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ELKHART, IN - Indiana police officers recently toughed out a sustained assault on their working environment when a depraved motorist presented herself for…processing…at the station. Officers can be seen on the video collecting photographic evidence and otherwise maintaining the strictest professional standards. Whatever you do, don’t take a close look at the computer desktop wallpaper visible on the officer’s monitor. It wouldn’t be right to rubberneck on a photographic investigation in progress.

BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA - Hoo boy: Broward’s finest is a crew that sure knows how to handle malcontents. Take Elizabeth Ritter, one of these uppity book-learned troublemakers with a law degree. She attracted the gunfire of officers during a protest a few years ago. Why? Well, for one thing the crazy woman had escaped whatever kitchen she should have been attending to and was loose on the street waving her cardboard sign threateningly within twenty yards of the officers. The cops shot her with rubber bullets twice. Their Sergeant, Michael Kallman had a good chuckle at the incident, (captured on a video they shot themselves), referring at 2:08 to the protestors as “scurrying cockroaches”. Excessive force lawsuit or not, you gotta admit, it’s fun to be a cop.

NEW YORK, NY — As if it’s not bad enough that cops have to watch their backs on the streets, every now and then, some malcontent decides it’s time to mess with the policeman’s gear. Don’t believe me, see for yourself in this clip, where one Michael Cephus attacks an NYPD officer’s night stick again and again with his legs and shins. And for good measure, Cephus whacks the officer’s stick with his ass right at the end there. It just goes to show that once you get one of these street criminal types going, they won’t know when to leave well enough alone.

PROVIDENCE, RI - During a labor union demonstration, some officers were attacked by protesters. One protestor was so vicious in her assault of the cops that her own knee was severely dislocated by her violent outbursts targeting peace officers.

Providence RI, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) march on Jackies Galaxy, a local restaurant chain supplied by HWH/Dragonland in NYC, a supplier notorious for slave labor conditions and a lack of basic labor rights. A few blocks before finishing the march North Providence police brutally tackled two of the marches after they moved to the sidewalk too slowly, both were arrested and one suffered a badly broken leg in the attack.

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. - Yet another case of street violence making victims out of cops: In this video, we can clearly see Deputy Brian Tollison being viciously attacked by one 18-year-old Jeremy Rucker. Thirteen times Rucker strikes the Deputy’s fist with his face while surrounding officers stand watch, alert for any further attacks. Later, Rucker won’t quit and lashes out at a Deputy’s shoe with the back of his head. Dedicated, hardened criminals never know when to pack it in.

DENVER - Back in April during the home opener of the Colorado Rockies, two undecover Denver cops, Michael Cordova and James Costigan suffered a savage attack at the hands of 58-year-old bicyclist John Heeney.

Heeney attacked the officer’s knees and elbows repeatedly with his head as well as holding down one officer’s forearm with his chin and throat. Heeney was charged with 2nd Degree Assault on a police officer, right up until the lousy liberal district attorney saw the below videotape and dropped the charges.

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NEW YORK - Critical Mass is an event where bicyclists take to the streets. Couple of days ago, there was one of these events in New York and one Officer Patrick Logan displays his displeasure with one cyclist by stalking then shoving him off his bike.

NYPD later put Logan on desk duty pending investigation:

A video of the incident posted on YouTube shows a group of cyclists traveling through New York’s Times Square before Patrick Logan, one of the two police officers standing in the middle of the street, sees approaching cyclist Christopher Long and shoves him off his bicycle onto the sidewalk.

Long, 29, was charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to the complaint filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

Yeah, this clip clearly shows officer Logan was just doing his job, which is to show these fruitcake Critical Mass guys who owns the streets.

TAMPA, FLORIDA - These video cameras are everywhere, and they’re getting better quality pictures now. In this clip not only you can see a brave officer dump a guy in a wheelchair onto the ground, you can see another cop laughing about it later.

It’s not a laughing matter, because these guys’ll roll all over you if you give em half a chance.

JOHNSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE - Yes indeedy, seems there’s hope for law and order inna land when you read stories like this. We don’t need people taking pictures of us, how many times I gotta tell ya? Maybe soon enough, I won’t have to. Down in Tennessee, the long arm of da law knows what to do with smart alecks who take photographs of police: arrest them.

Sure, it ain’t really illegal to take an officer’s picture — yet.

Johnson County sheriff’s deputy arrested Scott Conover for unlawful photography.

“He says you took a picture of me. It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer,” said Conover.

Conover took a picture of a sheriff’s deputy on the side of the road on a traffic stop. Conover was stunned by the charge.

“This is a public highway,” said Conover.

And it was not a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy as Tennessee code states. The deputy also asked Conover to delete the picture three times.

“He said if you don’t give it to me, you’re going to jail,” said Conover.

Under the advice of the Johnson County attorney, the sheriff would not comment and the arresting deputy said he didn’t want to incriminate himself by talking to us.

In an affidavit, the deputy said he saw something black with a red light which he thought was a threat. Conover was also arrested for pointing a laser at a law enforcement officer.

“At no time did I have a laser. I had an iPhone,” said Conover.