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Title: Belligerent Cops Accuse Innocent Man of Breaking Into His Own House & Savagely Beat Him
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URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/vi ... ice-state/#JO0wKpju6OfPpLqJ.99
Published: Sep 28, 2016
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2016-09-29 09:48:26 by Deckard
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Views: 3454
Comments: 14
Greensboro, NC — In the American police state, sitting on your own porch in broad daylight, doing nothing untoward, could still earn a punch in the face and tackling to the ground by an ignorant, rogue cop — even if you’re fully compliant and respectful.
Dejuan Yourse found that out the hard way on June 17, when he waited for his mom to meet him at the Greensboro, North Carolina, house he’d intermittently shared with her for years. Because he did not have a current key to the home, Yourse’s mother told him to relax on the porch until she arrived.
Officer Travis Cole and an as-yet unidentified female officer, however, pulled up before she got there, and proceeded to harass, intimidate, insult, and ultimately brutalize Yourse — on his own front porch — for literally no reason.
Body camera footage revealed the male officer’s unjustified “disturbing” excessive force, and — although far too many similar incidents go unpunished — this time, video led to some semblance of justice.
Although the encounter begins cordially enough — the officers politely ask basic investigatory questions after being summoned to the scene by someone unfamiliar with Yourse who had assumed it was a case of breaking and entering — the tension escalates quickly, thanks to Cole’s assumption the man must be lying. Were it not for the costumes and badges of the police, the startling encounter would constitute pure thuggery.
“What are you doin’ breaking into your mom’s house?” the officer asks, only partly sarcastically.
“I’m not breaking in here,” Yourse replies, laughing.
Cole asks about the shovel next to the man, having been alerted to its presence by the unknown caller. Yourse explains he found it in the yard and then demonstrates how he pried open bottom of the automatic garage door to ensure the family dogs weren’t inside.
Intent to find trouble where none exists, Cole continues questioning the man, remarking, “you can understand what it looks like.”
“Yes, sir,” Yourse acknowledges repeatedly, adding he’d lived at the address for ten years.
Still, Cole persists — somehow convinced a burglar would park their own car in the driveway of the house they intend to rob, and then wait on the front porch in the middle of the day for its occupants to return.
To prove he isn’t lying, Yourse resorts to calling his mother, even handing the phone to Cole as it rings on speaker, to show him the number he dialed. Unfortunately and likely because she’s driving to meet her son, the call goes to voicemail.
Having lived in the home for a decade, Yourse appears stunned by the cop’s obvious skepticism about his belonging there, but still maintains a respectful tone and does not hesitate to provide information. When the call to his mother fails to alleviate the situation, Yourse tells the cop his neighbors would be more than happy to verify his identity — and even offers to contact them by phone.
There was a time where officers would perform due diligence when investigating a situation, and in this instance, with two officers on scene, one of the pair should have approached the neighbors Yourse repeatedly insists would verify he lived at that address.
Instead the pair take it upon themselves to assume the black man in the quiet neighborhood must be fabricating a tale. After quibbling over the pronunciation of the man’s unusual last name — and even though Yourse has been polite, compliant, and phenomenally restrained, given the circumstances — Cole inexplicably decides he’s had enough.
Poking Yourse with his finger, the thug cop firmly orders, “I said sit down.”
“Hey, man, why are you doing this?” Yourse asks, showing obvious frustration at the needless harassment, again adding the address matches that on his ID, which he doesn’t happen to have with him.
Cole then ironically tells the man he’s acting suspiciously ‘animated,’ which, of course, happened purely in response to the officer’s own rude escalation of the encounter.
Fed up, Yourse dials someone and asks them to come to the house to prove he lives there.
“Okay, off the phone,” Cole says, snatching the phone right out of the man’s hand.
“Hey, man, you can’t grab my phone like that!”
But it’s too late. Cole made the decision when he arrived on scene that — no matter what the black man on the front porch had to say — he didn’t belong and would be going to jail.
Video shows the officer physically grab Yourse in an attempt to place him in handcuffs — for no reason.
Repeatedly, the man asks the cop what he’s doing and tells him, rightly, he “can’t do this.”
Cole insists he’s resisting, but Yourse says again and again, “I am not resisting!”
As the female officer joins the struggling pair on Yourse’s front porch, Cole suddenly punches the man in the eye.
Pulling him from the chair and onto the bricks, Cole over and over again tells Yourse to stop resisting — even though it’s clear the physically imposing and highly perplexed man did not do so, even after being decked in the face.
After wrangling two pairs of cuffs onto Yourse’s wrists, the pair of costumed thugs drag him across his lawn toward a waiting patrol car, stopping at one point with the man face down.
“Sit right here! Do NOT fuckin’ move. Don’t say another damned word,” Cole bellows at the innocent man. “This is not working out, apparently.”
“Be an adult,” the female cop patronizingly adds.
“What did I do?” Yourse demands.
“Be an adult. Be an adult.”
In an astonishingly rare outcome, however, the body cam footage of Yourse’s encounter with the errant cops led to a bit of justice. To avoid being charged, Cole resigned in August — but, ordinarily, that would mean he’d be free to simply move along to another department to brutalize other innocent civilians.
“I was very concerned and disturbed about what I saw,” said Greensboro City Manager Jim Westmoreland last week after city officials viewed both officers’ body camera footage, local FOX8 reported.
“Well it’s horrible!” exclaimed City Councilman Mike Barber. “And I say this as a white male representative.
“If you get down to common decency and respect, that officer didn’t show it.”
Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott told FOX8, “I wouldn’t dare as a chief tell anyone this kinda thing never happens. We have around 900 employees, over 680 sworn police officers on any given day getting dozens of calls and interactions. But what they can be assured of is we take this very serious.”
On Monday, Greensboro City Council voted unanimously, 8 to 0, in favor of the permanent suspension of Cole’s law enforcement certification — cementing not only his resignation from the Greensboro force, but from any police work in any department. Mayor Nancy Vaughn apologized to Yourse, who attended the heated meeting, calling the incident “ugly.”
Many in attendance felt Cole — and the female officer — should be criminally charged. Yourse did not sustain serious injuries, despite the blow to his eye.
However, that permanent suspension might have, indeed, saved a life — Cole’s attack on Dejuan Yourse wasn’t his first time harassing and accosting innocent people.
According to FOX8, the former officer once arrested two brothers for public intoxication and blocking traffic — on an empty street — as well as resisting arrest.
One brother recorded the peaceful arrest on his cell phone, disproving Cole’s claims and eventually allowing charges to be dropped and forcing the officer to be suspended.
Considering the thuggery, needless harassment, and blatant rudeness, contempt, and pretentiousness these bully cops displayed on film, the Council’s decision to prohibit Travis Cole ever to work in law enforcement again might be the best outcome possible.
This is what sitting on your own porch waiting for mom, looks like in a police state:
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Either police commanders will get the cops under the control, or there will be a shift in our laws that will allow the police to be held personally responsible for this stuff.
People are not just going to take it.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"Fed up, Yourse dials someone and asks them to come to the house to prove he lives there."
Uh, no.
On the video he said, "Hey yo. Come to my mom ... f**kin' mom's house. The po-lice is over here. They harassin' me."
As far as the cops knew, the ex-con was calling for reinforcements. The cop told him to put his hands behind his back and he resisted. End of story.
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
The po pos made this an event, when it shouldn't have been.
#4. To: misterwhite (#2) (Edited)
As far as the cops knew, the ex-con was calling for reinforcements
Seriously?
You're insane.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#3)
This is similar to the incident of the Harvard professor who was hassled trying to break into his own house. He ended up having a "Beer Summit" with Obongo and the cop.
Maybe this dude will eventually have a beer summit with President Hillary?
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#6. To: Deckard (#4)
Seriously?
You're insane.
Listen to the audio. The cop says he's doing it for officer safety.
Who did he call, Deckard? Why did he call them? How many of this ex-con's homeboys are going to show up? What are they going to do?
#7. To: misterwhite (#2)
As far as the cops knew, the ex-con was calling for reinforcements.
He was calling for "reinforcements" because, as we all know, in the United States, the police are at war with the civilian population.
.... reinforcements???? sheesh....
#8. To: misterwhite (#6)
How many of this ex-con's homeboys
The only charge I have found online that he is an "ex-con" is coming from you.
Of course, to you he must be an "ex-con" otherwise the police would have left him alone.
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In an astonishingly rare outcome, however, the body cam footage of Yourse’s encounter with the errant cops led to a bit of justice. To avoid being charged, Cole resigned in August — but, ordinarily, that would mean he’d be free to simply move along to another department to brutalize other innocent civilians.
“I was very concerned and disturbed about what I saw,” said Greensboro City Manager Jim Westmoreland last week after city officials viewed both officers’ body camera footage, local FOX8 reported.
