To understand @RickyShiffer's attack on the FBI and the dissonance of #DefundTheFBI in the Trumpist "law and order" right, it's instructive to look at two case studies within Cincinnati police: Proud Boy sympatizer Ryan Olthaus and "rogue element" former Asst. Chief Dave Bailey.
Ryan Olthaus brought attention to himself when he threw the white power hand sign at a Black citizen during a 2020 city council meeting where many called for defunding the police. His problematic social media glorified Proud Boy violence. Full history:
The city manager called Dave Bailey a "corrupt", "rogue element" which "ultimately may require the intervention of outside law enforcement to ferret out." Forced to retire, Bailey began calling for civil war and overthrow of the US government, using language similar to Shiffer's.
Bailey's "both sides" pseudo-historicizing equates Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, laying responsibility for a coming racialized civil war on Obama, Democrats, "free stuff", and communists.
This was all posted to the "Support the Blue in Cincy" facebook run by Trumpist Fraternal Order of Police head @realDanHils, who condoned his incitement to violence, while silent on Jan. 6 and Shiffer's attack on law enforcement: facebook.com/groups/4029585…
So much for law and order.
This case is before the @CCAuthority Tuesday. Please watch the video linked in the thread. The CCA did a good job of objectively describing the video, but involved officer testimony largely frames Moore as an aggressor. His actions were 100% defensive.
Officers were MHRT trained, yet refused the actual MCT, instead escalating to a violent confrontation after only 12 minutes. The report doesn't say what MHRT tactics were used, only analyzes the use of force. But ORC 5122.10(C) says this is not an arrest:
https://t.co/ezlAUeTOdNcodes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-c…
In fact, Moore's brother specifically asked for MCT, not police. 'Witness A text his sister for her to get some assistance, “maybe mobile crisis”' (p.9). And even SWAT recommended them back to Carder (p. 13). 5122.10(C) mandates de-escalation. But 911 sent the violence workers.
The Rose Valentino IIS report concludes that a 16 year old student "walked by and raised his middle finger. Officer Valentino was infuriated by this gesture." That idea is only supported by her interview. No note of him is made in the BWC or MVR descriptions. 🧵
Did this happen? The DVR shows several redacted figures to the right and one 150 ft ahead at [0:30] as she blasted her siren next to a school.
But why would she be looking at them as she's making a tight one-handed left around a car she's still yelling at? wcpo.com/news/local-new…
She then used the slur at [1:05] or 35 seconds after blasting her siren, and after yelling "Is she
going to fucking just sit there?" and "I fucking hate them so much".
If the middle finger was "the main reason for the outburst", why the half minute delay before her reaction?
@SethManey@pplonsker @damSprinkle @OTRCINCY It's gotta be Sinton Park. The yellow in the 1890ish Sanborn map is supposed to be frame buildings, but look at the shape of that "Sinton Shelter" structure in the middle. It's make sense if a sparse block of wood-frames became a park. I also think a couple pics are flipped L-R.
@SethManey@pplonsker @damSprinkle @OTRCINCY I think flipping these two (the only ones w/out clear writing) lines them up with the rest. Now the marching band (barber pole the right way) is marching east up Barr St. with St. Anonius Church in the distance. i.redd.it/1kr7zzvwcgz71.…
@SethManey@pplonsker @damSprinkle @OTRCINCY one more flip and I think we have a pretty decent 180 panorama east–south–west
Today in history: June 24, 2020
SWAT cop Ryan Olthaus threw the white power hand sign at a Black woman at City Hall, there to speak about the police budget, according to 8 witnesses and video released by @ChrisSeelbach.
He went on to sue the woman for complaining to the CCA.
Ryan Olthaus' facebook page would show that in the two weeks prior to the City Hall incident, he'd suddenly become radicalized, unleashing a wild stream of right-wing Proud Boy street violence videos, anti-Antifa and -BLM propaganda, white victimhood and other violent fantasies.
June 13:
The Proud Boy "patriots" celebrated by Olthaus are recognizable by their black and yellow Fred Perrys. 9gag.com/gag/apGLYVn
This SWAT cop is celebrating lawless political street violence against anti-racists, coupled with a muddled Ben Franklin vs Communism ideology.
3 days before Judge Shanahan ordered redacted from Ryan Olthaus' affidavit ONLY the very fact that he has a wife and kids—the basis of his lawsuit—his own lawyer had already IDed him on record and his wife Angela Janke Olthaus gave me a list of their kids' names and birthdays.
For the record, his lawyer Zach Gottesman lied to the magistrate. Nobody had identified Ryan Olthaus' wife and kids, shared their address, or posted threatening messages online—except the Olthauses themselves, who'd published their address through the auditor, BoE and whitepages.
He swore a lying affidavit.
Never in the decade since his involvement in the killing of Dontez O'Neal, did SWAT cop Ryan Olthaus ever avail himself of O.R.C. 149.45(D)(1), which allows him to redact his address from public databases.
@Nonfinality Well Shanahan included all 4 Enquirer stories naming Olthaus in the subpoenas. Understand, it's been 100% performative from the beginning. Her whole argument has always been that everybody already knows it's Olthaus so there's no public harm.
@Nonfinality Also, remember this a SLAPP suit. The principle targets are complainants to the Citizen Complaint Authority. The lawsuit was hatched by the police union. It was meant to be the showpiece in Zach Gottesman's bid for the lucrative police union contract.
@Nonfinality Gottesman would identify Olthaus on record in his wife's civil stalking protection ex parte. Angela Olthaus wittingly gave the names and birthdates of their children, recognizing there was no threat to them. It's just rightwing judicial activism harassment