Number 8 Jacob Brown, Dakota DeMoss and George Harper
Louisiana State Troopers Jacob Brown, Dakota DeMoss and George Harper were charged with
misdemeanor simple battery, in May of 2022, following the beating of a suspect two years
prior. 29-year-old Antonio Harris had been stopped for a minor traffic violation. Law enforcement
checked his information and discovered that he had a suspended driver´s license and outstanding
warrants. Harris reentered his Hyundai Sonata, while the troopers were distracted, and fled. The
ensuing chase spanned 29 miles, recorded speeds of up to 150 mph and ended after the police
deployed a tire deflation device. The Sonata ended in a cornfield in rural Franklin Parish.
Harris immediately got out and lay prone on the ground with his arms and legs extended. DeMoss
was the first to arrive at the scene and, as shown by court records, he struck Harris with his knee
and slapped him several times in the face with an open palm before switching off his bodycam.
When Harper, then in his mid-20s, and Brown made their way to the scene, the former struck Harris
with a fist reinforced by a flashlight while the latter pulled on his braids. The three
officers maintained that Harris had kept resisting arrest but a State Police internal investigation
subsequently determined that had never been the case. Moreover, the troopers had sought to conceal
from investigators that there was bodycam footage. The clips disproved their version
of events as they indicated Harris had surrendered and wasn’t a threat. In the ongoing case evidence
was also presented, of a group text in which the officers had joked about the “whooping” and
that it would give Harris “nightmares for a long time”. A message from Brown read “warms my heart
knowing we could educate that young man”. Each of the troopers faced up to six months in jail
and a $1,000 fine, if found guilty. Number 7 Marquez Smith
Former Popeye’s manager Marquez Smith was arrested in the city of Bainbridge, Georgia, on Memorial
Day 2022, for physically attacking a teenage employee during his time with the franchise.
20-year-old Smith had become enraged when the teenager attempted to clock out. As tensions
escalated in the video-recorded interaction, a male employee got between them. Smith and the teen
continued the heated verbal exchange behind the counter before he suddenly slapped her across
the face, causing her to drop her phone. Smith then assumed a fighting stance and put his fists
up but the teen only reacted to defend her face. Customers and staff intervened and, fortunately,
no further incidents occurred. The video quickly went viral and Popeye’s replied claiming they were
“absolutely horrified” and that Smith had been terminated from his position. He was arrested on
several charges, including first-degree battery, and a court date was set for September the 6th.
Number 6 James Pitts On October the 21st of 2010,
Philadelphia jewelry store owner William Glatz was gunned down in a failed robbery. Two men entered
the store and a shootout ensued with 67-year-old Glatz, whose family had owned the business for
roughly 6 decades. Both he and one of the robbers, 22-year-old Kevin Turner, who’d escaped from
Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility nine days earlier, sustained fatal injuries.
The other robber escaped but was later named as Obina Onyiah, a man with a violent criminal
history who’d reportedly served prison terms in New Jersey for bank robberies. He confessed to the
robbery and was convicted of second-degree murder, for which he was sentenced to life in prison.
Onyiah spent roughly 11 years of this term before it was concretely proven that he’d had nothing
to do with the robbery and Glatz’s murder. The District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity
Unit had examined witness testimony and relied on the analysis of multiple forensic experts
who’d determined that Turner’s accomplice had been shorter than 5 foot 11 inches while Onyiah
was 6’ 3”. Another pivotal piece of evidence was something that Onyiah and his legal defense
had always maintained, namely that the confession had been beaten out of him. Veteran homicide
detective James Pitts was accused of employing several coercive tactics during interrogation,
such as striking the man with a closed fist and forcefully pushing his head between his legs.
The detective then lied about his violent methods. As of March, 2022, a grand jury recommended he
be charged with two counts of perjury and three counts of obstructing the administration of law.
The case against the officers was ongoing but, by then, Onyiah had already been cleared of all
the charges against him. Number 5 Frank Hernandez
On April the 27th of 2020, LAPD Officer Frank Hernandez was caught on video savagely beating
an unnamed homeless man who’d been accused of trespassing in Boyle Heights. Hernandez and his
partner had responded to the call and spotted the man setting up his tent in a vacant lot
adjacent to a church. As shown in cellphone footage, Hernandez proceeded to land over a
dozen hard punches to the man’s head and body as he appeared to be neither armed
nor resisting arrest. The 28-year-old victim suffered abrasions but wasn’t reported to have
required hospitalization. The incident didn’t meet the standards requiring the LAPD to release
bodycam video but its dissemination was eventually ordered in mid-May,
after the cellphone footage had sparked outrage online. "This is a disturbing case
of the illegal use of force at the hands of a police officer," District Attorney Jackie Lacey
told the media. Hernandez was charged with one felony count of assault under color of authority,
to which he pleaded not guilty while defending his tactics as appropriate for the situation.
