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Title: Cops Beat Innocent Homeless Man to a Pulp Because He Was Sleeping
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-innocent-man-sleeping/
Published: Nov 15, 2017
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2017-11-16 05:39:26 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 692
Comments: 13
Shelton, WA — When 25-year-old Nicholas Heflin arrived at the Community Lifeline homeless shelter last May, it was closed. Having nowhere to go, Heflin walked around to the side of the shelter and laid down at the top of a staircase to get some sleep for the night. Hours after he’d fallen asleep, however, Heflin would be abruptly woken up to the searing hot sensation of chemicals being sprayed into his face by two of Shelton’s finest. For the next several minutes, he’d be pepper sprayed, tasered, and punched repeatedly in the face—for doing nothing other than sleeping in a stairwell. Shelton police officers, Justin Doherty and Matt Dickinson were fired earlier this month for their unprovoked attack on Heflin and they were also facing charges of assault. However, the Mason County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Monday declined to press charges against the officers for the incident which left Heflin with a broken nose, eye injuries, and multiple broken bones in his face. Michael Dorcy, the Mason County Prosecutor, said his office solicited advice from use-of-force and training experts who believed criminal charges weren’t warranted, reports the News Tribune. Dorcy wrote, “The burden of proof cannot be met to sustain criminal assault charges beyond all reasonable doubt in court.” Around 1:40 a.m. on May 25, Doherty and Dickinson found Heflin sleeping outside of the homeless shelter with his feet hanging off the staircase. Heflin had not harmed anyone and was merely attempting to get a night’s sleep at a place designated to help homeless people. According to Heflin, he never heard the officers’ commands to get up. The officers told Heflin three times to get up and show his hands before Doherty, shining a light in Heflin’s face said, “I’m going to tell you one more time to show me your hands, or I’m going to pepper spray you.” While it is clear from the body camera footage that Heflin did not immediately respond to the officers’ commands, any reasonable person would have understood that it’s likely due to the fact that he is sleeping. This sleep, however, was then deemed resisting arrest and so force was escalated. After he was sprayed in his face, Heflin wakes up, clearly in shock and panic. He tries to show his hands but is writhing in agony. As police order him up, Heflin gets up on his knees and begins coughing from having his face blasted with pepper spray. At this point, Doherty jumps onto” Heflin, “forcing him into the corner of the landing,” according to the Thurston County report. The report notes Heflin can be heard “yelling, ‘Dude, dude, dude, my neck, dude, my neck.’” During the struggle, Heflin can be heard screaming for help as the brutal sounds of repeated punches to his face painfully ring out. After a minute of punching him in his face, officers taser Heflin. For several minutes, we can hear the two officers repeatedly punch Heflin in the face. As the News Tribune reports, the Thurston County report states the “majority of the strikes appear to have connected with (Heflin’s) face.” It also says the officers were wearing “knuckle guard riot style gloves” which may have made the man’s injuries worse. Heflin is now planning a lawsuit against the City of Shelton for $15 million. Tuesday night, his attorney Jeanette Boothe said Heflin was “quite emotional about the fact that (the police officers) were not going to be criminally charged.” Boothe told reporters they are exploring other options to hold the officers accountable such as a federal criminal investigation. “We think this is an egregious assault on this young man,” Boothe said. “And he’s certainly going to have lasting results from it.” Naturally, the lawyer for the two officers, Alan E. Harvey, is claiming that his clients did nothing wrong and “acted within the training they have received at the Shelton Police Department, and acted within policy, and that they committed no crimes.” Harvey claims the officers being fired was due to the fact that the chief of police had “succumb to public pressure, and, as a result, two officers were unjustly terminated.” If history is any indicator, both of these officers will likely be rehired in the future and given back pay. Below is a video of what sleeping looks like in a police state.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
The cops and prosecutor should be charged convicted and executed. That is justice for attempted murder and the prosecutors accessory to attempted murder.
Let me take a WAG. They were " In fear for their lives " Those Keystone Kops need to get a visit from Karma !! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
http://www.sheltonwa.gov/docs/PD_investigation_information/DET%20KING%20GENERAL%20CAS E%20FILE%20TCSO.pdf Locate the investative report from the incident, from the link above. It's a PDF. I don't know how to post those. It's a professionally written, unbiased account of what happened. Decktard isn't smart enough to post shit based on actually investigative summary. The report is even more horrendous that his FreeBullshitProject article I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
My comment is based on if the story is as told. If the story is a lie then I don't support what I said.
404 - File or directory not found. Apparently, the police department thought it was serious enough to fire the thugs. Two Shelton officers fired, but won’t face criminal charges after beating homeless man The Mason County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Monday declined to press charges against two Shelton police officers who repeatedly struck, pepper sprayed and used a stun gun on a man who had been sleeping on a staircase behind a homeless shelter in May. The decision runs counter to advice from Thurston County Sheriff’s Office investigators, who in July recommended assault charges after concluding the use of force that left 25-year-old Nicholas Heflin with a broken nose, eye injuries and broken bones in his face “was not necessary or reasonable.” Seems to be a pattern with these cowards. Puppies, kitties, children - any one of which can trigger a violent response from one of these psychopath thugs. You can see the same thing here whenever GrandIsland responds - he has no self control. %20 is hexadecimal for a space. Try this link: http://www.sheltonwa.gov/docs/PD_investigation_information/DET KING GENERAL CASE FILE TCSO.pdf
The previous link had a space in it, which breaks it. This should be fixed below.
Post the actual investigative report... in PDF www.sheltonwa.gov/docs/PD...%20CASE%20FILE%20TCSO.pdf ITS MUCH MORE DAMNING THAN YOUR YELLA WRITTEN ARTICLE. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
It was serious. Body cams show that they went straight to OC spray for a passive resistor... and ended with the homeless bum sustaining some pretty severe injuries. In fact, both body cams showed that both officers used UNNEEDED force... which is EXCESSIVE force. Read the PDF... it's pretty good. Much better written, than your shitty article. It was written by a cop. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Yeah... a massive epidemic. Or you would like your sheep audience to at least think so. It's so inconceivable... you know, HUMAN cops, selected from the gene pool we have today... acting like assholes, at the same rate as any other occupation. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I am glad that you introdced that idea.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
" Cops Beat Innocent Homeless Man to a Pulp Because He Was Sleeping "
#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#4. To: GrandIsland (#3)
#5. To: GrandIsland (#3)
http://www.sheltonwa.gov/docs/PD_investigation_information/DET%20KING%20GENERAL%20CAS E%20FILE%20TCSO.pdf
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: A K A Stone, GrandIsland (#4)
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“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#7. To: Stoner (#2)
Let me take a WAG. They were " In fear for their lives "
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#8. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#5)
#9. To: Deckard (#0)
#10. To: Deckard (#6)
(Edited)
#11. To: Deckard (#6)
(Edited)
Apparently, the police department thought it was serious enough to fire the thugs.
#12. To: Deckard (#7)
Seems to be a pattern with these cowards.
#13. To: GrandIsland (#12)
HUMAN cops, selected from the gene pool
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