Prison Puzzle Pieces 3. Dave Basham
time ago, there was an incident out in New York where police were reported to have sodomized a guy with a plunger handle; or as we would say more clearly in prison terms, they rammed the handle of a plunger up a guy’s ass.
We had an inmate move into the block that must have heard about this, because he accused two Minneapolis police officers of sodomizing him with a plunger.
What happened was that officers had a search warrant and were conducting a drug raid on a house. One officer recognized this guy when they entered the house. He had been arrested before, been given a cavity search and crack cocaine was found stuffed up his rear end. Because of this, the officers checked that hiding place.
This caused the criminal to copy the New York incident and execute his acting skills. His problem was that he couldn’t stay in character.
A news crew caught him on video running across a street with no apparent problem a few hours before a press conference. Black community activists were backing him up and condemning the police. Now that he knew cameras were on him, he was limping, hunched over and making like his rear was so sore that he couldn’t sit down. He put his face in his hands and said he was afraid for his life. Then he collapsed and medics were called to help him.
To make sure the investigation was not biased, the FBI was called in to investigate. They took their time investigating for eight months. All the while, these officers and their families were being subjected to the kinds of negativity that would surround someone that would do something like this. Special interest groups and this criminal’s lawyer kept the heat on through the media.
At least one of the officers took a lie detector test and passed. The criminal refused to take the test.
The FBI cleared the officers, but they were subjected to eight months of hell because of this criminal’s lies. That should be a chargeable offence. This scum bag should do more time and he should have to pay the officers for their grief. The moron’s that jumped on this criminal’s bandwagon ought to be charged and be incarcerated and pay these police officers also. This kind of activity should not be tolerated. There should be consequences so negative that it would deter something like this from ever happening.
To know what happened, consider the source. It’s not difficult to figure out.
We can look at this two ways. First we would have to believe that even after all of the hoopla about this in the past out in New York, both of these policemen would risk their careers copying an act they knew would destroy them like it did the officers in New York. This means two idiot cops would have to be in the same place at the same time and they would have to say to each other, “Let’s trash our lives by finding a plunger and ramming it up this piece of trashes keester just like those cops out in New York did.” Sure it’s possible, but unlikely.
What is more likely is that this scum bag conjured up this story to try to get even with these cops for doing their job and to try to get a nice cash settlement.
There was a Native American a few months before this who accused two Minneapolis cops of beating him and urinating on him. The cops were seen dropping the guy off in his neighborhood. After running a DNA test on the guy, the results proved that the Native American pissed all over himself. People believed this guys story until the DNA results were revealed. The cops had actually helped this scuzz ball out by giving him a ride home.
This is the kind of bullshit that officers have to put up with. There are plenty of people that aren’t identified as criminals that exert this same behavior. You have probably been subjected to lies from people like this. They are out there everywhere. They are good at lying and conning people into believing they are a decent person. Most people just let it go; officers can’t.
The point of this story is that this guy was sent to be bunked in my cell block. We were cautioned to beware of this guy. We were told to always be with another officer when we were around him. In case he wanted to make another wild erroneous accusation, we needed a witness. Health Services had a rule that two staff were to be together with him, so they couldn’t get accused of anything. In other words, the more witnesses that were around, the better chance of him not being able to create a lie about any one of us. The institution didn’t want any trouble from this guy like he created for those policemen that were just doing their job.
TRUSTING GETS YOU SCAMMED
Why would you trust anyone in this place? One inmate went to another and told him he had to make an emergency phone call. He told him he didn't have any money in his account and wanted to use that inmate's pin number. I say if you don’t have enough money for a phone call, you are extremely bad with money, lying or a con man. These are all traits of a lot of guys in here. I’m not helping this type of a person out.
Plus, how urgent could anything be once you are locked up in here. Your life is on hold. Anything outside of this place you can’t do anything about anyway. If there is something, plan ahead.
The sucker gave him his pin number. Within a week, his account was down $15 and he hadn’t even made a call. He was lucky everything wasn’t gone. That is generally what happens in situations like this.
The officer he reported to called the staff member in charge of phones at this time and had the inmates pin number suspended to prevent any more money from disappearing.
THERE ARE MANY LIKE HIM EVERYWHERE
An inmate went to an officer and said, “You didn’t hear this from me, but that officer down there by the observation cells, the one that was just at the shower, I’ve been hearing things that people are saying he’s real disrespectful to them and that they are talking about wanting to hurt him. You know if you can just put a bug in his ear or something cause I don’t want to see anyone like that get hurt.”
I knew the officer that this was about. I knew him to be very respectful to the inmates.
When he was informed of the warning, he knew what it was about. There was an inmate that he had a run in with when they were both back in segregation. It was an issue over a phone book. This inmate planned on revenge.
I had numerous run-ins with this inmate myself. He was a thief. One of those cowards that sneak around in the night and try to play big shot during the day. He had a big mouth, but didn’t have the balls to back up anything he said. My opinion on this guy was that he should be a permanent member of seg. Actually, ship him to Oak Park Heights to have him be someone else’s problem. If enough evidence could be acquired, Oak Park could wind up being his new permanent home. We could only hope to be so lucky.
While writing this book, I looked him up on the Department of Corrections web site and found out that he had been released and tossed back in prison again since I retired.
Beware; this punk will be in and out of prison for the rest of his life. When he is out, he will be sneaking around trying to steal from whoever he can. He will get caught a lot because he thinks he is so much smarter than he really is.
ARE YOU A BELIEVER
What can you do when both inmates are lying? These inmates were locked up together in the same cell. A couple of officers noticed that one of them had an extra mattress. The inmate on the lower bunk was asked to remove the mattress. When the inmate complied, the officer noticed that his neck was red and scratched up. He had a towel wrapped around his head and was trying to keep his face hidden as he was removing the mattress. The officer told the inmate to show him his face. He had a black eye, several cuts on his face and a piece of tape between his eyes that was holding a cut together.
The officer called a 10-14 to get the inmates removed.
He then asked the other inmate to show him his face. There was a bandage taped to his forehead.
The inmate from the bottom bunk said that he was just working out when a stack of books wrapped in a sheet fell on him.
The other guy said that he was doing sit-ups on his bunk and bumped his head.
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