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Huntington Beach, California police admitted in open court to planting a loaded gun in the trunk of a DUI suspect. Officers Brain Knorr, Dave Wiederin, along with five others who were involved in the incident, faced no criminal or civil charges for their actions. When called to testify about the gun they tossed into the man’s vehicle, the cops claimed they had planted it as part of a “training exercise.”
Police in Las Vegas also claimed that planting evidence was part of a “training exercise,” after they were exposed in court.
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Executive Director of the Nevada chapter of the ACLU, Gary Peck, told the Las Vegas Sun:
“This case should shake public confidence in the entire criminal justice system. Here we have a case where the police planted evidence in a criminal case and then stood mutely by while it was used against someone. It should raise very serious concerns that our state’s largest law enforcement agency is one that does not believe that planting evidence is a fireable offense.”
WASHINGTON, DC — A disturbing confession by John Elliot, a former Fairfax County police officer, illustrates exactly what happens when cops try to get away with murdering American citizens. Recall all of the cases you’ve heard of officers shooting someone and moments later conveniently “finding a gun” near the dead person’s body.
In these cases, the victim’s family will typically come forward and state that their dead loved one never had a gun and, in fact, never even owned any guns or knew how to use them. But once the story of a gun being “found” on the victim is promulgated by the mainstream media, the family’s testimony gets drowned out. How is it that these guns (sometimes knives) keep showing up on people after being shot by police? The answer: throw-away weapons.
filmingcops.com...
The police shooting of a 17-year-old on a South Side street corner nearly three years ago was captured on five cameras and was unjustified, according to a former investigator who has seen the videos. Cedrick LaMont Chatman died just feet from the bus stop where his mother caught the bus to work every day. The city's Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates all police-involved shootings, concluded the shooting was justified. But Lorenzo Davis, the original IPRA supervising investigator on the case, came to the opposite conclusion and says he was fired in July when he refused to change his report.
www.cnn.com...
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Cypress
Incorrect. It shows a pattern of behavior that 1) resembles the behavior mentioned in the accounts we are getting as they trickle out of the investigation and 2) counters the public narrative placed in the media by the family.
Irrelevant. The man suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury, two broken hips and and his pelvis was split in half after a motorcycle accident in November 2015. He was a different man than the man he was a year ago. His past had nothing to do with the fact that he was gunned down in cold blood, while tottering backwards with his hands limp at this side.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Ha...oh yeah...I forgot about the fact they caught the guy that stole the gun and sold it to him.
Interesting that you consider the statement of this criminal that sold the gun to be accurate and truthful.....
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: Vasa Croe
What i meant was that you used the word of a criminal as "truth" to further your own story........how can you not see this ?...
In one sentence you say that a man is a criminal he cannot be trusted, in another sentence you are saying this criminal said this happened so therefor proof it did ....
So yeah not hard to figure out at all...
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Oh please you are speculating and trying to firm your stance with the word of a criminal, ....pathetic...
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Vasa Croe
What the victim did a year ago has no bearing on whether or not the police were justified in the shooting that occurred last week.
You're justifying the cold blooded murder of a man who was of no threat to the officers, by drudging up things from his past, that I have no doubt that at least one officer on that scene has also been guilty of. In fact "Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence"
Police Family Violence Fact Sheet
What you're forgetting, is that we all saw the video of the police gunning down a seemingly unarmed man, who was not acting in a threatening manner. The police didn't follow protocol, and it's because of their actions that the people were moved to riot.
The ensuing riots, ignorant as they were, do not justified the cold blooded murder that occurred hours before.
You believe that why? Because of some shaky vid where you can barely see anything? Why are you giving him the benefit of the doubt?
And he was allowed to drive?
He shot a guy and did time for it, he called himself "Killer", threatened to kill his wife and kid.
How do you know he wasn't waiting for the kid to shoot him then her?
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Meee32
You believe that why? Because of some shaky vid where you can barely see anything? Why are you giving him the benefit of the doubt?
No my dear. I believe it because in November of 2015 he had a motorcycle accident and he suffered a traumatic brain injuring, and now he slow minded, stutters and forgets stuff all the time. PLUS, in that accident he suffered 2 broken hips and his pelvis snapped in half. He used a cane to walk. His wife told the officers repeatedly that he was unarmed, suffered a brain injury and just taken his "medicine."
He was in no condition to beat his wife and kids or take on the police. He was minding his own business, smoking a joint in his SUV, tinted windows up, when the officers took him by surprise with their guns, shouting commands.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: burgerbuddy
And he was allowed to drive?
Did he have a valid driver's license? I know 12 year olds that can drive. Perhaps his wife let him drive from their parking stall, across the parking lot to where the school bus stops, I don't know. She was with him, and left to walk to their apartment to get a cell phone charger, when the police "attacked".
He shot a guy and did time for it, he called himself "Killer", threatened to kill his wife and kid.
I don't think that's actually true, but his past doesn't matter. The undercover cops that saw him smoking a joint certainly didn't know.
How do you know he wasn't waiting for the kid to shoot him then her?
Should we follow around all felons who have done their time, just in case they might commit a crime? Is it open season on felons?
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Obviously he wasn't a wheel chair bound vegetable, but he probably was just a few months earlier.
The fact is, he was minding his own business, sitting in his SUV, smoking a joint, which the cops admittedly said drew their attention to him. They said he raised a gun, I don't buy it. He probably raised a lighter, made eye contact and winked, or some such thing, and that irritated cops who decided their imagination was probable cause for murder.
"Looks like a gun to me!"
Oooopsie, he didn't have gun?
"Handcuffs!" "Handcuffs!" "Handcuffs!"
Throw black gloves all over the crime scene and VIOLA A gun magically appears!
In the video, which begins before shots are fired, Rakeyia Scott — who had gone inside to to get a cellphone charger while Keith sat in the car awaiting his son's school bus — approaches the area where several vehicles, including a police car, are clustered.
www.usatoday.com...
We know that mr. scott's wife left the scene to go back to get her charger.
www.dailykos.com...
Mrs. Scott was on the scene. She had been in the car with her husband waiting to pick up her son then left the car to go to her apartment to get her phone charger. When she returned she found cops surrounding her husband’s car.
www.dailykos.com...
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Vasa Croe
In the video, which begins before shots are fired, Rakeyia Scott — who had gone inside to to get a cellphone charger while Keith sat in the car awaiting his son's school bus — approaches the area where several vehicles, including a police car, are clustered.
www.usatoday.com...
We know that mr. scott's wife left the scene to go back to get her charger.
www.dailykos.com...
Mrs. Scott was on the scene. She had been in the car with her husband waiting to pick up her son then left the car to go to her apartment to get her phone charger. When she returned she found cops surrounding her husband’s car.
www.dailykos.com...