opioid crisis killed my wife. we moved across state lines, she was SSI (disabled) and had been on 2 oxi's a day for a few years with no issues. new state, new medicare she had to sign up for, new doctors. and this was reno nevada around 2016. when the local ford dealership had just gotten busted for selling pills on the side. so the new doctor took her off her pain meds. a year later she took a different pill, a permanent pill, one marked with the identifying characters of ".45 ACP". i came home from work and found her body. at 1st, i thought it was another sudden onset seizure and had dialed 911 for emt's. then i got closer, then i saw the blood, then i recoiled and struck the empty holster, then i saw the lump the under the spilled laundry by her hand. and then i told dispatch i had found a gun, and the 1st responder there was a cop. this happened in 2018, the death investigation is still not closed. there was letters and even texts in her never locked phone talking about her plans. my alibi was being at work, physically interacting with 10 people on camera at time of death, and there hours earlier and later. i am still afraid that it will get re-opened. and i am still the only other person with access to her and that gun, which was mine.
I was wrongly accused of a crime and I did speak to detectives on my front porch. They ask me to come to their office and that is when I said. "Iff you have the evidence to arrest me do it but, if you want me to come talk to you I will need a lawyer present." They left and I never heard another word about it. Ass Holes!!
@@oldtimefarmboy617 Unfortunate, but mostly true. A big part of the problem is so many laws on the books are against the Bill of Rights, and so very many police officers view that oath to uphold and defend the Constitution as mere words they need to say to get a job and no more. And the California Highway Patrol oath doesn't include any language about upholding the Constitution but rather following the law of California and directives of the governor.
Lie No 1. The cops are there to help you. NOT ---- I have a story to share ... a little over 30 years ago, my cousin came to live with me. He could not live alone because of Advanced Multiple Sclerosis and he really had no where to go. Long story short, one afternoon while I was at work, he decided to drive to the convenience store just 3 blocks from my house. At the time, I had no idea where he went. But 6 hours after I got home from work, he still had not returned home. Now this was before the days of everyone having cell phones, so it's not like I could call him to find out where he was. So I called the police to ask for help finding him and told them of his medical condition and that he easily gets lost. The police sent a cop to my house. The cop took me downtown and 2 detectives questioned me as if I had killed him, which is the most ridiculous thing ever. Two hours or so into their interrogating me, I told them I want a lawyer. The detectives tried trickery to get me to keep talking but I was adamant I wanted a lawyer. Let me tell you, I was a MAD S.O.B. So they left the room and didn't come back for more than an hour, and let me go. A couple of hours after I got back home, my cousin finally showed up - in a taxi. He had been driving around lost for hours and finally ran out of gas. He had no idea where he was at when he ran out of gas and couldn't even give me an idea where the car was. It took me 2 days of driving around to find that car. Thankfully, it had not yet been towed off. A few days after that, another cop showed up at my house following up and I presented my very alive cousin to the cop and told him that when he saw his detective buddies, to tell them I said to go to hell.
Have you published this story anywhere else? its interesting, and should be known. These patterns within policing culture last a long time, and its interesting to see its earlier forms.
What the- How is this the logical explanation to someone disappearing for a couple of hours ?? You'd be going to the entrance of a supermarket saying you lost your child, then the second after the police comes to take you saying you killed your child in the cereals' aisle ?? They're not just being lazy now, they WANT to put someone else in jail (while there's already too many people there)
@djphantom8800 is called mandatory minimums. The privatization of prisons started with Clinton and has had this effect on the justice system to this day.
I know police aren't allowed to threaten to have your pet k1lled if you don't confess, refuse necessary medication, or deprive a person of food, water, and sleep to get a confession. What these officers did was unethical and illegal.
bros were breaking literal POW wartime laws and still get to keep their jobs, pensions, and overtime, without facing any consequences at all. it's not even law enforcement anymore, it's just mercenaries
@@neuxell The Geneva Convention gives more protection to those POWs who are private soldiers (anyone who isn't a commission officer or non-commissioned officer), because there is no presumption that properly uniformed soldiers are doing anything unlawful, as armies are allowed to capture opposing soldiers simply for their being capturable.
The settlement money is unfair to the abused man, and unfair to the people paying the bill. These detectives should have been fired and forced to pay the settlement fine.
Actually they dont lawyer up alot of the time because theyre so smug about the shit they do, they think they have it all figured out, they think their buddies at the depot will help them out. The sad part is that those buddies usually do help them out.
They shouldn't just lose their job they should be charged with false imprisonment and criminal threats at least for holding him in jail under the false pretenses of them "investigating a crime" that they not only have zero evidence of him committing. But they also know for a fact he didn't commit because it never even happened! also for bringing in the kids dog in saying "if you don't confess we're going to have it put down." Like what type of evil shi is that?
That's my point. The so-called "good" cops know who the bad cops are and not only do they not clean out their own ranks, but the "good" cops participate in the coverups to protect the bad ones. Nope. No such things as a 'good' cop.
@@JimMcnevinI mean this with niceness and friendliness...your comment is exceptionally ridiculous. I used to have a lot of "friends" who were career criminals. They said exactly what you said. While with or around these felons, I had MANY opportunities to engage with the police. DOZENS OF TIMES. The police always treated everyone with due respect and consideration. I remember when I got arrested one.day...i was guilty. I didn't argue, I didn't call names. I didn't resist. I didn't try to get out of what I had done. I had zero problems with the police. They have to deal with the scum of the earth. Liars, rapists, woman beaters, thieves, and murderers constantly. And then you have the law abiding citizen who tries to get out of their deserved tickets and cusses at, argues with, lies to and berates the officer who is simply doing their job. And that job consists not only of protecting the public from the overt and purposeful criminal, but also the "law abiding" citizen who breaks the traffic laws and puts the people they encounter in grave danger. It always amazed me how people are so darn stupid that they think all the cops are bad or worse that we don't need them. If we didn't have the police, it would be anarchy. And that is what we are getting because many people are being really stupid and supporting woke, liberal, perverse agendas and ideologies. Now that I have said all that, now let me agree with you....the police that are being hired more and more are not quality personnel. The woke agenda is to flood the enforcement world with some very unqualified people and people who have criminal agendas. The government is not making laws that encourage crime for nothing. They are doing it to accomplish some very evil agendas. Yesterday, I saw a news report that showed how San Francisco has installed over three hundred high quality cameras to try to combat crime. Perhaps only people with a true understanding of how societies become controlled will see the connection there. They create the problem, then institute a "solution" that was something they never could have done under normal circumstances. It was done with the COVID plandemic and is being done with the whole defund the police crap that has pushed these past five years. 🙏
you forgot the one where they tell you calling for a lawyer means you admit guilt and you will be taken to a county jail for processing. they love using this and claiming suspects have waived their right to a lawyer.
If they have no warrant for your arrest they have no case or not a very strong case. Talking to them is how they build a case. Instead explain that you understand the law and that they are barking up the wrong tree. Arrest me then. Or just shut the hell up. Never forget this. They might arrest you but do not be afraid of them. It all works out in court. Word for word that is what you say to them. Shut the hell up or make that LAWFUL arrest and if you cannot make a lawful arrest too damn bad. If you make an unlawful arrest I will sue you.
During the W Bush administration the term used was "Enhanced interrogation" but it was the same thing. Brett Kavanaugh now on the supreme court wrote the so called torture memos to give W. Bush a legal framework disregarding the fact that in 1902 American GI went to the gallows for having tortured in this fashion Filipino civilians when the US invaded the Philippines.
Police should be a call of last resort. When my mom's aunt went missing we called the fire department instead. They found her in minutes and we didn't have to answer 6 million questions first.
