Sexual misconduct of Detective Mike Brown, SPPD

Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County, 4155 58th Street North, Clearwater, Florida 33760.

Florida Department of Children and Families, Attn:  Child-Abuse Investigations Division, 525 Mirror Lake Drive, St.Petersburg, Florida 33701.

Child Advocacy Services, P.O. Box 10970, St.Petersburg, Florida 33733.

Help A Child Inc. 4000 Gateway Centre Blvd., Suite 200, Pinellas Park, Florida 33782.

Mary Lee’s House, 2806 North Armenia Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33607.

Suncoast Centre, Inc. (Child Protection) 2960 Roosevelt Blvd., Clearwater, Florida 33760.

SWORN COMPLAINT CONCERNING CHILD ABUSE BY ST.PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT:

FACTS:

I authored a book entitled “Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department.”   My book can be located at crusaderbooks.com or lulupublishing.com.

In my book I explain in some detail how I witnessed a juvenile boy giving former St Petersburg Police Officer Mike Brown oral sex at the St Petersburg Police Athletic League and how Mike Brown had a history of pulling his penis out of his pants and shorts and urinating in front of children.

I was also advised that Mike Brown was behind trying to sexually abuse at least one juvenile girl.

Dozens of children could’ve been sexually abused by Mike Brown.

In my book I also explain how I was previously subjected to retaliation and censured for trying to expose Mike Brown’s sexual misconduct.

I request that you conduct administrative and criminal investigations into Mike Brown’s sexual misconduct and into any actions taken by his supervisors to cover-up his sexual misconduct and that you take appropriate action against Mike Brown and his supervisors for their misconduct.

I also request that you ask the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice to investigate Mike Brown’s criminal and civil-rights violations and any actions taken by his supervisors to cover-up his sexual misconduct.

Unnotarized Oath

Under penalty of perjury, I swear that everything stated herein is true and correct.

Dated this 12 day of February, 2019.

Affiant: (signature appears here on original document)

Harold Hempstead, #577366,  Northeast Correctional Complex,  P.O.  Box 5000,  Mountain City, Tennessee 37683-5000

Attorney for Harold Hempstead:

John Trevena, 801 West Bay Drive, Largo,  Florida, 33770.

CC:

John Trevena

Kathryn Varn

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

Craig Patrick

Meg O’Connor

Rick Kriseman

Jeremy Schanche

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INTERNAL AFFAIRS COMPLAINT

To:  St.Petersburg Police Department

Attention:  Internal Affairs Division

1300 First Avenue North

St Petersburg, Florida, 33705.

FACTS

I authored a book entitled “Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department.”  My book can be located at crusaderbooks.com or lulupublishing.com.

In my book, I explain in some detail how I witnessed a juvenile boy giving former St Petersburg Police Officer Mike Brown oral sex at the St Petersburg Police Athletic League and how Mike Brown had a history of pulling his penis out of his pants and shorts and urinating in front of children.

I was also advised that Mike Brown was behind trying to sexually abuse at least one juvenile girl.

Dozens of children could’ve been sexually abused by Mike Brown.

In my book I also explain how I was previously subjected to retaliation and censured for trying to expose Mike Brown’s sexual misconduct.

I request that you conduct administrative and criminal investigations into Mike Brown’s sexual misconduct and into any actions taken by his supervisors to cover-up his sexual misconduct.

I also request that you ask the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice to investigate Mike Brown’s criminal and civil-rights violations and any actions taken by his supervisors to cover-up his sexual misconduct.

Unnotarized Oath

Under penalty of perjury I swear that everything stated herein is true and correct.

Dated this 7 day of February, 2019.

Affiant: (signature appears here on original document)

Harold Hempstead, #577366, Northeast Correctional Complex ,P O  Box 5000, Mountain City, Tennessee 37683-5000

Attorney for Harold Hempstead:

John Trevena, 801 West Bay Drive,  Largo,  Florida, 33770.

CC:

John Trevena

Kathryn Varn

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

Craig Patrick

Meg O’Connor

Rick Kriseman

Jeremy Schanche

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SWORN COMPLAINT

To:

Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission

P.O. Box 1489

Tallahassee, Fla.,32302 – 1489

Subject of Complaint:  Former St Petersburg Police Office Mike Brown

FACTS

I authored a book entitled “Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department.”   My book can be located at crusaderbooks.com or lulupublishing.com.

In my book I explain in some detail how I witnessed a juvenile boy giving former St Petersburg Police Officer Mike Brown oral sex at the St Petersburg Police Athletic League and how Mike Brown had a history of pulling his penis out of his pants and shorts and urinating in front of children.

