Showing posts with label police coverups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police coverups. Show all posts

November 02, 2010

Matt Bostrom: Expect a landslide


And I quote from an Emmerish blogger, Shot in the Dark (i.e. right wing):

. . . Ramsey County Sheriff: Matt Bostrom will be the first endorsed DFLer I will have voted for since 1998. He may well be the last. Let’s make it count. (italics mine.)
Point: Matt Bostrom has won over every thinking person or person who knows his positions, personality, credentials, charisma, heartfulness and general brilliance, not just here in Ramsey County but all over the Metro area.

I went into the volunteer arena (after spending three days working for Mark Dayton at the Minnesota State Fair) convinced Matt COULD NOT WIN. I wanted to put in as much energy into his campaign as much as I possibly could.


Remember Sheriff DeFazio of Allegheny County, PA? The guy who aided and abetted the harassment of one of my heroes, Dr. Cyril Wecht?

Well, Bob Fletcher is just as sleazy in my book. Maybe more so, since SETTLEMENTS in civil rights cases against the Ramsey County Sheriff's office always have gag orders slapped on them. Thus, some wicked things are known only to a few handfuls of folks here.

I am not going to bring down my elation today. I am celebrating a new sheriff in town. I have come to the conclusion that perhaps this is a position that should not be on a political slate. Too easy for guyz with gunz to rip up lawn signs, put their own up illegally and evade The Truth. - and the law.

Good men like Matt fight an uphill battle as the position garners little media attention. Good thing Matt has a huge aura and a lot of die-hard friends and supporters.

"Evildoers beware, there's a new sheriff in town and you never know where he's going to show up next."
Us citizens are NOT getting the Time Shift sheriff at all. Nor the one in Blazing Saddles, although Matt is studily anti-racist. Nor is he Russell in Beverly Hills cop ... (links refer to the videos.)

Seriously - Matt may prove to be the best thing that EVER happened to Metro Minnesota. He's the best bet to manage a crisis - and there will be plenty in the years ahead such as brownouts, dissatisfied citizens, earth changes . . . the list is long. What we will get is management, service and leadership.

Be sure of one thing, we will be led by a man with capable hands, a heart and tremendous smarts.

This election landslide for Matt is a true win-win for all.

Gotta go - time to get my nails done in time for the victory party.

ps. It was not a landslide - as Randy said at the victory party:

It was an avalanche!!


November 10, 2007

Sober Diabetic Man Tasered, Accused of DUI


Question: Since we see story after story after story of TASARS being used on disabled people who then get either sicker or die, one begins to WONDER - was that what they were invented and distributed to do?? I don't think it's just a question of BAD TRAINING - it was the original intent I am now questioning. And why is the public paying for these horrible weapons??


Alabama

Man having a diabetic attack faces DUI charges even though he had no alcohol in his system.

Ozark stopPolice in Ozark, Alabama on Tuesday used a taser on a sober man who was having a diabetic seizure. A trio of police cruisers were called to the scene of a black Nissan truck and trailer pulled over on the side of the road near the intersection of Highway 231 and Marley Mill Road at around 4pm. James Bludsworth, 54, a man with no criminal record, was was slumped over behind the wheel. Because of his condition he was not responsive to police commands.

Police then fired tasers at the sick man three times. A police officer now says that he smelled alcohol on Bludsworth, even though later testing showed no trace of alcohol in his system. Ozark Police Chief Myron Williams also claims the sick man was "combative." Instead of taking Bludsworth to medical care he was booked at Dale County Jail and charged with resisting arrest and driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). Bludsworth has no recollection of the incident and is free on $1000 bond.

Police later dropped a charge against Bludsworth relating to an alleged towing infraction.

Source: Criminal charges remain against driver found unconscious (Dothan Eagle (AL), 11/9/2007)

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