Single Mother in Milwaukee Raped by Cop – Then Arrested for “Assaulting an Officer”

[villager]

ingle Mother in Milwaukee Raped by Cop – Then Arrested for “Assaulting an Officer”

Crime victims who call 911 often discover that while the police can’t offer help, they can always make the situation significantly worse – as a single mother from Milwaukee learned when she was raped by one of the cops who responded to her call, then arrested for “assaulting an officer.”

Police Officer Ladmarald Cates was one of two Milwaukee cops who responded to a 911 call from the anxious single mother after someone had pitched a brick through her bathroom window. He arranged to be alone with the woman, then raped her.

As recounted by the Daily Beast:

One [police officer] took her 15-year-old brother outside to speak to him. The other cop, Police Officer Ladmarald Cates, gave her boyfriend $10 and told him to go the store and get some water. She told him that he was welcome to chilled water from her refrigerator.
“I only drink bottled water,” Cates said.

Her boyfriend has a pronounced limp and set off with no promise of returning soon. Cates asked to see the broken window and she led him down a narrow hallway to a bathroom in the back….
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Although the victim’s accusation was substantiated by medical evidence, the DA refused to prosecute. The department’s Internal Affairs section confronted Cates – a repeat offender – with DNA evidence, and arranged to fire him for “idling and loafing” on duty. If the victim hadn’t persisted long enough to see Cates convicted on civil rights charges, he would have found employment in another police department.

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http://www.republicmagazine.com/news/never-call-the-police-single-mother-in-milwaukee-raped-by-cop-then-arrested-for-assaulting-an-officer.html

[niyad]

1. so cates is a repeat offender--his behaviour KNOWN to his superiors--and he was protected.

amazing how much the catholic church and the police forces have in common

[Justice wanted]

2. This just proved Cops are no more than bully and thugs with the legal authority to do as they fuckin

please!

[niyad]

3. and this part is so disturbing (from the same article)

. . . .

It’s important to remember that, in the words of L. Carey Unkelbach, legal counsel to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado, “Law enforcement generally does not have a federal constitutional duty to protect one private person from another. For example, if a drunk driver injures a pedestrian or a drug dealer beats up an informant, agencies and their officers usually would not be liable for those injuries because there was no duty to protect.”

That view has been vindicated in literally dozens of cases by the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts. In the 1989 case DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dept. of Social Services, for instance, the Supreme Court ruled: “Nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors.”

. . . .

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. Rodney King

Yo!! Media? Outrage?? Where are you????



Oh right, this happened to a woman.

Never mind.

[think]

5. All the officers involved and those covering it up need to be prosecuted. Sick bastards!

[BeGoodDoGood]

6. Devil's Advocate

I don't doubt this lady's story for a minute.

I do wonder how they got "medical' evidence if she was held for 4 days and then released.

Walt

[think]

7. Might want to reread that part:

She was taken to jail and held for 12 hours before receiving medical aid. After the hospital visit, she was sent back to jail for four days before being released without charges.

Source:
http://www.republicmagazine.com/news/never-call-the-police-single-mother-in-milwaukee-raped-by-cop-then-arrested-for-assaulting-an-officer.html

[BeGoodDoGood]

10. Thanks

I missed that the first time. The cop said the sex was consentual. So medical evidence of penetration shouldn't have made any difference at trial. My rant is against badly written news articles. I am glad he was convicted.

Walt

[think]

12. It's all good :) Your point was understood /nt

[bemildred]

8. Perhaps a bit of splatter somewhere.

They forgot to confiscate her panties for example.

[Blue_Tires]

9. It gets worse...Full story here:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/federal-case-against-fired-officer-goes-to-jury-d73p0jt-137110398.html

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, villager.

[villager]

13. well you're welcome, I guess. I just wish cop behavior wasn't so predictably antithetical...

...to the common good.

[midnight]

14. The poor and vulnerable are on their own.

[Citizen Worker]

15. But the real issue, according to some media outlets, is that it's impossible to fire a bad teacher.

[Hotler]

16. +1. I hear fucking republicans go on about can't fire bad teachers....

yet crickets when it comes to bad cops.