Caveat lector: This post contains some subject-appropriate unsavory language.

Nothing to see here — just move along: Irma Marquez, who was not abused by Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes, recuperates from the non-abuse she didn’t experience at his hands. At the time this photo was taken, in fact, Marquez stood accused of “disorderly conduct” and second-degree obstruction of governmental administration.

He’s drunk again, it’s time to fight; she must have done something wrong tonight….

“Hey, it’s no big deal — I just slipped and hit my face on a doorknob,” said Joy by way of explaining the huge contusion discoloring her face.

This wasn’t the first time she had shown up to work with a black eye or other suspicious injury she insisted was the product of some bizarre accident growing out of her incurable clumsiness. Curiously, Joy was not noticeably maladroit when tending to her duties as a waitress for a chain restaurant where I worked while going to college.

A plain but very nice woman on the wrong side of 35, she was easy to work with and put in long hours to help keep her household afloat. She lived with an unemployed, live-in “fiance,” or what I called a “degenerate freeloader.”

Whenever Joy would come to work bearing the visible evidence of a beating and urging us to believe some elaborate tale of innocent self-inflicted misfortune, none of us believed her. But none of us had evidence sufficient to justify prying into her domestic affairs, and she reacted so badly to the broad hints several of us dropped that we didn’t persist.

	Another view of the aftermath of the non-abuse experienced by the oddly unfortunate Irma Marquez.

Just tell the nurse you slipped and fell; it starts to sting as it starts to swell….

Unlike many episodes of suspected domestic abuse, there is no ambiguity in the case of Irma Marquez, a 45-year-old woman from Yonkers, New York. She was physically assaulted, in public, in front of several witnesses; the incident was captured clearly on a surveillance videotape.

The abuse resulted in “a head injury with related loss of consciousness, memory loss, jaw fracture, two black eyes, facial contusions, severe swelling and bruising, hemorrhaging in both eyes, lacerations to the nose, chin and mouth, neck and back pain, bruising and/or lacerations about the back, arms, hands, right knee, right leg, right hip, [and] right breast….”

Were we to take seriously a verdict by a federal jury, the injuries sustained by Marquez were immaculately inflicted. No other human being is responsible — according to that jury — for the wounds that disfigured the 44-year-old home health worker. That’s because she was injured at the hands of a police officer, who was never charged with criminal assault.

On Wednesday (May 26), a federal jury ruled that Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes didn’t
violate Marquez’s civil rights when he lifted her from her feet and slammed her face-first into the floor of the La Fonda restaurant on March 3, 2007.

Simoes was one of several police officers dispatched to deal with a drunken melee at La Fonda. When they got there, Marquez — who had obviously had a bit too much to drink — was concerned about her niece, who had been injured in the brawl.

As medical workers attended the young woman, Marquez — out of understandable concern, but with dubious judgment — stooped down to get a better look. She was pushed away, stumbling into a couple of officers, including Simoes.

Marquez, who was unsteady on her feet and visibly uncooperative, should have been escorted out of the room. There was no reason to arrest her. A generation ago a conscientious police officer would have displayed sufficient patience and self-restraint to remove her from the room without strong-arm tactics.

Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes
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Simoes, on the other hand, clearly subscribes to a doctrine of more recent vintage under which any lack of immediate, servile compliance by a civilian is to be treated as a criminal offense and grounds for arrest — if not potentially lethal force, as in eletro-shock torture administered via Taser.

The videotape shows Simoes starting to jack Marquez’s arm behind her back in order to handcuff her. Given the lack of legal justification for the arrest, this was an act of criminal battery.

He then compounds that offense by bear-hugging her from behind, shifting his footwork under perfect control, and then picking her up and face-slamming her to the floor. This was a move Simoes had probably practiced on many occasions, and most likely was simply dying to use on someone. What better subject than a small, drunken, middle-aged female?

