Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Volusia County, FL — Body cams, according to some studies, may serve to reduce corruption and violence from certain police officers. However, as a recent body camera video out of Florida illustrates, a camera on this cop didn’t even deter his desire to commit theft.
Deputy John Braman, with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, has a history of complaints filed by people he’s arrested — who all claim he robbed them. However, not until this theft was caught on video did his department do anything about it.
On Monday, Braman turned in his resignation after body camera footage — from his own body camera — showed him going through a man’s wallet, take out money, and throw it into the trunk.
The incident took place back on August 1, 2016. However, the body camera video wasn’t released until this week by the State Attorney’s Office.
The State Attorney’s Office, for unknown reasons, held the video for months as the deputy went on with his regular duties. Not until the video was released this week, 6 months after it was taken, was the investigation launched.
It took a Daytona Beach attorney, who specializes in defending DUI cases to bring the video to the attention of investigators. The attorney, Flem Whited said the original video surfaced last year during another case for one of his clients.
“We get the video in discovery and he’s leaning over in the trunk of the car and pulls out the guy’s wallet and pulls out two one- hundred-dollar bills. Throws those in the trunk of his car. He puts the wallet back in and closes the trunk,” Whited said.
“He represents an infinitesimal number of bad cops around the country but when this gets played in the news it makes everyone who wears the badge have to defend themselves against the actions of this idiot. And that’s what he is, a thieving idiot,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said Monday in a phone interview with the News Journal.
As the Sun-Sentinal reports, Chitwood says they’ve had several complaints recently about Braman stealing money from the wallets of people he arrested.
Perhaps that is the reason this ‘thieving idiot’ refused to go to court to face those he arrested. According to the News Journal, when investigators started looking into the April 2016 case, they discovered that Braman had previously been reprimanded for not showing up to traffic court hearings, documents show.
When watching the video below, it appears this deputy was so accustomed to stealing people’s money after arresting them that he clearly forgot he was doing it — while recording it. It is entirely likely that investigators could find more body camera videos just like this one.
Not surprisingly, Braman’s theft caught on body camera is fairly common for other cops too.
In November, a Denver cop was arrested and suspended without pay after his own body camera footage caught him stealing $1,200 in cash from a crash victim.
Instead of helping an unconscious crash victim, officer Julian Archuleta took advantage of the situation for his own personal gain by going through the man’s clothing and robbing him. Archuleta now faces charges of misdemeanor theft, 1st-degree official misconduct and tampering with physical evidence.
Grants Police Department Sgt. Roshern C. McKinney, 33, was arrested in August after an investigation found that he’d stolen both money and marijuana from the police department. McKinney has since been charged with marijuana distribution, conspiracy, and felony embezzlement — after he recorded himself on his body camera stealing from the evidence locker.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/thieving-idiot-cops-own-body-camera/#dp5V28SC6eDe8jSX.99
“He represents an infinitesimal number of bad cops around the country…”
INFINITESIMAL?????
ONLY from the lips of another PIG could THIS blatant LIE have spewed forth.
“And that’s what he is, a thieving idiot,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said…”
Only because he got caught, and made the rest of you look bad (well, OBVIOUSLY bad for all to see, anyway).
Enough with the breast-beating, d#ckwad, you’re every bit as slimy as that puke, and there’s a bullet or a rope out there with YOUR name on it, commie jewb#tch scumbag!!!!!
“He does not represent an infinitesimal number of good cops around the country…”
There, I fixed for the idiot author #1.
Fixed HIS problem, Bill.
OURS can only be foxed with lead, however.
Hmmm
It would be interesting to follow up on this case to see what the final disposition was. I bet he doesn’t get much more than a slap on the wrist.