Deputy Daryl Hochderffer Admited to Stealing Inmate Newspapers

Daryl Hochderffer, a corrections deputy at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) admitted to stealing inmate newspapers in 2017 by refusing to deliver them to inmates in disciplinary segregation. His stated reason was a draconian part of the inmate manual that stated inmates in disciplinary segregation were not allowed newspapers. This rule was draconian and as far as this author knows only enforced by Hochderffer at that time. It is draconian because despite jails and prisons losing legal cases in which identical policies have been challenged, that rule remains in the rule book at MCDC. Hochderffer's behavior is similar to that of the Columbia County Sheriff when Prison Legal News filed a lawsuit against a prohibition on non-postcard correspondence. See Oregon District Court case number 3:12-cv-00071-SI in which "Sheriff Dickerson credibly testified that he did not know that the First Amendment required the Jail to allow inmates to receive magazines when he took office in 2009" and Judge Michael Simon ruled, "that inmates have a First Amendment right to receive magazines and that it would be unconstitutional for Defendants to refuse to deliver magazines to inmates solely because they are magazines," despite this it appears that the MCDC policy has not been updated to reflect the fact that you cannot deny an inmate a newspaper on the grounds that it is a newspaper. Maybe nobody thought to update it because nobody enforces it for the most part. Hochderffer seems to be the only one. On another note Hochderffer has a history of fabricating incident reports against inmates. This author found that out in 2017 after having acquired a large number of syrofoam cups, filling them with water, and placing them on the floor in front of the unit door. The situation forced Hochderffer to choose between staying out of the unit, picking up each up one by one to avoid making a mess, or making a mess. He not only filed an incident report but without any evidence called the water toilet water.#darylhochderffer #multnomahcountyjail #newspapers #theft

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2240/deputy-daryl-hochderffer-admited-to-stealing-inmate-newspapers

Judge John V. Acosta's Erroneous Opinion on Technical Violations

United States District Judge John Acosta issued an erroneous opinion from the bench that incorrectly categorized a technical violation of a supervised release condition as not being technical based on the technicalities of the technical violation. A technical violation of supervised release is not just a statement of opinion regarding whether or not an individual considers the nature of a violation to be technical or not. A technical violation has its own meaning defined in Chapter 7 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (USSG) and is part of a category called Grade C: "Grade C Violations -- conduct constituting (A) a federal, state, or local offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of one year or less; or (B) a violation of any other condition of supervision. " - USSG 7B1.1 Chapter 7 Part A. explains the recommended approach to technical violations when it explains the three categories. From the first paragraph of Part A one can fairly easily figure out what constitutes a technical violation and what category a technical violation belongs in: "The revocation policy statements categorize violations of probation and supervised release in three broad classifications ranging from serious new felonious criminal conduct to less serious criminal conduct and technical violations. The grade of the violation, together with the violators criminal history category calculated at the time of the initial sentencing, fix the applicable sentencing range. " USSG Chapter 7 Part A From that a lay person can fairly easily determine that a violation of a condition of supervision that does not constitute a new crime constitutes a technical violation since it is listed last after "serious new felonious conduct" and "less serious criminal conduct." Grade A is for felonies punishable by more than 1 year in prison that are violent crimes, drug crimes, gun crimes, or any felony punishable by more than 20 years. Grade B is for any new crime punishable by more than one year. By process of elimination Grade C clearly involves misdemeanors punishable by less than a year or a technical violation of supervision that does not constitute a new crime. From that one can fairly easily conclude that when someone on supervised release violates a condition of that release and that conduct is not a crime, then a technical violation has taken place. Judge John Acosta seems to think that some technical violations that do not amount to a new offense are not technical if they involve disobeying a court order even if that court order was just an order imposing terms of release. In United States v. Cyrus Sullivan (D.C. Case Number 3:17-CR-00306-JGZ) Judge Acosta made the following statement at a pre-trial release hearing: "It's not a technical violation when someone disobeys a court order or the probation officer's directives. That's not technical. That's a real violation." -Judge John Victor Acosta Clearly Congress disagreed with Judge Acosta long before he made that statement and as a result wrote the law to include "disobey[ing] a court order or the probation officer's directives" under the umbrella of technical violations. Such behavior does not rise to a criminal offense and therefore under USSG Chapter 7 can only be considered technical violations.#johnacosta #ussg #supervisedrelease

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2239/judge-john-v-acostas-erroneous-opinion-on-technical-violations

IPPC Documents Expose Unlawful Delegation of Authority by Probation

A summary of documents turned over by IPPC Technologies to CopBlaster.com's defense them in 2017 exposed a conspiracy by a gang that couldn't collude straight. That gang included U.S. Probation Officer (USPO) Matthew Preuitt, IPPC Technologies staff, IPPC Technologies President Judy Hogaboom, and possibly U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez. The collusion amounted to an unlawful delegation of authority in which Preuitt was able to enforce conditions of release that did not exist and/or mislead IPPC into thinking that they existed. Whether or not Preuitt discussed these activities with Judge Hernandez or not is irrelevant because only the judge has the authority to create or modify conditions of release (see 18 U.S.C. 3583). When those conditions are created they cannot be modified without a hearing, so if Preuitt went to Hernandez for guidance on this and was told to enforce the conditions as if more were included, that still would not be lawful. As this screenshot and the uploaded notes show, the CopBlaster's defense team noticed that Preuitt was instructing IPPC that his conditions said he could not "use the internet to post harmful content about others" or use technology "for malfeasance" when in fact he was only prohibited from contacting a few people, operating old websites of his, operating similar websites, or using unmonitored computers. Even if Judge Hernandez told Preuitt in private that that was his intent behind the conditions that would not have changed the fact that he did not write the conditions in a way that prohibited the activity he disliked. As a result of Preuitt unlawfully delegating the authority to modify or create release conditions to himself, he made IPPC think that they had the right to block the Cop Blaster from writing negative reviews about them or anyone on any website. When he started posting about how IPPC software screwed up his computer he found himself blocked from pages about their company or their owner Judy Hogaboom. As the summary of the evidence makes clear Hogaboom was involved in this and worked with Preuitt to censor the Cop Blaster's speech online without authorization from the court. She also sent complaints to probation about his complaint. The records also show that IPPC monitored privileged communications with his lawyer and sent those emails to probation. Even if IPPC were not working with Preuitt in this way the Cop Blaster still would have been justified in disabling IPPC Impulse Control because it was using most of his CPU resources. That was the issue of dispute in the first place (https://ift.tt/2ZlBdOA). IPPC damaged the Cop Blaster's computer and he had to disable Impulse Control to use the computer. Rather than respond appropriately USPO Preuitt demanded that the Cop Blaster not use the internet. An appropriate response would have began with an apology for what the software did followed by an instruction to use an different program or statement allowing the Cop Blaster to stay online until a replacement program could be found. At first the Cop Blaster's hearing was going to be done out of custody. His lawyer at the time was instructed to argue that he was not guilty of failing to participate in computer monitoring because no acceptable computer monitoring program was made available by probation. When he created CopBlaster.com Preuitt had him arrested. This was clearly a vindictive move made in retaliation for free speech. Lucky thing for Preuitt is that he had Judge Hernandez and Hernandez cares about results more than the law. Hernandez did not seem to care about the problems with IPPC. He only cared about whatever computer the Cop Blaster used being monitored at all times and he cared about that so much that he would deny him access to the internet if a third party company at no fault of his own broke his computer. The Cop Blaster glad that Hernandez recused himself the next year. The Cop Blaster can only upload a summary of the IPPC records prepared by his lawyer because Hernandez ordered his attorney not to give him actual copies of the records. This of course being a violation of both his constitutional right to see the evidence against him and his First Amendment right to disseminate it as he wishes. DISCLAIMER: The Cop Blaster is NOT a sex offender. This disclaimer is necessary because when most people think of computer crimes and computer monitoring, the first thing they think of is sex crimes against minor like kiddie porn or luring children for perverted activities. All the Cop Blaster did was sent an adult a threatening email, so treating him like a sexer just for using a computer was inappropriate.#ippctechnologies #matthewpreuitt #judyhogaboom #marcohernandez

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2238/ippc-documents-expose-unlawful-delegation-of-authority-by-probation

IPPC Technologies Exposed in Court by Computer Expert

Computer monitoring software from IPPC Technologies known as Impulse Control was exposed in court when a computer expert testified in the defense of CopBlaster.com founder Cyrus Sullivan. Sullivan's defense to the violation of failure to participate in computer monitoring was that he did participate until participation was no longer reasonable due to impact on performance caused by Impulse Control computer monitoring software from IPPC Technologies. Sullivan lost that defense on the grounds that the participation requirement required continued participation regardless of the cost. As part of this challenge Sullivan's lawyer (Tiffany Harris) retained the help of computer expert Josiah Roloff of Roloff Digital Forensics (https://ift.tt/2HwxN0u). Roloff testified that according to documents turned over by IPPC during the discover process that Sullivan was not alone in the problem he experienced. Other users also had problems with IPPC hogging 50-90% of the CPU at times and experienced the Blue Screen of Death. If you are using a Windows desktop then you have probably seen the Blue Screen of Death telling you that the computer had to shut down to avoid being damaged. Roloff also explained that using safe mode to turn off Impulse Control can be done by just about anyone that has used safe mode to troubleshoot a problem before. It was clear that Sullivan did not violate his supervision by uninstalling the software as probation claimed, but judge Marco Hernandez still found him guilty just the same even though technically he complied with the condition to allow installation of the software and he never uninstalled it. He just turned it off for performance reasons. The next year Hernandez recused himself from the case.#ippctechnologies #monitoringsoftware #cyrussullivan #copblaster

