UPDATE: WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS PHOTO MIGHT BE FAKE/ALTERED AND TJ MARTIN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
IF THIS IS THE CASE, PLEASE EMAIL US THE ORIGINAL PHOTO. WE WILL POST BOTH PHOTOS, PRINT A RETRACTION AND SEND TJ SOME ADDITIONAL DILDOS FOR HIS DESK. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE THE NOI ON THE OFFICER THAT ALTERED THE PHOTO.
~BPC
The Phoenix Police Department and Chief Jack Ass Harris have a low tolerance for racism – Right?
So then what's going on in this photo? Was it Halloween? Was it S&M bondage day at 620? Was it black history month?
It's a few years old and shows TJ Martin - you remember him – he’s the guy who used to keep sex toys (dildos) on his desk - and another Phoenix police officer having fun at someone elses expense.
Why weren’t these guys fired if Jack is so sensitive to racism? Where was Councilman Johnson then with all his pals with their public outcry? Where was the big FBI investigation then and Phil Gordon holding his meetings and press conferences?
This has really been an interesting story with Councilman Johnson and the cop who threw him to the ground, officer Brian Authement. Rallies are calling for this cop to be fired. PLEA and other officers are screaming that officer Authement has not received his “due process” and that Councilman Johnson crossed a police line, disobeyed an officer and even assaulted officer Brian Authement. Mike Polombo is probably worried that "them buckwheats" are going to find out about his past comments and begin their West migration, towards Buckeye.
We think it’s funny - flat out hysterical - how the Phoenix PD claims they are sensitive to racism and civil rights violations and won’t tolerate such abuse. Councilman Johnson is one of eight, city council members who deal everyday with Phil Gordon, the city manager and Jack Ass Harris’ antics. Whether its sexual harassment, bogus NOIs, hand grenades in Maryvale, blowjobs by a whore in a parking lot, raids on citizens’ homes, porn on city computers, a commander's pedophile son, a witch hunt on missing nameplates, a Balloon Knott chasing every skirt in the office, Road Rage Andy intimidating woman, or Potato Heads keeping evidence in their garages - it's all part of daily life in the Phoenix PD and are tolerated every hour. These are issues that need to be fixed, but are ignored repeatedly. So Jack Ass Harris won't tolerate abuse...huh?
Here's our perspective on this massive clusterfuck and we don't think we're alone...
We all need to stop giving officer Authement accolades. Just because he served his country in Iraq, was rookie of the year and is a cop, doesn’t mean he’s automatically a nice guy and a hero. We know lots of bad Marines who served in Iraq – remember Phoenix police lieutenant Steve Soha and his drunken escapade? We know lots of good ones too, but serving in the military isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card. A neighbor's house was on fire for Christ sake, there’s no need to throw an old man on the ground! Do you really think that in the midst of a house fire, Councilman Johnson is off to the side assaulting a cop? We doubt it. We'll bet some nameplates that Officer Authement didn't like the confrontation and used bad judgment.
Bottom Line: If Authement can’t take a brush on the shoulder on heels of his “big tour in Iraq” then he shouldn’t be a cop. We have enough dirty, rouge, power hungry cops in the Phoenix PD. We think no one ever taught Authement about grace under pressure. He's young and did something stupid. We sure don't think he has a case against the City and people are entitled to their own opinion, asking for his termination.
Like it or not, Authement represents the systemic rot in the Phoenix Police Department - a rot created by Jack Harris and a rot support by Phil Gordon and the eight spineless chicken-shits on Phoenix City Council. It’s like blaming the half starved pit bull for biting the neighborhood kid, when his owner beats him and mistreats him each day. Councilman Johnson is a big part of the rot. Johnson and Authement and people like them have allowed this rot to exist, live in it and turned a blind eye to it until they collided on a street in South Phoenix. Imagine if this were a little more West in Buckeye. What would the roaming officer Potato Head Mike Polombo have done if his neighbor’s house was on fire and Authement threw his dumbass on the ground and handcuffed him. Would Mike call SID to have him brought up on bogus criminal charges of Harassment? Probably. And then bring his equally incompetent wife Heather into to cry on how she has migraines and can't sleep at night.
Officer Authement needs to know that being that being 27 years old and home post-tour in Iraq, doesn’t give him a license to be a power-hungry prick. You're not dealing with insurgents with IEDs, Brian. You're protecting citizens who pay your salary. Like it or not, Councilman Johnson has a right to walk on and visit someone's private property, but make no mistake, there's blame on Councilman Johnson too.
