Rochester Officer Alexander Lombard ID'd Pepper Spraying Little Girl

Rochester Police Officer Alexander Lombard has been identified on camera pepper spraying a 9 year old girl. Lombard is seen in the video below at about 5:30 arriving on the scene and being told by a fellow officer to "put her in your car." Then the body camera falls off the other officer's body and Lombard can be seen putting hands on the girl. Eventually the girl ends up on the ground, Lombard helps the other officer pull her up, and as they moved her towards Lombard's vehicle the body camera got knocked off the other officer again, so there are several minutes of darkness with audio. Eventually the other officer put his body camera back on and the girl is in the back seat of Lombard's vehicle talking to Officer Hannah Schneeberger (/sni:z/bu:ge(r)/). At that point several officers not including Lombard can be seen standing in the middle of the road. We believe that Lombard was on the other side of the car at that point and eventually filmed himself pepper spraying the girl with his won body camera. Our conclusion as to Lombard's identity and whereabouts when the girl was pepper sprayed is based on new information that we received from a user. A user commented that he believed Lombard to have filmed himself pepper spraying the girl in the second video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku41-899CHo) and after further review we believe that he is correct. We originally mistook Lombard for fellow officer John Soures and ruled Soures out as the owner of the second camera (https://ift.tt/3rjZ5eP) because Soures was clearly identified in the video below at about 10:23 standing in the middle of the road when the girl was sprayed, so he could not possibly be the sprayer. We originally thought that Soures arrived on the scene much earlier because we could not read Lombard's name on his uniform and Lombard was dressed the same as Soures. They are both white males in their mid-20s with brown facial hair of similar height, weight, and build wearing the same RPD beanie. We now believe that Soures made his first appearance without a beanie at about 9:30 and that is why we did not notice him at first. Because we thought that Lombard was Soures we could not consider him as a suspect until one of our users posted a comment containing a link to a screenshot in which he was able to capture Lombard's name tag in a readable form (https://ift.tt/39Uqv4Z). We then found the same timestamp in our copy of the video and verified that the same name is visible there. Now that we have identified that officer as Lombard, have established that the vehicle was his, that he was unaccounted for in the video while the owner of the second camera was standing on the other side of the car, that he is never visible in the second video, and both videos appear to show that at 15:47:37 Lombard was seen standing in the first video exactly where the owner of the second video was standing; we now believe that Lombard was wearing the second camera and filmed himself pepper spraying the little girl(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku41-899CHo). According to public records, Alexander M. Lombard is a 28 year old resident of Brockport, New York. He moved to Brockport from Albion in 2018 when he was hired by the RPD. According to the RPD Open Data Portal (https://ift.tt/2N0vlos) Alexander Lombard is the only current RPD officer with the last name Lombard, was hired on September 24, 2018, he was 26 years old the day he was hired, and has held the same rank the entire time. Open Oversight has no badge number for him, but their profile appears consistent with the RPD data. According to GovSalaries he made $63,327 working as a patrol officer for the City of Rochester in 2020 (https://ift.tt/36RBzxZ). Other officers involved whose identities are known to us at this time include: Hannah Schneeberger (https://ift.tt/3p12gGB She was the blonde woman heard threatening the girl with pepper spray before she was sprayed. Adam Bradstreet (https://ift.tt/3jqeSpD Was standing near Schneeberger when she threatened the girl and failed to intervene. We are looking into the possibility that the first body camera (embedded below) was Bradstreet's camera. We had placed him to Schneeberger's left based on where we believe the answer to the question "Bradstreet what's her name?" came from, but are reanalyzing that conclusion based on the identification of Lombard. Part of the problem is that the first video ends before that question as asked so there is no way to say for sure where the owner of the first body camera was at that time. Either way he was close enough to Schneeberger to stop her and did nothing. John Soures (https://ift.tt/3tyI8zk Was standing in the road close enough to Schneeberger to hear her threaten the girl and failed to intervene. Ethan Paszko (https://ift.tt/3p126it Was standing in the middle of the road behind Lombard's car close enough to hear Schneeberger, but failed to intervene. So far disciplinary action has only been taken against three of the officer. One was suspended and two others were placed on paid administrative leave. We believe that the suspended officer is either Schneeberger or Lombard. We are not sure because in Lombard's video we see him holding a can of pepper spray and Schneeberger shaking a can of pepper spray. The other officer placed on leave was probably the first officer that arrived on the scene who may or may not have been Bradstreet. There were at least three other officers involved who were at the scene and failed to intervene. If you know their names please let us know. #alexanderlombard #johnsoures #hannahschneeberger #adambradstreet

