tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80256957802483424572024-02-18T21:48:04.526-08:00The Davy V. BlogDavy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comBlogger826125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-37658650292643036512023-03-01T01:12:00.010-08:002023-03-03T08:05:21.673-08:00If You’re Looking for a Used Car, Stay Away from A1 Auto Sales in Rochester, New York <p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">BY DAVY V.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">When a Rochester, New York area church wanted to purchase a used car for a young woman in their congregation, they turned to A1 Auto Sales. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The young woman was so happy to have her first car.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">They later found out that the car they purchased from Ahmed Thajeel, who introduced himself as the owner of A1 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Auto Sales, had serious issues that he kept from them. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Among other things, the car had been in a serious accident which Ahmed Thajeel never disclosed.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">In fact, it wasn’t until the young woman took the car in for service at local repair shop, that a mechanic noticed the serious structural damage on the frame, that had been covered over with what the mechanic described as a cement like mixture and then spray painted black. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The mechanic told the young woman that the car was not roadworthy.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Simply put, the car was not safe to drive.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">And just like that, a church who did something nice for a young woman, by buying her her first car, lost $5,000 and the young woman didn’t have a car. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">One of the biggest mistakes the good folks from the church made was not asking for a CarFax report before purchasing the vehicle. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">A few weeks ago, my son texted me a link to a car that he fell in love with on Facebook Marketplace. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">I told him to go look at the car, take it for a test drive, and if he liked it I would buy it for him. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Well, he did, and shortly afterwards, I paid the dealer $4,500 cash. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Just a couple of days later, the car’s check engine light came on. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">The next day, the car was in a repair shop and I paid $740 for repairs that included a catalytic converter and an O2 sensor. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">And just a couple days after the car was out of the shop, my son calls me and tells me that the left front wheel of the car broke off while he was driving. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Thank god he had just gotten off the expressway, because I don’t even want to think what could have happened if the front wheel had broken off while my son was driving at 55 miles per hour on the expressway.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">As you can see in the photos below, the car’s wheel broke off with so much force that it ripped the axle out of the transmission.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyZHWVoJJFEse_iOtmED0yZwz9dOZSZJaX54bG67Dc0Xj7aY2mtvdQTxkUqUBgZnq11YeXl-9mbVCg3zXgopQsnxpBnx3-gQ4mSIozCarUZeiweqsUpAlj1SfTdeJjbWlzzGNyfYMjjX8YcdMyjmvy2xgh2xThSZwWNEb_IA6l_ea8EAAKNwDAPLX/s4032/1BEDF975-9AF3-4F27-8087-32198D860806.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyZHWVoJJFEse_iOtmED0yZwz9dOZSZJaX54bG67Dc0Xj7aY2mtvdQTxkUqUBgZnq11YeXl-9mbVCg3zXgopQsnxpBnx3-gQ4mSIozCarUZeiweqsUpAlj1SfTdeJjbWlzzGNyfYMjjX8YcdMyjmvy2xgh2xThSZwWNEb_IA6l_ea8EAAKNwDAPLX/s320/1BEDF975-9AF3-4F27-8087-32198D860806.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYA-AmSL3JMTj5LZIfg9RJwUyPOiZ6nRORAt8zVgRFYG2aH8Ao3V3Uyn6zlrCh1UsR_6XC6EMA2XipXf9IUU9TQPQwgkeqFIGr5xJ2tSCk93iQsjRpvTiWhJg9m06XgRxkFHXSXRnkIyZr5U8fde2rGyEZS_Zq5y4J44cAdDMuUz6sj5UvBMT2mg1x/s320/D6848AE5-B7A6-4BE6-A91F-737C3E72F38F.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Back to the repair shop once again. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">This time I paid to have brand new ball joints installed as well as axles.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">As it turns out the car has several serious issues that the dealer never disclosed. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Simply put, that dealer sold my son a lemon.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Oh by the way, that dealer I paid $4,500 cash to? </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">His name is Ahmed Thajeel.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8k_rVL4rHjCJP6XKrcJFRbDCvwcikVOGerG8nyVL_-w_pRvLFWZCp-Gq-LsznojREj6qPZBoiKAFJqIkHlcO4KetdvnsQs17mQeflggbkrZX1JY7txGSNJzmXwCYJ7aJtIuCBvPmdgTpzsLsB9IGfcO6o0Rl6xsaWlSSsooiZAdTLc4g6PM8H1eAr/s1166/32521EDB-574B-47BA-A764-2038FFAD4391.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8k_rVL4rHjCJP6XKrcJFRbDCvwcikVOGerG8nyVL_-w_pRvLFWZCp-Gq-LsznojREj6qPZBoiKAFJqIkHlcO4KetdvnsQs17mQeflggbkrZX1JY7txGSNJzmXwCYJ7aJtIuCBvPmdgTpzsLsB9IGfcO6o0Rl6xsaWlSSsooiZAdTLc4g6PM8H1eAr/s320/32521EDB-574B-47BA-A764-2038FFAD4391.jpeg" width="281" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"> Ahmed Thajeel, Owner A1 Auto Sales</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Yep, the same dealer who defrauded a church.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">I asked Ahmed Thajeel for a full refund plus repair expenses. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">He refused. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Then he blocked me.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">I have filed complaints with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles in Albany, as well as with the New York State Attorney General’s Office.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">So if you happen to be in the Rochester, New York area and are looking for a used car, you may want to stay away from Ahmed Thajeel and A1 Auto Sales. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">NOTE: By the way, it’s important to note that Ahmed Thajeel, a native of Baghdad, Iraq also refused to give me his last name.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">In fact, he didn’t even include his last name on any of the paperwork when I purchased the car for my son.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">It wasn’t until I filed a complaint with New York State that I found out his last name, which they gave to me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">They also gave me his NYS Auto Dealer ID: 7127159</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">I just think it’s interesting that someone who is both registered and licensed as a New York State car dealer would refuse to give his last name as well as omit his last name from ALL paperwork.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">It’s almost as if he has something to hide.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Stay tuned…</span></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-83385731466477568772023-02-13T04:21:00.004-08:002023-02-13T05:05:25.498-08:00Why is Rochester, New York News Media Ignoring What’s Happening to Brighton, New York?<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhai2BgKy960P3jcmezI38GlgjphRUTGza_kbOVIUVZDBT4m_Kg5Yy4GMEszJVqnAL0TO8_Lc2lmuALCUZplwWT6skfROWyPQ3llwFr_dfFS08Y2KAT1mEirg49JslyZUpG4o5CRqYqWJhLjBPdxXUMCDmmW-_XjNkfv-2ca-csad10VSZFkmyIIN-1/s1822/68CD5654-C2BE-453F-9DF3-88485B3F7BDC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1822" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhai2BgKy960P3jcmezI38GlgjphRUTGza_kbOVIUVZDBT4m_Kg5Yy4GMEszJVqnAL0TO8_Lc2lmuALCUZplwWT6skfROWyPQ3llwFr_dfFS08Y2KAT1mEirg49JslyZUpG4o5CRqYqWJhLjBPdxXUMCDmmW-_XjNkfv-2ca-csad10VSZFkmyIIN-1/s320/68CD5654-C2BE-453F-9DF3-88485B3F7BDC.jpeg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 38px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 38px; font-weight: bold;">BY DAVY V.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Why isn’t Rochester, New York news media reporting what has been happening in Brighton, New York, a Town suburb of Rochester, with a population of approximately 36,000 once considered a safe community for families.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">As a Brighton resident for the past nearly 15 years, who specifically moved to Brighton for the schools and so my children could feel safe, I can tell you that I have personally seen just how much Brighton has changed.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">In just the past two years, there has been a rapid and disturbing uptick in crime in Brighton. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">And perhaps as equally disturbing is the fact that instead of informing the public, Brighton Town Officials, including Town Supervisor Bill Moehle, together with Rochester, New York news media have done a great job at hiding it from the public.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">And they continue to do so.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">From major drug raids, including one around 5 a.m. in the morning, where a multi-task Monroe County, New York law enforcement narcotics team dressed like SWAT members smashed and jumped through windows of an apartment building while unsuspecting families with young children slept, to gang assaults in broad daylight, to home break-ins, including one incident just a block from the Brighton Police Department, where a parolee broke into a family’s home in the middle of the day, to my own home being burglarized, to Rochester gang members dumping stolen cars in Brighton, to an elderly white man who was recently pepper-sprayed and beaten by a group of black women who then stole his phone, Brighton, NY Town Officials and Rochester news media have kept it all hush. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">As a Brighton, New York resident I’m choosing to use my platforms including this blog to shine a light on what’s going on in my Town while Rochester, New York news media continues to look the other way. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Stay tuned.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-22954109209412932112023-02-12T23:53:00.005-08:002023-02-13T00:04:45.785-08:00There’s a Secret That Officials and Rochester, New York News Media Don’t Want People to Know: BRIGHTON, NEW YORK IS CHANGING<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq47Rq-phMWVZKIJ_aqrQAFmDsex9L2zc2Hu17iTh2DDy2jpmU_luf0KG_5UEuPPgJurwHpgq8bMqq2C6wUuDULHpZZSbPnxzSYYXHBYVFp-NSylb3tcuOYZgxuRNGuZZn1vSdPxTbuehVSbil9E0P4tjtQEVtj4bTJubx76Gnp8UgPpe9w9VEzpsw/s1822/CE165440-D9B3-4F2D-8405-B097D24C6EC0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1822" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq47Rq-phMWVZKIJ_aqrQAFmDsex9L2zc2Hu17iTh2DDy2jpmU_luf0KG_5UEuPPgJurwHpgq8bMqq2C6wUuDULHpZZSbPnxzSYYXHBYVFp-NSylb3tcuOYZgxuRNGuZZn1vSdPxTbuehVSbil9E0P4tjtQEVtj4bTJubx76Gnp8UgPpe9w9VEzpsw/s320/CE165440-D9B3-4F2D-8405-B097D24C6EC0.jpeg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">BY DAVY V.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">There’s a secret in Brighton, New York that Town Officials and Rochester, New York news media don’t want people to know about.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Brighton, New York is not safe anymore.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Brighton, New York is changing. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">From city of Rochester gangs dumping stolen cars in the Rochester, New York suburb, to home break-ins, to drug raids, Brighton, New York is changing, and Town Officials along with Rochester, New York news media are trying their hardest to keep it on the down low. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Stay tuned as The Davy V. Blog starts to expose what Rochester, New York mainstream news media does not want people to know. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Brighton, New York is changing.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-17491226358301943692023-01-28T07:35:00.007-08:002023-01-28T07:41:06.306-08:00BUYER BEWARE! A1 Auto Sales in Rochester, New York<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">BUYER BEWARE! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">A1 AUTO SALES </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">IN ROCHESTER, NY </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">COMING SOON</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-68190642416576659482023-01-12T09:02:00.014-08:002023-01-12T17:16:55.784-08:00NO B.S. NO Red Tape. NO Run Around.. Brighton, NY Police Department and The Town of Brighton, NY Make FOIL Request Easy<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsMHh_s-xwQ2J3lMDBhqi-R4Szv-b9rIh8IhK02M_UDnb5cVW-_ryCe3tAQRzm5FeE0sg4MBA7GvnueQzuetuCl2Zc8PRCx7bbSD6e5vr_cbTSTRWYp-1kOy5AL66RggN2nDZcapdlW9Eyz69dEbEtOrVnNhxgklGI21tY9pUr_uGRq4j_nS15Hf2/s270/3EDADEEE-8BFD-4077-BACF-61FABCDF365E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="270" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsMHh_s-xwQ2J3lMDBhqi-R4Szv-b9rIh8IhK02M_UDnb5cVW-_ryCe3tAQRzm5FeE0sg4MBA7GvnueQzuetuCl2Zc8PRCx7bbSD6e5vr_cbTSTRWYp-1kOy5AL66RggN2nDZcapdlW9Eyz69dEbEtOrVnNhxgklGI21tY9pUr_uGRq4j_nS15Hf2/s1600/3EDADEEE-8BFD-4077-BACF-61FABCDF365E.jpeg" width="270" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">BY DAVY V.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Once again, The Brighton, New York Police Department shows why they are one of the most professional law enforcement agencies in the country. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Less than a week after I filed a FOIL request with the Town of Brighton, New York for police body cam video, Brighton, New York Police Investigator Ryan Lehigh emailed me to let me know my FOIL request had been approved. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Does anyone remember that Staples commercial “That was easy?” </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Well, THAT WAS EASY. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">A huge Davy V. shout out goes out to the Town of Brighton, New York, Town Supervisor Bill Moehle, and Town Clerk Daniel Aman for making the FOIL request on their website easy and straightforward. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Also a huge shout goes out to Brighton, New York Police Deputy Chief Mike DeSain, a true professional and a stand up cop.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-S5y6XbjVuLh5yuE1PmTinqjbQcmORGxB5iIexdW7Sfl2tyT0ybPCPW9ycp16inLnZWyocpRhPA2kA4_qY0icbDgIkgApG69x23brPR-RPBmSFpszIGeeOoZi6vTsf5ZL1RtWgq9GtFu9OxHqL3QEKWEKOtfbTvtXIzBW6DfXIUQKGvD2sOObzECu/s225/1CE062D3-F8BC-47C5-B275-F893F6FA1E17.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-S5y6XbjVuLh5yuE1PmTinqjbQcmORGxB5iIexdW7Sfl2tyT0ybPCPW9ycp16inLnZWyocpRhPA2kA4_qY0icbDgIkgApG69x23brPR-RPBmSFpszIGeeOoZi6vTsf5ZL1RtWgq9GtFu9OxHqL3QEKWEKOtfbTvtXIzBW6DfXIUQKGvD2sOObzECu/s1600/1CE062D3-F8BC-47C5-B275-F893F6FA1E17.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold;">Brighton, NY Police Deputy Chief Mike DeSain</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">And lastly, a huge shout out to BPD Investigator Ryan Lehigh as well as BPD Investigators Stephen Hunt, and retired BPD Investigator Mike Romach, who have always shown me nothing but respect and who have always carried themselves with the utmost professionalism.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 47.9px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;">Now if only we could clone these guys.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-54619839259900943432023-01-11T07:56:00.019-08:002023-02-11T09:46:08.789-08:00Wallet Hub Review of Assurant Claims Examiner Jennifer Bolaños: “She’s As Big of A Thief as The Person Who Stole My Car.”<p><br /></p><div><p><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">Over the next few weeks I will be writing about and exposing the bad faith actions of Assurant Insurance Company, which is owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida.</b></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>Hopefully it can help you avoid what I’m going through with my claim after my home was burglarized.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>At the very least, perhaps you won’t make the same mistake I made when looking for renters or homeowners insurance, and you will stay away from Assurant I surance Company which is owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida. </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrOlOb5iHGNra79ucoAcORcvvqkrlLrjxQLrVas-5Zx3oldf3MdwKM_GFje9uJfrLzlzu1bSlxVF2Ow5u1sc8MCZO4Z44VzP9hD1x7D230U91kbHBsgmESb4buxucY87JW9_hF_-cvV6klIIRM5RN0YczlYUE1u6rOZrpZGbvcEP84SSjiLaLhuRZ/s1159/51C8091D-4066-4E29-8DF5-C4FCB601A5BA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1159" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrOlOb5iHGNra79ucoAcORcvvqkrlLrjxQLrVas-5Zx3oldf3MdwKM_GFje9uJfrLzlzu1bSlxVF2Ow5u1sc8MCZO4Z44VzP9hD1x7D230U91kbHBsgmESb4buxucY87JW9_hF_-cvV6klIIRM5RN0YczlYUE1u6rOZrpZGbvcEP84SSjiLaLhuRZ/s320/51C8091D-4066-4E29-8DF5-C4FCB601A5BA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">BY DAVY V.</b><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you have been following my posts about Assurant Insurance Company, then the name Jennifer Bolaños may sound familiar.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Jennifer Bolaños was one of the at least four different Assurant Claims Examiners to handle my claim, after my hone was burglarized last June.