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posted by n1 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-cop,-bad-cop dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

In January 2013, police raided the home of a Cleveland drug dealer, saying in a search warrant that an informant had recently bought crack cocaine there.

But the drug dealer had surveillance cameras that proved the officers were lying. He gave the tapes to his lawyer, who showed the FBI. The feds then worked to uncover a massive scandal of a rogue street-crimes unit that robbed and framed drug suspects who felt they had no choice but plead guilty to fraudulent charges.

Four years later, authorities are still unwinding the damage.

Three cops who worked for the city of East Cleveland are in prison. Cases against 22 alleged drug dealers have been dismissed. Authorities are searching for another 21 people who are eligible to have their convictions tossed. On top of those injustices, there is a slim chance that any of them will be fully reimbursed, because the disgraced officers and their former employer don't have the money.

Source: NBC News


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:29PM (9 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:29PM (#485271)

    Mostly poor, but not completely poor. Go after the rich ones with extremely high taxes and property confiscation if necessary.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:43PM

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:43PM (#485290) Journal

    How is going after the rich ones with high taxes going to fix the issue of having bungee or death to choose from?

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by jmorris on Tuesday March 28 2017, @05:17PM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @05:17PM (#485304)

    Uh huh. Go after the few remaining rich ones, who are utterly powerless in a system that lets them be outvoted a hundred to one by the useless people that turned the town into a Hellhole in the first place. Yup, establish the precedent that the millisecond the vibrants gain the majority and elect a corrupt major and city council they should INSTANTLY sell anything they can't move at fire sale prices and flee for their lives lest they have their property seized to pay for the sins of the third world we are recreating here in our cities. Yup, lets go full Mugabe since it worked out so well for them.

    The suburbs were initially created as refugee camps for white people driven from their cities by Democrats importing and empowering diversity until the cities became hellholes, then the government rammed the excess diversity into the suburbs because they were deemed "too white." Now it all about exurbs. The idiocy of people like Grisnakh would accelerate that process and get shooting wars started to keep the diversity from getting in.

    And people still wonder why we don't think the Left is even capable of rational thought? Here ya go.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @05:42PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @05:42PM (#485332)

      Jesus h christ on a bongo drum!! Jmorris has exceeded his monthly quota of crazy. To apply your same broad stroke: And people still wonder why we don't think the Right is fundamentally human anymore. Here ya go, just look at their local mascot! Lizards all the way down.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:34PM (#485378)

        Ugh, does that mean he's free to just cut loose in 4 days?

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:48PM (2 children)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:48PM (#485388)

      Aren't you late for your KKK meeting?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:25PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:25PM (#485412)

        I'm guessing you've never met or talked to a member of that group before. Based on your post history I imagine you don't talk to anyone who isn't in your belief bubble. His phrasing was a bit insensitive with the 'refugee' remark, but in many cases the forced 'diversity' does end up turning areas bad. If it was natural the two cultures and groups would gradually become more like each other. Forcing it just makes both groups clam up and avoid the other group, ending in so called 'white flight' or the reverse... 'gentrification'.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @09:13PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @09:13PM (#485477)

          I'm guessing you weren't blessed with a broad historical education, or if so then you don't have an abundance of brains... Cities == jobs, so you get a lot of poor people trying to make a living by moving to the city. The idea that Democrats caused a migration of minorities to "white rich towns" is laughable, and the underlying racism is blatant. It is a well used ploy, use objectively true facts (urban ghettos are a common thing) and use that to support a crazy racist position.

          Yeah, we don't get the point at allllll.... Forced diversity? Lawl, someone dipping into the adult kool-aid?

  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:27PM (1 child)

    by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:27PM (#485547)

    So, you're saying that they should target the people with the highest potential mobility and the most to lose by sticking around, who are probably also the ones who own all the local businesses if there are any to speak of?

    I normally dig "eat the rich", but that's not really going to end well come day two. I mean, I guess you could also break their legs and put up checkpoints at all the exits to town to make sure they don't get out, but now I'm starting to feel uncomfortable.

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    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:25PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:25PM (#485950)

      Well, many of the "rich" people are the people running the town government, and the police force, and they're really the ones causing the problems. How are they going to move out? They're only in their current cushy position because they're located there, in that town.