WATCH: Cop Executes Mentally Ill Man ‘Armed’ with a Pen, 5 Seconds After Exiting His Patrol Car

A judge ruled in favor of an officer who lied about the details of a shooting in which he killed an unarmed man, 5 seconds after exiting his patrol car.

WATCH: Citizens Call Out Cop for Breaking the Rules And All Hell Breaks Loose

San Diego, CA — Dramatic footage, taken Tuesday from Chicano Park in San Diego, shows what happens when a police officer is called out for driving his motorcycle into a park to harass citizens.

According to John Vazquez, the person who took the video, there have been reports of San Diego motorcycle cops parking in Chicano Park, racially profiling people and needlessly harassing them.

Vazquez, who reportedly sits on the board that runs the park, began filming when citizens approached officer Flores for violating an agreement not to ride into the park. Instead of de-escalating the situation, Flores became belligerent, puffed out his chest and appeared to want a fight. “I don’t back up!” he barks as he attempted to intimidate the citizens.

When the man fails to be intimidated, Flores assaults him by shoving him backward and then pulls out his taser. Nobody is armed except for Flores and his partner and the only person escalating the situation is Flores.

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To illustrate how needless Flores’ violent escalation was, the other officer from the CHP never pulled out his taser and remained calm the entire time. However, Flores appeared to be on a power trip.

When the taser comes out, Vazquez then demands Flores holster his weapon. After several verbal demands to holster the taser, Flores finally complies. The entire time, the sirens in the background—Flores’ backup—get closer.

When Vazquez tried to reason with the officer and inform him that riding his motorcycle into the park was a violation of their previous agreement, the officer’s ego comes into full swing.

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“You are violating the agreement that Chicano Park has with the San Diego police department not to ride their motorcycles into the park,” says Vazquez.

“I do whatever I want to! I can do whatever I want to!” replies Flores like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum on the playground. “I do what I want!”

Finally, as other officers arrive, they do what Flores failed to do and de-escalate the situation. Had cameras not been on the officers, this scene could’ve played out far differently.

To highlight how different this situation could’ve unfolded, we can look at Flores’ past. In his career, Flores has been involved in two separate shooting deaths.

In response to the chaotic scene captured on video, local San Diego media outlet, Onus News Service made a powerful point. “In the days before video cameras, every person there would have been beaten and then arrested for assault on a police officer. Today, with video cameras, the police still commit assault but at least no one was beaten and arrested and from what I see a lawsuit will follow. Of course, nothing with happen to the cop for his crimes. Of course none of these so-called “good cops” stepped in to stop the bad cop.”

Below is a video showing what happens when hot-tempered cops are called out for corruption.

Vazquez posted the video with the following description:

“Everyone in or around Barrio Logan beware. In Chicano park There has been reports of a motorcycle police officer that will park on Chicano park. Being very unprofessional by Racial profiling, and harassing people. Once we went to the park recording, this happened…”

VIDEO: Undercover Cop Handcuffs Innocent Man, Steals All of His Cash, Then Tells Him to Get Lost

San Diego, CA — A man is saying San Diego Police robbed him of nearly $800 after they stopped, handcuffed and frisked him outside of a local bar early Saturday morning. However, police claim that they have no idea what happened to his money.

Bret Checketts detailed the incident in a Facebook post:

“They put their hands on me and grappled me, took my wallet and went through it, of which $780 of cash was taken from my wallet. I’m unable to pay my rent and have no idea when it will be returned to me if it will be. I was put in hand cuffs for over 20 minutes with no reason given, once they went through my whole wallet , felt me up one side and down the other, went through my pockets and wrote down my drivers license info on a police report, they released me and would not tell me what the Fuck just happened.”

Checketts had the wherewithal to record the incident, at least until his phone’s memory maxed out and stopped recording. But the interaction was long enough to reveal the officers were less than forthcoming with their reasoning for detaining Checketts.

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One by one, Checketts took photos of all of the officers involved. They said they could not comment on their reasons for stopping him but told his friends he “matched the description” of a suspect they were looking for at the time.

