Cop Arrested for His Violent Behavior to be Reinstated Despite the Department Not Wanting Him

By Cassandra Rules

Des Moines, IA? Former Des Moines officer Cody Grimes, who was fired in 2013, is likely returning to the police force against the department?s wishes due to an expected order from the city?s civil service commission.

Grimes was fired after he was arrested for domestic abuse after allegedly beating and choking his ex girlfriend as they were in the process of breaking up. The officer was not arrested until three days after the assault despite police reports indicating the woman had sustained injuries.

The woman alleges she was pressured by the police and prosecutors not to press domestic abuse charges, and Grimes ended up pleading guilty to criminal mischief charges.

?There was a couple people who kept calling me and harassing me, saying we need your story again. Every single day they would call me and the Polk County Attorney said, ?you know, we can go to trial but he pretty much persuaded me that if we go to trial and one person (on the jury) doesn?t agree to it then everything?s dropped,?? the woman being referred to as only Alexandria told WHOtv. ?I felt that no one was on my side. That no one was on my back. and I knew I had enough evidence but they were pushing me to not go forth with it.?

Sadly, this woman fears Grimes so badly she had to move thousands of miles away, afraid that he would retaliate and hurt her again.

?He?s dangerous. He?s a liability. And he?s gonna end up really hurting somebody.?

When asked by WHOtv if she believes Grimes is going to kill someone, the woman replied, ?I do. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough.?

This was not the man?s first time showing his tendencies towards violence.

In October of 2010, Grimes was responding to a call at the KCCI news studios in downtown Des Moines when he mistakenly shot at a KCCI photographer who was outside with a cellphone in his hands. Luckily the shots missed, but unfortunately this massive error in judgement and display of poor reasoning and impulse control was not enough to warrant the officer being fired and he was cleared of any wrong doing.

Less than a year later, in July of 2011, Grimes beat a groom named Jake Twombly unconscious at the man?s own wedding, breaking several bones in his face.

Twombly hired an off duty officer to come provide security for his wedding. When a groomsman got out of line with the bride, Twombly shoved the man, causing him to fall and knock over a ceramic column into the lap of one of the officer he had hired. The officer called for back up and approximately 20 officers barged into the wedding, despite the situation having already deescalated by this point.

During the chaos, Grimes stood out to witnesses as a particularly brutal character, as he had reportedly punched the groom in the eye and then repeatedly in his face as he was already handcuffed and on the ground.

A 63 year old guest eventually stepped in and intervened by grabbing Grimes? arm. He believes that had he not, Grimes would not have stopped until he killed Twombly, the complaint alleges.

Grimes faced a two week paid administrative leave over the incident and then returned to the streets, despite the city having to pay out a $75,000 settlement to Twombly.

Grimes? ex girlfriend and Twombly have both stated that they fear for people?s safety should the volatile officer be returned to duty and the department appears to agree, stating that they have not reversed their decision. Unfortunately the decision to get rid of problematic officers is not up to those who should supposedly know best.

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put him back out on the street, It is known what he looks like and what his name is. somebody will make target practice out of him. People in the United States have had enough of these dirty pig motherfuckers. They asked for war, war is what they shall receive.

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LA County Sheriff's Department Hired Officers With Histories Of Misconduct

Despite background investigations that revealed wrongdoing, incompetence, or poor performance, the department still hired dozens of problem applicants in 2010, internal records show.
By Robert Faturechi and Ben Poston

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department hired dozens of officers even though background investigators found they had committed serious misconduct on or off duty, sheriff's files show.

The department made the hires in 2010 after taking over patrols of parks and government buildings from a little-known L.A. County police force. Officers from that agency were given first shot at new jobs with the Sheriff's Department. Investigators gave them lie detector tests and delved into their employment records and personal lives.

The Times reviewed the officers' internal hiring files, which also contained recorded interviews of the applicants by sheriff's investigators.

Ultimately, about 280 county officers were given jobs, including applicants who had accidentally fired their weapons, had sex at work and solicited prostitutes, the records show.

For nearly 100 hires, investigators discovered evidence of dishonesty, such as making untrue statements or falsifying police records. At least 15 were caught cheating on the department's own polygraph exams.

Twenty-nine of those given jobs had previously had been fired or pressured to resign from other law enforcement agencies over concerns about misconduct or workplace performance problems. Nearly 200 had been rejected from other agencies because of past misdeeds, failed entrance exams or other issues.

Several of those with past misconduct have been accused of wrongdoing since joining the department, including one deputy who was terminated after firing his service weapon during a dispute outside a fast-food restaurant.

