"They Kidnapped Our Child": Why CPS Needs Transparency Now

In April 2013, police officers and a social worker from Sacramento County's Child Protective Services entered the home of Anna and Alex Nikolayev and took their baby, Sammy, away from them. They had no warrant.

"What they'd done was, basically, kidnapped our child with the help of police," says Alex Nikolayev. The young, first-time parents were not notified of where Sammy was being taken and wouldn't find out for a full 24 hours. According to the Nikolayevs, the dispute stemmed from the parents' desire to obtain a second medical opinion before subjecting Sammy to major heart surgery.

The Nikolayev's story made national headlines thanks to footage from a camcorder Anna Nikolayev set up on the kitchen table. It also caught the attention of California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who spearheaded an audit of the agency.

"The secrecy by which CPS operates is a massive problem. Because when you have secrecy and unchecked power, you have a recipe for corruption and abuse," says Donnelly.

The secrecy surrounding CPS stems from the nature of California's juvenile dependency courts, which only allow limited press access and seal all court records. While media and other interested parties can petition the court to open the records, this can be a lengthy process and by no means guarantees results. ReasonTV petitioned the court to open the records in the Nikolayev's case and, almost two months later, we have still not received a ruling from the judge.

The issue of funding is one that many critics of CPS are quick to raise, most prominently and frequently by the late Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer. While the funding incentives for any government agency are complicated and seemingly impossible to divine, Orange County Social Services Agency Director Michael Riley, who oversees Orange County CPS, testified in a deposition related to Hardwick's case that putting more children into the foster system can boost the agency's budget.

"Let's say you spend ten dollars a year. So, then, for the following year, your base then would be ten dollars," says Riley. The lawyer questioning Riley then points out that failure to use the entire base would result in a lowering of the base for the next year. He then asks Riley if the funding stream is tied to how many children they bring into Orange County's children's home, Orangewood.

"It's tied to the number of children we have in the foster system," says Riley.

We reached out to both Sacramento County and Orange County Social Services Agencies in the production of this story, and representatives with both were happy to talk with us. However, because of the closed dependency courts, neither representative could comment on details of specific cases. The absurdity of this charade reached such heights that Sherri Heller, who runs Sacramento County's Health and Human Services, told us that she could not even confirm nor deny that Sacramento County CPS was even involved in the Nikolayev case, despite widespread reporting and video evidence that it was. It's not just parents and children who suffer from the secrecy. CPS workers and their managers say they are not happy about this situation either and feel that more openness and transparency would help them to communicate their side of the story clearly.

"Most of us in this field are eager for the public to understand what happened and why," says Heller. "It is a source of great dismay to us when we are accused of hiding behind the confidentiality law."

In the immediate wake of the Nikolayev case, parents gathered in Sacramento to support the audit and testify in front of the audit committee. The audit is set to proceed in the next few months, and the auditor will choose three county agencies to examine. But for parents like Deanna Hardwick, who's experienced the power of this agency first-hand, a state-level audit is just the beginning of a broader movement towards transparency and accountability.

"Once the American people are able to be made aware that this is going on, I think that will be a real step forward towards making sure that there's accountability and making sure that the agency is working towards keeping families together rather than separating them," says Hardwick.

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CPS get extra money for babies with blue eyes. CPS and other so called protecting children agencies like dyfs need to be abolished. Just about everything the government provides thats serves and protects people are failures. This is what happens when you turn away from God and look to the devil which is our big government bureaucracy. if you fail to give your life in the fight against satan,
then you lose both your life and your soul.

i pray for this family,
the rest of the country needs to wake up, fight satan, and be willing to give their life doing so.

cops? read the Bible passages of roman soldiers during the time of Christ's crucifixion. that's you. still wanna remain on that "winning" team? it is your choice, and you will reap the result, i guarantee it. repent before it's too late for your soul - it's up to you, this may be your last warning, who knows what'll happen on your next shift.

Anonymous 12169, I agree. But only as a last resort, I believe God wanted us to live life on this EArth to its fullest, and that means staying alive by whatever means possible. However, if any government agency were to come to my door at this moment, and beat it down just to get to me and lock me up for life, only then would I have to take one or two out before killing myself.

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Owner of Snowden's Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov't

Lavabit, an encrypted email service believed to have been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, has abruptly shut down. The move came amidst a legal fight that appeared to involve U.S. government attempts to win access to customer information. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we are joined by Lavabit owner Ladar Levison and his lawyer, Jesse Binnall. "Unfortunately, I can?t talk about it. I would like to, believe me," Levison says. "I think if the American public knew what our government was doing, they wouldn?t be allowed to do it anymore." In a message to his customers last week, Levison said: "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people, or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit." Levison said he was barred from discussing the events over the past six weeks that led to his decision. Soon after, another secure email provider called Silent Circle also announced it was shutting down.

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AARON MAT?: We turn now to the news an encrypted email service believed to have been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has abruptly shut down. The move came amidst a legal fight that appeared to involve U.S. government attempts to win access to customer information.

The owner of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, wrote a message online saying, quote, "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people, or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit." Ladar Levison said he was barred from discussing the events over the past six weeks that led to his decision.

He went on to write, quote, "This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."

Later on Thursday, another secure email provider called Silent Circle also announced it was shutting down.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, in a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we go to Washington, D.C., where we?re joined by Ladar Levison, founder, owner and operator of Lavabit. We?re also joined by his lawyer, Jesse Binnall.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Ladar Levison, let?s begin with you. Explain the decision you made.

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah, well, I?ve--thank you, Amy. I?ve compared the decision to that of, you know, putting a beloved pet to sleep, you know, faced with the choice of watching it suffer or putting it to sleep quietly. It was a very difficult decision. But I felt that in the end I had to pick between the lesser of two evils and that shutting down the service, if it was no longer secure, was the better option. It was, in effect, the lesser of the two evils.

AMY GOODMAN: What are you facing? When you say "the lesser of two evils," what was the other choice?

LADAR LEVISON: Unfortunately, I can?t talk about that. I would like to, believe me. I think if the American public knew what our government was doing, they wouldn?t be allowed to do it anymore, which is why I?m here in D.C. today speaking to you. My hope is that, you know, the media can uncover what?s going on, without my assistance, and, you know, sort of pressure both Congress and our efforts through the court system to, in effect, put a cap on what it is the government is entitled to in terms of our private communications.

AARON MAT?: For those who aren?t familiar with what encrypted email is, can you walk us through that and talk about what your service provided?

LADAR LEVISON: Certainly. You know, I?ve always liked to say my service was by geeks, for geeks. It?s grown up over the last 10 years, it?s sort of settled itself into serving those that are very privacy-conscious and security-focused. We offered secure access via high-grade encryption. And at least for our paid users, not for our free accounts--I think that?s an important distinction--we offered secure storage, where incoming emails were stored in such a way that they could only be accessed with the user?s password, so that, you know, even myself couldn?t retrieve those emails. And that?s what we meant by encrypted email. That?s a term that?s sort of been thrown around because there are so many different standards for encryption, but in our case it was encrypted in secure storage, because, as a third party, you know, I didn?t want to be put in a situation where I had to turn over private information. I just didn?t have it. I didn?t have access to it. And that was sort of--may have been the situation that I was facing. You know, obviously, I can?t speak to the details of any specific case, but--I?ll just leave it at that.

AMY GOODMAN: NSA leaker Edward Snowden recently described your decision to shut down Lavabit as, quote, "inspiring." He told The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, quote, "America cannot succeed as a country where individuals like Mr. Levison have to relocate their businesses abroad to be successful. Employees and leaders at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way small businesses are. The defense they have offered to this point is that they were compelled by laws they do not agree with, but one day of downtime for the coalition of their services could achieve what a hundred Lavabits could not."

Snowden went on to say, quote, "When Congress returns to session in September, let us take note of whether the internet industry?s statements and lobbyists--which were invisible in the lead-up to the Conyers-Amash vote--emerge on the side of the Free Internet or the NSA and its Intelligence Committees in Congress."

Ladar, you were the service provider for Edward Snowden?

LADAR LEVISON: I believe that?s correct. Obviously, I didn?t know him personally, but it?s been widely reported, and there was an email account bearing his name on my system, as I?ve been made well aware of recently.