Checketts identified the officers and described what he was doing in the moments leading up to what many of his friends are now calling legalized theft:

“San Diego Police Officer Daniel Riis, badge #6474, and Officer Robert Stinson felt it acceptable to detain me for no reason this morning. I had 2 Officers ask to talk to me while I was talking to 2 girls, friends of mine in town from sacramento, while minding my own business and doing nothing wrong.”

The young man told The Free Thought Project that he is innocent of any wrongdoing and added that he was never charged. He claimed he was simply stopped, detained, handcuffed, and had the cash taken from his wallet.

“No law broken. No reason for handcuffing me. No explanation whatsoever. This is asanine. Unacceptable. Untolerable. I want answers! I want an apology. The officers involved need to be suspended. Other parties took video of the whole incident. I will be launching an investigation and lawsuit. This will be made right!”

Checketts also questioned how what happened to him was legal if he had not been guilty of any wrongdoing.

“If I have done absolutely nothing wrong, how can police handcuff me, go through my person, take my money and give me no explanation. I called PD and was told by a supervisor sitting at his desk with his computer that he had no information to offer me and he hung up on me.”

He said his friends explained that what happened to him is called “civil asset forfeiture,” and is essentially legal theft by police of citizens’ property. As TFTP has reported, civil asset forfeiture is now responsible for stealing more possessions belonging to citizens than all US robberies combined.

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Still, Checketts said he does not understand how a police force can get away with it. We spoke to Checketts by phone, and he said he did not receive any paperwork from the officers following his encounter with them. Even after being released from handcuffs, he said “they still wouldn’t give me any information.”

He said he did speak with one of the plainclothes officers who detained him. “I should have received a call from the Lieutenant or someone who was over him not one of the detaining officers,” he said, noting that he found it completely inappropriate.

Checketts said he is going to file an official complaint soon. He told TFTP he doubts he fits any description of a “suspect” police were looking for that night. “If you look at me, you can know I wasn’t that person,” he insisted. “I have no criminal record whatsoever so they have no reason to put me in detainment.”

“I only have one eye. You probably don’t come in contact with someone who only has one eye. So, I’m sure if you had an accurate description, you’d know if it were me or not.”

Checketts says he doesn’t have enough money to even pay his rent now. His roommate had given him the money to pay the rent and said he forgot to deposit the money after work. That is why he says he had so much money with him when police contacted him. He does not know how he could possibly sue them, even though he would like to.

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“I didn’t have an eye on what they were doing. I tried turning around a couple of times to find out what was going on and no one would give me any information,” Checketts said.

He also said the police department called him and asked, “Which officer took your money?” to which he responded, “I’d really like to know that but I was detained and could not tell you which one did it.”

“I hope these officers get training or possibly suspension because they simply had no reason to put me in handcuffs,” Checketts concluded.

Horrifying Video Shows Cops Hold Handcuffed Man Down as K9 Rips Him to Shreds

San Diego, CA — An extremely graphic and disturbing video was uploaded to Facebook this week showing San Diego police officers allowing a K9 to maul a handcuffed man.

The horrifying video begins as the man is on the ground in handcuffs. Instead of the officers attempting to get the dog off the man, two of them hold him down as the K9 tears into his forearm.

No commands to get the K9 to release are given and there is absolutely no reason to even have the dog near him.

Exactly why police were apprehending the man remains unclear as The Free Thought Project’s calls to the San Diego police department have not been returned. However, it doesn’t matter what the man did prior to being mauled by the K9 as he was in handcuffs, face down on the ground, and posed absolutely no threat to anyone.

The video, taken and uploaded by Facebook user Angel Nunez, was posted with the following description.

So today at work I was able to capture this go down. This K-9 officer had no control of his K-9. There is something definitely wrong with this picture. The officer doesn’t seem to have the proper training. Also that dog is not we’ll trained……

Nunez also posted another video that showed a bit of what happened prior to the man being put into handcuffs.

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In the brief first video, the man clearly appears to have some mental issues. He is unarmed, wearing nothing but shorts, and walking in the street, when the officer unleashes the dog on him.

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“Show me your hands! Show me your hands!” screams the officer as his K9 brings the man to the ground.

Amazingly enough, the man manages to show one hand as the K9 tears into his wrist.

