Riverside police chief says he has 'no full memory' of wreck
Riverside police chief says he has 'no full memory' of wreck
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Interesting coincidence,
This happened up here too, but instead of a fire hydrant, it was a starbucks. Lady cop, on meds, possibly alcohol, and due to previous job related injury. It was fairly recent too. Damn cops never could handle their drugs and alcohol:p |
It's been a couple of years and I don't know all the details, but a Beaumont Police unit crashed into the doughnut shop at the corner of 6th street and Beaumont avenue in Beaumont, Ca.
It was closed down for quite some time, and the way it was boarded up I believe the unit made it at least halfway inside. It must of cost the city of Beaumont a ton of money to square that one away, self insured or not. Could you imagine, getting your wake up cup of coffee in the wee hours of the morning and a cop car bursts through the wall. You might get your wake up and possibly piss your pants without the caffeine boost. It's good thing the cash register was on the other end of the counter - less loitering where the car came through. Made for lots of jokes for a while. As for the Riverside article: I bet the chief was stinking drunk, but no sobriety test was given and no mention of the stop was in the police report. Chief Leach wasn't prosecuted over past allegation he smacked his wife in San Diego county - if had been Riverside county and he was not a police office, The prosecutor would have been on it like a mad dog and Leach would have had some time to cool his heels in the county jail and required to go through 52 weeks of anger management classes (It only takes 16 weeks to learn the material necessary to "teach" the class). Even though Riverside county has the policy of filing on 100% of the police reports forwarded to them (even the meritless ones), I will also bet that Leach has no fear of facing an overcharged DA filing even if the CHP report (investigated long after the fact) branded him as an unmitigated menace to society. And the creative fiction which is always present in police reports will probably be tilted as far in favor of Leach as the reporting officer can get away with. No time in jail, no year of ACE classes. Think of all the multiplied charges which Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco could heap on Leach. The man was impaired, hit and run on a street light pole and fire hydrant, unsafe vehicle throwing up sparks with two flat tires and a hanging fender, a man who can't remember how he got into the neighborhood he was stopped in and won't say where he was on super bowl night. The sheer potential for tragedy. Pacheco could write a book of charges on just that alone, without tossing in a few extra for good measure. But DA Pacheco won't hammer the man buttering his bread like he would do to anyone else. Wait and see. |
Just-resigned Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach has his critics, but he is largely praised for his professionalism, community relations
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Tyisha Miller mentioned in the above article:
Tyisha Miller was passed out in the driver's seat of her car late at night. A door window window was broken by an officer and she moved, as anyone would probably do. She was filled full of lead by four Riverside police officers who claimed to fear for their safety. As I remember, some family members called the police for some sort of assistance concerning the woman, not as a criminal complaint. They mentioned that she had a gun in the car. Also as I remember, the officers claimed that the gun was in her lap. Was it? The only ones who know for sure are the officers who killed her. I do know that lying to save one's skin isn't something new - and that "fearing for my safety" is a catch all cover for all sorts of police wrong doing. An apartment I occupied years ago was searched without a warrant by a Victorville city cop claiming to fear for his safety, yelling is there anyone here while looking in kitchen drawers and small cabinets. He dropped that pretense when he got to the bedroom. I never met Tyisha Miller, nor had I heard of her before the incident - I have no idea of her character. However, I believe it was a horrible mistake by insecure, hair trigger officers who (monday morning judgment) went about the task in the wrong way. The moral of the story? Don't call the police for help with a relative under any circumstance. The end result might not be pleasant. |
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