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2237/ippc-technologies-exposed-in-court-by-computer-expert

FCI Sheridan Inmate Legal Phone Call Request Form

This is the official "INMATE REQUEST TO STAFF MEMBER FOR LEGAL TELEPHONE CALL" form from the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon (FCI Sheridan). This form is simple and easy to understand. Unfortunately it can be hard to come by for inmates at Sheridan. In general population they can get in from their counselor just by walking into their office and asking. Unfortunately inmates at the Federal Detention Center (FDC Sheridan) have a harder time due to staff shortages that can keep the counselor out of office for long periods of time. Inmates in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at FCI Sheridan can rarely get a copy of this form because they have to wait for their counselor to do rounds in the SHU. That never happens more than once a week and usually the counselor does not have any copies. Inmates from the FDC in the SHU almost never see their counselor. When this author was in the SHU he only saw his counselor while spending several months in SHU. That counselor was named Waldner and he was from the FDC.#fcisheridan #bopdocuments #governmentforms #shu

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2236/fci-sheridan-inmate-legal-phone-call-request-form

Deputy Randy Bonds Repeatedly Punches Inmate During Cell Extraction

Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Randy Bonds punched an inmate repeatedly while he was on the ground during a cell extraction in June of 2018. The inmate had dove under his bed and was holding onto something in an effort to prevent them from handcuffing him. Such violence is totally uncalled for when dealing with a non-violent inmate. As the inmate was being taken from his cell to booking Bonds asked him something like "what was all that soapy water for?" Accusing the inmate of throwing soapy water all over the floor before they chased him to the back of the cell.#randybonds #columbiacountyjail #assault

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2235/deputy-randy-bonds-repeatedly-punches-inmate-during-cell-extraction

Police Photoshopped Photo Lineup to Remove Tattoos Witnesses Forgot

Portland Police Photoshopped a mugshot to remove the tattoos of a suspect from an old mugshot before putting it in a lineup full of random pictures and showing it to witnesses that did not remember seeing tattoos on the suspect when a series of bank robberies took place. This case was picked up by the feds and Assistant United States Attorney Paul Maloney is prosecuting the case and defending the actions of the police as if tampering with evidence using a computer were some sort of legitimate breakthrough in forensic science. The case is going before U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez where this identification is being challenged. I would bet money that Hernandez upholds the lineup, gives the defendant (Tyrone Lamont Allen) a long sentence, and lets the Ninth Circuit figure this out while Allen waits in prison. I say this based on years of experience dealing with Judge Hernandez. Hernandez would rather err on the side of keeping a suspected bank robber in custody even if it means losing on appeal. A lot of district judges are like that. They will act as assistant prosecutors thinking their responsibility to keep criminals off the street supersedes their oath to uphold the Constitution and the law. This story has gone viral apparently due to how ridiculous this is. The police getting reports of a bank robber whose tattoos can't be seen in low resolution surveillance footage and deciding to alter the suspect's mugshot to look more like the guy in the tape. This dude is covered with tattoos and nobody remembers seeing them? That could not be more important to the photo identification process.#portlandpolice #paulmaloney #marcohernandez #tyroneallen #evidence

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2234/police-photoshopped-photo-lineup-to-remove-tattoos-witnesses-forgot

Lt. Rios and Kim Zamora Never Tried to Find Rapist Glasses

Lt. M. Rios and Legal Assistant Kim Zamora never knew I was issued rapist glasses at FCI Sheridan before ending up at USP Victorville. The problem with that is that if they did any sort of investigation to back up their Tort Claim Investigation findings they would not have been able to say that there is no record of me ever being issued glasses. This just shows that the FTCA notices serve only as a formality to prison staff. They just deny them without investigation anything beyond the statements of staff. Had they simply searched my medical records for the word "glasses" they would have found that I came in wearing glasses and that I had been issued rapist glasses at FCI Sheridan in 2013. It is also inappropriate to deny a claim that glasses were broken on the grounds that none were issued to the inmate. Most inmates wear their glasses from the real word because jail let people pass them to inmates. Those glasses are worth more than the rapist glasses issued by the BOP. They are called rapist glasses or birth control glasses because they are ugly and make anyone wearing them look like the stereotypical sex offender. It is also well known in the prison system that sex offenders serving long sentences end up with issued pairs of rapist glasses because whatever they had when they came in is long gone and because they are sex offenders regular inmates do not want to do business with them, so they can't buy frames from other inmates. Some inmates even have a hustle where they get designer non-prescription glasses while in jail to sell once they get to prison and then inmate workers have ways to make the lenses fit.#uspvictorville #kimzamora #prisonglasses #tortclaims

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2233/lt-rios-and-kim-zamora-never-tried-to-find-rapist-glasses

Damaso Lopez Serrano a.k.a. "The Mini Lic" a.k.a Cooperating Witness 1

Damaso Lopez Serrano also known as "The Mini Lic" and Cooperating Witness 1 in United States v. Jesus Raul Beltran Leon can't be found on the BOP Inmate Locator probably because they keep having to move him across the country to keep him from getting taken out for testifying against Beltran Leon. Beltran Leon is allegedly part of Juan "El Chapo" Guzman's allegedly unlawful business and Serrano is a snitch listed as the first cooperating witness in the case against Beltran Leon. Serrano was locked up at MCC Chicago last year until he was moved to MCC New York for his own protection only to be moved again for the same reason. The feds really care about their snitches while they need them to testify so Guzman's organization probably will not get to him until after the case is resolved. Then he will probably be moved from SHU to PC yard to SHU to another PC yard again and again until someone finally gets to him. The BOP will inevitably send him to a yard where he is not safe and when he checks in (requests protective custody) eventually he will be celled up with someone that will do something to him and nobody will care.#damasolopezserrano #elchapoguzman #mccnewyork #mccchicago

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2232/damaso-lopez-serrano-a-k-a-the-mini-lic-a-k-a-cooperating-witness-1

FCI Sheridan SHU Commissary Sheet for Administrative Detention

This is the FCI Sheridan SHU Commissary Sheet. It is given to inmates in administrative detention (AD) in the Special Housing Unit at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon. AD inmates are all inmates in SHU that are not is disciplinary segregation (DS). As you can see this list is quite a bit smaller than the one general population inmates are given. That is not right because AD inmates by definition are not in SHU for doing anything wrong. DS inmates on the other hand have been found guilty of a rule violation and are serving a sanction. AD inmates include those in SHU waiting to see the disciplinary officer after being given an incident report, those in protective custody either at their own request or by order of the staff, and those under investigation. Investigations include threat assessments that can last up to six months at which point they can still be kept in SHU if a second consecutive assessment is started. People should not be punished for being in SHU unless they are on DS. They really need to sell all commissary items to SHU inmates in AD.#fcisheridan #shu #bopdocuments #prisonfood

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2231/fci-sheridan-shu-commissary-sheet-for-administrative-detention

Scott Doyle Proves Ineffectiveness of Facial Recognition Software

I was not going to mention Scott Doyle on here until I found out that he had submitted his photo to some kind of facial recognition software app that tells you what percent of an asshole you are based on your photo. I know him from my time in SHU at FCI Sheridan where he is a correctional officer. While I was there he seemed to be quite reasonable. I recall an incident that he could have given me an incident report for but did not because he just did not trip over petty things. Hardly the 269% verified asshole that this program says he is based on his picture. The fact that he even submitted his picture and posted it with that result shows that he does not take himself too seriously. If I recall correctly he describes himself as current or former military and seems like the kind of guy that got recruited from the army and just does his job for work. Those kinds of guys make better COs than other types. Some guys stay in that line of work because it gels with a sadistic personality but Doyle is not one of them. That is why this post is listed in the Other News Category because it does not involve misconduct.#scottdoyle #fcisheridan #facialrecognition #shu

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2230/scott-doyle-proves-ineffectiveness-of-facial-recognition-software

USPO Mental Health Treatment Privacy Wavier is Bad for Mental Health

If the court thinks you're crazy and/or have a drug problem you've probably seen one of these documents titled, "UNITED STATES PROBATION SYSTEM AUTHORIZATION TO RELEASE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT PROGRAMS." The document is given to federal convicts the first day they meet with probation if they are ordered to participate in any mental health or substance abuse treatment while on supervision. When they give it to you it seems innocent enough because they say they just want to make sure you are participating in treatment as ordered. But if you really read it you'll see that there is more to it than that. With broad terms like "psychotherapy notes" it seems like a liability that could serve as a barrier to treatment for some. If someone violates the conditions of their release, tells their counselor, and that counselor writes it down in their notes then those notes can and will be used against them in a court of law. This type of stuff makes people think twice before speaking to their counselor because the counselor communicates with probation and this has been a problem for people. I was talking to one of my lawyers about how LifeWorks Northwest, the program most people are sent to in Portland, Oregon, is full of snitches and that lawyer agreed saying that they have gotten people violated. If the court really wants people to get the best treatment possible they should amend this to only require a release of attendance information. Other things like drug testing results could be covered in other waivers for people doing drug testing at such places.#usprobationdocuments #governmentforms #lifeworksnorthwest