I was also advised that Mike Brown was behind trying to sexually abuse at least one juvenile girl.

Dozens of children could’ve been sexually abused by Mike Brown.

In my book I also explain how I was previously subjected to retaliation and censured for trying to expose Mike Brown’s sexual misconduct.

I request that you conduct administrative and criminal investigations into Mike Brown’s sexual misconduct and into any actions taken by his supervisors to cover-up his sexual misconduct and that you take appropriate action against Mike Brown and his supervisors for their misconduct.

I also request that you ask the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice to investigate Mike Brown’s criminal and civil-rights violations and any actions taken by his supervisors to cover-up his sexual misconduct.

Unnotarized Oath

Under penalty of perjury, I swear that everything stated herein is true and correct.

Dated this 7 day of February, 2019.

Affiant: (signature appears here on original document)

Harold Hempstead, #577366,  Northeast Correctional Complex,  P.O.  Box 5000,  Mountain City, Tennessee 37683-5000

Attorney for Harold Hempstead:

John Trevena, 801 West Bay Drive, Largo,  Florida, 33770.

CC:

John Trevena

Kathryn Varn

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

Craig Patrick

Meg O-Connor

Rick Kriseman

Jeremy Schanche

USED AND ABUSED BY THE ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT – CAGED CRUSADER’S NEW BOOK OUT NOW

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USED AND ABUSED BY THE ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT 

My Life As A Juvenile Confidential Informant

by Harold Hempstead

A Historically Factual Book Exposing Corruption In The St Petersburg Police Department With Documentation And Evidence To Prove The Corruption

 

Would you like to hear about how the St Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) abuses children and places their lives in danger by using them as confidential informants?

Would you like to know why professors and others across our nation agree that law enforcement commit child abuse and place the lives of children in danger when they use children as confidential informants?

Would you like to know about how SPPD was setting people up with false drug charges?

Would you like to know how an SPPD detective authorized an escort service (with juvenile girls) to be used as a fictitious front?

Would you like to know about how an SPPD detective was sexually abusing children at the St Petersburg – Florida Police Athletic League and how the police covered up abuse and retaliated against the juvenile who tried to expose sexual abuse?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions – then this book is for you –

USED AND ABUSED BY THE ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT –

My Life As A Juvenile Confidential Informant

By Harold Hempstead

Available for purchase at Crusader Books on February 10th – 2019

Harold Hempstead (IM# 577366)

Northeast Correctional Complex

P O  Box 5000

Mountain City

Tennessee – 37683

Harold Hempstead

The Tampa Bay Times have published an article on Harold-s book and some of the issues it mentions which you can read here

THE INMATE-WITNESSES THE MIAMI-DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT PLACED IN DANGER IN THE DARREN RAINEY MURDER CASE

"After approximately 6 months of Dade C.I. staff using a shower that reached temperatures of 160°F (according to Dade C.I. Cpt. Dixon) to punish mentally disabled inmates, Darren Rainey would be the last inmate placed in the shower as punishment.  Why?  Because he was killed in the shower.

The primary officer responsible for killing Rainey was reposted to work in another area at Dade C.I. (other than in the TCU where Rainey was killed) about four months after Rainey’s murder.  Rainey was killed on June 23, 2012, the officer was reposted in October 2012.  In March 2014, the officer was reassigned to work back in Dade C.I. Westside TCU which is the area where Rainey was killed.  The officer who killed Rainey was no longer an officer when he returned to the Westside TCU.  He returned as a sergeant.

In April 2014 I met with a Miami Herald representative at Dade C.I., on May 18, 2014 the Miami Herald newspaper published their first article on the Darren Rainey murder and from thereforth until the first about two weeks of June, 2014 they published several articles on the Miami-Dade Police Department not investigating the Rainey murder.

In June 2014 the Miami-Dade Police Department interviewed ten inmates in the Dade C.I. TCU who were in the Dade C.I. TCU when Rainey was killed.  In August 2014 the MDPD interviewed an eleventh inmate in the Dade C.I. TCU who was also in the Dade C.I. TCU when Rainey was killed.

These eleven inmates were all witnesses to inmates being starved, abused and tortured in the TCU they were housed in.  Several of these inmates were witnesses to the Rainey murder and how the Dade C.I. staff used the shower Rainey was killed in to torture mentally disabled inmates for approximately six months.  

