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Law enforcements abuse of powers - good reporting, I look forward to a follow up to this story.
Sheriff's deputies' disdain for Constitution captured by their own recorded comments
“I will supplement it (my report) and use very flowery language.” -SLO County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Murphy
When San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Murphy responded to a “shots fired” call in April 2008, he decided en route that he was going to make an arrest.
He did far more than that. Murphy and other deputies made an unwarranted entry into a home, and then into a locked gun safe. Murphy’s uncensored, darkly disturbing observations and behavior following his Code-3 arrival at the rural home of longtime SLO County resident Matt Hart were picked up by Murphy’s and other deputies’ own recorders. Those recordings provide a rare, frighteningly revealing, behind-the-scenes perspective of how one local law enforcement agency views the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and other laws its personnel are sworn to uphold.
Sheriff’s spinner Rob Bryn declined to confirm the identities of any of the deputies appearing or heard in the recordings, or to discuss any aspect of the Hart home invasion. So we’ve done that for you. (Bryn, ever the public servant, eventually stopped responding to e-mails from a KCCN.tv reporter.)
Deputies’ deportment in the field as exhibited by their own words, as well as their plainly audible efforts to fabricate justifications for their actions, are lamentable. Local county prosecutors’ subsequent abuse of power, wielded in a cavalier, clumsy, and transparent effort to avoid a lawsuit, also is troubling.
http://www.kccn.tv/
The video can also be found on youtube by clicking the links below.
Slo County Sheriff's deputies violate 4th amendment rights of Matt Hart KCCN.tv Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wKRKGqYZjI
Slo County Sheriff's deputies violate 4th amendment rights of Matt Hart KCCN.tv Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PI4rkECqWg&NR=1
Sheriff's deputies' caught on tape creating exigency that don,t exist pt 1 – 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGD32DENkk&feature=related
Sheriff's deputies' on tape create exigency that don,t exist 2 - 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9y9RlMFzA&feature=related
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