Number 4 Tanya Ramirez In January of 2016, a former
teacher at a high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony charge
of improper relationship between an educator and student. 30-year-old Tanya Ramirez had
been arrested in 2014 amidst accusations of being involved with a male student in his late teens,
while working at King High School. After they’d exchanged flirtatious texts for several weeks,
Tristan Price had gone to her house, on May the 30th, in the early hours of the morning and while
inebriated. The two became intimately engaged and Price recorded the act on his cellphone.
News of the improper relationship began to spread and reached local police, whom Price eventually
provided with a video showing a woman with an 8-inch tattoo on her lower back, identified
as Ramirez. The teacher surrendered to the authorities and was promptly fired from her job.
She was further accused of having been involved with a second unnamed student, aged the same as
Price, a charge to which she pleaded no contest. Following a plea deal, Ramirez was given seven
years of probation and didn’t have to register as an offender because both victims had met the legal
age of consent. During the course of her trial, she filed a lawsuit against Price, accusing him
of “extreme and outrageous” conduct for secretly recording their tryst and then showing the video
to his friends. The former teacher claimed that he’d done so to earn bragging rights and that it
had contributed to him becoming more popular and eventually being voted Homecoming King. The suit
also accused the student’s mother of defamation, after she’d allegedly called Ramirez a “predator”.
The public showdown between Ramirez, Price and his mother was the subject of an episode of the Dr.
Phil Show. It featured a moment when the mother contradicted the former teacher’s statements
that the video had gone viral by saying “It wasn't that good…It was only 10 seconds, baby” triggering
peals of laughter from the studio crowd. Number 3 Patricia Colley
The 22-year-old manager of an Indiana Wendy’s was arrested, in September of 2021,
for assaulting a teenager under her supervision. Patricia Colley was on duty on July the 29th
when an argument erupted between her and a younger female employee. The victim tried to walk to the
back door of the Mishawaka-area restaurant during the row, when Colley charged her from behind. The
manager punched her in the back of the head and pulled her hair before dragging her to the ground,
where the attack continued. Colley was also reported to have bitten deeply into the worker’s
left hand during her onslaught. The victim was treated for the bite and a possible concussion
while Colley was arrested on September the 6th and faced charges of battery and disorderly conduct.
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Number 2 Olivia Ortz
In late spring of 2022, Olivia Ortz’s husband returned to their Pennsylvania home, from a trip
to Florida, and discovered a series of messages on his wife’s iPad. They suggested that 26-year-old
Ortz had been intimately involved with one of her students at the Wilmington Area High School,
where she worked as a choir director. The man also worked for the school, setting up stage events
such as plays and musicals, and was obligated under state law to report any instance of abuse,
misconduct or exploitation. He alerted the school’s administration and Ortz was suspended
before a warrant was issued for her arrest in early May. In spite of her looming legal troubles,
the woman didn’t immediately turn herself in to the police and even sang in a local concert
over the weekend. She eventually surrendered, at the advice of her attorney. The resulting
investigation revealed that she and an unnamed female student had initially started texting each
other in and out of school. Ortz then invited the student to her home, while her husband was away.
The teenager told detectives that she and the woman had snuggled on the couch and watched TV
before they eventually went to the bedroom and became intimate. They met and spent the
night together on several subsequent occasions and the teen even visited the teacher to comfort her
when her husband found out about the illicit relationship. The student
maintained that she and Ortz were in love but the latter was arrested on multiple charges,
including two counts of intercourse contact with a school student and criminal use of a
communication facility. The arrest made headlines particularly since her music director predecessor,
37-year-old Jonathan Priano, had been arrested on similar charges of having had inappropriate
contact with students throughout his tenure. Number 1 Shauna Bishop
Shauna Bishop, a former sheriff’s deputy from Sacramento County, California, was sentenced to
a year in jail and five years’ probation, in 2020, after she’d admitted to have had illicit relations
with a male teenager. The incident had occurred in April of the previous year. Bishop, then in
her mid-40s, had ended her year long relationship with a man who worked for the same department.
The fellow officer had told his ex-wife that he was uncomfortable with the way in which
Bishop behaved around their son. As detailed in court documents, however, the ex-wife and the
deputy were friends and she invited her to spend the night at her home, on April the 28th of 2019.
The woman had asked Bishop, an authority figure, to speak to the teen about his drug and alcohol
use. That night, after the mother had fallen asleep, Bishop went to his room, where they had
intercourse and other intimate relations. After a few weeks, the teen disclosed the incident to his
19-year-old sister, who in turn told their mother. The latter alerted the police and an investigation
was launched during the course of which Bishop resigned before being taken into custody, in June.
The teen’s parents alleged that Bishop had taken advantage of her position of power
and “groomed” him. Leading up to her guilty plea, she’d tried blaming her actions on side effects of
the sedative Ambien, which both she and the boy’s mother had taken before going to bed on the night.
In addition to her sentence, the disgraced deputy also had to register as an offender.
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