Stupid people of the week

Video shows school employee hit 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in head

The parents of a 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child released video that appears to show a school employee hitting their son in the head and then carrying him upside down by both ankles.

The 17-second video, which Taneshia Lindsay shared on her Facebook page, shows security footage from the hallway of Rosa Parks Early Learning Center in Dayton, Ohio on Aug. 21. She and the child’s father, Robert Tootle, accused administrators of downplaying the incident and failing to release the full video.

Lindsay said she was initially told by a school administrator that her son, Braylen, had been “swatted” by a school employee. But security video from inside the school painted a completely different picture, she said at a news conference Wednesday.

The employee has also since resigned after being placed on administrative leave, Interim Superintendent David Lawrence said.

In the short video, Braylen is seen running down a hallway. The school employee chases after the child and then appears to strike him in the head, causing him to fall, the video shows. The employee then appears to carry Braylen upside down by his ankles.

“When she [the principal] let us know, it wasn’t the full truth,” Lindsay said. “As you guys can see, it was way worse than that.”

Their attorney Micahel Wright said the school “lied to this family” and “kept them in the dark.”

“They were not being transparent and they have to be held accountable,” he said.

Lindsay said she had to email Dayton Public Schools three times before she received the short clip. She was given the video on Monday, three weeks after the incident.

More at the source; NBC News

Former Philadelphia Police officer sexually assaulted vulnerable women and girls in his police car, prosecutors say

Prosecutors shared disturbing new details Monday in the criminal case against a former Philadelphia Police officer, showing through videos, photos, and witness interviews how Patrick Heron strategically targeted and sexually assaulted vulnerable women and girls — often in the back of his police cruiser and while in uniform.

Heron, who retired from the force in 2019, was arrested last year and charged with indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, stalking, and witness intimidation after prosecutors said he posed as an active officer to lure girls, including some of his daughter’s friends. He would groom and coerce them into sending him intimate photos, officials said. In some cases, he touched them inappropriately.

After investigators searched Heron’s tech devices, they said they uncovered dozens of photos and videos showing that Heron’s predatory behavior spanned years and included dozens of young women and girls — many of whom were vulnerable and had run away, been arrested, or struggled with addiction.

In total, Heron, from Northeast Philadelphia, faces more than 200 counts of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, kidnapping, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault, child pornography, and related crimes.

During a hearing Monday in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, prosecutors shared a video that they said showed Heron encouraging a young woman to use heroin in the back of his cruiser.

“Finish that needle,” he told her. He then videotaped himself assaulting her while she lay unconscious in the back of his car, said Lyandra Retacco, chief of the Special Investigations Unit of the District Attorney’s Office.

In one case, Heron was responsible for driving a girl home from the hospital after she had run away, Retacco said. In another, he encountered a teen who had been arrested. Routinely, Heron would then give the girls his cell phone number and tell them to call him if they needed money or help.

Before forcing one girl to perform sex acts on him, Heron told her that, “It would help you in court to have a police officer on your side,” testified Sgt. Gerald Rocks, the investigator on the case.

Heron met many of his victims while on the force, Retacco said, and prosecutors say his crimes occurred over a roughly 17-year span, from 2005 through 2022. Investigators have identified 48 victims, though many of their identities remain unknown, Retacco said. There are likely more who haven’t come forward, she said.

“When a person chooses their victims so that they are vulnerable, then it can be difficult for them to make reports and it can be difficult for them to come forward,” she said.

Heron’s lawyer, Anthony F. List Jr., declined to comment Monday. He said nothing in Heron’s defense in court.

More at the source; Philadelphia Inquirer

Oakland has a PIRATE problem

You can’t make this shit up.

Drunk stripper gets frisky with cop in awkward traffic stop: video

Body camera footage captures the moment an Ohio stripper calls a police officer “handsome” and tells him to tase her because she likes it “kinky” after admitting she downed six shots of Patrón during a hit-and-run arrest.

Grace Spoonamore, 20, was behind the wheel of a Buick Enclave when she allegedly struck a Chevrolet Cruz at an intersection in Brunswick and then took off. An officer witnessed the accident, according to an incident report obtained by Fox News Digital.

Officer Dominick DeMedal pulled her over April 30 near a car dealership and noted she had bloodshot, watery eyes and reeked of alcohol, the police report alleges.

The car was registered to a man with felony warrants for strong-arm assault of a family member and a probation violation for cocaine possession.

After DeMedal handcuffs her, he asks if she has anything in her pockets. “I don’t know. You want to check me?” Spoonamore replied, giggling.

While Spoonamore, wearing a midriff-baring top and jeans, waits in the back of the police cruiser, she playfully dangles her leg outside the car.

DeMedal orders her to put her leg back in.

“Listen, handsome man,” she says coyly. “You feel some type of way because my leg ain’t in the car?”

“Get your foot in the car. Just stop!” an irritated DeMedal replied.

Spoonamore initially denied drinking, then later admitted in the footage to a second officer, Robert Dugan, that she had three double Patróns “with a lime.”

After telling the officers she’s a stripper who works at Hustler, DeMedal asks where the club is located.

“You know. Don’t play dumb with me. I ain’t that dumb b—-. Don’t play me like that,” she rants. “At least seven different officers want to report me as I f—ed up because I won’t sleep with them because I work there.”

More at the source, including video for you…ahem…curious types; Fox News

Helicopter Gets Wedged Under Highway Overpass

I can’t park here? Don’t tell me how to do my job!

More photos of the helicopter that got wedged under the I-12 overpass at Range Avenue. DOTD is still working to remove the aircraft, but they do not believe the bridge sustained significant damage at this time.

Latest here: https://t.co/UsGgaQ3jah pic.twitter.com/MT8r152FMg

— WBRZ News (@WBRZ) September 22, 2023

 

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