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Cop Arrests Mom of 3 Filming His Illegal Traffic Stop | She Wins in Court

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On July 31, 2024, Kentucky State Police Trooper Myron Jackson took exception to Christen Johnson, a dental assistant and mom of 3 young children, silently filming his illegal traffic stop from her front porch. Trooper Jackson stormed up to Christen and threatened her, “Go inside of the house or I will take you from your kids and take you to jail.”

When Christen remained filming on her porch, Trooper Jackson grabbed her, forcefully pulled her from her porch, and dragged her across the ground. Christen’s two, seven, and ten-year-old children screamed and cried, watching helplessly as their mother was violently hand- cuffed and dragged away to jail. When she got out of jail the next day, she was forced to walk several miles home, and when she got there, she found her children gone.

The lawsuit:

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Grandmother Arrested on 25 Year-Old Warrant for Someone Else | Lawsuit Filed!

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In the blink of an eye, a peaceful day of yardwork for Penny McCarthy turned into a nightmare. She was on her driveway in Phoenix, Arizona, in a sleeveless shirt, shorts, and slippers, when a team of United States Marshals pulled up in unmarked vehicles and aimed firearms at her.

Penny—who is a 67-year-old grandmother—was clearly at their mercy. And yet, the officers threatened to “hit” her, frisked her, placed her in handcuffs and ankle shackles, and drove her away from home. The officers did not so much as check Penny’s driver’s license or run any other basic checks on her identity before violently arresting her.

The whole time, Penny calmly but persistently insisted that there must be a mistake. The officers claimed that she was Carole Rozak, for whom they had an arrest warrant. But Penny was not Rozak, and Penny had no connection to Rozak. The officers had made a huge, inexcusable error.

Here are more details from the Institute for Justice.

You can DONATE to the Institute for Justice here.

The complaint that was filed by the Institute for Justice:

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When Cops Stop the Wrong Black Man

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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:

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Here’s the press release:

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Cops Handcuffed 11 Year Old Girl Walking Home From School (then had to release her)

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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.

Wrong Mom Arrested on Christmas Eve | 75 Hour Jail Nightmare | Help Her Get Justice

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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…

The full complaint:

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My Video Made the News in Idaho | Cop Surfaces, the Bodycam! | UPDATE

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UPDATE to the case where my video made the TV news in Idaho. The cop, former Meridian Police Officer Bradley Chambers, who disappeared, has now surfaced at another agency. Also, I now have all the police bodycam footage from the incident. The footage corroborates much of what we already knew. But it also raises new questions.

Here’s my first blog post on this incident with the prior videos and details.

Family on Roadtrip Meets Abusive Trooper (who should already have been fired)

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Bridgeport, West Virginia Trooper A.J. Trupo, who was caught on a secret audio recording two years ago verbally abusing a female businesswoman, has once again been recording abusing people. A family was on a roadtrip, visiting family in West Virginia for the Christmas vacation. As they drove through Shinnston, West Virginia, they stopped to get the kids food in the McDonald’s drive through.

As they pulled back onto the road to continue driving, the dad observed a car speeding towards them. He motioned for the car to slow down. It happened to be a West Virginia State Police cruiser. It didn’t have emergency lights activated, but rather was just speeding illegally. Apparently upset about being signaled about his speed, the trooper turned around and stopped the family.

This was the location of the encounter:

Here’s the police report (criminal complaint):

Here’s the dismissal order:

Here’s my first video on Trooper Trupo, from two year ago.

Here’s the media report on Trooper Trupo being disciplined for the prior incident.

Country Singer Writes Song About Arrest by Idiot Cop | Charges now Dropped

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This 18 year old country music singer from Montana was pulled over for speeding by a state trooper who is looking for reasons to accuse him of driving intoxicated. Even though he blew a 0.0 showing he had no alcohol in his system, and even though he did all the stupid human tricks he was asked to do, and even though he was 100% polite and cooperative with the officer, he was still wrongfully arrested and charged. A blood test taken after the arrest showed what any rational police officers should have known: that the kid was completely sober. Yet this happened to him. He wrote a song about it.

Jaden’s test results, both the official blood test and the urinalysis:

Jaden Decker’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@JadenDecker

Here’s the song Jaden wrote about the incident:

City Pays $250,000 for Abusing Elderly Man for Looking at a Police Car

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A 70 year old man in Ada County, Idaho was arrested by police officers at a police station, after he dared to look into a police cruiser window. The charges were later dismissed. He filed a lawsuit, which just settled for $250,000, along with mandatory additional training for sheriff’s deputies in that county.

Here’s Sherriff Matt Clifford’s troubling statement, as discussed in the video:

Earlier this week, we settled a lawsuit with Mr. Heikkola, stemming from an incident in January 2023. It wasn’t our best day. It is the expectation that Ada County deputies perform to the best of their abilities every day — while keeping people’s constitutional rights in the forefront of their minds, while also keeping our community safe.

For anyone to claim we are trampling on someone’s constitutional rights simply isn’t true.The reality is, we have hundreds of contacts every day with people of all different backgrounds, religions, ethnicities and socioeconomic standings. While the vast majority of those interactions go well, occasionally we fumble and miss the mark.

Part of the settlement was to include additional constitutional policing training; fortunately, we had already implemented this training prior to the settlement. We will now also include a scenario similar to Mr. Heikkola’s in our scenario-based training. We are one of few law enforcement agencies across the country with routine built-in training time. Every patrol deputy receives 9.5 training hours per month. These blocks of training include topics such as firearms training, scenario-based training, legal updates, EVOC, de-escalation techniques, arrest and control techniques, CPR and first aid, and more.

Part of our culture at the Ada County Sheriff’s Office is to always strive to be better – and learning from this incident will help us to do just that.

– Matt Clifford, Ada County Sheriff

Here’s the full lawsuit:

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Guy Posted About Local Cops on Facebook – They Arrest Him For it!

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Paul O’Brien, who lives in Grafton, West Virginia, observed a Taylor County Sheriff’s Deputy running a speed trap across the road from his residence. He posted on Facebook about it, joking that he WISHED he had an M-80 (firecracker) so that he could set it off and cause the deputy to have a heart attack. In the same post, he criticized the department for the deaths of three individuals over the years. Deputy Cody Mayle of the TCSD then paid Paul a visit at his home. He had no warrant, but rather just wanted to “talk.”

When Paul decided he didn’t want to talk with Deputy Mayle, Deputy Mayle suddenly grabbed him and arrested him. Paul spent two nights in jail. Around three months later, the frivolous charge of “obstruction” was dropped, since it was admittedly frivolous, according to the prosecutor. Paul submitted a complaint to the department, but heard nothing back.

This is Deputy Cody Mayle, who is seen on bodycam laughing as soon as Paul was thrown in the holding cell:

My last West Virginia based video coincidentally, was from Barbour County, which is only the next county over, and that deputy also has the same last name – Mayle. Here’s a link to that video. I’ll have more information soon about that situation…

This is the location of the incident:

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Here’s the dismissal order: