#florida cops

[reasoningdaily]

Two Florida cops — a lieutenant and a detective sergeant — allegedly handcuffed and jailed their 3-year-old son to “discipline” him for having difficulties with potty training.

Daytona Beach Shores police Lt. Michael Schoenbrod told a Department of Children and Families caseworker that he took the boy to headquarters in October and put him behind bars, the News-Journal reported, citing body-cam video.

The child was jailed twice, the first time on Oct. 5 and again the following day, when he was also cuffed, according to the outlet.

“He was crying. I was getting the response I expected from him,” Schoenbrod told the caseworker, the footage from a Volusia County sheriff’s deputy reportedly shows.

He said his son promised to never poop in his pants again after his time in the slammer.

Schoenbrod admitted that he also had resorted to the jail tactic about nine years ago, when he disciplined his then-4-year-old son for hitting a girl in preschool, the newspaper said. Lt. Michael Schoenbrod and Detective Sgt. Jessica Long, of the Daytona Beach Shores Police Department in Florida, allegedly placed their 3-year-old son in jail twice after he had potty-training accidents.Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety

“I took him to the jail and he sat there. And I watched him … and he was crying and everything, and to this day, if you mention, like, that incident, he’s just like, ‘I would never do that again.’ It was effective,” Schoenbrod told the caseworker.

“So that’s why I did it with this. He didn’t hit anybody, but I figured the same thing, discipline. And he didn’t want to go back, so …,” the lieutenant added, according to the report.

It was not immediately clear whether Schoenbrod and Detective Sgt. Jessica Long faced discipline, according to the News-Journal, which said it obtained copies of memos from Public Safety Director Michael Fowler informing the couple about a probe.

The top cop told the paper he would consult with the city attorney before commenting.

Schoenbrod and Long — who live together and have the child together — and their attorney, Michael Lambert, have not responded to the paper’s requests for comments. A Department of Children and Families rep acknowledged a request for comment but did not offer one.

“It’s just disgusting that somebody would drag our family through the mud like this,” Schoenbrod said in the video, while Long could be heard calling the investigation “insane,” the News-Journal reported. Detective Sgt. Jessica Long, the child’s mother, also reportedly faces a professional standards investigation.LinkedIn / Jessica Long

Meanwhile, City Clerk Cheri Schwab said a judge has sealed the records in a March 24 case that lists Schoenbrod “et al.” as plaintiffs and the State Attorney’s Office “et al.” as defendants.

The couple also filed a separate case against State Attorney R.J. Larizza on May 18, but the initial filing and several subsequent motions have been marked as confidential, according to the News-Journal.

Antonio Jaimes, an attorney with the Volusia County Clerk of Court’s Office, told the outlet that the cases “are confidential due to motions for confidentiality filed within the cases.”

But Michael Barfield, director of public access initiatives for the Florida Center for Government Accountability, argued that the internal-affairs documents should be made public.

“A pending motion to determine confidentiality of court records does not have any impact on the city’s IA (internal affairs) investigation,” Barfield told the News-Journal in an email.

“A party cannot make a record that is subject to production under Chapter 119 (of the state public records law) confidential by merely filing a lawsuit requesting confidentiality and then not setting a hearing on the motion,” he added.

A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman said she has forwarded a request from the paper about any completed investigation to the public records department for processing. The Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety building.City of Daytona Beach Shores

Former city attorney Lonnie Groot also has reportedly sought records about any officer placing a child in a jail cell, as well as investigations into “alleged child abuse by an officer.”

“This whole matter just does not pass the basic smell test from a transparency and governmental openness perspective,” he wrote City Attorney Becky Vose, the outlet said.

And a former South Daytona police officer who describes himself as a civil-rights activist said that when he requested the findings of the professional standards probe, he was provided an estimate of $3,398.40 − about 40 hours of work at $84.96 per hour — to review and redact the documents. 