AMY GOODMAN: Glenn Greenwald also wrote, "What is particularly creepy about the Lavabit self-shutdown is that the company is gagged by law even from discussing the legal challenges it has mounted and the court proceeding it has engaged. In other words, the American owner of the company believes his Constitutional rights and those of his customers are being violated by the US Government, but he is not allowed to talk about it."

Greenwald goes on to write, quote, "Just as is true for people who receive National Security Letters under the Patriot Act, Lavabit has been told [that] they would face serious criminal sanctions if they publicly discuss what is being done to their company."

Ladar Levison, why did you start Lavabit?

LADAR LEVISON: Well, just to add one thing to Greenwald?s comments, I mean, there?s information that I can?t even share with my lawyer, let alone with the American public. So if we?re talking about secrecy, you know, it?s really been taken to the extreme. And I think it?s really being used by the current administration to cover up tactics that they may be ashamed of.

But just to answer your question, why did I start Lavabit? It was right out of college. I was sitting around with a group of my friends. I owned the domain name nerdshack.com, and we thought it would be cool to offer, you know, a free private email with a large quota, just like Gmail, and we sort of built the service along those lines. And as I was designing and developing the custom platform, it was right around when the PATRIOT Act came out. And that?s really what colored my opinion and my philosophy, and why I chose to take the extra effort and build in the secure storage features and sort of focus on the privacy niche and the security focus niche. And it?s really grown up from there. We?ve seen a lot of demand for, you know, people who want email but don?t necessarily want it lumped in and profiled along with their searches or their browsing history or any of their other Internet activities. And that?s really where we?ve focused and really how we?ve grown over the years, up to when I shut down 410,000 registered users.

AARON MAT?: And, Ladar, during this time, you?ve complied with other government subpoenas. Is that correct?

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah, we?ve probably had at least two dozen subpoenas over the last 10 years, from local sheriffs? offices all the way up to federal courts. And obviously I can?t speak to any particular one, but we?ve always complied with them. I think it?s important to note that, you know, I?ve always complied with the law. It?s just in this particular case I felt that complying with the law--

JESSE BINNALL: And we do have to be careful at this point.

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah, I--

JESSE BINNALL: But I think he can speak philosophically about the--his philosophy behind Lavabit and why it would lead to his decision to shut down.

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah, I have--

AMY GOODMAN: That?s Jesse Binnall, by the way. And, Jesse, how difficult is this for Ladar Levison, what he can say, what he can?t say? How high are the stakes here?

JESSE BINNALL: The stakes are very high. It?s a very unfortunate situation that, as Americans, we really are not supposed to have to worry about. But Ladar is in a situation where he has to watch every word he says when he?s talking to the press, for fear of being imprisoned. And we can?t even talk about what the legal requirements are that make it so he has to watch his words. But the simple fact is, I?m really here with him only because there are some very fine lines that he can?t cross, for fear of being dragged away in handcuffs. And that?s pretty much the exact fears that led the founders to give us the First Amendment in the first place. So it?s high stakes.

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah.

AARON MAT?: And, Ladar, in your letter, you write that "A favorable decision would allow me to resurrect Lavabit as an American company." So, are you suggesting perhaps that you would consider moving it abroad?

LADAR LEVISON: I don?t think I can continue to run Lavabit abroad as an American citizen. I would have to move abroad, effectively, to administer the service. As an American citizen, I?m still subject to the laws and jurisdiction of the United States, particularly as long as I continue to live here. You know, that?s why I have a lot of respect for Snowden, because he gave up his entire life, the life that he?s known his entire life, so that he could speak out. I haven?t gotten to that point. I still hope that it?s possible to run a private service, private cloud data service, here in the United States without necessarily being forced to conduct surveillance on your users by the American government.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you say, Ladar, if you?ve received a national security letter?

LADAR LEVISON: No.

JESSE BINNALL: Unfortunately, he can?t.