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That’s right.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Last June.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And I’m still waiting for payment.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Despite my having done everything that Assurant representatives have asked of me, Assurant has completely refused to pay my claim and honor their duties and obligations per our contractual agreement for overage.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Actually I wouldn’t say Jennifer Bolaños “handled” my claim.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Jennifer Bolaños is another complicit participant in Assurant’s bad faith by helping Assurant stall and delay my claim, which is Assurant’s M.O..</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Simply put, Assurant is one of the worst renters and homeowners policy insurance companies around and they train their Claims Examiners like Jennifer Bolaños, to stall, delay and deny claims, all in a bad faith attempt to not have to pay.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">From Assurant’s point of view it’s simple.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Take in millions of dollars from policyholders then pay out as little as possible.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">One of The Davy V. Blog readers sent me something very interesting after reading my posts about Assurant.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As you can see in the screenshot below, it’s a Wallet Hub review (one of thousands on the internet) of Assurant, specifically mentioning Assurant Claims Examiner Jennifer Bolaños, who the reviewer says is a bigger thief than the individual who stole their vehicle.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; 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font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-18137639815933746462023-01-07T17:40:00.035-08:002023-02-11T09:46:13.686-08:00Humberto Velez: A Complicit Participant in Assurant Insurance Company’s Bad Faith <p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8jKt-95ubCV_go49Bux3OFWa5e-804kALF7pv6gBsiJXymUwW7AFJfVtWSuR2eRn5hQLIdm5GuHmZoFckz2i40OxhD5SeN7b9bgGInPazLQ5U_ZXhBhLJbBd3MDSQDCFbseOlt_-tcW92bI9GHcr1ceQDbYKSOfpl6WA_bhNJNmpSkhXEXmiPBzR/s1159/29308057-53DC-4E0B-8D88-26EDEA42170E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1159" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8jKt-95ubCV_go49Bux3OFWa5e-804kALF7pv6gBsiJXymUwW7AFJfVtWSuR2eRn5hQLIdm5GuHmZoFckz2i40OxhD5SeN7b9bgGInPazLQ5U_ZXhBhLJbBd3MDSQDCFbseOlt_-tcW92bI9GHcr1ceQDbYKSOfpl6WA_bhNJNmpSkhXEXmiPBzR/s320/29308057-53DC-4E0B-8D88-26EDEA42170E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><div><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><br /></b></div>DISCLAIMER: THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS POST INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NAMES, ADDRESSES, ETC. IS PUBLIC INFORMATION WHICH IS EASILY AND READILY AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ON THE INTERNET.</b><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 23px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 23px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">BY DAVY V.</b></p><p><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">Over the next few weeks I will be writing about and exposing the bad faith actions of Assurant Insurance Company, which is owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida.</b></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>Hopefully it can help you avoid what I’m going through with my claim after my home was burglarized.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>At the very least, perhaps you won’t make the same mistake I made when looking for renters or homeowners insurance, and you will stay away from Assurant I surance Company which is owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida. </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Humberto Velez used to own a business, Remote Access Inc. along with his wife, Monica Velez.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A quick Google search shows the couple ran the business out of their home located at 220 Bunker Ct.</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> in Alpharetta, Georgia.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That is until… well, let’s just say some questionable business practices forced the couple to dissolve their business in 2017.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Shortly after that, the failed business owner, Humberto Velez, whose current address is listed on Google as 9885 Lauren Hall Ct. in Alpharetta, Georgia, went to work as a pee-on Claims Examiner for Assurant Insurance Company, which is owned by American Bankers Insurance of Florida.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And as a Claims Examiner for Assurant, Humberto Velez is trained to do three things.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b>STALL, DELAY, and DENY</b> claims filed by insureds who pay Assurant to protect their personal belongings.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Velez is the fourth claims examiner assigned to my claim, after my apartment was burglarized on June 4, 2022.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That’s of course after Assurant lied to me, telling me that my first two claims examiners, Ms. Tiffany Wiggins and Jennifer Bolaños no longer worked for Assurant, and my third claims examiner Ms. Sabrina Johnson was abruptly removed from my claim.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That’s when Humberto Velez called me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">First, Humberto Velez acted like he empathized not only with my apartment having been burglarized, but also with my mom’s passing, just eight days after the burglary.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And I was stupid enough to fall for it.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I actually thought he cared.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After all, he promised me in that phone conversation that my claim would not be delayed any longer.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And I believed him.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And that’s when Humberto Velez’s lies began.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you’ve been following my recent posts about my experience with Assuraht Insurance Company, then you know that after Assurant intentionally stalling and delaying my claim all in a bad faith attempt to avoid paying,, and after my having been extremely patient with Assurant, who has thus far completely refused to honor their duties , obligations and responsibilities to me the insured, per our contractual agreement for coverage, I finally decided to go public and share my story.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As I’ve said in my previous posts, perhaps me sharing my story can help you avoid the same mistake that I made when I chose Assurant more than 6 years ago and trusted Assurant to protect my personal belongings.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Humberto Velez is truly a disgusting individual.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Anyone who knowingly and willingly participates in a corrupt insurance company’s bad faith scheme, well, is not only complicit in that company’s illegal bad faith behavior but is also the lowest of the lowest when it comes to despicable, disgusting individuals.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And that’s exactly what Humberto Velez is.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">For at least the past four months, Humberto Velez has <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>repeatedly lied to me, and intentionally stalled my claim at the behest of his employer, Assurant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">From telling me he never received countless photo documentation of proof of ownership of my items that were stolen, even though I have proof that he did, to lying to me telling me that he would make sure my claim is resolved, Humberto Velez is a complicit participant in Assurant’s bad faith.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">There comes a point where it’s not even about an insurance claim anymore.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A point where it’s not about money.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A point where it’s not about one being able to replace one’s property.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s about respect.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s about how Assuraht Insurance Company, one of the most corrupt insurance companies around, and its representatives, including Humberto Velez have treated me, during one of the hardest times for me and my family, with the loss of my mother.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">There’s a certain line you just don’t cross.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I will continue to expose Assurant, their corrupt representatives and every single complicit participant involved in Assurant’s bad faith.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay tuned.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p></p></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-21935923206334578512023-01-06T03:36:00.008-08:002023-02-11T09:46:17.393-08:00Assurant Insurane Company: Stall, Delay and Deny Bad Faith Tactics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYc7IYMORd-llHKeGgT69kg3StvmfvB_WnBQTPAy0zmFLf_OZ_Iyj798v9LEmNTIlQq7Uy5XfTqvOcOrahXoD6bb6pfLy1lOcBJyTG9tZ8404N_hiefxGiD284bX-fk2PGkGqV3chnqj5iI8WvNJBWPHUn7-BTvXZv3f-HbcqfSN_f23ZrzKoBts0/s1159/C949B031-746A-4DDD-892B-644BC73E4817.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1159" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYc7IYMORd-llHKeGgT69kg3StvmfvB_WnBQTPAy0zmFLf_OZ_Iyj798v9LEmNTIlQq7Uy5XfTqvOcOrahXoD6bb6pfLy1lOcBJyTG9tZ8404N_hiefxGiD284bX-fk2PGkGqV3chnqj5iI8WvNJBWPHUn7-BTvXZv3f-HbcqfSN_f23ZrzKoBts0/s320/C949B031-746A-4DDD-892B-644BC73E4817.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">BY DAVY V.</b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>Over the next few weeks I will be writing about and exposing the bad faith actions of Assurant Insurance Company.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>Hopefully it can help you avoid what I’m going though with my claim after my home was burglarized.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>At the very least, perhaps you won’t make the same mistake I made when looking for renters or homeowners insurance, and you will stay away from Assurant.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On Saturday June 4, 2022 my apartment was burglarized.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The next day, Sunday June 5, 2022 I filed a claim with Assurant Insurance Company, whom I have had a renters insurance policy with since 2016.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Assurant is owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida and has its corporate offices located in New York City.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Assurant’s CEO is Keith Demmings.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On Monday June 6, 2022, Ms. Tiffany Wiggins, an Assurant claims examiner called me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ms. Wiggins asked me to send her any proof of ownership of the items including any photos, receipts, etc. of my property that was stolen.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I immediately began sending Ms. Wiggins dozens of emails which included photos and receipts.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That same week, Thursday June 9, 2022 I called Ms. Wiggins to ask her a question about a claims form she had asked me to fill out.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I left Ms. Wiggins a voicemail, but she never retuned my call.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I called Ms. Wiggins again the next day, Friday June 10, 2022 and left her another voicemail.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ms. Wiggins never returned my calls or voicemails.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On Sunday June 12, 2022, 8 days after my home was burglarized, my mother passed away.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I called Ms. Wiggins to let her know that I needed a few days to get the claims forms completed as my mother had just passed.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Before I could leave Ms. Wiggins a voicemail message, my call was routed to Assurant’s customer service department.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">An Assurant customer service agent told me Ms. Wiggins no longer worked for Assurant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Their exact words which I have documented proof of, were “Ms. Wiggins no longer works for the company.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ms. Wiggins had my claim for only one week, before I was told by Assurant representatives that she no longer worked for Assurant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My claim was then reassigned to Ms. Jennifer Bolaños, another claims examiner for Assurant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">During my first phone conversation with Ms. Jennifer Bolaños, I asked her what had happened to Ms. Tiffany Wiggins.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“She’s no longer with Assurant”, Ms. Bolaños replied.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Over the next several days, I sent more photos and receipt documentation of my personal property to Ms. Bolaños.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then, exactly one week after Ms. Jennifer Bolaños had been assigned to my claim, she messaged me to tell me <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that she would no longer be handling my claim, and that my claim had been reassigned to Ms. Sabrina Johnson, another claims examiner with Assurant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But wait.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It gets better.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">During my first conversation with Ms. Sabrina Johnson,, I asked her what had happened to Ms. Jennifer Bolaños.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ms. Sabrina Johnson replied:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“She no longer work for Assurant.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">By the way… </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ms. Tiffany Wiggins, and Ms. Jennifer Bolaños both continue to be employed by Assurant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It was all a lie.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Part of Assurant’s bad faith tactics meant to stall, delay and ultimately deny claims to avoid having to pay.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay tuned.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-77376222190426574112023-01-04T08:18:00.017-08:002023-02-11T09:46:21.244-08:00Assurant Insurance Company, Owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, Engages in Bad Faith<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwHdUKpuctH2LGY3eohweE5EL6Bjj5mpO7MF_8tGvRQ5wyHAWlhqb8LAVgS3CQgr__8EuQ_yLNgbU0KwF3TW_l7DBnET2J_kb77Of0pOKyfbotu2onaDGy6LX1wxllW4r7co4EIvsCO8f-mxO_sMMy0ny9UFjkkhhaPUTfukYZes18l3mPX8vPOeK/s1159/CEE3DD6D-1C8C-49B9-B217-E76ACE6B7196.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1159" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwHdUKpuctH2LGY3eohweE5EL6Bjj5mpO7MF_8tGvRQ5wyHAWlhqb8LAVgS3CQgr__8EuQ_yLNgbU0KwF3TW_l7DBnET2J_kb77Of0pOKyfbotu2onaDGy6LX1wxllW4r7co4EIvsCO8f-mxO_sMMy0ny9UFjkkhhaPUTfukYZes18l3mPX8vPOeK/w327-h128/CEE3DD6D-1C8C-49B9-B217-E76ACE6B7196.jpeg" width="327" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><b>BY DAVY V.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>Over the next few weeks I will be writing about and exposing the bad faith actions of Assurant Insurance Company.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>Hopefully it can help you avoid what I’m going though with my claim after my home was burglarized.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b>At the very least, perhaps you won’t make the same mistake I made when looking for renters or homeowners insurance, and you will stay away from Assurant.</b></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">What’s worse than an insurance company engaging in bad faith by refusing to honor their duties and obligations to an insured, per their contractual agreement for coverage?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That same insurance company hiring a private attorney to serve as a complicit partner in their bad faith conduct.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In the coming weeks I will be exposing everything.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And everyone.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But first, a little about how I got to this point.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On Saturday June 4, 2022, my apartment was burglarized, and a large amount of my personal property was stolen.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I arrived home to find the door to my apartment had been forced open with so much force that the deadbolt lock was completely ripped out and lay on the floor along with pieces of splintered wood fragments from the door frame.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you have ever been the victim of a break in then certainly you know how traumatizing it can be.