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Washington D.C. — A deeply disturbing video has surfaced this week showing Washington D.C. police walk up to a group of men, handcuff one of them, and proceed to sexually assault him. Despite the man’s repeated objections to the anal probing, the cop continued his assault.
To get a glimpse of what it looks like to endure police harassment on a daily basis, one needn’t look any further than the video below.
The Free Thought Project reached out to the person who uploaded the video and the Washington D.C. police, but we have yet to hear back from either party. However, one does not need to know every detail of this incident to know that everything about it is wrong.
As the video begins, police appear to be responding to several men drinking alcoholic beverages. This apparently gave them probable cause to then detain and search the men.
In the video, one of the officers makes a man spread his legs so he can search him. During the search, as clearly seen in the disturbing video, the officer begins ramming a finger into the man’s anus.
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The sexual assault is so glaring and painful that the victim actually risks a massive beating by slapping the cop’s hand away. Despite having found nothing and clearly knowing that he is hurting his victim, the cop continues.
During the second sexual assault, the officer makes sure his victim is less able to resist by placing him in handcuffs. After he restrained his victim, the cop moved back in to search for whatever it is he thought he would find in this man’s anus.
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“Stop fingering me bro!” the man yells as the cop continues the assault.
The entire time, the officer acts like his actions are just. All of the other officers around him simply watch as he sexually assaults a man in a fruitless effort to find an illegal substance.
As soon as the sexual assault is over, the cop removes the handcuffs and leaves like nothing happened.
If you wonder why so many people in the poor and minority communities don’t trust the police, this video explains it all.
The vileness of the state’s wicked and immoral war on drugs has reared its repugnant face once again. When will the rest of society see that face and wake up to this atrocity? When will the people say “enough is enough,” and that finger raping innocent people on the roadside in search of arbitrary substances is no longer welcome in our culture?
Sadly enough, cops do this sort of thing all the time. TFTP is constantly reporting on police officers sodomizing, raping, and otherwise violating innocent people in search of illicit substances.
Elijah Pontoon was one of those men who was traveling with his girlfriend before being pulled over by a South Carolina cop who had a hunch they had drugs. Mistaking Pontoon’s hemorrhoid for drugs, police then sodomized this innocent man in broad daylight in front of everyone.
Cops also tortured and sodomized a man for running through a stop sign in Lee County Florida. During the incident, which was captured on video, screams of agony can be heard echoing from the trees as the man’s arm is twisted almost to the breaking point and his rectum is invaded by the gloved hand of a drug war enforcer.
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A Michigan man was stopped for a suspended license last year. Cops, acting on a hunch, brought Kevin Campbell back to the jail where Allen Park Police Officer Daniel Mack would forcefully penetrate his anus. This was also caught on video.
Alaskan police are still fighting twin bills winding their way through state legislature — because the proposed legislation would make sexual contact with sex workers illegal.
Anchorage Police Deputy Chief Sean Case traveled to Juneau earlier this year to plead the need for officers to be able to touch sex workers during an investigation, or their cover — and, thus, the case — would be blown.
House Bill 112 and Senate Bill 73, Case claims, ‘are offensive to law enforcement officers and unnecessary because myriad laws and regulations already govern such conduct.’
HB 112 states, in part, “An offender commits the crime of sexual assault in the third degree if the offender … while acting as a peace officer in the state, engages in sexual penetration with a person with reckless disregard that the person is … the victim, witness, or perpetrator of a crime under investigation by the offender.”
“If we make that act (of touching) a misdemeanor we have absolutely no way of getting involved in that type of arrest,” Case told the Alaska Dispatch News.
Under the premise officers have only limited physical contact with prostitutes — such as touching a woman’s breast upon request when posing as a john — Case and his ilk around the nation feel stripping cops of that ability would be detrimental.
In actuality, however, an epidemic of police violence extends tragically into the world of sex work — officer rapes of prostitutes are far from uncommon. Indeed, sex workers will ‘cop-check’ a potential john — requesting contact they know to be illegal in order to determine if the person is an undercover officer, who would at least theoretically not break the law.
