am offended… I am deeply offended that they would be victimized by an individual and express some kind of fear of all black men,” he said.

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?83017-Negro-judge-offended-by-3-y-o-white-girl-robbed-by-negro-now-afraid-of-other-negros