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In my view, that doesn't go far enough. One officer is suspended and two others are on administrative duty. This is for planting drugs on at least one individua
by lovehashbrowns 9y ago
In my view, that doesn't go far enough. One officer is suspended and two others are on administrative duty. This is for planting drugs on at least one individual, with 34 cases connected to these officers being dismissed. Think of how those lives would have been affected had this footage not surfaced.
Officers, regardless of how many witnesses there are or how much footage there is, get away with so much that it's ridiculous.
We see this in so many different facets of life: police cars crashing into others while driving without a siren on and then blaming the crash on the victim (https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/zidek-cpd-police-cyclist-crash/Content?oid=25527427 https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/zidek-cpd-police-cycli... this also happened to my uncle); civil forfeiture, which I consider to be blatant robbery; near-literal executions, both witnessed and caught on video, of people, pets, children, etc. during traffic stops or raids; trigger-happy police officers shooting randomly at people, and facing no consequences for this (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd-shooting-newspaper-delivery-women-dorner-manhunt-20160127-story.html); http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd-... and now this case where they're planting drugs to get someone arrested. You have to ask, how many times have officers done this and gotten away with it? Of the 2.2+ MILLION people in prison/jail, how many are there for false reasons?
My opinion is that the public holds police officers to such a high esteem that the police are basically able to get away with whatever they want. That whole image of "they're protecting us and putting their lives on the line" needs to go away so we can finally start prosecuting these criminals.
I understand that there are a lot of good people on the police force, but enough's enough. Start jailing police officers. No more "administrative duty," no more suspensions.