Notice the reaction — or the lack thereof — by the other police officers on the scene: A woman has just been violently face-planted into the floor, and she lies bleeding at their feet, yet none of them moves to render aid, or to rebuke her assailant. Simoes followed up his attack on Marquez not by checking to see if she was all right, but by placing his knee in her back and handcuffing her.

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t
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Testifying at the trial, Officer John Liberatore stated that Simoes clearly used excessive force against Marquez. He also recalled asking his partner, Officer Todd Mendelson, “What the f*** just happened?” Mendleson’s reaction was an indifferent shrug.

When the defense pointed out that Liberatore hadn’t offered the same account to internal affairs investigators prior to the trial, he replied, quite plausibly, that he was reluctant to “point a finger at a fellow officer.” It’s hardly surprising that Liberatore’s reluctance disintegrated when he was compelled to testify under oath and liable to perjury charges if he withheld the “whole truth.”

Captain Edward Geiss, the on-scene commander, testified that although he didn’t “think he intended to hurt her the way he did,” his first reaction after seeing Marquez’s bloodied face was to summon an Internal Affairs team to the scene.

Simoes‘ defense counsel, which mocked the prosecution’s case as a matter of “just press play,” enlisted the help of “expert witness” Grant Fredericks, a former FBI analyst, whose job was to provide a “narrative” for the video compatible with the defense’s argument. In plainer terms, his job was to obfuscate what was clearly shown by laying down a dense fog of double-speak.

Fredericks insisted that the video’s capture speed was inadequate to capture critical details; this was essentially an invitation to accept his word that he discerned evidence of “things unseen” that prove Simoes had slipped and dropped Marquez, rather than throwing her to the floor.

After planting that suggestion, Fredericks broke down the video clip into into more than one hundred still photos, insisting as he reviewed them that the demonstrated that the officer had lost control once he had taken Marquez off the floor. But neither he, nor any other defense witness, explained why Simoes had picked the woman up in the first place.

Leaving aside the fact that the video clearly shows that Simoes was sure-footed during the entire attack, once he had placed violent hands on Marquez and removed her from the floor, he became responsible for whatever happened to her as a result of his actions. That’s how the matter would have been treated if it had involved someone who didn’t wear a state-issued costume.

The prosecution countered Fredericks with its own FBI-trained “expert” video analyst, Alan Fuller. Furthermore, the trial judge, Kenneth Karas, instructed the jury to disregard Fredericks‘ assessment of Simoes‘ actions. This effectively left the defense without a case.

Nonetheless, the jury of twelve good men and true — actually, eight men and four women — acquitted Simoes on the basis that they couldn’t determine his intent to injure Marquez on the basis of his documented actions. Again, it’s impossible to believe that the jury would have been inclined to draw such sophistical pseudo-Kantian distinctions if the accused had been anyone other than one of the state’s consecrated agents of holy violence.

“I have always had faith in the justice system,” smarmed Yonkers mayor Phil Amicone following the trial. “In this case, a verdict was rendered by twelve people who found that there was no act of excessive force.”

With that in mind, look at Irma Marquez’s face once again. Apparently, the injuries she sustained were the product of proportionate force, used to deal with a distraught woman whose “offense” was to take excessive interest in the well-being of her niece.

This brings us to the crowning injury inflicted by Simoes on his victim: While Marquez was bleeding at his feet, Simoes was preparing to file criminal charges against her for “disorderly conduct” and second-degree “obstruction of governmental administration.”

The former isn’t a crime, in anything other than a positivist sense, unless it interferes with the rights or property of another individual; the latter is quite frequently a moral obligation. Beating a woman bloody is not “proportionate” force for dealing with those “offenses,” either jointly or separately.

Even though Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore didn’t see fit to file criminal charges against the bully who face-planted Marquez, she zealously prosecuted the victim on spurious criminal charges that were quickly disposed of by a jury in May 2008.

	High-gloss hypocrite: Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore.

Before becoming D.A., Janet DiFiore “lectured extensively” on, inter alia, domestic violence. She also served as a family court judge and served on the County Commission on Domestic Violence.

