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CVC 21806 is a bitch for those that have an attitude.
When you don’t obey that law, things escalate in a direction that will reflect negatively on your driving record, arrest record, and that attitude you displayed originally. Take the ticket, argue it in court. Deal with it like someone from a developed country rather than someone that lives in the bush on Borneo.
This guy had a long list of previous CVC violation-related contacts with LE. That, and the little thing like the California Driver’s Handbook, and the DMV test should have clued him in on what to do in that situation… [and yes, EVERY VERSION of the Class C drivers test has this as one of the questions]
Unfortunately, he made a bad choice, and it ended in a way that he or the deputies involved would not have predicted.
Anonymous,
I am curious about what you consider an “attitude”. While I will admit that so far we have had only one side of the story, but isn’t it a cop’s job to cope with attitudes and deescalate potentially hostile encounters?
Anonymous, if your mom were stopped and copped a ‘tude. would you be good with her winding up in a morgue over a traffic stop?
Expect a Pitches Motion on the cops involved.
How many cites this guy had has no bearing on this event. He could have been a habitual violator. It has no bearing on how this stop was handled.
People could yell at me and call me names all day long. As long as they were not a physical threat to me, I could give a shit what they did. So long as they went along with the program, I never cared what they said to me. I expected violators whom I cited to not be happy. It’s common sense.
I used to work a traffic car. I have no idea how many cites I have written. I have never, ever had a confrontation over traffic. And I have never, ever had a refusal to sign.
My intuition tells me that the feds are going to take a very deep look at this unfortunate event. I wouldn’t doubt an 18 USC 242 to be filed. But still, we have to get the other side of this story. Maybe the cops had a reason to react as they did. If they didn’t, at least federal time is a cake walk.
R
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see SBSO taken over by US DOJ.
R
Anonymous: Kephardt had no record. SB County Sheriff Deputies have a reputation on the mountain for being heavy-handed.
Cops are not above the law either. You sound like a real sore copper.
“CVC 21806 is a bitch for those that have an attitude.”
It is also an intimidating-sounding legal incantation for LEO’s who get into the line of work because they crave a feeling of superiority to all us lowly riff-raff, but are too lazy to do anything more than 6 months in cop school to get it. Funny thing – most of Mr. Kephart’s CVC violations were dismissed. Half of them were for not having his travel papers in order. Sounds like a real danger to me.
“Unfortunately, he made a bad choice”
The ‘bad choice’ was to pull over for a Sheriff’s deputy who turned out to be a sadistic psychopath with a taser fetish. Pigs like you who gloat over the death of a decent and hardworking American for the crime of being ‘disrespectful’ to a jack-booted thug with a badge are why this red-blooded American for the copkillers these days.
Anonymous,
I have given considerable thought to your post. Your: “CVC 21806 is a bitch for those that have an attitude.” implies a hostile attitude on your part. You have never given the impression of a deep thinker. I am not sure you know who authentic bad guys are, so you assuredly assume everyone is.
I am not sure if you know the Golden Rule. But you might want to consider it. I’d sure hate for your mother to be lost in thought, roll through a stop sign, not realize there’s a red light behind her, stop some distance away, be ripped out of her car, thrown to the ground, tased five times, and wind up in your corner’s office. Were that to happen, would you still post your, “CVC 21806 is a bitch for those that have an attitude.”?
The problem deputies are going to have here, which is the same problem Fullerton cops in Kelly Thomas’ alleged murder, is that it appears that it was SBSO deputies that escalated the incident that was causal of the gentleman’s death. If deputies were out of control, I’d assume that the feds are all over this incident. 18 USC 242 is a bitch for cops with attitudes, right, Anonymous?
Does anyone know if CA’s AG is working this case for CPC 142 & possibly CPC 187?
Adios,
RT
For anyone to attempt to use a handful of infraction vehicle code violations as a basis to spin ones death in favor of the cops, is lame,weak and sick.
Again no doubt an SBSD deputy with a terrible explanation that only another sick ass cop could rap his arms around. Another knuckle dragging crime fighting machine.
I would expect to hear that after stopping this guy for a VC 21806 violation he became violent, punching,kicking, pulling away from Deputies that escalated into a PHYSICAL confrontation, NOT all this from a verbal confrontation.
