About damn time.
I came in to post the the same story on the AP:
And to make basically the same comment.
Officer in Western MA had a picture of Hitletr hanging in his locker for 20 years, is on the Brady list of non credible officers who cannot testify in Court due to giving false testimony, and still has a job.
What a weird coincidence. Up until your post, I don’t recall seeing anyone mention the Brady list in any other post on the SDMB. Just yesterday, I learned about it while listening to Consider This’s rebroadcast of an episode from On Our Watch:
On Our Watch is all about police misconduct.
Nitpick, I just learned from that podcast that nothing stops an officer on that list from testifying, but defense attorneys can use the info from the list to attack that officer’s credibility.
Georgia! 
Check this out!
Former Georgia prosecutor indicted by a grand jury for intervening in favor of the police in the Ahmed Arbery investigation.
Good news deserves an echo.
Besides Fanta Bility’s death three individuals in the crowd of football fans were wounded by police who don’t know any better than to fire into a crowd of innocent bystanders.
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Jesus fucking Christ. Do some police forces select for moronism?
Apparently it’s ok for police departments to deliberately select for morons.
Some?
It may be that the type that PDs select for are not morons, per se, merely the ones that they can turn into morons (iow, they do not choose morons, they generate them).
Here is a good one: Oz Parliament abruptly passes a law that gives police the opportunity to obtain warrants allowing them to take over a suspect’s internet presence. Warrants that do not require approval from a judge but from some kind of shadowy warrant commission.
These are powers that no other country makes available to LEAs, but apparently they have huge problems down under that call for drastic measures.
For some reason, the Australian government really, really hates the internet.
In all fairness, most of society in general hates Australia, so…
These stories of indictments are, of course, encouraging, and “indicted” is a great word, but is rendered moot without the subsequent stories using the word “convicted.”
Good news is the acquittal. Bad news (as usual) is the confirmation that the cops were behaving as vengeance-minded thugs instead of law enforcement professionals. Raise your hand if you’re surprised.
Cops in Burlington, Vermont let a guy go after he assaulted two traffic guards because he refused to get out of his car and he has a history of violence, so they didn’t want to deal with him (white, of course). They did arrest him later at his home.
Here’s a situation which looks like suicide by cop:
I wish law enforcement had much better training to deal with mental health situations rather than just start shooting.