Opinion ID: 2971859
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Other incidents

Text: Cook was involved in other robberies as well. In February 1995, Cook, Upshaw, and Rice walked into Omar Gardner’s apartment and threatened to beat Gardner if Gardner did not give them any money or marijuana. Although Gardner said that Cook himself did not take any money from him, the other officers took $2500 of Gardner’s money and counted it while Cook stood watch over the inhabitants of the apartment. In another case, Cook and Upshaw encountered Terry Campbell as he was standing on a street corner. The officers got out of their car and made Campbell spread his hands on the car. One of the officers (it is unclear which one) patted Campbell down and took a large sum of money and crack cocaine from him. The officers then ordered Campbell to walk away without returning the money or cocaine. In the summer of 1997, as Stephen Chapman was leaving a store, Rice and Cook pulled up in a pickup truck. The officers had identified Chapman as a drug dealer. They asked Chapman if -7- No. 02-1405 United States v. Cook he “wanted to make a donation” and took some of Chapman’s drug money. Chapman was driven around by the officers and eventually taken to a building at a high school, where Rice physically beat Chapman.