Saturday, November 30, 2019

COP CRIMES IN AMERICA - EMPLOYEE WROTE 'PIG' ON OFFICER'S CUP - SHE'S MORE LIKELY TO BE PROSECUTED THAN ONE OF THESE MURDERING RAPIST THUG COPS!



Starbucks: Employee Who Wrote ‘PIG’ on Police Officer’s Cup Is ‘No Longer a Partner’

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GLENPOOL, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police chief says an officer bought Starbucks for 911 dispatchers working on Thanksgiving only to find that the word “PIG” was printed on the cups’ labels.
The officer notified Kiefer Police Chief Johnny O’Mara, who called the store and spoke to a manager. O’Mara says they offered to reprint the computer-generated labels, but he took to social media and posted the photo. It has since gone viral.
The officer told KTUL-TV that the employee reached out to him personally and apologized, saying it was a joke.
However, in a Friday statement, Starbucks said the worker who wrote the offending word on the cup “used poor judgment and is no longer a partner’’ after the violation of company policy.
“This language is offensive to all law enforcement and is not representative of the deep appreciation we have for police officers who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe,” the statement said.
In a separate joint statement, Starbucks and the Kiefer Police Department stated they are committed to using the incident as an opportunity to promote greater civility. Starbucks officials said they will be meeting with Kiefer police officials to discuss ways to work together, including a jointly hosted event that will allow local law enforcement to meet with baristas and community members “to discuss the critical role dispatchers and police offers play in keeping our communities safe.”
Last year, Starbucks closed stores and had employees undergo anti-bias training after the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia location. The coffee chain’s executives met with Arizona officers earlier this year after six officers were asked to leave a store because a customer felt unsafe.




Mark Icker, 30, pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to soliciting sexual favors from up to five women.
Mark Icker, 30, pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to soliciting sexual favors from up to five women. (Obtained by New York Daily News)
A former Pennsylvania police officer admitted to sexually assaulting multiple women while he was on duty, prosecutors said.
Mark Icker, 30, pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to soliciting sexual favors from up to five women, according to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. Two of the women pressed felony charges.
“Icker, in uniform, in a patrol car, with a firearm and handcuffs forced these women to bend to his will,” US Attorney David Freed said at a press conference.
One woman claimed Icker forced her to perform oral sex on her at a park. Another said he forced her inside the Ashley Borough police station bathroom.
Both women, who had been pulled over for traffic violations and caught with paraphernalia in their cars, remained handcuffed, prosecutors said.
Three other women accused Icker of misconduct, but did not file charges.
Icker was fired from his job when he was charged and was released on bail with an electric monitor.
With his plea deal, he will avoid going to trial.
“We were able to move quickly through this investigation and we are coming to a plea. We are not having to put victims through a trial to relive and re-victimize them,” Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said, according to Fox 56.
Icker faces 12 years in federal prison.


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The Queens District Attorney’s office on Wednesday made public its database of 65 police officers with credibility problems, following the release of similar lists in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
The office of acting Queens DA John Ryan, responding to a Freedom of Information Law request by several media agencies, including the Daily News, unveiled those officers with “substantiated misconduct allegations, criminal matters, adverse credibility findings and civil lawsuits.”
The data dump on the day before Thanksgiving is traditionally the time agencies release unflattering information to the public.
In the latest list, more than half of the 65 officers show up in a similar database released by Brooklyn D.A. Eric Gonzalez last month.
Many of the names are familiar to watchers of police misconduct, including Richard Danese, who was accused of dumping a 14-year-old Staten Island boy in a swamp without his shoes or shirt as punishment for throwing eggs at cars on Halloween 2007; and Det. Niurca Quinones, who showed a photo of a triple-rape suspect to a victim in Brooklyn before she picked him out of a lineup, leading a judge to call for a mistrial.
Two others, Edward Babington and the now-retired Gregory Jean-Baptiste, were named in federal lawsuits accusing them of implicating gun suspects so they could pocket reward money for found firearms.
“New Yorkers should be able to rely on police officers to tell the truth, but too often, that is not the case, and officers are caught telling lies on the witness stand and in their official reports,” said Tim Rountree, the Legal Aid Society’s lead trial attorney in Queens. “We welcome this list from the Queens County District Attorney’s Office, however, this is just a small step towards the transparency required to root out problems of police misconduct."
The list’s release drew broad criticism from the city’s police unions.
“Our prosecutors need to wake up and realize that the pro-criminal advocates cannot be appeased. They will not stop until they have baselessly smeared the reputation of every single police officer and rendered any criminal prosecution impossible,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association.
Though the D.A.’s office didn’t offer any specific reason why the officers were added to the list, a review of federal court documents shows that 14 of the officers who appear in both the Queens and Brooklyn databases gave testimony in seven federal cases that a judge believed was untrue.
Each of those cases involved the officers searching a convicted felon during a street stop and finding a gun. When defense lawyers challenged the validity of those stops, the officers gave illogical and implausible reasons for why they believed they had probable cause to believe the suspects were packing heat, documents show.
Ed Mullins, who heads the Sergeants Benevolent Association, wondered why prosecutors aren’t releasing similar lists of questionable assistant district attorneys, and said none of the officers on the list have had the chance to clear their names.
“What is the baseline for this? It’s so ambiguous,” he said. “We haven’t had an opportunity to discuss any of these names.”


Queens DA’s Office today: the police officer credibility list was created in March 2018!

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