AMY GOODMAN: We?re going to talk about that in a minute, the overall issue of what these are, for listeners and viewers who are not familiar with this. But, Ladar Levison, soon after you pulled the plug on Lavabit, another encrypted email provider called Silent Circle also shut down. Mike Janke, Silent Circle?s CEO and co-founder, said, quote, "There was no 12-hour heads up. If we announced it, it would have given authorities time to file a national security letter. We decided to destroy it before we were asked to turn (information) over. We had to do scorched earth." Ladar, your response?

LADAR LEVISON: I can certainly understand his position. If the government had learned that I was shutting my service down--can I say that?

JESSE BINNALL: Well, I think it?s best to kind of avoid that topic, unfortunately. But I think it is fair to say that Silent Circle was probably in a very different situation than Lavabit was, and which is probably why they took the steps that they did, which I think were admirable.

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah. But I will say that I don?t think I had a choice but to shut it down without notice. I felt that was my only option. And I?ll have to leave it to your listeners to understand why. But it?s important to note that, you know, Lavabit wasn?t the first service provider to receive a government request, and we?re not the first service provider to fight it. We?re just the first service provider to take a different approach. And it could very well be because of our size that we have that option. We?re wholly focused on secure email. Without it, we have no business. You take a much larger provider with a greater number of employees, and shutting down a major section of their company, when they have to answer to shareholders, may not be a viable option.

AMY GOODMAN: Why have you decided to speak out today, Ladar?

LADAR LEVISON: Because my biggest fear when I shut down the service was that no good would come of it. And I?m hoping that by speaking out, I can prompt, hopefully, Congress to act and change the laws that put me in this circumstance to begin with. I know that?s a little ironic, considering I can?t speak about the specific laws that put me in this position, but, you know, there?s a real need in this country to establish what the rights are of our cloud providers. And unless we take actions to ensure that, you know, we can continue to operate secure, private services, I think we?re going to lose a lot of business over the next few years. And I think all the major providers, not just Lavabit, have gone on record to say the same.

AMY GOODMAN: Do you think people should use email?

LADAR LEVISON: Yeah, I think it?s a great way to communicate. I think we?re entering a world where we have any number of ways of communicating, from postal mail to Twitter, to text messaging, to Facebook, to instant messenger, to email, to telephone, to video chat. They all kind of blend together. They all sort of fit their own niche, their own purpose. And I think email still has a very important role to play in communication between people.

AMY GOODMAN: Should we just assume it?s all being read?

LADAR LEVISON: I think you should assume any communication that is electronic is being monitored.

AMY GOODMAN: We?re going to break and then come back to our discussion. And we?ll be joined by a service provider who did get a national security letter and is now able to talk about it. We?ve been speaking with Ladar Levison, Lavabit owner, who just shut down the--as a service provider, provided services to Edward Snowden; and Jesse Binnall, his lawyer. We?ll be back in a minute.

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Americans Giving Up Passports Jump Sixfold as Tougher Rules Loom

By Dylan Griffiths

Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.

Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008.

The U.S., the only nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside, is searching for tax cheats in offshore centers, including Switzerland, as the government tries to curb the budget deficit. Shunned by Swiss and German banks and facing tougher asset-disclosure rules under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, more of the estimated 6 million Americans living overseas are weighing the cost of holding a U.S. passport.

?With the looming deadline for Fatca, more and more U.S. citizens are becoming aware that they have U.S. tax reporting obligations,? said Matthew Ledvina, a U.S. tax lawyer at Anaford AG in Zurich. ?Once aware, they decide to renounce their U.S. citizenship.?

Fatca requires foreign financial institutions to report to the Internal Revenue Service information about financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers, or held by foreign entities in which U.S. taxpayers hold a substantial ownership interest. It was estimated to generate $8.7 billion over 10 years, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

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How and Why Adam Kokesh was Framed

WeAreChange goes to the home of activist and YouTube host Adam Kokesh to find out what happened on the night he was raided and arrested. Kokesh's home was raided following a video he released of him loading a shotgun in Washington D.C. as an act of civil disobedience to protest laws that restrict or deny people of the 2nd amendment. Kokesh did not threaten anyone with the shotgun or use it in any violent way. When his home was raided, the police said that they found magic mushrooms in his safe along with his guns which is a felony charge in Virginia. Kokesh and his housemates who were there on the night of the raid claim the drugs were not Kokesh's and that he is being set up. They claim the house and the safe was completely clean of any illegal substances and that they actually witnessed police bringing in evidence bags that were already full. Kokesh is currently being held in solitary confinement and has been denied bail.

