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Stolen Horse Chase Nets Suspect $650,000 Pay Day
Earlier this month we brought you the story of Jared Pusok who San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputies thought they were going to arrest April 9 on identity theft charges. Pusok had other ideas. After first fleeing by car, Pusok allegedly stole a horse (and we say “allegedly” only in terms of whether the horse was in fact stolen because as you can see from the video below, there is no doubt as to whether there was a horse involved) and led deputies on a two hour, wild west-style high speed horse chase through the desert. In the end, Pusok was removed from the saddle via taser and once on the ground, appeared to suffer a brutal beating by authorities. Here is the scene:
Pusok faced several charges including resisting arrest, attempted robbery, using fighting or offensive words, and animal cruelty (although it doesn’t appear the horse was harmed), but in the end, it looks as though the two-minute police beating took precedence because as AP reports, Pusok came out of the whole ordeal $650,000 richer.
Via AP:
A California county on Tuesday approved paying a $650,000 settlement to avoid a lawsuit by a man whose beating by deputies after a horse chase was captured on video and led to a federal civil rights investigation.
San Bernardino County supervisors approved the settlement with Francis Pusok, 30, in a closed meeting, said David Wert, a county spokesman.
Attorneys Sharon Brunner and Jim Terrell, who represent Pusok, said in a statement that county officials initiated the settlement negotiations. The lawyers noted that it was "remarkable as there was essentially no investigation nor any indictments," and it was based on video...
Pusok fled by car and then on the horse in the desert on April 9 while deputies chased him on foot after trying to serve a search warrant in an identity-theft investigation.
But before you say it was all about the money, note that the Pusok family was more concerned about ending what they call “police harassment” than they were about the nearly three quarters of a million dollars they stood to gain:
Pusok's attorneys say he didn't settle for the money. They say he would have probably made more through litigation, but he wanted to end police harassment and abuse.
Meanwhile, the sheriff's department is pleased that its deputies can now get back to doing the kind of serving and protecting that is on full display in the Pusok video:
"With this situation behind us, we can move forward with protecting our residents and ensuring that local enforcement is responsive, effective and restrained.”
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It looks like this proves yet again that all’s well that ends well after a good old fashioned horse chase.
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I do believe I'd take a beating like that for 650K.
I am sick of these idiot cops spending our tax dollars being a holes and they don't evn get a slap on the wrist. They should take thwese settlements from police pensions.
The taxpayers are stiffed yet again. The victim should be allowed to taze, then kick the shit out of each cop in turn.
The time is coming.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
This money should be forced to come from the officers pensions fund instead of the tax payers. Would not take long for these payouts coming out of police union pensions for them to start policing their own behavior.
Exactly. The oposite of a perverse incentive.
150 years ago they hanged hoss thieves.
After a trial.
By Rosco Peco and the get along gang... But at least he wasn't inclined the smash someones teeth in for taking his picture.
Man that sets a crazy precedent "Here, take $650K please, really take it...we don't care what happened...just go"
Later back at the ranch, How much was the bill from Sharon Brunner and Jim Terrell? Couldn't be more than say, 25%
A lawyer that won't take 50% of $650,000?
What is the world coming to?
Pusok faced several charges including resisting arrest, attempted robbery, using fighting or offensive words, and animal cruelty
Cops faced several charges... on their credit cards at the local doghnut shop.
0:40, they cops kick him straight in the nuts, shortly after tasing him!
I'd say he likely earned that 650k.
Yeah, that was ugly and could have been . . . life changing.
Make these bastards get personal liability insurance. If they keep fucking up and they can't afford their insurance .. well, there's the door pal.
At least your tax dollars aren't BTATH
I'd take the money, and then cache, in several places, a few thousand $, and then announce a reward for the citizen's arrest and "incarceration" of those involved in the beating.
I would bet that the thugs and the Zionist banksters they ultimately work for wouldn't like them apples too much.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Me too. Nobody is gonna notice my black eyes behind the tinted windows in my Lambo
Even if it's a 650k credit?
