Bad Cop, No Donut! - week of March 24, 2005 THEME With your weekly wrap-up of North American police brutality, misconduct and corruption, I'm Ron Anicich at CKLN in Toronto. Stay tuned after this week's headlines for an interview with James Ruggieri, a researcher who gave a presentation to the American Academy of Forensic Examiners last month in which he claims that stun guns can cause delayed cardiac arrests and other ill effects and that many taser related injuries to both police officers and civilians may be going undetected. But first let's have a look at what the police did to us this week. A police officer in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was arrested this week for kidnapping and rape. According to an Associated Press account officer John Jones arrested a woman on a warrant last Tuesday but failed to take her to jail. After the woman appeared in court, Jones offered to drive her back to work, where he had arrested her. Instead, after stopping at the woman's home, the officer drove her to a secluded area where he sexually assaulted the woman. The officer was also fired last Friday after he was charged. ACTU A veteran police officer in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was arrested this week on child pornography charges. CBC reports claim that police arrested officer Clyde Sangster after his name came up in connection to an ongoing child pornography investigation. Police say that computers seized contained images of children as young as five or six engaged in sex acts with adults. Sangster resigned on March 14th, the same day the officer's home was searched by police. A Sheriff's deputy on the Isle Of Wight, Virginia, was arrested last week after being indicted for taking sexual liberties with a young girl. According to WAVY TV deputy David Sessoms was accused in October 2004 of taking indecent liberties with a 10 year old girl in a room at a local shopping mall. Sessoms resigned in January. Up until January Sessoms had been assigned to teach the DARE program to students at five area elementary schools. A police officer in Warwick, New York, was indicted this week on three sodomy charges. A report in the Times Herald-Record says that officer Edward Mullins had sex with a boy who was 16 years old in 1999 after the boy moved in with the officer when he became estranged from his family. Mullins was also charged with falsely reporting an incident after he made a false claim against his accuser. The officer tried to claim that his victim stole his credit card and made a fraudulent purchase with it. An investigation revealed that Mulins' victim could not have possibly committed the crime. Mullins is currently suspended. A police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was arrested last week for forcing a woman to perform a sex act on him in exchange for not charging her for drug possession. The Associated Press reports that officer Nicholas Ince is the sixth Milwaukee officer to be charged with a crime in the last three weeks. Ince has been charged with misconduct in office and sexual assault. He was released on bond two days after his arrest. Earlier this month three Milwaukee officers were charged in connection to a brutal beating of a man at a party held at an off duty officer's home. Another officer was charged for punching a man who was handcuffed and in custody of police. Yet another officer was charged this month for stealing money from a motorist during a traffic stop. A police officer in Los Angeles who was found guilty of fondling a woman and who improperly touched another woman while in uniform was sentenced to 90 days in custody last week. According to the LA Times officer Michael Kapalungan was found guilty one month ago of sexually assaulting a woman who had called police for help after she was a victim of domestic violence. Kapalungan used the opportunity to touch the woman in an inappropriate manner. He subsequently sexually assaulted an undercover police officer who was posing as a victim of domestic violence. In that incident the officer was videotaped groping the officer's breasts. In a sentencing memorandum, the judge who delivered the sentence wrote that when a crime victim calls police, "she has the right to expect that she will be treated with respect, that her complaint will be taken seriously and investigated and that she will not be inappropriately touched for the officer's own pleasure." A police officer in Fostoria, Ohio, was denied bail last week after being charged with a variety of offences relating to events which occurred two years ago. The Seneca County Advertiser-Tribune says that officer Nicholas Portentoso was denied bail after he was charged with assault, disrupting public services, possession of crack cocaine and intimidation. The officer was accused of pointing a gun at his wife when she told him she wanted a divorce. He then turned the gun on himself. Police say that the officer's DNA was found on the barrel of the gun. Members of the officers own family testified at the bail hearing that they feared Portentoso. His arraignment is scheduled for March 31st. Police in Yonkers, New York, are investigating two separate incidents of police brutality which occurred on March 12. The Westchester Journal News reports that in one case, the son of a police officer claims he was beaten by two police officers. The man claims he has just parked his father's car when confronted by officers Robert Santobello and Peter Wasiczko, who forced him to lie in the snow face down. He claims he was then kicked in the shoulder and then beaten with a nightstick after he was handcuffed. The victim was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. In the second case a man was beaten unconscious by police after a complaint that the man was drunk and disorderly. The man remains unconscious and on a respirator. In that case the victim of the beating was charged with attempted assault, harassment and disorderly conduct. ACTU A DEA agent in Orlando, Florida, who amused internet viewers by shooting himself in the foot during a gun safety lecture in front of a group of fourth graders has been suspended for a week without pay. WFTV reports that after the shooting the â