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Cops Joke About Kicking Amputee's 'Nub' at California Marijuana Dispensary
http://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-joke-kicking-amputees-nub-california-marijuana-dispensary/story?id=31731444
"A group of California cops were caught on hidden surveillance video allegedly joking about kicking a 54-year-old legally blind woman missing one leg "in her f****** nub," according to the woman's lawyer and the footage.
The Santa Ana Department police officers "bashed the doors in" of Sky High Collective, the reportedly unlicensed marijuana dispensary, with their guns drawn last month on May 27, said Marla James, a volunteer at the dispensary who said she was called a "one-legged old Benita" by a cop in the surveillance footage.
After arresting the employees and getting them outside, the cops were also caught on hidden camera taking down the store's visible cameras, saying, "Can we break some f****** cameras and make the boss happy?" They also played a game of darts, James told ABC News, citing the video footage.
"We knew there was going to be a raid soon around that time because they'd been raiding other marijuana facilities in the city and ours didn't have a business license," James said. "They came in with guns as you can see in the video and told everybody to get on the floor, and everyone was very respectful and cooperative."
James and her husband were in a back room, where she was in a wheelchair, when they were told by the officers to get down, she said.
"I told them I couldn't because of my disability, and I asked them to be careful with my husband because he's 68 years old, but they cut his wrists when they handcuffed them," James said.
After all the customers and workers were taken outside, a hidden camera caught the cops taking down the visible security cameras, removing their masks and armor and then seemingly putting down their guard, according to the footage.
An officer can then be seen eating something from a counter, which James' lawyer, Matthew Pappas, believes is a marijuana edible, he told ABC News station KABC.
"He's eating it right there in the marijuana collective," he said. "If you're a police officer, you probably shouldn't be eating things from a marijuana collective."
It was not clear what the officer was eating.
At one point in the footage, one officer asks, "Did you punch that one-legged old Benita?"
"I was about to kick her in her f****** nub," a female officer replies while laughing, the video shows.
James said she "felt really bad" after seeing the footage.
"It's very disappointing to see professionals acting like children, not doing their job and being mean-spirited when I expected to be protected and served, especially as a disabled person," she said. "It saddens me. I'm not putting this on all police because I believe most are good, and I can trust them, but these are bad apples, and bad apples should be weeded out or retrained."
James now plans to sue Santa Ana for the actions of the unidentified female officer who joked about kicking her, KABC reported.
Her lawyer did not return ABC News' repeated calls requesting additional information about the planned lawsuit.
The Santa Ana Police Department did not respond to ABC News' requests for comment.
Meanwhile, the Santa Ana Police Department told KABC every allegation will be thoroughly investigated.
"Obviously, we're concerned about what we saw in this edited video," Santa Ana police Cmdr. Chris Revere told KABC. "Anytime we get an allegation or indication that our officers might be engaged in misconduct, we want to make sure we conduct a thorough administrative investigation.
"We expect our officers to hold themselves to a certain standard and represent the department and the profession well," Revere added. "If that wasn't done in this case, it's certainly something that, as part of the administrative investigation, the chief will make the appropriate disciplinary recommendation if it's warranted."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-joke-kicking-amputees-nub-california-marijuana-dispensary/story?id=31731444
"A group of California cops were caught on hidden surveillance video allegedly joking about kicking a 54-year-old legally blind woman missing one leg "in her f****** nub," according to the woman's lawyer and the footage.
The Santa Ana Department police officers "bashed the doors in" of Sky High Collective, the reportedly unlicensed marijuana dispensary, with their guns drawn last month on May 27, said Marla James, a volunteer at the dispensary who said she was called a "one-legged old Benita" by a cop in the surveillance footage.
After arresting the employees and getting them outside, the cops were also caught on hidden camera taking down the store's visible cameras, saying, "Can we break some f****** cameras and make the boss happy?" They also played a game of darts, James told ABC News, citing the video footage.