Since this case seems to have met a quiet death as to what really happened like many others around here, it will keep many on the fence as to what happened.
Much like the lame press release on the death of Baby Wyatt.
But Mr.Gephardt being a Sheriff’s Ranger and one of the good ol boys who is speaking badly of SBSD at this time, sends up serious questions about what happened here. Only those of us who know would question some of this.
A good ol boy breaking ranks with his boys is noteworthy. Maybe anonymous knows Mr.Gephardt and can labled him a disgruntled, bitter former Ranger who was denied a CCW or something like that.
I’d really like to know what happened up on the hill. If Gephardt got tased for copping a “tude” and now SBSD is attempting to make something out of nothing, that would fit right along the lines of everything else that has reached this blog.
Inquiring minds want to know. I sure don’t want to hear about a 21806 violation as a justification for someone dying.
Smells like Fullerton, taste like Fullerton, looks like Fullerton wow this is just like the Fullerton Police Departments shit. Killing a homeless man in Fullerton and they are going after the cops and the chief. Time for Daddy Hoops to go bye-bye. Start a recall on his sick ass.
Now it’s time for DOJ to set a Judge on top of SBSD. A Federal Judge! They might as well place him over the DA’s Office too. Recall Ramos too!
Recall Hoops and Ramos.
ACU: As usual, you smashed it outta da park!
“Anonymous: Kephardt had no record. ”
`KEPHART, ALLEN J 06/1967 015887SAAK 05/07/2007 VC I21453(A)
KEPHART, ALLEN J 06/1967 071816SAAK 11/14/2011 VC I21453(A)
KEPHART, ALLEN JOHN 06/1967 1818552AK 01/24/2001 VC I22450
KEPHART, ALLEN JOHN 06/1967 222736AK 10/05/2001 VC I4000(A)
KEPHART, ALLEN JOHN 06/1967 46396KRAK 06/30/2009 VC I22349(A)
KEPHART, ALLEN JOHN 06/1967 54437QMAK 05/03/2002 VC I4000(A)
KEPHART, ALLEN JOHN 06/1967 60760BNAK 04/21/2006 VC I4000(A)
KEPHART, ALLEN JOHN 06/1967 80626RBAK 07/10/2002 VC I4000(A)
@Anonymous: All vehicle code. So, in your warped mind, citing numerous vehicle code violations of the decedent justifies his death at the hands of those sworn to protect us?
Boy, you are one sick, twisted bastard. Hope to God you aren’t a cop, which is a very scary thought since you have demonstrated herein that you are quite unbalanced. You seriously need a psych eval.
WOW! that long list of crimes… and everyone one of them dismissed but one, driving with expired registration… glad he is off the streets.
For the record
Line 1 – dismissed
Line 2 – dismissed
Line 3 – Convicted – VC 22450, Failure to stop – Stop Sign, and VC 4000(a) – Vehicle registration violation – Plead guilty to both charges.
Line 4 – dismissed
Line 5 – dismissed
Line 6 – dismissed
Line 7 – dismissed
Line 8 – dismissed
If Anonymous is a COP, he must be a SBSO employee who was a party member to the “POST Adventure”.
Anonymous,
If you are a cop and you ran this guys record, I hope you did not do this through NCIC. That is a crime to post it. FYI
Daddy Hoops would be mad if you did or would he care????
SBCo. DA Mikey and Sheriff Hoopster can make something like this disappear when it happens UP IN THE MOUNTAINS, but when the same thing happens in the OC, the mainstream news is all over it. Why?
There is a reason that San Berdoo doo County has gotten the reputation it has, for being the Wild, Wild West of law enforcement and justice. Our supposed media group, the Inland Valley Newspapers (Redlands Daily Fiction/ The SB Moon/ Inland Daily BS) are LA/ OC owned (coincidentally, just like ONT), and the LA/ OC people could care less about the quality of life in the IE.
If this senseless killing isn’t proof enough of a broken system, and that we need the US DOJ to put the hammer down on the SBSD and DA’s office, nothing ever will be.
Thanks for posting that Sgt Milstar, that helps explain a little. Now add the audio transcription on the other posting, NOW we have something we can talk about, and I am going to have fun with that one.
Now I know why Mr.Gephardt (father) is pissed. I don’t blame him a bit.
