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March 21, 2015

Maryland cop puts gun against a man’s head—and at his mouth, “We’re PGPD; we shoot people,”

A police officer in Maryland has been indicted on assault charges after prosecutors say he held a gun to the head of a man who hadn't committed a crime.
Police and prosecutors announced Friday that a grand jury indicted Prince George's County Officer Jenchesky Santiago on charges including first-degree assault and misconduct in office. He had been suspended with pay since police began investigating the incident last June, and now is suspended without pay.
According to prosecutors, Santiago was on patrol in a Bowie neighborhood last May and told two men that they were parked illegally outside a home when they weren't. The driver explained that he was dropping off his cousin, prosecutors said. Santiago ordered that man, who had been walking toward his house, to return to the car.
When the man failed to return, Santiago blocked him from entering his home, pulled his service weapon and held it against the man's head, prosecutors said. Santiago also pointed the gun at the man's mouth, prosecutors said.
He also threatened the men, saying, "We're PGPD; we shoot people," authorities said.
The driver of the car used his cellphone to record video of the officer pointing the gun at his cousin, prosecutors said.
"We do not train our officers in this manner," Prince George's County police chief Mark Magaw said in a statement. "These actions are not indicative of the high standards we expect of our officers."

10 comments:

  1. The chance of you of us being killed by Police are getting higher and higher compare to terrorists.

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  2. That guy is lucky to be alive.Cops are trigger happy now days.

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  3. You do not train your officers in this manner?
    Do you think that anyone will believe you?
    Kill all those fucking cops!

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  4. http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/129/Media/Unintended_Consequences.pdf

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  5. that's EXACTLY how they train their officers... intimidate, and demand total subservience or apply pain... kill if you feel like it.

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  6. It's a confirmation of how stupid cops are (and hired for that reason) that here we are in 2015 and many of them haven't yet figured out that they can be videotaped ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, by ANYONE. They behave as if they are still in the pre-cell phone, pre-dash cam, pre-surveillance CCTV world, like their minds are still running twenty years behind reality. It will be interesting to see how much longer it takes for them to catch up. Back to the future? This morning I read the line in the 1885 Emile Zola novel _Germinal_ "a big man with a grey mustache who looked like a kindly policeman" and wondered if we shall ever see our police that way again. I hope we do.

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  7. 'Contempt of cop,' though not a crime or illegal, is punishable by anything from false arrest and fines, up to and including tasing, beating and summary execution. These happen all day every day, across the looted plain.

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  8. Every time I see a cop I run terrified looking for a terrorist to protect me..

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  9. a poster down below stated: "Kill all those fucking cops!" I believe it is necessary to point that folks who post such comments are almost certainly government shills trying to provoke others and/or incur the eye of Sauron recording all commenters' info.

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  10. Then fire the SOB, make sure he gets jail time for assault with a deadly weapon and terroristic threats, and investigate training and rules of engagement. Find out who hired him and investigate suitability for service.

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