You think the entity is put in place to protect people. Its not, its there for revenue generation by arrests. Thats it, its not for the citizens, only against, police were never there to help you. So it doesnt contradict what they truly stand for
This story of Thomas Perez is so troubling. I experienced a terrible situation with my wife where she had experienced a mental breakdown after our daughter committed suicide and passed away in my arms. My wife ad been institutionalized on three occasions one for a six month period and once for another six week period. The third time my wife became unstable she was acting erratically and was gone for hours and when she came home she was with a bunch of tweekers that thought that they were going to come into our house and take-over until they realized I as armed. Well they called the cops saying that I threatened them and my wife and of course the cops showed up and took me in because they had the word of four tweekers that never could keep a consistent story between them and my wife who was experiencing a psychotic episode. I told the female officer I was not going to talk to her other than to give her the dates of my wife's hospitalizations and that she must be experiencing another psychotic break. That female office did not like that and she arrested me for DV. I had to surrender my weapons upon posting 1K surety bond, and hired a lawyer. I was also ordered not to return home. During the process, The only other thing that I told the officer was that everything had been recorded on Ring devices both inside and outside the house. The female police officer left that out of her report but it was on her BWC. She, the female officer was never intent on doing any investigation, she wanted an arrest and to put a man in jail. When my lawyer had a conversation with the prosecutor he simply asked if they reviewed the Ring Camera Footage from Amazon? And why the officer did not mention that footage in her report, because it was part of the arrest record on the officer's BWC. The prosecutor dropped the charges, I was in jail a little over 57 hours because this happened over a weekend. The officer resigned shortly after this all came to light but I do not believe this was the only case where her bias got the best of her. I part of her apology that I got from the chief of police, he said I probably would not have been arrested if I had just given my side of the story. I told him that the evidence is what should have spoken for itself, I had a right to remain silent. Just because your officer violated my rights and did little to no investigation is not my fault. It was hers and his for not being prudent law enforcement officers. At this point almost all my rights have been restored. Next month we have a hearing on the officer's qualified immunity as my first lawsuit was dismissed for that reason, if we win that, the city will probably come back with a offer at some point.
This is what happens when you get a good lawyer. It sometimes feels like the court system determines absolutely nothing more than the skill of lawyers. I know someone who had many criminal accusations made against them in an ugly divorce. He got a great criminal defense lawyer and was aquitted thrice. Liked that lawyer so much he asked him to be his divorce lawyer. Mistake. The guy was an expert at criminal, novice at divorce. He didn't do so well in the divorce. Finances weren't split optimally and the mother kept the minor kids.
We need to get rid of qualified immunity!! No amount of money given to this young man will equal Justice. These officers falsely imprison this man for a crime They had no evidence of him committing because the crime never even happened! They also should be charged with a lesser crime like animal cruelty/ criminal threats due to them literally bringing in the dog and saying "if you don't confess we're going to have it put down" like what type of evil shi is that?
to be fair lots of people in the military are actually really cool. government workers usually still suck but i've met some amazing people who were in the air force/navy
I fear for how these dishonest, abusive sadists might treat their families behind closed doors. After all, have you ever looked into the studies about law enforcement personnel and perpetration of domestic violence?
Witholding prescriptions was a violation of the Geneva Convention, thus breaking federal law. It could also be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
I dont understand how its okay for police to lie to establish guilt and a confession, but courts will not allow false evidence or fabricated evidence to argue a case. Whats the deal? One half of justice is held to a standard and the other is not. Guy should have gotten millions.
Honestly, I'd never want money, just their lives. Because they would be too dangerous to allow walking free. What? Their standard is guilty before innocent, so why shouldn't I hold them to the same standard?
As a child, I often got hit by my dad after my brother lied about me even though I was telling the truth. After one more lie by my brother, I decided to confess to something I hadn't done and my dad didn't hit me. So yeah, people will confess to things they didn't do.
the worst thing is, that you call the cops because you need their help and because of that you DO cooperate because you have hopes this will increase the chance of them actually helping... But somewhere down the line it turns from "I'm helping cops to help me" into "I'm helping cops to arrest me". And it's really difficult to see that moment when it happens, and on top of all other things, it gives you feeling of real despair, because you know they won't help you, and the person who is missing.
I am particularly upset to know that while they were pretending to kill the dog they were NOT looking for the missing father. At this juncture they only ever presumed his murder, and claimed he was in the morgue. They didn't know where he was and didn't bother looking for him.
@@KubieQ same thing all bullies get out of it. They thrive off of power. You can see it when you notice how excited they are to each other, after a takedown. They get to be bullies and the general public think they are heros. It’s a win-win for them
Except the man was concerned about the well being of his father and you kinda gotta talk to the police to give them the information they need to help find your missing, elderly dad. What are your options? 1) Don't call the cops and simply hope dad turns up sometime, somewhere? 2) Don't call the cops and search for him yourself? 3) Call the police to report your father missing then lawyer up? 4) Hire a lawyer to call the cops every time 'ole pops wanders off? What do you do? There is no way to win in this situation.
@@Isaac_132 Well, and I totally acknowledge that this is insanely geeky, when in a no-win situation you have to pull the classic James T. Kirk Kobayashi Maru solution.
once they label you they are going to 'FILTER' everything you say as if you're guilty, that was a really polite way of saying they will TWIST around everything you say.
When I was a kid in high school the detectives at the nearby police station called me for an 'interview.' I went only to find out what they were up to. I figured out later that a detective's son along with his other buddies on the football team had bl0wn up an English teacher's car with a plpe b0mb for giving them low grades because football was more important to them than learning. They wanted to pin it on me. This was DECADES ago. They though I would be easy because I was a naive kid. They were wrong. I asked if I was under arrest- twice I think, the interrogator said no so I got up and walked out. They were shocked and bewildered. They weren't very smart but I was.
And the Moral of the story is. these investigators need to be in prison these kinds of lies are criminal and should be prosecuted as malicious prosecution by investigators & defamation of character.
@@user-km3pk1pu7h READ THIS! US CODE TITLE 18 Section 241 & 242. Deprivation of right under color of law. It is a crime punishable by death to coerce, intimidate, or threaten a US citizen out of their civil rights. Google. Read. Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242 Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. DID YOU READ THIS? YOU KNOW NOTHING.
@@user-km3pk1pu7h No, it's not actually. They did 2 major things that would get all information from his interrogation and confession thrown out; to the point even if Perez was guilty of murdering his dad, they still couldn't use it in court. 1st) They denied him water, food, sleep, and medication for the duration of the interrogation; this is a violation of his constitutional rights, any longer the 2 hours without water is considered akin to abuse (longer than 6 hrs without offering or allowing anything is abusive and could be considered a form of torture or physical coercion). 2nd) the whole fucked up dog situation is entirely illegal, threatening to kill the guy's dog if he doesn't confess is 100% psychological coercion and therefore entirely inadmissible in court. They're able to do these things without individual consequences due to qualified immunity, but they don't get anything out of it and can't use unlawful interrogation tactics like these to prosecute anyone.
Was robbed a number of years ago and called the cops for help. The cop came into my home , saw my 9 pound Papillon dog and threatened to shoot her out of “fear”. He was told to get out of my home. I have never called cops for anything except at the request of someone else. And never ever let them into your home.
@@john2000l tell me you’re feeling like a free person when you’re working three bad jobs to pay fees for something you never did. I hear you, I just think it still sucks.
How is that even allowed? Not allowing them their medication? Threatening to euthanize a dog? How is this not talked about more? I’m terrified, thanks for giving me a more new fears in the interrogation daydreams I constantly have…
Did you not watch the video? He was asking them for help! What is he supposed to do, take out an ad in the paper? Organize a search party on social media?
Keep in mind the fun and merriment that can happen if a family member is one, and it is not a close family. That can go both ways, you could do something wrong and they look the other way or you did something wrong and they feel they have to hold you to account, as opposed to recusing themselves and leaving it to an outside officer. So many ways that can go sideways; don't get me started on family profession and how that generally is sideways somewhere, sometime for some of them. Up there with family politicians.
