Cops

Psychological Torture

In August 2018, Thomas Perez Jr. called the police in Fontana, California, to report that his 71-year-old father, who had dementia, was missing. Police arrived, searched the house with his permission, and claimed to find “visible bloodstains.” A police dog allegedly “detected the presence of a corpse.” Despite Perez Jr.’s cooperation, the officers found his demeanor “suspicious” and brought him to the station for questioning.

Police questioned him for over 17 hours. Detectives falsely claimed they found his father’s corpse and bloodstains, denied him blood pressure and anxiety medication, and brought in his dog to falsely claim the animal would be euthanized because it witnessed the murder.

The interrogation began with hours of questioning while police obtained warrants to seize Perez Jr.’s electronic devices. After some time, they took him for a drive, claiming they were looking for his father. The ride was a pretense, just another way to continue questioning him. All it accomplished was a visible decline in Perez Jr.’s mental state.

Back at the station, Perez Jr. asked for his medication and requested to be taken to a hospital. The officers refused, saying, “We’re not going to go to the hospital, because that’s not going to help you.” From there, the pressure intensified.

By this point, Perez Jr. was in clear mental distress—rocking, pulling his hair, crying, shaking, and pleading for help. When he fell to the floor and hugged his dog, the officers laughed and told him he was stressing the animal out. Sixteen hours into the interrogation, the detectives told Perez Jr. they had found his father’s body in the morgue with stab wounds. It was a lie. But Perez Jr., mentally broken and physically exhausted, confessed. Under severe psychological distress and a complete mental breakdown, Perez falsely confessed to killing his father.

The detectives then received a call from Perez Jr.’s sister: Thomas Sr. was alive and at LAX, about to board a flight to visit her. They didn’t rush back to tell Perez Jr. the good news. Instead, they let him sit alone in the interrogation room for another hour. During this time, Perez Jr., hopeless and defeated, untied his shoes and attempted to hang himself.

The officers intervened—not to reassure him but to Mirandize him for the first time. They then sent him to a psychiatric hospital, leaving instructions with the staff that he was to have no contact with family members. On their way out, they dropped the dog at the pound as a stray.

In May 2023, a federal judge ruled the interrogation tactics were unconstitutional, stating:

“[Perez] was berated, worn down, and pressured into a false confession after 17 hours of questioning. [The officers] did this with full awareness of his compromised mental and physical state and need for his medications.”

Perez filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the Fontana Police Department of false imprisonment, due process violations, and what a judge described as unconstitutional “psychological torture.” The city agreed to a nearly $900,000 settlement to resolve the lawsuit, admitting no formal wrongdoing while maintaining that their tactics, though involving extreme ruses, did not break laws.

This would be illegal to do to a POW in time of war, a violation of the Geneva convention. The cops of Fontana think this is good police procedure.

When the police want to talk to you about anything, pretend that you are a POW in time of war:

  • Shut the fuck up. Don’t answer questions.
  • Ask if you are free to leave
  • If you are not, the law requires that you identify yourself.
  • After you do that, tell them you want a lawyer.
  • Then shut the fuck up.
  • The police aren’t your friends. They can lie to you. They can use your weaknesses against you.
  • Did I mention that you shouldn’t answer questions, and should just shut the fuck up?
By Divemedic, ago

Watch

Watch how these cops walk on to this guy’s property. They are raiding his house because he called one of them out for speeding. Now imagine the guy whose home they are raiding is waiting for them.

By Divemedic, ago

Warrants? We Don’t Need Warrants

This case is a great example of why you should never open your door to anyone you don’t intend on allowing into your home. That’s the purpose of doorbell cameras, after all. Police in Greenville, North Carolina approached a woman who had a Ring camera on her house in the belief that the camera caught video evidence of a crime. They demanded she show them the video, and she refused, claiming the camera didn’t record. There are numerous reasons for this. You can set Ring cameras to record on motion, and it’s entirely possible that the camera simply didn’t record the incident because the motion was too far away to trigger the motion sensor. Even so, I wouldn’t want cops going through my phone. So the answer from me is going to be no.