“It’s a severe matter of public interest when you have strong allegations of that kind,” Dickinson told the paper. “Rumors are being brought to you by fellow law enforcement … and you want to make sure the stuff they’re saying isn’t true.”

[chaos0pikachu]

the chekhov's gun of this show is actually when is Tonkla gonna get fucked raw like he's been asking who's willing to step up to give the dick he deserves

[thingstrumperssay]

An acorn fell on the police car, so the police man emptied his gun towards the unarmed, handcuffed black man that was sitting in the back of the cruiser.

The man in the car didn't get physically hurt, because, y'know, the car's bulletproof. (Or the cop's a horrible shot.) The cop claimed to have been shot, which... Uh... I guess the squirrels are really after him?

This is who they're giving guns and authority to.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Police in Florida arrested a child for sharing this meme.

Share to become a criminal in the state of Florida

[whitesinhistory]

On August 19, 1916, a mob of white people in Alachua County, Florida, lynched five Black individuals—Andrew McHenry, Bert Dennis, John Haskins, Mary Dennis, and Stella Young—while a Black man named James Dennis was also killed nearby by a “sheriff’s posse.” On the same day, almost 1,000 miles away in Navarro County, Texas, a mob of 200 white people lynched Edward Lang, a 21-year-old Black man. These incidents of racial terror violence occurred just months before the U.S. entered World War I to fight on behalf of the principles of democracy and freedom.

On August 18, in Jonesville, Florida, a Black man by the name of Boisey Long was accused of murdering the local constable. When Mr. Long went missing, word spread that four Black men—Andrew McHenry, Bert Dennis, James Dennis, and John Haskins—and two Black women—Mary Dennis and Stella Young—had allegedly aided Mr. Long in an escape. On Saturday, August 19, a mob of white people captured Andrew McHenry, Bert Dennis, John Haskins, Mary Dennis, and Stella Young, and lynched them. According to reports, on the same day James Dennis was captured and killed by a “sheriff’s posse.”

As was the case here, and typical of the era, white people sought to maintain white supremacy and dominance by instilling fear in the entire Black community through brutal violence that was often unpredictable and arbitrary. With no reported evidence connecting these men and women to the alleged crime, the white mob’s focus clearly expanded beyond a specific person accused of an offense and instead targeted members of the wider Black community, instilling community-wide fear.

Nearly 1,000 miles away, on the same day, a 21-year-old Black man named Edward Lang was accused of assaulting a young white woman near the town of Rice in Navarro County, Texas. A mob of white people captured Mr. Lang four miles from where the alleged attack took place and handed him over to the sheriff. However, before Mr. Lang could be tried, on that same day, an unmasked and armed mob of 200 white farmers seized Mr. Lang from the jail and hanged him from a telephone pole.

During this era, almost 25% of lynchings involved allegations of inappropriate behavior between a Black man and a white woman that was often characterized as "assault."

Lynchings and racial terror during this era reinforced racial hierarchy and fostered lawlessness and disregard for constitutional guarantees of equal protection. Despite the tragedy of this violence, hundreds of thousands of Black people fought to defend the U.S. when it was threatened during World War I.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Enter American culture-war nonsense.

In Texas, they want to ban websites that explain how to get an abortion, as well as sites that ship the pills for a medication abortion. In Florida, they want to force bloggers who write about the state government to pay a fee and register with the state, prohibiting anonymous commentary about the state legislature and its actions. Florida has also required that online providers cease permitting their users to display pronouns other than the ones they were assigned at birth. Of course, online services have no way to know what pronouns any of their users were assigned at birth, so sites like Github are complying with Florida law by simply not displaying pronouns to Floridian users.

The biggest barrier to enforcing these laws is the US Constitution, which these laws assuredly violate. It’s entirely possible that a lower court will uphold these laws. It’s conceivable that an appeals court will do so as well. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the current Supreme Court — illegitimately stacked with far-right partisan hacks lacking any shred of principle — will follow suit.

