Cry me a river ....

Sorry Officer Olivera, but this mawkish attempt to spin the reality of working conditions for cops, medical emergency personnel, fire fighters and street intervention staff is transparent.

From here:

An Ottawa police officer wants the public to know that working in the police station cellblock can be dangerous. Special Const. Carlos Olivera said he has to take a cocktail of drugs in case he was infected with the HIV virus or hepatitis C after an incident in the cellblock in December.

He came forward with his story because of recent news coverage of a video showing another special constable kicking Ottawa woman Stacy Bonds after she was arrested in 2008.

And perhaps you've been pushed into the media spotlight by the public relations guy Ottawa Police chief White hired?

Funny how it is that nurses, ambulance personnel, firefighters and homeless shelter workers who face similar health-endangering risks when helping people in need don't beat them up to teach them a lesson, the way some cops feel they're entitled to do.

Rate a Cop

Another nifty use of the Intertoobz: Judge My Cop.

If you've had an experience with a cop -- good or bad -- this site wants to hear about it.

The website is the brainchild of 21-year-old Andre Borys, who was inspired to create the forum after his own encounter with Toronto police last summer. It was on one May evening that Mr. Borys was the designated driver for a group of friends out for a night on the town when police nabbed him for stopping in front of a pizza parlour in a no-parking zone.

“One officer looked at my licence, saw that I’m from Mississauga, and asked ‘What, they don’t have no-parking signs like this in Mississauga?’ ” recalled Mr. Borys, a fourth-year business student at McMaster University.

“I wanted to show him respect, so I didn’t respond with a smart-ass comment. Here I am being very respectful and he’s talking down to me.”

Mr. Borys doesn’t dispute the fact that he was breaking the law, nor that he deserved the $60 ticket, but says he felt making a complaint would have had no effect. So he started the website to allow people with similar experiences to air their grievances.

But it wasn’t until he saw the recent public outrage over alleged police brutality during the G20 summit making headlines this week that he decided to go live.

It went live very recently, so there aren't many comments there yet and they're all from Ontario.

So, what do the cops think? What did you expect? Waaaaaaah!

The Toronto Police Association says it is worried that a new website allowing the public to rant about their police encounters, publish names and badge numbers and rate officer behaviour, could incite “abuse” toward its members.

Well, when it come to 'abuse', the public has certainly been getting some lessons from the experts lately.

Paging Stacy Bonds. The Ottawa police haven't been mentioned yet.

Here's the site: Judge My Cop.

"Good" apple meets "bad" apple.

And the rest is now history.

A judge has released a video that shows an Ottawa police special constable kicking a man in the cells after other officers dragged him by the legs. [...] In the Delay case, [Justice] Nicholas said Delay, a homeless Aboriginal man, was kicked by Melanie Morris like "you wouldn't kick a dog." The judge also said the entire incident "rattles [her] confidence in the system." [...]

[Constable] Martin, who received an award for his role in rescuing two people whose van had plunged into an icy creek in 2008, initially testified he arrested Delay because his inebriation made him a danger. He also testified that Delay
swore and acted aggressively when he was approached by the officers when he was left in his cell and that Delay tried to hit Morris while she tried to close the cell door.

According to a court transcript, the video shows Delay acting calm and compliant. Delay never hits or takes a swing at Morris on tape. In her closing remarks, Nicholas said she found Martin's testimony riddled with inconsistencies from beginning to end. Martin's notes from the arrest didn't include details pointing to Delay's inebriation until the very end, suggesting he tacked them on later, she said.

Martin also changed his testimony about Delay's aggressiveness in the cellblock after being shown the video, saying the officers' use of force was justified by his behaviour on the street and in the squad car and maintaining Delay continued to yell and swear despite appearing calm on tape.

Throughout his testimony, Martin maintained he never saw Morris kick Delay.

