Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[HavokFour]

How very fortunate for them that it took so long.

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

In a press release, the department wrote that six officers were internally investigated with Chief Matt Giordano ultimately determining that three violated policy.

However, sources tell ABC15 all three officers who violated policy are now retired and can’t be disciplined.

One of the key officials involved in the gang charges was Sgt. Doug McBride, who was the officer who misled a grand jury to secure the indictment, records show.

The court called his testimony “egregious.”

McBride retired in December 2025 before the internal investigation was completed, and he now collects a $98,000 annual pension.

No Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members

Phoenix police will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

www.abc15.com

 

[RangerRay]

How very fortunate for them that it took so long.

No Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members

Phoenix police will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

www.abc15.com

Holy shit.

The scandal largely began following the arrest of a group of 17 protesters on October 21, 2020. In the days after the arrest, Phoenix officers and county prosecutors colluded to invent a gang and then falsely charge the protesters as members.

The city and county stood by the charges until February 2021, when ABC15 launched its “Politically Charged” investigation.

The news series exposed how Phoenix police and county prosecutors lied to a grand jury to obtain the gang charges and testified that the protesters were comparable to the Bloods, Crips, and Hells Angels, according to a confidential transcript obtained by ABC15.


As a direct result of ABC15's investigation, more than 40 felony protest cases were dismissed, the city and county admitted to widespread failures with the arrests, and the lead prosecutor was suspended from practicing law for at least two years and may never practice again.

 

[ModlrMike]

They can probably waive their qualified immunity goodbye. Numerous courts have ruled that QI only exists when the offending action was unintentional and likely unavoidable. It would be quite the argument to say that knowingly creating a fictitious narrative to justify false charges meets that definition. Bring on the lawsuits.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Yikes...

Ex-Detroit police sergeant led 'double life' as serial rapist, prosecutor says​

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A former Detroit police sergeant who spent nearly 30 years on the force allegedly led a double life as an officer and a serial rapist, according to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

Benjamin Wagner, 68, is now facing charges in five separate sexual assaults of girls and women between the ages of 15 and 23 from 1999 and 2003 in Northwest Detroit.

Ex-Detroit police sergeant led 'double life' as serial rapist, prosecutor says

A former Detroit police sergeant who spent nearly 30 years on the force allegedly led a double life as an officer and a serial rapist, according to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

www.wxyz.com

 

[mariomike]

'Unarmed' Myles Gray ... whew

March 2026 Myles Gray Update

A Paramedic testified at the Hearing this month regarding Vital Signs and Chemical Restraint,

He was dead when I got there and he was dead when I left.

According to the 2023 Coroner's Inquest,

The police officers had requested and were awaiting the arrival of paramedics to administer sedation to assist in controlling Gray

 

[lenaitch]

He was dead when I got there and he was dead when I left.

Reminds me of:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

Or:

ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Brace, brace, brace...

Complaint commissioner announces 'systemic' probe into B.C. police sexual misconduct​

Complaints of sexualized conduct in municipal police departments in British Columbia have been frequent enough for police complaint commissioner Prabhu Rajan to launch his office's first ever systemic investigation to look into how departments deal with such complaints.

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner announced the probe Wednesday, marking the police watchdog's first exercise of the power granted after an amendment to B.C.'s Police Act.

"Sexualized conduct in police workplaces, municipal police work places has been a recurring issue that I've seen far too often," Rajan said in an interview Wednesday.

Rajan said he hopes the investigation can shed light on how police forces can better handle sexual misconduct complaints, "to close any gaps and to protect people who may report and to strengthen public trust."

He said using the office's systemic investigation power for the first time would allow it to examine issues with "broad impact," since sexualized conduct affects not only individual officers, but also potential police recruits and the public at large.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/complaint-commissioner-announces-systemic-probe-into-bc-police-sexual-misconduct-12057990