"We knew there was going to be a raid soon around that time because they'd been raiding other marijuana facilities in the city and ours didn't have a business license," James said. "They came in with guns as you can see in the video and told everybody to get on the floor, and everyone was very respectful and cooperative."
James and her husband were in a back room, where she was in a wheelchair, when they were told by the officers to get down, she said.
"I told them I couldn't because of my disability, and I asked them to be careful with my husband because he's 68 years old, but they cut his wrists when they handcuffed them," James said.
After all the customers and workers were taken outside, a hidden camera caught the cops taking down the visible security cameras, removing their masks and armor and then seemingly putting down their guard, according to the footage.
An officer can then be seen eating something from a counter, which James' lawyer, Matthew Pappas, believes is a marijuana edible, he told ABC News station KABC.
"He's eating it right there in the marijuana collective," he said. "If you're a police officer, you probably shouldn't be eating things from a marijuana collective."
It was not clear what the officer was eating.
At one point in the footage, one officer asks, "Did you punch that one-legged old Benita?"
"I was about to kick her in her f****** nub," a female officer replies while laughing, the video shows.
James said she "felt really bad" after seeing the footage.
"It's very disappointing to see professionals acting like children, not doing their job and being mean-spirited when I expected to be protected and served, especially as a disabled person," she said. "It saddens me. I'm not putting this on all police because I believe most are good, and I can trust them, but these are bad apples, and bad apples should be weeded out or retrained."
James now plans to sue Santa Ana for the actions of the unidentified female officer who joked about kicking her, KABC reported.
Her lawyer did not return ABC News' repeated calls requesting additional information about the planned lawsuit.
The Santa Ana Police Department did not respond to ABC News' requests for comment.
Meanwhile, the Santa Ana Police Department told KABC every allegation will be thoroughly investigated.
"Obviously, we're concerned about what we saw in this edited video," Santa Ana police Cmdr. Chris Revere told KABC. "Anytime we get an allegation or indication that our officers might be engaged in misconduct, we want to make sure we conduct a thorough administrative investigation.
"We expect our officers to hold themselves to a certain standard and represent the department and the profession well," Revere added. "If that wasn't done in this case, it's certainly something that, as part of the administrative investigation, the chief will make the appropriate disciplinary recommendation if it's warranted."
But nobody got kicked in the nub? Jesus.... "I'm going to sue because you said you were going to kick me in the nub." If this gets any legs for this reason, we are lost as a collective.
This sounds like bad reality TV, too ugly to be real.
What weird story. Cops behaving badly. However, I am happy they are raiding unlicensed pot shops.
[UPDATE]: Santa Ana Cop In Raid Footage Recalls Party Time W/Judge Who Signed Search Warrant
"Update: June 12, 3 p.m.: The Weekly has obtained footage from the raid containing what seems to be a surprising anecdote from one of the officers onscreen regarding the judge who signed the search warrant. Hon. Jonathan Fish has been an Orange County Superior Court Judge since 2008, but before that he was a prosecutor with the district attorney's office who specialized in narcotics cases.
In the footage, an unidentified Santa Ana Police officer is talking to another cop as they wrap up their raid on the marijuana dispensary.
"You ever work with John Fish, the DA?" the officer asks.
"He was just in when I got there," his partner responds.
"He's the judge that signed our warrant," the first officer continues, adding that he had just spoken with Judge Fish and had enjoyed a good laugh with him about their old times together. "He's the ****** that pulled into a gas station on our way to the Staples Center and goes, "Let's buy some beers and drink 'em out of a red cup.' I go, 'That's not going to be obvious.' There we are at an am/pm getting styrofoam cups and pouring our beers into them. That ******* blew me away."
The Weekly attempted to interview Judge Fish about the footage, but after describing it to his secretary at the North Justice Center in Fullerton, she placed the call on hold and then got back on the line. "He can't make any comment on it," she said. "Sorry." Then she hung up the telephone.
