Tagged: police shooting in Minnesota
Police Shooting: Police officer’s body cam found (hidden) underneath his squad car
Philando Castile shooting protesters justified in doubting investigation
by Timothy Charles Holmseth on July 9, 2016, 1:09 P.M. CST
The United States Department of Justice needs to investigate a police shooting in North Dakota.
The body-cam worn by UND police officer Jerad Braaten, who shot David James Elliott, an unarmed man, in a Grand Forks, North Dakota hospital parking lot, was found by investigators underneath the officer’s squad car.
The astonishing revelation comes as protests across the nation are turning deadly due to public trust issues regarding official investigations, and in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, which occurred in neighboring Minnesota.
Philando Castile
The U.S. DOJ announced it will monitor the Minnesota BCA investigation of the Castile shooting. Notably, the Minneapolis FBI has territorial jurisdiction for North Dakota.
The revelation regarding the officers attempt to hide his body camera supports the cries of protesters across the nation that are demanding justice, in what appears to be a national ‘Pattern and Practice’ of clearing police officers that are committing murders.
The staggering fact that the UND police officer’s body-cam was found under his car is revealed in a line item of an investigative inventory sheet by the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) obtained by Write Into Action.
Write Into Action has been conducting an in-depth journalistic investigation into the police shooting.
Special Agent Michael Ness recorded in the Inventory Sheet “UNDPD body cam” was found “under UNDPD squad car”.
THE COVER-UP IS WORSE THAN THE CRIME
Write Into Action has uncovered insurmountable evidence that shows an elaborate multi-agency and Institutional cover-up of the police shooting of David James Elliott is underway.
Evidence shows the truth about the shooting is factually known to UND, Altru Health System, ND BCI, and other law enforcement agencies involved.
Evidence strongly suggests the shooting was an attempted murder being carried out in the form of a ‘hit’ – possibly related to drug trafficking in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Grand Forks States Attorney David Jones found Officer Braaten acted within the law when he shot David Elliott.
However, the facts of the case that have come during Write Into Action’s investigation show there is no possible way an honest, law-abiding, reasonable person could have reached that conclusion.
Write Into Action’s investigation has discovered that every single police video obtained thus far appears to be tampered with; contains changed properties; and/or was otherwise altered/manipulated in various ways.
No video released thus far shows the actual shooting.
However, the dash-cam of a GFPD police officer’s squad car that captured the shooting in the distance was inexplicably altered. The color video was changed so it would only appear in black and white. The black and white creates shadows and glare that obfuscates the details in the video. All other video; including video from the same officers car; was in color.
Write Into Action has submitted a public records request to UNDPD for the body-cam of Braaten; the video still has not been delivered.
Write Into Action has obtained evidence that Braaten actually attempted to shoot Elliott a few minutes prior to the actual shooting, while Elliott’s vehicle was stopped atop the Columbia Road bridge in Grand Forks with his arms out the window, surrendering. The first attempt failed because Braaten’s gun jammed.
Braaten allegedly lied to investigators about a cartridge located atop the bridge, and only admitted he had performed an action with his gun on the bridge, after his fingerprints were found on the cartridge.
Write Into Action exclusively obtained and published UNDPD records show Braaten was disciplined for actions he took regarding his police cameras.
Braaten was later hired by the Grand Forks Police Department.
David Elliott’s lawyer on the case, Darla Schuman, has not responded to requests for comment.
For more information about Write Into Action’s police shooting investigation go to WRITE INTO ACTION
Congressional Records: Minnesota police officer and congressman alerted FBI to police misconduct and mysterious deaths
“Dear Mr. Wellstone: I was a police officer…”
by Timothy Charles Holmseth on July 8, 2016, 7:01 P.M. CST
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton posed a rhetorical question upon learning of the police shooting death of Philando Castile on Wednesday.
“Would this have happened if those passengers, the driver and the passengers, were white?”
– Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton
Philando Castile
Congressional records obtained by Write Into Action reveal Gov. Dayton has simply posed the wrong question.
The real question is…
Would this have happened if the U.S. DOJ and FBI had properly acted upon a referral from former Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone regarding a Minnesota police officer that came forward about abuse and mysterious deaths in the State?
The proper question may sit within the four cryptic words continuously repeated by presidential candidate Donald Trump regarding the truth behind our government and it’s bizarre spiral into insanity. .
“There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”
– Donald J. Trump
The document dump obtained by Write Into Action is disturbing beyond measure and supports Trump’s cynical code-speak.
Essentially – the FBI and U.S. Attorney General’s office appear to have deliberately run out the clock to avoid acting on information received from a 15 year veteran of a police force in Minnesota, which exposed horrific prisoner abuse and may have prevented a graveyard’s worth of mysterious deaths.
Instead…
The 15 year career of former East Grand Forks Police officer and investigator Gary Deitz ended in termination after he broke ‘The Blue Code’.
Former EGFPD officer and Whistleblower Gary Deitz talks to Valley News Live
The evidence obtained by Deitz was so powerful he actually captured a fellow police officer, Rodney Hajicek, on tape, stating he planned to lie to investigators about an investigation of the Department. Hajicek went onto to become the ranking police officer at the EGFPD; where he remains to this day.
Serious questions are now being raised as to how many congressional complaints and legitimate referrals from police officers and patriotic whistleblowers have been swept under the rug in Minnesota.
As state and federal law enforcement across the nation now brace for what could be a firestorm of violence following the fatal police shooting of Castile; the truth is the American public may only be watching tragic theater.
Sen. Wellstone’s files reveal Minnesota authorities, as well as the DOJ, FBI, and Special Litigations Section in Washington D.C., have long possessed very specific and actionable evidence of police abuse and widespread public corruption in Minnesota at the ‘pattern and practice’ level.
In 1997 Wellstone contacted the Justice Department and requested an inquiry regarding the information provided by Deitz.
Deitz’s initial correspondence with Sen. Wellstone rings sadly tragic today.
Dear Mr. Wellstone:
I was a police officer with the City of East Grand Forks for 15 years. In October 1991, I went to the FBI with many concerns about the city of East Grand Forks, city officials, and most important the abuse of prisoners by police officers. I have developed a heart condition, depression, and Post Traumatic Stress. The Post Traumatic Stress was due to the beating of Jon Osowski and the fact that they covered the incident and did nothing about it. Yet, the beatings continue. The Grand Forks office of the FBI is allegedly looking into the abuse of Dean Bass (dislocated arm while in custody in December 1995) and Neil DesJarlais (three broken ribs while in custody in April 1996) both of them were in custody of the East Grand Forks police department and both are American Indian males.
Subsequent communications between Sen. Wellstone, the Justice Department, and the FBI show Deitz turned over troves of actionable information regarding prisoner abuse and mysterious deaths after eye-witnessing a man beaten to within an inch of his life in the EGF police station.
Write Into Action continues to review the documents.
As public figures, national leaders, and politicians, from President Barack Obama, to Gov. Mark Dayton, to Donald Trump, now grapple with the mindless death cult sweeping the nation, it just may be the solution begins with recognizing the true tragedy of the words…
“Dear Mr. Wellstone: I was a police officer…”
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