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34418/rochester-officer-alexander-lombard-idd-pepper-spraying-little-girl

Rochester Officer Ethan Paszko ID'd at Scene of Pepper Sprayed Girl

Rochester Police Officer Ethan Paszko has been identified as failing to intervene when fellow officers pepper sprayed a 9 year old girl. Officer Paszko appeared towards the end of the video below right before a 9 year old girl was pepper sprayed by Officer Hannah Schneeberger (https://ift.tt/2YFyMDA) and a yet to be identified male officer. We are not sure when Paszko arrived at the scene, but we do know that the name E. Paszko is visible on his uniform at about 10:50 shortly after he first appeared in the video. Paszko made his first appearance in the video at about 10:14 right before Schneeberger can be heard threatening the child by saying, "this is your last chance otherwise pepper spray is going in your eyeballs." We believe that Paszko was obviously close enough to hear Schneeberger threaten the child and was in a position to intervene. Officers have a lawful duty to intervene when they witness fellow officers use excessive force or break the law. We believe that pepper spraying a child under any circumstances constitutes excessive force at a minimum and in this case constituted an unlawful battery on a child with a weapon. We believe that Officer Paszko had a duty to intervene when he heard Schneeberger threaten the girl with an unlawful battery. Instead he just stood back and watched with his fellow officers including Officer John Soures (https://ift.tt/3rjZ5eP) and Officer Adam Bradstreet (https://ift.tt/3pQq41r). Their duty to intervene is identical to that of corrections officers in prison batteries as described in Smith v. Mensinger, 293 F.3d 641 (3rd Cir. 2002) "We hold that a corrections officer's failure to intervene in a beating can be the basis of liability...if the corrections officer had a reasonable opportunity to intervene and simply refused to do so. Furthermore, we hold that a corrections officer cannot escape liability by relying upon his inferior or non-supervisory rank vis-a-vis the other officers." (https://ift.tt/36Jgfuw). See also Buckner v. Hollins, 983 F.2d 119 (8th Cir. 1993) "Prison guard's failure to intervene to stop another officer's beating of naked, handcuffed, defenseless prisoner would constitute deliberate indifference sufficient to preclude summary judgment." (https://ift.tt/2YNjs87). The only difference between Paszko and the subjects of the aforementioned cases is that he is a police officer and this battery took place outside of a correctional institution. However, "For there to be a failure to intervene, it follows that 'there must exist an underlying constitutional violation.'" Santiago v. Fields, (https://ift.tt/3cNdE6G) citing Harper v. Albert, 400 F.3d 1052, 1064 (7th Cir. 2005) (https://ift.tt/3rsF4Tk). In this case we believe that Officer Schneeberger's threat to pepper spray the child constituted an assault under the reasonable apprehension of harm standard used in federal courts (https://ift.tt/3oRxdgn). "To constitute an assault, an action must be either a willful attempt to inflict injury upon the person of another, or a threat to inflict injury upon the person of another which, when coupled with an apparent present ability, causes a reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm." United States v. Dupree, 544 F.2d 1050, 1051 (9th Cir.1976)(https://ift.tt/399Ksmx). Under that standard Officers Paszko, Soures, Bradsteet, and others failed to intervene while witnessing an assault. That assault being the unlawful threat to use pepper spray combined with the fact that such a threat would cause any objectively reasonable person apprehension of imminent bodily harm. That constitutional violation also constituted punishment without due process of law in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. Such conduct is ripe for a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 which permits citizens to seek compensation and punitive damages for deprivation of civil rights under color of state law (https://ift.tt/1Q3tBS6). Officer Paszko has in interesting online footprint. In addition to his Open Oversight profile, he is listed on GovSalaries as having made $75,626 as a patrol officer last year (https://ift.tt/2N4PeuM). He has a LinkedIn account that appears to have been created many years ago when he was a student at Grove City College on which he lists an internship with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). Google searches reveal that Paszko grew up in the Rochester suburb of Churchville. He is 25 years old and his badge number is 2720. #ethanpaszko #hannahschneeberger #childabuse #johnsoures

