66 year old John Hardwick was arrested and beaten by the Danville (Kentucky) Police Department. Officer TJ Godbey punched him 6 times. As it turns out, this wasn’t Officer Godbey’s first time arresting and beating an elderly dementia patient.
Media report here.
Last update video here.
Petition here.
This woman’s family brought her to a hospital in Broward County, Florida because she was having a mental breakdown. She didn’t want to get out of the truck in the parking lot because she was afraid she would be hurt. She was right ,unfortunately. Several police officers offered to help get her into the hospital. One of those was Deputy Murillo with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. He ended up yanking her out of the truck “by the chain” and then literally breaking her arm in two.
Here’s the full raw footage.
Here’s the complaint from the lawsuit:
UPDATE: 66 year-old John Hardwick is a dementia patient who loves to shop with his wife at the Walmart in Danville, Kentucky. As they were shopping, he became separated from his wife…
Here’s the original video.
In his 12 years on the job, this police officer with the Melvindale, Michigan Police Department has been suspended, criminally charged and fired. But he’s also still there right now. So why? Lt. Matthew Furman says that the only reason there have been so many allegations against him is because he’s “proactive” about stopping crime. He’s currently under investigation by both the Michigan State Police and the Melvindale Police over a traffic stop that quickly escalated to tasing the driver. Officer Furman maintains that he did nothing wrong; that it’s just another false claim.
66 year-old John Hardwick is a dementia patient who loves to shop with his wife at the Walmart in Danville, Kentucky. As they were shopping, he became separated from his wife. He ended up being harassed by employees of Walmart, who then asked their cop buddies to join the harassment. Several officers with the Danville Police Department then violently arrested John. Surveillance footage captured one of the officers punching Mr. Hardwick 6 times. Sadly, they subsequently continued to prosecute him. Fortunately, his wife hired a great lawyer, and he blew the coverup wide open.
The charges and police report:
The specific criminal violations:
Statement by the Danville Chief of Police:
Two police officers in Asheville, North Carolina, violently arrested a beloved local 63 year-old janitor after receiving a false report from the local Subaru dealership that one of their cars was being used without authorization. Louis Searles, the janitor, sees the officers looking at a car outside the building where he works. He had observed the woman who was driving the vehicle, so he walked up to the officers and told then where the woman was (in a local business called “Thrive,” which is in the building where he works as a janitor. Instead of going and locating that woman, they decided to violently arrest the janitor.
Here’s the video the cops made.
Here’s the 4th Circuit case discussed in the video, Milla v. Brown:
Derrick House was returning home from a trip to Costco, headed to make dinner with his family. An unmarked car comes speeding up from behind him, suddenly blocking him in. Cops jump out and start pointing their pistols at him, threatening to shoot him in the face. What did he do wrong? Apparently he was just a black male driving a Volkswagen. Even though it was the wrong make, color (and license plate number) the cops figured it was close enough.
Here’s the complaint:
Here’s the press release:
Deputies in Onondaga County, New York bravely captured the wrong dangerous 11 Year Old, handcuffing her in front of her friends, who filmed the incident. Sheriff Toby Shelley said the deputies had received a description of a girl who allegedly ran from a stolen car just half an hour before. Turns out, it was the wrong person. Sheriff Shelley explained that handcuffing the innocent 11 Year Old was completely appropriate.
What was supposed to be a joyous Christmas celebration turned into a nightmare for Jennifer Heath Box, when Broward County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies arrested her and threw her in jail for three days—all because they refused to check their paperwork to make sure they had the right person. Because of indifference of police and jail personnel, Jennifer missed Christmas with her family and, most importantly, missed seeing her son before he deployed overseas with the United States Marines. Fortunately, the Institute for Justice is on the case…
Five days ago, I told you about the tragic death of Doug Harless, shot by officers from the London (Kentucky) Police Department during a wrong house raid over the county “Judge-Executive’s” stolen weedeater. Since then there have been several updates, including a “Justice for Doug” march/protest, as well as a fiery town council meeting. But, in a “truth is stranger than fiction” style twist, an audio recording has surfaced of a phone call between the county Judge Executive, David Westerfield and London Police Officer Jared Hale, which tells us the real story….