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Title: Mom Calls Police for Help, Cop Shows Up and Beats Her In Front of Her Kids
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wa ... -her-kids/#2m5rqke5BeICBiEW.99
Published: May 14, 2017
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2017-05-16 09:44:31 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 4740
Comments: 17
Harris County, TX — An innocent mother’s assault by a police officer highlights the risk people take when calling 911 for help. Angela Lopez needed the police for help but when they showed up, help was the last thing she got. The Free Thought Project spoke with Mrs. Lopez, who wants her story told so that others do not share her brutal fate. On August 16, 2014, Lopez had an altercation with her daughter. So, she called the cops to help her resolve this situation. “I was involved in a physical incident with my oldest daughter that turned out bad. I was really upset because she had hit me and bit me in the knee. I wanted her and ex-boyfriend out of my home. After they refused to leave, I called 911 to get someone to come out to help me remove or escort them out of my house,” Lopez explained. However, when police arrived, officer Francisco Salazar became instantly belligerent. As Lopez explains, “He entered into my front door which was open. The first thing I told him was if he could please talk to my daughter because she wouldn’t listen to me. His first reply was ‘Shut up and give me your ID!’ So I turned to my other daughter in the hallway and asked her to get my purse in my room. Then the officer took a step towards me, got in my face and raised his voice loudly, and told me, ‘Did I tell her to give it to me? No! I told you to give it to me!'” “Look, officer, you don’t have to yell at me. I’m not disrespecting you in any way,” Lopez told Salazar. But this seemingly made the officer even more aggressive. “Well, you don’t listen!” He pointed out his finger toward Lopez, saying, “Now step outside and let me talk to your daughter!” Lopez tells the Free Thought Project that she realized that calling the police may have been a bad idea after this cop began to escalate the situation. “At that point, I had a bad feeling this would not go good and that I could not trust him to help me resolve this, not with his aggressive attitude. I was upset, shocked and confused about why he was treating me that way, especially when I was the one who called the police for help,” Lopez said. “So at that point, after he told me that, I told him, ‘You no what, if you want to talk to my daughter, you and her can step out and you can talk to her out there. This is my house.'” Having been told what to do set this officer off. He then demanded her ID once more and when she asked why, he attacked. In the video, we see Salazar yank Lopez out of her house and slam her down in the front yard. “He grabbed me by my wrist twisted my arm slightly and yanked me out of my house. When I was on the ground he kept telling me to give him my arm, knowing darn well, I couldn’t because my arm was trapped under my body and he was on top of me. He even bent my arm all the way in half, behind my back applying his pressure against it, hurting my shoulder really bad,” she said. Salazar’s attack and subsequent ‘stop resisting’ remarks are typical in police takedowns. Salazar demanded Lopez give him her arms, while at the same time making it entirely impossible. After brutalizing her in front of her children, Salazar then put Lopez in handcuffs and shoved her in the back of his cruiser — with the car turned off. It was a hot day and Lopez recalls sitting in the back of the cruiser for a half an hour sweating before having an asthma attack. “I could not breathe because he had all his windows rolled up, and it was very hot that day,” Lopez recalls. “I threw up 5 times because I was feeling so sick cuz I couldn’t breathe. I was left there alone without my asthma meds. About 30 minutes later, he took me to jail and told me he was charging me with Failure to ID.” After sitting in the jail all day, Lopez was let go with no charges. She’d been assaulted, kidnapped, and caged, for doing nothing wrong. Naturally, Salazar was never held accountable for the attack and in October, Lopez filed a lawsuit. Lopez is now permanently injured from torn ligaments in her shoulder. All for calling the police.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Yet another video that begins the moment she's arrested. What happened before that, Deckard? What led up to that, Deckard?
Well, she either injured her shoulder while resisting arrest or while fighting with her daughter. In either case, the city isn't responsible.
WHO escalated the situation???
It's HER HOUSE asshole! Typical cop apologist. Meaning she can kick out the cop so she can continue beating her daughter? And let's not forget -- SHE called the cops.
For help - not a beatdown. Thats anarchist for you. They wish to just disrupt and muddy the water so no one knows the truth. Deckard is like a broken clock. He is right twice while be wrong 100 times but uses that 2 times to claim he is right all the time.
After sitting in the jail all day, Lopez was let go with no charges. She’d been assaulted, kidnapped, and caged, for doing nothing wrong. She does look like she's resisting in the video. If it really was hot with the windows closed and she vomited inside then that must of left quite a stink behind in his police car. Too bad she didn't record the exchange between them, it would make it easier to take sides.
Everything you post is a one sided report from the same anti-cop website.
My comment too.