But it’s far from a sure thing. It’s not even clear whether the legislatures that passed these laws and the governors who signed them want them to be enforced. After all, if these policies do come into force, large numbers of corporations are likely to shutter their offices and move out of state (especially in Florida, an increasingly economic irrelevance for any business not engaged in selling soon-to-be-drowned condos and/or shitcoins).

For these cynical political operators, having their laws overturned by “activist judges” lets them eat their cake and have it too — they don’t have to alienate the business lobby, and they get a steady supply of red meat for their cruel base, driving voter turnout and donations from frightened bigots.

-They’re still trying to ban cryptography 

[thischarmingmandalorian]

Brick Wall Bobby ❤️

[oldshowbiz]

1969.

Janis Joplin was arrested for using the F-word in Tampa, Florida.

[misery-has-no-company-now]

Thinking about the "He's the feds, man. Don't answer anything until your lawyer gets here." in Alaska Joins the Table part 1

Florida definitely taught Alaska how to run and hide from the cops

[angelx1992]

[averysmolkirbo]

I NEED TO TELL YALL ABOUT THIS I HAVENT STOPPED LAUGHING YET

Matthew Pancake (yes pancake is his LEGAL last name) broke into a pet store in ohio (suprised it wasnt florida tbh), wearing a leopard onesie, and freed a bunch of animals, including 4 gerbils which he proceeded to put into the leg of his pants to steal. he was later found by police sleeping on a bench (gerbils still in pants) and arrested whilst the police said 'Stop in the name of the law, Mr. Pancake!!!' 'get on the ground mr pancake!!' etc. suprised they kept their composure tbh. i could not have. The police then find the gerbils on his person (they were fine) and proceed to ask the funniest and most batshit insane question ive ever heard: 'For your own safety, do you have any gerbils INSIDE you right now, Mr. Pancake?' (thankfully all live animals were kept external)

what is this ace attorney level of goofiness. like. how. man's gonna need an ace attorney for sure. but like everytime you think this shit cant get any funnier, it does. it keeps getting funnier!! there are levels of silly that have perviously been thought to be impossible here. this is a silly world record. And although mr pancake is ohioan this would make an excellent florida man headline:

"Florida Man Breaks Into Pet Store In Leopard-print Onesie, Frees Animals, And Puts 4 Gerbils in Pants To Steal Them"

[nando161mando]

ACAB 🤦🏽

[felixsramen]

I'm going to be honest for a second. Cops in Florida do nothing for the mixed kids. Why does a white boy go around hitting a mixed kid (my little cousin) with a chain multiple times and saying and I quote "go back to the field n word with a hard r" have no consequences. Then when my cousin (the mixed kid) hits him back with a stick on the leg and he runs home to his mom she comes outside yelling. She then asked who is the black boy? Talking about my cousin. My aunt told me the cops would do nothing just like when a big group of white kids jumped my other cousin bc she was mixed. They did nothing then and when they came here they did nothing again. I hoped filing a complaint would help but it didn't. One of the officers was a black lady and that may not be significant but she asked why would we call? This is an emergency line. Maybe I'm being overdramatic but Florida cops help nothing. What do you guys think? Am I being overdramatic?

[ukdailymail]

Florida cops find missing elderly woman with Alzheimer's in swamp

[dougielombax]

What kind of IDIOT thinks that a falling acorn is somehow the same as the sound of gunfire????!!!!!!!!

Fucking shitpig gunfucking morons!

Stupid creatures!

Thoughtless, low brow piggy-eyed homunculi with no conversation and less intelligence than whelks! (WHELKS!!!)

It sounds like something these two fucking dimwits would do!

Fucking MORONS!

Fucking hell!

“tHEy SHOulD hAvE coMpLieD¡”

“iT iSn’T EAsy beiNG A CoP!”

Oh PIFFLE!!!!

[aro-screams-into-the-void]

He just wants to be loved!!