Criminal Cops, Protected by Color of Law

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Former Romulus Police Chief Michael St. Andre

Former Romulus Police Chief Michael St. Andre

Ex-Romulus Police Chief Pleads Guilty In Corruption Case:
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/05/29/ex-romulus-police-chief-pleads-guilty-in-corruption-case/

A former Romulus police chief awaiting trial in July on corruption charges has pleaded guilty to racketeering, embezzlement and misconduct charges.

Michael St. Andre made the pleas Wednesday at a hearing in Wayne County Circuit Court, where he was scheduled to go on trial this summer. Judge Michael Hathaway is scheduled to sentence him Oct. 17. The racketeering charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Prosecutors say the chief and a group of five detectives used more than $100,000 in drug forfeiture money to pay for prostitutes, alcohol and marijuana, and to buy a tanning salon for the chief’s wife, Sandra Vlaz-St. Andre.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Criminals, protected by color of law…

Medically Raped and Tortured Due to Suspicion of DUI

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2014-05-30 - Medically Raped and Tortured Due to Suspicion of DUI

Cops Forcefully Catheterize Man to Obtain Urine Sample for Suspicion of DUI:
http://thenewspaper.com/news/44/4420.asp

A motorist whose blood alcohol level was below the legal limit earlier this month filed a $11 million federal lawsuit against Schererville, Indiana for allowing its police force to use a catheter to forcibly obtain a urine sample from him two years ago.

On May 20, 2012, William D. Clark and Alyssa Madson were driving through Schererville on US 30. At around 11pm, Officer Matthew Djukic hit the lights on his squad car and pulled Clark for allegedly speeding.+

Smelling alcohol, Officer Djukic put Clark through field sobriety tests and had him blow into a portable breathalyzer device. A drug sniffing dog was called in to search inside the vehicle, though Clark gave no consent. Officer Djukic claimed Clark blew a 0.11 on the preliminary breath screener, but no evidence was provided when Clark’s attorney, Patrick B. McEuen, filed a discovery request for records last year. Clark insists the claim was fabricated.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Motorist William D. Clark was pulled over by police for speeding. He was soon given a field sobriety test, as well as a breathalyzer, but the results were apparently (temporarily) inconclusive. So, Mr. Clark was then driven by officers to the hospital, where he voluntarily submitted to a blood test, upon request. When it came back under the legal alcohol limit, police determined that he must also submit to a urine test, as well (though a blood test is, in fact, a much more accurate gauge of blood alcohol levels). Clark agreed, but when he was unable to provide it, even after drinking a cup of water, he asked for a second cup. With this, officers became impatient and held the man down, ordering hospital staff to forcibly catheterize him. Of course, being dutiful little white-gloved slaves, they immediately “followed orders” (like apath scum always do), and unquestioningly seized this man’s genitals and penetrated their medical assault instruments deep into his urethra, accessing his urine in the most excruciatingly painful way, imaginable!

Nope! No cruel and unusual punishment, nor unnecessary use of a medical procedures, here! Not at all! Nothing to see, folks! Move along, now!

And, don’t forget about the time when motorist David Eckert was pulled over by police for engaging a rolling stop on his exit from the Wal-Mart parking lot, where he had just finished shopping. According to the cops, he appeared to clench his buttocks when he was ordered out of his vehicle, so they suspected that he might be smuggling drugs on him. Soon enough, Eckert was brought to medical staff for further examination. The first hospital they went to, located in-county, refused to assist the police, because they found the request unethical. So, they brought him to an out-of-county hospital, completely invalidating their “warrant” (if you can even call something that vague a legitimate one), where medical staff complied with police orders that forcibly x-ray Eckert’s intestines. When no drugs were found, police ordered him digitally probed. Two times, medical staff inserted their fingers into the man’s anus, and explored for drugs, and both times, none were found. Police then ordered Eckert to be force-given an enema, which-upon receiving, was then made to defecate in front of officers and medical staff. When no drugs were found, STILL, he received a second enema, again being made to defecate for the small crowd of sociopathic criminals. Still clean. He was then forced to undergo a second x-raying of his visceral organs. By the time it was midnight, and the half-assed warrant was then expired, Eckert was being prepped and sedated by medical staff for a surgical colonoscopy. Upon completion of the highly invasive procedure, no drugs were found…

David Eckert Appears To Clench His Buttocks; Cops Order Enemas, Colonoscopy, X-Ray For Non-Existent Drugs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/david-eckert-enema-colonoscopy-drugs-traffic-stop_n_4218320.html

Shittiest Way to Die, Ever!