The cop replied, “Listen to me, you pull it up and show me that it isn’t working, or I will rip it off the wall, get a warrant, and I will keep you up all night.”

  • First, ripping the camera off the wall won’t get you any footage. It’s an Internet camera. My cameras aren’t Ring cameras, but they don’t store any footage. Either this cop is a dumbass, or is going to destroy the camera because she can.

Listen:

So what did the cops do? They entered the home, took the woman’s phone, forcibly unlocked it, and stole the video, all without a warrant. The woman wasn’t suspected of committing a crime.

At some point, you are tempted to wonder if the officers are wearing Level IV plates, or if the plates they do happen to be wearing are capable of stopping .308 or .300 Blackout.

Look, I am not against it. I once had a thief in my neighborhood and the cops believed my cameras might have caught the thief on film. They contacted me while I was on vacation in Colorado and ASKED me for footage. they were a bit panicked because they were afraid the video would get deleted before I got back. They wanted me to give them permission to enter the home and get the hard drive. I refused, but I assured them it would not. I reviewed my videos, pulled up the relevant footage, copied it to a USB drive, and handed it over. They wound up catching and convicting the guy.

He was charged with 9 felonies, including arson, armed burglary, several counts of grand larceny, and theft of a firearm. He reached a plea agreement where he got 6 months’ probation and his records were sealed.

Then it became a habit. After that, the cops came over for every single incident that occurred anywhere near my house and wanted my camera footage. The cops wouldn’t even reimburse me for the USB drives. It started getting expensive after the 5th or 6th time, both in free USB drives and in the use of my time. I told them I should be eligible for a crime stoppers award. When they refused, I eventually had to tell them to get bent. I’m not going to keep doing your jobs for you for free, the cops were getting paid while I did their jobs for them at my expense.

I want to see cops defend the cops’ actions at this point. The person here wasn’t suspected of a crime. They weren’t even awake- it was 3am. The cops are investigating.

I will say it again- qualified immunity needs to be replaced with a requirement for liability insurance. The dirty little secret is there is no law establishing qualified immunity. That particular little benefit for dirty cops was created by the courts, who supposedly don’t have the power to make law, in a blatant example of legislating from the bench.

I ran a travel agency, and Florida law REQUIRES a bond in order to do so. Don’t you think liability for police with the power to take your life is more important than insurance for the travel agent who can ruin your vacation?

Here is another video on the incident, but it includes actual Ring camera video and some applicable court cases.

By Divemedic, ago

Death Penalty

This case is a prime reason why I oppose the death penalty. Not in theory, but because I don’t trust the government with the power of life and death.

A former state forensic scientist on Tuesday was sentenced to 10 years in state prison after altering more than 1,000 samples in labs that prosecutors say could have disproportionately affected sexual assault victims over many years.

In this particular case, she made the DNA appear to not match, resulting in people who were guilty being able to walk free, but that isn’t going to be the case with every nutball in government service with the power to alter test results. For example:

  • The FBI Lab underwent massive restructuring in the late 1990s following a whistleblower report by Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who exposed flawed scientific testimonies and contamination within the lab.
  • In 2004, former FBI biologist Jacqueline M. Blake pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge for providing false statements in her laboratory reports.
  • A massive 2015 joint review by the FBI and the Innocence Project revealed an even deeper systemic issue: for over two decades before 2000, microscopic hair comparison examiners from the FBI gave flawed, scientifically invalid testimony in over 95% of the trials reviewed, contributing to numerous wrongful convictions across the United States.

It’s a certainty that at least some people have been sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. If we execute even one innocent person, we are all collectively murderers. I just cannot support that.

By Divemedic, ago

To the Commenter Who Just Tried to Post Stupidity

If you come to this website and urge or ask me to commit an act against the law, I am not going to post it. If you email that same idea to me, I am going to toss it in the trash. As much as I like my readers, I don’t know any of you well enough to entertain or allow such ideas, even if I were wanting to break the law (which I am not).