“Well it’s horrible!” exclaimed City Councilman Mike Barber. “And I say this as a white male representative.
“If you get down to common decency and respect, that officer didn’t show it.”
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#9. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#0)
Dejuan Yourse found that out the hard way on June 17, when he waited for his mom to meet him at the Greensboro, North Carolina, house he’d intermittently shared with her for years. Because he did not have a current key to the home, Yourse’s mother told him to relax on the porch until she arrived.
That sure is a tortured way to say Yourse was on the porch of his mother's house. On the video, Yourse says "I come here every day."
Officer Travis Cole and an as-yet unidentified female officer, however, pulled up before she got there, and proceeded to harass, intimidate, insult, and ultimately brutalize Yourse — on his own front porch — for literally no reason.
If he was on his front porch, his key would have opened the door.
Although the encounter begins cordially enough — the officers politely ask basic investigatory questions after being summoned to the scene by someone unfamiliar with Yourse who had assumed it was a case of breaking and entering — the tension escalates quickly, thanks to Cole’s assumption the man must be lying.
Sounds like a neighbor called in a suspected B&E by an unrecognized man.
There was a time where officers would perform due diligence when investigating a situation, and in this instance, with two officers on scene, one of the pair should have approached the neighbors Yourse repeatedly insists would verify he lived at that address.
It appears it was one of the neighbors who made the B&E report.
“What are you doin’ breaking into your mom’s house?” the officer asks, only partly sarcastically.“I’m not breaking in here,” Yourse replies, laughing.
Cole asks about the shovel next to the man, having been alerted to its presence by the unknown caller. Yourse explains he found it in the yard and then demonstrates how he pried open bottom of the automatic garage door to ensure the family dogs weren’t inside.
How could anyone not believe that explanation? Were the dogs deaf and dumb?
“Yes, sir,” Yourse acknowledges repeatedly, adding he’d lived at the address for ten years.
And he had no key, tried to pry open the garage door, and was reported for B&E by a neighbor who did not even recognize him.
“Hey, man, why are you doing this?” Yourse asks, showing obvious frustration at the needless harassment, again adding the address matches that on his ID, which he doesn’t happen to have with him.
So, the unrecognized man, with no key, who tried to pry open the garage door, assure the officer the address matched the ID that he did not have.
Fed up, Yourse dials someone and asks them to come to the house to prove he lives there.
Actually, as noted by misterwhite, "Hey yo. Come to my mom ... f**kin' mom's house. The po-lice is over here. They harassin' me."
“Okay, off the phone,” Cole says, snatching the phone right out of the man’s hand.“Hey, man, you can’t grab my phone like that!”
But it’s too late. Cole made the decision when he arrived on scene that — no matter what the black man on the front porch had to say — he didn’t belong and would be going to jail.
Video shows the officer physically grab Yourse in an attempt to place him in handcuffs — for no reason.
The officers could have reasonably believed he had called his posse for backup. The reason to put Yourse in cuffs was incident to arrest for suspicion of B&E.
DeJuan Antonio Yourse
http://bailbondcity.com/north_carolina/alamance-inmate-YOURSE/156365
http://atlaspublicrecords.com/name/dejuan-a-yourse/guilford-nc/0d09153fc3
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What Greensboro Didn't Tell You About Dejuan YourseI have it on good authority that as of this afternoon, Greensboro Police Captain James Hinson called Greensboro Police Officer CN Jackson-- seen in the video below-- demanding her immediate resignation under threat of being fired for her part in the incident you see in the video.
My question to Captain Hinson is: What in the hell could Ms Jackson have done to stop Officer Travis Cole from assaulting Dejuan Yourse, shoot one or the other of them?
The assault of Dejuan Yourse by Officer Travis Cole was wrong and the City of Greensboro has already paid Mr Yourse a cash settlement despite the fact that Mr Yourse's mother had a restraining order against her son to keep him away from her home. (Bet you hadn't read that anywhere else, had you?) There is said to be a 3rd body camera video of Mrs Yourse thanking Greensboro Police for not allowing her son to break into her home... again.
Yesterday, when I first posted this video, along with links to City Council videos, I was unaware of the restraining order and Mr Yourse's long criminal record. Not that any of that makes it okay to assault him but there's far more here than we are being told.
Captain Hinson's actions are demoralizing the entire Greensboro Police Department at a time when even our best and brightest police officers are rethinking their decisions to become police officers. And that we cannot afford.
