Posted on 02/27/2014 3:30:10 PM PST by OneWingedShark
Evidence from a dashboard camera on a police cruiser ended a nightmare for a New Jersey man facing false charges of eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. Prosecutors dismissed all the criminal charges against Marcus Jeter, 30, of Bloomfield, N.J. and instead indicted two Bloomfield police officers for falsifying reports and one of them for assault after the recording surfaced showing police officers beating Jeter during a traffic stop, according to WABC of New York. A third has pleaded guilty to tampering.
Jeter's defense attorney requested all recorded evidence, but the police failed to hand over a second tape until additional evidence surfaced of a second police car at the scene. The tape showed Jeter complying with police, even as one punched him in the head repeatedly.
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‘Power corrupts’. The US would benefit greatly if its citizens remembered that.
Ping — I recommend you watch the news-report, it’s good-ish news: the police get charged for their wrongdoing.
You are very right; it makes me wonder about those who claim that any unwarranted search [or seizure] by police is a good thing.
I have only seen abuse come from exigent circumstance
, and would argue that any unwarranted search is unreasonable.
Just a few more bad apples, eh?
Cops that abuse the authority they are given in that manner IMHO ought to be tried and when convicted publicly executed!
These cops should get life in prison in general population, all of ‘em, including the accessories after the fact.
Yeah, they got charged with assault, but if I were the prosecutor, I might have tried for bigger charges. The only conceivable reason that one cop kept yelling (falsely) about the guy trying to reach for his gun is if he was thinking of shooting him and wanted to cover his behind.
I strongly suggest folks watch the video, it is scary.
The cops involved should face the same jail time and penalties Jeter would have faced.
Incidents such as this must make one wonder how many people
are languishing behind bars for the very simple reason that
in their case a camera wasn’t present to record the criminalty of the badgemonkeys who destroyed their lives.
A reasonable guess would be that for every case such as this
there could easily be 10, 20 or even more where the lies of
the badgemonkeys were taken as gospel because there was no
video to prove them as being the liars they all tend to be.
“Stop resisting!” The favorite cry of feral cops and rapists all across our great nation.
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The Founding Fathers were NEVER acquainted with the type of standing army of paramilitary gunthugs that we have now.
Most Americans, if you asked them, would tell that "it's always been like this".
Au contraire!
What we have now is like the worst of English governmental strong-armism from before the American Revolution, combined with latent Nazi Germany-like jack-booted fascism.
It's ironic that Americans abhor and revile Nazi Germany, yet we have our very own American Police State "special sauce" here at home. The Left has a lot to do with it, of course, since they're ALWAYS trying to expand the size of government, and with it, its Coercive Elite standing army of violent gunthugs.
Mr. Jeter is lucky to be alive. It certainly seems as if the cops were setting the scene to shoot him by yelling to stop resisting and stop reaching for my gun. Disquieting to say the least.
Yes, I think lax or misguided hiring policies probably contribute to it. We’ve also got to look at training, and the amount of leeway that the courts have given police. When police are behaving reasonably well, more leeway might be justified, but if they aren’t, then they need to be reined back in.
The cops must think that if the federal government is giving these war machines, that they are expected to make use of them. Then they go out searching for opportunities to use them.
Ultimately, they begin to feel as if they are invincible and unquestionable.
-PJ
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