“Snap clip I captured……clearly you hear the Officer scream a command in a distinctive language at the K-9. why was the same command not giving to release the suspect????” Nunez wrote to Facebook.

Nunez brings up a good point. the officer was surely able to command his dog to attack, however, he was entirely inept at getting him to stop.

As the next video begins, the man is already subdued, laying on the ground and, for no good reason, the dog is biting his arm.

His screams of agony are hard to bare.

“I’m comfortable. I’m comfortable,” the shirtless, shoeless man repeated over and over as the cop refused to give the dog the release command.

The scene is so horrifying that onlookers begin yelling at the officers to get their K9 under control. Instead of helping to remove the K9 from the man’s arm, the other officers held him down and yelled at the witnesses to “get back!”

If and when the Free Thought Project hears back from the San Diego Police Department, we will update this story as necessary.

WARNING: Extremely graphic video.

As TFTP has reported before, the San Diego police department has a brutal history involving their K9s.

A gruesome body cam was released in December showing cops needlessly and sadistically sic a K9 on an unarmed naked man who posed absolutely zero threat to the half-dozen cops who had him completely surrounded.

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The incident happened in August of 2015, however, the body camera footage was kept secret for over a year. If you have the strength to watch the entire video, you will know exactly why it was kept a secret.

At 8:30 that August morning, police received a phone call about a naked man walking through a canyon. This man had not attempted to harm anyone and the only ‘crime’ he’d committed when police arrived was to simply be naked.

The man, a 25-year-old businessman who was in San Diego for a convention, admitted that he ended up naked in the canyon after a particularly hard night of partying. However, when seeing how police reacted upon confronting the man, you would think he was a serial child murderer.

What these two videos illustrate is the dire lack of training within the San Diego police department. These videos are evidence enough that something needs to happen immediately.

WATCH: Unarmed Man Tasered Repeatedly by Cops Until He Dies

San Diego, CA — Mark Roshawn Adkins, 54, of Lemon Grove died last week, hours after a confrontation with San Diego police officers in which he was tasered repeatedly. Cellphone footage captured Adkins last moments alive.

According to police, deputies were responding to several calls of a man jumping fences in backyards and attempting to gain entry into townhomes. When police arrived on the scene, they found Adkins in a common patio area and demanded he get on the ground.

According to police Adkins refused to comply. The department issued a statement on what happened next.

“Both deputies deployed their Department issued Tasers, striking the suspect. The suspect went to the ground but continued to ignore commands to comply and attempted to stand again. A second round of Taser was deployed with the same minimal effect.”

“On your stomach. I will zap you again,” one deputy said in the video.

As NBC 7 reports, Paul Brown, a resident who recorded the incident on his cell phone, told NBC 7 Monday that he and his wife heard the commotion and he came outside to see what was going on.

“We were in the bedroom and at first I thought it was the TV and she said ‘No, that’s not the TV.’ So I looked out the window and I saw the sheriff’s and so I said ‘Let me get my phone and go and see what’s going on."” Brown said.

Brown reported hearing the tasers deploy at least three times. After police put Adkins in handcuffs, the paramedics were called.

“He seemed like he was okay,” Brown added. “He was still moving.”

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However, despite moving once in the handcuffs, Adkins became entirely unresponsive shortly after. Two hours later he was dead.

The incident is now under a use of force investigation. The cause of death has yet to be released. However, after watching the video, one can come to their own conclusions.

“The results of the autopsy have not been completed and are pending toxicology results,” Lt. Kenneth Nelson said in a written news release.

To add further controversy to Adkins death, his wife Collette said he wasn’t the man police were looking for. He had no reason to jump the fences because he lived in the neighborhood.

“I don’t think so. That’s a lie,” said Mark’s widow Collette Adkins. “There’s no reason for him to get into anybody’s home. He got killed right on his own street.”

Collette has had to check herself into Scripps Mercy Hospital because of the stress building up after watching her husband die on national television after being tasered by cops.

“To watch your TV and see your husband get killed on nationwide TV by a Taser I can’t take it,” she said. “It’s too much for me.”

According to NBC 7, the 54-year-old, unemployed father attended Lincoln High. Friends say he had his struggles. He was also dealing with mental health issues, according to family members.