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Just knowing that your home, your personal private space was violated, can be unsettling enough to make you want to move.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In my case, since I live in an apartment community, with 7 other tenants in my building,, all sorts of thoughts immediately began running through my mind.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I began suspecting neighbors, as well as employees, especially when at least three employees, including two maintenance people as well as the rental manager abruptly quit just a couple of weeks after my apartment was burglarized.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s hard to describe the feelings one is left with after having your home burglarized.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That same night I couldn’t sleep.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Immediately after the police left, I gathered anything heavy I could find including boxes full of books and a bookcase l, and placed them against the door, in essence barricading myself inside my own home.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And while all these feelings and emotions are for lack of a better word, ‘normal’, little did I know I was about to be re-traumatized all over again, this time by the very same people we pay to protect and insure our personal belongings.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Enter Assurant Insurance Company, which is owned by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Since I filed my claim on the morning of Sunday June 5, 2022,, it has become clear that Assurant is one of the worst insurance companies around.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Assurant has a long and disturbing history of engaging in bad faith, including intentionally stalling and denying claims all in an attempt to avoid paying.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After being extremely patient, and giving Assuraht more than enough time to do the right thing, I am now ready to share my story.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Perhaps it can help you avoid going through what I’m going through.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At the very least perhaps my story will help you completely avoid one of the worst insurance companies around.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Assurant.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Stay tuned.</span></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-45281426650966280912022-07-17T01:11:00.001-07:002022-07-17T11:01:27.381-07:00PSYCHO, POWER TRIPPING, OUT OF CONTROL ROCHESTER, NY COP ASSAULTS, HANDCUFFS AND FALSELY ARRESTS EMT<div><img id="id_c3df_a05e_15cc_2dd5" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/qvpWeuMwuZKICfbldotOthYyT_PzKSmVrys-zUaqbcZuP1L2FDuB31qatORJorxnzZ4" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Chief David Smith</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>By Davy V. </b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Once again, the Rochester, New York Police Department has made national headlines when it comes to abusing, assaulting and falsely arresting an innocent person. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">The last time the Rochester, NY Police Department solidified their position as one of the worst, most corrupt, and abusive law enforcement agencies in the country,</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;"> was just last year, after a viral video showed several out of control rogue RPD cops pepper spraying a handcuffed 9-year old black girl suffering a mental health crisis, while she cried for her dad.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Yes. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">You read that correctly. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">A 9-year old. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Handcuffed. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Then pepper sprayed. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Fast forward to Monday July 11, 2022.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">A Rochester, New York Police Detective whose name has yet to be released, ILLEGALLY parks </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;">his official police vehicle in a clearly marked AMBULANCE PARKING ONLY area at Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital’s emergency department.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">A Monroe Ambulance EMT, who along with her partner were rushing a patient to the hospital, accidentally bumps the police cruiser when she opens the ambulance door. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 28.670000076293945px;"><b>ENTER PSYCHO COP.</b></span></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 28.670000076293945px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img id="id_39e2_860f_a287_9244" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Z18w6j_Tsp4Paa9oTibhzzUJyQ_76Zpt7WNgl3Zgf29LHB02JsIXSygaT2K_S4PtxVg" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Rochester, NY Police Detective Slams Black EMT Against Counter </b></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">The Rochester, New York cop, a white man, demands that the EMT, a young black woman, immediately give him her ID. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">When the EMT ignores the raging, power tripping loser, and instead focuses on getting her patient the medical attention they needed, the RPD thug snaps, makes a bee line for the young black woman, grabs her, slams her against a counter several times</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;">, handcuffs her, and then throws her in the back of his police car. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;">In the video, which I have posted on DavyVTV (link below), you can see the EMT being violently assaulted by the RPD bully, as he shoves and slams her back against the counter, and her sunglasses fly off.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Am I surprised? </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">NOT ONE BIT. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">After all, this is the Rochester, New York Police Department. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">The same police department whose cops tackled and pepper sprayed a black mother while she was holding her toddler. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 37.1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">The same police department whose officers cornered an unarmed black 14-year old before executing him, shooting him not once, but twice in the head. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">The same police department whose officers suffocated and murdered an unarmed naked black man suffering a mental health crisis.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">So, NO.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">I’m not surprised.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">As for the still unnamed RPD Detective who assaulted, abused, handcuffed and falsely arrested the EMT worker… he was placed on desk duty while the Rochester, NY Police Department investigates itself and one of their own.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://youtu.be/dCEKPdBDGSk">https://youtu.be/dCEKPdBDGSk</a></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">We will be following and updating this story.</span></p></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-77623502160415884432022-07-08T07:01:00.003-07:002023-02-11T09:46:27.430-08:00ASSURANT INSURANCE COMPANY ENGAGES IN BAD FAITH<div><img id="id_f612_c82_b13_45d8" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/rH3iOifoAppADDZT38ViigepfuvKYKH5RMpdCzKBJq-gFGICjhxtB3fpSViNIUuTVWo" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>Keith W. Demmings</div><div>Assurant President </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>By Davy V.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>We’ve all heard the nightmare stories about insurance companies.</div><div><br></div><div>The way they treat customers.</div><div><br></div><div>The way insurance company representatives are trained to intentionally stall and delay claims.</div><div><br></div><div>The way they engage in bad faith.</div><div><br></div><div>For the past 6 years I’ve been a loyal customer of Assurant Insurance Company and I can tell you now, if you are in the market for renters or homeowners insurance, STAY AWAY FROM ASSURANT!</div><div><br></div><div>Over the next few days I will share my story about the absolute nightmare that Assurant is putting me through, at a time when I needed them the most.</div><div><br></div><div>Stay tuned.</div><div><br></div><div>Davy V.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-881665029508152002022-07-08T07:01:00.001-07:002023-02-11T09:46:33.597-08:00ASSURANT INSURANCE COMPANY ENGAGES IN BAD FAITHBy Davy V.<div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>We’ve all heard the nightmare stories about insurance companies.</div><div><br></div><div>The way they treat customers.</div><div><br></div><div>The way insurance company representatives are trained to intentionally stall and delay claims.</div><div><br></div><div>The way they engage in bad faith.</div><div><br></div><div>For the past 6 years I’ve been a loyal customer of Assurant Insurance Company and I can tell you now, if you are in the market for renters or homeowners insurance, STAY AWAY FROM ASSURANT!</div><div><br></div><div>Over the next few days I will share my story about the absolute nightmare that Assurant is putting me through, at a time when I needed them the most.</div><div><br></div><div>Stay tuned.</div><div><br></div><div>Davy V.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-15016421092081418552021-07-06T09:57:00.001-07:002021-07-06T10:49:54.469-07:00Surf Side <p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img id="id_5b8c_3a04_4014_d229" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Qwas_mae4BdlbMZHWiLJR8mBxChXQd3Y1k7i0FSeED3LYUe0bYA3tOV9JVZt13XUg_Y" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28.670000076293945px;"><b>Champlain Tower South in Surf Side, Florida after collapse.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28.670000076293945px;"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28.670000076293945px;"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;">Rochester, NY July 6, 2021</span><span style="font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;">By Davy V.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Numb and surreal are perhaps two of the best words I can use to describe the Surf Side condominium collapse. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">The Champlain Tower South condominium located on Collins Avenue in Surf Side, Florida about 20 minutes north of Miami Beach collapsed in the early morning hours of June 24, 2021. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">In many ways it brings back memories of </span><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px; text-decoration: underline;">9/11</span><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">However, unlike </span><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px; text-decoration: underline;">9/11</span><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"> which was pretty clear from the first plane that struck the twin towers that it was an intentional terrorist attack, the cause of the condo collapse in Surf Side is not yet known and probably won’t be for a long time. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">As of the time I am writing this a total of 32 people who died in the Champlain South condominium collapse have been pulled from the concrete rubble and another 113 remain missing. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Throughout all the pain of this tragedy the one thing which has been so good to see has been the outpouring of support from people in South Florida as well as throughout the country and the world. </span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.4px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.8px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">A father and his son brought pizzas for family members who had gathered at a community center to wait for news of their loved ones who were missing after the collapse. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Others immediately pulled up to drop off more donations, their vehicles packed with items including bottled water, clothing and diapers for displaced tenants. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Within just a few days of the collapse, money donations had reached 2 million dollars. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Seeing this amount of caring and support from complete strangers has been so refreshing, and truly is a beautiful thing. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">People from all over the world have offered their help.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Expert search and rescue teams have volunteered including special Israeli forces as well as a Mexican search and rescue team.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">These search and rescue teams joined Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue who have been on the site of the condominium collapse from the moment the first 911 calls went out.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Together, all these brave men and women are true heroes, working tirelessly to save lives as well as to recover those who died and also help their family members begin to find much needed closure.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Seeing President Biden travel to Surf Side and meet with family members of the victims of the collapse was also a beautiful thing.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">It’s something we all needed.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">To once again have a real leader.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Someone who understands pain and loss.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Not someone whose idea of showing empathy and support for victims of tragedies is throwing rolls of paper towels at them. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;">Please keep everyone in your prayers.</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.4px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.8px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.4px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.8px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 34.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 28.67px;"></span></p> Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-34012115408919895932019-01-27T02:49:00.001-08:002019-01-27T06:26:18.445-08:00Rochester, NY City Court Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse: A Fair Judge.<div><img id="id_dbc5_1b9c_85e0_b564" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ly5z1WolTn4/XE2hdGpVHqI/AAAAAAAALsc/oF3F8hrNGksNz0AfOUtGMgMls00w-x1dwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>Rochester, NY City Court Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>By Davy V.<div><br></div><div>On November 15, 2018, I went to cover the arraignment of suspended Rochester, NY Police Officer Michael Sippel in Rochester City Court.</div><div><br></div><div>Sippel is accused of brutally beating Christopher Pate, a black man, in a case of mistaken identity.</div><div><br></div><div>Pate, who was handcuffed, beaten, and tasered during the incident, suffered injuries including a fractured oscipital bone.</div><div><br></div><div>Instead of entering the court, I decided to wait outside for Sippel to exit, in order to ask him some questions.</div><div><br></div><div>About an hour later, Rochester Police Officer Michael Sippel</div><div>walked out of court, accompanied by his mother.</div><div><br></div><div>Along with several Rochester news media reporters and camerapersons, I followed Officer Sippel while recording video.</div><div><br></div><div>As I was walking alongside Officer Sippel, I encountered a granite wall abutment which extends from the Rochester City Court building.</div><div><br></div><div>In order to avoid running into the wall, I tried going around the wall, squeezing through a small space, and accidentally brushed by Officer Sippel’s mother.</div><div><br></div><div>Immediately, Officer Sippel’s mother, who works for the Monroe County, NY Sheriffs Office, yelled; “Did you just bump into me? I’m gonna have you arrested.”</div><div><br></div><div>A few seconds later I was surrounded by several Monroe County, NY Sheriffs deputies, who arrested, and charged me with harassment.</div><div><br></div><div>On January 18, 2019, after an emotional nearly four hour long trial, I was found not guilty by Rochester, NY City Court Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse.</div><div><br></div><div>But this isn’t so much about me or my case as it is about Judge Morse.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me explain.</div><div><br></div><div>Over the years I’ve covered countless Court cases including arraignments and trials.</div><div><br></div><div>And as result, I’ve gotten to know some of the Judges.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact some Judges I’ve known for years.</div><div><br></div><div>Take, for example, Rochester City Court Judge Jack Elliott, who I’ve known for over 15 years ever since our children attended the same elementary school.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Elliott is a good man and a very fair Judge.</div><div><br></div><div>And he’s always treated me with respect.