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Police Chief Attempts to Shoot Dog, Hits Woman Instead

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Winston-Salem's incoming police chief Barry Rountree allegedly found himself being confronted by an aggressive dog while responding to a dangerous weapons call, MyFox8 reports. The aspiring new Chief went to shoot the dog, failed, and hit a woman instead after his bullet ricocheted.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. ? The woman shot Wednesday by incoming Winston-Salem Police Chief Barry Rountree says he did not immediately come to help her after she was shot.

?He did not come to me. He backed away,? says Tamara Whitt after being released from the hospital. ?He just backed up and I saw the cell phone come out ? he walked across the street over there by that car over there and he was on his phone ? and I told the SBI he did not come to me.?

Investigators say Rountree shot Whitt in the leg after responding to a dangerous weapon call at 124 North Jackson Ave. around 1:30 p.m, after a 911 caller reported a man was standing on the porch with a large gun pointed at another person.

Rountree and Officer Mohammed Khan, responded to the scene stationing themselves behind Khan?s vehicle.

Whitt, who lives nearby, says her boxer dog ?Lebrone? heard the officers and went down the driveway as she followed.? In a Winston-Salem Police Dept. news release investigators say the dog ran toward Rountree and Khan, acting in an ?aggressive manner.? Rountree attempted to shoot the dog, but his bullet hit the pavement and struck Whitt.

?The dog was closer to me than the officer, that?s where this whole thing is just out of hand,? said Whitt who questions why Rountree fired his gun while she was near the dog. ?I wasn?t expecting the gun to be fired because I was right there.? Whitt also says her dog is ?very passive? and ?not aggressive.?

According to police, the round struck the pavement ricocheted and bullet fragments struck Whitt. Whitt says the entire 40 caliber bullet is inside her left thigh and doctors say it?s too dangerous to remove.

Whitt says officer Khan immediately radioed for help and came to her aid, but it wasn?t until after Rountree finished his phone call that he walked over to ask if she was ok.

?I just hope that the SBI does a good investigation and really sees if he really deserve to be our police [chief] because I honestly thought that was a rookie mistake.?

Lebrone -?the family dog, is ok and in the custody of Forsyth County Animal Control.

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Since this report came out, the chief's fellow government employees in the SBI who "investigated" the incident quickly found him not guilty (shocker), meaning he will officially be Winston-Salem's new police chief!
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The pig chief should be shot in the balls. The dog was doing his job but the pig chief was not. If it was me SWAT would have had to be called and there would be blood shed. F*ck this country's Fascist cops and politicians, time to go to war! YOU GOD DAMNED ROOKIE. SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY. ON TO THE NEXT COUNTY YOU INCOMPETENT JACK WAGON Reptilian's are afraid of dogs. Or is it reptile brains? She seriously wanted him to come "help" her after he just shot her? Please sir give me another. In the "let them know who's boss and scare the daylights out of the citizens program," Chief Rountree only gets one point for this shooting. Missed the dog entirely, and only got a bank shot on the woman. He needs to practice.
Maybe give him another half a point for style though, since he was cool enough to not let such a trivial matter distract him as he stepped across the street to check on if his lotto ticket was a winner. I want every cop to know this: you shoot my dog you die. This is that simple. Many people think like me. So if you contenplate shooting any dog you might have better to reconsider because it might cost your live in the end. May be it would be simpler just to shoot yourself in the head instead? They best kill me first. Once I see my dogs dead I'll dump ng into the house and blow the fuckin' whole block to hel! Cross-eyed shooting causes collateral damage

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Donald Trump Says Snowden Should Be Assassinated

Extradition process and justice system are too slow for would-be presidential candidate

Donald Trump, a man who has previously and may once again tout himself as a presidential candidate, believes that the American justice system is too slow and cumbersome to deal with whistleblowers like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden.

Labeling Snowden a ?spy?, Trump went on Fox News to advocate his immediate ?execution?.