“If a person is in a state of mind where they can’t comply, for [deputies] to electrocute them is not the answer,” said Collette, who now vows her husband’s death will not be in vain.

“I’m also praying for justice to be served in this case,” she said.

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Sadly, police officers tasering people to death is not an isolated incident. Also, when their actions do result in the death of another human, they are rarely held accountable.

On November 20th, 2015, sheriff deputies in Coweta County, Georgia were summoned to help subdue a man having a psychotic breakdown. Instead of helping him, they tasered him to death. In October 2016, the Coweta district attorney’s office announced their decision to not press charges against the officers responsible.

The death of 32-year-old Chase Sherman was captured on video, yet neither of the cops was charged.

On February 3rd, 2015, Natasha McKenna, 37, was shocked four times with 50,000 volts while her hands were cuffed behind her back, her legs in shackles, and wearing a mesh mask.

The multiple electric shocks stopped her heart and her breathing. She was taken to Fairfax hospital, however, it was too late. McKenna was declared brain dead and removed from life support several days later.

None of the officers involved in McKenna’s death were charged.

On March 3rd, 2015, Ruth Temple called out Oklahoma police officers after her boyfriend started acting strangely. That 9-1-1 Call would eventually lead to Temple’s boyfriend, Darrell Gatewood’s death.

A clearly mentally distraught Gatewood was then dragged into the street and pepper sprayed and tasered until he died.

Sadly, Mark Adkins now becomes a name on this ever-increasing list.

Police Kill 15yo Boy in School Parking Lot for Brandishing BB Gun

San Diego, CA — A 15-year-old boy is dead following an interaction with San Diego police Saturday morning. Police, responding to a call for a welfare check on the boy, shot and killed him for having a BB gun.

To add mystery to this tragedy, according to San Diego Police Department (SDPD) acting Homicide Capt. Mike Holden, the 15-year-old boy called police asking officers to conduct a welfare check on a minor — himself — near Torrey Pines High School (TPHS) in Carmel Valley just before 3:30 a.m.

“[In] our preliminary investigation, we believe that the subject that was shot is the person who actually called to check the welfare [of the minor]. We believe that he actually called and spoke about himself in the third person,” Holden explained, according to NBC 7. “It was a very general ‘check the welfare’ call.”

“It was a phone call that ‘there’s a male juvenile in front of the school, it appears someone should check on him,"” Holden added.

As NBC 7 reports:

Two officers — including an officer specifically trained to deal with juveniles — were the first to arrive at the parking lot at the front entrance of the school. There, they spotted the teenager standing in the lot.

Holden said that as the officers got out of their patrol car, the teenager pulled a gun out of his waistband “and pointed it directly at one of the officers.”

Both officers drew their service weapons while repeatedly ordering the teenager to drop his weapon. Holden said the teen refused to drop the weapon and, instead, “continued to point the handgun at the one officer and then began walking towards the same officer.”

According to the police account, officers again told the boy to drop his weapon. At this point, according to police, the officers feared for their safety and began firing, striking the teen “a number of times.”

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“Everyone’s in shock and everyone’s surprised,” Torrey Pines junior Hayder Alamar told NBC 7. “Right when I woke up I got a lot of text messages from my friends saying ‘did you hear about the shooting at the school?’ And at first I didn’t believe it.”

“I am saddened to report that the 15-year-old boy who was killed was a student at our school. Law enforcement has not released the name of the young man, but our hearts go out to the student, his family, and his friends. The details of the situation are still unfolding, but whatever they are, this event is very traumatic for our students, staff, families, and community.”

San Diego police officers are equipped with body cameras, and the officers who shot the boy were wearing them. According to Holden, video of the shooting exists but has been impounded as evidence in the investigation.

One day before the shooting, the San Diego District Attorney released three body camera videos of prior police shootings. Whether or not this video will be released, however, remains to be seen.

When hearing the details of this incident, one cannot help but be reminded of the tragic events surrounding the killing of Tamir Rice.

In that case, the Cleveland police officer who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice told a colleague he had “no choice,” as the boy was reaching for a toy gun. Troubled cop Timothy Loehmann jumped out of the police vehicle and almost immediately unloaded two shots, one fatally wounding the 12-year-old boy.