Every single wrongful conviction always starts the same. Some innocent person "with nothing to hide" thinks it will help them to submit to a police request.
Somebody was breaking into my car. I called the cops. The lone cop immediately treated me with suspicion, demanded my I.D., and asked a bunch of irrelevant questions. The only reason I called them was to get a police report for insurance reasons. They, of course, did nothing to help.
The story I read said that the cops held him for 4 days after discovering his father was alive, didn’t tell him about this discovery, and in that time Thomas attempted suicide. Also, I wish you’d have gone into the reason the cops attempted to find further dirt on Thomas after find his dad alive: To cover their own asses. So they could say “He might not of killed his dad, but look, he’s still a criminal!” If there weren’t financial incentives in place for cops to make arrests, false charges like this would become a lot more rare. All these cops are still on the job, by the way.
My dad was going through some major anxiety a couple years ago which lead to bad health issues. On a particularly bad day, he decided to lay in a hammock in the back yard. Mom couldn't find him and assumed the worse, and called the cops. These pieces of SHIT showed up to our house after I found him and started talking to him. They treated us like we were trash and that them having to be there was his fault and they had a right to be upset with us. They shoved a flashlight into his face and yelled at him. It took all i could to not scream back at them and throw them out. My suspicion towards cops was strong before and now I firmly believe that death penalties should be dished out to cops like the ones in your story.
Police officers in my town make up to $250,000 per year. They live in McMansions, own big boats and new pick up trucks. We 'citizens' are serfs, charged with paying for all of it. They make so much money I can't help think they look down on ordinary people.
7:25 _"Think of all the things the police could have done, before labeling Thomas Perez Jr as a murderer."_ The first thing that springs to mind is to show that a murder has taken place.
A friend of mine that was a career LAPD officer and retired as a detective calls it "contempt of cop". He told me when the cop is right he's right, when the cop might be right he's right and even when the cop isn't right he's right.
you missed one part here that needs to be underscored: Cops are trained to treat everyone as a suspect, because multiple people can be tried for the same crime even if there's one person that did it provably. If one dude robs a store and wears a full green suit, runs off on foot, and goes out into the middle of the woods-- if he has no accomplices-- the police and prosecutors can charge 12 people for that crime and possibly convict all of them, padding their numbers. It's not simply cops are dumb; it's cops are incentivized to game the system.
One of the cops that led the 17 hour ordeal, David Janusz is reported to be promoted to Sergeant on Nov 10, 2018, just months after this session , and still be working with the Fontana PD Aug 2023. YT won't let me post the link. It seems doing what he did an innocent citizen has not harmed his career.
It's a common misconception that a cop's job is to protect you. In actuality, a cop's job is to protect themself and the government against you and your pesky rights.
The police will never lie to you if you don't talk to them. You avoid this entire situation by just not talking. Ask for a lawyer ask to leave and stay silent.
They can throw you to jail for not answering questions (they call it obstruction) Charges will be dropped, but you will waste a lot of time and emotions
Everyone has the right to remain silent. The law maintains specifically that silence cannot be taken against you. This is like the Bedrock of our legal system. You do not have to prove that you're innocent. You do not have to deny your guilt. And if you say nothing whatsoever when they say did you murder Bob, the court is specifically directed not to infer anything from that. There's a great video titled don't talk to the police. Google it
Take notes everyone. The forces of evil wear a badge. Arlington Texas 1991- My 12 year old brother was accused of a crime that my oldest sister actually committed and accused HIM of. She had lots of boyfriends on the police force. They called my brother in for questioning #1 would NOT allow one of my parents to be present during the interrogation #2 they also said that since he was a minor that they did not have to provide legal counsel for him. #3 my parents were not even sure WHY he was wanted for questioning as the Arlington, Texas police force was being very secretive and sneaky about the whole ordeal but with their friendly demeanor (at first) they tried to make it sound like some minor thing, which it was NOT. That was a tactic to get my parents to lower their guard. I am not sure what went on in that interrogation room (I will never know probably since he wont talk about it to this day). Ultimately, most 12 year olds have at best a superficial knowledge of how the legal system is SUPPOSED to work. Crooked cops exploit that ignorance and not just in children. They forced him to sign one paper that stated they had read him his rights (what rights if he couldn't have a lawyer present?) AND on the same page was also an admission of guilt. Obviously though it didn't stick too well. Clearly he signed a confession under duress! These evil tyrants claimed that they had a video tape of my brother doing this and that. So WE paid for a lawyer for my brother. Come time to go to court there was NO video in existence, nor was there ever. The cops LIED to my brother and my parents. They also trivialized the event when my parents took him to the Arlington police department and said 'at this point, we just wanna get the monkey off his back.' More police small talk and deceptive tactics. Beware of their deceptive jargon and things they like to say 'hang tight- if you are innocent you have nothing to worry about etc etc.' My mother asked if he would have a lawyer present during questioning, that was when they informed her that they did not have to provide legal counsel since he was a minor, which turned out to be completely false simply so they could manipulate him into confessing to a crime that he not only didn't commit, but that my oldest sister actually committed (sounds like a conspiracy huh?) They also told my mother 'we have our man.' NO they had a 12 year old boy totally unaware of his rights which they DENIED HIM OF! No, police are not above such evil tactics and remember, you cannot trust them and they do NOT have your best interest in mind!
Great advice for an adult. We should make it mandatory that anyone under the age of 18 must have a parent or lawyer present during all questioning. We teach our children to obey adults as they grow up, and, we teach them to obey the police. It takes a while for us to learn our rights as we have been brainwashed through 13 years (don't forget Kindergarten) of schooling that we have no rights.
Worse, you can quite easily commit a crime or get charged with one by accident. It happened to a close friend of mine. She finished a long 14 hour shift at work and started driving home. Her mistake? She genuinely misjudged how tired she was. That’s it. She fell asleep while driving and crashed into a tree. Damaged her car but because she had been adhering to the speed limit she avoided injury. She called the police because she could be charged with leaving the scene of an accident if she didn’t. Foolishly while arranging a taxi to go home she answered their questions and they charged her with driving without due care and attention. Worse, the single letter the court sent her never got to her so she accidentally missed the court date. So they showed up at her home one Friday evening and arrested her. Kept her overnight and took her to court the next morning. None of the situation was taken into account. She would have gone if they simply told her to go to court in the morning. So, let this story be a warning to those who read it. Granted this took place in the UK but police are police regardless of what country it is. You can go out one day never intending to break the law and still end up as an accidental criminal.
These cops knew what they were doing. They have done this before. How many innocent citizens are rotting in prison because they "confessed" to these cops?
In my city, Elkhart, IN a special needs man was convicted of murder based on the "investigation" and confession obtained under duress. After years in prison, the truth came out, he was absolved of the crime released from prison and got a multimillion $ payday for spending much of his adult life in prison for something he did not do.
Why is it not illegal for police to lie in America? This is insane to me. In the U.K. police are not allowed to claim to have evidence that they do not possess. That should be standard for all police
The problem is: laws say "This and that is illegal" but when cops do smth completely illegal, thanks to extensive qualified immunity, hardly anything ever happens. So these laws stating X and Y are illegal are pointless if the people to which they apply are safe from nearly any consequences.
Had this been Texas, once the police found the father alive and well I would not have been surprised if the DA would have moved forward with the prosecution of Thomas Perez Jr. for the murder of his father. Not capping either.
There's a special place in Hell for the detectives that did this to him. Some of their other cases should warrant a 2nd look, especially where there was a guilty plea deal and/or a "confession" was the only real "evidence" to convict.
But civilians will get in trouble for lying to law enforcement officers or even if the cop thinks that the civilian is lying. This is morally wrong. Which is why I will not vote to convict someone charged with making a false statement to a law enforcement officer if I get called for jury duty.