</div><div><br></div><div>Whenever I’ve sat in Judge Elliott’s court, he will publicly greet me with a big “Hello Davy V.!” which usually gets a chuckle from folks in the courtroom including the court deputies.</div><div><br></div><div>With that said, there’s some Judges who although I may be familiar with their names, I don’t really know.</div><div><br></div><div>Like Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse.</div><div><br></div><div>At my arraignment, in Rochester City Court, Judge Morse ‘kept it 100’ as the new generation likes to say, or as my generation called it, he ‘kept it real’ as he laid down the law (no pun intended) as to what he expects when it comes to courtroom decorum.</div><div><br></div><div>Before court began, Judge Morse stood up and in a stern voice let everyone know there was absolutely no talking allowed in his courtroom.</div><div><br></div><div>But as usual, there’s always that one person who doesn’t listen.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s when Judge Morse rose from his seat and yelled at a defendant who was talking.</div><div><br></div><div>He threatened to throw the defendant in jail if they opened their mouth again.</div><div><br></div><div>Let’s just say that person didn’t make another sound.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse then threatened to confiscate anyone’s phone if he saw anyone using their cell phone.</div><div><br></div><div>It was pretty much at this point where I thought Judge Morse is definitely not with the bullshit.</div><div><br></div><div>Let’s just say if you’re ever in front of Judge Morse, just know he runs a very strict court.</div><div><br></div><div>As he should.</div><div><br></div><div>I mean, if there’s two pet peeves I can’t stand is people talking and using their cell phones in court, or at the movies.</div><div><br></div><div>With that said, however tough and strict Judge Morse may have come across, I quickly realized he was a genuine person.</div><div><br></div><div>He treated each and every defendant who stood in front of him with respect.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse even offered advice to some defendants on how precious life is, and just how quickly it can be over, citing the South Carolina mass church shooting, as well as the Stoneman Douglas school shooting in Parkland, Florida as examples of just how fragile life is.</div><div><br></div><div>But perhaps the best examples of what a good and genuine person Judge Morse is, were two small but very significant acts of kindness which happened during my trial.</div><div><br></div><div>The first act of kindness and respect came at the beginning of the trial when Judge Morse, noticing no one had water, took his robe off, walked outside the courtroom and returned a few minutes later with bottles of water for me and my attorney Brandon Hellwig, as well as for the Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Gina Clark.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse’s second act of kindness came during a very emotional part of the trial for me.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse called a recess, told everyone to remain seated, then walked off the bench and into his chambers.</div><div><br></div><div>A couple of minutes later Judge Morse returned with a box of tissue and placed it in front of me on the defense table.</div><div><br></div><div>I’ll never forget that.</div><div><br></div><div>At one moment during my trial, Judge Morse even allowed me to take time to call my son who had gone home early from school because he wasn’t feeling well.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse then asked me if I was able to reach my son and asked me how my son was doing.</div><div><br></div><div>My Dad Mario Vara used to say that you can learn a lot about a person just by simply observing how they interact with, and treat others.</div><div><br></div><div>This is so true.</div><div><br></div><div>I’ll never forget the respect and compassion Judge Morse showed me.</div><div><br></div><div>Shortly after I was arrested, several attorneys who follow my blog and my YouTube channel, upon hearing that Judge Morse was presiding over my case, each told me the same two things about Judge Morse.</div><div><br></div><div>First, that he’s a very fair Judge.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, that he loves to talk.</div><div><br></div><div>I can honestly say that both are very true.</div><div><br></div><div>After announcing that he had found me not guilty, Judge Morse gave me some advice.</div><div><br></div><div>He spoke about using better judgment when covering news stories.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse also talked about Princess Diana and how she died while being chased by paparazzis.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary Craig, a senior reporter for Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper once told me Judge Morse was a good man and also very philosophical.</div><div><br></div><div>This also is very true.</div><div><br></div><div>Although my brushing by Officer Sippel’s mother in the media rush to ‘get the story and the shot’ was not intentional, I understood what Judge Morse said to me.</div><div><br></div><div>And if nothing else I have learned from this experience, to keep a safe distance and to stay as far away as possible from individuals who have an axe to grind.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m happy Judge Morse saw that in no way were my actions intentional, and as a result found me not guilty.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Morse is a good man and a fair Judge.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you Judge Morse.</div><div><br></div><div>You helped restore my faith in our criminal justice system.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-63263996085825511122019-01-09T05:15:00.001-08:002019-01-09T17:37:08.475-08:00WHEC Did The Right Thing In Firing Jeremy Kappell. Here’s Why.<div><img id="id_4a3a_6e6b_f62b_bb82" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8QFcl78yHY4/XDX5gDB_EwI/AAAAAAAALsA/2HKrPOEe6oQhT4JNQZpqQP7e0DZrFTgDACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><br><br></div>By MJ Vara<div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="4qsop-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4qsop-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="4qsop-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="ciqek-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ciqek-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="ciqek-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People are totally giving Mr. Kappell a pass on this. Well, if what he did was so innocuous he’ll be employed here or at some other city within weeks. </span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3636o-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3636o-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3636o-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="8s096-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8s096-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8s096-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They say it was a "simple" mistake (what a totally weird mistake -- to conflate a common English surname and noun -- "King" -- with a racist slur -- which is “a thing” racists do use that term as part of MLK's name!</span></div><div data-offset-key="8s096-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8s096-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="8s096-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8s096-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People defend Jeremy Kappell saying WHEC owes him better (he has created a huge mess for his contractual employer!), that we would "forgive" him (that is a process that takes time to heal -- and comes after the "sinner" has fully accepted responsibility for the act and damage that arises from it.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="edrqt-0-0"><div data-offset-key="edrqt-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="edrqt-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="ft99v-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ft99v-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="ft99v-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish Mr. Kappell well (I have no reason to wish him ill) and I wish his wife and children the best (they’re completely innocent — even of making an error in this matter).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="dt2sm-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dt2sm-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="dt2sm-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Kappell brought this down on himself and the circumstances are suspect.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="1d5dv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1d5dv-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="1d5dv-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3es32-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3es32-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3es32-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For those who think Mr. Kappell is the victim of "liberal snowflakes” and a liberal media, etc. quite the contrary: this is solid, American, capitalist, “John Wayne” territory — accept responsibility, man-up, deal with it and move on!</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3sr9u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3sr9u-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3sr9u-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="3sr9u-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3sr9u-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lately it seems the right-wingers are the snowflakes.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="dk5us-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dk5us-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="dk5us-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="dk5us-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="dk5us-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Feeling entitled, constantly whining, not accepting accountability, and so forth.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="8fnvv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8fnvv-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8fnvv-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="ah0n4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ah0n4-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="ah0n4-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of course Mr. Kappell deserves a second chance (we all do) — but, WHEC is not the place for the second chance (likely, neither is Rochester).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="8duc0-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8duc0-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8duc0-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="1hri-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1hri-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="1hri-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was not executed — he was fired for messing up badly on live TV! </span></div><div data-offset-key="1hri-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="1hri-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="1hri-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="1hri-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Second chances do not have to take place in the same place (or the same relationship/company/city, etc.).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="81h7i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="81h7i-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="81h7i-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="81h7i-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="81h7i-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s like a romantic break-up: no one is saying, “Go die you hateful scum!” It is simply WHEC saying, “You messed up, humiliated us — move on!"</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="1m1tp-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1m1tp-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="1m1tp-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5fs75-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5fs75-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5fs75-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now to the matter at hand:</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5epfj-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5epfj-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5epfj-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="d840b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="d840b-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="d840b-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This incident happened live, on-air (broadcast, not cable/subscription TV, etc), thus a community issue (old-school broadcast to all).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3jh3e-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3jh3e-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3jh3e-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since it was broadcast out to the entire community everyone has a right to discuss it, express their views, speculate, etc. </span></div><div data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="89sjr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I just think the speculation should be somewhat “educated” and not rash -- one way or the other.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="462qb-0-0"><div data-offset-key="462qb-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="462qb-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="6orjj-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6orjj-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="6orjj-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since we do not know what is in this man’s heart, unfortunately, we are left to speculate. It would help to know Mr. Kappell's "social milieu" — Does he have minority friends? What are his political leanings? Does he attend a church with a diverse population or with social ethics that defend vulnerable folks?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="ajd0f-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ajd0f-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="ajd0f-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="8v2n-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8v2n-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8v2n-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This may all seem a private matter — but it would help to know these things to assess Mr. Kappell in life-context, and specifically, as these parameters relate to his views on race/ethnicity, etc.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5ftrh-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5ftrh-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5ftrh-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="d2b79-0-0"><div data-offset-key="d2b79-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="d2b79-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, when we cannot know what is in a person’s heart (and cannot give full weight to their own self-defense as it is self-serving) we must consider the incident at hand by other measures (for example, in law, aside from direct and circumstantial evidence, we look at “consciousness of guilt”.</span></div><div data-offset-key="d2b79-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="d2b79-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="8ssr1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8ssr1-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8ssr1-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What people are not considering here is that in this case WHEC’s ethical and corporate duties as a for-profit business and an organization that serves a wide community take precedence.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="6hnpc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6hnpc-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="6hnpc-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="e9dng-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e9dng-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="e9dng-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHEC has no obligation to Mr. Kappell except those spelled out in his work contract (again, something many people don’t get) — and he broke that contract.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="41opi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="41opi-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="41opi-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="41opi-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="41opi-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Consider the actual, indisputable incident: what occurred on air could not go unnoticed (we should all agree on that, I hope!).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="2j74u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2j74u-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="2j74u-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="1er1b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1er1b-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="1er1b-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So it follows: once noticed, it had to be addressed. It was certainly the kind of incident that stops you in your tracks: “What did he just say???!!! Did he actually say that — or did I mishear?"