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Thursday, May 22, 2008

News “Come on. We’re the fucking police. Nobody cares. It’s fine. These scrote-bags don’t care.”

Posted by Matt Davis on Thu, May 22 at 5:37 PM

Former Portland Police Officer Lindsay Hunt filed her lawsuit against the city today alleging she was fired for whistle-blowing while on probation. hunt.jpg
The suit, a copy of which makes for interesting reading and can be downloaded here, goes into more detail than Hunt’s original tort claim, particularly concerning the conduct of Hunt’s training officer at Northeast Precinct, Quency Ho. Ho told Hunt it was alright to take items from a convenience store without paying, using the language in the title of this post, Hunt alleges. He also allegedly pointed his gun at a drunk man in his apartment, ordering him to “open the fucking door you piece of shit,” before roughing the man up, and leaving. When Hunt asked Ho to explain how his actions had been in police bureau policy, he is alleged to have stated that he didn’t care what the “official” policy was, because, “who are they going to believe, us or these scrote-bags? Come on, we’re the fucking police!

Ho is also alleged to have ordered Hunt to destroy evidence at a crime scene, where a man had been threatening people with a knife in a parking lot in Northeast Portland, telling Hunt that “They’re just a bunch of Section 8 crack head scrote-bags. No victim, no crime. We’re taking him to the ‘drunk tank’ and that’s it.” When Hunt was writing her report on the incident, Ho ordered her to “make it vaguer so we’re not liable,” Hunt alleges.

Hunt wants $100,000 in economic damages for loss of employment, emotional distress, mental anguish, injury to her personal and professional reputation, loss of self-esteem and dignity, plus legal costs. She’s also suing for $750,000 on each of nine allegations in non-economic damages, claiming a violation of Oregon’s whistleblower law, gender discrimination (she was told to act like “a boy” and leave her “girly emotions” out of it); wrongful discharge, negligence, deprivation of her right to freedom of speech, deprivation of the right to equal protection under the law, conspiracy, and deprivation of the right to due process.

Scrote-bag,” according to the Urban dictionary, is a combination of the word scrote and scumbag: “The word is synonym for other names such as asshole, shithead, motherfucker, etc. Origin of the word is not known, however it is heavily used a part of local dialect in Clinton, Missouri.”

Comments

This is not the exception, this is the rule. Power corrupts, and the police's power just keeps on growing. There is no room for compromise, no chance of reform. It is us against them, and their guns keep getting bigger.

You sure like to use boldface type. Thank you for helping us read.

“who are they going to believe, us or these scrote-bags? Come on, we’re the fucking police!”

That's what Officer Meyers and I said when I suggested that the media trust us on well meaning unwritten policies!

Yep. We'sa have a policy not to writes down the bad stuff that might fuck us over. We only expressly writz down da policys dat help us get the bad folkz and force themz to thinks likes us and go to jailz..

PS: fuk the ACLUE!

Who are you? Jar-Jar Binks?

I bet Quency Ho isn't chuckling "ho ho"
now, but "harump! harump!" as his damned
ass is be to the run.

Hit it band-members: "...there's a man on
the run..man on the run..da! da! da!..."

Wow! The titty's tough said the kitty in
the Big City of Portland! Amazing is it
not?


PEUHWEE! Pinch your nose as the stench coming from the PoPiggy Pig Pen is about as bad as it's ever been.

Maybe--just maybe--with the stink coming from Sheriff Bernie Guisto combined with this, the brain-dead Sheepeople will wake up enough from their trance to smell it too. And then, demand that a thorough cleaning of the Pig Pen take place N-O-W!

PS: Don't forget! If you go to PPB for any reason, take your clothespin to clamp on your nose so you can jump in 'n' out without gagging!

Ever see the Samuel L. Jackson movie, as I recall, entitled BAG OF SNAKES? I not so sure I got the film's title right, but I am damned sure that the PPB are a BAG OF SNAKES!

Cop-haters should read Joseph Wambaugh's books, i.e. The Blue Knight, The Choirboys. The old days were a whole lot meaner.

I suppose you highly-oppressed folk call your *dad* when there's a bunch of kids shooting guns as they run down the street? Please. Behave yourself and the cops will leave you alone.

"Behave yourself and the cops will leave you alone"?????

What, like the law abiding shop keeper who stocked his shelves with merchandise that the cops could steal?

Redhead-
That's a good argument for citizen oversight of cops too--as long as the cops don't do anything wrong, they don't have anything to worry about from us little old citizens. I'm sure we'll see you making that point when citizen review comes up again, right?

i think the police violated all sorts of crimes. including the woman who was harrassed and now feels like she should be granted 7 million dollars of taxpayer's money because she somehow just found out she chose a career full of assholes. who the fuck does she think she is? i have been harrassed in all kinds of ways in every job i have ever worked at. if you are male, female, black, white, hispanic, gay, straight, republican, democrat, a police officer...did i leave anybody out? i never made a dime off someone harrasing me. now she wants to take my tax money. brilliant. the more i think about it, the more i think i am going to become a police officer too. what a scam artist. that's even smarter than slitting a sheep's throat.

Do the math and that's $7.75 million of our money she wants. She may have a case and deserve some kind of compensation but personally I think she is asking for way too much.

What about the scrote bags who got beat up, is she going to give them some of that money for their pain and suffering?

She seems to have a legitimate complaint but loses credibility in my mind by trying to rape the public so she can retire.

Oh come on there! You always ask for far
more than you may deserve, for the object
of the tactic is to jiggle the opposition parties
to reach a far more equitable "settlement" and
that is all this is about.

Simple as that!

No one is trying to rob the Public Treasury!

Not enough people use the phrase "scrote-bag" in their vocabulary. Very descriptive and visual.

"behave yourself and the police will leave you alone" I guess Ho and many others don't beieve that. Fear makes some people go on the attack for what is theirs. Services sure are comprimised when I trust my USMC Veteran cranked out neighbor to help me more than the police. He's always there when I need him and likes me because I mow his lawn. Reliable protection for minimal tax, and I'm not scarred of him or his guns. Also I think maybe the idea of civil service is lost on this hopeful police officer. If she collects judgements of that much I hope at least she financially helps the community to eradicate injustices of police abuse. I'd like to believe she really did want to become a police to help people.

What she is doing is a good thing. Maybe the people will do something about the police now that she will take out tax money. think of it that way. Its why we immigrated from Britain to Americas to get rid of the tyrany and dictatorship.

What she is doing is a good thing. Maybe the people will do something about the police now that she will take out tax money. think of it that way. Its why we immigrated from Britain to Americas to get rid of the tyrany and dictatorship.

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