Didn't the prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case go against the orders from the judge and try to claim that Kyle was a bad dude because he stayed silent?
@@Lexinomicron The person trying to put Kyle in jail came out and said he regrets making Kyle out to be a nice guy????? The exact opposite of what was insinuated at trial? What an absurd statement feel free to provide actual facts to back that tall tale up.
Screw suing them they should be CHARGED. Charged with false imprisonment and criminal threats at least for holding him in jail under the false pretenses of them "investigating a crime" that they not only have zero evidence of him committing. But they also know for a fact he didn't commit because it never even happened! also for bringing in the kids dog in saying "if you don't confess we're going to have it put down." Like what type of evil shi is that?
@@abn82dmpThe problem with 18 USC 241 or conspiracy to deprive rights under color of law is that it is treated the same way as 18 USC 242 or deprivation of civil rights under color of law. The second one is for a single cop and the first one is for more than one. As of last year there were almost 1.6 million 242 suits filed. 90% of them were thrown out without explanation by the department of Justice and of the remaining 15,632 18 USC 242 filings against officers, A whopping 41. Were tried. In other words and I appreciate that you pointed out. 18 USC 241, it looks good on paper but in reality does almost nothing.
Delusional take. 90% just want to do the right thing. Cops are solving cases and helping people by the thousands every day, just doesn't make the news. These cops were scum though obviously.
When they said they had his dad in the morgue with a toe tag on him, he should have immediately demanded that he be allowed to see him. Upon finding out that they were lying, it would have been much easier to keep his mouth shut and call them out for the liars that they are. This kid was living under the mistaken belief that the cops are good guys who give a damn about justice and finding the truth. It's clear to me that he was never taught that cops are evil and not to be trusted. I taught my now grown children to NEVER talk to cops unless absolutely necessary. No good will ever come from it. To always consider them as agents of evil. This case proves me right. The entire justice system is broken. These miscreants went to a judge to get a warrant for a nonexistent crime, AND HE SIGNED IT. All this AFTER finding out that the father was perfectly fine and safe. The judges are crooked, the police are crooked, and the DAs are crooked. Again, I say... the system is broken beyond all repairs. The time has long since passed for We, the People to demand that our elected officials abolish Qualified Immunity and force judges, DAs and cops to pay for their crimes against humanity.
If you're guilty, you need an attorney. If you're innocent, you DEFINITELY need an attorney!
Best comment today.
No truer statement.
true that. of course, pinning a 'crime' on the innocent person is easy, and they don't want to do real work.
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As a guy with many law enforcement friends:
Never talk to the police.
Never talk to the police.
Never talk to the police.
Spoken like a criminal with a criminal mindset
@@JS-wp4gs Did you even watch the video?
@@JS-wp4gs ever watched Rambo First blood? Police can ruin life's of innocent people if they want to
Tell the police NOTHING, and tell the EMTs EVERYTHING.
@@JS-wp4gs Spoken like an NPC without a clue that the Fifth Amendment exists to protect the innocent.
It scares me that the group you need when you are in trouble is the same group you should be afraid to talk to.
It should scare you. When enough of the public figures this out then maybe some change can come about.
This is why you retain a good lawyer, and report anonymously. FK the pigs, let them do the work, instead of letting them convert you into a defendant.
opioid crisis killed my wife.
we moved across state lines, she was SSI (disabled) and had been on 2 oxi's a day for a few years with no issues. new state, new medicare she had to sign up for, new doctors. and this was reno nevada around 2016. when the local ford dealership had just gotten busted for selling pills on the side.
so the new doctor took her off her pain meds. a year later she took a different pill, a permanent pill, one marked with the identifying characters of ".45 ACP".
i came home from work and found her body. at 1st, i thought it was another sudden onset seizure and had dialed 911 for emt's. then i got closer, then i saw the blood, then i recoiled and struck the empty holster, then i saw the lump the under the spilled laundry by her hand.
and then i told dispatch i had found a gun, and the 1st responder there was a cop.
this happened in 2018, the death investigation is still not closed. there was letters and even texts in her never locked phone talking about her plans.
my alibi was being at work, physically interacting with 10 people on camera at time of death, and there hours earlier and later.
i am still afraid that it will get re-opened. and i am still the only other person with access to her and that gun, which was mine.
This is why we have 2A.
@@JohnSmith-zi9or 2A?? don't know that meaning.
I was wrongly accused of a crime and I did speak to detectives on my front porch. They ask me to come to their office and that is when I said. "Iff you have the evidence to arrest me do it but, if you want me to come talk to you I will need a lawyer present." They left and I never heard another word about it. Ass Holes!!
You dodged a bullet (pun intended)
I guess they didn't need you that badly, then.
@@djphantom8800what's the pun
@@bojohannesen4352 He could have taken a bullet...like... literally
As it’s been said, if you have a problem, and you call the police, you now have 2 problems.
There is nothing that the police can not make worse.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 Unfortunate, but mostly true. A big part of the problem is so many laws on the books are against the Bill of Rights, and so very many police officers view that oath to uphold and defend the Constitution as mere words they need to say to get a job and no more.
And the California Highway Patrol oath doesn't include any language about upholding the Constitution but rather following the law of California and directives of the governor.
🤣 💯
Haha jeez
If you want to make a bad situation worse, call ‘em.
Lie No 1. The cops are there to help you. NOT ---- I have a story to share ... a little over 30 years ago, my cousin came to live with me. He could not live alone because of Advanced Multiple Sclerosis and he really had no where to go. Long story short, one afternoon while I was at work, he decided to drive to the convenience store just 3 blocks from my house. At the time, I had no idea where he went. But 6 hours after I got home from work, he still had not returned home. Now this was before the days of everyone having cell phones, so it's not like I could call him to find out where he was. So I called the police to ask for help finding him and told them of his medical condition and that he easily gets lost. The police sent a cop to my house. The cop took me downtown and 2 detectives questioned me as if I had killed him, which is the most ridiculous thing ever. Two hours or so into their interrogating me, I told them I want a lawyer. The detectives tried trickery to get me to keep talking but I was adamant I wanted a lawyer. Let me tell you, I was a MAD S.O.B. So they left the room and didn't come back for more than an hour, and let me go. A couple of hours after I got back home, my cousin finally showed up - in a taxi. He had been driving around lost for hours and finally ran out of gas. He had no idea where he was at when he ran out of gas and couldn't even give me an idea where the car was. It took me 2 days of driving around to find that car. Thankfully, it had not yet been towed off. A few days after that, another cop showed up at my house following up and I presented my very alive cousin to the cop and told him that when he saw his detective buddies, to tell them I said to go to hell.
Have you published this story anywhere else? its interesting, and should be known. These patterns within policing culture last a long time, and its interesting to see its earlier forms.
A cop on the street? There to help you. A cop interrogating you? There to help himself
What the- How is this the logical explanation to someone disappearing for a couple of hours ?? You'd be going to the entrance of a supermarket saying you lost your child, then the second after the police comes to take you saying you killed your child in the cereals' aisle ?? They're not just being lazy now, they WANT to put someone else in jail (while there's already too many people there)
@djphantom8800 is called mandatory minimums. The privatization of prisons started with Clinton and has had this effect on the justice system to this day.
@@djphantom8800so basically if you lost a phone or something they will assume you are littering. 🤔
I know police aren't allowed to threaten to have your pet k1lled if you don't confess, refuse necessary medication, or deprive a person of food, water, and sleep to get a confession. What these officers did was unethical and illegal.
bros were breaking literal POW wartime laws and still get to keep their jobs, pensions, and overtime, without facing any consequences at all.
it's not even law enforcement anymore, it's just mercenaries
@@neuxell
The Geneva Convention gives more protection to those POWs who are private soldiers (anyone who isn't a commission officer or non-commissioned officer), because there is no presumption that properly uniformed soldiers are doing anything unlawful, as armies are allowed to capture opposing soldiers simply for their being capturable.