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Chinese public toilets

Chinese public toilets

China Septic Tank Tragedy: 2 Die, 3 Injured Retrieving $320 Phone Lost Down Toilet:
http://rt.com/news/162544-china-toilet-death-phone/

Two people have died and three were injured in a Chinese septic tank accident after attempting to retrieve a lost telephone which had been dropped down a toilet. The fumes caused the first rescuer to pass out, and die. More people followed him in.

Six people in total had to be pulled out of the septic tank by hundreds of villagers, who rushed to the scene to feed ropes down the small brick hole in a rescue attempt.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: This is both literally and figuratively the shittiest way to die that I’ve ever heard of… That two lives were claimed is even more ill…

Killed in Another One of the American Empire’s Illegal and Immoral Wars

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following status update here, posted by peace activist, Cindy Sheehanand originally shared it to my own wall, along with commentary…

Cindy Sheehan cries before a painting of her son, Casey, who was killed in Bagdad, Iraq in April of 2004

Cindy Sheehan: Today, my precious son, Casey would have been 35 if he weren’t killed in another one of the Empire’s illegal and immoral wars. Obama says that he believes in “American exceptionalism” with “every fiber” of his being because of our violent meddling in everyone else’s business, but on days like today, I not only think of our tragic loss, but of the Iraqi mother who emailed me to tell me that her son died in the same battle Casey was killed in. The difference is, her son was defending his community, my son was “exceptional.” Our mother’s pain is the same.

My Commentary: “Think About it, You Might Learn Something”

Who Was Saartjie Baartman?

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Saartjie Baartman

Saartjie Baartman

The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview12

The body of Saartjie Baartman, better known as the Hottentot Venus, has had greater influence on the iconography of the female body in European art and visual culture than any other African woman of the colonial era. Saartjie, a South African showgirl in the early 19th century, was a small, beautiful woman, with an irresistible bottom. Of a build unremarkable in an African context, to some western European eyes she was extraordinary. Today, she is celebrated as bootylicious.

Saartjie was not only the African woman most frequently represented in racially marked British and French visual culture, she also had less immediately visible influences on western art. In an age when art and science were commonly regarded as bedfellows, her image appeared in a proliferation of media, from popular to high culture. Saartjie was depicted in scientific and anatomical drawings, in playbills and aquatint posters, in cartoons, paintings and sculpture. Both during her life and after her death, caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank made her the subject of works typifying London life and the Napoleonic era. Saartjie’s body cast was one of the inspirations for Matisse’s revolutionary restructuring of the female body in The Blue Nude (1907), prompted by African sculpture and conceived, as Hugh Honour argues, “as an ‘African’ Venus: that her skin is not black is hardly of significance in view of his attitude to colour”.

Who was Saartjie Baartman? Not a question anyone will ask in South Africa, where she is a national icon; nor in America, where her life, legend and relevance are well understood. Yet in Britain, where she came to fame and had such an influence, she is less well remembered. Rumoured to be a slave brought to England against her will, Saartjie was an orphaned Khoisan maidservant born in 1789 on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony. She was 21 years old when she was smuggled from Cape Town to London. Her employer, a free black man named Hendrik Cesars, was manservant to a British Army medical officer named Alexander Dunlop. Dunlop persuaded Cesars that Saartjie had lucrative potential as entertainment and a scientific curiosity in England, which had a thriving stage trade in human and scientific curiosities. A woman from the so-called “Hottentot tribe”, who, legend held, had amazing buttocks and strangely elongated labia, might provide an exceptional draw. Saartjie was persuaded: Dunlop, she said, had “promised to send her back rich”.

(Read entire book review here…)

My Commentary: ♫ “The more you know…” ♫