In fact, her campaign literature boasted of the fact that as a family court judge DiFiore had presided over “hundreds” of domestic violence cases.

I sincerely doubt that any of those previous domestic violence cases involved prosecuting the victim for supposed offenses against the assailant.

She looks at you, she wants the truth; it’s right out there in the waiting room;With those hands lookin‘ just as sweet as he can….

As is so often the case when men abuse women, Simoes reserved all of his sympathy for himself. During his trial he was frequently seen weeping — not over what had happened to Marquez, mind you, but rather over his own predicament as a poor, misunderstood public servant.

Simoes wept again following his acquittal, his chronic lachrymosity yielding to bile as he assailed those unspecified people he held responsible for “all the garbage you guys put me through.”

Take Simoes out of his official costume or his well-tailored suit, put him in a wife-beater, and move the scene of the crime from the backroom of a restaurant to the kitchen of a private home, and imagine how that self-pitying statement would be received. No, he wasn’t drunk in the conventional sense when he assaulted Irma Marquez, but he was certainly intoxicated with a sense of his own power.

All of this happened in Westchester County, New York — Hillary Rodham Clinton country, a haven of progressive enlightenment and exquisite sensitivity to “sexism.”

It’s entirely likely that there are men from that part of New York who have been convicted of, and imprisoned for, domestic abuse charges that don’t involve anything nearly as serious as the injuries inflicted on Irma Marquez. There are certainly plenty of such cases elsewhere in this country. But they’re different, you see, because the accused in each case wasn’t an agent of the state’s divine will.

Wayne Simoes, petty thug and unpunished abuser of women, prefers to be called by the supposedly exalted title “Officer.” Assuming that there is anything innately honorable in that designation, the term can be appropriately (if somewhat awkwardly) worked into a paraphrase of an entirely appropriate lyric from one of my favorite workout songs:

[Officer]’s a name you haven’t earned yet
You’re just a child with a temper
Haven’t you heard `Don’t hit a lady’?
Kickin‘ your ass would be a pleasure.

URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/just-a-child-with-a-temper/

Another day, another [what would appear to the naked eye as vicious and brutal] videotaped police [overre-] action condoned or excused.

“A New York policeman who was caught on video apparently body slamming a woman to a tile floor has been acquitted of civil rights violations,” the Associated Press reports. “Jurors in federal court in White Plains found 39-year-old Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes (SIM’-oze) not guilty Wednesday afternoon.”

The AP adds, “The video, from a restaurant surveillance camera, seemed to show the officer lifting 44-year-old Irma Marquez by her waist and throwing her face-first to the floor. She was knocked unconscious and her jaw was broken.”

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t
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The forewoman of the jury, Jhonna Van Dunk, told an upstate New York newspaper, “We watched the video and we watched the frame-by-frame and we could not determine that he intended to hurt her.”

In June of 2008, Simoes’ lawyer told the press that the video doesn’t tell the full story.

“What the video doesn’t show is the operation of Wayne Simoes’ mind at the time of the incident,” Andrew Quinn said. “That’s what’s going to be a critical issue in this case is whether or not his intent when he was subduing Ms. Marquez was to violate her Constitutional rights or cause any type of injury.”

LoHud.com reported last week,

A Yonkers police officer said yesterday that his colleague Wayne Simoes used excessive force when he threw Irma Marquez to the floor of La Fonda Restaurant on March 3, 2007, breaking her jaw and bruising her face.

Officer John Liberatore was the first witness called to the stand yesterday as Simoes’ federal criminal trial began in U.S. District Court in White Plains.

Liberatore said he saw Simoes grab Marquez around the waist, lift her into the air and throw her to the ground. Afterward, Liberatore said he went to his partner Officer Todd Mendelson and asked him, “What the … just happened?”

