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OUTRAGEOUS: apd taser thug reinstated to police force by civil service board!

On easter sunday 2007 multiple units of the alexandria, louisiana police department descended upon the home of robert and doris moses located on lisa street in alexandria.

neither mr. or mrs. moses where the target of the police departments attention but rather a man who mr. moses had employed and who resided in an outbuilding on the moses' property. this person was in jail on a burglary charge and the police wanted to search the outbuilding that he had been residing in for stolen things. ms. moses readily consented for the police to search the outbuilding.during the course of their 'investigation' the police checked the license plates of all the vehicles parked in the moses driveway and discovered that Mr. Robert Moses had several minor misdemeanor warrants outstanding. by minor, we mean for instance, one warrant was for fishing without a license. The apd then asked Mrs. Moses for permission to enter the family home to search for mr. moses and she denied that request. the police then called the duty rapides parish assistant district attorney who instructed the police department not to enter the family home.

During the course of all this, Mrs. Moses got into her car and left to attend easter sunday services at her church. a police car that had been blocking her driveway was moved by a policeman to allow her to exit. The video tells the story of what happened next. officer rachal had no reason (probable cause) to pull ms. moses over the first place much less drag her from her car and taser her. even if officer rachal did have probable cause why did he just moments earlier allow her to leave her home? The judge and the city attorney agreed and threw all the charges against ms. moses out. according to ms. moses, before her court date she went to the police station to file a complaint against officer rachal but was intimidated into not doing so. she said that the police officer she talked to insinuated that an investigation into the incident could result in even more charges being filed against her. (see how they operate?)

click here to listen to a four minutes streaming audio clip from ms. moses lawyer, gregory r.aymond, esq., who explains the incident.

who is kenneth rachal?

According to a 05 february 2008, gannett/town talk story link | three page .pdf , kenneth rachal, appears to be a loose cannon with a history of aberrant behavior. two examples from the town talk story: In 2002 officer rachal's police k-9 dog, "rudy" died after officer rachal left him unattended in his car for six hours.

click here to download ten page .pdf

In what could pass for a case of road rage is the 1999 incident involving a sixteen year old kid who made the mistake of pulling out in front of officer rachal (who was off duty and in his civilian vehicle) who was then chased around town by officer rachal. when the kid who was scared because this strange automobile was chasing him around, finally pulled over - because an alexandria police car finally intervened - the kid, like ms. moses almost eight years later, was pulled from his car by a civilian clad officer rachal and thrown to the ground.

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In the moses incident and after three civil service board hearings the board votes 3 - 2 to reinstate officer rachal. notice how neither the gannett/town talk in their report or the media general/kalb in theirs bother to name the three board members who voted to reinstate officer rachal or whether the vote was public or not. this is more of the main stream media's habit of leaving out important information in their stories.

Police officers roar with laughter at tasering of doris moses

In the officer.com forums, a forum only for police officers these police officers miss the point that officer rachal had no probable cause to pull ms. moses over in the first place. their only concern is the act of tasering someone and getting away with it and not in the validity of the legality of their actions leading up to it. ~ link

this is another indication of the need for a citizens review board for the police department as explained here. The city of alexandria has thirty days to appeal the civil service board ruling and for the sake of alexandrians safety we sure hope they do so.

For more information click the 'shocking apd video' label in the footer of this post.

see also central la politics blog

civil service board turns a dangerous and reckless cop back onto the public!

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Tanner316 129 days ago

http://www.kalb.com/index.php/news/article/rapides-parish-sheriff-candidate-q-a/973/

This is link to Rapides Sheriff Candidate Q&A/ Please watch and make a sugestion.

I was the only Candidate that had the courage to talk about Ms. Moses being abused by Alexandria Police. Again, please watch this debate. Contact me if you would like to help fight the coruption in Louisiana.

Thank you.

Tanner316 125 days ago

01 March 2008

They convicted the Jena 6 young men but this Alexandria police officer who has been proven guilty of abusing a woman, a very young man and killing his own police K9 through neglect gets his job back. This is what I am actively fighting against. I need your help. You Got to see this to believe how truly bad it is in Louisiana. Help me make a difference.