Dear Warren Police Department, two of your officers arrested me for domestic assault on October 4, 2021. That day both officers were wearing body cameras and their vehicles had vehicle recording systems.
I was given a court appointed attorney named Roger Banks and he requested this footage from the East Brookfield district attorney‘s office and told me that you had provided it to them. Before Roger Banks received this body cam footage, I had a meeting with him in his office and he told me that he has a client in the same house that my ex-girlfriend’s son was being abused in and he laughed about it and said these kids are abused all the time. And he tried to dismiss it like it was no big deal. It was disgusting and it made me absolutely sick talking to him.
After Attorney Banks received and listened to this body camera footage, everyone tried to stop talking about it. I called the Warren Police Department on January 10, 2024 and asked if this body camera footage existed and I was told that did and then I sent an email to the police department requesting it and all footage from that day. Then I drove to the Warren police department after court and made a written request for all footage from October 4, 2021 and also from a day in January 2016 when Warren police officers had to escort me back to the emergency room after I tried to commit suicide and then escape the emergency room. The officer that drove me back to the emergency room had a dash cam and in vehicle recording system and he told me all about. it which really helped calm my nerves that day because I was sick with hyperthyroidism and it was undiagnosed at the time so I was a mess.
I never heard back from the Warren Police Department about that body cam footage or the dash cam footage from 2016 or 2021 and I kept fighting for it in court and had to suffer through a competency evaluation to talk about it and then it was almost forced to take a second competency evaluation, but they decided it wasn’t necessary when I told them that I demanded that it be recorded, and then I was going to share it online with the world.
I was talked into another court appointed attorney Grady, since the courts couldn’t handle me alone, they needed a buffer. Grady got a court order for the body-cam and dash cam footage, then ADA white of Worcester had the nerve to lie to a judge about Warren not having dash cam video and didn’t talk about its policies and procedures, but she gave a big speech about how those officers were wearing body cameras the day that they arrested me, but they weren’t working and she shared this policies and procedures with my lawyer.
I made a YouTube video and called Attorney white a liar and then the beginning of April my case was dismissed, some of the dash cam footage had magically appeared and the courts are trying to sweep this under the rug. This looks really bad for everyone.
If somebody ordered Warren officers to deny me access to that body cam footage because of what I said about the abuse going on with disabled adults within Massachusetts group homes, officers have an obligation to report who ordered them to deny me that footage.
What Attorney Banks did was a conflict of interest and he should’ve recused himself from my case and never been allowed access to that body cam footage.
Police officers are out there putting their lives on the line every day and then lawyers are going behind their backs and trying to make them look stupid and make them look like liars. I know officers couldn’t do anything about what I told them that day but my lawyer Roger Banks is a mandated reporter and he was required by law to do something about the abuse I was telling him was going on. Instead, he used my case to try to cover it up and try to make Warren Police look bad in the process.
I want the public to respect police officers again. I’m sick of people pointing the finger at them, only to find out the real damage is being done by lawyers working behind the scenes—blocking evidence, twisting cases, and setting officers up to take the fall. This isn’t about hating cops. This is about exposing the people using them as shields.
I’m going to keep being 100% transparent with everything I do. I can no longer stand by and watch these horrible things happen. I also reached out to Springfield police superintendent Akers, he’s my old assistant soccer coach from 1994 and we go way back.
Ricky Stebbins
If you’d like to communicate by phone all calls need to be recorded, I personally prefer emails myself. But everything will be shared publicly. So I understand if you don’t respond.
I wasn’t gonna write back right away, but I figured you know it. I need to be specific about everything I want and if it’s still exists, I need to ask for it now.
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