Laws mean nothing.
Yes, and Internal Affairs (whitewash squad) will investigate and find nothing wrong.
@@neuxellGood point
Cops "If you're innocent, then youve got nothing to hide"
Me "I dont have anything to hide, but I've got EVERYTHING to protect from you and your lies"
You rly thought you ate with that one huh 😂
@@ChaotiX1 You're not Skibidi sigma, stfu 🤡
The settlement money is unfair to the abused man, and unfair to the people paying the bill. These detectives should have been fired and forced to pay the settlement fine.
Amen
In a perfect world, sure, but suing the detectives as individuals makes the likelihood of collecting on that settlement abysmal.
They should be in prison.
Even better jailed or offed
Yes, if those people are not even held accountable, what is the lawsuit money even worth?
Except maybe to move far away from there.
Police acting like you guilty if you ask for a lawyer but Everytime I see these pigs in trouble they lawyer up real quick 😂
They just know the lawyer will make it harder for them to exploit you.
Actually they dont lawyer up alot of the time because theyre so smug about the shit they do, they think they have it all figured out, they think their buddies at the depot will help them out. The sad part is that those buddies usually do help them out.
Call Saul Goodman!
I think that those cops should lose their jobs, at a minimum. This is beyond incompetence, being brutal and sadistic.
They should be jailed for false arrest (kidnapping under the color of law)
They shouldn't just lose their job they should be charged with false imprisonment and criminal threats at least for holding him in jail under the false pretenses of them "investigating a crime" that they not only have zero evidence of him committing. But they also know for a fact he didn't commit because it never even happened! also for bringing in the kids dog in saying "if you don't confess we're going to have it put down." Like what type of evil shi is that?
It's not incompetence. It is what they are trained to do.
Par for the course in California. Their LEOs are unbelievably useless, esp LAPD and Sacramento.
They are exactly what politicians and judges want. That is why the courts created qualified immunity out of thin air.
A big reason crime has increased is cops “solve” crimes by framing the wrong people. The real perpetrators then go about their business unhindered.
If the good cops don't stand up to the bad cops, are there really any "good" cops?
That's my point. The so-called "good" cops know who the bad cops are and not only do they not clean out their own ranks, but the "good" cops participate in the coverups to protect the bad ones. Nope. No such things as a 'good' cop.
Yeah, the rotten 95% really make the good 5% look bad.
No.
PROVEN OVER AND OVER -- NO SUCH THING AS A ""GOOD COP"""
@@JimMcnevinI mean this with niceness and friendliness...your comment is exceptionally ridiculous. I used to have a lot of "friends" who were career criminals. They said exactly what you said. While with or around these felons, I had MANY opportunities to engage with the police. DOZENS OF TIMES. The police always treated everyone with due respect and consideration. I remember when I got arrested one.day...i was guilty. I didn't argue, I didn't call names. I didn't resist. I didn't try to get out of what I had done. I had zero problems with the police. They have to deal with the scum of the earth. Liars, rapists, woman beaters, thieves, and murderers constantly. And then you have the law abiding citizen who tries to get out of their deserved tickets and cusses at, argues with, lies to and berates the officer who is simply doing their job. And that job consists not only of protecting the public from the overt and purposeful criminal, but also the "law abiding" citizen who breaks the traffic laws and puts the people they encounter in grave danger. It always amazed me how people are so darn stupid that they think all the cops are bad or worse that we don't need them. If we didn't have the police, it would be anarchy. And that is what we are getting because many people are being really stupid and supporting woke, liberal, perverse agendas and ideologies. Now that I have said all that, now let me agree with you....the police that are being hired more and more are not quality personnel. The woke agenda is to flood the enforcement world with some very unqualified people and people who have criminal agendas. The government is not making laws that encourage crime for nothing. They are doing it to accomplish some very evil agendas. Yesterday, I saw a news report that showed how San Francisco has installed over three hundred high quality cameras to try to combat crime. Perhaps only people with a true understanding of how societies become controlled will see the connection there. They create the problem, then institute a "solution" that was something they never could have done under normal circumstances. It was done with the COVID plandemic and is being done with the whole defund the police crap that has pushed these past five years. 🙏
you forgot the one where they tell you calling for a lawyer means you admit guilt and you will be taken to a county jail for processing. they love using this and claiming suspects have waived their right to a lawyer.
"Advanced interrogation techniques". That's the PC term for "torture", as explained during that whole Guantanamo Bay thing.
...the Lubyanka...
If they have no warrant for your arrest they have no case or not a very strong case. Talking to them is how they build a case. Instead explain that you understand the law and that they are barking up the wrong tree. Arrest me then. Or just shut the hell up. Never forget this. They might arrest you but do not be afraid of them. It all works out in court. Word for word that is what you say to them. Shut the hell up or make that LAWFUL arrest and if you cannot make a lawful arrest too damn bad. If you make an unlawful arrest I will sue you.
Extraordinary Rendition was the term I believe.
@@SaanMigwellOP was correct. Extraordinary is a euphemism for illegal and Rendition, for incarceration.
During the W Bush administration the term used was "Enhanced interrogation" but it was the same thing. Brett Kavanaugh now on the supreme court wrote the so called torture memos to give W. Bush a legal framework disregarding the fact that in 1902 American GI went to the gallows for having tortured in this fashion Filipino civilians when the US invaded the Philippines.
Police should be a call of last resort. When my mom's aunt went missing we called the fire department instead. They found her in minutes and we didn't have to answer 6 million questions first.
Smart thinking!
I never thought to do this!! 💗🙌🏼🪽 fantastic option, thanks for sharing !!
That is not the fire departments job, they would tell you to call the police. Your story did not happen
well you know what they say, there's no song called fvck the fire department
@@JS-wp4gsMight have been a slow day and/or slow day.
When an entity contradicts the very thing it is supposed to stand for , that entity is no longer a valid force.
Good description.
Welcome to government 101.
It's illegal for a normal citizen to manipulate or coerce another person, expect if you are police man. Well that just doesn't sound right at all.
You think the entity is put in place to protect people. Its not, its there for revenue generation by arrests. Thats it, its not for the citizens, only against, police were never there to help you. So it doesnt contradict what they truly stand for
they r all criminals.
This story of Thomas Perez is so troubling.
I experienced a terrible situation with my wife where she had experienced a mental breakdown after our daughter committed suicide and passed away in my arms. My wife ad been institutionalized on three occasions one for a six month period and once for another six week period. The third time my wife became unstable she was acting erratically and was gone for hours and when she came home she was with a bunch of tweekers that thought that they were going to come into our house and take-over until they realized I as armed. Well they called the cops saying that I threatened them and my wife and of course the cops showed up and took me in because they had the word of four tweekers that never could keep a consistent story between them and my wife who was experiencing a psychotic episode. I told the female officer I was not going to talk to her other than to give her the dates of my wife's hospitalizations and that she must be experiencing another psychotic break. That female office did not like that and she arrested me for DV. I had to surrender my weapons upon posting 1K surety bond, and hired a lawyer. I was also ordered not to return home. During the process, The only other thing that I told the officer was that everything had been recorded on Ring devices both inside and outside the house. The female police officer left that out of her report but it was on her BWC. She, the female officer was never intent on doing any investigation, she wanted an arrest and to put a man in jail. When my lawyer had a conversation with the prosecutor he simply asked if they reviewed the Ring Camera Footage from Amazon? And why the officer did not mention that footage in her report, because it was part of the arrest record on the officer's BWC. The prosecutor dropped the charges, I was in jail a little over 57 hours because this happened over a weekend. The officer resigned shortly after this all came to light but I do not believe this was the only case where her bias got the best of her. I part of her apology that I got from the chief of police, he said I probably would not have been arrested if I had just given my side of the story. I told him that the evidence is what should have spoken for itself, I had a right to remain silent. Just because your officer violated my rights and did little to no investigation is not my fault. It was hers and his for not being prudent law enforcement officers. At this point almost all my rights have been restored. Next month we have a hearing on the officer's qualified immunity as my first lawsuit was dismissed for that reason, if we win that, the city will probably come back with a offer at some point.