I get this feeling that the recording actually started earlier but was edited to begin when the cop dragged her outside. If I'm wrong then their timing was impeccable.
And so it came to pass that the Court said the plaintiff acted in violation of state law, the use of force was justified and not excessive, and Deputy Salazar had probable cause to arrest the plaintiff for interfering with his investigation. The Free Thought Project (TFTP) habitually lies, and Deckard habitually succumbs to an irresistible impulse to repeat TFTP bullshit. Lopez v. Harris County et al, USDC TXSD, Houston Div, MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER, GRANTING Defendant's Motion for SUMMARY JUDGMENT on all of the claims asserted against Defendants in the action. At 4: II. Summary judgment is authorized if the movant establishes that there is no genuine dispute about any material fact and the law entitles judgment. Fed. P. 56(c). At 16: At 24: For the reasons explained above the court concludes that defendants are entitled to summary judgment on all of the claims asserted against them in this action. Accordingly, Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Docket Entry No. 17 is GRANTED. SIGNED at Houston, Texas, this 7th day of October, 2016. /s/ SIM LAKE
If I'm wrong then their timing was impeccable. There is not enough here to conclude anything. I did find it suspicious that she says she called the police because her daughter hit her claiming she only wanted the police to talk to her daughter, then when the police get there she asks her daughter to get her(Mom's) ID in front of him. That sounds funny.
Apparently it is not. I do not go to church every time the doors are opened, but I love Jesus Christ. I am only human and fail Him daily. I believe Jesus is the Son of God, was born of a virgin, was crucified on a cross, died for my sins and rose from the dead and that He loves us dearly, and is faithful to forgive us of our sins. But He says that if you deny me in front of your friends I will deny you in front of my Father. Can I get an Amen!
Ownership is not the issue. When crimes are being committed inside a house, law enforcement may enter without a warrant. It's called "exigent circumstances".
The cop gets to the house and doesn't know who these people are or even if they belong in the house. So he asks the mom for her ID. She tells her daughter to get it. The cop, again, tells the mom to get it. Apparently she refuses. So things are now starting to go downhill. Then the cop asks the mom to step outside so he can talk to the daughter alone. The mom then tells the cop HE can step outside. Well, that's it.
The article is clear that the mother asked her "other daughter" to get her purse. Presumably that daughter was not the one with whom she had the altercation. Having bodycam recording would indeed be more valuable. Knowing what transpired prior to the arrest is important. Obviously, no one starts recording with a phone until after they see the need to. But the first order of business for the cop when responding to domestic dispute calls should not be to demand IDs from people. That should come last after the domestic dispute is resolved, assuming some report is warranted, or if there is some conflicting claims among the parties about who's who. For what reason did the cop demand ID? What would he do with that information?
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"Lopez is now permanently injured from torn ligaments in her shoulder."
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
"after this cop began to escalate the situation ... ‘You no what, if you want to talk to my daughter, you and her can step out and you can talk to her out there. This is my house.'”
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
WHO escalated the situation???
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
(Edited)
"It's HER HOUSE asshole!"
#6. To: misterwhite (#5)
SHE called the cops.
“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: misterwhite (#1)
Yet another video that begins the moment she's arrested. What happened before that, Deckard? What led up to that, Deckard?
#8. To: Deckard (#0)
“I could not breathe because he had all his windows rolled up, and it was very hot that day,” Lopez recalls. “I threw up 5 times because I was feeling so sick cuz I couldn’t breathe. I was left there alone without my asthma meds. About 30 minutes later, he took me to jail and told me he was charging me with Failure to ID.”
#9. To: Deckard (#0)
#10. To: misterwhite (#1)
Yet another video that begins the moment she's arrested.
#11. To: TrappedInMd (#10)
Yet another video that begins the moment she's arrested. My comment too.
#12. To: Deckard (#0)
Standard of Review
The video produced by plaintiff to the defendants shows not only that plaintiff failed to comply with Deputy Salazar's requests produce her identification, but also that she actively and physically resisted his attempt to take her into custody. 18 Moreover, the video shows that Deputy Salazar maintained a calm demeanor throughout the incident, and used only the force necessary to take the plaintiff into custody .
IV . Conclusions and Order
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
#13. To: misterwhite (#11)
I get this feeling that the recording actually started earlier but was edited to begin when the cop dragged her outside.
#14. To: misterwhite (#3)
This is my house.'”
#15. To: U don't know me (#14)
This is my house.'” Apparently it is not.
#16. To: TrappedInMd (#13)
#17. To: TrappedInMd (#13)
I did find it suspicious that she says she called the police because her daughter hit her claiming she only wanted the police to talk to her daughter, then when the police get there she asks her daughter to get her(Mom's) ID in front of him. That sounds funny.
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