Cleveland PD arrests gay couple a week after off-duty cop assaults them, tells them "faggots don't d
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Source - [url=http://fox8.com/2012/01/30/lawsuit-claims-men-were-beaten-humiliated-because-they-were-gay/]Fox 8 Cleveland[/url]
[release]CLEVELAND — Two gay men have filed a federal lawsuit against several officers from the Cleveland Police Department stemming from an arrest last April.
The men claim they were subjected to derogatory name-calling and then hauled off to jail in their underwear, despite repeated requests to change clothes.
In a civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court, nationally-recognized civil rights attorney David Malik alleges several officers from the Cleveland Police Department violated the couple’s constitutional rights.
“We were called faggots a lot by police, and I consider that a fighting word,” said Jonathan Simcox.
Simcox and his partner, Steven Ondo, claim they were subjected to, “excessive force and undisguised prejudice,” because of their sexual orientation.
“It was more humiliating than I can even explain to you,” said Steven Ondo.
[b]In April 2011, Ondo and Simcox were walking home from a bar on the near west side when they started arguing. They say a neighbor, who happened to be an off-duty Cleveland police officer came outside and confronted them.
“He came out over shouting, saying, ‘Shut up, you`re disturbing the peace’,” said Simcox. [highlight]“I pushed to get past him, as soon as I did that he knocked me on the ground, and just started beating me, hitting me, standing over top of me, and punching me repeatedly.”[/highlight][/b]
A few minutes later, Cleveland police showed up at their house. Ondo and Simcox were arrested and hauled off to jail.
“At the time my hands were all cut up, I was covered in blood,” said Simcox.
[b]The men said after they were released from jail, they were told no charges were being filed against them. About a week later, the men were upstairs sleeping inside their home when they heard a loud banging outside their front door.
According to the lawsuit, “6 or 7 members of the SWAT/and or Warrant Team” were on a sweep that day. Ondo and Simcox said officers then informed them they were wanted on a warrant that was issued for, “assaulting a peace officer.”[/b]
The men said each time they tried asking questions, the officers became increasingly violent.
[b]“The officer in the glasses grabbed me by my shirt, and punched me twice in the face, after he punched me, he threw me up against the wall,” said Simcox.
Simcox says at the time of the arrest, he and his partner were wearing only underwear and t-shirts. When Simcox’s brother asked police if he could get them some pants and shoes, one of the officers allegedly responded by saying, [highlight]“You can go get them shoes, but faggots don`t deserve to wear pants in jail.”[/highlight][/b][/release]
Police
What the fucking christ. A load of people have gone mad with power.
To protect and serve!
What's with these stories of police abuse on the East Coast?
Obligatory hip, fuck the police comment here.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;34523575]Obligatory hip, fuck the police comment here.[/QUOTE]
congrats on deciding to ruin this thread with useless contrarianism. you're a really special poster.
Nothing like one good cop story followed by about ten or so bad cop stories.
God dammit.
[QUOTE=G3rman;34523574]What's with these stories of police abuse on the East Coast?[/QUOTE]
the good and the bad balance out
somewhere out there a pantsless gay couple was just given four pairs by a nice officer
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;34523575]Obligatory hip, fuck the police comment here.[/QUOTE]I don't think it's fair to say that it's "hip". More like "pissed off".
I'm now ashamed to live so close to Cleveland :(
there needs to be more laws to protect people from police...who enforce those laws.... hmmmm... (i think there should be laws defending self defense against unlawful arrest or assault by a cop)
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;34523609]there needs to be more laws to protect people from police...who enforce those laws.... hmmmm... (i think there should be laws defending self defense against unlawful arrest or assault by a cop)[/QUOTE]
the US supreme court ruled that you are allowed to resist unlawful arrest up to and including taking the officer's life
but this is impossible to do since if you kill a cop in self defense there will be many more there to kill you
cmon gusy its just one bad apple
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34523620]the US supreme court ruled that you are allowed to resist unlawful arrest up to and including taking the officer's life[/QUOTE]It'd be preferable if you didn't have to, but depending on the circumstances, I would not put any blame on someone who did such.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34523620]the US supreme court ruled that you are allowed to resist unlawful arrest up to and including taking the officer's life
but this is impossible to do since if you kill a cop in self defense there will be many more there to kill you[/QUOTE]
Isn't it automatically first degree murder if you kill a cop in america, no matter what?
