There is no winning here. Let’s say you see a cop doing this to your wife. It doesn’t matter if he is right or wrong, overpowering this cop, holding him at gunpoint, or shooting him will result in your death, no matter how unlawful his actions were.
The saddest part is that her kids were acting like their mother was in the wrong.
I would not have been as calm about this stop as this guy was, especially when the cop grabbed me by the throat. The officer involved is Matthew Mercado of the Walnut Ridge, Arkansas police department.
When the man in the video, Adam Finley, went to the Walnut Ridge Police Department to complain, he was given citations for refusal to submit to arrest and obstructing governmental operations with the tickets being written by officer Matt Cook with the permission of Police Chief Chris Kirksey. After a trial on April 3, 2017, in Lawrence County District Court, Finley was acquitted of the charges.
Finley sued, and the city of Walnut Ridge settled out of court, paying him $57,500 in damages.
I used to be fairly backing of the cops. No longer. As far as I am concerned, the police are an out of control, armed, criminal gang of violent assholes who only use force when they know the subject of their bullying behavior can’t fight back.
You might scoff, but remember that it won’t be UK police coming to arrest you. It will be US cops coming to haul you away to be sent to the UK for doing something that is entirely legal to do here in the US.
Monongah, WV is a small town with a population of 972 people. It’s crime rate is 5 per 100,000 people, or one seventh the crime rate of the US, which is 35 per 100,000. Last year, there were no reported murders, auto thefts, burglaries, rapes, or robberies. In other words, a typical American small town with little to no crime. The only real crimes in the town are physical fights, and even those occur at half the national average.
Last Thursday, some random guy with a drop leg holster and a generic “Police” t shirt that anyone can buy for $16 on Amazon tried to pull a woman out of her car in this town. She demands to see his police ID, and the man refuses, so she drives away- 30 yards to her mother’s driveway.
When he catches up to her, he tells her that he is going to “fucking shoot” her if she doesn’t roll the window down. When a bystander overhears this, she yells something that sounds like “We should take your badge,” to which the cop replies “Fuck you.”
Yep, he is Monongah, WV Chief of Police Nathan Lanham. Or he was, but more on that later. He is threatening to kill someone over what? Police can’t use lethal force as a compliance device. Lethal force is not reasonable to effect a traffic stop. He feels safe enough to tell bystanders to f/o while turning his back on the ‘threat’. What he is doing would be called aggravated assault, which is a forcible felony.
At what point is it morally justified for someone to step in and shoot this fat fucking tyrant? I assure you that, should someone find me on the jury after they do this, I would NOT vote to convict. It seems that the people of Monongah feel the same way.
There aren’t even any ballistic panels in the carriers, and officer Bitch Tits is in an Amazon Tshirt
She was arrested and charged with felony fleeing in a vehicle with reckless indifference to the safety of others. The charges were dismissed after she spent 5 nights in jail because she couldn’t come up with $125,000 in bail money. Even though charges have been dropped, Beth Delloma says that she remains terrified that the rogue officer will attempt revenge on her in the future.
The arrest report states that he was in uniform and driving a marked vehicle. He says he activated his “marked patrol vehicle’s emergency equipment to conduct a traffic stop.” None of those statements is true. That’s called perjury, which is also a felony. With officers like this, it is hard to argue that the people of Monongah are safer with a police department than they are without one.
At any rate, the public outcry once this video went public was so great that there was a town meeting on Monday night, with the citizens showing up, demanding that Lanham be fired, but he resigned before they could do so. The odd part is that it also appears that he was a cop in the nearby town of Rivesville, WV and three other towns while also working as Monongah police chief.
"You roll up that window and I swear to God I'll fucking shoot you."
Rivesville Police Chief Nathan Lanham (working here part-time for Monongah PD) can be seen here showing exactly how not to de-escalate a situation. Records show Lanham is currently employed at FIVE departments. pic.twitter.com/uvRmstDOUL
In fact, as of 5/14/24, Lanham was no longer with Rivesville. He was named Chief of Monongah PD on 5/25/24.
Why do cops feel the need to wear clothes looking like they are about to assault Fallujah, or else looking like complete slobs? What ever happened to neat police uniforms?
It could be that the two people killed in the house were victims of the original nutball who prompted all of this, or it could be that they were struck by bullets fired by the “brave” cops who were indiscriminately firing at the sound of gunfire in a “spray and pray” tactic.
Either way, I don’t care about the cops who were killed, and I don’t care about the crazy bitch who likely bought it. I will reserve my sympathy for any innocent bystanders. To anyone reading this who is a cop- stop being tyrannical cowardly assholes that slap unarmed citizens around, toss grenades into baby cribs, arrest parents who are demanding that you do your jobs, and rid your profession of the dead wood, and maybe I will care again.
It’s really a shame, because I used to have lots of love and respect for a profession that has lost its way.
* On a side note, the driver in the original Eustis case does not have any record of charges actually being filed against him in that county at any point this year. I am guessing that the State Attorney didn’t think that his behavior warranted criminal charges, still it cost him money to get his car out of impound. All for telling a cop that where he worked was none of his business. I would consider an attorney, were I in his place.
THROATUS claims that she will sign an executive order in her first 100 days that will require Americans to turn in their guns, because Congress won’t act.
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris says mandatory gun confiscation is "a great idea" — then says she'll do it by executive action within her "first 100 days." pic.twitter.com/GtaihkLrlT
Sure, plate readers and cameras solved THIS crime. Still, how many millions of cars drove by and were catalogued to catch this one criminal, and what is all of that trace data being used for?
Using security camera footage from the apartment and nearby businesses, the detective determined Sterns’s Lincoln left the Venetian Bay Village apartments on Feb. 26 at 7:40 a.m. and then returned around 10:14 a.m.
Sterns’ vehicle left the apartment complex again at 11:03 a.m. and returned 53 minutes later, records show.
The Lincoln left the apartment a third time around 12:44 p.m. and travelled east along U.S. 192 towards St. Cloud where it was photographed by traffic cameras…
At 1:16 p.m., a security camera at a charter school captured video of a car with a similar color, style and size driving southbound on Old Hickory Tree Road.
The same vehicle was recorded heading northbound on Old Hickory Tree Road around 2:11 p.m., records show, before returning to the apartment at 2:43 p.m.
Tracked by at least half a dozen cameras and several plate readers. How much data do they have on YOU?
There are vending machines in Alabama where you can buy ammunition, and its even approved by the ATF. Sounds like a great idea until you see how its being executed. You insert your ID, and the machine analyzes you using a camera and facial recognition to see if the picture on the ID you inserted matches.
Any takers want to take bets on whether or not your ID and picture are forwarded to the ATF? I just don’t trust anything that our government approves of, especially not those dog killing assholes at the ATF.
Eric Fiedler declared war on Seminole County license plate readers, dismantling 22 of them before being caught. He was arrested June 1 after deputies noticed missing Flock Safety Falcon License Plate Readers (LPRs), which the sheriff’s office deployed to identify passing cars for surveillance purposes.
Note that no one in this story is asking why police are carrying out general surveillance of citizens who are not suspected of committing crimes.
When you realize you’re being tracked every day going to the grocery or church or school, and you didn’t have any say in it, it’s a little concerning to me,