To help understand the coercive nature of pressure exerted upon a cop hero like Martin, producing a version that protects or rationalizes a colleague's abusive actions, check out the comments from Balbulican and Peter after this blogpost.

Ottawa police despotic duo has history of brutalizing women?

Once more paraphrasing the words of Mark Steyn, "Must be convenient to have a [professional] code that obliges all your pathologies."

Two Ottawa police officers involved in the controversial strip search of a 27-year-old woman are being named in a lawsuit by another woman who says she was injured while in custody. [...] Carr is suing police for "personal injury" — although the nature of the injury is unclear, as her lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, has yet to file a formal statement of claim outlining his client's version of the facts and the restitution she is seeking.

Carr's criminal defence lawyer said her case is being looked into by the Special Investigations Unit, the Ontario police watchdog that investigates incidents in which civilians have been seriously hurt or killed in interactions with police. Carr was arrested and charged with mischief, resisting arrest and assaulting a peace officer on Aug. 23, 2008.

Her arrest came a month before that of Stacy Bonds, who was subjected to a strip search after being arrested for [alleged] public intoxication.

Two of the officers named in Carr's suit, Special Const. Melanie Morris and Sgt. Steven Desjourdy, were involved in the strip search of Bonds on Sept. 26, 2008.

From here.

More here about other complaints against Morris and Desjourdy.



The above is a photo of Desjourdy. If you're a woman in Ottawa and this cop approaches you, run for your life.

Enemy, enemy, who is the enemy? An addendum.

If you're a cop: the public and all civilians are THE enemy.

Ottawa's police chief says he knows the public will be shocked by a video the courts released Thursday showing police pinning down an innocent Ottawa woman and cutting off her shirt and bra with a pair of scissors.

"I understand that Ottawa residents will be shocked by the video," Chief Vern White said in a statement on Thursday.

If you're Blob Blogging Whinger ... well settle in, cuz it's a loooong list.

1. Everyone who doesn't believe gawd speaks through pope Maledict and his Vatican Taliban.
2. Feminists (see above).
3. Anyone who responded with outrage to the systemic cop-initiated violence against Stacy Bonds but doesn't run screaming into the streets when SHE posts glossy fetal p0rn0graphy and/or SHE shrieeks about the BABEEZ! Butchered! In. Abortuaries!
4. Medical professionals, because they provide science and fact-based health care services which are BIASED against BABEEZ!
5. The mainstream media because Bill Whatcott is just like folksy figure Johnny Appleseed.

If you're Stevie Spiteful: the world's his enemy - except for whatever remains of his formerly terrorized ReformaTory caucus members and a few kool-aid-drinking sycophants.

For bad measure and your consideration - Kathy Shaidle. OK, Five Feet of Feces is more of a pro-active hater and bully than victimized by enemies, but she deserves to be mentioned, if only because of this and more recently, this.

In this corner ....

four, five goons in policemen's uniforms.  In the other, a tiny Black woman.

The physical confrontation took place over two years ago; several ProgBloggers have posted the video - which made Justice Richard Lajoie react strongly - released to The Ottawa Citizen, with some portions edited out to preserve Bonds' dignity, as requested by her lawyer. 

The next confrontation between Stacy Bonds and her assailants will take place in court.  To ensure that facts, judicial procedure and logic prevail, NOT brutal thuggery, there needs to be a demand for accountability far beyond the shameful and now habitual displays of sham scrutiny provided by the SIU.  Here's a petition to sign here.

From here: 

Ottawa police officers displayed a "bad attitude" from the very beginning of a controversial cell block video showing Stacy Bonds being kneed, pinned to the floor and stripped of her shirt and bra, the head of Ottawa's defence lawyers association said Thursday.

"She is the smallest person in the room and the officers losing control of themselves in the situation so quickly is very concerning," said Doug Baum. "Why was there such initial roughness? Why the knee strikes?

"There was a bad attitude here that led to violence and improper procedure," said Baum.

A "bad" attitude?  No kidding.