Depositions of Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Police Brutality Case: JSO Director Lawrence Schmitt
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- At about 2 PM on April 27, 2016, Jacksonville, Florida resident, Mayra Martinez reported to her first day of work at Scores Bar after recently moving from Orlando. She was reportedly fired after being served alcohol (or something else) by fellow Scores employees. Scores called the police and reported her as “trespassing.” She was kicked out without her purse, social security card and other belongings. Police arrived quickly. The events thereafter can only be described as a disturbing series of violations of her civil rights and human rights. This deposition was taken in that civil case.
I. UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE (PARKING LOT)
Rookie police officer Akinyeme Borisade of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office reported to the scene. He and a fellow officer pinned Ms. Martinez on the ground and used “ground and pound” techniques on her. It appears the officers also hit or shoved her head into the asphalt. She can be heard screaming from a good Samaritan’s dashcam, “I didn’t do anything.” The arrest report differs from the dashcam, as these officers where not aware of being recorded using unnecessary force.
II. UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE (JAIL)
Ms. Martinez was then transported to the sally port (intake corridor) of the Pre-Trial Detention Facility of Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office by the same officer. Footage depicts her handcuffed and standing around being largely ignored for some time awaiting processing into the jail. At some point she says or does something officer Borisade disagrees with. He approaches her and shoves her into the wall. She reflectively kicks back and he pummels her in the stomach, chest and face, knocking her completely unconscious.
III. FAILURE OF OFFICERS TO INTERVENE
Officers have a duty to protect individuals from constitutional violations by fellow officers. Therefore, an officer who witnesses a fellow officer violating an individual’s constitutional rights may be liable to the victim for failing to intervene. You can clearly see this in the above video- apathy, lack of concern, repeatedly failing to intervene or taking over for the officer who clearly had lost his composure. The Blue Line was protected despite clear abuses of power.
No supervisor ever stepped in or controlled this probationary officer. Sure they terminated him after the incidents, but it was too little, too late.
IV. FAILURE TO PROVIDE ANY CARE OR CONCERN FOR UNCONSCIOUS VICTIM FOR 15 MINUTES
Detention and correctional facilities have an obligation to provide adequate medical care to detainees and prisoners. They are in the care, custody and control of the institution, and are unable to seek their medical care elsewhere, as free persons may. As such, considerable time, effort, and expense must be devoted to protecting injured or sick inmates. What you see in the above video is beyond disturbing. Ms. Martinez was left to potentially sustain serious neurological injury, or die, without one person checking her pulse, breathing, whether she would choke or aspirate on her own vomit, etc. She did not move for nearly 15 minutes and no one showed any care or concern about it.
V. REFUSAL OF HOSPITALIZATION RECOMMENDED BY EMTS BY OFFICER BORISADE
Once Jacksonville Fire and Rescue were finally called by JSO and arrived, they were given false or a fundamental lack of information. The EMT report indicates officer Borisade only admitted hitting her in the stomach and claims that pain in the stomach was all she complained of. She is clearly unconscious at the time of the incident. The report makes no mention of any head trauma. Making matters worse, the EMT report indicates EMTs repeatedly urged Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office to allow them to take her to a hospital in the ambulance located only a few feet away. However, the very same officer who harmed her was authorized to refuse her further medical treatment or hospitalization “against (the EMT’s) medical advice.” He had no business being in her presence at this point, much less making medical decision on her behalf after committing multiple crimes of battery against her.
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I'm watching all of these and I can't believe the heights that these people go to to justify each others cruelty.
Not telling the truth even when there’s a video that shows exactly what happened.
I wonder if he would disagree if it was his daughter, sister or mother this happened to. I wish the attorney would ask that.
His daughter would probably get a.free pass in this corrupt department.
Objection. He swore to tell the truth and then begins to lie. Get it right . He sucked his way to the top.
He definitely didn’t get that much rank by calling out the corruption and ratting out bad cops.
This is what we call the lowest type of human
“Some say it’s ok to punch a handcuffed person”. Who. Where. Besides a dirty cop.
the politicians and judges they are running their protection racket for
He heard no audio but said there was screaming....hmmmm🤔
They heard what they wanted to hear
Thank you for these uploads. I'm going through them one by one. Great deposing!