</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="deq28-0-0"><div data-offset-key="deq28-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="deq28-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="536nn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="536nn-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="536nn-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The defense of Mr. Kappell (and his defenders): “Oh, it was a simple slip of the tongue!”</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="cfdvc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cfdvc-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="cfdvc-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="gtai-0-0"><div data-offset-key="gtai-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="gtai-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If it was a slip-of-the-tongue it was a NOT a simple one by any means: it was a HIGHLY unusual term to use -- and it asks a lot of us to consider it a coincidence.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5i8am-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5i8am-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5i8am-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0"><div data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I mean, come on! </span></div><div data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="45u4h-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A very common American/English surname, that is also a noun (King) that happens to be the name of a major Civil Rights icon, and Mr. Kappell substitutes it with a very common, well-known, racist term???!!!</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="fm20b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fm20b-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="fm20b-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And, to boot, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is, in fact, referred to by this hateful moniker by racists! </span></div><div data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the kids say: it’s a thing!</span></div><div data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5u9se-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5j485-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5j485-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5j485-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep in mind, as well, that not all "slips of the tongue" are simple mistakes; often, they reveal hidden attitudes and viewpoints (look up "Freudian slip” in the actual, clinical definition).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="deihr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="deihr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="deihr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="a3fot-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a3fot-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="a3fot-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, I’m speculating (but this was a public incident and speculating is legitimate).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="7iokr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7iokr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="7iokr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3ilms-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3ilms-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3ilms-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This could be a term Mr. Kappell has used before in private, perhaps it indicates how he thinks of MLK Park and its visitors, and it could be an unconscious belief that was accidentally revealed in an unguarded moment.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="fmtsf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fmtsf-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="fmtsf-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="9nefr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9nefr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="9nefr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do I know?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="b9alq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="b9alq-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="b9alq-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3r0cl-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3r0cl-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3r0cl-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don't.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="af54p-0-0"><div data-offset-key="af54p-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="af54p-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5ldli-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5ldli-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5ldli-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do you know otherwise?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="dcngr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dcngr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="dcngr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3k1j3-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3k1j3-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3k1j3-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And, more importantly, “brass tacks” reality and what most people do not get: this man has an obligation to his employer and colleagues — to not embarrass the corporation, to not damage the brand, to not attract controversy and potential litigation, etc.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="apiat-0-0"><div data-offset-key="apiat-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="apiat-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="88vpp-0-0"><div data-offset-key="88vpp-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="88vpp-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Actually, Mr. Kappell has already damaged WHEC; he has created a huge mess for them — he has stirred up a hornet’s nest on both sides (not the role of a meteorologist, generally speaking) and he divided the community.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="974ru-0-0"><div data-offset-key="974ru-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="974ru-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="8a8aq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8a8aq-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="8a8aq-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is not a simple error — putting aside trying to read the man’s heart/mind, and looking at the facts: Mr. Kappell used a radioactive term while performing a very public job for a private employer that serves a diverse community; he did it during a live broadcast and while describing a park named after a beloved, martyred American hero, which is frequented by many minority folks (one of Mr. Kappell’s defenders suggested changing the name to Rochester City Park!).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="e6qq4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e6qq4-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="e6qq4-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such disdain is, in fact, typical of racists and such a term is, in fact, used to describe Dr. King in private conversation. </span></div><div data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="6e5ha-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, not a simple slip of the tongue (so many excuses — another defender of Mr. Kappell’s now says he is known to have a lisp!).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="2m0bg-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2m0bg-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="2m0bg-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="a7qla-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a7qla-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="a7qla-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If Mr. Kappell is in fact not a racist — not prejudiced, has a record of supporting minority communities (volunteers at the Boys and Girls Club, etc.) that is great (I would really like to know more about him).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="4qkcs-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4qkcs-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="4qkcs-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, again, on this one, he should apologize more fully, state his actual views of Dr. King, and accept responsibility and seek other employment elsewhere (he did this to some extent — but did a lot of “explaining away” rather than a genuine statement along the lines of: “I did say that, I was shocked myself, I don’t know if somehow it was in my consciousness, a residual of something I heard in childhood/adolescence, from friends saying it, etc. I am going to reflect on it, pray on it, and I am very sorry. I do understand how I placed my employers in a bind and they had no choice but to let me go.”</span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Kappell seemed “primed” to follow the words Martin Luther with the epithet — as if automatically, unconsciously going down a familiar road. Again, it could be a childhood memory, a fragment, something. </span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, he remains on-point: just a slip (now he is urging people to say Dr. Martin Luther King over and over, implying we’d make the same error). </span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nope, I am not buying the “simple slip” claim. </span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="bvn8c-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again — to emphasize: racists call MLK that very term: Martin Luther C—n.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="djnqc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="djnqc-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="djnqc-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="80rle-0-0"><div data-offset-key="80rle-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="80rle-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Come on!</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="2j0gl-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2j0gl-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="2j0gl-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5nbqe-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5nbqe-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5nbqe-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is so clear.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="7js8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7js8-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="7js8-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="btjfr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="btjfr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="btjfr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, firing Mr. Kappall is a job performance issue — not at all a "liberal media" attack.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5g8p3-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5g8p3-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5g8p3-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="736jt-0-0"><div data-offset-key="736jt-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="736jt-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After all, we do not live in a communist nation -- we live in a capitalist nation with private enterprise, business interests, for-profit interests, legally-binding work contracts, etc. (along with ethical obligations to the viewing public/community-as-a-whole).</span></div><div data-offset-key="736jt-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="736jt-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="736jt-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="736jt-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am not suggesting WHEC has only corporate interests in mind — but I am focusing here on the clear-cut private employment aspect, the human resources/job contract aspect.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="490qr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="490qr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="490qr-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="93ot4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="93ot4-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="93ot4-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Finally, as our nation continues in "regression mode," as a large swatch of our people are corrupted by the current president, as prejudice is on the ascendant, and as our American principles and norms are attacked and degraded by Trump — we are left with the general public, political and religious leaders, and even private corporations to stand up for what is right, what is ethical, what is AMERICAN.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="o83m-0-0"><div data-offset-key="o83m-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="o83m-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div data-offset-key="o83m-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="o83m-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHEC did just that (intent is not an issue with something so flagrant as a live, on-air, racial slur — the audio alone suffices to take action).</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="5ahm9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5ahm9-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="5ahm9-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="638mf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="638mf-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="638mf-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I applaud WHEC’s actions and wish Mr. Kappell well in his future endeavors.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="eop61-0-0"><div data-offset-key="eop61-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="eop61-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="3akvj-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3akvj-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="3akvj-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope he looks into his heart for any unconscious, psychological “residue” of prejudice (it was such an extremely WEIRD thing to say that Mr. Kappell, a person who publicly declares himself a Christian, goes by Christian principles, needs to accept that he “sinned” here on some level, needs to take responsibility, needs to seek to calm his defenders’ needlessly provoked emotions, and needs to simply accept responsibility/accountability.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="9m1kk-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9m1kk-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="9m1kk-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="92bp9" data-offset-key="38iga-0-0"><div data-offset-key="38iga-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><span data-offset-key="38iga-0-0" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Kappell, you have stirred folks up enough — please do not divide this community further by creating a contentious campaign to defend you for words that came out of your mouth — and are indefensible.</span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">Editor’s Note: </div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">MJ Vara is a regular contributor on The Davy V. Blog.</div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">He has a Masters degree from SU and a New York State license, both in a counseling field, and over 25 years experience practicing psychotherapy. He wishes to make it clear his piece is speculative/metaphorical and in no way does he claim to know what is Mr. Kappell's actual racial attitudes/beliefs. However, in MJVara's view, everyone is "taking sides" on this issue without much depth of thinking and he wished to share his own thinking, based on his general knowledge.</div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font class=""><br></font></span></div></div><div class=""><font class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font color="#1d2129" size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-20054622010344397502018-09-10T18:39:00.001-07:002018-09-12T04:49:41.299-07:00Retired Rochester, NY Deputy Police Chief Annmarie Van Son Breaks Down The Blue Wall and The Code of Silence<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_c4f9_a2c9_353_7e9b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BpYi-BLgBBk/W5cc53XtE1I/AAAAAAAALow/PTNcTz95uC0D5MKvBeizrT9o7TPoofxsQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><b>Former Rochester, NY Deputy Police Chief Annmarie Van Son</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>By Annmarie Van Son</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I am a City of Rochester, NY resident who happens to have worked for the Rochester Police Department, as a police officer</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> for twenty-two years. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I worked in patrol and was a supervisor, even deputy chief so I have some knowledge of the system, the rules, and procedures. </span>It is from that perspective that I offer the following. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Numerous people pontificate</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> about how police across the nation conduct themselves, how they are held to account for their actions and how their communities react. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Locally, the most recent incident to come </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">under public scrutiny occurred o</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">n May 5, 2018 but didn’t come to the attention of the public at l</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">arge until August</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> 9, 2018, and was not acknowledged by Rochester, NY Mayor Lovely Warren or Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli until August 28</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Let’s examine</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> this one incident as a microcosm of how these issues play out in </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Rochester, NY.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">On May 5, two RPD Officers, Spenser McAvoy and Michael Sipple confronted</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Christopher</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Pate. They asked to see his identification because they thought he matched the description of a suspect. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Initially, Mr. Pate refused their request. Anyone walking the streets is free not to engage with the police. In the United States we are not required to carry identification (driving is an exception to this rule). We are free to go about our business without having to prove who we are. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Matching the description of a suspect” can be a legitimate reason to stop someone, it could have been in this case also, but with nothing else to raise the level of suspicion, the interaction should have ended with Mr. Pate’s initial refusal to cooperate. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It did not, because these officers violated one of the first things they were told in the police academy: If you are not arresting someone or moving them out of harms way, do not touch them.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It is that simple. Mr. Pate is a grown man. He knows how to walk.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> He was not fleeing the scene of a crime. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">He was not about to be injured because he was in the street. Hundreds of people, much to my personal </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">annoyance, walk in the street. There was no probable cause to arrest him. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The officers </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">did not cease their engagement with him. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I do not know these officers</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> but I know many officers and some have a hard time hearing and responding appropriately to a legitimate “No”. Although the oath officers take has them swearing to uphold the Constitution, some act as though they are required to win every argument and be triumphant in every encounter. I do not know the specific motivation in this instance but we can all read about the results. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Within the police department there is a process for what must follow </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">when force is used on a person. The force used or the suspect’s physical resistance to the officer’s arrest efforts </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">needs to be documented in writing, in photographs, and a supervisor (in this case a Sergeant or Lieutenant) is called to the scene. The paperwork produced by the officers is reviewed by their immediate supervisor and forwarded up the chain of command. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Why am I boring you with these details? The two officers are </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">not the only ones who have some responsibility in this incident. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This incident represents a system-wide failure of </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the Rochester Police Department:</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">What happened during the review of this incident?</span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">If the first</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> line supervisor, the Sergeant noted errors, what was the follow up? </span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">If the Sergeant </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">didn’t see anything wrong did the Lieutenant?</span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">What about the Captain and the Commander, who also have to sign off on this paperwork? </span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Did any of them recommend additional action be taken and where they ignored? </span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Did any of them view the video and compare it to the documents produced by the officers?</span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">• </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Did each of them see nothing wrong? </span></span></div><div class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-left: 2px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">These are huge questions that are unanswered and worse than that, are unasked</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">; at least publically</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Officers are required to seek medical attention f</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">or anyone who they use force on. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">They did that. Officers are also required to be courteous. Mocking is not courteous. Putting medical personnel in the awkward position of having to tell Sergeants from Professional Standards Section (RPD’s version of internal affairs) that the officers were making fun of Mr. Pate is embarrassing and only adds insult to injury.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">At his appearance in Rochester, NY City Court t</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he lawyer from the Monroe County Public Defender’s Office</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, the </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">City Court Judge and the </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Monroe County Assistant District A</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ttorney all would have seen Mr. Pate’s condition</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and been </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">aware</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of the charges. O</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nce so aware, their professional experience should have told them something was amiss.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">What if anything</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> did they do?</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> What should we, as a community expect them to do?</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">When </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">all charges were dropped does the judge or the public defender </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">or the DA’s office </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">give any feedback to the police department? </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Did anyone in that massive bur</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eaucracy report anything back to the Chief’s Office? </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I have heard from Public Defenders that they “see this type of thing all the time”. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Does anyone other than Rev. Stewart do anything about it? </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In this community the answer is no. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dropped charges should be a red flag, a warning that something is wrong. It can be as innocuous as an officer or an investigator improperly completing paperwork or it can be something as serious as this incident. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Instead t</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">here</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">little to </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">no</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> penalty or even scrutiny given to “dropped charges”. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The cost of these “mistakes” is one we bear as a community both financially and in our faith in the system.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Returning to the Chief and the Mayor. They have decided that although they and all of Rochester City Council have seen the police body camera video, they will not release it to the public because </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it is “</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">so disturbing and because of legal reasons”. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Apparently, the wisdom of the citizens is in doubt. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">What we can imagine can be worse than the truth. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Other jurisdictions immediately release police body camera videos because they are practicing transparency. Hiding behind “legal reasons” and </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“under investigation” are favorites of the RPD and the Mayor’s office. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Chief of Police has resigned. He has accepted responsibility, though he has not said as much. What about the Mayor? </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Does she accept any responsibility for this situation?</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No she doesn’t. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Even Bob </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lonsberry</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, the most ardent police supporter </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cannot abide this situation.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Think for a moment how many contacts these two Rochester, NY Police Officers would have had with citizens between May 5th and August 28th. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I dare to speculate if they worked during this time the number would be in the hundreds. What else did either of them do during this time? What were the risks and subsequent liabilities associated with them “doing their job” during that nearly </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">four-month</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> period of time. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What will the Mayor’s office do when this lawsuit is settled? </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She will continue to be opaque; Mayor Warren will not release the terms of the settlement because it is for the good of the public that these terms remain a secret. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The suit filed by Ricky Bryant was just settled and that was the excuse offered. Mayor Warren said that letting people know how much money Mr. Bryant was awarded could adversely impact future settlements. Indeed it would. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What about the officers involved in the Ricky Bryant incident? Was there any discipline? No, wait, the RPD and the Mayor’s office can’t tell us because it is a “confidential personnel matter”.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> So why did they tell us about these two officers? It either is prohibited or it isn’t, this should not be a matter of convenience. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Rather than </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">being concerned with the impact of future negotiated settlements </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the Mayor Warren </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">should be concerned ab</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">out a s</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ystem that fails the community. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Instead as a community we have insisted upon </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">body worn cameras and a police accountability board (PAB). The body worn cameras have not given the community the transparency it was seeking and neither will a PAB. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Now community members are calling for the arrest of these officers. None of this w</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ill matter as long as we have a Mayor </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">who th</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">inks we all need another parent, a court system that looks the other way, line supervisors who ignore wrongdoing or are ignored, and upper level staff who do not engage with their subordinates enough to know what is going on. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It will not matter if other adults in the roo</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">m (DA’s office, PD’s office,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> judges</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and the media</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">) continue to stick their collective heads in the sand. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What about police supervisors, when are they held accountable? </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Never is the answer under the current system</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and as long as we are kept in the dark, we will continue to ask the wrong questions and not get answers to those that we do ask. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This incident </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">is shrouded in secrecy. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Thank</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> you Rev. Stewart for shining a light on this issue. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep up the good work. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Annmarie Van Son is retired from the Rochester, NY Police Department where she worked for twenty-two years, ascending to the rank of Deputy Police Chief.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>The Davy V. Blog would like to thank Mrs. Van Son for being a guest essayist and for speaking out on police accountability and a broken system.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p> Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-49455359734315583382018-08-28T09:29:00.001-07:002018-08-29T16:19:55.822-07:00Rochester, NY Mayor Lovely Warren, RPD Chief Ciminelli Refuse to Release Names of Cops Suspended in Brutality Case<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><img id="id_6c72_96f9_1fa_b009" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9F51LkhBdg8/W4WBsed5SCI/AAAAAAAALnY/ReqTwkD1y2M-kiHE5_LtBEfJmo3m3xAeACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><br><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><br><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">UPDATED WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29, 2018 BY DAVY V. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We now know the names of the two Rochester, NY Police Officers involved in the brutal beating of a black man in May.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rochester, NY Police Officers Spenser McAvoy and Michael Sippel, have both been suspended without pay and may face criminal charges in the beating of Christopher Pate.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It’s important to note that Rochester, NY Mayor Lovely Warren and Rochester, NY Police Chief Michael Ciminelli did not release the names of the RPD Officers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Instead, the names were obtained from documents, including a notice of claim filed by Pate’s attorney.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><img id="id_89d3_9fb5_e76f_fe7b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y1YtE4brp6Y/W4colWS98uI/AAAAAAAALn0/0yJnsdQhi7cNNF3Q9OLgxQJL5c_lNbHGACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><b><br>Rochester, NY Police Officer Spenser McAvoy and his bride posing in front of a Rochester, NY Police cruiser.</b><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In 2014, I wrote about Rochester, NY Police Officer Spenser McAvoy, after McAvoy used an official Rochester, NY Police cruiser at a photo shoot for his wedding.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Then, in 2016, I filmed Rochester, NY Police Officer Spenser McAvoy and several officers conducting a motor vehicle stop on Rochester’s northeast side.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Click link below to watch that video.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/3XjSsQHXNwE">https://youtu.be/3XjSsQHXNwE</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rochester, NY Police have not yet released bodycam footage which shows two Rochester, NY Police Officers beating a black man, but a woman </span><font size="4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">who</font><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> was nearby recorded what appears to be the end of the arrest of Christopher Pate.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Read full story below and click link to watch video.