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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, @04:39PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:39PM (#485286)

    You do realize that yesterday's hippies are in their 70's and even 80's today? Not even old idiots want the drug war.

    This is incorrect, I'm pretty sure. The problem with your reasoning is that you're assuming that the Hippies in the 60s were a majority of the population. They weren't, not by a long shot. They were a small and vocal minority. Most people back then were very conservative by today's standards. They're the ones who are in their 70s+, and are still voting for the drug war. And there's plenty of younger people who want it too (mainly middle-aged). They're the ones who voted for Trump, and his stooge Sessions who loves the drug war and civil asset forfeiture.

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