TLDR version: Sheriff’s deputy and rookie trainee show up at a sporting good store being looted. Deputy smacks suspect with a baseball bat, reminds the suspect that he got his injuries “falling”, steals the bat and some candy from the store. Trainee says he’s not comfortable with the shadiness; deputy threatens to fail him from the trainee program. Trainee reports him anyway. Deputy gets busted and fired.
Let’s hope the new generation of cops are more like this trainee and do the right thing instead of holding to the blue code.
[A] new study digs into the reasons people are wrongly convicted, and it has found that 54 percent of those defendants are victimized by official misconduct, with police involved in 34 percent of cases, prosecutors in 30 percent, and some cases involving both police and prosecutors.
The study [PDF] by the National Registry of Exonerations reviewed 2,400 exonerations it has logged between 1989 and 2019, nearly 80 percent of which were for violent felonies. Of the 2,400, 93 innocent defendants were sentenced to death and later cleared before they were executed.
Wapo summary is (soft) paywalled. The linked study is not.
Are these people insane? The article says that John Merrifield made an effort to embed satire signals in his event postings, but I guess they are hard to spot when you are seeing red.
Except that, according to your link, they didn’t. They stood by while Feds used tear gas, and then made arrests, or something like that. It must be handy to have tame Feds around to do your dirty work for you.
“Whatever happened, it was a 13-year-old boy who was unarmed. The police were called for a mental-health call, not a criminal act,” Weyher [the boy’s attorney] said. “A child is laying in a hospital bed … there has to be a better response.”
What the ever loving fuck? I watched the video and they unloaded on this kid! What fucking monsters!!! They should rot the rest of their lives in prison.
That’s why they went ahead and boarded the police station and other govt offices the last couple days. They knew that they were going to let these murderers skate.
One of the cops involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor sends out an email calling protesters “thugs” who have created a “good versus evil” mentality.
It is probably what the DA wanted. Remember the old saying, “You can get a grand jury to ‘indict a ham sandwich.’”
Statistics on federal grand jury indictments show the saying isn’t that far from reality: A prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Out of 162,000 federal cases prosecuted in 2010 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), grand juries declined to indict in only 11 cases, the FiveThirtyEight blog reports.