Why did the MDPD place these inmates’ lives in danger and interview them while they were still housed in the Dade C.I. TCU in the custody of staff who were starving, abusing and torturing inmates?  Why didn’t the MDPD make arrangements to have these inmate-witnesses transferred to another TCU at another institution where the inmates would be safe and interview the inmates at a safe institution?  Do you believe the experienced MDPD detectives that interviewed these witnesses knew or didn’t know that by interviewing the eleven inmates in the Dade C.I. TCU, they were placing these inmates’ lives in danger?

I believe these detectives knew what they were doing and they did such to hinder/hurt the investigation.  It is obvious that the MDPD only acted like they were investigating the Rainey case because of the numerous articles that the Miami Herald published in May and June 2014 on the MDPD refusing to investigate the Rainey murder.  The police didn’t want to investigate the Rainey murder and the May and June Miami Herald articles that mentioned their failure to do the foregoing is what caused them to have to investigate said murder.  How do you think the MDPD felt that a newspaper was exposing them for failing to investigate the murder of a black, mentally disabled Muslim prisoner?  Do you believe that if the MDPD conducted a thorough and effective investigation into Rainey’s murder and proved Rainey’s murder, it would’ve made the MDPD look bad?  I believe it would’ve because it would’ve showed that the police were originally trying not to investigate a brutal murder and that they only investigated said murder and allowed such after the media published several articles on the police department refusing to investigate Rainey’s murder.  The sad thing is Rainey was a black, mentally disabled Muslim prisoner and that is why the MDPD didn’t want to investigate the Rainey case and that is why the Dade County Florida State Attorney don’t want to prosecute Rainey’s killers.

Please share this blog with your friends and anyone you think can help us with getting justice for Rainey’s murder.  Please sign our petition on Change.org entitled THE LIFE OF BLACK, MENTALLY DISABLED MUSLIM PRISONER DARREN RAINEY DOES MATTER."

Harold Hempstead, a.k.a. The Caged Crusader,

Tennessee Department of Corrections, April 2017.

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Dade Correctional Institution - The House Of The Dade - Welcome To Auschwitz USA, a place where anything can happen - a place which the guards themselves liken to the Nazi's human-slaughterhouse - a place with a high rate of Death - an inexplicably high rate of Death - until Harold Hempstead started to explicate it, that is.
I heard about the place because I do environmental and political campaigning and I get sent lots of American petitions in my email inbox.  After years of studying the horrors of various dictatorial regimes around the world and campaigning for human rights in Tibet, Arabia, China, Britain, Nigeria etc. I'd seen and heard about a lot of evil, the kind of evil perpetrated by the uniformed thugs and maniacs that always find employment in the penal, police, 'intelligence' and military systems of this world's great nations...
A petition from someone called 'Windy Hempstead' caught my eye.  The story behind it stood out for its extreme brutality and inhumanity and it shocked someone who'd spent years dealing with human horror of an Official nature.  Windy's petition talked about her brother Harold and how he'd witnessed a black man being steamed to death in a Florida prison.  A particularly horrible story from the internet.  The story dwelt on my mind and I started to write on it.  Pretty soon I'd made contact with Windy, then Harold and then I wrote myself into the story. 
Just over a year later and working in partnership with Harold Hempstead on the Darren Rainey case has become my main focus of attention.  Mr Hempstead is a powerful force for good, he's a man lit by divine inspiration and that's not something I say lightly.  He's driven by a religious impulse to witness the truth, whatever the consequences - and for a man doing one hundred and sixty-five (165) years in the grip of the mass-incarceration complex of the United States of America, those consequences could well prove fatal.  Previous blogs on this and Harold's own site describe Florida Department of Corrections' deadly games, including housing Harold in a cell with a series of no less than five murderers, several of whom were tripping out on 'spice' which mysteriously bypassed the rigorous security of FDC. 
Like many a survivor of hideous trauma, Harold blames himself for not doing enough to stop a violent tragedy from occurring - even though he was locked in a cell, at the mercy of people whom he knew to be torturers and killers.  Living under repression and downright oppression for years is going to affect anyone - inmates who merely file an official grievance risk getting their bones broken or teeth kicked out (evidence available - as with all assertions about FDC)  The 'sensible' thing to do in prison is keep your head down and try not to upset the guards.  These people don't like being accused of crimes by those they seem to consider as sub-humans.  Dade had certain spooky and vile parallels with the death-camp it's guards called it after.  People were starved there, they died soon after.  Many people have died there under suspicious circumstances.  People were tortured and treated as though they were less than human - some of those who were tortured had indeed done some monstrous things, but 'monsters' torturing 'monsters' is not what is meant by 'the rule of law.'  However bad some of these people are, or were, they deserve to be treated in accordance with the law - otherwise, if the penal system is apparently above the law, you have a form of democracy so rotten and corrupted that it is no longer worthy of such a name. 
This is not the America of 1776 - this is not the Vision of an America that was dreamed by freedom-loving people long ago.  This is a corrupt, late-stage, decadent empire, strangling and eating its own children.  This is not what they fought the Brits for or what Betsy Ross made a flag for - she wouldn't have bothered if she'd known what it was going to stand for.  If she could have had a look round the Westside TCU down there at Dade Correctional Institution she would've come up with a flag of a different colour. 
One of the sickest aspects of the Darren Rainey case is that all the abuse and torture, all the starvation and 'shower-treatment' happened inside what was meant to be some sort of mental hospital. 