But officers frequently do have extensive sexual contact — up to, and including, sexual intercourse — with targets of prostitution investigations.
Maggie McNeill writes for Reason,
“The Alaska bills were introduced through the efforts of sex worker activists, who well know that in every place where sex work is criminalized or even semi-criminalized (and that includes all 50 American states) police and/or their paid informants routinely take sexual liberties ranging from groping to full intercourse with women they’re ‘investigating.’ Sometimes they claim this is necessary for ‘gathering evidence’ or (as in the Anchorage excuse above) part of the process of arresting the sex workers. Other times the activity somehow doesn’t make it into police reports at all. (Imagine that!) This is exactly why Alaskan activists want the contact prohibited.”
In short, the pompous, self-serving claim police must have what amounts to lascivious contact represents an abuse of power under the color of law — particularly when Case’s argument against the criminalizing legislation can be handily picked apart upon examination.
In the same interview with Alaska Dispatch News, Case asserted, “We are not out there to go out and find that street prostitute. What we’re interested in now is the trafficking.”
McNeill rightly notes the dangerous portent in that statement, as Case literally argues the need to be able to further assault victims of trafficking in the interest of solving sex and human trafficking crimes — and the deputy chief isn’t alone in that thinking, on both trafficking and low-level prostitution.
Across the United States, myriad police departments stridently contend the necessity of sexual contact during investigations.
In fact, the Michigan Senate only recently passed legislation backtracking a law in place since 1931 — which grants cops immunity for physical, sexual contact with sex workers in the course of performing an investigation — amending it to assign criminal charges to officers found guilty of that contact.
Michigan State Police, unlike their peers in Alaska, have not publicly supported or denounced the state’s Senate Bill 275, rather, as spokesperson Shannon Banner stated in an email to Vice,
“There’s not much to say about this legislation, as it does not impact us. This was not a tactic used by our troopers.”
But sex workers in Michigan beg to differ.
“Although publicly the state police have repeatedly said, ‘We never use that tactic,’ in the sex worker community, we know that’s false,” opined Crysta, a sex worker who runs the Michigan chapter of Sex Workers Outreach Program. “Officers have often had sex with sex workers in Michigan, but they just don’t report it.”
Worse, the proposed amendment does not clearly delineate officer behavior which should be deemed criminal — allowing for charges of “prostitution-related offenses” against cops whom sex workers allege “engaged in sexual penetration while in the course of his or her duties.”
Penetration in no way represents the gamut of ways in which a person can be sexually assaulted — meaning, the Michigan legislation lacks both the teeth to revoke officer immunity in such cases, as well as the spirit of protection for sex workers in which such a law should be enacted.
McNeill continues,
“In this respect, Michigan’s status quo closely resembles one in Hawaii which scandalized reporters and readers three years ago. The legislature tried to repeal a 1970s-era immunity clause for cops engage in prostitution investigations. The police union argued vociferously against the reform, just as they are doing now in Alaska, before eventually dropping their opposition in the face of a tide of popular condemnation. Yet despite that resemblance, most treatments of the Alaskan law don’t bother to mention the Hawaiian one.”
Broadly reported on the apparent epidemic of officers having coercive, investigative, and even forced sex with prostitutes, noting,
“A research study that [Dr. Alexandra Lutnick] conducted in San Francisco found that over 14 percent of sex workers said that they had been threatened with arrest unless they had sex with a police officer, and two percent had been arrested after having sex with an officer anyway.
“Astonishingly, it’s not specifically illegal for police officers in many states to have sex with sex workers during the course of sting operations.”
Lutnick lamented, “The reality of some police having sex with sex workers during the course of undercover operations has been in existence as long as selling sex has been a criminal offense.”
Sex worker activists and their supporters condemn the lack of protections and the dearth of accurate reporting on the issue — particularly as the corporate press largely repeats bloviating from police departments on the putative need for officer sexual contact.