Since, as LoHud.com reported, “the jury of eight men and four women deliberated for a little more than five hours yesterday in U.S. District Court in White Plains,” it’s assumed that Ms. Van Dunk and her fellow jurors were able to beat the rush hour traffic home Wednesday night.

A PDF of Marquez’s $11,300,000.00 lawsuit can be accessed at this link.

URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/ny-officer-acquitted-for-body-slam-that-broke-womans-jaw/

Lee Davidson raises many interesting points.

Amid the recession’s body-slam on stock-market prices, Sen. Orrin Hatch has introduced a bill to increase significantly the amount of capital losses that individual taxpayers may deduct in a year.

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as opposed to the beer garden where i did get body slammed into the ground composed of rocks

1. the beach
2. my bed
3. ikea
4. sleepy’s
5. fuerza bruta
6. the healing couch
7. anywhere in keanu’s house
8. met’s stadium
9. chicago
10. not brooklyn

Around the 6:50 mark in the Louisville-Siena Second Round Match-up of the NCAA’s annual Championship Basketball Tournament aptly dubbed “March Madness”, the only thing mad was my girlfriend.

“The announcer just used the word ‘torrid’ again!” She yelled incredulously.  Bill Rafferty’s affinity for the word had finally broken her usually mild demeanor and she retreated to the other room to return with a dictionary.

“See!  He’s using it incorrectly.” She was right.

The fact that that anecdote was in the top 5 things that happened this weekend should sum up this first two rounds of competition, which featured a high number of unusually reasonable results.

Or I could just be disgusted with the ACC.

Ahh… The Atlantic Coast Conference.  Long in history and, of late, short on post-season mettle.  After the Chernobyl that passed for the Big East Conference Tourney, all claims of an “exhausting in-season fighting” were void for any other conference.  Now, with this tournament, after the two conferences had played hot potato with the #1 ranking, was the time to settle the debate of whom was the best conference, ACC or Big East, in a way that politicking Conference Chairman had failed (long story short:  Big East Chairman, Mike Tranghese, shot down the idea of a pre-conference ACC vs. Big East challenge, in the vein of the ACC vs. Big 10 challenge that’s more ACC annually throttle the Big 10 as the ACC has won it every year, due to revenue disputes.  Tranghese opted to merely pummel the SEC, because that’s what people really want to see… Hopefully, with John Marinatto taking over in June, a real pre-conference challenge can begin as soon as all four conference commitments expire in the 2011-12 season.)

Anyway, concerning the ACC and Big East, the debate was settled and rather soundly… Jeff Teague, you broke my heart (and bracket).

Speaking of ACC, the one bright spot is that Florida State’s Toney Douglass continued his one-man show into the tournament.  Unfortunately, he needed two people as the Seminoles came up a bit short against Wisconsin.  Douglass shouldn’t feel too bad, he definitely upped his salary to the 3-4 million dollar range with Benetton Treviso or some other European club.

Last thoughts on the Acc, can anyone have thought of a more fitting way to have ended the Greivis Vasquez Era than having him call a press conference to downtalk a team that would later go on to throttle his Terps while he forced shots like a girl who just caught her boyfriend in bed with her sister and Gary Williams sat there sweating through his suit?

Let’s just move on and pray for the health of Ty Lawson’s big toe.

Sure, the first weekend gave us some memorable moments.

• I’ll never forget calling up my friend Pete, an Ohio State Alum, and ragging on him about the vastly disproportionate size and wealth his alma mater held over the Saints of Siena.  Which, unbeknownst to me, Siena is in Loudonville, NY (seriously, what did people do before the internet?  I mean, I knew it was in the State of New York, but I wouldn’t have been able to give you a town).
  
• American Univeristy.  Not so much for what their team did in pushing Villanova to the brink, but for allowing me to hear the aforementioned Rafferty refer to the school as “America” for two hours.  Priceless.  Oh, and watching liberal arts malcontents pretending to be excited about basketball for the duration was strictly a bonus.
• Gus Johnson. Len Elmore. Michigan State 74, USC 69. Tim Floyd meltdown special.
• Blake Griffin vs. Ameer Ali.  The Body Slam heard ’round the World.
  