I think I better getting the spelling of this family’s name correct, Kephart or I’ll be in trouble with them. My HUMBLE apologies on the mispelling of the name.
Allen Kephart.
Let me add to my comment above from the court records, I never saw a “FTA”, Failure To Appear in any of the publicly available court records in Allen Kephart’s case. This means that Allen appeared in court, as agreed when he signed his tickets.
As I have always said in my life, “It is not a crime to be arrested, but it is a crime when your convicted”. So out of 8 arrests, all vehicle code infractions, Allen satisfied the courts when he appeared in court on 7 of the charges with his side of the story and the court dismissed the cases.
escalate, assassinate, obfuscate.
@Sgt. Milstar. Thank you for the clarification. Well, if everyone believed as Anonymous does apparently that by just having some traffic tickets, ergo one is a criminal….well, we’d all be branded criminals! Sadly, sometimes it seems that the attitude of many cops is that if one isn’t a criminal, one is most certainly a ‘potential’ criminal.
He was the opposite of a criminal. He was a very good and simple man.
Raisui on January 27, 2012 at 9:07 PM said:
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see SBSO taken over by US DOJ.
R – I hope you would fight against the Feds taking over ANY Sheriff’s Dept. I certainly would! FBI can investigate any Civil Rights violations, and the AG’s Office may prosecute, but as far as the US DOJ taking over ANY State, County, Local LE agency would a major constitutional breach. Oversight, maybe. Take over = lock and load time.
My last on the Kephart Tickets update:
I finally reviewed all of the case information available concerning his contacts with Law Enforcement and the courts.
11/14/2011 VC I21453(A) – Dismissed In the Interest of Justice (*See Below).
(Please note the date of citation, Allen passed away on 05/10/2011 )
06/30/2009 VC I22349(A) – Dismissed – Completed Traffic School, $276 Court costs.
05/07/2007 VC I21453(A) – Dismissed – Completed Traffic School, $240 Court costs.
04/21/2006 VC I4000(A) – Dismissed – Proof of Correction – $10 Court costs.
07/10/2002 VC I4000(A) – Dismissed – Proof of Correction – $10 Court costs.
05/03/2002 VC I4000(A) – Dismissed – Proof of Correction – $10 Court costs.
10/05/2001 VC I4000(A) – Dismissed – Proof of Correction – $10 Court costs.
01/24/2001 VC I22450 & VC I4000(A) – Plead Guilty, $130 Fine.
* Rather than tie up the blog with this case information, Please review the postings by me on 01/29/12 11:38 to 11:52 PM for more information:
http://iepolitics.com/newblog/2012/01/28/iepolitics-more-on-allen-kephart/#comment-741
With that case action eliminated, that brings Allen’s total citations down to 7, with one guilty conviction, two attendance at traffic School, and four Proof of Corrections. Other then the one guilty conviction, six were Dismissed.
Hi Fassari,
I’m a Ron Paul libertarian. I’ve got your back when it comes to any federal agency intruding upon local issues.
I would never want US DOJ running SBSO. However, SBSO has got to be the most screwed up law enforcement agency in existence. Look at guys like Blase’ who adds his own elements to the penal code. He didn’t even know CPC 20 until I schooled him. Then we have anonymous who rationalizes kissing off felonies. He doesn’t even know he’s derelict. Anonymous can rationalizing bad behavior, and in this case he is personification of derelict, as well as any dirt bag I’ve ever taken 10-15. Then, of course, we have the lying moron who wants me to believe that jury instructions exist that declare that statements aren’t evidence. Either SBSO academy doesn’t teach “Miranda” or JustCurios is a lying moron.
Fassari, we will all be wrong. Where SBSO deputies dig themselves into a hole is defending the indefensible. If Blase’ had half a brain, he’d be able to reason his way through why there is no reporting element in any crime. He just made it up. But he’ll never admit he’s wrong. Neither will JustCurious ever admit he’s wrong. He’ll go to his grave defending his ridiculous belief that statements aren’t evidence even if he as to deny “Miranda” and that defendants have been executed based upon suspect/witness/victim/informant statements.
When a person is wrong, when everybody knows a person is wrong, when a person finally realizes s/he’s wrong yet her/his pride prevents her/him from acknowledging what everyone knows, s/he risks becoming known as either a liar or a moron. In what category would Blase’, JustCurious, & Anonymous belong???