Whether or not Alaska and Michigan, or any other state, will make strides to protect sex workers — who, after all, are citizens deserving of the same protections as ordinary citizens — remains to be seen.
In the interim, sex workers will be doubly victimized by a system protecting the authority of officers over their right not to be groped, assaulted, or raped.
“For police officers to go so far as to have sexual contact with people as a means to gather evidence and arrest them and charge them — it’s just not necessary,” argues Maxine Doogan, an advocate with Community United for Safety and Protection, an Alaska sex-worker advocacy group.
“It’s state-sponsored sexual assault.”
Johnson County, AR — Former deputy Robert Retford, with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department was arrested last November on charges of sexual assault. His alleged victim was apparently seeking help from the deputy when she said he beat her, raped her and defecated on her, and made her drink his urine. This month, Retford pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the woman and will not spend a single day in jail.
The blue privilege plea deal was negotiated last week and for admitting to the heinous crimes against his victim, he was only sentenced to six months probation — no jail.
The local news outlet stated they do not give out the names of alleged victims. However, this case was different. According to 40/29 News, in this case, the woman asked to be identified and wants everyone to know what she says the deputy did to her.
In their report on the incident, 40/29 referred to the victim as Shanna.
“This man raped me,” Shanna said.
In September 2016, police responded to a domestic dispute between Shanna and her boyfriend. According to Shanna, Retford offered to take her away from the situation, so she got in his car with him. Shanna told investigators that while the couple was in the car, Retford began fondling her crotch and then made her touch his crotch.
Despite the crotch touching in the car, Shanna said she was brought to a hotel in Clarksville that evening and dropped off by Retford who did not stay there. Instead, Retford gave the stranded and allegedly recently sexually assaulted victim his card and told her to call him in the morning.
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Apparently frozen with fear, Shanna stayed at the hotel and then called the deputy in the morning at which time Retford picked her up.
Shanna told police that Retford then brought her to a friend’s house where he proceeded to beat her with either a baton or flashlight.
“After that,” Shanna explained, “he made me drink his urine. He told me to enjoy being covered in his piss, that’s what he said.”
“I think he’s scary, it scares me just talking about him,” Shanna said.
In an interview with 40/29 News, Shanna told them she was on drugs when the assault happened and she does not remember if she told the deputy to stop.
“I don’t know, I guess I just kind of froze up,” Shanna said. “I don’t think I said anything, I don’t think I could speak, I don’t know.”
According to Johnson County Sheriff Larry Jones, Retford was immediately suspended in September after the incident was reported. However, he resigned just four days later, a move many police officers take when accused of a crime in a means to escape accountability — and escape accountability he did.
When the Free Thought Project reported this story last year, Retford was facing up to 10 years in prison. However, because the system of justice in America is broken, Retford is a free man.
Compare Retford’s case to a recent sentence handed down to a man in Louisiana for possessing cannabis and you’ll see just how corrupt and broken the system actually is. While Retford will avoid prison for beating, raping, and urinating on a woman, Gary Howard was convicted of “marijuana possession with intent to distribute” and a Caddo parish judge handed down an 18-year sentence — a year for each gram of cannabis.
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Police officers showing up to help people and assaulting them instead is a far too common occurrence as well as escaping with little to no punishment.
After an unnamed victim had been beaten by a male assailant late last year, who she had a restraining order against, she called the police. When police showed up, they arrested her attacker and left. However, hours later, Cpl. Benjamin Candelaria, 48, would return, cover his body camera, and sexually assault the victim, according to the arrest report.
Former state trooper, 36-year-old Samuel H. McHenry II managed to get off with minimal jail time after raping a car accident victim and leaving her stranded afterward.
Officer Micah Meurer responded to a call at a 22-year-old woman’s northwest Amarillo home last year when she was in distress. The officer was later fired after it was exposed that Meurer forced himself on her and raped her.
Karl Fields, a police officer from Chattanooga, Tennessee was accused of sexually harassing and stalking a rape victim that he claimed to be helping with a criminal case.
