Exposing DEA agent costs KCK police detective his job

[roo_ster]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/25/2250584/exposing-agent-costs-kck-detective.html

Some non-LEO citizen does not allow another vehicle to pass him in his lane (meaning, other auto tried to pass him not using another lane, but tried to pass the citizen while staying in the same rahter wide lane).  Unfortunately for the citizen, that other driver is a DEA agent who is gonna pass no effing matter what and their bumpers bump

DEA agent goes road/roid/LEO-ragey, pulls his gun when they both stop to inspect the damage, and beats the citizen into unconsciousness.

KC cops roll up and interview witnesses, but when all the stories pretty much go, "Dude goes nuts, pulls his gun, and beats Citizen like a red-headed step child for no good reason," the KC cops manage to "lose" all the witness interviews and instead charge the guy who got beat to a pulp with assaulting a federal officer.

A local KC cop is tasked with investigating the assault charge further, learns what occurred, to include one of the covering KC cops saying DEA agents “do pretty much whatever they want,” and “It would look bad for DEA agents,” and that police “should cover for them.”

Local KC cop tries to flip it over to KC PD's internal affairs division, given the LEO misconduct, but he is squashed, harassed, and watched over like a hawk.

Local KC cop testifies in defense of the Citizen WRT to the assault on a federale charge and Citizen gets off on that charge...and then sues the bejeezuz out of KC gov't for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Local KC cop is continually harassed and hounded into an early retirement, despite a sterling record.  He is denied many of the usual bennies of a retired KC cop.

Meanwhile, the perpetrators of the cover-up have moved on to different departments, occupations, etc. and have never had consequence one visited on them for their parts in the cover-up.  The DEA agent is still a federale eating my tax dollars and breathing my oxygen.

My sympathies goto the one honest cop in the stew of corruption in the KC PD as well as to the citizen who was beaten.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

thats a man who needs a hungry mean land shark  good case for a jury and an easy settlement if he wants it. dea  nixons temporary agency lives on

[Scout26]

Is there not an Federal IG, nor State Level LEO/Attornery General's IG to right this wrong.

WhistleBlower Protection ??

Something.

 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

dea has often equaled cowboy. sadly. i know a couple that are decent guys but the agency has systemic issues and covers it up better then the catholic church did the pedophile priests. we had one local that got away with murder. he clammed up and then left  not enough evidence to hang him so he skated

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

Wow.  Yep, the blue line is still there.  Hats off to the one Peace Officer who tried to do the right thing and hope the LEOs who "covered" get a nice prison stay, or a beating.

[RevDisk]

Is there not an Federal IG, nor State Level LEO/Attorney General's IG to right this wrong.

WhistleBlower Protection ??

Something.

Uhm.  No?  The fix was in.  That's the entire point of doing so.

Any government organization is about politics first, and job last.  It really doesn't matter what type of organization it is.  Any individual who ignores the politics and hierarchy of pull is more dangerous than any criminal, and is dealt with appropriately.

[roo_ster]

Yeah, I'd like to also commend the policeman who was going after Bad Guys, wherever they might be.

While writing the summary, I was in a state of "WTF" and likely did not properly convey the high regard I have for that man.

[Jim147]

I had two different contracts with KCK. I meet several of the officers and detectives. Some of them are great guys.

Some of them are just plain nucking futs.

The union and politics play into so much of this crap. I recognize the name. I've been out of the area for three years now. If he's the one that lived up north of Leavenworth Road, I know he was a good guy.

jim

[Hawkmoon]

Just another example of uppity serfs not recognizing their proper place in the social structure.

Nothing to see here ... move on, please.

[HankB]

A pity that nobody had video. (Note to self: if I ever get video of something like this, make and distribute lots of copies, maybe even upload it to Youtube before turning it over to investigators.)

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

May this DEA agent try this again. And I would love for him to encounter a citizen carrying a legal CCW. Maybe karma will catch up with Mr DEA.

[RevDisk]

May this DEA agent try this again. And I would love for him to encounter a citizen carrying a legal CCW. Maybe karma will catch up with Mr DEA.

And said citizen would go to jail for a very long time, if not life, for the obvious murder of a federal agent.  Wouldn't matter if the citizen was an inch from death and on the stand wearing a couple miles of tubing and wires just to stay alive.

[Tallpine]

Yet another victory in the War on Drugs 

[Fitz]

I know a DEA agent.

Not to say this is indicitive of the rest of em, but HE is a self important, drug-crusading, jackbooted piece of *expletive deleted*it.

[HankB]

I know a DEA agent.

Not to say this is indicitive of the rest of em, but HE is a self important, drug-crusading, jackbooted piece of *expletive deleted*.