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/PFttV19zvLY">https://youtu.be/PFttV19zvLY</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><br><img id="id_65de_92f0_b344_e753" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JLWHZHGACP4/W4cqGQUMTjI/AAAAAAAALoA/7fXw4xlF_bUOOXxbFpz1HpF0k70lf5_NgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Officer Spenser McAvoy</b><br><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>By Davy V. </b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two veteran Rochester, NY Police Officers who tasered and beat a black man so bad in a mistaken identity case, that they fractured his jaw and occipital, have been suspended without pay.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The victim, Christopher Pate, was stopped by the RPD Officers in May, while walking near Fulton Avenue and Bloss Street on Rochester’s northwest side.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The RPD Officers asked Pate for ID, which he provided.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pate says he was then grabbed by the RPD Officers, tasered, and beaten by at least one of the Officers who punched him repeatedly in the face, fracturing his occipital and jaw.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pate was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The charges have since been dropped.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At a press conference Tuesday morning, Rochester, NY Mayor Lovely Warren and RPD Chief Michael Ciminelli announced the suspensions of both Rochester, NY Police Officers, but refused to identify them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><img id="id_696_a65a_7dcc_1c8d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-psyTzrrpI0g/W4WF2InSGLI/AAAAAAAALnk/0V3Fn_COTl4zICjEuQ2BiRsyGcYMNBiZwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Rochester, NY Mayor Lovely Warren, RPD Chief Michael Ciminelli refuse to release names of Rochester, NY cops who beat man, fracturing his jaw and occipital.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Warren said the case has been referred to the Monroe County, NY District Attorney’s Office, who will decide if criminal charges will be brought against both Rochester, NY Police Officers. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The announcement of the suspension of the two veteran Rochester, NY Police Officers comes just a couple of weeks after I posted videos on my YouTube channel DavyVTV, of two separate incidents in which Rochester, NY Police Officers are seen abusing their authority.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In one video, a Rochester, NY Police Officer is seen threatening to throw a festivalgoer in jail during Rochester’s annual Park Avenue Festival, simply because the man was dancing when he crossed in front of the RPD Officer’s cruiser.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the video, the RPD Officer is heard repeatedly using profanities and humiliating the man until he apologizes.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At one point in the video the RPD Officer grabs the man’s hat off his head and throws it onto the RPD cruiser.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://youtu.be/8cupa70zF8M">https://youtu.be/8cupa70zF8M</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the second video, Rochester, NY Police Officer William “Billy” Danno, a veteran K-9 Officer, handcuffs a father simply because he was videotaping his son being harassed by Danno.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://youtu.be/zjQt5z_Lh0E">https://youtu.be/zjQt5z_Lh0E</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><br></p>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-71893816732986203862018-08-06T03:23:00.001-07:002018-08-06T03:39:39.934-07:00Bully Rochester, NY Cop Intimidates, Assaults Man for Dancing at Park Ave. Festival <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><img id="id_4398_6dc5_7fab_880b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LUQzn9OJQKQ/W2ghjQA5iDI/AAAAAAAALmA/DfMCZ3dXn2k01a6x90lmKFI3GwStl9CegCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rochester, NY Cop Snatches Hat off Man’s Head at Park Ave. Festival </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Davy V.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A video recorded by a follower of The Davy V. Blog, and my YouTube channel DavyVTV, shows a Rochester, NY Police Officer intimidating and assaulting a festivalgoer at Rochester’s annual Park Avenue Festival Saturday afternoon.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the video, the Rochester Police Officer is seen yelling profanities at the man, and threatening to lock him up in jail, because according to the RPD Officer, the man was dancing in the street.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For those of you not familiar with Rochester’s Park Ave. Festival, it’s important to note that the festival, which is held on the first weekend in August, and which draws an estimated 250,000 people, takes place on Park Avenue.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In other words, the festival, which features live music performances, takes place on the street.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each year, Park Avenue is closed to motorists, in order to accommodate festivalgoers, and hundreds of vendors who set up on the street.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At one point in the video, the Rochester, NY Police Officer snatches the man’s hat off his head and throws it on the back of a Rochester, NY Police vehicle.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several Rochester, NY Police Officers are seen surrounding the man.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the man who recorded the video, there may be at least one other video recorded by another festivalgoer which shows a Rochester, NY Police Sergeant threatening to confiscate cell phones and recording devices of festivalgoers who video recorded the incident.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stay tuned to The Davy V. Blog for more updates.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><img id="id_5e2c_4948_6cc9_34a6" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-isj8_jnMet0/W2ghjUc6Y1I/AAAAAAAALl8/HqaxAv_GFpcaZzPDiuq_cn8mZCkvtzcOgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_d380_6100_a649_e5af" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RmrLNhc_zaY/W2ghjfBmdTI/AAAAAAAALl4/26cI7ncYlhUF_SwGoJAd18dzhoZ-RFaSQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_6917_3254_617c_e85d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oaQUOo6CD3w/W2ghjQ5RGxI/AAAAAAAALmE/QhrV48ftOEQYynoPfQdElQbniCPua8BNACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_95fe_97e3_b27d_922" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3-D-sGnxweM/W2ghjyGHhlI/AAAAAAAALmI/Rx6whh3RntgRl0aGiKcbT11TCOc_kVXuQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; 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height: auto;"><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p> Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-2107687646677324442018-06-22T10:00:00.001-07:002018-06-22T10:47:33.089-07:00Livingston County, NY Sheriff Deputy Brenda Clark-Pierson; A True Hero<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_70d6_fecd_fce7_8ce3" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M-VbDEDFy0I/Wy0zSrYlGbI/AAAAAAAALkc/OxrxEaUebgwUX8z08JD5DZRg92vbmpMhACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>(Below, center) Livingston County, NY Sheriff Deputy Brenda Clark-Pierson </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Davy V.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Livingston County, NY Sheriff Deputy is being recognized for saving the life of an inmate.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On May 26, 2017, Livingston County, NY Sheriff Deputy Brenda Clark-Pierson was finishing serving meals to inmates at the Livingston County Jail, when she noticed an </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> unresponsive female inmate slumped to the side in her cell, not breathing and with no pulse.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Deputy Clark-Pierson, radioed for help, and immediately started chest compressions on the woman.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After several compressions, the woman began breathing, but then went into a seizure.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Deputy Clark-Pierson then stayed with the woman until EMT’s arrived.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The woman was taken to a hospital and is doing fine.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On June 9, 2018, Deputy Clark-Pierson received the New York Stars 2018 Corrections Officer of the year award.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just a few days later, on June 13, 2018, Deputy Clark-Pierson received the 2018 Livingston County Corrections Officer of the year award.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With many rogue, abusive and above the law law enforcement officers engaged in corrupt behavior, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that there are also many good ones dedicated to helping people.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Which is why The Davy V. Blog would also like to recognize Livingston County, NY Sheriff Deputy Brenda Clark-Pierson, a true hero.</span></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-26057604158382464762018-06-18T23:07:00.001-07:002018-06-21T19:07:42.984-07:002 Young Black Rappers Shot and Killed Less Than 1 Hour Apart; Where is Black Lives Matter?<div><img id="id_bc9_4552_ce04_66dc" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wCnDSc6VEck/WyiY1zryGmI/AAAAAAAALi4/IssxPFG4_YkXg9QEvwzqI_G7bG1r74yBACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>Cell phone video shows rapper XXXtentacion moments after he was shot while driving his BMW i8. Onlookers didn’t try to render any sort of first aid to the young man, yet posted videos online, even writing “X”.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>By Davy V.</div><div><br></div><div>For years I’ve called out Black Lives Matter, the hypocritical “movement” which has absolutely no problem protesting and encouraging the burning down and destroying of inner city black neighborhoods whenever a white cop kills a black youth, but is nowhere to be fucking seen or heard from when a young black life is stolen by the hands of another black life.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday afternoon, just before 4 pm, rapper XXXtentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, was leaving a motorcycle shop in Deerfield Beach, Florida, just north of Miami, when he was gunned down while sitting behind the wheel of his BMW i8.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_9670_6afb_78e7_5708" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GBJFvS42bIE/Wyidk3bbJEI/AAAAAAAALjg/vM8AsKaekdUlmb8oZjVm-WTkuObgeCyZwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>XXXtentacion</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Videos on the internet show the 20-year old rapper slumped to the side in the driver’s seat while a crowd looks on filming with their cell phones.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadly, in a disturbing example of just what a disgusting society we have become, not one person in the crowd recording with their cellphones tried to render any sort of first aid to the young rapper at a time when every second counts.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, onlookers were too busy uploading videos of the comatose young man, even typing “X”, as you can see in the photo at the top.</div><div><br></div><div>XXXtentacion was pronounced dead shortly after.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_de90_365a_4a08_542a" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivm20HbS1I5zK6oDlDNEf3fFla3aAkHUqzaCUmIKCdtNPWGvJvoRoNcCva239JMMPvzGc_R3sV3TwGpSUmXF6K8uiZ5gmqKodJJsLhO2K02qEsmYVPbgWr9KUMjsaweRfRMpON1mzLhFQ/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>Jimmy Wopo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Less than an hour later, shortly after 4 pm, 21-year old up and coming rapper Jimmy Wopo, whose real name was Travon Smart, was gunned in a drive by shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Middle Hill neighborhood.</div><div><br></div><div>The rapper was also pronounced dead shortly afterwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Two young black men.</div><div><br></div><div>Two young black lives.</div><div><br></div><div>Stolen.</div><div><br></div><div>Not by a cop.</div><div><br></div><div>And while there hasn’t been anyone arrested in either of the murders yet, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the chances that these two young black lives were stolen by the hands of another black life are pretty fucking good.</div><div><br></div><div>And while I’m at it, I’ll also bet dollars to donuts that as they’ve done every single time a black youth’s life has been stolen at the hands of another black youth, you won’t hear a thing from Black Lives Matter.</div><div><br></div><div>Not one word.</div><div><br></div><div>No statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Not even a fucking peep.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess black lives only matter when a white cop kills a black youth.</div><div><br></div><div>UPDATE: Broward County Florida Sheriffs Office arrested 22-year old Dedrick Williams of Pompano Beaxh, Florida Wednesday and charged him with murder in the shootings death of rapper XXXTentacion.</div><div><br></div><div>Williams had posted several videos online showing off money he is believed to have robbed from XXXTentacion after he shot him.</div><div><br></div><div>BELOW: Dedrick Williams poses with money which is believed he got after shooting rapper XXXTentacion,</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_c9e7_ca08_d738_aae1" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9gqhRgYj0b4/WyxZ7R_kbLI/AAAAAAAALkE/YY4X0E3VcGApus7W92Rft0EQyFVEDqR2gCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_b2a0_8019_aba0_8be4" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uc6XWRQD9zk/WyxZ7Yxj3JI/AAAAAAAALkI/IvB4VXpffzQba75hMIKsro0bZI5FfPp1gCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-30231070702348417932018-06-13T18:15:00.001-07:002018-06-13T19:35:58.802-07:00New York Corrections Officer Arrested, Charged with Supplying Synthetic Marijuana to Inmate<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;"><font color="#454545"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></font><font color="#454545" face=".SF UI Text"><span style="font-size: 17px; width: 392px; height: auto;"><img id="id_93ef_dcb2_5e1d_103a" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h5DqkQ7R-l8/WyHScL0dgKI/AAAAAAAALic/ifRLYnoN5d8vWC_9-a-10dZyzgIHPQ24wCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; 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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br></p><div><br></div><div><br></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-57683331453270262642018-06-06T07:53:00.001-07:002018-06-06T08:27:48.146-07:00Why is The Rochester, NY Police Department Refusing to Release a Killer’s Mugshot?<div><img id="id_d1b4_f09a_7dd2_d6c9" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y4D5qfom-Cc/Wxf9c22aKeI/AAAAAAAALho/4PPSI-pOU2ovc_yX0Da3pXzT68jfYfS5QCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>Frank Casatta</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><b>By Davy V.</b><div><br></div><div>If you’re black or Latino in Rochester, NY and you’re arrested for for even something as small as a violation, the Rochester, NY Police Deoartment will waste no time in releasing your mugshot, and Rochester, NY mainstream news media outlets will waste no time in plastering your mugshot all over the internet.</div><div><br></div><div>But if you’re a white man, say a white msn accused of intentionally driving a 4,000 pound Cadillac onto the front yard of a home and hitting and killing an innocent 3-year old boy, injuring his aunt, then fleeing the scene and hitting a vehicle injuring several people, before being captured and arrested, the Rochester, NY Police Department will protect you, and not release your mugshot.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s exactly what happened on Rochester, NY after Frank Casatta was arrested 5 days ago, after a fatal hit and run in which he intentionally hit and killed 3-year old Amir Palett </div><div>on Lyell Avenue in Rochester, NY.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s been almost a week since Casatta was arrested and the Rochester, NY Police Department has refused to release his mugshot.</div><div><br></div><div>Why?</div><div><br></div><div>Word on the street is Casatta has relatives in the Rochester, NY Police Department.</div><div><br></div><div>If Frank Casatta was black or Latino, his mugshot would have been released faster than you can say white privilege.</div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-26302330288093577492018-06-06T03:53:00.001-07:002018-06-06T04:44:15.019-07:00Law Enforcement Needs More Top Cops Like Monroe County, NY Sheriff Todd Baxter<img id="id_3f24_fe02_8576_eb6d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-12EDL3NJ4rU/WxfCr-m4GtI/AAAAAAAALg4/tYZ-HpOtvLotUx9wf_XtOowDS4j-hqJvACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br>Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn<br><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div>By Davy V.</b><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On August 29, 2017, Holly Colino, was in custody of the Monroe County, NY Sheriff’s Office in a substation in Henrietta, NY, a suburb of Rochester.