Fields reportedly stalked the woman, parking out in front of her house on numerous occasions, and contacting her on a frequent basis.
According to a lawsuit recently filed by the victim, Fields attempted to call her 73 times in one night, and would frequently text her, requesting nude photographs and making obscene demands.
South Carthage, TN — If a regular citizen carried a gun into a store and demanded the clerk take off her clothes, they would be in jail. If a regular citizen showed video of himself masturbating to a random person on the street, they would also be in jail. However, if a cop does these things, while on duty, and is even recorded, he can laugh about it in a courtroom and not only avoid jail — but keep his job.
When Elizabeth Restrepo, a convenience store clerk in South Carthage, was approached by Officer Frank Geisenhoffer who grabbed her and demanded she make him a video of her breasts, she had no idea where she could go to report it.
“Who was I gonna to call when he asked for a video — the police?” Restrepo asked. “He was the one who asked for it.”
For months, Geisenhoffer, the town pervert who happens to carry a badge and a gun, had been harassing Restrepo where she worked. It eventually became so overwhelming after he showed her a video of himself masturbating that Restrepo began secretly recording him to get proof so she could turn him in.
These recordings would be considered lewd if they were an average citizen off the street. However, when they come from a person who has the legal authority to kidnap, cage, and kill you, they are outright chilling.
Before Restrepo recorded Geisenhoffer, it was simply her word against a cop.
On the recording, Geisenhoffer grabs Restrepo’s hair and says quietly, “Make a picture… just barely covering your nipples… barely, but with your hands on your hips.”
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That was sexual assault.
“I could smell his breath,” Restrepo recalled of the sexual assault as she fought back tears. “I didn’t know what to do, but to stand there and let him do it and record him.”
Knowing his actions could land him in hot water, Geisenhoffer came back a few days later and made an awkward attempt at an apology.
“I did something to you here one night, and I felt bad about it,” he says on one of the recordings. “I didn’t touch you, but I almost did. I almost touched you — may have — and I felt bad about it.”
He then made the admission that Restrepo knew was proof of a crime.
“Dude, I can get myself off. You know. In fact, you’ve seen me get myself off — and I erased that too, by the way,” he says with a chuckle.
“I nearly jumped as high as the sky because I knew that, finally, I could prove that he really did show me that,” Restrepo recalled. And I thought, wow, finally got him. That’s what I thought.”
Restrepo then took the recording to Geisenhoffer’s boss, South Carthage Police Chief David Long. However, for physically grabbing a woman and demanding she show him her breasts, Geisenhoffer was given a two-week vacation and returned back to the job once more.
As News Channel 5 points out, this pervert with a badge has done this to other women. He even boasts in another recording about pressuring another woman to expose her genital area right in the middle of a courtroom with a judge present.
“So I texted her and said, ‘Spread your legs and let me see that p…y,” Geisenhoffer recounts during the recording.
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This crazed pervert admitted to texting a woman while she was on the witness stand to show him her genitals and he still has a job!
“An officer of the law can do these things and just walk away and still be getting up and putting that badge on – still?” Restrepo asked. “But yet if it was a person who didn’t have a badge, they would have done went to jail.”
However, Geisenhoffer, who’s been disciplined for similar actions at least eight times in the last nine years, including being demoted from sergeant back down to patrol, won’t go to jail, and he’ll be allowed back on the street to prey again.
Even the mayor backed up the pervert cop, noting that taking his badge away would have been too severe — as he needs to work two more years before he can retire.
Restrepo summed up the situation perfectly when she said Geisenhoffer is “not out here to protect anyone.”
“He’s out here to get him a piece — I mean, that’s what he’s doing,” she added.
The man alleges that the police officers used force during an ID check on Thursday, with one of them thrusting his baton into his anus. The alleged assault took place not in a vehicle or at the police station, but on the street, he said, as cited by AFP.
The man suffered severe wounds, underwent emergency surgery, and was advised by doctors to stay away from work for 60 days, sources close to the investigation told French media.