"You know what a haza is Frank?! A pig that don't fly straight, and neither do you!"
So the PIGS are free to go!!!!!!!!
WTF?
Local story here...
http://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20150421/NEWS/150429953
This victim seriously needs an old fashioned beating, but not the way it was done. He's a piece of shit. Too bad the cops fucked up so badly.
If you take this to its logical conclusion, I'd expect such events to be staged* in the future, whereby the victim and the cops split the Settlement.
* "You rob and run, we chase and beat. You sue, they pay, we split the loot. And remember: it's not Conspiracy to Defraud, unless they can prove it"
Who says that Manipulation has to stay on Wall St?
Who says that Manipulation has to stay on Wall St?
Don't worry it is not
You'd let some cunts kick you in the balls repeatedly for some confetti money that they printed up?
Skum bag lawyer gets 60% cops get off clean and tax payers get fcuked again.
Taxpayers been getting the shit kicked out of them since 1913. What's another 650k when you deal with trillions each year.
They should take the money from the Police Unions pension.
I'm making $650,000 a week just by doing something stupid, jumping on a horse, riding from cops, letting myself get caught, and having my friends tape the cops beating the shit out of me. Wanna know how I do it?
www.makemoneygettingtheshitkickedoutofyou.com
The money isn't for stupidity. but for the treason and tyranny of the gun and badge thugs.
Here is the thing about treason in this the American country. The Constitution, "the Law of the Land," stipulates in Article 3, Section 3, that treason is "levying war against them [the people, and/or states]. Therefore those thugs' crime of treason, "levy war," against that man, was a crime against ALL Americans, not just him.
I will not be satisfied until they have been tried in open court with me as Witness One. Who will be Witness Two?
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
He should have to a pay $1 million to the owner of the horse. Nobody seems to give a crap about the person whose horse got stolen.
I would stand Witnes two , as i feel that it is treason because they say we are the enemy and we live on a battlefield , then again are we missing something leagally or maybe lawfully or even Lawfully , it is all in the upper/lower case and meanings
Now that is fucking funny. I haven't had a good laugh like that in while. Thank you.
Can I work from home?
LMAO, Justice or Just us, don't you just love it
The question:
What would have been the result if you, I, and some of our friends had done this to a citizen?
Answer: Fodder for the prison-industrial-complex, the unlawful taking of our weapons, and payments forever to Gomorrah.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
But then those involved have a cozy place on my CAAPL, treason, list: "See treason, list treason."
"Can't we all just get along?"
Just print up some more. And beat the crap out of many more.
I thought this got settled, but I posted the wrong link.
Each one of the deputies should theoretically lose their gun rights for ten years under Calif law.
The fucking taxpayers are on the hook though. Those a-hole cops should lose their pensions! (sting those Bitchez in their "pocket books".)
The perp was a degenerate douchewad, but give me a fucking break!
sounds like good retirement planning. make a cop beat you up and join the 1%ers club. there are going to be a lot of baby boomers getting beat up by cops in the next few years.
Oh dear, now you not only have to have someone video the police as well as someone else who is also videoing them and then ...... etc., but now you need a helicopter who videos.... oh wait, so that is why they are arming the police military style! Ha!
It appears cops have an anger-management problem, big time. I wonder if they go home and kick the dog (or the wife).
I'm sure it's both.
That was fast! Is his daddy on the Board?
Paid out of the Police Benefit League coffers or the Popo Pension Fund? $650,000 sounds like $1MM less $350k atty fees paid directly by the Defense? If so, the $350,000 will be buried in Legal Expenses line item.
In my dreams that's where the money comes from.
Where I am from towns and municipalities usually pick up the tab for crazed cop incidents. At least the incidents that don't get swept under legal carpet. Believe me, local governments everywhere would be dead broke if legal cases far worse than this one were not routinely dismissed.
Just call 911 if you want someone swatted. The cops can enter if they are let in and if you are strapped with a knife or gun in your own house they'll unload on you.