That's messed up ,man
This made me angry, Im sorry
Any updates?
This is what happens when you get a good lawyer. It sometimes feels like the court system determines absolutely nothing more than the skill of lawyers. I know someone who had many criminal accusations made against them in an ugly divorce. He got a great criminal defense lawyer and was aquitted thrice. Liked that lawyer so much he asked him to be his divorce lawyer. Mistake. The guy was an expert at criminal, novice at divorce. He didn't do so well in the divorce. Finances weren't split optimally and the mother kept the minor kids.
We need to get rid of qualified immunity!! No amount of money given to this young man will equal Justice. These officers falsely imprison this man for a crime They had no evidence of him committing because the crime never even happened! They also should be charged with a lesser crime like animal cruelty/ criminal threats due to them literally bringing in the dog and saying "if you don't confess we're going to have it put down" like what type of evil shi is that?
scariest words to hear: "im from the government and im here to help"
to be fair lots of people in the military are actually really cool. government workers usually still suck but i've met some amazing people who were in the air force/navy
Ronald Reagan infamous saying! love it!
17hrs of interrogation
Psychological manipulation
Food and sleep deprivation
Q: how the fuc is this NOT TOTURE!?!
I fear for how these dishonest, abusive sadists might treat their families behind closed doors.
After all, have you ever looked into the studies about law enforcement personnel and perpetration of domestic violence?
Witholding prescriptions was a violation of the Geneva Convention, thus breaking federal law. It could also be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
"Food and sleep deprivation "
Yes, and they refused his medcine.
You are the one who went into that interrogation room on your own accord.
@@toomanydonuts Ok blame the victim
If a good cop lets a bad cop go unchecked, they are also a bad cop.
cop logic "every citizen is guilty until we can find an excuse to charge them, then they're guilty AND in jail."
I dont understand how its okay for police to lie to establish guilt and a confession, but courts will not allow false evidence or fabricated evidence to argue a case.
Whats the deal? One half of justice is held to a standard and the other is not. Guy should have gotten millions.
Unfortunately SCOTUS has ruled that police are allowed to lie!
Honestly, I'd never want money, just their lives. Because they would be too dangerous to allow walking free. What? Their standard is guilty before innocent, so why shouldn't I hold them to the same standard?
@@TarsonTalonif you hold the standards of crooks, you lower yourself on the same level and become a crook yourself
As a child, I often got hit by my dad after my brother lied about me even though I was telling the truth. After one more lie by my brother, I decided to confess to something I hadn't done and my dad didn't hit me. So yeah, people will confess to things they didn't do.
Sorry you had to endure such child abuse.
the worst thing is, that you call the cops because you need their help and because of that you DO cooperate because you have hopes this will increase the chance of them actually helping...
But somewhere down the line it turns from "I'm helping cops to help me" into "I'm helping cops to arrest me". And it's really difficult to see that moment when it happens, and on top of all other things, it gives you feeling of real despair, because you know they won't help you, and the person who is missing.
There’s a huge fault in their training if the victim is always the first suspect.
I am particularly upset to know that while they were pretending to kill the dog they were NOT looking for the missing father.
At this juncture they only ever presumed his murder, and claimed he was in the morgue. They didn't know where he was and didn't bother looking for him.
It's not about "justice" any more. The ONLY goal is "winning."
Well said and very true.
I would argue that it was never ever about “Justice”. The system is working as designed.
They’re tagging us like we’re deer and they have unlimited tags
What do the cops win by doing this? Do they get an immediate pay raise? Or get to do circle jerks with each other after each time they lie?
@@KubieQ same thing all bullies get out of it. They thrive off of power. You can see it when you notice how excited they are to each other, after a takedown. They get to be bullies and the general public think they are heros. It’s a win-win for them
I got robbed at gunpoint and detectives proceeded to interrogate me for an hour, they were clearly trying insinuate it was a drug deal. Idiots
Never never never talk to the police, especially without the presence of legal representation.
Except the man was concerned about the well being of his father and you kinda gotta talk to the police to give them the information they need to help find your missing, elderly dad. What are your options?
1) Don't call the cops and simply hope dad turns up sometime, somewhere?
2) Don't call the cops and search for him yourself?
3) Call the police to report your father missing then lawyer up?
4) Hire a lawyer to call the cops every time 'ole pops wanders off?
What do you do? There is no way to win in this situation.
Exactly.....
@@Isaac_132 Well, and I totally acknowledge that this is insanely geeky, when in a no-win situation you have to pull the classic James T. Kirk Kobayashi Maru solution.
@@Isaac_132 You cheat.
@@Isaac_132 And no, I'm not blaming this poor kid for not knowing what to do.
once they label you they are going to 'FILTER' everything you say as if you're guilty,
that was a really polite way of saying they will TWIST around everything you say.
Psychopathic detectives
No if they were phsycopathic, it would be an illness. They are not sick, they are EVIL!
Most cops exhibit various degrees of psychopathy. The old saying is true: Cops don't become psychopaths, psychopaths become cops.
yea, PD
When I was a kid in high school the detectives at the nearby police station called me for an 'interview.' I went only to find out what they were up to. I figured out later that a detective's son along with his other buddies on the football team had bl0wn up an English teacher's car with a plpe b0mb for giving them low grades because football was more important to them than learning.
They wanted to pin it on me. This was DECADES ago. They though I would be easy because I was a naive kid. They were wrong. I asked if I was under arrest- twice I think, the interrogator said no so I got up and walked out. They were shocked and bewildered.
They weren't very smart but I was.
And the Moral of the story is. these investigators need to be in prison these kinds of lies are criminal and should be prosecuted as malicious prosecution by investigators & defamation of character.
Nope. Every thing they did is legal.
@@user-km3pk1pu7h Yes, everything they did was legal.....and that's the problem.
@@user-km3pk1pu7hthis is among the many things wrong with our lives as free people.
@@user-km3pk1pu7h READ THIS!
US CODE TITLE 18 Section 241 & 242. Deprivation of right under color of law. It is a crime punishable by death to coerce, intimidate, or threaten a US citizen out of their civil rights. Google. Read.
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
DID YOU READ THIS? YOU KNOW NOTHING.
@@user-km3pk1pu7h
No, it's not actually.
They did 2 major things that would get all information from his interrogation and confession thrown out; to the point even if Perez was guilty of murdering his dad, they still couldn't use it in court.
1st) They denied him water, food, sleep, and medication for the duration of the interrogation; this is a violation of his constitutional rights, any longer the 2 hours without water is considered akin to abuse (longer than 6 hrs without offering or allowing anything is abusive and could be considered a form of torture or physical coercion).
2nd) the whole fucked up dog situation is entirely illegal, threatening to kill the guy's dog if he doesn't confess is 100% psychological coercion and therefore entirely inadmissible in court.
They're able to do these things without individual consequences due to qualified immunity, but they don't get anything out of it and can't use unlawful interrogation tactics like these to prosecute anyone.
"Please come down to the station to answer some questions."
"No thanks."
If their lips are moving they are usually lying . Then when they get caught comes the cop-splaining .
And queerified immunity
Was robbed a number of years ago and called the cops for help. The cop came into my home , saw my 9 pound Papillon dog and threatened to shoot her out of “fear”. He was told to get out of my home. I have never called cops for anything except at the request of someone else. And never ever let them into your home.