The local public prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the incident, to be carried out by the General Inspector of the National Police (IGPN).
The alleged assault took place in the commune of Aulnay-Sous-Bois and was captured on film by surveillance cameras belonging to local police, which shows a police officer delivering a horizontal blow with his baton to the buttocks of the young man after his pants “dropped by themselves,” AFP reported, citing a source close to the investigation.
Parts of the video from a surveillance camera, showing a dark-skinned man subdued by police at a distance, have been released by Le Parisien TV. A witness in the video report shows blood at the alleged site of the man’s interaction with police.
The young man was taken to the hospital. The doctor who examined him said he had suffered “a longitudinal wound in the anal canal” and “a section of the sphincter muscle.”
Arriving at the police station, the young man complained “of bleeding in the mouth and anus,” a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien.
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The officers, who deny the charges, have seen their initial detention period extended by 24 hours.
Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux has highlighted the need to “shed light on the extremely serious charges against these officials,” Le Parisien reported.
On Sunday, the charges against the police officers were changed to “voluntary violence.” The mayor of the commune, where the incident happened, was quick to condemn the prosecutors’ decision on his Facebook page.
“Today, the prosecutor’s office announces requalification of the charges to “voluntary violence” with aggravating circumstances,” Bruno Beschizza wrote. “I do not understand this requalification. We, the Aulnaysians [those living in Aulnay-Sous-Bois], can not understand this requalification. It is perceived as a misrepresentation of the truth.”
The post has collected dozens of comments with many praising the mayor for his stance, while others urging to wait and see for the results of the investigation. Some have been doubting the mayors sincerity, accusing him of making the statement only for the sake of appeasing “the young people who would be ready for a new ‘uprising’ in the suburbs.”
There have already been reports of tensions in the commune with a population of 3,000 people, with a car being burnt and an attempt to set a bus on fire Saturday night, according to a police source cited by Le Figaro.
Galveston, TX — A Galveston Independent School District police officer, whose job was to protect students as they attended class, was arrested this week for sexually assaulting a child — possibly more than one.
Officer Victor Lee Cervantes, 30, was arrested this week after his supervisors discovered that he was having inappropriate relationships with one or more students. On Wednesday, Cervantes was charged with sexual assault of a child, two counts of improper relationship between an educator and student and online solicitation of a minor.
Apparently, his abuse was so rampant that other ISD officers noticed it and reported him to their supervisors.
According to the school superintendent, Kelli Moulton, Cervantes has been placed on administrative leave following the accusations.
Police also said that Cervantes was accused of engaging in sexual acts with at least one female child on two separate occasions. He was also caught sending sexually explicit text messages to another child, according to police.
According to the Galveston Daily News, Cervantes has since resigned and the charges are under investigation, Moulton said.
“We take this matter very seriously, and we are deeply concerned that it appears something of this nature and this seriousness has happened at one of our schools and to one of our students,” Moulton said in a news release.
Cervantes is currently in jail while being held on a bond of $35,000.
According to the Daily News, Galveston ISD board of trustees honored Cervantes for saving a student’s life during a council meeting in 2012, according to a news release on the school district’s website.
Unfortunately, school cops betraying their trust and assaulting those they are tasked with protecting is an all too common occurrence. With such a massive dependency on police in public education, this is to be expected.
As the Free Thought Project previously reported, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education and published by NBC News, in the 2011-2012 school year, teachers called the cops on students a total of 31,961 times in the state of California alone, leading to 6,341 arrests.
At one California school district, in particular, East Side Union High School District in San Jose, police were called on students 1,745 times during the 2011-2012 school year. This one school called the police on students more than ten times a day!
Earlier this year, we reported on the video showing a San Antonio Independent School District police officer body slam a 12-year-old girl. In February, the Free Thought Project brought you the story of the Baltimore School cop who was seen beating a student who had done nothing wrong.