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;34523584]congrats on deciding to ruin this thread with useless contrarianism. you're a really special poster.[/QUOTE]
You're welcome. I forget the fact that I don't think the police are nazi's who want to kidnap me in my sleep makes me a radical on Facepunch.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;34523600]Nothing like one good cop story followed by about ten or so bad cop stories.
God dammit.[/QUOTE]
The Media hardly ever reports anything good. The Police arrested someone today for breaking in to a woman's house down the street from me with the intent to rape her. But I doubt that is going to get on the news.
[QUOTE=TamTamJam;34523633]Isn't it automatically first degree murder if you kill a cop in america, no matter what?[/QUOTE]
Not if the cop is committing a crime, like trying to kill you.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;34523637]You're welcome. I forget the fact that I don't think the police are nazi's who want to kidnap me in my sleep makes me a radical on Facepunch.[/QUOTE]
i guess you're lucky you're not gay then! because if you are that seems to actually happen!
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;34523638]Not if the cop is committing a crime, like trying to kill you.[/QUOTE]
Is it the same for manslaughter?
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;34523643]i guess you're lucky you're not gay then! because if you are that seems to actually happen![/QUOTE]Or Transgender! Or poor. Or an ethnic minority...
[QUOTE=TamTamJam;34523633]Isn't it automatically first degree murder if you kill a cop in america, no matter what?[/QUOTE]
It needs to be murder for it to be first degree murder, killing someone in self-defense isn't murder
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34523620]the US supreme court ruled that you are allowed to resist unlawful arrest up to and including taking the officer's life
but this is impossible to do since if you kill a cop in self defense there will be many more there to kill you[/QUOTE]
i can't even see a way out of that. like, you kill a cop they're not gonna believe it was self defense huh, they'll just think you're a dangerous cop killer and kill you, and if you surrendered straight away i doubt they'd believe that it was self defense. what a world
[QUOTE=TamTamJam;34523644]Is it the same for manslaughter?[/QUOTE]
Manslaughter means killing without intent to kill, but with no grounds to have done so
If you kill to defend yourself from being killed, according to the law you've committed no crime
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34523654]It needs to be murder for it to be first degree murder, killing someone in self-defense isn't murder[/QUOTE]It's still homicide, but classified as justifiable homicide.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;34523650]Or Transgender! Or poor. Or an ethnic minority...[/QUOTE]
or if you smoke weed or if you like to play on skateboards or if you like to just stand around with friends or.... heck i once got harassed because my cap is in rastafarian colours
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;34523657]It's still homicide, but classified as justifiable homicide.[/QUOTE]
Justifiable homicide is still a form of non-criminal homicide
A fancy way of saying that you haven't committed a crime by killing someone because you had an acceptable reason to do so
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;34523662]or if you smoke weed or if you like to play on skateboards or if you like to just stand around with friends or.... heck i once got harassed because my cap is in rastafarian colours[/QUOTE]
Or anything that isn't a brown eyed, brown haired male. :downs:
Which is why they prevented a single, black mother with three children from being raped in my neighbor hood today.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34523667]Justifiable homicide is still a form of non-criminal homicide
A fancy way of saying that you haven't committed a crime by killing someone because you had an acceptable reason to do so[/QUOTE]Ohh yes. I wasn't saying it was a crime, just that it is classified as justifiable homicide.
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;34523662]or if you smoke weed or if you like to play on skateboards or if you like to just stand around with friends or.... heck i once got harassed because my cap is in rastafarian colours[/QUOTE]
I got harassed for having a backpack once
Sure, I had twelve Guatemalan child slaves in it but he didn't know that
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;34523637]The Media hardly ever reports anything good. The Police arrested someone today for breaking in to a woman's house down the street from me with the intend to rape her. But I doubt that is going to get on the news.[/QUOTE]
They won't report it because [I]that's their fucking job[/I].
jesus christ it's not that hard to understand
They'll probably report it local news, though.
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