PROBLEM IS, even if you win, the legal expense will break you.
@@john2000l Pick your fights carefully.
@@john2000l tell me you’re feeling like a free person when you’re working three bad jobs to pay fees for something you never did. I hear you, I just think it still sucks.
The government ought to pay the attorney fees.
Re: the question of either paying off a lawyer or going to jail, neither. I'd rather fight to the death and take down as many pigs with me as I can.
Police and lawyers, two sides of the same coin.
How is that even allowed?
Not allowing them their medication? Threatening to euthanize a dog? How is this not talked about more?
I’m terrified, thanks for giving me a more new fears in the interrogation daydreams I constantly have…
It wasn't allowed, which is why he won a major lawsuit.
They dont care who they convict as long as they get a conviction.
Sadly true
They don’t care who they hurt either.
Yeah…”you might not have actually done anything but somebody has, so you’ll do.”
Unless it’s an informant
Qualified immunity makes this possible.
"To escalate and infringe."
Never, ever, ever, trust a cop or talk to the cops.
For some reason, people talk to cops.
ACAB!!
Trust me, I'm a police officer, I'm not questioning you, I'm just having a friendly chat😂😂
Did you not watch the video? He was asking them for help! What is he supposed to do, take out an ad in the paper? Organize a search party on social media?
Keep in mind the fun and merriment that can happen if a family member is one, and it is not a close family. That can go both ways, you could do something wrong and they look the other way or you did something wrong and they feel they have to hold you to account, as opposed to recusing themselves and leaving it to an outside officer.
So many ways that can go sideways; don't get me started on family profession and how that generally is sideways somewhere, sometime for some of them. Up there with family politicians.
I think its insane we can be charged with a crime for lieing to them but they can lie to use freely.
Every single wrongful conviction always starts the same. Some innocent person "with nothing to hide" thinks it will help them to submit to a police request.
If a crime happens, call Batman instead, he's more likely to be useful than regular police.
Somebody was breaking into my car. I called the cops. The lone cop immediately treated me with suspicion, demanded my I.D., and asked a bunch of irrelevant questions. The only reason I called them was to get a police report for insurance reasons. They, of course, did nothing to help.
Threatening to kill a personal domestic animal? Sounds like a crime.
Perez got compensation, not justice.
You can never get justice if you got any mental or physical harm
The justice system only punishes those who are to poor to afford a good lawyer
The story I read said that the cops held him for 4 days after discovering his father was alive, didn’t tell him about this discovery, and in that time Thomas attempted suicide.
Also, I wish you’d have gone into the reason the cops attempted to find further dirt on Thomas after find his dad alive: To cover their own asses. So they could say “He might not of killed his dad, but look, he’s still a criminal!”
If there weren’t financial incentives in place for cops to make arrests, false charges like this would become a lot more rare.
All these cops are still on the job, by the way.
I wouldn’t admit to any crime during interrogation but if they killed my lab then they would have a new murder to investigate
I bet he will loathe cops for the rest of his life. Their behavior was utterly despicable.
NEVER TRUST THE COPS and you will be ok .
My dad was going through some major anxiety a couple years ago which lead to bad health issues. On a particularly bad day, he decided to lay in a hammock in the back yard. Mom couldn't find him and assumed the worse, and called the cops.
These pieces of SHIT showed up to our house after I found him and started talking to him. They treated us like we were trash and that them having to be there was his fault and they had a right to be upset with us. They shoved a flashlight into his face and yelled at him. It took all i could to not scream back at them and throw them out. My suspicion towards cops was strong before and now I firmly believe that death penalties should be dished out to cops like the ones in your story.
This is torture by any measure.
Police officers in my town make up to $250,000 per year. They live in McMansions, own big boats and new pick up trucks. We 'citizens' are serfs, charged with paying for all of it. They make so much money I can't help think they look down on ordinary people.
Where the heck do you live? That isn’t true even in the NYPD.
Thank you for helping good law abiding people be aware of the "pitfalls of justice" and how to protect ourselves.
7:25
_"Think of all the things the police could have done, before labeling Thomas Perez Jr as a murderer."_
The first thing that springs to mind is to show that a murder has taken place.
A friend of mine that was a career LAPD officer and retired as a detective calls it "contempt of cop". He told me when the cop is right he's right, when the cop might be right he's right and even when the cop isn't right he's right.
you missed one part here that needs to be underscored: Cops are trained to treat everyone as a suspect, because multiple people can be tried for the same crime even if there's one person that did it provably. If one dude robs a store and wears a full green suit, runs off on foot, and goes out into the middle of the woods-- if he has no accomplices-- the police and prosecutors can charge 12 people for that crime and possibly convict all of them, padding their numbers. It's not simply cops are dumb; it's cops are incentivized to game the system.
One of the cops that led the 17 hour ordeal, David Janusz is reported to be promoted to Sergeant on Nov 10, 2018, just months after this session , and still be working with the Fontana PD Aug 2023. YT won't let me post the link. It seems doing what he did an innocent citizen has not harmed his career.
It's a Mafia
It's a common misconception that a cop's job is to protect you. In actuality, a cop's job is to protect themself and the government against you and your pesky rights.
The police will never lie to you if you don't talk to them.
You avoid this entire situation by just not talking. Ask for a lawyer ask to leave and stay silent.
Quite untrue. All of the mentioned lies in the video can be told without you speaking.
They can throw you to jail for not answering questions (they call it obstruction)
Charges will be dropped, but you will waste a lot of time and emotions
Untrue if you stay silent that is a emission of guilt.
Everyone has the right to remain silent. The law maintains specifically that silence cannot be taken against you. This is like the Bedrock of our legal system. You do not have to prove that you're innocent. You do not have to deny your guilt. And if you say nothing whatsoever when they say did you murder Bob, the court is specifically directed not to infer anything from that.
There's a great video titled don't talk to the police. Google it
There's only four words you ever need to say to a cop, "I want a lawyer"
And your name
@@caliss5715 🤙👍🏼
Take notes everyone. The forces of evil wear a badge. Arlington Texas 1991- My 12 year old brother was accused of a crime that my oldest sister actually committed and accused HIM of. She had lots of boyfriends on the police force. They called my brother in for questioning #1 would NOT allow one of my parents to be present during the interrogation #2 they also said that since he was a minor that they did not have to provide legal counsel for him. #3 my parents were not even sure WHY he was wanted for questioning as the Arlington, Texas police force was being very secretive and sneaky about the whole ordeal but with their friendly demeanor (at first) they tried to make it sound like some minor thing, which it was NOT. That was a tactic to get my parents to lower their guard. I am not sure what went on in that interrogation room (I will never know probably since he wont talk about it to this day). Ultimately, most 12 year olds have at best a superficial knowledge of how the legal system is SUPPOSED to work. Crooked cops exploit that ignorance and not just in children. They forced him to sign one paper that stated they had read him his rights (what rights if he couldn't have a lawyer present?) AND on the same page was also an admission of guilt. Obviously though it didn't stick too well. Clearly he signed a confession under duress! These evil tyrants claimed that they had a video tape of my brother doing this and that. So WE paid for a lawyer for my brother. Come time to go to court there was NO video in existence, nor was there ever. The cops LIED to my brother and my parents. They also trivialized the event when my parents took him to the Arlington police department and said 'at this point, we just wanna get the monkey off his back.' More police small talk and deceptive tactics. Beware of their deceptive jargon and things they like to say 'hang tight- if you are innocent you have nothing to worry about etc etc.' My mother asked if he would have a lawyer present during questioning, that was when they informed her that they did not have to provide legal counsel since he was a minor, which turned out to be completely false simply so they could manipulate him into confessing to a crime that he not only didn't commit, but that my oldest sister actually committed (sounds like a conspiracy huh?) They also told my mother 'we have our man.' NO they had a 12 year old boy totally unaware of his rights which they DENIED HIM OF! No, police are not above such evil tactics and remember, you cannot trust them and they do NOT have your best interest in mind!
