Robert J. Contee, who has since become Chief of Police, once voted to overrule the firing of a DC officer who admitted to drunkenly attempting to solicit sex work and pointing his MPD-issued Glock at the sex worker when they refused, @DCist reports.
Out of 24 cases in which MPD officers were found by MPD’s Disciplinary Review Division to have committed crimes and recommended for firing, the Adverse Action Panel blocked all but three firings.
The cops got “an average of a 29-day suspension without pay. These officers amassed disciplinary records for domestic violence, DUIs, indecent exposure, sexual solicitation, stalking, and more. In several instances, they fled the scenes of their crimes.”
Of DC’s police officers found to have committed domestic violence in the past decade, 100% of them were allowed by the current government accountability setup to stay on the force.
What do you think should be the punishment for domestic abusers who beat their wives so hard they fracture the bone in their face around the eye socket?
Truckers are calling for a boycott of Colorado after mandatory minimum sentencing meant trucker Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23, got 110 years for an accident that left four dead.
He had no drugs/alcohol and government agrees it was an accident.
Prosecutor Kayla Wildeman is absolutely ecstatic about the conviction of Aguilera-Mederos.
After achieving a 110-year prison term for the 23-year-old truck driver whose brakes failed (no drugs/alcohol), she calls a brake shoe trophy a “special gift.”
Chief Deputy District Attorney Trevor Moritzky, who apparently gave Wildeman the brake shoe trophy, gave a misdemeanor plea deal (90 days jail) to a cop in 2017 who “brutally raped” an intoxicated arrestee in the back seat of his police car.
NEW: I have obtained another independent videographer's complete recording of January 6 at the United States Capitol.
Later this afternoon, I'll be publishing all of the roughly 33 minutes of footage taken by @Paulisconi. Stand by.
These are the first 2 mins of footage shot by @Paulisconi on January 6.
He approaches the east side entrance and goes up the stairs, where the doors have already been breached.
Some Oath Keepers stand outside.
Note: It appears the mic he plugged into didn't work, so no audio.
On the east entrance, @Paulisconi's (audio-less) footage shows the fighting as police struggled to regain control from the crowd, both using riot weapons and attempting to calm them.
I've quote-tweeted my own shot from about the same time below.
Today @RevDrBarber held a presser with @UniteThePoor for low-income workers outside the Hart Senate building, where he accused Senator Joe Manchin (D) of hiding "behind COVID" to keep the group out as they wanted to meet (or have a sit-in) to demand he support #BuildBackBetter.
Amidst the presser, a Capitol Police officer threatened to arrest @RevDrBarber and his group for speaking too loudly outside while the senate was in session, but said that marching on the sidewalk at the Capitol without obstructing or being too loud would be okay.
Ultimately, @RevDrBarber attempted to go into the Hart Senate Building where Capitol Police denied him entry based on COVID protocols.
The group left behind boxes of petitions for @Sen_JoeManchin and promised to return.
VIDEO: More than 70 activists including an interfaith coalition of clergy with the Poor People's Campaign @UniteThePoor were arrested on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol this afternoon in a protest for wage, voting, and immigration issues faced by low-income workers.
The far-right "Patriot Front" rallied today in front of the United States Capitol and marched throughout Washington DC, protected at all stages by MPD, who kept press & counter-protesters away from them.
Their avowed fascist leader Thomas Rousseau led chants & spoke at Capitol.
Patriot Front marched through the National Mall, filming themselves as they passed locations like the WWII and Lincoln memorials with a roving police perimeter surrounding them.
They ultimately crossed the Arlington Memorial Bridge into Virginia.
After crossing into Virginia, about half of the "Patriot Front" members loaded into U-Haul moving trucks and were driven away.
The remaining 75 or so members stood in a shield formation behind a police line.
Officers detoured traffic in the area & closed one side of the bridge.