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34417/rochester-officer-ethan-paszko-idd-at-scene-of-pepper-sprayed-girl

Rochester Officer Adam Bradstreet Involved in Pepper Spraying Girl

One of the Rochester Police officers involved in the pepper spraying of a 9 year old girl last week has been identified as Adam Bradstreet. We were able to identify him because in the video below at about 5:30 a fellow officer asked "Bradstreet what's her name?" We then searched the police officer database at Open Oversight for RPD officers with the last name Bradstreet and found a single entry for an Adam K. Bradstreet (badge number IBM#2622). Then we verified that he is in fact a current RPD officer by looking him up on GovSalaries where we learned that last year he made $86,716 as a patrol officer for the city of Rochester (https://ift.tt/3rlTggY). We also ran his name through the paid background check service that we usually use and found one public record for a 32 year old male named Adam Kenneth Bradstreet with an address in the nearby city of Webster, New York. The above image of Bradstreet includes a small social media profile picture that we recovered from Google's cache. It showed up in a Google images search with a link to a PeekYou page about people named Adam Bradstreet, but the live page does not contain the image. We did however see another picture of a cop linking to an Instagram profile (https://ift.tt/3pQpdgZ) which has since been deleted. It is common practice for officers to remove their social media pages after high profile incidents such as this one. We believe that the image came from that profile. We know that the picture is of Bradsteet because the last half of his last name is visible on his nametag, he is obviously wearing a RPD uniform, and he looks strikingly similar to one of the officers in the video below. In the video below you can see that Bradstreet played a somewhat less serious role in the assault. He appears to be standing next to officer Hannah Schneeberger (https://ift.tt/2YFyMDA) most of the time. He does not appear to pepper spray or even touch the victim at all, but we still believe that he shares some of the blame for the pepper spraying because he was standing right next to Schneeberger when she threatened the child at about 4:40 by saying "this is your last chance or pepper spray is going in your eyeballs." We fault Officer Bradstreet for failing to intervene when Schneeberger threatened the girl while standing right next to him. Police officers have a lawful duty to intervene when they witness a fellow officer use excessive force or otherwise behave inappropriately. Even when the girl was pepper sprayed he did nothing. He had the opportunity to stop Schneeberger when she threatened the child. A competent officer would have pulled her aside or stepped in front of her and told her that it is not ok to threaten children. #adambradstreet #hannahschneeberger #joshsoures #childabuse

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34416/rochester-officer-adam-bradstreet-involved-in-pepper-spraying-girl