In a vomit inducing interview with Fox and Friends, Trump, in his infinite wisdom, stated:

?You know, spies in the old days used to be executed.?

?This guy is becoming a hero in some circles. Now, I will say, with the passage of time, even people that were sort of liking him and were trying to go on his side are maybe dropping out"??

?We have to get him back and we have to get him back fast. It could take months or it could take years, and that would be pathetic.? The Donald noted.

Blatantly advocating that Snowden be assassinated, Trump suggested that the US would somehow cease to exist, should he be allowed to live and divulge secret information on government surveillance and other unconstitutional practices.

?This guy?s a bad guy and, you know, there?s still a thing called execution,? he said.

?You really have to take a strong"? You have thousands of people with access to material like this. We?re not going to have a country any longer.? Trump continued.

Ironically, that reasoning was EXACTLY why Snowden went public with the material on the NSA in the first place ? because he could not face living in a country that treats its own citizens like suspects and actively spies on all their communications.

Trump also labelled journalists who covered the story ?disgraceful?, saying that newspapers should not have printed the details of the revelations.

Trump?s lack of understanding of the Bill Of Rights and the Fourth Amendment will not come as a surprise to regular readers, given his attacks on former Congressman Ron Paul last year.

Despite him being the most constitutionally sound presidential candidate in decades, Trump called Paul a ?joke? candidate, and belittled his Libertarian outlook on foreign policy, saying Paul did not care about foreign affairs such as ?if Iran has a nuclear weapon that can wipe out Israel.?
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Deputy Fired for Running Red Light & Killing Teen Reinstated with Back Pay

Chris | InformationLiberation

Whoever said "crime doesn't pay" never worked for the state.

From The Lacrosse Tribune:

A former La Crosse County Sheriff?s deputy fired after she killed a Holmen teenager in a 2010 crash has won her job back.

In a ruling released Monday, an arbitrator ordered Trisha Stratman be returned to duty with back pay of about 20 months.

Stratman was responding to a call for help at a Holmen bar fight in the early morning of July 18, 2010, when she drove through a red light at more than 90 mph just as 16-year-old Brandon Jennings pulled into the intersection.

Jennings was thrown from his vehicle and died at the scene.

A jury acquitted Stratman on a charge of homicide by negligent operation, but she was fired in 2011 after an internal investigation found she violated department policy.

Must be nice to get rewarded with a paid vacation for killing someone.
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File a civil lawsuit against her and the county Her actions are criminally negligent but of course a judge thats part of the same criminal syndicate as cops in our justice system would let her get her job back. Wow, what a windfall. I'm curious why they would give her the job back. Because of her good judgment and great driving skills? Do they feel so much safer with her patrolling the streets? I think normal people wouldn't even want that job back after killing someone, much less have the nerve to seek back pay for the service. For all too many it seems when they put on the uniform they must first remove all decency and empathy. Does she think she just hit a bug with the windshield? Push the wipers and move on. The life of a common man or his kid just doesn't seem to be worth much these days. We the mundanes,are chattle to our omnipotent LEO band of dilinquent thugs, hail to our heros and champions of peace. Is that crack smiling for her mug shot, how typical. That looks like a departmental photo, not a mugshot. Still, she's a piece of shit bad cop and should be fired. 90mph to get to a bar fight, wow I just can't hardly grasp the importance of this call. If people choose to go to a bar don't they accept some measure of risk? The speed limit and red lights seen reasonable to obey in this Highly dangerous and potentially devastating emergency call to a BAR FIGHT, in the early morning, that might just destroy the whole community unless stopped. On the other hand, this poor kid following the rules of passing through a green light, had no reason to believe those he pays to serve him would eventually KILL him; by an act even my 14 year old, that does not drive yet, knows is a very dangerous and illegal thing to do.
This is grade school driver training 101, you have to be a complete idiot to speed, 90 fing miles per hour, through a RED light. Did anyone check to see if she was drunk, I hope she was, else she might just be the stupidest human on the road. Don't just through the book at her, launch the whole fricking legal code including the shelfs, brackets and screws along with it. 90mph through a RED LIGHT does anyone need more? You try that and daylight will be a distant memory. One set of laws for police officers and another set of laws for everyone else.

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