Welcome to the United States: Miami Beach police beat up two French tourists

By MARIMER MATOS

MIAMI (CN) - Miami Beach police beat up two French tourists, a father and son, then threw the father in jail for six days, say the two men in court.

The tourists say the plainclothes officers never identified themselves as police until they had thoroughly beaten the bewildered Frenchmen.

Guy Sabine Moulin and his son Mayeul Moulin sued the cities of Miami Beach and Hialeah and four police officers, alleging false arrest, battery and civil rights violations.

The father claims he was at South Beach and left his two ons to wait for him on a bench while he went to pay for parking. When he returned, he says, his eldest son was being strangled and beaten by four men.

Moulin says he jumped in to protect his son, and the men beat him too. The father says he was treated for injuries to his face and was jailed for six days, and his son was held overnight at a juvenile detention center.

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Allegation: Utah Police Wrote Phony Tickets To Tourists, Pocketed The Cash

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Chris | InformationLiberation

A revenue extraction agency in a tiny town in Utah which tourists are forced to travel through on their way to a local National Park has been accused of writing phony tickets to tourists and pocketing the cash.

Via The Salt Lake Tribune:

Police in the town that promotes itself as "The Gateway to Zion National Park" wrote citations to foreign tourists, required them to pay cash and didn't document the fines, according to a Utah State audit released this week.

Also, perhaps thousands of dollars in fines collected by Springdale, Utah, police are missing, the audit says. Auditors can't be sure because Springdale police kept poor records.

"Thus, the possibility exists that officers could have written citations, collected the citation fines from defendants on the spot ... destroyed the citations, and kept the money without anyone ever detecting," state auditors wrote.

It isn't clear if there are any criminal investigations into the practices. Utah Attorney General spokesman Paul Murphy said the office has not been contacted about the findings. Ryan Shaum, the lead prosecutor at the Washington County, Utah, Attorney's Office, said he is not aware of any criminal investigation.

Besides the question of the missing money, the audit says the practices violated at least five state statutes and that Springdale police violated the tourists' rights under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees equal protection.

[...]Springdale has only about 500 residents, but because it sits at the south entrance to Zion National Park, the bulk of the park's 2.8 million annual visitors pass through the town. The city of Springdale's website says the police department has three full-time officers plus reserve officers.

Sounds like they're providing quite the "service."

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British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes

By RICHARD HARTLEY-PARKINSON

Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.

Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.

The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?'

After making their way through passport control at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) last Monday afternoon the pair were detained by armed guards.

Despite telling officials the term 'destroy' was British slang for 'party', they were held on suspicion of planning to 'commit crimes' and had their passports confiscated.

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