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2229/uspo-mental-health-treatment-privacy-wavier-is-bad-for-mental-health

U.S. Probation Random Drug Testing Instructions and Contract - Oregon

This is the random drug testing agreement and instructions from the United States Probation Office for the District of Oregon in Portland, Oregon. Pretty simple just call one of the numbers (1-866-248-4718 or 503-326-8698) and enter your PACS number. Then it will tell you if you have to come in. It is best to call right after midnight for the next day. Download the pdf uploaded with this post just in case you ever lose the one they gave you and need the number. Remember that you need to get to the collection point no later than 8PM but if you are banned from the collection point, which last I checked was the Northwest Regional Re-Entry Center (NWRRC) then you need to get to the courthouse before 5PM the next day that the courthouse is open. If you would like to get banned from NWRRC so that you can do your weekend drug tests on Monday just slap a staff member. This author knows from experience that that works ever time. Just be prepared to do another 18-24 months before you can do all your drug tests at the courthouse.#governmentforms #usprobationdocuments #drugtesting

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2228/u-s-probation-random-drug-testing-instructions-and-contract-oregon

U.S. Probation Computer Monitoring Agreement a.k.a. CHESTER Program

The U.S. Probation Office (USPO) has a standard Computer Monitoring Agreement that they try to get everyone to sign that is subject to computer monitoring conditions. This agreement also known as the CHESTER Program is clearly designed for sex offenders and does not apply to people on supervision for lesser crimes. If you are not a sex offender DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT! Two probation officers from the same USPO office here in Portland, Oregon have tried to get me to sign this before I could install computer monitoring software on my system. Both times I refused and both times I was eventually told that I did not need to sign it. I am on supervision for making a threatening communication and will still be monitored by RemoteCom when that case ends because I will be on supervision for assaulting a federal officer (based on my history the judge wants me monitored). Had I signed this contract I would have agreed to unnecessary restrictions far in excess of anything ordered by the court. Conditions that the court would not be justified to order in my case. Conditions against stuff like operating social media accounts, accessing dating websites, and using instant messaging had nothing to do with my crime of conviction or my history. I refused to sign it twice and eventually probation said I did not need to sign it. Earlier this year I also refused to agree to the RemoteCom User Agreement because it too required that I agree to be treated like a sex offender. Eventually my lawyers came up with an agreement in addition to the boiler plate RemoteCom User Agreement that would result in that agreement only being enforced in ways related to my case and release conditions. The RemoteCom User Agreement like the USPO Computer Monitoring Agreement is a CHESTER Program. Had I been required to sign either agreement that would have been an unlawful delegation of authority. It would have been an agreement to transfer the power the court has to impose release conditions to the probation office and a third party company. I started using the term CHESTER Program after sharing this with a counselor that probation sent me to see. He though it was stupid, said that I should not sign it, and called it a CHESTER Program. Good this I was ordered to go to counseling.#governmentforms #usprobationdocuments #sexoffenders #remotecom

source https://copblaster.com/blast/2227/u-s-probation-computer-monitoring-agreement-a-k-a-chester-program

Scott Kerin: The 1st Prosecutor I was Upset to Lose - Not a Complaint

When I found out that Assistant United States Attorney Scott Kerin was no longer prosecuting my case I was upset and worried. Worried about who might get the case next. I have never before been able to say that about a prosecutor that has prosecuted me but I can say that about Scott Kerin because he was fair. When he inherited my case from Gregory Ralph Nyhus I was being railroaded with an indictment that I was not guilty of. I was charged with assaulting federal officers resulting in bodily injury. Nyhus was a nightmare that did not care about the truth and did everything he could to lock me up as long as he could even though there was no evidence that anyone except for me was injured in that incident. Nyhus' only plea offer was for 63 months and we were getting ready to go to trial. Then my attorneys told me that that Nyhus was not on the case anymore and that Scott Kerin offered to let me plea to a lesser charge that was never in the original indictment. As part of that he would recommend a sentence of time served even though that was below the recommended sentence on the guidelines. Now I am home because Scott Kerin did what a prosecutor is supposed to do. He looked at the evidence and picked a charge that fit the evidence. That and he took extenuating circumstances into account regarding what sentence I should receive. On top of that he treated me with respect. Unlike Nyhus, Scott Kerin shook my hand and had a real conversation with me. He had a good attitude. Nyhus on the other hand was nothing but pure venom when he spoke. I feel like I was really lucky to get Scott Kerin assigned to my case because even though I felt that I could have beaten the bodily injury charge based on there being no evidence of injury, you never know what will happen at a trial, and there was a good chance I would have gotten more time for a lesser offense. It is hard to beat sworn deputies claiming to have been struck without video evidence to the contrary. My hope would have been that their inability to prove injury would lead to an inability to proving that they were struck in the first place, but juries are not usually like that. They like to find a compromise in the middle and for me the middle would have been something like not guilty of causing injury but guilty of striking them. I did admit to throwing chips but that was all I did. There were no elbows or kicks, just chips. Now Kerin did not make concessions everywhere. There are certain things he can't concede and still be doing his job. As much as I would like to say that he should have dropped everything, that just is not realistic. Throwing chips in someone's face is not legal. I still think that I lacked the intent to intimidate element of the charge because if you ask most people what they think when someone throws food at them is that someone is throwing food at them and not that they are trying to cause them injury, but that offer was as good an offer as I could have expected to get. The entire time Scott Kerin prosecuted me he never used dirty tricks and I felt like I could finally try to go about my life without fearing a knock on my door for something I either did not do or something I did being exaggerated or made to be something it was not. I am thankful for those things. I hear that Mr. Kerin will be in Eastern Europe training law enforcement to fight cyber crime. Darkweb type stuff. As long as he stays away from companies that host websites for me we should be good.#scottkerin #gregnyhus

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1227/scott-kerin-the-1st-prosecutor-i-was-upset-to-lose-not-a-complaint

Marc Nordquist: Protective Intelligence Inspector Security Coordinator

When Marc Nordquist took the stand and stated that he was the security coordinator for the Protective Intelligence Inspector at the U.S. Marshals I finally found out who that guy with the mohawk that had been showing up at my court appearances was. But I still was not exactly sure who he worked for. He said he was a Deputy United States Marshal but I had never heard of the Protective Intelligence Inspector before. Apparently his job was to spy on me after I had sent a letter to Judge Hernandez asking him to recuse himself. There is little to no information about this specific office. I finally found a small snippet on the U.S. Marshals website under "Office of Protective Intelligence" that says: "The Office of Protective Operations (OPO) is the United States Marshals Services preeminent expert on physical protection. OPO provides subject matter expertise, guidance, and direct action support to district offices on high-threat/-profile proceedings and risk-/threat-based protective operations. The footprint is national, covering all twelve federal judicial circuits across the country. OPO is also currently responsible for two permanent risk-based protection details for the Deputy United States Attorney General and the United States Secretary of Education. These permanent details allow the protected to perform their duties and carry out their responsibilities without trepidation." After reading that I am even more surprised that Nordquist testified about a bogus letter I had sent to my own post office box addressed to the name of a fictional character that I played on television and online many years ago to promote a website. This was a joke letter that I sent to screw with Special Investigative Services (SIS) officers at FCI Sheridan that I knew to be reading my mail. Nordquist seemed to have just taken the letter and presented it in court as is without doing anything to look into whose post office box it was sent to or who it was addressed to. That was not much of a surprise at the time because AUSA Greg Nyhus would often take anything he was given and present it as fact without verification but it is a surprise now that I have read the OPO description. You would think that part of working for an intelligence service would be to figure out who the person you are gathering intelligence about is corresponding with. One would expect him to know that I was owner of the P.O. Box and that George O'Brien was a name I used to promote myself years ago. Yet there he was testifying as if O'Brien were a real person. Some intelligence that is. If you want to learn more about the tone of the O'Brien letters see the copy of the follow up that I am uploading with this report. I was obviously having some fun with his cluelessness. Saying things to nobody about there being more heat on us than expected, referring to the government as the Occupational Government, and asking him to gather information about people in the case. You would think that someone in Nordquist's position would want to find out who this O'Brien guy really was and in the process find out that he does not exist.#marcnordquist #usmarshals #officeofprotectiveintelligence

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1226/marc-nordquist-protective-intelligence-inspector-security-coordinator