I’ve had a few of them through the years. A guy offered to sell me a full auto M2 carbine for $1500. Swore up and down he wasn’t a cop. Yeah. Another guy actually came to my house and asked me to build him an AR with some unlawful features. That’s what happened at Ruby Ridge, I am not dumb.

In 2022, someone came on this blog and suggested we form a group and take some kinetic action against some lefty targets. They were specific about details. They were dumb enough to post that comment from an IP that traces back to a Federal Law enforcement office in the DC area. For Christ’s sake, the Feds in that case were too stupid to even spoof an IP?

All of this happened in the same time frame that the ATF was looking for people to sick their informants on. Like this poor guy who got busted for having an SBR when he took a friend to the range, but the friend was being forced to inform on other shooters. In this case, the informant was an illegal immigrant who was cutting a deal:

In her complaint, Shaw never says why she targeted Mejia, or why the informant was sent to his home.

The informant, or CHS, wasn’t paid for setting up Mejia. Instead, they were cooperating with the FBI to avoid prosecution by ICE.

No one here is going to tell you about how they are plotting violence, or how they are flouting the law. This blog is being run in the public eye. I am not stupid enough to be locked up in a cell without bail, getting beaten every day while I await a trial that isn’t going to happen. This blog gets a couple of million hits a year, and I am certain some of them are law enforcement. I will not break the law on this blog or anywhere else, and I will not join in with your militia group or your little club. If there are ten of you in the club, I would bet at least six of you are informing on the others, but likely don’t even know the others are informants as well.

Like this case, where 13 people in Orlando had their charges dropped after an informant was paid $40,000 to set them up. For that kind of cash, there are informants out there who routinely trick people into breaking the law. Those informants make a living at it. Two or three of those cases a year, and a person can make a pretty good living for almost no effort.

Anyone who has been paying attention to the J6 case know that the Feds operate by getting you to say inflammatory, illegal things and then framing you for it.

I recently read the book about the OKC bombing and how McVeigh was actually a Federal informant. In fact, there were several informants located in the circles McVeigh was traveling.

Then there is this:

There is an old saying I repeat on this blog from time to time: How do you spot the Fed or the police informant? He is the one urging you to break the law.

Nice try, though.

EDITED TO ADD:

And if you AREN’T a Fed or an informant, I would apologize for that, but you are stupid. This blog is read by the PUBLIC. Why would you advertise in my comments about your future illegal adventures? So even if you aren’t a Fed, and I was in the mood to break the law, I would not want to have anything to do with you or your activities because you are too stupid to remain uncaught.

By Divemedic, ago

Illegal Alien Gonna Arrest You

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. ICE agents arrested a New Orleans police recruit back in January. He was set to graduate and become a police officer. He had already been issued a gun despite the fact that he could not legally carry a weapon as an illegal alien under Federal law. Larry Temah originally entered the United States legally in 2015 on a visitor visa from Cameroon.

In 2016, he was granted conditional residency after marrying a U.S. citizen. However, in 2022, his application for permanent residency was denied due to fraud. Temah was ordered to appear in immigration court three times but continued to disregard U.S. law by not showing up, resulting in the immigration judge ordering him removed in absentia. He did not have valid work authorization.

It’s a felony for a person who is an illegal alien to possess a firearm or ammunition. Think about that- the cop who is arresting you may just in fact be a felon.

It should come as no surprise- the police chief of New Orleans is a DEI hire herself- she was the police chief of Oakland until 2020, when she got fired. She ran over two people with her car back in 2024. Did I mention she gets paid $340k a year?

This opens a bigger can of worms: When an illegal immigrant cop comes to confiscate your guns and arrest you while themselves committing the felony of unlawful firearms possession, is it legal to resist with force? What about their fellow cops? How many of THEM will side with their illegal immigrant police brethren? Isn’t that an accessory?

