What happened in San Bernadino ?

[gotsnowgotslush]

The news video showed Pusok take a couple of steps and then lie on his stomach with arms outstretched.

As the suspect went down, another man, who appeared to be a uniformed deputy, fired a Taser at him.

Another deputy then ran up and kicked Pusok in the head, neck or shoulder area.

The two deputies continuously struck Pusok with their hands, feet and Taser as he lied on his stomach with his hands behind his back.

More deputies then converged on Pusok and continued pummelling him.

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/2...-beating-arrest-of-man-fleeing-on-horse-video

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/2...-of-san-bernardino-county-sheriffs-department


Video shows the suspect, 30-year-old Francis Jared Pusok of Apple Valley, stretching his arms out as police taser him. Right away two deputies begin punching his head and kneeing his groin.

In the two minutes after the man was stunned with a Taser, it appeared deputies kicked him 17 times, punched him 37 times and struck him with batons four times. Thirteen blows appeared to be to the head.
Pistol-whipped to the head ?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...uties-tasering-then-beating-a-stunned-suspect

 

[JackLuis]

They don't cotton to horse thieves in San Berdoo.

 

[sr71plt]

Why are we even talking about this one? The dude is white. Are you suggesting that Irezumi should put it on her comparison chart? That'll never happen.

From the video coverage I saw, I'm amazed he lived through it--and I didn't get the impression that the cops cared whether he did or not. Didn't the dummies know they were being filmed from the helicopter? Maybe they're just all too dumb to be policeman in the first place.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

What happened in Jacksonville, Florida ?

TV True Crime drama, from tonight
Why source an old story, where the policeman is a victim ?

10/23/97

One question lingers for police investigating Sunday's gunbattle that left a Georgia man dead and a Jacksonville police officer wounded: Why did the motorist suddenly open fire?

A possible clue: Joseph McGrotha, whose identification was being checked just before he started shooting at Officer Pete Soulis, is a suspect in a slaying a few blocks from his home in Warner Robins, Ga.

Unbeknownst to McGrotha, the computer system checked by Soulis was down and he was about to be turned loose when he attacked. There were no outstanding warrants for him.

But Warner Robins police said yesterday that McGrotha, 27, is among several people they are investigating in the Oct. 11 slaying of Kenneth Koski, a 58-year-old widower stabbed to death in what police describe as a possible botched burglary. The slaying was the second this year in Warner Robins, a military community south of Macon.

Sgt. Brenda Parks-Mathern of the Warner Robins Police Department said one reason McGrotha is a suspect is because he has prior arrests for burglary and robbery and was recently paroled from prison.

McGrotha also was seen at a bar near the slaying scene shortly before it occurred. His mother said he left town about the time the killing oc curred to search for constructionwork in Florida.

Police wouldn't say how long McGrotha has been a suspect in the Georgia killing, but he remains under investigation despite his death.

''We're still looking at him. He's on our list,'' Parks-Mathern said. ''We will be in touch with them [the police] down in Florida and checking some stuff here. We have to either eliminate him or not.''

McGrotha was shot about 20 times by Soulis after he began firing at the officer. Three shots cut through Soulis' arm, while another hit his leg. He is recovering at home.

Soulis, 38, began questioning McGrotha after the Georgia man parked his car at a closed gas station on Emerson Street near Interstate 95.

McGrotha remained in his car as Soulis checked his identification.

Soulis, intending to turn McGrotha loose, sensed something strange as the Georgia man watched over his shoulder for the officer to return. Soulis walked to the passenger door and noticed an open beer.

(From tonight's show-A saved vial of blood from McGrotha, matches the murder scene.)

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102397/2b1polic.html#.VSniPGrD8v6

The police are busy, in Jacksonville-

More loss for Jacksonville's Lynyrd Skynyrd as former drummer dies in Georgia car crash

Off Topic

Apr 4, 2015

A former drummer of Jacksonville’s Lynyrd Skynyrd has died in a car crash, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution and WSB-TV 2 in Atlanta.
The news outlets report that Robert “Bob” Lewis Burns Jr., 64, died in a single-car crash shortly before midnight Friday in Bartow County, which is northwest of Atlanta, when his car hit a mailbox and tree.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Spend the rest of your life in San Bernadino
- Frank Zappa

(Was a nice place to visit, in the old days.)

APRIL 05, 2014

"San Bernardino is bankrupt," says City Council member Jim Mulvihill. "Because of that, we've cut back. We had 340 on our police force, now we're down to 240. And given all that, we've had a high crime rate."

For people who come to San Bernardino unemployed, Mulvihill says the options here are limited. Like so many American cities, San Bernardino used to be a place for middle-class jobs. A big steel plant employed tens of thousands of people until it closed in the 1980s. Norton Air Force Base, which was just 2 miles east of downtown San Bernardino, also closed in the early '90s.

"There was about 10,000 civilian jobs, and about 6,000 military people. And so the city lost all those," he says.

Mulvihill says the jobs that are available are low-wage jobs — at the local casino or in food service. Warehouses for retailers like Amazon and food companies are also one of San Bernardino's biggest industries.


So even though people are saving money on housing in San Bernardino, they're making less money than they might in L.A., where there are more — and better-paying — jobs.

It's a national phenomenon, says writer Timothy Noah, whose most recent book, The Great Divergence, covers income inequality. People can't always afford to live where the work is, he says.


http://www.npr.org/2014/04/05/299507201/americans-are-on-the-move-but-in-the-wrong-direction

 

[phrodeau]

The Frank Zappa song, "San Ber'Dino", is about a guy who went to the jail there. There's a mention of the "dark green air" to be found there.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Off Topic

Awww, Dweezil is carrying dad's legacy forward.

The current show includes the recently added songs “The Grand Wazoo” and “Sinister Footwear,” as well as a performance of the entire album “One Size Fits All,” to celebrate the album’s 40th anniversary. The 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s debut album, “Freak Out,” will be 2016, so, says Dweezil, the next tour might include a recreation of that disc.

http://www.knoxnews.com/knoxville/m...his-fathers-music-and-his-own-legacy_57920794

(Captain Beefheart's life history was covered more than Frank Zappa's was, until..)

 

[phrodeau]

Off Topic

Awww, Dweezil is carrying dad's legacy forward.

The current show includes the recently added songs “The Grand Wazoo” and “Sinister Footwear,” as well as a performance of the entire album “One Size Fits All,” to celebrate the album’s 40th anniversary. The 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s debut album, “Freak Out,” will be 2016, so, says Dweezil, the next tour might include a recreation of that disc.

http://www.knoxnews.com/knoxville/m...his-fathers-music-and-his-own-legacy_57920794

(Captain Beefheart's life history was covered more than Frank Zappa's was, until..)

A Dweezil concert is well worth attending.

Frank's 100th and final album will finally be released in June.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Thanks! I did not know.