Selective Prosecution Example featuring Gregory Ralph Nyhus

This selective prosecution example features Assistant United States Attorney Gregory Ralph Nyhus in the selective prosecution of the owner of CopBlaster.com for creating CopBlaster.com. Selective prosecution is not just a statement of opinion. It is a technical term that requires one to show that a prosecutor had a discriminatory motive and the prosecution had a discriminatory result. Unfortunately it is far more difficult to get courts to enforce the law in selective prosecution cases than it is to prove selective prosecution or even make to make a prima facie case. In this case the discriminatory intent was shown by providing the court with internal emails turned over by Multnomah County. The emails dated back a couple of months before the basis of the charges occurred. The emails were between former Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputy Todd Shanks, Multnomah County Sheriff Michael Reese, Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Kevin Demer, and Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill. The emails indicated that a criminal investigation by MCSO Detective Kevin Odil was underway in response to the launching of the website and the owner threatening to expose problems at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) if improvements were not made while he was in jail for a violation of supervised release. This investigation was inappropriate because none of the accusations constituted a violation of the law. The emails indicated that MCSO, United States Probation Officer (USPO) Matthew Preuitt, and AUSA Gregory Nyhus were doing all they could to get a harsh sentence with the main goal of destroying this website. Then when the CopBlaster.com owner's arm was broken after throwing spicy chips at a deputy things changed. Nyhus took a bunch of unproven allegations of injury to file charges of assault with bodily injury. This charge created a presumption of dangerousness that legally required the court to favor pretrial detention without bail. There is no bail in federal court in the District of Oregon so the only choice is to release on recognizance or hold in detention. That alone was motive enough to pursue charges because no conviction was necessary for punishment to be administered. The emails between Preuitt, MCSO staff, and Nyhus made it clear that the main motivation for the prosecution was this website even though the website is not illegal. That is discriminatory intent. The discriminatory effect was proven by finding cases of other similarly situated people that were not prosecuted. Those people were federal inmates in the Multnomah County Jails that had been referred to the MCDA for prosecution in state court for assaulting a public safety officer. To convict in those cases the elements also required assault with bodily injury on a deputy. The only difference was that in federal court the inmate would have to be in federal custody pursuant to a contract between the U.S. Marshals and MCSO. After getting a list from the MCDA of all inmates referred for APSO prosecution since 2002 it was discovered that five were in federal custody and of those five the owner of CopBlaster.com was the only one charged in federal court. The law states that a prosecution is selective if it "had a discriminatory effect and that it was motivated by a discriminatory purpose." United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456, 465 (1996). The government acts with a discriminatory purpose when the prosecution "was based on an arbitrary classification such as race, religion, or the exercise of constitutional rights." United States v. Darif, 446 F.3d 701, 708 (7th Cir. 2006). See also United States v. Steele, 461 F.2d 1148, 1151 (9th Cir. 1972) in which the defendant was entitled to acquittal "if his evidence proved that the authorities purposefully discriminated against those who chose to exercise their First Amendment rights." Discriminatory effect can be proven by showing that the government declined to prosecute similarly situated individuals. Armstrong, 517 U.S. at 468. The defense can do so with "a credible showing of different treatment of similarly situated persons." Id, at 470. With the written law so clearly favoring the defense in this case why did this defense fail? It failed because judges ultimately follow their gut. Their gut tells them that they need to do everything they possibly can to prevent people that exercise their First Amenment rights in ways that offend the police from being able to assault law enforcement personnel and then have the case dismissed by proving that the police were motivated by the speech. One could conceivable decide to give a speech intended to offend the police for the purpose of using it later as a means of defending an assault they were already planning. In this case the government tried to make an argument that those four other inmates did not have the same criminal history as the defendant but it was shown that at least two of those inmates had far worse histories. Discriminatory intent was not something Nyhus could disprove. Unfortunately Nyhus won his argument against the showing of discriminatory effect based on the small sample size of similarly situated persons and the amount of time that transpired between most of those cases and the incident giving rise to the prosecution. That worked for him even though one of the similar cases took place after the events that led to the prosecution in this case. The court ruled in his favor even though the case law has made it clear that only a small number of people are needed. For instance in Steele there were only six similarly situated people identified that were not charged and the only other people charged were charged under identical circumstances. Steele involved a case in which only people that spoke out against the census were charged for not participating in the census. That case involved a higher percentage of people prosecuted than this case. District court judges get away with such errors all the time because they would rather err on the side of the government and risk losing on appeal than to free someone charged with a violent crime. District court judges feel that their job to protect the community from violent crime is more important than technical legal questions and that it is better to leave questions of law for the appellate courts. The court should have at least ordered additional discovery in this case. Additional discovery is warranted when the defendant can make a prima facie showing of selective prosecution. At that point it is on the government to produce discovery proving that selective prosecution did not exist in order to avoid dismissal. In Armstrong for instance SCOTUS held, "A defendant who is arguing that he was targeted for prosecution on the basis of race cannot compel discovery unless he or she can show that the government did not prosecute similarly situated individuals of other races." In this case others not prosecuted that did not exercise their First Amendment rights was shown but by saying there were too few the judge avoided having to order discovery. This pretrial motion if won would have gotten the charges dismissed or at least more discovery in search of Nyhus' motives. In most cases only such discovery can prove discriminatory intent. A defendant that cannot show effect with some evidence of intent is typically denied the discovery that would include any proof of intent that might exist. Proof of intent is also rarely considered good enough absent a smoking gun like one in United States v. Mumphrey, 183 F. Supp 1040 (ND Cal 2016). In that case cops were on tape making racist statements in a case where only blacks were among defendants in a drug sting targeting an ethnically diverse area. This case concluded with a guilty plea to the lesser offense of assault without injury and an appellate waiver. Had the case gone to trial and there was a conviction this denial would have been appealed.#gregnyhus #selectiveprosecution #matthewpreuitt #kevindemer

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1225/selective-prosecution-example-featuring-gregory-ralph-nyhus

Captain Thomas Woodworth Drove His Truck into Protesters and Resigned

Former Captain Thomas Woodworth quit his job as a correctional officer at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility after being caught on tape driving his truck through a group of protesters that were sitting or standing on the sidewalk. They were there to protest the facility because it was holding detainees for ICE. They had every right to be there and Woodworth had not right to drive through them. As you can see Captain Woodworth drove up to them before slowly trying to push them away. Then his goons came out and pepper sprayed them. Woodworth had no compelling reason to drive his truck through people even if he was going slow. Trying to get to the bar after work does not justify diving through people to make it in time for happy hour. #thomaswoodworth #ice #immigration #roadrage

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1224/captain-thomas-woodworth-drove-his-truck-into-protesters-and-resigned

Death of Aryan Brotherhood Inmate From New Mexico Looks Preventable

The 2018 death of Donald Taylor at USP Victorville appears to have been preventable. According to the press he was an Aryan Brotherhood member from New Mexico and the FBI is looking into it. That might explain why he died right there. Shortly before my release in 2016 there was a man in the SHU at USP Victorville. Someone asked who he was and why he was in the SHU. He said that he was a New Mexico AB and that they roll with the Texas AB. I do not believe that man to have been Donald Taylor. I learned from other inmates that the original Aryan Brotherhood from California also known as the Brand was at war with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT). As a result the Special Investigative Services (SIS) would not put him in general population because they knew that would happen. The same thing happened to a celly I had for a couple of hours one day. About six COs and SIS members came into the unit and grabbed him suddenly. A Mexican later told me that he was in another prison with that guy and that he was at one point an ABT prospect before dropping out. My Mexican friend wondered how he ended up getting past SIS and onto the yard. During my last days I was in the holdover and when meeting the orderly he told me that he was classified there because his car could not walk the yard there and his car was ABT. If Donald Taylor was in fact a member of the New Mexico AB, New Mexico AB is allied with the ABT, and ABT was still at war with the Brand, what the hell was he doing in general population? That is of course assuming he was in general population, the article did not say, so he could have been PC'd up in the SHU. The FBI is investigating so obviously they don't think he died of natural causes. I suspect that SIS dropped the ball again and as a result they allowed Taylor to walk into a deadly situation. Then again the article says he was at that prison for over a year, so if he was in general population what took the Brand so long to get him? Maybe he was in the SHU and it took the Brand over a year to get him, but if SIS categorized him properly he should have been transferred after six months in SHU. This is suspicious. Did SIS fail to classify a notorious guy from New Mexico that the US Attorney publicly stated was an Aryan Brotherhood member or did they classify him right and fail to transfer him to an ABT yard? What was he still doing at USP Victorville?#uspvictorville #aryanbrotherhood #murder #prisongangs #fbi #sis

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1223/death-of-aryan-brotherhood-inmate-from-new-mexico-looks-preventable

Joey Gibson's Arrest Raises a Question: What is Selective Prosecution?