Never go in for questioning. That's just stupid. If they had a case they would have made the arrest already.
Is your sister still alive today?
@@tylernathan7985 yeah. We don't talk, haven't in decades
if you are forced to sign a confession just sign Fuck Off!
Well, move to an european country. Here, human rights are respected.
End qualified immunity or defund all this crap. Only difference between a cop and a criminal is qualified immunity.
Those cops belong in prison for the rest of their lives.
In general population.
I don't know about the rest of their lives, but certainly for some amount of time.
Great advice for an adult. We should make it mandatory that anyone under the age of 18 must have a parent or lawyer present during all questioning. We teach our children to obey adults as they grow up, and, we teach them to obey the police. It takes a while for us to learn our rights as we have been brainwashed through 13 years (don't forget Kindergarten) of schooling that we have no rights.
We can all relatively guarantee we won’t intentionally commit a crime, but we have no control about whether we’ll ever be accused of one smh!!!
Worse, you can quite easily commit a crime or get charged with one by accident.
It happened to a close friend of mine. She finished a long 14 hour shift at work and started driving home. Her mistake? She genuinely misjudged how tired she was. That’s it.
She fell asleep while driving and crashed into a tree. Damaged her car but because she had been adhering to the speed limit she avoided injury. She called the police because she could be charged with leaving the scene of an accident if she didn’t.
Foolishly while arranging a taxi to go home she answered their questions and they charged her with driving without due care and attention. Worse, the single letter the court sent her never got to her so she accidentally missed the court date.
So they showed up at her home one Friday evening and arrested her. Kept her overnight and took her to court the next morning. None of the situation was taken into account. She would have gone if they simply told her to go to court in the morning.
So, let this story be a warning to those who read it. Granted this took place in the UK but police are police regardless of what country it is. You can go out one day never intending to break the law and still end up as an accidental criminal.
the fact that your channel exists and is needed should be enough to demonstrate how and why the police do not exist for the benefit of the community.
These cops knew what they were doing. They have done this before. How many innocent citizens are rotting in prison because they "confessed" to these cops?
In Britain, police are not allowed to lie during an interrogation. The US should adopt this policy.
Wonder if this means Britain either omits qualified immunity altogether or is very minimal compared to USA's.
In my city, Elkhart, IN a special needs man was convicted of murder based on the "investigation" and confession obtained under duress. After years in prison, the truth came out, he was absolved of the crime released from prison and got a multimillion $ payday for spending much of his adult life in prison for something he did not do.
Why is it not illegal for police to lie in America? This is insane to me. In the U.K. police are not allowed to claim to have evidence that they do not possess. That should be standard for all police
America’s biggest gang.
PERIOD!
Cops: Why do people hate us? We protect the public
The public: Please stop arresting me sir, I am literally the victim of the crime
I remember that story and every police that participated in his interrogation should have been fired
Correction: they should have been sent to prison.
And imprisoned
@@lakelobsterand all the other prisoners told that they were cops.
It should have been 900 million. What a joke. I hate the police.
Acab
The problem is: laws say "This and that is illegal" but when cops do smth completely illegal, thanks to extensive qualified immunity, hardly anything ever happens. So these laws stating X and Y are illegal are pointless if the people to which they apply are safe from nearly any consequences.
If the police are talking their lying.
Never talk to the Gestapo.
Had this been Texas, once the police found the father alive and well I would not have been surprised if the DA would have moved forward with the prosecution of Thomas Perez Jr. for the murder of his father. Not capping either.
And in Missouri they'd execute him, even after finding out his father was still alive.
If I was that young man, those cops would have disappeared, PERIOD!
The only correct answer
There's a special place in Hell for the detectives that did this to him. Some of their other cases should warrant a 2nd look, especially where there was a guilty plea deal and/or a "confession" was the only real "evidence" to convict.
His 1st Mistake was talking to the police.
His 2nd mistake was going to the police station.
The Police should be in prison.
When are Americans going to demand police can't lie. Other developed countries don't allow it.
But civilians will get in trouble for lying to law enforcement officers or even if the cop thinks that the civilian is lying. This is morally wrong. Which is why I will not vote to convict someone charged with making a false statement to a law enforcement officer if I get called for jury duty.
Yes , exactly, they shouldn't be allowed to lie
even if he was guilty, they had no right to sleep deprive him and not give him his medication
Didn't the prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case go against the orders from the judge and try to claim that Kyle was a bad dude because he stayed silent?
@@Lexinomicron The person trying to put Kyle in jail came out and said he regrets making Kyle out to be a nice guy????? The exact opposite of what was insinuated at trial? What an absurd statement feel free to provide actual facts to back that tall tale up.
Those police detectives could feel at home working for the Spanish Inquisition.
Sue that cop for his bond
Screw suing them they should be CHARGED. Charged with false imprisonment and criminal threats at least for holding him in jail under the false pretenses of them "investigating a crime" that they not only have zero evidence of him committing. But they also know for a fact he didn't commit because it never even happened! also for bringing in the kids dog in saying "if you don't confess we're going to have it put down." Like what type of evil shi is that?
Detective mentality: It’s easier for me to pin you as a suspect, so I’m not gonna catch the killer!
Reminds me of American nightmare with how the cops treated this guy
"We know everything"
'Oh, ok, no need to converse then. See ya in court! :)'
These cops are pure evil.
Even when a guilty person confesses, it is under duress due to these tactics.
It SHOULD be a felony for cops to manipulate people into a false confession
It IS..18USC241 / 241
@@abn82dmpThe problem with 18 USC 241 or conspiracy to deprive rights under color of law is that it is treated the same way as 18 USC 242 or deprivation of civil rights under color of law. The second one is for a single cop and the first one is for more than one.
As of last year there were almost 1.6 million 242 suits filed. 90% of them were thrown out without explanation by the department of Justice and of the remaining 15,632 18 USC 242 filings against officers, A whopping 41. Were tried.
In other words and I appreciate that you pointed out. 18 USC 241, it looks good on paper but in reality does almost nothing.
This is just EVIL. What on earth were the cops thinking? Without a body, why would the cops think that someone is dead? This is just ridiculous.
There is no such thing as a good cop!
Agreed
I hate cops...
Delusional take. 90% just want to do the right thing. Cops are solving cases and helping people by the thousands every day, just doesn't make the news. These cops were scum though obviously.
@@tx.tactical3165I disagree. There are some out there I'm sure of it. But of course theres bad. I'll be calling fire department if I got a problem! ❤
I think there may be some out there! ❤
So many people think false confessions don’t happen. It’s so real.
No doubt in my mind that we do not live in a free society, but a Stalinist style police state.
You are exactly right.
It's no coincidence the NKVD wore a blue stripe.
When they said they had his dad in the morgue with a toe tag on him, he should have immediately demanded that he be allowed to see him. Upon finding out that they were lying, it would have been much easier to keep his mouth shut and call them out for the liars that they are. This kid was living under the mistaken belief that the cops are good guys who give a damn about justice and finding the truth. It's clear to me that he was never taught that cops are evil and not to be trusted. I taught my now grown children to NEVER talk to cops unless absolutely necessary. No good will ever come from it. To always consider them as agents of evil. This case proves me right. The entire justice system is broken. These miscreants went to a judge to get a warrant for a nonexistent crime, AND HE SIGNED IT. All this AFTER finding out that the father was perfectly fine and safe. The judges are crooked, the police are crooked, and the DAs are crooked. Again, I say... the system is broken beyond all repairs. The time has long since passed for We, the People to demand that our elected officials abolish Qualified Immunity and force judges, DAs and cops to pay for their crimes against humanity.