Fassari, SBSO has to start aggressively cleaning house. I am encouraged by deputies who have posted here who have identified the serious problem of derelict SBSO deputies. I am not sure how SBSO can clean house, especially considering AB 301. But when deputies expose their dereliction with alacrity, they must be fired posthaste. Maybe CA’s legislators (Did you get that, Blase’, that only legislators can create law?) will have to modify AB 301 to assure it doesn’t protect derelicts.
Fassari, I have never heard any cop from any agency beside SBSO, ever make a single positive comment about SBSO. It’s known as a last resort agency.
BTW, I do know that there are fantastic and squared away deputies who work for and have worked for SBSO. I am deep empathy & abiding respect for them.
R
Sgt Milstar,
Even if Kephart was a habitual violator, it should have had no bearing upon how he was treated. Unless deputies were able to articulate why they assumed Kephard might have been dangerous, it’s reasonable to conclude that deputies escalated this event. In other words, deputies escalating this incident was the proximate cause of Kephart’s death.
Does Phi Beta Kappa Anonymous still believe that Kephard got what he deserved? Would he defend another agency’s cops yanking his mother from her car, proning her, tasing her, and killing her because she didn’t yield soon enough?
When do other SBSO deputies begin to pressure a moron like Anonymous to turn in his badge that he should have never, ever been issued?
R
@Raisuli – I am not trying to paint a picture of a criminal pattern here. I am just reporting on what the court records indicate. Some here on the blog stated that he had a criminal record, which is not true. All of his contacts with law enforcement were taken care of in a timely manner, indicating a citizen who never blew off his tickets. A criminal will usually have “FTA’s” on his/her record due to the fact that they are not responsible individuals.
From what I can deduce from both the time-lapse video, and the tape recorder transcripts, It looks like the deputy did in fact treat this incident as a felony car stop. But, I would like to see what the civilian cell phones that recorded the incident have to show. Since the Sheriff’s office has taken these recordings into custody, it will take a civil trial to force the release of the documents. Hopefully, the recordings haven’t been destroyed!
Whats interesting is the transcripts show that someone present at the scene knew Allen’s name. I am wondering if this is in fact a deputy that was speaking to him.
Sgt.Milstar you called BS on the record issue just fine, I know why you did it. NO worries my friend.
I think that person who called Kephart by his first name was a civilian myself.
But R is right, it doesn’t matter if Allen was a parolee, it does NOT set aside what happened and the circumstances of this case.
Captain Nicassio and his posse put a spin on this case for sure. Somebody’s fair haired boy is getting a pass. Or someone hates Mr.Kephart and it’s payback time?
The DA is full of it, and Dennis Christy is a yes man.
Ramos did Hoops another favor, that is all.
WE know they can’t get stuff right, they can’t even convict a deputy who they believe stole or attempted to steal a lighter. They really just hammered the guy because someone thinks he was a POS.
They ignored critical evidence in Ivory Webb’s case too. Hoops doesn’t know how to look at still photograph’s and figure shit out.
Sgt Milstar, the UNKNOWN MALE at the beginning of the transcript was a regular citizen (we are all civilians). He knew Allen’s name because they went to school together. Allen Kephart was very well known around town.
I read the official transcript,
Allen said “Help me” 10 times. His plea for help was met with more taser fire.
His big failure to yield? Allen was rolling at a whooping 40 miles per hour.. that’s under the speed limit until he pulled into the Valero.
He never once made an aggressive statement. He referred to the cop as “Sir” and said “please” multiple times.
The cop demanded he get on the ground, Allen’s reply? “I’m on the ground as much as possibly. Sir, help me”.
The most disrespectful statement from Allen was “Sir you’re being (inaudible) Son of a *****!” this was after he had been tased 6 times.
Mild language if you consider the guy was fighting for his life.
There did seem to be one cop that showed some concern.. he had to ask three times whether or not to call in that Allen was not breathing, he was also the one to initiate CPR.
A man’s life was taken, he had no weapons, he spoke with respect, he committed no heinous crime other than being confused. He was victimized.
That’s how it played out for me. Anyone that sees it different, in my opinion, either had an axe to grind or an ass to cover.