Sworn to uphold the law, my ass. However, I am betting when shit does go sideways, these illegal immigrant cops will be loyal to whoever is writing their paychecks.

By Divemedic, ago

Likely Not the Cops

I know I give cops a lot of shit on here when they screw up. This case out of El Paso is not one of those times. Let’s watch the video, then we can discuss it.

Watching the video, it appears like this man is on some sort of drugs. This isn’t a mental health breakdown in my opinion. The cop uses his TASER.

There are some in comments to the above post, claiming the TASER was used too many times and stopped the man’s heart. That’s not the case. A TASER delivers 3 joules of energy. A defibrillator delivers 200-360 joules to an adult heart. There simply isn’t enough energy in a TASER to stop a person’s heart. In the cases of in-custody death that occurred after TASER deployment, it turns out the decedent had cocaine on board nearly every time.

One thing that may have contributed to the death was something called positional asphyxia. When a person is handcuffed with his hands behind his back and is placed in a prone position, the chest can’t fully expand and the person can die as a result. In that case, the cops would have been at fault to at least some extent. A person whose hands are cuffed behind him MUST NOT be placed in a prone position, especially if they are already exerting themselves in an attempt to breathe, such as immediately following an extended wrestling match with arresting officers, as per guidelines from the US Department of Justice.

The cause of most explained in-custody deaths is a little-known phenomenon called positional asphyxia, in which body position interferes with the ability to breathe. Several pre-existing factors are identified that increase an individual’s susceptibility to positional asphyxia, including cocaine-induced frenzied behavior, other drugs and/or alcohol intoxication, violent struggle resulting in restraint of subject, and unresponsiveness during or immediately after struggle. A subject’s pre-existing risk, coupled with their body position when subdued or in transit, can combine to substantially increase their risk of sudden death from positional asphyxia. 

This is why I recommend to all paramedics and nurses that they not transport or treat anyone whose hands are cuffed behind their back, especially not in a supine or even prone position. The patient should be sitting up, or can have both hands cuffed to a bed or stretcher. The Joint Commission (TJC) standards outline strict rules and requirements for managing patients in restraints or seclusion, emphasizing that these measures are high-risk emergency interventions.

Hospitals must have explicit written protocols detailing continuous or frequent observation:

  • Patients must be monitored continuously or at frequent intervals determined by hospital policy (often documented every 15 minutes)
  • Restraining a patient in a prone (face-down) position is highly restricted due to the severe risk of positional asphyxia; patients should typically be kept in a supine position with the head of the bed elevated if aspiration is a risk
  • Staff must regularly assess and document the patient’s physical status, including vital signs, skin integrity, circulation in restrained limbs, hygiene, and the offering of nutrition, hydration, and toileting

Still, I think (looking at this video) the base cause here was whatever drugs were in this man’s system.

By Divemedic, ago

Forfeiture

Brought to you by the same people who keep your cash if they find it in your car during a traffic stop:

Police request public’s help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

Since they couldn’t solve the case of the murder of 9 year old Nigel Brown and the charges against his killer, Gerdnardric Pittman, were dropped by the District Attorney’s office, I would have taken my chances. This would never have gone to court.

Black men who murder 9 year old white kids walk free, but an old white man who finds 30 bucks on the ground are the subject of nationwide manhunts.

By Divemedic, ago

I’m Sure Most of Them Aren’t Like This

Just this past February, an FHP trooper was driving down US 192 near Melbourne and sawa a motorcycle blow by him in the opposite direction at 111 mph. He is heard to say on his dash camera: “That guy’s going to jail,” as he turned the car around to give chase.

I know this area well. There is a spot not far from where this stop took place where the road enters a curve and the speed limit drops from 45 to 35. I took my foot off the gas and entered the curve. When the curve ended, I saw a cop sitting there. I got a speeding ticket for going 42 in a 35.

