Truck driver nearly beaten to death for not signing traffic ticket. (Putin, highway)
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BERKELEY, CA -- A truck driver was beaten within an inch of his life by California Highway Patrol for not signing a traffic ticket that he could not read. The driver, who broke no laws, was beaten so badly that he woke up in a trauma hospital.
Olegs Kozacenko, a local resident originally from Russia, was pulled over and cited by police for allegedly driving too many hours in one day. Kozacenko refused to sign the ticket because he had not or could not read it
CHP Officers didn't take kindly to the driver's refusal to sign. Two officers, one of them a trained fist-boxer, beat Kozacenko on the side of the highway nearly to death. He suffered a crushed left orbital eye socket, multiple facial fractures, a broken left arm, broken ribs, a concussion, loss of consciousness, and possible neurological damage. His injuries caused a deprivation of oxygen for a prolonged period of time.
In order to get something to stick, they leveled a DUI charge at him, but it came back 0.0
So they said he was driving to many hours beyond regulations, which also was not true.
Both are still on the job a full 2 years after the incident. Olegs Kozacenko suffers long-term physical and emotional injuries and is no longer able to work.
"Just comply and do as they say, and never mind your rights."
The guy is lucky he did not get a bullet put in his head for not complying. (snicker)
"Dashboard cameras on the highway patrol cars of CHP supervisors responding to the scene show Kozacenko’s truck and Murrill and Sherman’s SUV patrol cars after the truck driver had been whisked away to the hospital."
"But according to the CHP there is no dash cam video of the actual incident. In response to a public records request the CHP says Murrill and Sherman didn’t have cameras in either of their patrol SUV’s. The CHP also said that computer aided dispatch logs of radio conversations from the incident weren’t found because of “system malfunctioning for this time period.”
Give the driver a huge settlement and have it come directly from the California police pension fund. Not from insurance, not from the operating budget. When the police( active and retired) see their benefits cut from a rogue cops actions they'll police their own and weed out the problem officers.
Actually it's somewhat easy to make it look like there is a malfunction in computing systems.
Agreed there.
Someone on another forum summed it up best:
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I do not get pissed off by these incidents very easily... I usually side with LE or withhold judgment until more is known.
But JFC, the smirks and attitude of the head of the CHP alone is enough to set any reasonable person off. What a dick. 0.0 alcohol... and you charged him with DUI? Driving too many hours -- against regulations -- dropped because it was not true. Resisting arrest, when it clearly shows he should never have been charged -- he had every ****ing right to resist arrest... but that was thrown out as well.
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The CHP is batting zero... and they are not only going to pay big $$$, they are doing a great disservice by damaging their reputation with the good people of California.
Wow at the end of the video, he threatened the whole audience.
Way to make your department look like an ass.
Quoting: Astral Goat
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That's how authoritarians think. You must comply, submit, or curl up in the corner and urinate all over yourself...or...they'll break your bones.
Your right to resist an unlawful arrest or any other of your rights are irrelevant. Submit and comply!
Give the driver a huge settlement and have it come directly from the California police pension fund. Not from insurance, not from the operating budget. When the police( active and retired) see their benefits cut from a rogue cops actions they'll police their own and weed out the problem officers.
That is a pretty good idea actually.
Put incentives in place for them to serve the public and be rewarded for it,
rather than the incentives we have now where they serve the state and get rewarded by the state by arresting more people.
That is a pretty good idea actually.
Put incentives in place for them to serve the public and be rewarded for it,
rather than the incentives we have now where they serve the state and get rewarded by the state by arresting more people.
The problem I see here is the corp employing them then is punished. Getting it in place would be difficult I think. If people discuss and acknowledge CAFRs would seem to help.
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