Showing posts with label police corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police corruption. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson Assaults Publisher of Maui Time Newspaper
Read more at Maui Time Weekly
Office Nelson Johnson is also the same officer who shot Lisa Kaina in Paia point blank in the head. Kaina had stolen a car, was driving erratically at high speed and refused to comply with the officer. Maui County indemnified him but some wonder if this could have been resolved without killing Kaina. Given the explosive and bullying behavior that Johnson displays in this video, one begins to suspect that he perhaps escalated the situation when another officer could have ended the standoff without shooting her. Read more about the Lisa Kaina shooting here
He has also been reprimanded for being abusive and violating civil rights in the past. John Dunbar claims he was roughed up and driven through the cane fields on the way to the station and sued for false arrest. However Mr Dunbar has a reputation as an abusive bully and is an associate of the paranoid, compulsive liar Darleen Brothers, so one has a feeling that his truthfulness is suspect. The Court apparently thought so and dismissed Mr. Dunbar’s claims.
Each of the previous incidents has been explained away. But enough is enough and what we see in this video is inexcusable. Come on Police Commission. Time to get rid of this bad cop. Whether or not the other situations were justifiable, he’s obviously got some personality problems that cause him to escalate situations rather than calm them down as good cops do.
Former Maui Police Officer Charged with Sex Assault
The Maui Police Department took the right action – firing this officer - but why did it take 9 months to do it? And why did it take the Prosecuting Attorney a full year to file charges?
We’d charge cover-up and foot-dragging but this seems to be routine for Maui County. Is the Maui County Prosecuting Attorney’s office so understaffed that it takes them this long to interview a witness and file charges? If so, then let’s get them the staff they need and get rid of this backlog!
Former Maui Police Department officer Lewis Gamble
From the Maui News – Former Maui Police Department officer Lewis Gamble was arrested Tuesday on a Maui County grand jury indictment charging him with sexual assault, kidnapping and other charges, police said.
Gamble, 33, of Paia, was released after posting $250,000 bail, following his arrest at 11:06 a.m., said Lt. Wayne Ibarra, MPD spokesman.
The bench warrant charges Gamble with first-degree sexual assault, third-degree assault, impersonating a law enforcement officer, false reporting and kidnapping.
Ibarra said no additional information about the case was available Tuesday afternoon.
In an interview with The Maui News last year, a 41-year-old man reported being sexually assaulted by Gamble in early March last year after Gamble responded to the man’s home in Kihei to investigate a burglary report. The man said that Gamble, then a Kihei patrol officer, was in uniform and carrying a gun.
The man said he later underwent a sexual assault examination and spoke with police detectives and Internal Affairs officers.
The man also reported being chased and tackled by Gamble during an encounter three weeks later in Wailuku town.
Gamble was part of MPD’s 64th Recruit Class that graduated in December 2005.
Without naming the officer, an MPD report on internal investigations that concluded last October said an officer was suspended for 15 work days and terminated from employment for committing a criminal act in March 2010.
We’d charge cover-up and foot-dragging but this seems to be routine for Maui County. Is the Maui County Prosecuting Attorney’s office so understaffed that it takes them this long to interview a witness and file charges? If so, then let’s get them the staff they need and get rid of this backlog!
Former Maui Police Department officer Lewis Gamble
From the Maui News – Former Maui Police Department officer Lewis Gamble was arrested Tuesday on a Maui County grand jury indictment charging him with sexual assault, kidnapping and other charges, police said.
Gamble, 33, of Paia, was released after posting $250,000 bail, following his arrest at 11:06 a.m., said Lt. Wayne Ibarra, MPD spokesman.
The bench warrant charges Gamble with first-degree sexual assault, third-degree assault, impersonating a law enforcement officer, false reporting and kidnapping.
Ibarra said no additional information about the case was available Tuesday afternoon.
In an interview with The Maui News last year, a 41-year-old man reported being sexually assaulted by Gamble in early March last year after Gamble responded to the man’s home in Kihei to investigate a burglary report. The man said that Gamble, then a Kihei patrol officer, was in uniform and carrying a gun.
The man said he later underwent a sexual assault examination and spoke with police detectives and Internal Affairs officers.
The man also reported being chased and tackled by Gamble during an encounter three weeks later in Wailuku town.
Gamble was part of MPD’s 64th Recruit Class that graduated in December 2005.
Without naming the officer, an MPD report on internal investigations that concluded last October said an officer was suspended for 15 work days and terminated from employment for committing a criminal act in March 2010.
Polipoli Attack Revisted
Maui Police are ignoring the young man who, they say, “accidentally walked over a cliff” during a Polipoli rave. Funny that the physician who saw him said his face had been “kicked in”. And very reminiscent of other gang attacks going on at that time.
The gang in question got their kicks (so to speak) by cold cocking their innocent victim and then kicking the unconscious person in the head, face and body.
Rumors abound that the nephew of one of Maui’s “finest” was shielded from prosecution for this and other beatings. Witnesses tell of intimidation to prevent them from saying what happened.
Maui Police Department is silent on the accusations of cover-up.
The gang in question got their kicks (so to speak) by cold cocking their innocent victim and then kicking the unconscious person in the head, face and body.
Rumors abound that the nephew of one of Maui’s “finest” was shielded from prosecution for this and other beatings. Witnesses tell of intimidation to prevent them from saying what happened.
Maui Police Department is silent on the accusations of cover-up.
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