Body camera footage shows Phoenix Police Department officers disparaging protesters
Phoenix officers bad-mouth protest group while on body camera video.
and last updated 2021-02-12 21:17:02-05
The Maricopa County Attorneyâs Office and the Phoenix Police Department are facing repeated allegations of discriminatory arrests and political prosecutions in protest cases.
In addition to a controversial challenge coin, ABC15 obtained officer body camera video that will only further cement the arguments being made by defense attorneys and community activists.
Apparently unaware a camera was still recording, three officers continually disparage a
One wondered why the protest response team didnât âstomp on them right away.â
Politically Charged: Officials create âfictional gang to punish Phoenix protesters
Posted: 5:45 PM, Feb 04, 2021
Updated: 2021-02-07 17:17:44-05
Amy Kaper promises she is not a gang member.
The 29-year-old graduate student does not run drugs, traffic guns, or work in any organized crime ring.
But, she did protest police violence last year.
For that, the Maricopa County Attorneyâs Office and the Phoenix Police Department are aggressively prosecuting Kaper â and a group of 17 other defendants, including three minors â for being part of a criminal street gang following an October 17 protest in downtown Phoenix.
In fact, officers and prosecutors allege the group is as dangerous â and in some ways more dangerous â than notorious gangs like the Crips, Bloods, and Hells Angels.
Inside the case: Watch testimony behind the Phoenix protest gang charges
Testimony shows the legal basis Phoenix officers and county prosecutors use to justify the gang designation and other charges against Phoenix protesters. Originally reported Feb. 5, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-07 17:16:54-05
The Maricopa County Attorneyâs Office and Phoenix police have designated a group of protesters as a criminal street gang.
The controversial decision has been blasted by community groups, defense attorneys, and legal organizations.
Politically Charged is an ongoing ABC15 investigation series. Click here to watch part one of the series and watch part two of the series in the player above.
2 months ago in Local dlappen Photo: Saga Communications
On Tuesday morning around 5:30, the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Division, along with DIRT and the Tactical Response Unit (TRU) executed a search warrant in the 500 block of South Wesley, Springfield. The warrant was obtained after a narcotics investigation which targeted 33 year old Matthew P. Brinkley, of Springfield.
After TRU secured the residence, and arrested Brinkley, Investigators searched and seized the following items;
1. $1500.00 USC,
3. A digital scale,
5. DVR from a surveillance camera,
6. Motorized bicycle (reported stolen)
7. Echo chainsaw (reported stolen)
8. Approximately 2,000 rounds of various types of ammunition, and
9. The following weapons;
More than R100k in drugs found at flat near Teddy Mafia s home, Hawks confirm Hawks say that Mandrax and ecstasy tablets, ecstasy powder, cocaine powder, dagga and schedule 5 prescription drugs were found in a flat which was raided Yaganathan Teddy Mafia Pillay was shot dead at his home in Shallcross last week. Image: Supplied
A clandestine operation by a number of specialised policing units led to the discovery of drugs worth more than R100,000 near the home of slain alleged drug kingpin Yaganathan Pillay, known as Teddy Mafia, on Wednesday morning.
TimesLIVE has learnt that members of the Hawks tactical response unit and the national intervention unit from Pietermaritzburg, together with members of the Durban Flying Squad, swooped on a block of flats opposite Pillay s home on Taurus and Table Mountain streets in Shallcross, south of Durban, about 5am.