South Dakota Archives - Cop Block

Drug War Gone Mad: Three-Year-Old Forcibly Catheterized By South Dakota DSS Workers

July 12, 2017 Asa J 1934 Views Aaron Henning, american civil liberties union, Avera St. Mary's Hospital, Catheterization, child abuse, childhood abuse, civil liberties, Civil rights, Cody Holcombe, constitution, constitutional violations, copblock, copblock.org, degrading, Dept. of Social Services, Dirk Sparks, Drug war, DSS, emotional pain, end the drug war, federal lawsuit, Fifth Amendment, Forced Catheterization, Forcibly Catheterized, Fourteenth Amendment, fourth amendment, Gena Alvarez, Jason Riis, Kirsten Hunter, marijuana, Pierre, Pierre Police Department, police abuse, Police State, Sisseton, Sisseton Police Department, South Dakota, South Dakota Highway Patrol, staph infection, Trauma, urine sample

A three-year-old boy was forcibly catheterized on behest of South Dakota Dept. of Social Services employees during a child abuse

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Articles Toxic Cops

In South Dakota, Yet Another Former “Officer of the Year” Caught Stealing

February 22, 2017February 22, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 2034 Views Accountability, Assistant Attorney General Michael Sharp, Chamberlain, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, DCI, Dishonesty, Division of Criminal Investigation, drug forfeiture, drug money, drug seizure, evidence bag, evidence locker, fees, felony, grand theft of law by enforcement of seized property, Interstate 90, Justice System, k-9, kelly patterson, officer of the year, personnel matter, Platte, Platte-Geddes School Superintendent Joel Bailey, Plea Bargain, plea deal, police, police abuse, police accountability, police hero, restitution, rights, school board president, Service Dog of the Year, South Dakota, South Dakota Highway Patrol, Special Agent Guy Di Benedetto, stealing public money, stolen evidence, Trooper Brian Biehl, White Lake

In November, South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper Brian William Biehl was arrested for stealing just under $70,000 from evidence that

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Articles CopBlock Submission

Ex-Cop Harassed; Assaulted Couple at Walmart; Rapid City Police Looked the Other Way

November 30, 2016 Brian Sumner 1511 Views Accountability, Amanda Whitney, assault, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, ex-cop, excessive force, film the police, Filming police, Harassment, Justice System, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, Rapid City, Rapid City Police Department, rights, sd, South Dakota, stalking, Surveillance, Walmart

Two years ago, Amanda Whitney started getting harassed by the manager of her fiancé’s apartment complex. She declined to include

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Articles Police Abuse

SD Cops Using Forced Catheterization To Extract Urine From Suspects

July 10, 2016 Asa J 2680 Views ACLU South Dakota, anesthetic, assault, Attorney General Marty Jackley, Avera St. Mary's Hospital, battery, catheter, Catheterization, copblock, copblock.org, Courtney Bowie, Dirk Landon Sparks, drug ingestion, drug paraphernalia, Drug war, Forced Catheterization, fourth amendment, Hughes County, Hughes County State’s Attorney office, Lake Andes, marijuana, Methamphetamine, Obstruction, Pam Hein, Pierre, Pierre police, Pierre Police Department, Police State, possession, rape, South Dakota, THC, Tim Whalen, unreasonable search, unreasonable searches and seizures, urethra

South Dakota police officers are strapping people to beds and having catheters forcibly inserted into their urethras in order to

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Tribal Officer Filmed Tasing Unresponsive, Handcuffed Man 28 Times Exonerated

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 Asa J 1010 Views Accountability, assault, assault with a dangerous weapon, Becky Sotherland, Brutality, cellphone video, chief Ron Duke, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, deprivation of constitutional rights, electrical shock, excessive force, federal grand jury, filing a false report, film the police, handcuffed man tased 28 times, Jeffrey Eagle Bull, Justice System, man tased 28 times, Manderson, obstruction of a federal investigation, officer Becky Sotherland, Oglala Sioux Tribal Department of Public Safety, Oglala Sioux Tribal police, playing possum, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, Ron Duke, South Dakota, taser, Tribal police, U.S. Attorney Kevin Koliner, video, welfare call

An Oglala Sioux Tribal police officer that was recorded screaming at and tasing an unresponsive and handcuffed man an estimated 28

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Social Media Study Reveals Half Of Americans Hate Their Police Dept.

August 26, 2015October 26, 2015 Asa J 4842 Views A grade, Alabama, Arkansas, austin, charlotte, COLUMBUS, copblock, copblock.org, Denver, drugabuse.com, F grade, ferguson, Fort Worth, Georgia, Half of americans hate police, Hawaii, houston, Idaho, Illinois, Johns Hopkins University, Kansas, Kentucky, maine, Miami and Los Angles, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York City, north dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, phoenix, police related tweets, police satisfaction study, police sentiment, police sentiment scores, professor Philip Leaf, San Antonio, San Deigo, seattle, social media police study, social media study, South Dakota, Texas, Twitter, twitter analysis, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia

With the rise of digital technology, it has become easier and easier to document the transgressions of state enforcers like

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South Dakota State Police Violated my Rights

January 14, 2013January 14, 2013 CopBlock 1383 Views abuse, arrest, clyde calhoon, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, cora olson, dui, police, Police State, richard david gould, sd, South Dakota

I am a two time graduate in European Intellectual History, Human/Cultural Topical Geography in Community Corruption, with a minor in

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This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

December 12, 2012January 1, 2014 CopBlock 447 Views California, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Drug war, New York City NY, nypd, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, StopTheDrugWar.org

Greed strikes down a pair of cops, including a Bay Area drug task force commander, and two more go down

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