I agree with the first part of your statement. However, the questioning is sub-par. The attorney is lucky the witnesses are talkative.
@@bryanthompson12 agree. He stumbles through his questions and makes weird noises when he doesn't know what to ask, doesn't take advantage of just being silent once in awhile lol. Plus, having watched all related depositions now, I'm annoyed that he is still saying borisade's name incorrectly. In the Ivey video they specifically hashed out the pronunciation lol.
Me too these guys make me sick
@@bryanthompson12 hey hey my opinion was that because these are police officers it's good to make them feel like they have the upper hand. Pressing them too hard would shut them down.
@@kimandres1319 they should be saying his name as Borashitty.
Based on this deposition this cop shouldn’t be working. This illustrates how corrupt to the core police departments are. Thugs telling other thugs it’s OK to beat citizens.
He shouldn't be working, yet he has been promoted patrol officer to the top of the latter. That speaks volumes about the entire department being corrupt at its core.
This was so disgustingly evil and this city should have been sued for millions.
It’s jacksonville, they don’t have millions lol
The tax payers pay for the misconduct of officers. Cops need to be held accountable.
We elect them
After watching the Sally port video I think there's 6 too 7 brownshirts that should be in prison for at least 10 years. The brownshirt giving a deposition is completely descracefull. The brownshirts had no regard for human life.
yes. browmshirts
you get it. the brownshirts
or red coats take your pick.
I blame this sheriff and all leadership of the police involved in this incident for a total lack of leadership and training of its cops.
He’s completely useless & a shamefully spineless corrupt example of a joke at perceived leadership. It is no surprise that officers under his command are criminals he is an ignorant spineless idiot of a leader & should resign in shame immediately 🤬🤯🖕🖕🤬
What’s crazy is their whole lives boys have been taught not to hit girls. But cops seem to be the worst offenders of them all.
Yes exactly it’s like they were the only ones not told to never hurt a woman
They will use woman wanted equal rights
I think the question is, are officers trained to ignore aggressive, agitated arrestees?
One would have to really wonder is this was their wife or their daughters being viciously attacked like this would be still say the same.
It was so disgusting that no matter how many ways you rephrased asking him if there's a written policy on punching a handcuff individual, he keeps going back to the officer's decision making in doing so when it was a simple yes or no answer, it's either covered in the policy manual or it's not.
it is not specifically covered but the fact that they have to use force proportional to the threat i, and there is no threat from someone with handcuffs behind their back.
@@zap265 n un to
@@josesimons8973 deep thoughts
Lawyer didn't follow up on a few answers or pursue answers better. Lawyer talked too slow and he seemed controlled by the other lawyers. To me, he asked closed questions.
When a person lies this much how is she supposed to be the one in charge of policing the public. makes no sense at all.
And this is one of the reasons why people hate pigs
How can it ever be appropriate to punch someone in the face when their hands are handcuffed behind their back. The person can't hit the cop back... but it's okay for the cop to pound their face as much as the cop wants.
thats the way it works. dont worry the judicial and legistaltive branches will unite with the executive branch to crush the citizens rights. checks and balances my ass.
How is tying someone’s hands behind their back and making them safe
For as long as I live, I will never understand why one, just ONE police officer could or would not have stepped in the help this woman ,,,, Why don't all the officers get a copy of the video where the woman was being beaten, have all your daughters sit with you, like its family night,,, Pass out the candy, popcorn, and soft drinks,,, Just roll the film and let them know what they have to look forward to in life when you are in the hands of someone who was to supposed to protect her,,, but beat her instead,,,,, as you, her father just watched it all happen ,,,
I can’t believe you don’t have 10k likes for this comment
Well said.
Disgraceful. This person is a leader in his office? Just earning the hate.
How do these lying, misinformation giving, awful keep getting bigger and better jobs in the dept?
The “Sally port” comes from the term Sally Forth meaning to embark or leave for a journey from a port-mainly used in military-it comes from. 16th century term meaning to gather together and burst out upon the enemy after being besieged. So cops are Sally forthing from the Sally port to attack enemies. Sadly they do tend to see regular citizens as enemies sometimes.
Nice
Sometimes?
