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Title: Teen Girl Calls Cop Beating "Horrible"
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URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009 ... 635.shtml?source=mostpop_story
Published: Mar 3, 2009
Author: staff
Post Date: 2009-03-03 04:03:13 by IndieTX
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Views: 238
Comments: 9
(CBS/ AP) A teenage girl shown being kicked and punched by a sheriff's deputy on a jail surveillance video called the experience "horrible" and told CBS' The Early Show the officer accused her of assault before he tackled her. The footage shows the attack beginning after the girl enters the cell and kicks off one of her shoes toward the deputy. The video, released Friday, is part of an assault case in which Deputy Paul Schene, 31, is accused of using excessive force on the girl, who was being held in a cell at the suburban SeaTac City Hall. Schene, who is charged with fourth-degree assault, pleaded not guilty on Thursday in Superior Court. Malika Calhoun, 15, said she kept telling the officer, "I'm not resisting," but that he went after her once she flung her shoe. Calhoun said she kicked off her shoe - which she said did not hit Schene - because she was upset at the way he was speaking to her. "It was horrible. My head hit the wall," Calhoun said, adding that th officer was "pulling my hair constantly." The incident last November began after the girl was brought in for an auto theft investigation, according to court documents. Schene told investigators through an e-mail conversation with his lawyer that once he was assaulted by the girl kicking her shoe at him, he entered the cell to "prevent another assault," according to court documents. Schene also said that the girl failed to comply with instructions in the holding area. Prosecutors said Schene did not explain why he struck the girl after he had her in a holding position on the floor. "We believe this case is beyond just police misconduct, it's criminal misconduct," King County Prosecutor Daniel Satterberg said. "This is clearly excessive force." Satterberg added the case is uncommon because cameras captured the entire incident. Schene was investigated previously for shooting two people - killing one - in the line of duty in 2002 and 2006. Both times his actions were found to be justified, said Ian Goodhew, prosecutor's deputy chief of staff. Associated Press calls to Schene's lawyer Anne Bremner were not immediately returned Friday. Bremner, however, released a statement to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in which she said the video does not tell the whole story. Bremner had asked Judge Catherine Shaffer to not release the video to the media. "As we argued to the judge, it will inflame public opinion and will severely impact the deputy's right to a fair trial," Bremner said. In the video, a deputy kicks the girl, pushing her back toward the wall. The deputy then strongly backs the girl against the wall, and slams her to the floor by grabbing her hair. A second deputy enters the holding cell, while the first deputy holds the girl face-down to the floor. The first deputy appears to hit the girl with his hands. The girl is then lifted up and led out of the cell while the first deputy holds her hair. The second officer shown in the video was a trainee at the time and is not under investigation, Goodhew said. Calhoun's father, Curtis, said he hadn't seen the video immediately after it was released, but once he viewed it, "I didn't know it was this severe," he told The Early Show. According to court documents, Malika Calhoun complained of breathing problems after the incident and medics were called to check her. A short time later, she was taken to a youth detention center and booked for investigation of auto theft and third-degree assault, the latter accusation dealing with her conduct toward the deputy. Calhoun has pleaded not guilty to taking a motor vehicle without permission, Goodhew said last week, adding she was never formally charged with assault. © MMIX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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#1. To: All, JETHRO TULL, PSUSA, ROTARA, DISGUSTED, ORIGINAL_INTENT, LODWICK, X-15, TWENTY TWELVE (#0)
Two shooting incidents in this muscle head's past, one fatal./
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
Another bad cop going down. Good!
Should be one more fatal shooting incident.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
Muscle, no brain, just what all governments large and small need to protect themselves from vicious criminals that are everywhere we look.
Sooner or later they will do this to the wrong person. I bet that 1 man with a rifle can kill many pigs if he is tactically sound.
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Uh huh. Wouldn't we all like it if we could be "investigated" by the folks we work with, folks who think we can do no wrong? Or that if we did that we were doing it to people who deserved it anyway? I suspect we would walk away from just about any crime 99% of the time.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. This is true.
Erectus Walks Amongst Us If everybody will just assume that the police are as bad or worse than the Gestapo were and act accordingly, they might come away from an encounter without a beating.
_________________________________________________________________________ Does anyone have a detail of the injuries to the girl? Amazing that for such brutality she seems in remarkably good condition... I'll say it: What is excessive force or punishment when dealing with a white is not necessarily excessive force or punishment when dealing with a negro. Which is just another good reason for segregation.
Erectus Walks Amongst UsSchene was investigated previously for shooting two people - killing one - in the line of duty in 2002 and 2006
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#2. To: IndieTX (#0)
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#3. To: IndieTX (#1)
Two shooting incidents in this muscle head's past, one fatal./
#4. To: IndieTX (#1)
#5. To: IndieTX (#1)
#6. To: IndieTX (#0)
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Schene was investigated previously for shooting two people - killing one - in the line of duty in 2002 and 2006. Both times his actions were found to be justified, said Ian Goodhew, prosecutor's deputy chief of staff.
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#7. To: IndieTX (#0)
"As we argued to the judge, it will inflame public opinion and will severely impact the deputy's right to a fair trial," Bremner said.
I will not go to Auschwitz. I have ordered the book. Da-do-run-run-run Da-do-run-run.
#8. To: IndieTX (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: IndieTX (#0)
I will not go to Auschwitz. I have ordered the book. Da-do-run-run-run Da-do-run-run.
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