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Colino, who is accused of shooting and killing Megan Dix, who was eating lunch in her pickup truck at her Brockport, NY job, had been arrested just hours earlier by Monroe County, NY Sheriff’s deputies at a Henrietta, NY hotel, after she pointed a gun at a woman in a nearby parking lot.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Back at that Monroe County, NY Sheriffs substation, Holly Colino managed to slip out of handcuffs, and escape.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Immediately after Colinos’s escape, Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn, went into full damage control spin mode.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But not just damage control spin mode.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn completely downplayed the escape.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The escape of an accused killer who executed an innocent woman on her lunch break.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_5acb_2c03_c8e_3f2b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EWdeWwrefXY/WxfDgOjmaqI/AAAAAAAALhA/DFuMezo8P3AvcdsBEZ4rAWGBpjMeaRDlwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Former Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“As the suspect was being taken into custody, she bolted from the investigators, and after a short chase, she was taken back into custody,” Sheriff O’Flynn told news media, after Colino was captured.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But O’Flynn left out a few important details surrounding Colino’s escape.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like the fact that the accused killer was on the lose for several hours.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That’s right.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was more than a “a short chase.”</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Holly Colino was lose for several hours.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not only was it not just “a short chase”, but Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn also didn’t mention the fact that his office had to request assistance from New York State Police, in the form of a NYS Police helicopter, in order to locate the accused killer.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, that doesn’t sound like “a short chase” to me.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fact of the matter is that Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn knew his office and his deputies screwed up.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And as a result of that screw up, a killer had escaped.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But instead of owning his department’s screw up, Sheriff O’Flynn downplayed a killer’s escape and refused to be transparent with the public.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In other words, he lied.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Sheriff O’Flynn also refused to take accountability.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_ee98_dd5d_e6bf_cd12" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Rwqt9eX7pUI/WxfEKQxpynI/AAAAAAAALhM/V_yd9dFuifw2N8g54BkpzjC1nSNouHxUgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Accused killer Holly Colino</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fast forward almost a year later, and there’s a new Sheriff in town.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No, literally, there’s a new Sheriff in town.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Monroe County, NY Sheriff Todd Baxter, who defeated O’Flynn last November.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And right away, Sheriff Todd Baxter, a former United States Army Drill Sergeant, who served years on the Rochester, NY Police Department, as well as serving as Greece, NY Police Chief, is showing that he’ll be a different kind of top cop.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following an internal investigation after yet another embarrassing escape, this time by Aliyah Burden, a woman 9-months pregnant who managed to slip by a distracted Monroe County, NY Sheriff Deputy on April 30th, while she was being held in custody on petit larceny charges at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, setting off an intense police manhunt which lasted several hours before she was finally caught in the hospital’s parking garage, Monroe County, NY Sheriff Todd Baxter owned his department’s and his deputy’s fuck up.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the conclusion of the interval investigation, Sheriff Baxter decided that Monroe County, NY Sheriff officials at every level of the organization would be held accountable.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But not only did Monroe County, NY Sheriff Todd Baxter hold members of his department accountable, ordering new training for his deputies when dealing with prisoners, but Sheriff Baxter held himself accountable as well.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Because a Sheriff is an elected position, Baxter can’t suspend himself.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So in a symbolic gesture, Sheriff Baxter is donating one day’s salary to the family of a fallen deputy.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In essence, the move is a sort of self imposed one day suspension.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And as someone who has criticized the Good Ol’ Boys Club culture that still permeates law enforcement to this day, that’s a good start. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You see, in taking accountability for his department, Monroe County, NY Sheriff Todd Baxter did something that former Monroe County, NY Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn never did in the 16 years that he was Sheriff.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Monroe County, NY Sheriff Todd Baxter held himself accountable, taking full responsibility for his department.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And that’s what true leadership is about.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And that’s what being a man is about.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taking accountability.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And admitting when you and/or your officers are wrong.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And we need more of that in law enforcement.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Good job Sheriff Baxter.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-9668152467985447952018-05-23T04:36:00.001-07:002018-05-24T03:02:22.638-07:00Judge Blasts Rochester, NY Police Department After Cops Help Abusive Ex-Boyfriend Break into Domestic Violence Victim’s Home<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_cf5a_6423_e836_7647" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tCvuNjsQ1d4/WwUJr-xBEXI/AAAAAAAALfA/oDfHcR9G_t0uz_opi3sp57pkxBa_edDygCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Officer Jim Laruez kicks in domestic violence victim’s door.</b><br><br><br><br></span></div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Davy V.</b><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last November Rochester, NY Police Officer Korey McNees responded to a home in Rochester’s 19th Ward neighborhood, where an abusive ex-boyfriend who just hours earlier had run over his girlfriend Catherine Bonner’s foot, with his car, breaking it, was trying to gain access into the woman’s home.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Instead of protecting the woman, a victim of domestic abuse, Officer McNees encouraged the man to break into the home.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it was all captured on video.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the November 13, 2017 body cam video, not only does Rochester, NY Police Officer Korey McNees repeatedly tell Bonner’s ex-boyfriend that he can break into her home, but Officer McNees goes as far citing a New York State law which McNees says gives the man the right to break in.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At first, Bonner’s ex-boyfriend, whose name has not been released, seems hesitant to take Officer McNees’ advice, but after McNees continues to encourage the man to break in, he does just that, smashing out a window on the side of Bonner’s home.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_4c27_8779_48c6_184f" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y9cc0mBWe2E/WwUI86PygYI/AAAAAAAALeA/fpQW28T1cMQMbPaLvdEPEE9MsJruS18JwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Catherine Bonner’s ex-boyfriend smashes out her home’s window.</b></span></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And that’s when things escalate.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bonner sticks out a 9mm rifle out of the window.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then Rochester, NY Police Officer Jim Laruez kicks in Bonner’s door.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officer McNees can be seen going into the house, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">pointing his gun at Bonner.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rochester Police Officers</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> then conduct an unconstitutional, illegal, warrantless search of her home, where they find several firearms.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_729b_610_ddf0_8ab3" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--aUCXdRGlxo/WwULJ2GkTbI/AAAAAAAALfM/xLRBmIBKKU81XnMd3f9rD--PzyaLN27nQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Officer Jim Laruez </b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Catherine Bonner is charged with menacing for what Rochester Police claim is she pointed the rifle at them.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bonner is also charged with illegal possession of several firearms.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the body cam video Rochester, NY Police Officer Korey McNees tells Bonner’s ex-boyfriend, “so let me tell you what New York State law says. New York State law says you live here... you have a right to kick the door in if you want to gain access.”</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Only problem is no such law exists.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Tuesday afternoon, a New York State Supreme Court Justice blasted the Rochester, NY Police Department.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Officer McNees’ pronouncements as to New York Law, were, as far as this court can determine, without actual basis in New York Law,” New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles Schiano Jr. writes in his decision in a hearing after Bonner’s attorney made a motion to have evidence against her suppressed.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Justice Schiano’s decision continues:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Moreover, this advisement was offered without any investigation into whether (the ex-boyfriend’s) claims were true. Worse, officers ignored information they learned in the course of the 24 minutes before (ex-boyfriend) broke the window that was contrary to his story or could have led them to exercise an appropriate level of restraint and caution in this situation.”</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The information Justice Schiano refers to in his decision is the fact that during the 24-minute video, which has been edited for time, Catherine Bonner’s ex-boyfriend tells police about the domestic abuse, including having run Bonner’s foot over just hours earlier.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But yet despite this information, none of the Rochester, NY Police Officers including Korey McNees, and Officer Laruez who can be seen on the body cam video kicking in Bonner’s door, bothered to take the time to look up the incident report for the domestic abuse, and instead encouraged Bonner’s ex-boyfriend to break in her home.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And that’s the Rochester, NY Police Department.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The same corrupt police agency I’ve exposed for years.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Charles Schiano Jr., ruled that evidence against Bonner, such as the firearms charges, would be suppressed because the search of Bonner’s residence by Rochester, NY Police was unconstitutional.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neither Rochester, NY Police Chief Michael Ciminelli, nor Rochester, NY Mayor Lovely Warren have made a comment regarding this incident.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I will be updating this story.</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/iDrwD8j0ISM">https://youtu.be/iDrwD8j0ISM</a></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_1a31_8485_fb43_f848" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBotkmmAi9M4fRQ-hafL6KyddUIBuyWX8CLLkp37LH1KsSnGdIWVIn8bQvGnXUdw1wKI_LBQz8_YfK4V0ZeyogA2O6_59EXaPldJE7FbWO6kqXFJsdOFCWb8Nac-JqUMCpV7sRoiPwbtA/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Officer Korey McNees as he repeatedly encourages abusive ex-boyfriend to break into woman’s home.</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_b28_cd40_d898_7d1d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0nloW8ecrM8/WwUI88xv2wI/AAAAAAAALeE/jEcakL0begoV0wgZ5HTlR5_4fBz8DZrQQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Ex-boyfriend breaking into woman’s home.</b></span></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_f1fc_d692_b1f_d3d5" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgekppAA1gFzVG5bizW0jReRt8h9FvnhPQY_ez3jPbgE7UvOkADpWuG_DeLsO2_t-yUAc0nmwF_g6kH2XI2tAOG7vCJn310ur4BDXDdQPyhKlPqjgKN-fk4cPqH47q9qdmAkAisci6UYrg/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Ex-boyfriend smashes woman’s window.</b><br><br><br><img id="id_3d82_3aba_6133_f47e" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6-KTLJY--kw/WwUI9h41mjI/AAAAAAAALeQ/sVU7yodqcTw7ZgA2N4p6o5SMkW3tuO3QgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Catherine Bonner sticks rifle out window after abusive ex-boyfriend breaks window.</b><br><br><br><br><img id="id_c9b0_b6cb_675_bf6d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3JsQWPyraAU/WwUI-UUC-LI/AAAAAAAALeY/pbPc2AG-2j4Y0ngsrZfOyPZCdAUNP_lGQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rifle barrel pointing out of broken window.</b><br><br><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_ddac_1e62_c87d_721b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PrdVMnlfdZw/WwUI-VPMYLI/AAAAAAAALeU/FqI8Ouh4ZJUB7SHso1F21ygDeN6bNmnRgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Officer points gun at Catherine Bonner.</b><br><br><img id="id_d93a_80ad_b490_61bd" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V94-p7_gqAw/WwUI_OLjiBI/AAAAAAAALek/qo8rZhknsUoQ873RtnNou965Csrf8-c4QCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><br><br><img id="id_9672_8788_8c11_5bdd" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qDBQs-3L6RQ/WwUI_Ep5PGI/AAAAAAAALeg/u92DEL3sHK0haJuGPPVEqgkc6kdsu7jsACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police Officer Jim Laruez kicks in Catherine Bonner’s door.</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_8be_6c37_daf0_5fa8" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wEEmoXaQcCs/WwUI_Cd9ftI/AAAAAAAALec/5esMI-pLU04Cs5yvr0zqQwCfaAB0QJGEwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_9fb0_9c60_5b11_2cd2" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vKvm2qQNUNE/WwUI_zMXCII/AAAAAAAALeo/zHdGeeXFvX8u_WgqMYnMDwQbY0kuFVkIgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Police hold domestic violence victim Catherine Bonner at gunpoint.</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><br></div> Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025695780248342457.post-67717415076158485932018-05-18T03:48:00.001-07:002018-05-18T19:33:42.447-07:00Rochester, NY Cops Street Fight<div><img id="id_2a68_8dfd_69b0_c52d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mwZXw49PeU0/Wv6wNTcGKfI/AAAAAAAALdc/nSsY8pBdyRQTNsungU64XnDCtpx1XDd6QCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><b>Rochester, NY Cops Fight Steetfight</b></div><b><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div>By Davy V.</b><div><br></div><div>It’s not every day that you see two uniformed, on duty police officers fighting each other in the middle of the street.</div><div><br></div><div>But that’s exactly what happened last Monday morning in Rochester, NY, and it was all captured on a city surveillance camera.</div><div><br></div><div>Veteran Rochester, NY Police Officers Brandon Pike and Jordan Bracey met at the intersection of Conkey Avenue and Avenue A on Rochester, NY’s east side, and threw them hands.</div><div><br></div><div>For more than 20 years I’ve exposed the Rochester, NY Police Department, one of the dirtiest, most corrupt and unprofessional police agencies in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>I can’t say I’m really surprised to see to Rochester, NY cops fighting each other.</div><div><br></div><div>They don’t respect the citizens they took a sworn oath to protect.</div><div><br></div><div>And they don’t even respect each other.</div><div><br></div><div>And it’s also no surprise that neither Pike or Bracey have been suspended.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s the Rochester, NY Police Department.</div><div><br></div><div>Zero accountability.</div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>CLICK LINK BELOWTP WATCH VIDEO</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/9Mbs18_Z5u0">https://youtu.be/9Mbs18_Z5u0</a></div>Davy V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15619903264540749438noreply@blogger.com