The arrest of Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson raises an important question, What is Selective Prosecution? Selective prosecution is a practice that prosecutors in Oregon have been engaging in for many years now. Such prosecutions, like Gibson's, appear to be motivated primarily or at least in part by that person's Constitutionally protected activities. Activities like exercising one's right to peaceably assemble and exercise free speech by saying things that the speaker knows to be considered offensive by those that can hear it. The purpose of the First Amendment is to protect the right of people like Gibson to walk down the street and say things likely to piss off Antifa. That is the first prong of a selective prosecution claim. The other is that the prosecution has a discriminator effect. A discriminatory effect takes place if Gibson can show that similarly situated people are generally not prosecuted for conduct alleged that is substantially similar. SCOTUS has upheld selective prosecution claims when it has been shown that the prosecution "had a discriminatory effect and that it was motivated by a discriminatory purpose." United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456, 465 (1996). The government acts with a discriminatory purpose when the prosecution "was based on an arbitrary classification such as race, religion, or the exercise of constitutional rights." United States v. Darif, 446 F.3d 701, 708 (7th Cir. 2006). See also United States v. Steele, 461 F.2d 1148, 1151 (9th Cir. 1972) in which the defendant was entitled to acquittal "if his evidence proved that the authorities purposefully discriminated against those who chose to exercise their First Amendment rights." To show discriminatory effect, Mr. Gibson must present "some evidence" that the government declined to prosecute similarly situated individuals. Armstrong, 517 U.S. at 468. The defense can do so with "a credible showing of different treatment of similarly situated persons." Id, at 470. The discriminatory effect in this case appears on the face of the news coverage of Gibson's arrest so far. There are videos online (see below) that show the so called Cider Riot and those videos appear to depict a mutual fight between two groups. Both groups appear to be throwing things at, spitting at, and striking one another while screaming obscenities, but only one group is being criminally charged. The Antifa people that were also rioting outside that bar were similarly situated to Gibson. This may seem shocking to those not familiar with how prosecutors operate in Oregon. In Oregon prosecutors will pick a side and do everything they can to white wash the side they label victims in a criminal case. That means that anything they did will be twisted to prove motive for the alleged crimes of the defendant. If what they did appears illegal they will give them a pass because if they charged them it would hurt their case. Then the prosecutor will twist anything that was done to Gibson and present it as proof of victimization. So, if someone stands on the street and says something they know will throw the man next to him into a fit, the prosecution will offer it as evidence of the speaker's intent and use it to gain sympathy with the jury. The discriminatory intent in this case could not be more obvious. Prosecutors have been watching Gibson for a while now and have been hoping to find something to charge him with. When law enforcement begins investigating someone because their lawful conduct makes them want to find out if they are doing anything illegal, that is a discriminatory purpose. A purpose that is not discriminatory takes place when someone is arrested based on the evidence and then the police find out that the arrested person also exercised free speech in certain ways. In this case it appears that the police took a video, looked for anything they could use against Gibson, and arrested him along with his people. Unfortunately for Gibson, selective prosecution is a hard claim to win in this area. Even though the law clearly prohibits prosecution based in part on lawful activities, courts are reluctant to recognize it. Prosecutors will argue that although they were aware of Gibson's speech that this prosecution is motivated entirely by the allegations against him. Judges are quick to accept this in order to avoid a situation in which notorious speakers would be free to break the law and blame their arrest on their speech. I personally lost a selective prosecution claim in federal court last year and I had a stronger argument. I was able to show that I was being investigated for running this website long before being charged, that high ranking officials were trying to build a case because of my speech, and that out of the most similarly situated people I was the only one prosecuted. Gibson will have more difficulty because court do not consider people that are treated as victims by the government as similarly situated people even if they have done substantially similar things at the same time. That is because courts consider victims in criminal cases as not being similarly situated as defendants in the case. For instance, in United States v. Taquarius Ford, No. 3:14-cr-00045-HZ (DC OR 2016). Judge Marco Hernandez refused to consider a person charged with the same crime in the same case as similarly situated because the prosecutor had since offered that person a deal to flip and become a witness. The scary thing about that is that prosecutors can defeat a selective prosecution claim by choosing to treat a similarly situated person differently after they are charged. That is why the Antifa people at the Cider Riot are not legally similar even though they appear to have done the same things in the same place at the same time. The arrest of Joey Gibson is clearly motivated by his speech and has clearly resulted in a discriminatory effect. It is basically a green light on Gibson by law enforcement. It says that his opponents are free to do to him as they wish and if he fights back he will be arrested for anything illegal he does while they will be just fine. I can relate to Gibson. In 2012 I was stalked and harassed for my speech before being charged federally for threatening the person that had swatted my mother. Law enforcement took the position that my stalker's emotional response to my speech was understandable and therefore they would not charge her for anything she did. Then what she did was used against me as proof of her emotional distress. I was basically green lighted. I felt like if anyone did anything to me I could not fight back and going to the police would be pointless because they would just say something like, "what did you expect?" This is how law enforcement works in the state of Oregon. They observe the public, find out what most people want, and enforce the law base on that. Lady justice is depicted wearing a blind fold and holding an equal scale. That is because justice can only be the result of weighing the evidence equally and remaining blind to everything else. Those in charge of administering justice in Oregon do the opposite by looking at everything else and then trying to find evidence.#joeygibson #selectiveprosecution #patriotprayer #antifa #riot

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1222/joey-gibsons-arrest-raises-a-question-what-is-selective-prosecution

Cop Blaster Website Inducted into Security Headers Hall of Fame

CopBlaster.com made the Security Headers Hall of Fame after making efforts to protect users from cross site scripting and other security risks. SecurityHeaders.io scans websites and grades them based on their security headers. CopBlaster.com received an A. The maximum possible grade is an A+. You can see the results by clicking the link on this page or by clicking the little star badge on the bottom of every page. You can check the headers of any website at SecurityHeaders.io. The headers that earned CopBlaster.com an A include Content-Security-Policy, X-Xss-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Strict-Transport-Security, and X-Frame-Options. Feature-Policy and Referrer-Policy may be added in the future, but they are not very important.#copblaster #securityheaders

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1221/cop-blaster-website-inducted-into-security-headers-hall-of-fame

Attempting to Contact Inmate Scribes Results in Incident Report

Last year David Prock gave me an incident report for trying to contact Inmate Scribes at FCI Sheridan. The incident report read as follows: "On June 25, 2018, at 12:00 p.m. while screening mail I screened a letter from inmate Sullivan, Cyrus Reg. No. 74918-065. The letter states, "I need you to contact inmate Scribes, work on SSL, the article on that incompetent nurs". The Letter is addressed to...Portland, OR by inmate Sullivan, asking...to contact another inmate, inmate Sullivan committed the prohibited act of 295 use of mail for abuses other than criminal activity." The problem with this incident report is that Inmate Scribes is not an inmate or even a person. Inmate Scribes is an online business that helps inmates communicate with the outside world. As the name describes the service literally allows an inmate to hire a scribe. A scribe to do things like post stuff on social media, dating sites, edit images, email people, etc. Lt. Carter could not throw it out even though he thought it was ridiculous because this was a high level offense, so I had to argue my case in front of the DHO. DHO Cortez agreed with me and eventually dismissed it after I showed up with information that I had received in the mail about Inmate Scribes and convinced him easily that Inmate Scribes is not an inmate. I was fortunate in a way that I was already being kept in SHU under a never ending threat assessment and therefore did not suffer any loss of liberty due to being in SHU while waiting to resolve this incident. This is just one example of how the staff at BOP facilities harass inmates that they do not like.#inmatescribes #davidprock #fcisheridan #inmateservices #harassment

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1220/attempting-to-contact-inmate-scribes-results-in-incident-report

Ex-Warden Lamine N'Diaye Reassigned to Northeastern Regional Office

Lamine N'Diaye was the warden at Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) New York until Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell and it was revealed that staff on duty falsified records to make it look like they were working instead of sleeping. N'Diaye was then reassigned to the Northeastern Regional Office. After that the press started taking a closer look at MCC New York and have highlighted how N'Diaye has been named in lawsuits including one involving food poisoning at USP Canaan and another by a former employee. Other people in the corrections field were quick to call for N'Diaye to not work as warden anymore. This is not normally the case after an inmate death but when the deceased is a billionaire with friends in high places accountability becomes a possibility. #jeffreyepstein #laminendiaye #mccnewyork #bopnortheasternregion

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1219/ex-warden-lamine-ndiaye-reassigned-to-northeastern-regional-office

Carlos Hernandez "Left" His Job and Vanished from Social Media

Former Correctional Officer Carlos Hernandez's final Facebook post said simply, "Left Job at Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan." The post was dated sometime in December of 2018. He has not posted since and we have no idea where he is. While he was at Sheridan everyone wanted his days to be numbered and it turns out they were. His downward spiral was triggered by an inmate simply telling him to do his job. He responded by grabbing a trashcan and going from cell to cell searching for anything he claimed was not in complete compliance with BOP policies. Stuff like magazines with the name of another inmate or no name at all on them, seasoning mixed with squeeze cheese because by mixing them those commissary items had been altered, and anything he deemed in excess. He said, "see, this is me doing my job." He would lock down half the unit at the FDC at a time and toss their cells. Eventually he went too far. Hernandez began strip searching all of the kitchen workers on their way back from the kitchen. He found a lot of things being smuggled back and acted like they were the busts of his career (probably were). Eventually one kitchen worker, a man named Johnson, filed a complaint against him under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) claiming that Hernandez had touched his Johnson. Hernandez was then reassigned to duties that kept his contact with inmates to a minimum. The inmates rejoiced because he would not longer be in the housing units. He was spotted in the mail room, in the visiting room, and patrolling the perimeter of the prison. Then, less than a year later, he "left" his job. Before leaving this author tried sending a letter out in the mail mentioning him and that letter was returned with some scribbling on it that said, "not going out." BOP Policies only permit people above the rank of Associate Warden to censor the mail. The same letter was put in a new envelope and that one made it through just fine. Perhaps Hernandez was not working that day.#carloshernandez #fcisheridan #prea #facebook #censorship

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1218/carlos-hernandez-left-his-job-and-vanished-from-social-media

Is TD Ameritrade and AT&T Spokesman Jim Conway a Correctional Officer?

