Money Jungle Online

According to assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Harris who runs our local Civil Rights Division, Deputies Paul Schene, 31 and Brian Bonnar, 43, might be going up on real charges.  Harris, who lost when prosecuting Bonnar in 2006 for excessive use of force, might be ready to try again.  For now she is only using vague terms like “…On our radar” also adding, ”I do wish I had had video in that (the 2006) trial,” where Bonnar was acquitted despite multiple eye witnesses including five other officers testimony and a complete media, political and legal shitstorm.  

Long story short Brian B. lost it on a woman who had rammed a Sheriff’s cruiser in a high speed chase after she was already handcuffed and subdued.  He was beating this lady up so bad the other Deps had to pull him off, then lied about it on record.  Oh yeah, and even before all that he got cleared for beating a mentally unstable man who was being checked into the psych ward. 

Brian Bonnar claims to have left a $175,000 a year sales job in software in San Francisco back in 2003 to be a Deputy, he claims he did this because of 9/11.  Now, the average King County Sheriff’s makes about $51,187.92 a year as of 2006.  Sounds like a personal financial 9/11.  I suppose beating people up could be far more rewarding than pulling in 175 Gs a year if you look at it the right way.

After Malika Calhoun, the teen who the Deps jumped appeared on CBS’ ”The Early Show” Monday, a lot more people started paying attention.  Malika came off as a well, even soft spoken kid who was pissed at being harassed.  She claims that the stolen car in question wasn’t even really stolen, more borrowed without permission from the parents of other girl involved.  She described the attack as “horrible” and claims she repeatedly told the officer she wasn’t resisting.  As far as I know the last claim can’t be verified because there is no audio on the surveillance video but one doesn’t really need (or maybe want) to hear what happened in that cell.

It looks like the only person in the local judicial system who has actually seen the same video we’ve been watching since Friday, King County Prosecutor Daniel Satterberg, had this to say, ”We believe this case is beyond just police misconduct, it’s criminal misconduct.  This is clearly excessive force.”  Thank you, Mr. Satterberg.