@@pugdaddi yeah, occasionally the complainant, boot-licker, or puppy strikes them the right way so they unite to fabricate their lies
Never saw a cop use deescalation techniques. I think it’s just something that they say.
It's foreign to them. It would spoil their fun !
There de-escalation is shocking , shooting, or compliance punches ( yes that's what they call them)
I love the way this lawyer uses his pin to open a close during the case
Agreed one of favourite lawyer so far here on TH-cam.
Did this guy say that officers are taught de-escalation or escalation techniques? From what I’ve seen, the latter seems far more common than the former.
THEY ARE NOT FOR THE PEOPLE
IF THESE OFFICERS ARE TRAINED SO WELL.........WHY DO PEOPLE ASK FOR THEIR SUPERIOR
Expert at what ?. Couldn't even take the time to read associated depositions before giving his own "Expert" deposition ?.Mmmmm.
"should we take a break? ya'll good?" 😂😂
First minute: get those stars off!!!!!
All police officers spent too much time on the gun range and not enough time in the classroom learning the constitution and the civil rights of the people. And learning what their job actually is
Evil! No other way of looking at it! Play the video for his wife or mother and ask them what their opinions are.
Weak cops need to get their story straight
Excited delirium doesn't exist. Total nonsense.
corruption STARTS FROM THE TOP and trckles all the way DOWN
I enjoy watching this lawyer's uploads he is great in questioning and applies awesome tactics I think he should be adding lots of zeros for a case. Good work and thanks for sharing.
It makes me wonder what departments were getting away with before media outlets like this were available.
Lawyer was weak and didn't follow up on some answers. Talked too slow. Sorry!
@@joycegriffin3652going super easy. Heck the depo of amber heard was better then this. They should hire that lawyer to do depo with cops
REAL WORLD SITUATIONS VS A SCRIPTED SITUATION ......
These depositions are so annoying to watch. They just refuse to give an answer.
He says he’s not qualified. Give him another star. Poof now he is qualified.
It's very easy for an officer to not allow medical help to an arrestee. They do it all the time because they just don't believe that there's anything wrong with them. Sometimes they just act like they don't care.
its not an act
One liar cop retires the next steps into his place to lie.
I know nothing. Repeat more than 5 times doesn't mean that you know anything at all.
The whole interaction was wrong. They never should have laid a hand on this person much less arrest and beat her.
THEY HAVE IMMUNITY ....THATS IT, THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT, AN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOURSELF HAVE TO PROVE YOUR INNOCENTS......YOU ARE ABSOLUTLEY GUILTY UNTIL YOU CAN PROVE UR INNOCENTS
LETS START WITH THE ACADEMY.......ARE THESE FUTURE OFFICERS BEING TRAINED WRONG.....
Yes I believe they are. But the bad things they use everyday are from. The cop that partners up with him once he gets the job! The few good cops usually don't continue the rookies training! They put them with those older nasty headbanging, taking money cowboy cops!
Police should not , Police The Bad cops. It should be 5 jurors.
PEOPLE DO NOT WANT POLICE INVOLED
It was sickening to see all of those cops and firemen just standing around. The firemen were trying to take her to the hospital but police would not let them. The cops "trump" a Paramedic...go figure.
I think it’s so Disrespectful possibly lazy or just down and out lying that these officers coming to these depositions completely unprepared they’re unsure of what they’ve looked at red or their memories just don’t exist
Citizens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Locals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take care of this shittttt.
Where I live there is a lot of meth usage, I know what a meth head looks like and I'm looking at one right there.
AN THERE ARE NO REPRCUSSIONS FOR THESE LYING OFFICERS
I guess the buck doesn’t stop with sergeant Shultz here
A lot of gaslighting
Police should be trained, not left to their own devices to decide what is appropriate force. They all lack good judgment, it’s how they got their job.
they are trained.
you cant train an animal to be a human being.
no amount of training will prevent what the police do to their evil existential mortal enemy, their employer.
if the cop was properly handeling his suspect then she would have never had the opportunity to try and kick him... punching any one in handcuffs is brutal to me... why did they let it get to this level online instead of firing him and paying for the brutality ?