FHP troopers are well known for ticketing everyone. After all, traffic enforcement is their entire job. That’s all they do. Florida has a law called the “super speeder law,” making it a crime to drive more than 100 mph. First time offenders can face up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor. It also turns out the rider didn’t have a motorcycle endorsement. In Florida, you must have a motorcycle endorsement on your license in order to operate a motorcycle. FHP troopers are well known for ticketing everyone. After all, traffic enforcement is their entire job. That’s all they do. This motorcyclist was in a world of trouble.

Or he would have been, except the motorcycle rider was a fellow cop that had worked for Brevard County as a Deputy since 2024. Not just any cop, he is the Brevard county Deputy of the Year. He was awarded the medal of valor for shooting a suicidal man he had claimed charged him with a knife. One same day as the awards ceremony, the deputy’s ex-girlfriend sent an email to the sheriff’s office detailing numerous allegations against the deputy. They are pretty serious (see below).

Back to the traffic stop: The entire stop was caught on the trooper’s dash cam. Since the stop had been called in, the trooper had to do SOMETHING, so the cop returned to his patrol car and called his sergeant for advice. The sergeant told the trooper it was up to him what he did, so the Deputy got a citation for 9 mph over the speed limit. The deputy has resigned so as to avoid being terminated and losing his ability to be a cop somewhere else.

This story would have been enough for a blog post on its own, but there is more, far more to the story.

The email from Deputy Crime Wave’s ex-girlfriend caused some of his crimes to come to light:

  • placing his department issued firearm in his ex-girlfriend’s mouth and pointing it at the back of her head during sex
  • making an inappropriate Facetime call from his patrol car while wearing his uniform as he masturbated
  • appearing to perform a “Nazi salute” in a photograph captured shortly before he was hired as a deputy
  • using racially insensitive language in text messages, calling some of the people he came into contact with “niggers”
  • accessing the agency’s Flock camera license plate reader system to stalk his ex-girlfriend

After Sheriff Wayne Ivey expressed his intent to terminate the Deputy of the Year, he resigned. Even though the Sherriff’s department’s investigation revealed criminal acts on the part of the Deputy, there is no indication that he was criminally charged or even investigated. It turns out the FHP trooper’s stop wasn’t the first time he had been stopped for the same offense- there were at least four occasions in two months while riding his motorcycle off duty. 

The investigation of this one man crime wave eventually caught up other cops, including the FHP trooper. The FHP’s Office of Professional Compliance is reviewing the trooper’s actions.

“Trooper (Joshua) Provencher was aware that Deputy Fultz’s speed, along with the traffic conditions which made his speed a danger to other drivers, met the statutory criminal requirements for the new ‘super speeder law’,” sheriff’s investigators wrote. “Deputy Fultz admitted the speeds at which he was travelling did violate the ‘super speeder’ law, and he was aware that BCSO and FHP were in a current campaign to aggressively curtail excessive and unlawful speeding.”

This isn’t a story about one criminal wearing a badge, as bad as that would be. This deputy was caught multiple times (at least four) violating the law, but other cops let him go. The FHP trooper in this story even called his supervisor, who also told the trooper it was fine to let him go.

There are people who read this blog that would say I am anti-cop. That’s nonsense. I just want cops held to the same standards as the rest of us. Others would say this cop is just a bad apple. That’s also nonsense- at least five other cops permitted this behavior and let him go when the law clearly demanded they do something.

The FHP trooper falsified documents, showed favoritism, and his Sergeant was a willing accomplice with a “It’s up to you whether or not you let him go,” wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

This is a widespread practice amongst cops, although many or even most will deny it. There are bad cops, then there are also good cops who overlook the criminal of the bad cops because they are cops, which makes all of them bad cops.

That’s the reason why we as a society need to limit the powers we grant to our police, and need to closely supervise and monitor them.

Source Material

111 mph: Brevard Deputy of the Year avoids arrest under Florida ‘Super Speeder’ law

Brevard Deputy of the Year quits after ‘egregious misconduct’ exposed

FHP reviewing traffic stop of Florida deputy caught speeding 111 mph

By Divemedic, ago