Showing posts with label COPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COPS. Show all posts
8/28/18
3/14/17
SWEET COP- MCHAEL HANCE- RIP
NYPD Officer Michael Hance, who twerked with a reveler at NYC's 2015 Gay Pride parade, has died of 9/11-related cancer. He was 44. The 17-year veteran of the NYPD, who worked the bucket brigade in the aftermath of the terror attack on the World Trade Center, died Sunday.
“He always liked to help people,” his brother, Peter Hance, 45, told the Daily News. “He always liked to do good.” Hance, who worked out of the 111th Precinct in Bayside, Queens, was diagnosed with brain cancer in November after he fell in front of his home and complained of feeling dizzy, his brother said. As he fought the disease, the cancer spread to his lungs, liver and chest.
Hance, who wasn’t gay, uplifted the city’s spirits two years ago when a cellphone video of him dancing on duty and in uniform with reveler Aaron Santis at the Manhattan pride parade to the Michael Jackson song “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” went viral. Hance’s family was unsurprised that the beloved cop managed to connect with parade-goers. “That’s just who he was,” his brother said. “He was definitely a people person. He has like 8 million friends.”
4/11/16
THE "SLAVE AUCTION" OF 1976
Deploying helicopters, buses and dozens of cops — and bringing along television news crews — the LAPD invaded the gathering. Nearly 400 people were detained and 42 were arrested, including John Embry, the publisher of the leather magazine Drummer, and the first "Mr. Drummer" title-holder, Val Martin, who served as auctioneer. The police released public statements claiming they had halted an actual slave auction and describing the participants as dangerous perverts.
Val Martin later recalled, "We repeated many times what the [playful and charitable] purpose of the auction was. They made us lay on the ground, hands on our necks. They treated us like animals.... They were taking pictures, calling us names."
Ultimately, the district attorney charged only four of the participants, changing the violation from "slave dealing" to "prostitution." All received fines and community service. The homophobia displayed by the LAPD drew strong condemnation from gay leaders and the gay media — and the ACLU later dubbed the raid "one of the more blatant landmarks in the history of police paranoia with regards to the gay community."
Located at 4424 Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles, the structure that housed the Mark IV is extant — and now serves as a gay men's sex club named FLEXspas Los Angeles (flex baths).
2/3/16
6/29/15
5/1/15
STATE ATTORNEY: FREDDIE GRAY IS A HOMICIDE
baltimore state attorney~ marilyn mosby tells it like it is
1/16/15
4/5/14
3/9/13
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