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Title: Innocent Man Tasered, Beaten While Naked In the Shower and Framed Later
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URL Source: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Inno ... d_Later/40155/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Published: Dec 20, 2014
Author: staff
Post Date: 2014-12-20 13:13:48 by Horse
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Views: 49
Comments: 4

It is very easy for police to murder you on the street and then claim that you were resisting arrest. If you are naked in the shower and they beat the shit of you and shoot you with 'less-lethal' weapons how do they get away with it? They'll frame you obviously and keep you under the jail long enough that when you see a bit of daylight you'll forget all about your pain and suffering. They are not local police or SWAT teams they are death squads funded by taxpayers. Oh yes, that means you and I. We are paying for our own demise. This poor bastard was distraught for one reason or another and in his drunken rage he said that he had a shotgun then fell asleep in the shower. The SWAT team threw a stun grenade into the bathroom and stormed in and found no shotgun. They must have thought his pork and beans were some sort of weapon and opened a case of extra-strength whoopass on the naked drunk in his bathroom.

The Washington Post gives us the details:

“While I had my hands up naked in the shower they shot me with a 40 millimeter non-lethal round,” said Chadwick.

A second stun grenade soon followed.

“I turned away, the explosion went off, I opened my eyes the lights are out and here comes a shield with four or five guys behind it. They pinned me against the wall and proceeded to beat the crap out of me,” said Chadwick.

That’s when officers shot the unarmed Chadwick in the back of the head with a Taser at point blank range.

“They claimed I drew down with a shampoo bottle and a body wash bottle,” said Chadwick . . .

“They grabbed me by my the one hand that was out of the shower and grabbed me by my testicles slammed me on my face on the floor and proceeded to beat me more.”

After being thrown in jail for a couple of days I'm sure he figured that someone would quickly start to apologize profusely and put everything to bed. Not at all, instead they slapped him with charges of assaulting a police officer and after that charge was cleared they charged him with resisting arrest based on the testimony of the entire SWAT team. All charges were eventually cleared and he proceeded to file a civil lawsuit which was summarily dismissed by a federal judge who said, I shit you not:

“There is no freestanding constitutional right to be free from malicious prosecution.”

This poor man now has a fractured nose, bruised ribs and permanent hearing loss. Instead of getting any kind of justice the prosecutors feared a lawsuit so they hit him with multiple other charges to cover their own asses. Incredible! We are living the dream here in America, hoping not be killed and/or framed by the police.

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#1. To: Horse (#0)

“There is no freestanding constitutional right to be free from malicious prosecution.”

Un freaking real..... Sounds like a good bumber sticker.

Pinguinite  posted on  2014-12-20   13:52:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse (#0)

My wife and I do a lot of recreational travel in this region on weekends, but based on the case of Chad Chadwick, I will avoid the area southeast of Houston. I am drafting letters to Missouri City, Sugar Land, Stafford and Ft. Bend County to tell them that I am avoiding those areas and that I won't spend a nickel there and that am advising friends and family to do likewise.

There's a whole lot of sickening, irresponsible and juvenile jackboot adventure afoot on the part of LE these days, but this story takes the cake.

Chadwick has cleared his name and all the charges against him have been dropped; however, this malicious prosecution has cost the man a bundle.

Video at this link

HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Chad Chadwick has something many citizens can only covet - a spotless record.

"These cops are out of control. They are ruining good people's lives. I am a good man. I have done everything I can to show that, as a father, as a citizen, as a worker," said Chadwick.

But on the night of September 27th, 2011 Chadwick's commitment to living within the law did him no good at all.

It started when a friend concerned for Chadwick's emotional well-being called Missouri City police to Chad's Sienna apartment where he'd been distraught, drinking and unknown to anyone, had gone to sleep in the bathtub.

A SWAT team was summoned.

"They told a judge I had hostages. They lied to a judge and told him I had hostages in my apartment and they needed to enter," said Chadwick.

Chadwick did own a single shotgun, but had threatened no one, not even himself. Chadwick's firearm possession apparently prompted SWAT to kick in his door, launch a stun grenade into the bathroom and storm in, according to Chadwick, without announcing their identity.

"While I had my hands up naked in the shower they shot me with a 40 millimeter non-lethal round," said Chadwick.

A second stun grenade soon followed.

"I turned away, the explosion went off, I opened my eyes the lights are out and here comes a shield with four or five guys behind it. They pinned me against the wall and proceeded to beat the crap out of me," said Chadwick.

That's when officers shot the unarmed Chadwick in the back of the head with a Taser at point blank range.

"They claimed I drew down with a shampoo bottle and a body wash bottle," said Chadwick.

And it wasn't over.

"They grabbed me by my the one hand that was out of the shower and grabbed me by my testicles slammed me on my face on the floor and proceeded to beat me more," said Chadwick.

Chadwick, who hadn't broken a single law when SWAT burst through his door, was taken to the Ft. Bend County Jail with a fractured nose, bruised ribs and what's proven to be permanent hearing loss.

He was held in an isolation cell for two full days.

"Instead of apologizing to this man and asking let us see what we can do to help you to make you whole again, they concocted criminal charges against this man, one after another, after another," said Quanell X who believes the prosecution of Chadwick was designed to fend off civil liability.

Ft. Bend County District Attorney John Healy sought to indict Chadwick on two felony counts of assaulting a police officer, but a Grand Jury said no law was broken.

It could have stopped there, but Healy's prosecutors tried misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, calling more than a dozen officers to testify. Those charges were dropped as well.

A month ago, three years after the SWAT raid, a jury found Chad Chadwick not guilty of interfering with police. With tears in their eyes members of the jury offered the exonerated defendant comforting hugs.

"They tried to make me a convict. It broke me financially, bankrupted me. I used my life savings, not to mention, I lost my kids," said Chadwick.

"This type of police abuse and excessive use of force and concoction of criminal charges against innocent people is not just happening to black people, its happening to white people too," said Quanell X who is assisting Chadwick in getting the story of his ordeal to the media.

For Chadwick some of the damage will never be repaired.

"All I could think about is, what are my daughters going to think? My goal in life is to be a father that my kids are proud of. That's it," said Chadwick, a long time manager in the energy industry.

The SWAT team that took Chadwick into custody and testified against him was comprised of officers from Missouri City, Sugar Land, Stafford and the Ft. Bend County Sheriff's Department.

Ft. Bend County District Attorney John Healy declined to comment on camera, but did say he stands by his decision to prosecute Chadwick, despite the multiple no-bills and not guilty verdict.

Asked how much the case cost taxpayers, Healy said "I wasn't keeping a tally."

"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan

randge  posted on  2014-12-20   14:36:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: randge (#2)

Ft. Bend county has long been known for its lawlessness on both sides of the blue line.

Don't let the sun set on you there.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-12-20   14:52:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Pinguinite (#1)

There is no freestanding constitutional right to be free from malicious prosecution."

There's no freestanding constitutional right to freedom from being smoked as a crooked cop by a fed up citizen, either. Just ask the NYPD.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2014-12-20   18:50:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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