Captain Hinson needs to explain himself and explain to the public why he is demanding officer Jackson leave the Greensboro Police Department.
Update: High Point is about to offer matching pay for lateral transfers. Winston-Salem is desperate for new cops, to the point they are recruiting out of New York City and GPD is already down about 50 officers. Hinson must go now.
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http://marc.ridgillrant.com/2016/09/enough-is-enoughagain.html'
Marc Ridgill RantPosted by Marc Ridgill at 10:04 PM
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Enough is Enough....AGAIN
On May 15th, 2015, I published an article titled "Enough is Enough". I will not rehash it other than to say this article is going to be eerily similar. Frankly, I had forgotten that I used that title but apparently some of you remembered it because it has been recently read again by several folks. Have things gotten better? NO; in fact much worse.
Our magical Mayor Nancy Vaughn has developed a new trick in which she turns criminals into victims. Fox 8's headline regarding the "disturbing" Body Worn Camera video had me concerned that I was about to witness a vicious assault on some poor, helpless and innocent African American man with absolutely no reason to even approach him. Media outlets charged that the incident was needlessly escalated by the Police Officers on scene and reported on potential riots in Greensboro. Of all the "incidents" of reported police abuse covered by the News and Record and the local TV stations, my first concern was "Did they actually get one right?"
So onto the Fox 8 website I go, just as I did in May 2015 to watch the latest reportedly "disturbing" video. What did I find; the same ridiculous accusation accompanied by no investigation of the facts surrounding the case. However, this isn't Fox 8's fault. The City of Greensboro, specifically the City Council is withholding the total facts of this case. Nancy Vaughn in her ridiculously embarrassing apology to Dejuan Yourse gave the impression that Police Officers approached an innocent man just minding his own business and not only harassed him and beat him but unlawfully arrested him. Of course, opportunistic agitator Nelson Johnson was right in the middle again, perpetuating his eternal hatred of the Greensboro Police Department and demanding that everybody be fired. Johnson is so desperate to have a "riot moment" here in Greensboro, I am sure he believed having this incident on the heels of Charlotte would finally fulfill his wish. Fortunately, his target audience appears to be just as apathetic as the 88.5% of registered voters that keep allowing these same ineffective Council members to be elected time and time again.
Of course, Johnson has a much bigger agenda item he is working on. He has a Chief of Police candidate in mind and has been working tirelessly to subvert Chief Wayne Scott. Johnson has continued to tell his members of the Beloved Community Center and anyone who will listen that he believes Chief Scott is racist. There is no evidence of that whatsoever and was born out of Johnson's frustration of not getting his way when Chief Scott was appointed. He even held a press conference about his disdain for the selection that ended with the chant "Greensboro, Ferguson, Ferguson, Greensboro". One city had absolutely nothing to do with the other, nor did Baltimore, New York or Charlotte. But that's how he operates and he has the Council and especially the City Manager scared to death. This Mayor and this Council should be ashamed of the way they have allowed the most notorious civil agitator in Greensboro's history to run roughshod over City Hall. In my opinion, Chief Scott should sue Johnson and make him prove that he is a racist. He can't prove it because IT IS NOT TRUE!!!
So who did Mayor Vaughn apologize to and what did she apologize for? Let me fill in the blanks.
Neighbors observed a subject using a shovel appearing to attempt prying open a garage door. Officers arrived and located the subject who decided to go and sit on the front porch with the shovel. He told them he was waiting on his mother and that he lived there. If you watched the video, you observed the conversation between both officers and our suspect as being cordial. Yes, he was a suspect; suspected of having a shovel and trying to pry open a door. He said that he did have the shovel under the garage door because he was "checking to see if his dog was in the garage". With a shovel? Is the dog deaf, mute with no sense of smell? Did the dog bark once during this incident?
He had no key. He was evasive about his name and even the pronunciation of his name. He said he had no ID though he later produced some document that had his information. As he was being lawfully and correctly detained, he became agitated and defensive; not because he was being detained but because he knew he was wanted, knew he was not supposed to be there and was concerned the officers were about to find out. He finally made a desperate attempt to call help but the officers intervened. A wrestling match ensued. The suspect shouted over and over "I am not resisting" as he proceeded to resist and struggle, fighting to keep from being handcuffed then continuing to resist after handcuffing so much that additional officers had to be called. The suspect had five felony warrants as well as having been banned from the residence he was trying to break into.