Darren Rainey

Since the night of June 23rd, 2012, when Darren Rainey was shoved into the 'special shower' and the whole wing heard him screaming and begging for mercy as he died, Harold Hempstead has been on a long journey, changed by what he witnessed and determined to work to expose the truth and achieve justice.  He believes in the value of every human life and so do I.  Sometimes in life you have to take a stand - when something offends you to the core of your heart and mind, when something sickens you to your stomach, you have to find a way of fighting against that thing.  The monstrous treatment and killing of Darren Rainey has galvanized a lot of people into action already, including Harold's sister Windy and the Miami Herald newspaper, who have made massive contributions towards amplifying Harold's voice and supporting this quest to uphold the value of life.  Please read Harold's blogs and feel free to respond to his questions, he would like to hear from you.  You can leave a message at his blog, harold hempstead caged crusader . wordpress . com.

Thanks, Jeremy Schanche

Harold Hempstead - Darren Rainey Murder Evidence, Dade C.I. 23 June 2012: Caged Crusader’s Witness Statement to US Department of Justice, Miami-Dade State Attorney, 5.5.2016

Jeremy Schanche reads a sworn statement by Harold Hempstead describing Darren Rainey’s murder by Officer Roland Clark.

On 23 June 2012, a black Muslim convict was tortured to death at Dade C.I. in Florida.  He was locked into a specially rigged shower stall for almost two hours, in temperatures of up to 183 Fahrenheit.  When he was eventually found, most of the skin had peeled away from his dead body.  An inmate was later ordered to throw the skin into the trash.  This brutal murder was covered up by guards and other authorities, until inmates, including Harold Hempstead, succeeded in finally contacting the Miami Herald newspaper, which broke the story. 

Although the U.S. Constitution guarantees free speech, the reality of life in the Florida Department of Corrections, like its counterparts in many other American states, is different.  Inmates who merely file complaint forms, let alone talk to the press, can expect brutal retaliation from certain of the guards.  Inmates who stand up and blow the whistle on brutality, abuse and corruption are taking a great risk to their own safety, in a penal system that has degenerated into routine brutality, systematic starvation, and regular torture and murder. 

This film should never have been made.  People should not be steamed to death in locked showers, screaming for mercy, dying alone in terror and agony.  USA is not the only nation to conceal horrors such as this, but the USA has a Constitution, a blueprint for justice, democracy and the rule of law – not all nations have such a thing.  Furthermore, the USA is a vital element of western culture and civilization.  For this nation to live up to its promise, its meaning and its true identity, something must change.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Russian author of such books as Crime and Punishment said “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”  For ‘America’ to ever be ‘Great’ it’s going to have to take a radically different approach to the treatment of those it locks up and takes into its power.

This film has been made in an attempt to publicize the evidence of the prisoner, witness and whistle-blower Harold Hempstead who is endangering his own safety to bring justice for the murder of a mentally disturbed black Muslim man, Darren Rainey.  On 7th November 2016, the prisoner Daniel Geiger died in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections.  He is mentioned in the film as the inmate for whom the ‘shower-treatment’ was originally devised.  Daniel Geiger was put in the special shower on more than one occasion.  He was also systematically starved.  Regular food-deprivation was part of the regime at Dade Correctional Institution and Harold Hempstead is convinced that is has contributed to more than one death. 

Records show that this prisoner’s weight at the start of his detention was 179lbs, which is just over 12 ¾ stone.  However, when New Yorker journalist Eyal Press spoke to Daniel Geiger’s mother, Mrs Debra Geiger, she reported that in 2012, her son had told her that his weight was down to 105lbs (7 ½ stone).

Whatever crimes a man may have committed, the Constitution, the foundation document of the nation, requires, in the name of the people, that convicts shall be treated according to lawfully encoded standards of justice and welfare, with recourse to legal redress of grievance and the free speech to do so.  While the rights of the convict are obviously considerably fewer than those of the free citizen, they are, nonetheless, clearly defined and enshrined in law, and should, when circumstances deem it necessary, be vigorously protected by we, the people. 

