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Police accountability advocates organized in response to the 2011 Cincinnati police killing of David “Bones” Hebert. Acts 4:20. Lawyered up.
Aug 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
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.

https://t.co/mLUmzO6daecincinnati-oh.gov/ccia/completed…
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…
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Aug 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
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:
Jul 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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…
Jan 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 7 min read
@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. ImageImageImage @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.
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Jun 25, 2021 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
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.
May 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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. ImageImageImageImage 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.
May 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@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.

Image @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.

Jan 27, 2021 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
The new news here (beyond SCOTUS review) is that Zach Gottesman publicly outed his own "anonymous" client Ryan Olthaus, during his wife Angela Janke Olthaus' ex parte hearing to obtain a civil stalking protection order against me, Korte.

Lots to unpack:

eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/202… For starters, I'm not 'the man behind the online group "Friends of Bones"'. Friends is plural.

I am just one of many friends of Bones and we continue to stand behind him. We're just friends doing what friends do, each according to their ability.
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Oct 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
On September 28, Peter Stackpole held a fundraising event for @FanonRucker at his home.

Together with Zachary Gottesman, Stackpole is making a play for the very lucrative police union contract. Image Controversial FOP head Dan Hils endorsed the Gottesman Group as a more "aggressive, hungry" legal firm, who promises to use controversial "innovative ideas," including "proactive and aggressive civil litigation."

fopcounsel.com/app/uploads/20…
Oct 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Ryan Olthaus, "Officer suing for defamation admits to showing 'OK' sign, but said it was innocent reason."

"See, we're not racists."

"Proud Boys Did Nothing Wrong!"

local12.com/news/local/off… Image "Their founder, Gavin McInnes, went so far as to file a defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center when the SPLC designated the Proud Boys a hate group."

Gottesman might want to get in on this.

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Sep 18, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Butler retired this year but the courts allowed him one last grift on the way out. Butler is no stranger to litigation, but this one was a masterclass in cop caucacity.

Let's have a closer look at his tortured, tortious career.

fox19.com/2020/09/18/cin… At the center of Butler's suit against the city were claims of defamation as a racist and illegal abuse in a police overtime audit.

Butler should know about overtime fraud. He practically invented it himself as a sergeant in 1998.

citybeat.com/home/article/1…
Sep 16, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
This lawsuit is for defamation and false light publicity, so the evidence is necessarily comprised of public statements. Take the quotes from the public complaint and plug them into your social media platform of choice.

Spoiler: M.R. is Ryan Olthaus.

drive.google.com/file/d/1nqmqnw… Widespread public attention? 210 comments. 121 shares.

facebook.com/juliemniesen/p… Image
Sep 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This, buried all the way at the bottom, is central to the Gottesman pitch for the FOP contract:

“Other FOP members are losing money they can never recover because are on extended restricted duty because FOP counsel has failed to act on their behalf.”

fox19.com/2020/09/04/ami… The idea is that cops are fundamentally 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙 to pimp the badge off-duty for lucrative overtime gigs at Krogers etc. If their police powers are suspended, say, for dropping N-bombs on citizens, the taxpayer owes them the difference. Because 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩!
Aug 19, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It was Ryan Olthaus who made the controversial arrest in council chambers on June 24
facebook.com/brianna.bernar…

It's worth watching the whole meeting. Cranley botched the speaker cards, then ordered police to arrest citizens who were still waiting their turn
archive.org/details/102006… More video of Ryan Olthaus appearing in a public meeting in his public capacity as a uniformed police officer.

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Aug 16, 2020 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
UCLA law prof: "My excellent pro bono local counsel @jeffreynye and I have put together an updated motion in this case, which is now captioned M.R., a Cincinnati Police Officer v. Niesen."

[1.] The affidavit should be unsealed
[2.] The plaintiff must proceed under his real name "[1.] The affidavit should be unsealed.

"The plaintiff is a public official who is not only trying to silence a critic—he has gotten a prior restraint against the further publication of his name, and he is seeking a broader prior restraint as well."

reason.com/2020/08/13/my-…
Aug 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Any public employee, especially in the realm of public safety, that wouldn’t want a citizen to be able to identify, talk about, complain or report is outrageous,” @IrisRoley said.

wcpo.com/news/local-new… White and Gilley are being sued for CCA complaints.

"We created the whole entity, the Citizen Complaint Authority, just to be able to receive these types of complaints. And then to have officers retaliate against citizens makes it even worse."—@IrisRoley

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Jul 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Walter Brown was having a mental health crisis. He did not call the police. Hoffbauer (and even @kgrasha) claims that when he killed Brown, he was simply an instrument in Brown's own suicide, in which Brown was the sole agent. This is the "suicide by cop" defense. Let's unpack it Where is the intent? Does this look like a suicide note to you? Does a suicidal man say "Please don't take me. Please don't let me down"? The only suggestion of 'suicide' is Brown saying "go ahead and shoot me" to the cops who cornered and drew weapons on him in his own home. ImageImageImage
Jul 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
[Carder] used the butt of a loaded shotgun to try to subdue 18-year-old Darrell Benefield, who was suspected of having a gun. … Carder was lectured about the dangers of hitting a suspect with a loaded weapon that might go off.

friendsofbones.org/good-cop-bad-c… Image Records show that Officer Carder has been flagged twice since 1997, when the system was computerized: Once in April 1998 for using chemical spray on nine suspects within 12 months, and again that November after three complaints of excessive use of force in a 12-month period. Image
Jul 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Since he joined the force in 1992, Officer Carder has been counseled for hitting a suspect with a shotgun; and reprimanded for poor driving tactics, auto accidents, failure to submit a report, failure of good behavior and neglect of duty.

friendsofbones.org/citizens-air-p… Image "We have got a lot of good officers, but we've got a lot of bad officers, officers who feel as Carder did, that the law don't apply to him. We can no longer, ladies and gentlemen, allow an officer with serious disciplinary problems to remain on our police force." Image
Jun 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Who is Daniel Carder?

2000: 2618 words
2020: crickets

@Enquirer friendsofbones.org/good-cop-bad-c… ImageImage "…since 1995, Officer Carder has been investigated nine times for allegedly using excessive force … more complaints about excessive use of force in the past three years than any of the 24 officers currently working the overnight shift in District 4."
Jun 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
FOP head Dan Hils is already lying about Dan Carder like he never bothered to watch the press conference or body cam video.

1. The "large knife" was a 4" steak knife.

facebook.com/groups/4029585… ImageImage 2. "A citizen called 911 and asked for the police."

Moore's mother called 911 but never asked for the police. Her son had texted her to call 911. She specifically said twice she didn't know what was going on, but she was worried Kaleb would harm himself.

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