Posted on 11/28/2018 7:55:59 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The former police chief of a South Florida town was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for a conspiracy in his department to frame blacks for crimes they did not commit, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
Raimundo Atesiano, who pleaded guilty in September to a conspiracy charge of depriving three men of their civil rights because they were charged without a legal basis, the Miami Herald reported.
Atesiano resigned as police chief in 2014, the newspaper reported.
“When I took the job, I was not prepared,” Atesiano told the judge Tuesday, according to the Herald. “I made some very, very bad decisions.”
Prosecutors said the crimes for which black people were falsely arrested included burglaries and vehicle break-ins.
In August, former Biscayne Park police officers Charlie Dayoub, 38, and Raul Fernandez, 62, pleaded guilty to falsifying the arrest affidavits for a 16-year-old black suspect for four unsolved break-ins in June 2013, the Herald reported. In October, both men were sentenced to a year in prison.
A third police officer, Guillermo Ravelo, 37, admitted to falsifying arrest warrants for two men at the direction of Atesiano in 2013 and 2014, the newspaper reported. He was sentenced to two years and three months in prison.
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Should have consulted with Mike Nifong about how to get out of serving time for that.
They need to consult with Weasel Mueller about how to make Sh!7 up and make it stick without getting into trouble yourself.
Sounds Hispanic. So do two of the other officers convicted. I didn't see any of the "news" media saying they are racists. Guess you must first be white...
Raimundo Atesiano should serve at least double what the teen was sentenced to serve.
Well, at least it'll have to be spent in solitary. I don't think he'd mix well with the general prison population. Ahole.
It probably goes without saying the chief framed white people too.
So where’s the outrage there? Hmm?
(crickets)
Once again - Black Privilege is at the forefront of the news. Crimes against whites are ignored, but crimes against blacks?
“Oh the Humanity!”
Three years is too lenient a sentence.
Wow... This POS issued 2,200 tickets in one year...
That’s more than 40 a week.
My guess is very few were legit...
They should be sentenced to the max for the crimes they tried to frame others for. Same should go for intentional false allegations of a crime.
Not long enough! 10 no parole. He must come clean on all other cases.
Where’s all the copsuckers and jackboot lickers to explain to us how Chief Atesiano was right because of a badge or a blue line or some other mythical talisman that rendered him infallible?
Kudos to the truly brave members of law enforcement who took their oaths seriously and defended innocent people from a thug with a badge! We need more such good people in uniform who are willing to rage against the blue wall of silence!
Such blatant abuse of police powers deserves 20 minimum.
He’s going to have a tough time explaining his crimes to the brothers on his cell block.
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