for no reason
The lawsuit said that Keller followed the family to their home where he jumped out of his patrol car and drew his weapon on them. Keller allegedly placed Stephens in handcuffs and threatened to send their 14-year-old child to Juvenile Hall if she tried to record the incident with a cell phone.
He knew he intended no good before he jumped out of that car: he threatened the child for attempting to record evidence of his behavior. He consciously used his power to intimidate a witness into not recording his actions.
God, how cameras scare them.
They are scared of them because they - the cops - KNOW they intend to break the law and do things that are not acceptable - expect to other cops.
According to the lawsuit, officers searched the family’s vehicle without probable cause. Whitley was cited for a small amount of medical marijuana even though she produced proof of a prescription.
It's just not a day until a cop can harass somebody about the weed.
Of course there was a story about 'some black guy with a purple backpack' causing some sort of concern and this was submitted, apparently as some sort of justification for this terroristic activity.
Now the real deal:
Attorney Paul B. Justi, who is representing the family, pointed out that this case could have turned deadly like so many other recent tragic encounters between police and minorities.
“What happened to my clients happens all the time and is a real problem,” Justi explained. “This type of police misconduct only gets attention when someone ends up dead, but this type of non-lethal harassment is much more widespread and also need to be brought to light and stopped.”
Cops appear to INSIST on not getting it.
New allegations of racial profiling by San Jose cops
The suit filed by Emmanuel Stephens and his wife, Jasmine Whitley comes amid national concerns about disparate treatment of blacks and other racial minorities by police that have erupted in protests when encounters with cops turned deadly in Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New York; and Baltimore. A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called "a senseless, asinine shooting" of a black motorist during a minor traffic stop. It was the first time such a charge had been leveled against an officer in the city.
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The couple allege that Officer Alexander Keller followed Stephens as he drove home from picking up his 7-year-old daughter from school, then jumped out of his patrol car with his gun drawn when they arrived. According to the lawsuit, Keller then handcuffed Stephens and put him in the back of his patrol car, and threatened their 14-year-old, who emerged from the house, with Juvenile Hall if she went back in the house to get a cell phone to record the incident. They also claim officers searched the car without probable cause, and cited Whitley for possession of a small container of medical marijuana, even though she showed him proof she had a prescription. An officer who later arrived told the family that they had gotten a call about a "suspicious black man with a purple backpack," but Stephens did not have such a backpack and Keller could not have seen it, even if he did so from his patrol car, the suit said.
Out. Of. Control.
What is it going to take?
We have asked politely more than enough and that has failed.
What's it going to take to protect us all from these out-of-control terrorists?
Oh... and I read what little bit I could find on this guy and still have found NO reason as to why he felt a need to do this to this family.