What bothers us the most is Councilman Johnson can’t just play the race card out of convenience and being a black councilman is no reason to start a race war in Phoenix. Take no pity on Councilman Johnson; he has had plenty of opportunities to fix the Phoenix Police Department and time and again has let Chief Jack Ass off the hook and ignored the repeated civil rights violations of many white and brown citizens in Phoenix. Now when it hits close to home he brings his South Mountain posse in and plays the race card?
According to the Phoenix Police Department’s website, here is the action Chief Jack Ass and his 4th floor Assclowns are taking:
Chief Harris’ message stated that a taskforce, chaired by Assistant Chief Jeri Williams, will be formed to look into community relationships with the Phoenix Police Department. Williams will chair a group of private, public and community members and their findings will be shared with employees and the community as the process unfolds. Gee Chief Jack Ass - was Jeri Williams the only token black officer you could find for this taskforce? By the way Jack, if you need us to sit in on it as community members, you know how to reach us.
Maybe Jeri Williams can look into the photo above see what TJ Martin and "mystery cop" were up to.
7 comments:
Well...TJ Martin WAS looking forward to getting out of duty in a few months.
That idea has pretty much shit the bed.
That photo is over 2 years old and is of an officer receiving the Cactus Park employee of the year award from TJ.The photo was then photoshopped by another member of that officer's squad as a joke.And not that im big fans of either of these guys but Stanowicz and TJ had nothing to do with any of it. Whoever your source is gave you some bad info.
well you shot yourself in the foot with Johnson and Authement dude. Most of us back Brian and the decision he made. How the real story came out that Johnson initialed contact with the officer. Johnson should have been booked.
We already knew that we wouldn’t have a popular opinion and we know that PLEA and many of you in Patrol will stand by Brian Authement. That’s great, but if you read the blog we think both councilman Johnson and officer Brian Authement were wrong. You are entitled to your opinion and we are entitled to ours.
As for the picture – a good source told us they think the “masked” person is a guy named Steve Mack – an African American cop. The dead giveaway that it may not be Steve Stanowicz is we can’t see sergeant stripes and the name tag looks like it is only 4-5 letters long (M-A-C-K???) Either way whether it is photoshopped or whether it is Steve Mack (or someone else) – we are more than willing to print a retraction.
We will personally go to Dave Cavasos’ office and tell him we fucked up. So if this is photoshopped, have someone send us the original “unphotoshopped” photo. Someone must have the original photo.
Also since photoshopping this photo with such heavy racial undertones (especially if it is Steve Mack and someone is clearly mocking him and making a Sambo out of his face) it would have demanded a PSB investigation from TJ "Dildo" Martin.
Please tell TJ or someone in PSB to send us this investigation and/or let us know the officer who photoshopped this and what action was taken against him. K?
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Excellent work Blogger Jeff!
Now can you do a public records request for the memo he wrote to
alton washington last year after jack suddenly flew home from
newark airport after receiving a call mayor phil was going to do a
press release on the lawsuit against jack by the justice people. I
believe jack was enroute to israel to attend a conference when he
was on the taxiway at newark and asked to leave the plane after
getting this call. Jack supposebly used his personal credit card
for the unexpected return flight to phoenix costing over $1000. I
beleive jack wrote in his memo for reimbursement that there was a
problem with the plane and the pilot offerred to let anyone off but
this might not have been true. The truth might have been he was the
only one who wanted off. A fbi guy called altom wahsington and said
only jack got off the plane and the sponsors of the conference in
israel were upset jack didn;t show up. Plea knows about it. I
beleive their may be some embellishments or innacuracies in jacks
memo. I dont know for sure though. I beleive alton confrirmed this
to plea but retired without delaing with it. Lieing in a memo is
grounds for decertification by azpost i think
There's a lot more to this than taking "a brush on the shoulder." The fire personnel on that scene back Authement, too. It had nothing to do with stopping Johnson from walking on a neighbor's property and everything to do with keeping all non-essential personnel away from the scene, out of the path of firefighters and make sure those seeking to victimize the homeowner were not allowed to do so. Authement had multiple reasons to ask Johnson to stay back and Johnson was 100% WRONG for disrupting a fire chief to one-up a police officer.
Wow, waht a pile of language.
Guess you feel it close to home or something.
I'm a liberal democrat. Super liberal.
I've no idea about guilt or whatever. The officer reacted.
The councilman was injured.
For all I know, the officer felt the councilman was in the way and obstructing the work.
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