Comments on: Philly police accused of looting stores after dismantling video cameras

By: tony

tony — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:07:08 +0000

people like jones that are out there are the reasons we still have things like this going on in the USA. if more people stood up and said. nuff is nuff, then it wouldnt happen at all. no one can justify this in a million years!

By: ALL BE DAMNED

ALL BE DAMNED — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:38:29 +0000

Andrew he has a very valid point though and i condon that point if they HAD a warrent for search and seizer based on more then just the baggies thats fine they have every right to raid the thing i have the issue with is they stepped WAY out of bounds by cutting camera cables i mean comon that is TOTALY distruction of privet property EVEN if they had a warrent…….

By: Andrew DeFilippis

Andrew DeFilippis — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:39:24 +0000

I have to chuckle at jones still trying to defend the officers for their blatantly illegal actions, lol.

By: kulah

kulah — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:27:36 +0000

What bob said. You know why there’s a video camera on police cars? Because people lie. The cam is there to protect not only the cop but the person getting arrested from abuse. There’s absolutely no reason to cut the cord on the cams. None. This is such a thuggish move.

If you google about this case, it doesn’t look good for the narc team. In fact, it looks really bad. The so called informant turned and the ugly truth is coming out. Cases will be overturned. People will go free and rightly so. City will get sued.

Legitimate raids, big and small often use video cams. It protects the cops from wrong doing accusations. You see raids on TV/news with faces blurred out. There are reality TV shows such as SWAT/First 48/Dateline on AE that routinely show raids.

You knew something was up when they cut those cords.. don’t be naive.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:30:50 +0000

“There is no video evidence that these officers stole money or merchandise.”

Now gee, why do you think that is?

By: jones

jones — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:45:49 +0000

Here I am Duane, I’m glad you missed me. I watched this tape and I think the officer has a valid reason for being concerned about the camera because the camera is a live feed to an off site location. I wouldn’t want those camera’s rolling either while I was in there serving a warrant. Though cutting the camera’s is a bit extreme.

As far as the warrant I have two opinions. One is this is good police work if they got a warrant based on those baggies because they had reason to believe the owners were involved in drug dealing.

If they raided this place just because of the baggies and had no other evidence to suggest these people were dealing in drugs then, sadly, I must agree with you that this was a major waste of time and resources and should not have happened.

There is no video evidence that these officers stole money or merchandise. If they did then they should be fired and charged.

By: CHUCK

CHUCK — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:20:02 +0000

Bears Repeating…

Mr. Pataky, get a very expensive lawyer. In fact, get the most expensive one in town. Don’t worry about the fee; if you’re not guilty (of…what?) then you’re going to be receiving a lot of money from the Phoenix police department. These fascist cops just decided to underwrite all new computers and equipment for you. Accept their gift gladly, and then tell us all about it!

By: Duane Kerzic

Duane Kerzic — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:29:52 +0000

Where is jones?

By: wdkr

wdkr — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:18:02 +0000

KILL EM ALL