Is TD Ameritrade and AT&T spokesman Jim Conway moonlighting as a correctional officer under the alias Ryan Mitchell? It sure looked like it when this author was an inmate at FDC Sheridan and the SHU at FCI Sheridan off and on from late 2017 to mid 2018. This author was shocked to see someone that could only be Jim Conway walk into the unit wearing a blue Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) uniform with the name Mitchell on it. He even has a Facebook account under the name Ryan Mitchell but he is not fooling anyone. We know who Ryan Mitchell really is. His commercials suck so no wonder he is not making enough money to give up his prison guard gig. Pathetic, you would think companies like TD Ameritrade and AT & T could afford a better spokesman or at least pay their spokesman enough that he would not have to keep working as a prison guard. This author even called him out in front of his fellow staff saying, "TD Ameritrade how are you?" Conway reacted in an agitated fashion and acted like he had no idea what I was talking about. His reaction the kind one could expect from someone that realized that someone was on to him. What did he expect? This disguise is worse than Clark Kent. At least Superman did not wear glasses and did not keep wearing his blue uniform while claiming to be Clark Kent.#jimconway #ryanmitchell #fcisheridan #baddisguises #celebrities

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1217/is-td-ameritrade-and-att-spokesman-jim-conway-a-correctional-officer

Did the "Rassassin" Aaron Rasmussen Put Mackerel in My Legal Mail?

Self proclaimed "Rassassin" Aaron Rasmussen sent me to SHU at FCI Sheridan and when my legal paperwork arrived my mackerel had been opened and stuffed between some of my envelopes. It had been weeks since I arrived in SHU and the mackerel was quite rotten by that time. It also had soap thrown on it as if someone was trying to cover up the smell while holding on to my property. I suspect this to be the work of correctional officer Aaron Rasmussen. I had caught him reading my legal mail in my cell, demanded that he stop, and threatened to post his address on this website if he did not immediately stop reading my legal mail and leave my cell. He completely lost it, called for backup, and when they arrived they took me to the SHU. I think Rasmussen put the open mackerel in my legal work. As far as I can tell he does not work at Sheridan anymore and while he was there he was a tyrant on a rampage. He was always screwing with inmates and when he addressed the inmates he would just stand on the top tier outside his office with his arms raised and spread until people became quit and looked at him. It was almost as if Moses had come down from the mountain top if Moses had a red beard. I think that Rasmussen knew that nothing would happen to him if he messed up my legal work and if it did that he would not be working there much longer anyway. My other prime suspect is Lt. Will Shortis because he had threatened to beat me up in his office and falsely accuse me of assaulting him before taking me to SHU. Shortis would have had access to my property in his office before it was sent to SHU. That is why I am posting this as a question because I do not know who really did that?#aaronrasmussen #willshortis #fcisheridan #leganmail #shu

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1216/did-the-rassassin-aaron-rasmussen-put-mackerel-in-my-legal-mail

Lt. Will Shortis Threatens to Beat Up Inmates & Accuse Them of Assault

Federal Bureau of Prisons Lieutenant Will Shortis has a history of threatening to beat up inmates and falsely accuse them of assaulting him. This author found this out after threatening to post him on this website. I was an inmate at FDC Sheridan at the time (December of 2017). Lt. Shortis told me in his office that I would be going to SHU after I had caught a CO reading my legal material (which violates the 6th Amendment) and insisted that he stop. At the time this website was in the practice of posting home addresses of COs. Shortis responded by saying something like, "how about I just beat you up and say you assaulted me. Give you another case, then what would you do?" At the time I was under indictment for false allegations made by COs in Multnomah County that had done just that, so I took his threat seriously. Plus, there were no cameras in Shortis' office, so once again it would have been an inmate's word vs. that of a guard. To his credit he did not physically harm me at all and I did not have any other problems with him after I was taken across the street to the FCI Sheridan SHU. Still, this kind of threat is inappropriate and needs to be documented. Just in case anyone reading this has been charged with assaulting Shortis or knows anyone that has been. There is the possibility that Shortis actually assaulted the inmate and falsely accused the inmate of assaulting him.#willshortis #fcisheridan #liars #shu #threats #fdcsheridan

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1215/lt-will-shortis-threatens-to-beat-up-inmates-accuse-them-of-assault

David Prock Spies on Inmates and Steals Mail at FCI Sheridan

Correctional Officer David Prock spies on inmates and steals their mail at FCI Sheridan. He then sends written notices to the inmates explaining his reason for the theft. The notices provide undeniable proof that Prock has been spying on the inmate that he sends it to. If it were not for his spying he would not be able to find the excuses he uses to try to justify stealing the mail. It was made clear to Officer Prock that mail theft and spying would not be tolerated, but he kept on doing it anyway. Theft of the mail for the purpose of censorship under the guise of rule enforcement strikes at the heart of the First Amendment.#davidprock #fcisheridan #censorship #spying #theft

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1214/david-prock-spies-on-inmates-and-steals-mail-at-fci-sheridan

Robert Young at Ability Systems Corporation Works for the FBI

Robert Young at Ability Systems Corporation in Aloha, Oregon has worked for the FBI in the past doing digital forensic work. In 2012-2013 he would use software programs including Internet Extractor and Cache Grab to find content on hard drives such as email and web histories. Then he would send the results to FBI agents at the Portland Field Office. It is not known if Young is still an FBI contractor, but the images and the file uploaded with this report came from Young during the 2012-13 time frame. It was discovered on a hard drive turned over to defense counsel as part of the discovery process.#robertyoung #abilitysystems #cachegrab #internetextractor #fbi

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1213/robert-young-at-ability-systems-corporation-works-for-the-fbi

Jeffrey Epstein's Shocking "Suicide" at MCC New York in SHU

To many people the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Complex in New York City (MCC New York) is not much of a shock and they are quick to believe that he killed himself, but anyone that has actually done time in a special housing unit (SHU) at any Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility would tell you that they are not so sure. First, most people are assuming that he hung himself, which is hard to do in a SHU cell. Second, BOP staff in general and SHU staff especially do not care about inmates, so there is a good chance someone put in some work here. This author has been in SHU cells at USP Victorville and FCI Sheridan. In those SHUs the only place to hang yourself would be off the top bunk of a two person cell. Someone like Epstein that is a high profile sex offender and snitch in protective custody that had recently been on suicide watch would not have had a cellmate. He would have most likely been placed in a strip cell where the only property he would have is his legal work and the only bed is a concrete slab with a mattress on it. It would be beyond incompetent for the SHU staff at MCC New York to place him is a cell with a second bunk after they claim he tried to hang himself. They would have been placing someone they claim to have recently been suicidal in the only place in the SHU that someone could hang themselves. Even in that situation the likelihood of Epstein's sheets being able to support his weight has been called into question by former inmates there. If Epstein killed himself, the best way for him to have done that would not have been with a hanging, it would have been to slit his wrists with a razor because SHU inmates are typically allowed to shave two to three times a week, but someone fresh off suicide watch should have been on razor restriction. Even then he could probably have bought one from an inmate worker because inmates are hired to clean the SHU and SHU orderly is one of the most lucrative hustles in prison because they get a cut of all the contraband. Another possibility is that he was murdered by an inmate or a guard. SHU staff are really bad at keeping protective custody inmates (PC cases) away from general population inmates in the SHU. Inmates from general population make up a large part of the SHU population because they are placed there when they get into trouble. In many places there is a rule among inmates that if they are ever put in a cell with a sex offender or a snitch that they take him out. This author personally knows that SHU staff that have a problem with a general population inmate have no problem putting him in a cell with a PC case to put him in a position of having to choose between looking bad and risking more charges by taking out the inmate. They also do this when the SHU is near capacity or they do it by accident. If someone put Epstein in with a solid dude this would have been a likely result. A less likely result would have been a guard killing him and saying it was a suicide. The most likely motive there would be if Epstein ever threatened to use his fame or fortune to expose the staff at MCC, then this author would not be surprised at all if they killed him. Staff that feel threatened by high profile inmates like to make examples of them by causing them harm and then lying about it later. Whether he killed himself or was murdered, either one exposes guards to liability. Every scenario exposes incompetence or malice of some sort. Incompetence for putting him in a two bunk cell, giving him sheets strong enough to support his body weight, giving him razors, failing to keep inmates from giving him razors, putting him in a cell with another inmate, or malice for flat out killing him. SHU staff typically only check on inmates during standing count two or three times a day, so this author thinks they found him and are doing all they can minimize their responsibility. Saying he was alone and appears to have killed himself is the least culpable explanation.#jeffreyepstein #mccnewyork #suicide #shu #sexoffenders

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1212/jeffrey-epsteins-shocking-suicide-at-mcc-new-york-in-shu

Cop Blaster Mascot: CopBlasterTron Left on the Cutting Room Floor

In 2017 the founder of CopBlaster.com commissioned the work of an inmate at the Federal Detention Center in Sheridan, Oregon (FDC Sheridan) to draw a robot mascot for the website that would be named CopBlasterTron. As one can see by the sketch, that inmate is quite good at drawing, so that was not the issue. This sketch is not even finished because the founder of Cop Blaster was sent to the hole before it was done, so he was lucky that the guy was able to get it into his stuff before it was taken out of the unit. The issue is that it is not quite what the Cop Blaster had in mind for CopBlasterTron. The idea was for a robot kind of like the the one from the TV show The Orville but with a Han Solo type blaster. The end result looks more like a masked bandit with a gun being pointed directly at you. CopBlaster.com was hoping that the blaster would have looked like a more obvious sci-fi type laser gun. To anyone that is thinking of the similarities between the Orville robot and Han Solo's blaster when they see CopBlasterTron they probably would see the similarities between CopBlasterTron and The Orville robot, and the CopBlasterTron blaster and Han Solo's blaster, but most people probably would not notice.#copblastertron #copblaster #mascots #inmateart #fdcsheridan

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1211/cop-blaster-mascot-copblastertron-left-on-the-cutting-room-floor