Hannah Schneeberger ID'd as Rochester Officer Pepper Spraying Child

Hannah Schneeberger has been identified as one of the Rochester Police officers that pepper sprayed a 9 year old black girl earlier this week. She was identified thanks to the Open Oversight database, the Reddit postings of an ex, her own social media activity, and of course the video of her pepper spraying the child in the back seat of a patrol car. We had no idea who the female officer in the video was until the pieces came together over the past couple hours. We stumbled on the first piece on Reddit where a user had posted a story titled "My ex pepper sprayed the 9 year old in Rochester" (https://ift.tt/2MU3whH). That posting did not contain the full name of the officer, but it did include a screenshot of a conversation with her (https://ift.tt/3rla2wS). In that screenshot you can see the name that the owner of the phone gave her when adding her to his contacts list. That name was "Crazy Hannah." Crazy Hannah said "Hahaha" when her ex sent a text saying "Who would have thought after years of bible thumping that I'd be helping kids and you'd be macing them!" Then she denied macing anyone. Our next stop was the police officer database run by Open Oversight. The Open Oversight database contains the names of over 1,000 Rochester Police officers. We searched that database for all white female officers and browsed that list for anyone with the fist name Hannah. We found just one Rochester officer named Hannah on that list and that officer is Hannah Schneeberger (https://ift.tt/3ttjAaI). We also ran her name through GovSalaries and learned that she made $74,693 working as a patrol officer for the city of Rochester last year (https://ift.tt/2O95MSV). We also ran her name through our background check service and learned that one Hannah Mcrae Schneeberger currently lives in Rochester. At that point we were still not certain that we had the right person. For all we know the Reddit posting could have been a joke. We wanted to find undeniable proof that this is the same person, so we turned to Google. After a search for "Hannah Schneeberger Rochester" failed to turn up anything useful, we did a search for "Hannah Schneeberger police" and hit the jackpot. That jackpot was a Pinterest account setup under the name Hannah Schneeberger (https://ift.tt/3pNIBLK) with an image board titled "police" (https://ift.tt/2LmhCrI) full of thin blue line propaganda and another board titled "Pew Pew" (https://ift.tt/3cGbrK4) full of thin blue line themed guns as well as bible quotes consistent with the ex calling her a Bible thumper. Most importantly the account contains a profile image that bears a striking resemblance to the female officer in the video below (https://ift.tt/3jiMR3a). Schneeberger is wearing a Shamrock Jack's Irish Pub t-shirt in her Pinterest image. Shamrock Jack's Irish Pub is a bar located on Culver Road in Rochester, New York (https://ift.tt/36GglTK). Based on the striking similarities between the Pinterest profile picture and the woman in the video combined with the overwhelming evidence that Hannah Schneeberger is in fact the name of a current Rochester Police officer we are confident that this is the right person. If you compare the images from Pinterest to the video below and the stills we took from it you should notice striking similarities between the two. Most notably the cheeks, nose, and forehead appear to match as well as the hair and eyes. She does look a little heavier in the cheeks in the video, so you need to keep that in mind. There are certainly far more similarities than there are differences, so much so that we would be shocked to learn that this is not the same person. #hannahschneeberger #childabuse #johnsoures #adambradstreet

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34415/hannah-schneeberger-idd-as-rochester-officer-pepper-spraying-child

Rochester Police Officer John Soures ID'd at Pepper Spraying of Child

The Open Oversight project has identified one of the Rochester Police officers involved in the pepper spraying of a 9 year old girl as 26 year old John Soures (see link to profile above this article). We have been doing some research of our own to verify this information and to our surprise found out that Officer Soures has a very small online footprint. Besides the Open Oversight profile we could find just two other pages on the internet linking anyone by the name of John Soures to the Rochester Police Department (RPD), but those pages are enough to convince us that there is in fact a RPD officer who goes by the name John Soures and that officer was caught on camera at the scene of the pepper spraying of a 9 year old black girl. Those pages include a page from GovSalaries saying that in 2020 one John Soures made $43,621 as a patrol officer for the city of Rochester (https://ift.tt/36Fokk6) and a page listing Bald for Bucks participants from the RPD (https://ift.tt/3oQn1F0). The image above clearly shows a man with the name "Soures" on his uniform. That image is a screenshot taken from the video below. In that video Soures can be heard telling a fellow officer to "put her in your car" in reference to the 9 year old girl at about 5:30. At about 5:50 he can be seen putting hands on the girl as he helps other officers force her into a patrol car. At 7:00 the girl is sitting on the curb when Officer Soures tells her to "get up" and then forces her to get up by grabbing her and pulling her up. The video goes dark for awhile as the girl is placed in the patrol car. After that at 10:53 you can clearly see the name "J SOURES" on the uniform of a tall skinny officer wearing beanie on the right side of the screen. When we first wrote about this case and asked the public what the names of the officers are, we based our conclusions on a different video (https://ift.tt/39Eobzh). That video shows more of the pepper spraying and handling of the girl while she was in the back seat of the patrol car, but it does not show the names of any of the officers on their uniforms the way that the video below does. That is why we never noticed his name before. This conclusion allows us to say that Soures was directly involved in the battery of this child, but that he does not appear to have personally pepper sprayed her. In addition, we can hear one of the officers refer to another officer by name at about 5:25 of the second video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku41-899CHo) by asking, "Bradstreet what's her name?" From that we can conclude that the last name of one officer is Bradstreet or something of different spelling and similar pronunciation. Operation Oversight has a profile for one Adam K. Bradstreet (https://ift.tt/3pO5uib). We believe that to be the officer referred to by name in the video. We will follow up this article with separate piece dedicated to Bradstreet in the near future. We would like to thank the anonymous online tipster that emailed us with these names and screenshots. Those emails inspired us to look at the video below and re-analyze the other video. #johnsoures #adambradstreet #childabuse #blacklivesmatter

