Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Kansas City Cops

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Last Friday, 5 Black girls filed a federal lawsuit towards a number of police chiefs and detectives in addition to the native authorities in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, alleging that these officers have been allowed to beat, rape and in any other case abuse members of the Black group for many years with impunity. 4 out of the 5 plaintiffs within the go well with declare they had been raped by a former detective who’s, as of final 12 months, going through prison expenses for conspiring to run an underage intercourse trafficking ring, and the sexual assault of one of many plaintiffs and a teenage lady.

“With authorities authority, a plague of State brokers used their badges as licenses to stalk, assault, beat, rape, harass, body, and threaten Black residents in protected police looking grounds” the federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Michelle Houcks, Saundra Newsom, Niko Quinn, Ophelia Williams, and Richelle Miller. Roger Golubski—the previous detective who’s already charged with Williams’ alleged assault in addition to holding underage ladies in “involuntary servitude” and “forcing them to supply sexual providers”—is the topic of lots of the allegations. The truth is, 4 of the 5 plaintiffs within the go well with have claimed to have been raped by Golubski, in response to HuffPost.

The go well with particularly accuses the Unified Authorities of Wyandotte County and Kansas Metropolis of offering a “safety racket” for officers of the Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, Police Division, who’ve allegedly been violently abusing the Black group in Kansas Metropolis for the reason that ’80s.

From HuffPost:

The defendants listed within the go well with embrace former police chiefs Thomas Dailey, James Swafford and Ronald Miller; and detectives Roger Golubski, Terry Zeigler, Michael Kill, Clayton Bye and Dennis Ware.

The go well with likens the police division’s and metropolis/county authorities’s efforts to torment and intimidate Black residents to the Jim Crow period of the late 1800s to the mid-1900s when racist legal guidelines upheld white supremacy and enforced segregation.

The go well with describes the officers as “soiled cops” who used their “badges to use Black girls” and used “government-sanctioned energy and terrorism” to silence and intimidate the plaintiffs.

The go well with describes a number of encounters with Golubski, a former murder detective within the KCKPD who retired in 2010. Golubski, now 70, has made headlines in the previous few years as misconduct accusations towards him, spanning from the Nineteen Nineties to the 2000s, have surfaced.

If the expression, “The place there’s smoke, there’s fireplace” holds true, Golubski is an energetic volcano. The 70-year-old is accused of crimes relationship again to the early ’90s which can be so horrific, racist, violent, wicked and corrupt it’s a surprise that he has not solely managed to keep away from jail however held onto his badge till he retired greater than a decade in the past. (Truly, it’s solely stunning in case you imagine the “only some unhealthy apples” narrative and are unfamiliar with the traditionally racist system of policing in America.)

Extra from HuffPost:

One federal case alleges that he raped and kidnapped two girls throughout his police work. In line with the indictment, Golubski allegedly informed one in every of his victims that he might assist her after her twin sons had been arrested for a double homicide in 1999, KCUR-FM in Kansas Metropolis reported. As a substitute, the go well with alleges, Golubski returned to her residence and raped her a number of instances.

When the girl informed Golubski that she would report him, he allegedly stated, “Report me to who, the police? I’m the police.”

A second federal indictment accuses him of collaborating with drug sellers to run a intercourse trafficking ring involving minors within the Nineteen Nineties.

The lawsuit filed Friday contains allegations that Golubski used his affect as an officer to wrongfully convict Black males of crimes they didn’t commit, citing the allegedly framing a 16-year-old in a double murder in 1994, which led to a 23-year jail sentence. The teenager was exonerated in 2022 and obtained a $12.5 million settlement from Kansas Metropolis and Wyandotte County.

Golubski, who has pleaded not responsible to all the expenses towards him, was on home arrest pending trial till he was hospitalized final month as a result of unspecified well being issues, KCTV-TV reported.

The instances towards Golubski and different Kansas Metropolis officers are eerily much like a latest case in Mississippi the place six former Braxton cops pleaded responsible after they had been accused of coming into the house of two Black males and not using a warrant and handcuffing the lads, whom they tortured with intercourse toys, stun weapons and common weapons, which one cop used to shoot one of many males within the mouth—all as a result of one cop informed different cops the Black males had been residing with a white lady.

That is the hazard introduced by racists and abusers who’re in positions of energy and authority.