Download the Waze App Cop Tracker to Avoid Police Checkpoints

One of the best ways to avoid police on the road is to download the Waze App Cop Tracker from Google. This great piece of software will map the locations of known speed traps and DUI checkpoints near you. Drink as much as you want and drive as fast as you can while keeping an eye on your IPhone or Android to see where the cops are. This thing is so good that the cops have been trying to get Google to remove the cop tracking feature for almost five years. Google has responded correctly that this app makes the road safer. That makes sense because one of the biggest dangers to public safety on the highway are the police. They are more likely to put you in jail that anyone else is to hit you. Waze is a crowdsourced GPS navigation program the allows users to submit tips, so when you download the Waze App make sure to report any cops you see.#waze #coptracker #google #iphone #android #gps

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1210/download-the-waze-app-cop-tracker-to-avoid-police-checkpoints

Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Sick Call Request Form

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Sick Call Request Form is the standard form inmates must fill out in order to request medical services at BOP facilities. It is pretty easy to figure out, but the forms can be hard to come by because some facilities run out of copies or make rules limiting how many an inmate can be given at one time. If you have friends or family incarcerated in the federal system then these are good to have, so you are encouraged to print off the pdf version and mail copies in whoever you would like. That is probably cheaper than having your inmate buy copy cards off the commissary. Make sure you let them know that some BOP medical personnel will not accept more than one and might confiscate the rest if they turn in several at once. At least that was the case with Brigitte Wolverton at USP Victorville a few years ago, but she was exceptionally lazy.#bopdocuments #bophealthservices #governmentforms

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1209/federal-bureau-of-prisons-bop-sick-call-request-form

Tim Trask Falsely Accused Inmate of Inciting Alleged Bogus Complaint

Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Tim Trask falsely accused an inmate of inciting another inmate to file what he claimed to be a bogus complaint against him under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). I know this because I was the inmate falsely accused of directing Jason Paul Schaefer to file a PREA complaint against Trask in June of 2018. I never directed Jason Schaefer to file anything against Trask. I was aware that Schaefer was filing a PREA complaint against Trask and that the allegations (if I recall correctly) included threatening to put Schaefer in a cell with a convicted sex offender (Gerald Ryan Davis). Schaefer talked about the complaint and what he was accusing Trask of, but I never told him to file it and I never encouraged him to file it. After Schaefer filed the complaint a deputy that I believe was Ryan Rafferty but I am not sure, came to take Schaefer to booking saying that he was needed there to discuss his PREA complaint. I never saw Schaefer again. His stuff stayed in his cell while I went to war with the deputies for other reasons. Reasons including Trask coming in to my cell and body slamming me just to remove commissary items from the cell due to me being on lockdown status. Such use of force is excessive because an inmate having food, candy, and coffee is not enough of a security threat to justify opening his cell door, slamming him on the ground, and carrying him to booking. The appropriate remedy for what they call "nuisance contraband" is an incident report. The very meaning of "nuisance contraband" is that it is an item in excess of what the rules allow that is not a weapon, drugs, or anything otherwise dangerous. I think one reason they did what they did was because the disciplinary officer had already given me a year of lockdown that would have kept me in the hole no matter what as long as I was there (I went home in November of that year), which effectively eliminated any concerns I had about getting written up for anything. This angered the other inmates in the unit including Schaefer. They told the deputies that they thought I was being mistreated. Then Schaefer decided to file a PREA complaint and their response was to throw him in solitary up in booking where he remained for at least several days. I was rolled up and taken to FCI Sheridan and I assume Schaefer was allowed back in his cell at that point. When I went to a court hearing in July of 2018 a surprise government witness stated that one of the reasons I was banned from Columbia County included directing other inmates to retaliate against deputies with what he said were "false" PREA complaints. That witness was Mark Nordquist. Nordquist is the Security Coordinator for the Protective Intelligence Inspector at the U.S. Marshals Office. Nordquist had been spying on me for months and decided to come clean. There is not and has never been to the best of my knowledge any allegations made by an inmate accusing me of directing the filing of PREA complaints by other inmates. That means that the deputies most likely fabricated the allegation, probably to justify keeping Schaefer in booking on the grounds that he was allegedly following orders from me and that keeping us in the same unit was some kind of safety risk. That did not justify keeping Schaefer in booking since they could have just moved him to another pod where he would have had access to a shower and his legal materials. What I find disturbing is that the CCSO did not appear to take any steps to keep Trask away from inmates until the matter could be resolved. When a PREA complaint is filed against a deputy I believe the law requires steps to be taken just in case it is true. For example an inmate filed a PREA complaint against Correctional Officer Carlos Hernandez at FCI Sheridan in 2017 and as a result Hernandez was reassigned to the mail room among other duties that kept him out of the unit. Hernandez never suffered a pay cut or anything during that time that would have caused him any harm while the matter was unresolved. Schaefer was put in solitary before the merits of the PREA complaint could be addressed. Staff accused of wrongdoing under PREA will almost always deny the accusation, so it is not appropriate to punish the inmate when that denial is made even if the rest of the staff believe the complaint to be without merit. Punishment for such things should be postponed until the merits of the complaint can be formally addressed. Instead of giving Schaefer the benefit of the doubt it appears that the CCSO deputies decided to punish him instead. This could have a chilling effect that might prevent other inmates from filing PREA complaints. That is inappropriate.#timtrask #columbiacountyjail #jasonschaefer #prea #marknordquist

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1208/tim-trask-falsely-accused-inmate-of-inciting-alleged-bogus-complaint

Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Request to Staff Form a.k.a. Copout

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Inmate Request to Staff Form also known as a "Copout" Form is the BOP's official form for inmates to send requests to the staff at any federal correctional facility. It is not surprisingly in short supply at times and inmates are forced to wait or hope that staff will accept requests written on other types of paper. If you know anyone that is in a BOP facility it is recommended that you print off a few copies and send them via the mail. That way your friend or loved one will have a form available the next time they need to send a request to the staff.#governmentforms #bopdocuments

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1207/federal-bureau-of-prisons-inmate-request-to-staff-form-a-k-a-copout

Sophie Frazier Falsely Accuses Inmates of Throwing Urine

Columbia County Deputy Sophie Frazier is no stranger to having her conduct exposed on this website. That may have been one reason why she falsely accused me of throwing urine at her last year to justify putting me on Nutraloaf. The incident took place in the disciplinary unit of the Columbia County Jail. I had been called up to medical for a some kind of exam and while I was gone Frazier tossed my cell. I had previously been put on styrofoam trays for jacking the food slot to protest conditions there. In response I started stacking the trays as high as I could until one day I was out of my cell and a guard went in and took them all. I then started filling the trays with water before stacking them. When I came back from medical there was a big puddle of water on the floor and over the sink as if someone got soaked before dumping water down the sink. Other inmates gave me a description of the suspect and we eventually identified the assailant as Frazier. That night the deputies handing out dinner tried to feed me Nutraloaf and I threw it right back at them because I did not deserve to be put on Nutraloaf. I pointed out that the jail rules specifically reserve Nutraloaf as a punishment for inmates that have thrown bodily fluids or feces and that filling trays with water does not meet that requirement. Plus, I did not and never did receive an incident report that would have justified it. This led to a hunger strike that only lasted a couple days before the U.S. Marshals took me back to Sheridan. A little over a month later I had a court hearing in which a surprise witness testified for the government. His name was Mark Nordquist. Nordquist said that worked in some kind of security department in charge of investigating threats to the safety of court personnel. The job title he gave was "Security Coordinator" for the "Protective Intelligence Inspector." He said that I had become an almost daily fixture in his life at one point. During his testimony he revealed that I was transferred because Columbia County called the U.S. Marshals and told them that I was no longer welcome in their facility. The reasons given included an incident the previous weekend when my cell was stormed with an electric riot shield and I was punched several times by a deputy. He also added an allegation of throwing urine at a deputy. That could only have come from Frazier. So, according to her I threw urine at her when I was not even in the unit. Even if urine had been in the trays, which there was not because I do not play with my piss, that still would not have constituted throwing it at a deputy. I never received any paperwork about this. It sounds like when the deputies decided to ask the Marshals to get rid of me that they decided not to give me any more paperwork because I would be gone in a few days anyway. I have never heard of anyone being banned from Columbia County before. When I had to go to court after that I was housed in Multnomah County even though several staff members were on the government's witness list. When I protested on due process grounds the Marshal transporting me said that Columbia County was the only other jail with a contract with the Marshals near the downtown Portland courthouse and that I was not allowed there anymore. The staff in Multnomah County had never heard of anyone being banned from a jail before.#sophiefrazier #columbiacountyjail #nutraloaf #marknordquist

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1206/sophie-frazier-falsely-accuses-inmates-of-throwing-urine