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34414/rochester-police-officer-john-soures-idd-at-pepper-spraying-of-child

Galveston Police Captain Pedro Alcocer Arrested for Domestic Violence

Galveston Police Captain Pedro Alcocer was arrested for assault causing bodily injury/family violence and harassment following a domestic violence incident earlier this week. The offenses are both misdemeanors so he only had to post $5,000 bail after turning himself in before being released under an emergency protective order which prohibits him for coming within 200 yards of the victim or having any type of communication with her. He was placed on administrative leave without pay. Specifics of the case have not been released so all we can do is speculate at this time. Statistically speaking domestic violence is one of the most common crimes we see cops get arrested for. Most male officers arrested for domestic violence are accused of hitting their wives, sometimes their kids, and the rest are gay. In wife beater cases slapping is a common weapon of choice as well as punching, shoving, and strangulation. Alcocer is charged with causing an injury so that could be due to facial bruising from getting slapped, strangulation marks around the neck, or worse, but probably not much worse or he would be facing a felony charge. Usually the accused have been drunk. Police officers have a habit of drinking heavily to cope with the guilt that comes with doing what they do. That combined with their propensity to violence makes many married officers ticking time bombs. Ironic since one of the most common reasons women marry cops is because they feel safe with them. That sense of security is often shattered soon after the honeymoon ends and they find themselves in the crosshairs suspected of causing more stress for someone already working a high stress job. By the time they realize who they really married it is too late and they are already prisoners in their own homes. Captain Alcocer has been with the Galveston Police Department since 1991 and has been a captain since 2019. According to public records some poor woman whose name we will not post has shared an address with Alcocer since at least 1989 and is about the same age. We speculate that she has probably endured years of abuse and finally had enough. If Captain Alcocer wants to put an end to our speculations he is welcome to send us a copy of the police report or he could ask his boss to do the right thing and release the details. Police departments have nobody but themselves to blame when members of the public start speculating about details after their officers are arrested and no details are released. If they don't want people fearing the worst they should just put the publics minds at ease by saying something beyond just what the charges are. They could at least issue a press release summarizing what their own people say happened. They do that when members of the public are arrested and they can do it with their own people. #pedroalcocer #harassment #assault #domesticviolence

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34413/galveston-police-captain-pedro-alcocer-arrested-for-domestic-violence

What are the Names of the Rochester Cops That Pepper Sprayed a Child?

In the video below you can watch these Rochester Police officers pepper spray a 9 year old girl as she begs for her father. The girl was in the back of a patrol car with her hands cuffed behind her back. Pepper spraying an adult, let alone a child, while they are handcuffed in the back of a patrol car is excessive force. The City of Rochester was quick to suspend these officers pending the outcome of an investigation, but they did not release their names. We want to know who they are. We know that if enough people see their faces that eventually someone will recognize them. If you live in the Rochester area take a good look at the facial screenshot collage on this page. If you know who any of these officers are, there is a comment section on this page below this article, please use it to post everything you know about these people. The Rochester Police Department does not appear to be justifying this at all. Interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan said, "I'm not going to stand here and tell you that for a 9-year-old to be pepper-sprayed is OK. It's not," and Rochester Executive Deputy Chief Andre Anderson said, "I'm not making any excuses for what transpired," If the RPD has already taken the position that pepper spraying a defenseless child is wrong then why are they protecting these child abusers from public scrutiny? Why not release their names just like they would any regular citizen that gets caught on camera abusing a child? A regular citizen would be in jail with their mugshot all over the news if caught on camera doing what these officers did. Everyone that has seen the video, including New York Attorney General Letitia James whose office is looking at this case, agree that nothing about it is ok. Again, if you know the names of the suspended Rochester Police officers please post them in comments section below. #pepperspray #childabuse #assault #letitiajames

source https://copblaster.com/blast/34412/what-are-the-names-of-the-rochester-cops-that-pepper-sprayed-a-child