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An ex-con arrested for possession of a weapon was able to beat the rap by using the arresting officer's MySpace and Facebook statuses against him. During the trial, Officer Vaughan Etienne had to explain why his MySpace mood was set to "Devious" on the day of the arrest and why his Facebook status was “Vaughan is watching ‘Training Day’ to brush up on proper police procedure” as the trial approached. The nail in the coffin for the officer though was probably some online comments he had left on an arrest video that included, "If he wanted to tune him up some, he should have delayed cuffing him... If you were going to hit a cuffed suspect, at least get your money’s worth ’cause now he’s going to get disciplined for a faggot-ass love tap." Etienne, who had previously been suspended for steroid usage, told the Times, “What you say on the Internet is all bravado talk, like what you say in a locker room.” Recently it was revealed that the NYPD is drilling their trainees on what not to put online after catching cadets flashing gang signs in profile pics.
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Oh shit. Some people here are gonna be in trouuuuble!
training day was a great film.
denzel should play bad guys more often. same with wayne brady.
Cordelia: When you do find him, you may want to be a little more Guy Pierce in L.A. Confidential, and a little less Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs.
Gunn: I haven't bothered to see a movie since Denzel was robbed of the Oscar for Malcolm X. Later.
Wesley: That was quite a performance.
Cordelia: I know! Talk about wound up too tight.
Wesley: No. I - I mean Denzel.
Cordelia: Oh. Well, he's always great.
Wesley (to Angel): What about you?
Angel: Who doesn't love Denzel?
I have set up my facebook so only my friends can see my personal data etc and my stayyyyyyytus updates. Does that mean this cop was that dumb to 1. allow anyone to see his profile? 2. "friend" the perp?
On myspace, you can see the status/mood update even if it's private.
What it appears may have happened is that the defense found comments the cop had made on public forums, then in searching for more of the same used subpoenas to get the Facebook and Myspace evidence.
They were already formulating a defense involving his steroid use, so were digging up everything they could find on him.
Here's a story from last year as the case was being developed:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-02/news/nypd-s-busts-get-busted/
Smart perp!
edEx, the answer is: subpoena. Gets right past that whole pesky "friends only" thing.
yeah, makes sense. i know nothing about the case.
"Recently it was revealed that the NYPD is drilling their trainees on what not to put online after catching cadets flashing gang signs in profile pics."
That previous story didn't say that the NYPD was "drilling their trainees on what not to put online," it said that they were requiring recruits to reveal their social networking accounts, which would then be examined by an investigator in the recruit's presence.
Facebook and Myspace are so lame. How anyone wants to post their life on the internet is beyond me.
Why anyone wants to post their opinions about everything on the internet is beyond me, too.
I see what you did there...
Here is my fantasy solution for a better police force - it would cost some serious dough but we'd probably get good results. Take John Jay and quadruple it in size. Then, require everyone on the force to do a half-day of training per week for their entire careers. Create all sorts of new classes that focus not just on policing techniques but on the law, on the department's place in society - a whole indoctrination, taught partly by civilians, that you just can't escape.
This could weed out the dickheads. Make the classes actually flunkable. But, beyond that, your average scumbag is just not going to sit there in a classroom every week and read the Bill of Rights. They'd crack. They'd raise their hand and say "Excuse me, but I'll just come right out and say it. I'm an asshole. I hate rich people, smart people, the homeless, and I REALLY hate black people. Right now, reading all this shit just makes me want to bash somebody's face in. So can I go home now?"
Like the song says:
"New York City cops.
New York City cops.
New York City cops.
They ain't too smart."
Here's a thought. Instead of teaching cops what not to put in their Facebook and Myspace profiles, how about teach them not to be fucking thugs who have no respect for the laws they supposedly uphold?