Illegal Legal Mail Search by Columbia County Deputy Austin Marquette

Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Austin Marquette admitted to illegally searching inmate legal mail outside the presence of the inmate in a write-up last year. I have since lost the second page, but I have uploaded the first. In the lost page Marquette described going into my cell when I was not there, noticing several envelopes clearly marked legal mail, and feeling them to see if he could feel anything that was obviously not paperwork. When he found my coffee and radio, which I technically was not supposed to have, he wrote me up for contraband. The law at the time in the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit already clearly established that inmates have a legal right to be present whenever legal mail or work product is inspected. See Mangiaracina v. Penzone 849 F.3d 1191 (9th Cir. 2017): "We recently addressed prisoners legal mail rights in Nordstrom, 762 F.3d 903. In that case, a prisoner alleged that he had written a letter to his criminal attorney and that a correctional officer, instead of inspecting the letter in Nordstroms presence before sealing and sending it, stood in front of him and read the letter. We held that this event, though isolated, sufficiently alleged a violation of Nordstroms Sixth Amendment right to counsel.Although the case concerned improper reading rather than improper opening of legal mail, we noted that the practice of requiring an inmate to be present when his legal mail is opened is a measure designed to prevent officials from reading the mail in the first place. Id. at 910 (citing Wolff, 418 U.S. at 577)...We therefore now clarify that, under Nordstrom, prisoners have a Sixth Amendment right to be present when legal mail related to a criminal matter is inspected...Defendants argue that this case is distinguishable from Nordstrom because Mangiaracina does not allege that jail officials ever read his mail. But indeed, how could he? If the practice of opening legal mail in the presence of the prisoner is designed to prevent correctional officers from reading it, then the natural corollary is that a prisoner whose mail is opened outside his presence has no way of knowing whether it had been (permissibly) inspected or (impermissibly) read." My practice of hiding my contraband in my legal material had a couple of purposes. First, legal material is less likely to be inspected if the inmate is removed from his cell for a shakedown because inspecting it out side of his presence is illegal. Second, if an unlawful inspection results in an incident report the inmate then has written proof that the officer broke the law. In this case I lost my contraband but I gained knowledge that my legal material was being illegally searched while I was not in the cell.#austinmarquette #columbiacountyjail #searchandseizure #legalmail

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1205/illegal-legal-mail-search-by-columbia-county-deputy-austin-marquette

Why Using External Logins with ASP.Net Identity is a Bad Idea

If you are thinking of configuring your ASP.Net web application with ASP.Net Identity to let users sign up with external logins like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft, don't do it. It is a horrible idea that will surely lock out your users someday. That is because all of these third party providers force developers to upgrade in order to keep using their APIs and depending on how you have your external logins setup you might never be able to fix your site to work with the new version of Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Microsoft or the task will be so monumental as not to be worth the benefit of the external login integration. How do external logins work with ASP.Net Identity? According to Microsoft they work very easily. They have tutorials where all you need to do is create applications with the third party services, un-comment a couple lines of code in your ASP.Net application, and paste in your credentials. The first time I did that it worked great. Then I went a long time without accessing the site and when I did my Facebook and Twitter login capabilities were broken. I was never able to fix the Twitter login because no matter what I did it would give me a 403 error from Twitter. I was able to fix the Facebook login by upgrading other features that I needed for regular membership after which Facebook was mysteriously working again. Yesterday Facebook told me to fix my app or face suspension because nobody can login to Facebook from this website anymore even though I changed nothing. The internet is full of examples of people that set-up external logins for their websites only to find them broken overnight at no fault of their own. The internet is also full of horror stories where people troubleshooted for hours only to still have problems. I have never had any problems like that with any membership provider that I have built and I do not believe that allowing people to join this site using their Facebook login credentials is worth the trouble of fixing it again whenever Facebook decides to change things on their end. I want a solution that I will never have to fix again and for me that solution is the default membership in ASP.Net either through Identity or the old SQL Membership. If this leaves you locked out of this website because you signed up using Twitter or Facebook I would apologize if it were my fault but it is not. Take your gripes up with the social networks that broke your ability to access this site because I am not wasting another day on this problem. If you want to use this site take the time to create a membership and if you do not want to use this site bad enough to create a membership then I really do not want your business bad enough to waste the time needed to serve you. If you are a developer then I hope you learn from this and stop using external logins because someday it will break. When it breaks you will have to stop what you are doing and change your site to fix problems caused by external login providers. In the meantime nobody that joined your site using an external login will be able to access it anymore. Is that worth enabling users to join using their social media accounts? In my opinion it is not worth it.#copblaster #microsoft #facebook #twitter #google

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1204/why-using-external-logins-with-asp-net-identity-is-a-bad-idea

Get a Load of Multnomah County Drug Mule "Sifu" Shannon Spahan

Get a load of "Sifu" Shannon Spahan. A part time martial arts instructor and full time drug mule for the Multnomah County Health Department. During the day he transports prescription drugs around the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) and delivers the drugs to jail inmates that include all kinds of convicted felons, drug addicts and drug dealers. All of his customers hate him because he always crushes the good stuff into a fine powder and looks around their mouths to make sure they use all the drugs at once. Shannon takes his job really seriously. By night Shannon presents himself on Facebook as some kind of martial arts bad ass that fills his profile with pictures of himself in various poses and stages of undress. Some of his pictures look like wannabe Bruce Lee movie posters and others include shirtless selfies. One good thing I can say about Shannon is that he does not take death threats too seriously. I had a rat named Scott Franklin that I wrote about a few weeks ago and Franklin included Shannon on a list of people that he accused of me offering him $250,000 a head to kill. When I saw Shannon after that and told him that was not true he made it obvious that he did not care. If you or anyone you know at the jail talks about wanting to beat him up (because lots of inmates hate him) you might want to consider the fact that he does know self defense. Maybe that is why he is such a prick. Probably hoping someone makes a move on him so that he can show people what he knows.#shannonspahan #mulnomahcountyjail #drugmules #scottfranklin

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1203/get-a-load-of-multnomah-county-drug-mule-sifu-shannon-spahan

Ex-CO Thaddius Robinson from Catfish the TV Show Season 4

Thaddius Robinson was a correctional officer that appeared on season 4 episode 14 of Catfish the TV Show to confront Ashley Pietrowicz for catfishing him with some other woman's pictures. Funny thin about Thaddius is that he started talking to Ashley while he was still married, said he felt bad about it, researched her to the point of finding out what she was really up to, and contacted the Catfish show. On the show he teamed up with the woman whose pictures were stolen to track down Ashley and confront her. Ashley turned out to be a fat woman much bigger than Thaddius. Fortunately for Thaddius he never had to take her down during a prison riot.#thaddiusrobinson #catfish #ashleypietrowicz #cheaters

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1202/ex-co-thaddius-robinson-from-catfish-the-tv-show-season-4

Federal Officer with Three Percenter Tattoo Logan Ballinger

A federal correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon (FCI Sherican) was a confusing sight with his Three Percenter tattoo a couple years ago. His name is Logan Ballinger and although this author never asked him about his Three Percenter tattoo directly, he did overhear other inmates talking about it. One explanation suggested by an inmate that was at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge during the protests led by Ammon Bundy, was that Ballinger may have been a snitch and that tattoo was part of the act. He seemed to think he saw Ballinger at Malheur, but he did not seem sure. He did not seem to think that Ballinger was a real Three Percenter. If Ballinger is a Three Percenter it is surprising to see him working for the federal government at a facility that was housing people associated with the Three Percenters at that time, especially since he had that tattoo, if he were a real Three Percenter he could not hide it. That at the very least should have been seen as a conflict of interest by FCI Sheridan Warden Richard Ives. Yet there he was guarding inmates with a Three Percenter logo clearly tattooed on the inside of his right forearm. The Three Percenter bylaws say, "We are NOT anti-government. In fact, we are very pro-government, so long as the government abides by the Constitution," it would not be consistent with that statement for a member of that group to be working for a federal law enforcement agency at a time when the government is not abiding by the Constitution. The staff at FCI Sheridan routinely conduct illegal searches of inmate legal materials in violation of the Three Percenter oath which states, "I will NOT obey orders to conduct illegal searches of the American people." This author met Ballinger at the Federal Detention Center part of FCI Sheridan so Ballinger would have been violating the oath that states, "I will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under ANY pretext." Ballinger participated in cell searches and took property even though the Three Percenter oath states, "I will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies." FCI Sheridan does not permit inmates to exercise free speech or to peaceably assemble, and obstructs their ability to petition the government for a redress of grievances, so again Ballinger, if he is a Three Percenter, would have been violating his oath which includes, "I will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances." After looking at what is required to be a Three Percenter, this author does not believe that Ballinger is one. It is not possible for a Three Percenter to honor his oath and work for the Bureau of Prisons in a correctional capacity. -The Three Percenters produced a YouTube documentary about their group and you can watch it here:#loganballinger #fcisheridan #threepercenters

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1201/federal-officer-with-three-percenter-tattoo-logan-ballinger

Galveston Police Officer Patrick Brosch Basically Lynched a Black Man

Galveston Police Officer Patrick Brosch and his partner, identified only as A. Smith, were caught on camera practically lynching a black man. They tied a leash around him and led him down the street on horseback. Galveston Police Chief Vernon L. Hale III apologized for causing Donald Neely "unnecessary embarrassment." He also said that Brosch and Smith did not have any malicious intent. Apparently it is tradition in Texas for mounted police to leash black men they have arrested and lead them down the street tied to a rope. The only difference between this and a lynching appears to be that the rope is tied to his hands instead of his neck and he is walking down the street without being dragged. It seems that cops in Galveston have not learned over the centuries that you can't lasso people like cattle and that this does not look good. The poor guy probably thought he was going to get lynched. #patrickbrosch #donaldneely #vernonhale #racism #galvestonpolice

source https://copblaster.com/blast/1200/galveston-police-officer-patrick-brosch-basically-lynched-a-black-man