In an interview with the Weekly, SAPD Commander Revere said he hadn't seen the video footage containing the above conversation, but did confirm that all the officers he'd seen so far in the footage were indeed Santa Ana police department employees. Revere added that once the department had access to all the footage from the raid, it would be in a better position to determine if any wrongdoing had taken place.
"If they are doing anything else that involves misconduct, the chief will take the appropriate action," Revere said. "I want to investigate: if it's an ugly baby, it's an ugly baby, let's move on. But it's frustrating when we get a little snapshot of an incident where we're not able to substantiate or corroborate anything either way. Hopefully, that won't be the case in this instance."
Original Post: June 11, 12:21 p.m.: The Weekly has received footage from a recent marijuana dispensary raid that appears to show Santa Ana police officers eating pot candy and throwing darts after destroying--or so they thought--all the surveillance cameras inside the cannabis shop.
The video footage shows an officer stuffing something into his mouth and handing something to another cop, who asks him "What flavor?" The officers then laugh. The footage is too grainy to be certain that the item that the officer picks up from the counter of the cannabis shop is in fact a pot edible, although the behavior of the officers suggests this is the case.
Also in the footage: a female police officer joking that she wanted to kick Marla James--a marijuana activist and wheelchair-bound amputee who was present during the raid--in her "nub."
"Update: June 12, 3 p.m.: The Weekly has obtained footage from the raid containing what seems to be a surprising anecdote from one of the officers onscreen regarding the judge who signed the search warrant. Hon. Jonathan Fish has been an Orange County Superior Court Judge since 2008, but before that he was a prosecutor with the district attorney's office who specialized in narcotics cases.
In the footage, an unidentified Santa Ana Police officer is talking to another cop as they wrap up their raid on the marijuana dispensary.
"You ever work with John Fish, the DA?" the officer asks.
"He was just in when I got there," his partner responds.
"He's the judge that signed our warrant," the first officer continues, adding that he had just spoken with Judge Fish and had enjoyed a good laugh with him about their old times together. "He's the ****** that pulled into a gas station on our way to the Staples Center and goes, "Let's buy some beers and drink 'em out of a red cup.' I go, 'That's not going to be obvious.' There we are at an am/pm getting styrofoam cups and pouring our beers into them. That ******* blew me away."
The Weekly attempted to interview Judge Fish about the footage, but after describing it to his secretary at the North Justice Center in Fullerton, she placed the call on hold and then got back on the line. "He can't make any comment on it," she said. "Sorry." Then she hung up the telephone.
In an interview with the Weekly, SAPD Commander Revere said he hadn't seen the video footage containing the above conversation, but did confirm that all the officers he'd seen so far in the footage were indeed Santa Ana police department employees. Revere added that once the department had access to all the footage from the raid, it would be in a better position to determine if any wrongdoing had taken place.
"If they are doing anything else that involves misconduct, the chief will take the appropriate action," Revere said. "I want to investigate: if it's an ugly baby, it's an ugly baby, let's move on. But it's frustrating when we get a little snapshot of an incident where we're not able to substantiate or corroborate anything either way. Hopefully, that won't be the case in this instance."
Original Post: June 11, 12:21 p.m.: The Weekly has received footage from a recent marijuana dispensary raid that appears to show Santa Ana police officers eating pot candy and throwing darts after destroying--or so they thought--all the surveillance cameras inside the cannabis shop.
The video footage shows an officer stuffing something into his mouth and handing something to another cop, who asks him "What flavor?" The officers then laugh. The footage is too grainy to be certain that the item that the officer picks up from the counter of the cannabis shop is in fact a pot edible, although the behavior of the officers suggests this is the case.
Also in the footage: a female police officer joking that she wanted to kick Marla James--a marijuana activist and wheelchair-bound amputee who was present during the raid--in her "nub."
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