Police told the public that Tamir Rice left Loehmann with no other options. However, surveillance footage later proved to invalidate that claim. Will the same thing happen with the body camera footage from this shooting?

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WATCH: Cop Kills Unarmed Mentally Ill Man for Holding an E-Cig — No Charges

San Diego, CA — (RT) The San Diego County police officer who fatally shot a distressed black man who was “acting erratically” and holding a vape pen that police mistook for weapon will not be charged with a crime, the county district attorney has announced.

Law enforcement officers are required to make “split-second decisions,” San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Tuesday in announcing that Richard Gonsalves, a police officer in El Cajon, California, acted justifiably when he shot and killed Alfred Olango on September 27, 2016. Gonsalves will not face criminal charges, Dumanis said.

“The law recognizes police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions in circumstances that are tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving,” Dumanis said at a press conference, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “As prosecutors we have an ethical duty to follow the law and only charge individuals when we have proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The only reasonable conclusion was the officer’s actions were justified.”

The fatal shooting of Ugandan refugee Olango, 38, was captured on video by an onlooker and a business surveillance camera. The footage was released to the public days later, triggering protests in the San Diego suburb. A demonstration over the district attorney’s announcement is planned for Monday, January 16.

The day of the shooting, Olango’s sister Lucy had called 911 three times in attempt to ask for help in corralling her brother, who was distraught over the recent death of his best friend, she said. That morning, Olango arrived at his sister’s home in a state of panic and paranoia, according to Dumanis’ account of the police investigation of events that led to the shooting. He had not slept in two days, he told his sister. Tests would later reveal that he had cocaine and alcohol in his system at the time of his death.

His sister called 911, telling the dispatcher that she needed assistance in getting him to a mental health facility. She noted that he did not have a weapon on him. Yet officers never arrived, and the pair separately left her apartment. On her drive to work, she saw him walking through traffic, prompting her to call 911 again. She called a third time 17 minutes later, according to investigators.

Minutes later, Gonsalves and Officer Josh McDaniel approached Olango behind a taco shop. They had not been informed by 911 dispatchers that, according to his sister, Olango did not have a weapon, investigators said. They were told that Olango was mentally distressed.

Olango was eventually cornered by the two officers, who asked him to remove his hand from his pocket. He repeatedly ignored these requests, which were echoed by his sister, who was standing several feet behind Gonsalves. The officer told investigators that he had noticed a bulge in Olango’s pocket alongside his hand.

Gonsalves eventually unholstered his gun, holding it along his side, as McDaniel pointed a Taser at Olango. Olango then pulled his hand out of his pocket, pointing a shiny object — later discovered to be a vape pen — at Gonsalves. Olango then made a motion as if he had fired a gun, prompting Gonsalves to fire his weapon four times, fatally wounding Olango.

Olango’s two-handed shooting stance and his refusal to comply with officer demands were “critical in determining whether the officer’s fear of being shot was reasonable under the circumstances,” Dumanis said Tuesday.

“It appears Olango’s actions in bringing up his hands in this manner, with the vaping device, was a purposeful, intentional act by Olango to place Gonsalves in fear that he was about to be shot,” Dumanis wrote in a letter to the El Cajon chief of police.

Olango’s family has filed wrongful-death complaints against the city, according to the Union-Tribune. A federal civil-rights lawsuit is “imminent,” an attorney representing Olango’s wife and two daughters said.

“This is not in any way going to diminish our resolve to seek justice for the family through the civil justice system and the reforms that will work to ensure that this type of homicide does not occur in the future,” attorney Brian Dunn told the Union-Tribune.

The family has vowed to press for an independent investigation of the shooting.

“War has been declared on humanity and the battle line has been drawn,”Olango’s father, Richard Olango Abuka, said Tuesday.

Gonsalves “escalated a situation that should have been de-escalated,” said attorney Dan Gilleon, who represents Olango’s sister and an El Cajon officer who has sued Gonsalves for sexual harassment.

“He provoked and terrified a man he knew was having a mental breakdown,” Gilleon said.

El Cajon officials either would not comment on the announcement or indicated that they will not contest the district attorney’s conclusions, the Union-Tribune reported.

The report “was clear and its stands on its own,” said El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells.