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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A civil service examiner has thrown out 39 internal investigations by the New Orleans Police Department, saying the time limit for completing the cases against the officers had expired.
Civil Service Hearing Examiner Harry Tervalon Jr. ruled that the investigations, all started before Hurricane Katrina, were not completed within the mandated 60-day time limit and refused Superintendent Warren Riley's request for an extension.
Tervalon said an extension must be requested within 30 days of an investigation being started. The investigations were mostly adm... Read more
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USA: Pasadena officer accused
Pasadena police are investigating a complaint by a local woman who says she was humiliated when a police officer pulled her off the toilet in her apartment and took her outside half naked.
A police report of the Aug. 4 incident outside the apartment of Joycelyn Edwards in the 1100 block of Burke, however, paints a different description of the evening.
Edwards, 47, said during a Wednesday afternoon news conference at her apartment that she, her husband, Anthony, and a niece were sitting outside when a Pasadena police officer approached her husband and accused him of being intoxicated. Edwards said she excused herself to use the bathroom, at which point an officer stormed into her apartment after her.
The officer, she said, used profanity and stood in the bathroom doorway. The officer, whom she identified as J. Oakley, did not let her clean herself or button up her clothing before he yanked her off the toilet and took her outside, she said.
The actions go "against the canons or good policing," said Deric Muhammad with the Millions More Movement Ministry of Justice.
Report says she ran inside
Edwards was charged with evading arrest and resisting arrest and search. She is out on $3,000 bail.
Vance Mitchell, a spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department, said Oakley and officer Scott Michael were on bicycle patrol the evening of Aug. 4 when they saw Anthony Edwards in the parking lot of the apartment complex. The officers said Anthony Edwards was intoxicated and that they asked him to go inside his home or risk being charged with public intoxication.
Joycelyn Edwards, police said, was playing loud music in violation of the city's noise ordinance and was asked to turn down the volume. She refused and yelled obscenities at the officers, police said.
As officers were about to arrest her, she ran inside her first-floor apartment and into the bathroom, according to the police report.
Mitchell said Joycelyn Edwards locked the bathroom door. When she opened it, the officer put his foot in the doorway. At that time, Edwards was half dressed and the officer asked her to get dressed, which she did, the report says.
When Jocelyn Edwards was being escorted to a patrol car, she butted heads with an officer. She was placed on the ground and handcuffed, the police report says.
Records show Jocelyn Edwards was arrested by Pasadena police in January 1999 on allegations of driving while intoxicated and for resisting arrest. The resisting arrest charge was dropped after she pleaded guilty to DWI. She was handed a one-year probated sentence and fined $400.
Anthony Edwards, 47, was arrested the evening of Aug. 4 for public intoxication. He has an extensive criminal record with offenses of drugs and burglary dating back to 1982, Harris County records show.
'Out of control'
Muhammad said Joycelyn Edwards' case and the recent death of Pedro Gonzales Jr. shows the Pasadena Police Department is "absolutely out of control. They are out on the streets and out of control."
Gonzales, 51, was found dead in his jail cell on July 21 about five hours after officers Jason W. Buckaloo and Christopher S. Jones used force to arrest him on a public intoxication charge.
His family said police initially reported that he died from a stroke or heart attack, but a preliminary autopsy report indicated he died from a punctured lung caused by a rib fracture.
Assistant Harris County District Attorney Joe Owmby, head of the police integrity unit, said his office is reviewing the police department's internal affairs investigation. Owmby expects to take the case before a grand jury by the middle September. A spokeswoman with the FBI Houston office confirmed that the agency has opened a preliminary inquiry into the case.
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