Notes: 

1.  ‘Affiant’ means the author of an affidavit or witness-statement – which in this case is Harold Hempstead. 

2.  ‘C.I.’ stands for ‘Correctional Institution’ or prison.

Here’s the interview I did with Harold Hempstead in summer 2016 for my paper, The Limpet:

https://savetheholyheadland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/harold-hempstead-murder-witness-talks.html

The first of numerous articles from the Miami Herald newspaper on the murder of Darren Rainey and conditions in the Florida Department of Corrections:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1964620.html

An in-depth look at Florida’s mistreatment of mentally-ill prisoners:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/the-torturing-of-mentally-ill-prisoners

George Mallinckrodt is a psychotherapist and outspoken advocate for the mentally ill, who has written a book about his experiences working at Dade C.I.  Its central focus is the killing of Darren Rainey and it’s entitled Getting Away With Murder:

http://georgemallinckrodt.com/

The blog of Harold Hempstead’s sister and advocate, Windy Hempstead:

https://helpmybrotherharoldhempstead.wordpress.com/

Many articles on Darren Rainey, Harold Hempstead, FDC and more here:

https://wobblywarrior.wordpress.com/

Finally, here’s the written text of Harold Hempstead’s sworn affidavit of 5^th May, 2016, the document read in the film, which describes the torture and murder of Darren Rainey that guards and officials tried to conceal.  Convict-whistle-blowers are taking an enormous risk by witnessing the truth and protecting society’s most vulnerable members.  Please help their work by reading and sharing the evidence.  Thank you and stay free.

https://savetheholyheadland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/harold-hempstead-evidence-darren-rainey.html

Update:  25.1.2017: Over the last  couple of days I've been sending out the following email to various people.  It reached them all except The Tribune which was bought out and closed and Al Jazeera, who's contact form wasn't working.

Public Message To:  Ms Vanita Gupta, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney, Miami-Dade County, Florida;  FBI (Case Agent);  Miami-Dade Police Department (Case Detective);  Dade County Medical Examiner;  ACLU of Florida (Dr. Howard Simon); Stop Prison Abuse Now (Steven Wetstein);  Florida Legal Services (Peter Sleasman);  Disability Rights Florida (Molly Paris);  Florida Justice Institute (Randall Berg);  Forgotten Majority;  National Action Network (Rev. Al Sharpton);  Rainbow Push Coalition (Rev. Jesse Jackson);  National Domestic Workers Alliance (Alicia Garza); Black Alliance (Opal Tometi);  Nation of Islam (Louis Farrakhan);  Miami Herald Newspaper (Julie Brown);  CBS4 Miami (Michelle Gillen);  WTVT Fox 13 Tampa (Craig Patrick);  New Yorker Magazine (Eyal Press);  Windy Hempstead;  Susan Chandler;  George Mallinckrodt. 

C.C.:  Antonia Farzan, Miami New Times;  St.Petersburg Times;  Orlando Sentinel;  South Florida Sun Sentinel; The Tampa Tribune;  The Florida Times-Union;  The Palm Beach Post;  Sarasota Herald-Tribune;  The News Journal;  Florida Today;  Gainsville Sun;  New York Times;  Washington Post;  Russia Today;  Al Jazeera;  Black Lives Matter;  The London Times;  The Guardian;  The Independent;  Reprieve;  Amnesty International;  Big Issue;  Fulham Football Club, London;  Florida Tourist Board;  etc.

Brothers and Sisters,

You are receiving this message because your names appear on Harold Hempstead's affidavit of 5th May, 2016, detailing the murder of Darren Rainey at Dade Correctional Institution on 23rd June, 2012.  Since Mr Hempstead wanted you to receive the written evidence, I thought it might be useful to have it in video form too.

I am not aware of the current progress of the investigation into Mr Rainey's killing, four and a half years ago, but I feel that since the slaughter was initially concealed by the authorities, it is appropriate now to compensate for this by giving the event some more publicity.  

You may be wondering why Mr Rainey's death is a matter of concern to a foreigner - after all, Darren Rainey was a black-Muslim, a drug-user, mentally-disturbed and poor.  Well, I don't want a world where people are boiled to death in showers - I want a world of wisdom and compassion.

With thanks to all who are genuinely working for justice.

Good wishes,  Jeremy Sch@nche

Newlyn, Kernow, Great Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdVztdD10k