There is no way they let this shit slide. This guy had better get some life insurance.......
100 years ago or so they would have hung him...
If I were him I'd pay that helo pilot 20K for staying on scene filming the incident the actually broadcasting the footage. Without the video there would be no story & no money for Mr. (alleged) horse thief!
After paying the settlement attorney and hiring another attorney to defend him in the identity theft charge, he'll probably burn through a nice chunk of that windfall.
My question is "Who is paying for all these settlements and lawsuits for police brutality?"
I mean, departments must have some sort of insurance in case they are sued. Are they all self insured or do they have a policy? Because, whatever insurance policy most police departments have, their premiums must be going through the roof.
I guess if they are self-insured, its the plebes that are getting beat up that are ultimately paying for their beatings as well, with their pocketbook. The irony would be entertaining, if it wasn't a fucking tragedy.
Cities and municipalities usually end up footing the bill for cop wilding incidents that fail to get swept under the legal carpet.
It's the steroids every time.
The guy is lucky they didn't unload on him (then again he wasn't holding a knife to his own neck or fleeing).
Um.. You.
Um.. You.
Subject being tazed.
(Off air) Subject being pummeled relentlessly.
Funny how the Audio cut off just after the 1st punch.
Hi Ho Silver, Away
Does anyone produce Taser-proof clothing? You know, tight weave cloth that is not penetrated by Taser probes. Could be a groundbreaking innovation in the world of style and profitable to boot.
I read once that protesters put a few layers of aluminum-foil under their shirts causing the taser to short out. If that worked, it would be a cheap way to defeat the taser.
However, once the cop trips a breaker when the taser doesn't work, he and his buddies beat the person half to death or just shoot them to death.
This is turning into a freak show, I want my fucking country back..!
Don't they shoot ppl. that steal horses?
A government that pays its citizens to surrender their rights.
That is one way to do it and it seems to be better than my way. Hell, I went to a car/RV auction last night. I grew up on auctions and you can find some cool stuff for cheap depending on what the lunar phase is I guess but I have done alright with auctioning. I love it. It's free market at it's best... until last night. I was there for a 1985 Harley-Davidson 1340 Sport Glide but there was some other cool shit as well. There was no mention of any reserve on anything in the billing of the sale or in the paperwork once I registered to bid. It should a free for all right? Highest bidder wins right? Cash is king and bullshit walks right? No mention of any reserve price on anything. Wrong assumption.
The dumbest thing you can do at auction is to go drool over something so I didn't and conveniently found some stuff that I knew somebody might need. I made a phone call and yes, if the price was right we could do business. I looked at the order of sale and that HD was lot number one. Perfect. I saw a Snow-Ex pre-salter with a number on of 41. When I checked unit 41 on the sale sheet it was a Lincoln Navigator. I don't need one of those...I have four cars already. No, I want to flip this salter for some cash. So I went and asked the auctioneers why #41 was a Lincoln Navigator and not a Snow-ex sprayer. You have to talk to "Bob" I was told. Who the hell is Bob? I was told that the unit did not sell at the last auction. I don't give a flying fuck what happened at the last auction, I am here now with cash on the barrelhead. "Bob", comes over and tells me that they need $2500 for that unit because it was repo'd and that this is what the bank needs to be made whole. Fuck the fuckers at the bank. I know what it is worth and I am not here for charity. No deal. The unit was worth more than $2500 but by the time you fuck around with hauling it out there has to be some profit. Whatever.
The auction started, and lot #1, which was what I was there for, was not actually lot #1. I got to watch a parade of various types of cars and trucks and some were nice and some not but all running. I don't need more fucking cars right now but whatever, if something goes cheap enough than fuck it, I will buy it. At that point the auctioneer started sky high and of course no one would bid and dropped from there but not far enough. There were about 50 people in that crowd and at least 10 of them were used car dealers who went on buying sprees. No surprise there and the cars were junk. Then they brought in the later models. There was an 05 Pontiac G6 with 89K that went for over 8K. Fuck that idea. As the cars got nicer the auctioneer starting admonishing the attendees that things were going too cheap. What? "We can't sell this gem for less than this or that price." he started to repeat on vehicle after vehicle. What? I thought this was an auction with no reserve? All sales final with cash on the barrelhead. NO. One after the other the letters "NS" got written on the cars and trucks. What the fuck?