And as we all know, DEA agents are sometimes the only ones in the room professional enough to handle a Glock Forty . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeGD7r6s-zU

[Fitz]

el oh el

[Seenterman]

How corrupt is a system where the only person doing the right thing is the only person punished?

Can we officially declare that our entire legal system is stymied in self serving behavior, corruption, and cronyism.

From Police officers bouncing between different departments due to what would be crimes for mere civilians, to prosecutors engaging in unethical behavior this crap is going to get worse until the DOJ seriously puts the slap down on some bad actors.  Which I doubt is going to happen, which in turn just encourages this type of behavior.

Its long past the time we broke out the tar & feathers.  

Brad Heath and Kevin McCoy documented 201 cases in which federal prosecutors were chastised by federal judges for serious ethical breaches.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/27/misbehaving-federal-prosecutor

Officer is allowed to bounce between different departments despite a DWI, being charged with assault, harassing citizens while drinking, assaulting citizens on multiple occasions, and apparently sexually assaulting a women along with two other LEO's. He did get arrested and convicted to (only) two years in prison on one assault case but the sexual assault incident alarms me the most. Two other LEO's went along with it and there has been no repercussions for this incident for any of the LEO's involved. When it appears as if bad cops are protected by their departments its no wonder we start to view the other cops with a suspicious eye.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200911150269?page=1&build=cache
http://wvgazette.com/News/200911140678

[MechAg94]

Are federal agents immune from torts?  I thought you could sue individuals in civil court for assault or at least injuries resulting from assault especially if there was no criminal case. 

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

And said citizen would go to jail for a very long time, if not life, for the obvious murder of a federal agent.  Wouldn't matter if the citizen was an inch from death and on the stand wearing a couple miles of tubing and wires just to stay alive

Read the article. Road rage idiot pulls a gun after getting pissed because he couldn't pass, illegally, on the right side. Said idiot gets out of his vehicle gun drawn and beats the crap out of someone. ONLY after the fact we find out he is a Federal Agent. So Id bet no prison.

That's why this fed is an idiot. You come up on someone in plain clothes, he has a gun drawn, he is angry. I'd shoot. Even if he shouted federal agent, I'd shoot. POV, plain clothes. You don't know if said idiot is really a fed or just an angry loon. I'd damn sure not let someone beat on me.

I hope we here about this fed, like name and address. And let's pray he gets the can and jail time. If not. I sure hope karma catches up with him and he gets his arse handed to him someday.

[roo_ster]

How corrupt is a system where the only person doing the right thing is the only person punished?

Terribly, perhaps beyond repair.  KC has some SERIOUS issues, police-wise, when honest men can't work there.

Its long past the time we broke out the tar & feathers.  

Amen, Brother, Amen.

Officer is allowed to bounce between different departments despite a [whole host of incidents]

On the bright side, Dallas's Chief just fired 13 turds in a week:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/092410dnmetfirings.299da43.html

Dude's taking out the trash.  Sadly, DPD gets a lot of trash (see the thread I started (and ended n one post!) on DPD's Chief last week.

Yes, several of these will bounce to another PD.

Here's one of the Rhodes Scolars who was fired:
"Kelly Beemer, 27, who was off duty when she drunkenly fired a gun in the back of a squad car after an on-duty officer picked her up at a South Dallas bar in June, police said."

There is dash-cam video of the on-duty cop trying to square her away, as she could not walk under her own power.

I wonder...If I were staggering drunk, in the back of a cop car, and had a ND with MY weapon back there, would I face more serious consequences then Miss Beemer?

[Tallpine]

I wonder...If I were staggering drunk, in the back of a cop car, and had a ND with MY weapon back there, would I face more serious consequences then Miss Beemer?

It depends... how cute are you? 

[roo_ster]

It depends... how cute are you? 

Dallas PD, not San Francisco PD.

[AZRedhawk44]

Exception:

Local KC cop tries to flip it over to KC PD's internal affairs division

Rule:

DEA agent goes road/roid/LEO-ragey, pulls his gun when they both stop to inspect the damage, and beats the citizen into unconsciousness.

A local KC cop is tasked with investigating the assault charge further, learns what occurred, to include one of the covering KC cops saying DEA agents “do pretty much whatever they want,” and “It would look bad for DEA agents,” and that police “should cover for them.”

Local KC cop tries to flip it over to KC PD's internal affairs division, given the LEO misconduct, but he is squashed, harassed, and watched over like a hawk.

Two departments and a judicial branch covering up for a blatant wrong, and punishing 1 lone (very alone) good cop.

[Hawkmoon]

How corrupt is a system where the only person doing the right thing is the only person punished?

That WAS rhetorical ... yes?