In fact, recent videos have revealed a myriad of school cops attacking unarmed students. In December, Officer Rigo Valles was cleared of any wrongdoing after grabbing a student by the neck and slamming him to the floor. In October, Richland County Deputy Ben Fields was fired after students recorded him flipping over a girl’s desk and dragging her across the floor. Oklahoma City Master Sgt. Thomas Jaha was charged with assault and battery in October as well, after repeatedly punching a student in the face for not having a hall pass.
Last November, prosecutors agreed to dismiss assault charges against Louisville Metro Police Officer Jonathan Hardin for punching a student in the face if the former officer completes anger management classes. Hardin still faces wanton endangerment, official misconduct, and assault charges for choking another student unconscious in a separate incident five days later. In separate incidents earlier this year, school cops have also been caught attacking an autistic boy, body-slamming a child, and raping nearly two dozen students.
And these are the ones the public knows about — How many more incidents, just like this one, go unreported and unpunished?
Layton, UT — On July 25, 2106, Amanda Houghton was hit from behind in her vehicle by another motorist — so, she called 911 — for help. However, help was the last thing she would receive. Instead, she was sexually assaulted and falsely arrested.
After the accident, Houghton was naturally shaken up as she’d just been hit by a car traveling at 30 mph as she was sitting still. Her car was totaled.
Instead of realizing that Houghton could be in a mild state of shock, officer G Schatzman mistook her nervousness for intoxication.
Again, instead of providing the help Houghton called for, Schatzman began to treat her as a criminal. According to KUTV, a police report by officer G Schatzman indicates Amanda exhibited odd behavior and gave “short quick answers to questions and she was speaking rapidly. Amanda was unable to stand still and seemed to be making jerky movements,” when he came into contact with her.
Schatzman, who just knew that this innocent woman was a dangerous criminal, issued a field sobriety test. Houghton failed the field sobriety test, but this is common, especially among those who’ve just been in a dramatic accident.
Houghton was then placed in handcuffs and arrested for DUI. “I was shocked. Who arrests a sober person for DUI?” she said.
After being falsely accused of DUI and placed in handcuffs, Schatzman began to grope his victim. In the video, we can clearly see Schatzman prodding at the innocent woman’s breasts.
When Houghton pulls away in a natural reaction to being sexually assaulted, Schatzman yanks her around like a ragdoll. This pulling away by Houghton would later lead to a charge of resisting arrest.
In Police State USA pulling away from your armed captor who’s groping your private parts is a punishable offense.
“Don’t touch me!” says Houghton after this cop fondled her breasts.
“I can search you,” says Schatzman, asserting his state-granted power to legally sexually assault women in the name of falsely arresting them.
Naturally, the police department is standing behind their officer’s decision to grope Houghton too.
Lt. Travis Lyman said his officer did the arrest by the book and had reasonable suspicion that Amanda was DUI. He said the search around her breasts is taught in the police academy. Male officers do it when a female officer is not around, according to KUTV.
“That’s standard practice. Anytime someone gets arrested they are going to be searched,” he said. However, police had no reason to arrest her.
After being kidnapped by the armed man who previously sexually assaulted her, Houghton was given a blood test by police. No drugs or alcohol were found in her system. Just for good measure, Houghton was brought to the hospital and given a second blood test — also negative.
Houghton has since retained counsel and is pursuing legal action against her aggressors. In spite of the blood test showing this cop had no reason to arrest her, the city is refusing to drop the charges.
Jonathan Nish, Houghton’s criminal defense attorney, is pushing for the charges to be dropped.
“I don’t’ believe they should have administered the field sobriety tests at all in this case,” he said.
Houghton also retained another attorney to help her seek legal action. Attorney Robert Sykes, who has put the City of Layton on notice that they are seeking legal action, said the officer had no basis for the DUI suspicion in the first place, and the search of her person was a violation of Houghton’s constitutional rights.
“I think this amounted to an unconstitutional search of a woman without a necessity to do so,” he said.
As you watch the video below, remember that this woman had committed no crime. She had harmed no one. And, she was the one who called the police for help.