All in all, it wasn’t a horrible weekend, but definitely one of the least remarkable starts to March Madness in some time.  You’ve spoiled us, College Basketball…

Oh, and just so you don’t think its just me, if you add all the seeds up of the remaining teams, in contrast to every other NCAA Tournament, you get the lowest sum of any Sweet Sixteen.  EVER.

So much for parity.  The strong stay strong, unless they’re in the ACC.

Morgan State had zero chance of besting #1 seed Oklahoma in their match-up last night; something Morgan State’s Ameer Ali took personally it seems. Here he gets slightly entangled with All-American Blake Griffin and decides to do the only rational thing; take Blake over the shoulder and body slam him. Seems like a good idea, I’m sure no one will notice you manhandling the consensus best player in the country… Oh yeah, and Morgan State was 24 points down at the time so, that’s classy. Ali was thrown out of the game and Oklahoma went on to a 82-54 victory and a round 2 berth, Morgan State will receive participation t-shirts.

[Yahoo!]

This just in: the Oklahoma Sooners have put out a hit on Morgan State freshman Ameer Ali.

Let me preface this by saying that when the following event took place, Oklahoma was up around 20-30 points, meaning that the game was signed, sealed, and delivered to Oklahoma’s doorstep.

In the second half of Thursday’s NCAA Tournament game between Oklahoma and Morgan State, Ali and Griffin were fighting for a rebound when the matter got out of hand.

Ali and Griffin went up for a rebound, came down with their arms interlocked, and then both tried to pull themselves free of eachother. Ali apparently felt like he was being harassed by Griffin, because he grabbed Griffin’s arm and dragged the National Player of the Year (by the shoulder) over his body. Griffin did a complete flip before landing on the ground (nearly landing on the back of his neck) and Ameer Ali was ejected immediately.

When I first saw this incident here is what I thought:

1. 

   Horace Grant's Illegitimate Son Plays for Morgan State

   What was Blake Griffin still doing in the game?

2. Who let Horace Grant play for Morgan State?
3. Thank god he did not land on his neck.
4. Oh ****! My bracket!
5. How can Ameer Ali be stupid enough to literally body slam an opponent directly in front of a referee?
6. Is Ali crazy? If he hurts Blake Griffin in any way Sooner fans nation-wide will hunt him down and kill him. Why? Because everyone knows that if Blake Griffin goes down, so do the Sooners title hopes.

It’s a shame when a team is getting blown out and doesn’t know how to handle it. No one likes to lose, but with this act Ameer Ali brought losing to a new low. Greg Gumbel called it “easily the bush league play of the tournament so far,” and had Griffin been hurt Ali would have faced some serious repercussions.

It is said that in order to be a great player one must know how to win, but also how to lose. Ameer Ali missed the memo on this life lesson.

Any athlete knows there are times when you just want to beat the hell out of your opponent. Unfortunately, you can’t do it with your fists. If you want to prove a point, do it on the court. If you can’t do it on the court (as Ali couldn’t) then just buck it up, go home, and wait for your next chance.

sk.

The ship’s new first mate demonstrates his patented ’scurvy slam’ move.

From the news of the weird dept….former wrestling Legend Verne Gagne (now 82 and suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease) apparently body slammed his roommate last night. As a result his roommate, Helmut Gutmann (97 yrs old) who is also suffering from Alzheimers broke his hip and eventually passed away.

Gagne was the founder and owner of the American Wrestling Association and wore its championship belt. In the 1960s and ’70s, his “All-Star Wrestling” was a TV sensation. The show was a modest affair, taped before small audiences at various Minneapolis TV stations. But it was syndicated on up to 120 channels across the Midwest and as far away as San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Winnipeg, Canada.

I am embarrassed to say that I laughed rather hysterically when I was first told of this story but come on, its funny!!