Must not have been a very good accountant, jeeez there are a lot of chiefs 😮
To protect and serve ourselves.🤷🏻♀️😞
Excited delirium has absolutely no scientific confirmation.
ARE YOU ALLOWED TO LIE?????
When I see DAs and police chiefs lie? Hatred to the nth fkn degree.
So many chief so you can’t pin the down
Rot from the top
seems like the chief of human resources did not train his resources very well.
Did she win on trial, or was a plea deal before trial? Does anyone know please?
From what I read, this civil suit was settled. The officer that assaulted her was charged and fired. His charge was reduced. The director of agency apologized and she was awarded $92,000. This was in 2020.
Settled they fired him but he got the charge dismissed I believe. She probably ended up with 35k after her attorneys got theirs
ITS ONLY PROVING THESE OFFICERS CAN MAKE THEIR OWN LAWS
He is basically, stick to the thin blue line !!!
His answers are deplorable he trying to deflect everything with giving UFI, IT IS SPIN DOCTORING AT BEST.
They must all take a cop course in double talk...in how to cover the depts ass...
The ones that can speak BS gets appointed. They learn to talk and not say anything. It’s a talent.
Don't they call that 'the academy'?
Why was pushing her in the wall appropriate? It wasn't. She didn't know about a line that didn't exist. You simply don't watch a video and make it sound like the citizens watching it are not qualified to judge the officers thay ate the one kidnapping people that shpuld be in jail themselves.
Wow does this guy really believe what he just said!!
No.
She was beaten 3 separate times by EVERYBODY
Blue line gang always stick together!
She should of got a million dollars for each punch she got hit over 10 times
its the port by which you sally forth ,or go into or out of a given place
awwwww, people arent always "nice" to the clowns in the blue costumes that violate their rights. those people should be ashamed.
Sally Port is Latin word salire meaning to hinder or delay an opposing force, and port foot through Latin word portus or port meaning a door. Salire portus, hence sadly port.
Dr. No
24:42 so reading between them lines there is if the bunch of officers reviewing the evidence decides through opinion it's not rightbit should all be the same and impartial
6months of extensive training at the academy and 6 months of riding with a good and experienced cop and if something happens that is considered a minor infraction then back to the academy and then ride along with an experience cop in other words start over with tw
good idea
Jamie Jeffries problem is the training is teaching them bad things...
6 months learning to shoot and arrest people, followed by 6 months of a dirty cop teaching you the ropes.. what could go wrong?
At the issue here, amongst other things, are the "Policies and Procedures" of the JSO. Like many other cases, the P&P are the issue in my opinion. Policies are not law. When you see a 110 pound woman being beaten by two cops, something is very wrong.
Every single officer: "don't belive your lyen eyes" I am so totally astonished after watching all of the videos, just astonished. The lengths the police are going to to attempt to convince the public is enfuriating!
At the end heback tracking, knowing his ass is going to fired
I don't think anyone was fired except for the one who beat her up. They all stood by , did nothing, then lied about almost everything
Bachelors degree, when the badge goes on the Liars start ,an the passing of the buck .
The thin blue line is very, very thick!
He doesn’t know what other officers observed? This guy is a joke and did nothing to prepare except to learn how to stonewall.
45:02 i dont underground how abyone like this is in any position of power he reviews use of forces man this is absurdly crazy his ways and views waw weee
This ix ehy vops settle out of court, they look so bad in depositions., never settle .
Is that Adam Sandler behind that mask?
What’s tool.
Oh so its normal to bash handcuffed persons within JSO. interesting.
20:58 yea because that's the scary thing at that point it's kit proof it's opinion at that point of the officer waw
What a shit show! Leadership failure at the highest level. This ‘leader’ say he is not qualified to make a determination. I agree. Not qualified in your position.
you need some more training
Does that cop have a wig on
42:34 he doesnt know how they were trained when all shouldbbe trained the same all around American
53:30 neither is appropriate or necessary for a man agenst a woman unless this lady us some kimd of mma fighter then thats understandable but past that as far as im concerned these cops tgat can use any kind of force past handcuffing and comtrolling to and from a to b men can over power any womdn easily especially being a cop and trained
Does that cop have a wig on
Does that cop have a wig on
Does that cop have a wig on