David McDonald was hired despite admitting to sheriff's investigators he had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl whom he kissed and groped. He was 28 at the time.

"I was in love," he said in an interview with The Times. "I wasn't being a bad guy."

McDonald had been fired from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department amid allegations he used excessive force on prisoners. A fellow deputy told a supervisor that he didn't want to work with McDonald because he harassed inmates.

L.A. County sheriff's officials made him a jail guard, a decision that surprised even McDonald.

"How can you put me back in the jails when I already had a problem there?" McDonald told the newspaper.

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Labor Department backs off plan forcing reporters to use government-issued computers

The Labor Department has backed off a plan to force news agencies to use government-issued computers and other equipment to report on jobless reports and other key economic data, following a GOP-led House hearing this week, according to several published reports.

Agency officials have said they want reporters who analyze, then write about economic reports inside their so-called ?lock up? room to use U.S. computers, software and Internet lines so the government can further protect against such potential security breaches as hacking.

But the plan also resulted in cries about potential free-speech violations and the government now having computer access to news agencies.

?This proposal threatens the First Amendment,? Bloomberg News Executive Editor Dan Moss said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. ?The government would literally open the reporters? notebooks.?

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Justice Department Wants $5 Million To Bolster Its Efforts As Hollywood's Private Police Force

by Mike Masnick

While the proposed Obama 2013 budget for the federal government is supposed to be about cutting extraneous expenditures, one area where it's seeking more money is to expand the Justice Department's copyright enforcement efforts. You see, this is what happens when you hand the Justice Department over to the RIAA and MPAA. DOJ is seeking an extra $5 million to focus on these kinds of efforts, to hire 14 new employees, including nine lawyers, claiming that it's "had an increase in the number of cases that we're dealing with in IP." Oh really? You mean like the case of Dajaz1? The site that the DOJ illegally held and censored for over a year? Perhaps if they had a few more lawyers on staff, someone would have taken the time to realize that they were supposed to give the domain back within a specified time frame. Or perhaps they could have used those people to realize that the site was posting music sent by the copyright holders. Of course, that's not what would happen. Instead, they'd just focus on seizing more sites and creating more collateral damage. The real question, of course, should be why are we allowing the government to be Hollywood's private police force?

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Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student

by Ernesto

The Department of Justice has filed a brief siding with the RIAA in its civil case against the file-sharing student Joel Tenenbaum.The RIAA is protesting a demand from the student?s legal team, who want the court to reduce the massive $675,000 fine on due process grounds, to the minimum statutory damages of $750 per song.

More than half a decade ago, the RIAA sued tens of thousands of alleged file-sharers. While the music group settled with the majority for a few thousand dollars each, student Joel Tenenbaum chose to put up a fight.

As of today, the case is still ongoing.

In 2009, a jury found Tenenbaum guilty of ?willful infringement? and awarded damages mounting to $675,000. A year later this amount was reduced by 90% when Judge Nancy Gertner ruled that the penalty was excessive and unconstitutional. In 2011 this decision that was reversed after a new hearing at the Court of Appeals.

In yet another appeal, Tenenbaum?s legal team, headed by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson, is asking the court to reduce the $22,500 fine per song to the minimum statutory damages of $750 per song. This request is made on due process grounds.

As expected, the RIAA doesn?t agree with the request and presented its arguments to the court last Friday. But they were not alone ? on the same day the Department of Justice also filed a brief with the court, backing the RIAA?s vision on the case.

In a 26-page filing the Department of Justice makes the argument that previous cases, as cited by Tenenbaum?s legal team, do not apply in this instance. It concludes that the due process grounds are not relevant yet and that the damages therefore shouldn?t be reduced before the case continues.

The due process question should only be answered when the court decides that the jury?s award of $22,500 per song is not excessive, according to the Departement of Justice.

?The only circumstance in which the Court can reach Defendant?s due process challenge at this time is if the Court first determines the jury?s statutory damages award is not excessive under the common law remittitur standard. The United States, therefore, does not believe it is necessary at this juncture to address the merits of Defendant?s constitutional claim,? the DoJ writes.

Although this is not the first time the Justice Department has become involved in an RIAA civil case, it remains unclear why they chose to intervene this time. What we do know is that the authorities are very up-to-date with the legal proceedings, as five former RIAA lawyers are now employed by the Department of Justice.

Whether these connections between the Justice Department and the RIAA have increased the likelihood of the authorities getting involved is hard to say. However, it is clear that Tenenbaum and his legal team are up against some serious resistance, and that the US authorities don?t want the student to get off that easily..

To be continued, indefinitely.

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