Then I continued to read about the man who passed away as a result of Gagne’s viscous power slam and he was actually a great human being. Helmut Gutmann fled Nazi Germany in 1936, became a U.S. citizen and joined the Army, where he worked to try to develop an antidote for mustard gas, among other projects, according to his family. He spent 40 years as a cancer researcher at a veterans hospital in Minneapolis.

That sort of brought it all back to reality…than I continued reading and kept imagining what that must have looked like (an 82 yr old slamming a 97 yr old).

I know that wrasslin isnt really a “sport” but I thought id share.

(Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,505404,00.html)

I haven’t poseted a blog since the pre-Super Bowl “We Want Six!” post.  Time to rectify that, and by rectify I mean get it up the ass!!!

well as everyone knows by now, we did indeed get six!!!

Just as I stated, history repeats itself baby! GO STEELERS!!!

That was on Feburary 1st. This is March 6th. A lot has happened between then and now:

• Tigers have crept up into the Top 3 in the nation.
• Got drunk several times WITHOUT peeing onto or off of anything in the house.
• Overdrafted 579 bucks in the bank (EPIC FAIL).
• Finally got out of my sexual slump after the Super Bowl.
• Oh yeah and this happened ….

That, my friends, is a separated shoulder compliments of  drunk banana Ronnie. He said he was aiming for the couch but couldn’t see through the banana head draped over his face.

Also I got to fuck a chick with an awesome body whilst wearing said banana suit … sorry anthony how couls any sane man turn down such a request?!?!?!

I’ll try to get back in the habit of rocking the blog soon enjoy a few recents from my youtube channel:

After a night of drinking 99 Bananas, copious amounts of beer during beer pong and other drinking games and funneling several of them this next video was captured:

And this is what I sound like drunk as fuck and trying to be as mean as possible to a drunk white girl …

see ya ’round kids. And remeber … DON’T DO DRUGS!!!!

The Corpus Christi Ice Rays threw down with the fearsomely named Bossier-Shreveport Mud Bugs in late December, and the YouTube has just now made the Internet.

Its got everything: a brutal check for an opening salvo, a goalie fight, a body slam, players coming off the bench to fight, and an announcer with infectious enthusiasm.

From:
http://withleather.uproxx.com/?p=13752

Got body-slammed by
an interviewer. Then he
wiped his butt with me.

The Popsquire Beat brings you the best pop culture/law collisions of the week…

After watching Hulk and Linda Hogan wrestle in divorce court for two days, a Florida judge gave Linda $40,000 a month in tax-free spousal support, access to one of the couple’s homes, and free domestic help. In short, Hulk has to do the taxes and pay for someone to clean up after Linda. That’s what the legal community calls a body slam!

Paris Hilton is being sued for not doing enough to publicize the 2006 movie, “National Lampoon’s Pledge This!” After being paid $1 million to star in and promote the straight-to-DVD comedy, Paris reportedly did not provide “reasonable promotion and publicity” for the film. Give the girl a break — clearly, she was too busy developing her blond-roots campaign for President!

Representing a group with few legal rights, America’s Next Top Model announced this week that one of its 14 contestants in the upcoming cycle will be a member of the transgender community. 22-year-old Isis confirms that her “cards were dealt differently,” and identifies herself as “a woman born physically male.” In a room filled with Tyra, Isis, and Ms. J, will the real transgender please stand up?!?

Have a good weekend. Please don’t drink and drive!

Cuidado con las malas acciones, el karma te las puede devolver así, eligiendo la víctima incorrecta.

Bootsy Collins – Body Slam

Det här är en snubbe som är hur slick som helst. Har en känsla av att han är en sån som kan göra i stort sett vad som helst och folk tycker det är ok. Man kan lixom inte bli arg på honom för han har nån slags förhäxande charm som avväpnar alla försök att komma åt honom. Lite svårt att förklara märker jag nu, hur som helst, snubben är ascoooool.

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