Was the video void of Officer mistakes? What we are seeing in these videos nationwide is use of profanity (especially the word "fuck") which quite frankly does nothing to enhance command presence and brings your professionalism down to the suspect's level. That plays into agitators hands. I cannot throw stones as I admittedly live in a glass house here. However, if we are going to use BWC's we are going to have to be more cognizant of our demeanor so that a contrast can be drawn between the bad behavior of the suspect and our professional behavior. Also, we cannot allow the suspect to trap us into arguments after the fact especially while the adrenaline is still pumping. There is no need to allow the suspect to try the case on the scene. Was there a "criminal" offense committed by either officer? Absolutely not and the District Attorney confirmed it. The ridiculous 8-0 vote by the Council to ask the District Attorney to reconsider charges on the officer is another example of the incompetence of this council to understand the real world of law enforcement and the total sell out of our Police Department and its' officers to the whims of Nelson Johnson.
More about the suspect who checks for dogs with shovels. Investigation shows 50 entries on his public criminal record since 2002. He has a couple of driving offenses (revoked license). He has been convicted of felony offenses regarding sales and possession of Cocaine. He has been charged with Auto Theft, Assault, Assault on a Female, Communicating Threats, numerous Felony Probation violations and even some Gran Jury indictments. The bulk of his criminal history is made up of crimes of deception; Forgery and Uttering, False Pretense, Possession of Stolen Goods, Financial Transaction Card Fraud, And yes, he has been charged and convicted of Resisting Arrest and Assault on a Government Official. In other words, he has a history of deception and feloniously stealing from others. This is who Nancy Vaughn apologized to as if he were some innocent, sweet unsuspecting citizen just enjoying his day on a front porch....with a shovel....that he used to check on a dog....by prying up a garage door....to a house that wasn't his.
Part of the problem with civilians depending on Body Worn Cameras is that they have no frame of reference in which to understand what they are seeing. This council has shown a propensity to take Nelson Johnson's word for everything, either out of ignorance or fear, and form their opinion (his opinion) on what he demands they see. I will guarantee you that none of the FACTS that I have just presented to you were even remotely considered by the council. As usual they made a decision and formed an opinion based on emotion and the bullying agenda of Nelson Johnson. He even convinced the owner of the house (his mother) to show up in the Council Chambers though she had banned her son from the property.
Did our crack elected civil servants even ask for all the information? You know our crack local newspaper investigative reporters didn't. Do they care? Of course not; police bashing is in style and Nelson Johnson is desperate for a national headline. He is desperate to get his man into the Chief's chair and is tired of waiting. He is running the city and no one on City Council seems to have the guts to put up even the least bit of resistance. 8-0.
Just as paying $50,000 to the Scales brothers without them even suing and giving $10,000 to an agitator who admitted fault in his law suit was asinine, our council continues to undermine our Police Department and it's ability to protect the entire community. They also have been allowed without challenge to dictate when charges are dropped though they have absolutely no legal authority to do so. Only one of them is even qualified to offer an opinion on criminal law. This council is no friend to the majority of Greensboro in general and the Greensboro Police Department and your officers in particular.
88.5%. That is how many of Greensboro's registered voters decided to have no say in how our city's business is conducted. Are we going to sit back and allow criminals to be treated as victims and police officers to be walked over for the political security of our Mayor and Council and appeasement of a notorious antagonizer? Does ANY of this resonate and at least make you wonder what else they may be hiding from you?
This situation is critical whether the local media or politicians admit it or not. Attrition is already occurring. Wake up; you are damn close to losing your Police Department. If Nelson Johnson gets his way, you will.
#10. To: nolu chan (#9)
"The suspect had five felony warrants"
The suspect had five felony warrants !?!
I knew there was something wrong. And the cop knew it, too. Good police work.
#11. To: nolu chan, Deckard (#9)
Belligerent Cops Accuse Innocent Man of Breaking Into His Own House & Savagely Beat Him
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...posted by Deckard.
#12. To: misterwhite (#2)
They harassin' me."
I think the proper Ebonics would be "They be harassin' me" or "They do be harassin' me." I forget how exactly they handle past and present tense.
Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
#13. To: nativist nationalist (#12)
"I think the proper Ebonics would be "They be harassin' me" or "They do be harassin' me." I forget how exactly they handle past and present tense."
I agree. But I transcribed it from the video, and dat bees what he sayd.
Oh, the times we live in where white people have to teach Ebonics to blacks.
#14. To: nolu chan (#9)
Good catch and a great post.
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