At this point, the auctioneer is dictating what the price should be and guess why? Repo's and the banksters want their money on shitty loans they made. "No, the bank needs this amount or they will not sell". The bank fucked itself already so what does that have to do with me and the price of rice in China? Who is determining what any of this stuff is worth then if not the free market standing right in front of you with with CASH? The auctioneer stated the value was higher than what being offered. Really? It is? No, it isn't higher than what the fucking bid is and you are lucky to get what I offered. I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK WHAT THE BANKS ARE OWED. We paid those those fucking assholes already with a credit card national debt bailout. This is an auction....cut your losses. Is there some stipulation in some banker friendly law that says as long as you offer a repo for sale once a year then you can amortize your shitty debt? If you arbitrarily value something yourself, or some assessing crook for hire, and then put that on your books so you can show less loss? Fuck that.
Eventually the HD came up and it went high right off the bat and no thanks, BUT, it TOO was an NS because the bank would not take less than then amount it was owed. There were some other HD guys who bid on it but it failed to meet the secret reserve and the bike was not worth that much. The best part was, according to the auctioneer, that the bike sat for five years in a police garage before going to auction after a repo. How does that work? Does that mean that the cops just used the bike whenever they wanted while not in uniform? What a deal! I could believe cops these days would do that without hesitation. I think the correct word for that one would be "confiscated" and not repo'd. The cops then rode that bike around for five years and now they must have confiscated something better or something is wrong with it. It goes something like that anyway. No bid from me.
This guy got $650K simply by following what Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton have been doing for years. In fact, AL Sharpton is probably trying to get a piece of the $650K, perhaps as what he might call a quasi-"licensing fee."
Or maybe law enforcement heard that Al Sharpton was on the horse thief's speed dial and chose to settle before Al could get a flight out.
Query does the horse get anything from the settlement? Wasn't he/she a victim too? Isn't everyone a victim these days? Don't we get a cut for having to watch the video?
I support the ruling on this case.
In the fantasy land of ZH posters busted Galaxy S = busted face and body.
In the fantasy land of ZH posters all tax money is efficiently used for great things.
Do you know that LA deliberately pays out on injuries from completely torn up sidewalks rather than fixes them because it's cheaper to have a few citizens get fucked up breaking their head open than pay to repair all of the busted sidewalks?
Ten fucking stinkong cowardly pigs, fucking faggots every one of them to beat up on one man and then these cute little cunts need tasers so they are not afriad of geting hit back.
Why the fuck are sociopathetic cock sucking deranged psychos like these faggot pigs still getting dressed up in thier fancy uniforms.
If you are a fucking faggot pig or any other kind of cock sucker, that passes for what is laughably called law enforcement, and that now include2s every fucking one of you fucking faggots that has any form of badge, faggot, Im talking to you , faggot pigs, can you explian what it id in your faggoty pig make up that makes you such a querer fucking psycho.
I hear that every fucking faggot pig likes to get back to the station and blow off a wad in each others mouths afterwards Is that true too pig
When the SHTF anybody wearing a Cop Uniform will be a Dead-Man-Walking
Let's all become cops and beat up a family member for profit. This way all families in the US can be $650k richer.
If the cops came to my house asking for money to enable them to uphold a new "using fighting or offensive words" law I'd tell them to get the fuck off my property before I beat the crap out of them. But apparently it's a criminal charge.
Ooh, I feel a chill.
I wonder how many people who weren't in law enforcement themselves have ever pressed such charges. Is there some record somewhere of charges pressed by X against Y? Where you can differentiate between individuals, corporations and government entities? Is there a public record where you can see who lobbied for what law?
It might be interesting to get the box scores.