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Ars Technica reports about a case in Missouri that may have been dropped to law enforcement's use of Stingray:
A woman accused of being a getaway driver in a series of robberies in St. Louis has changed her plea from guilty to not guilty after finding out that a stingray was used in her case.
Wilqueda Lillard was originally set to testify against her three other co-defendants, whose charges were also dropped earlier this month. As a result of changing her plea, the local prosecutor dropped the charges against her on Monday.
Terence Niehoff, Lillard’s attorney, explained to Ars that she pleaded guilty before learning about the use of the stingray. When her co-defendants’ attorneys challenged a police detective during a deposition, and that officer refused to provide further information, the case was eventually dropped.
However, Lauren Trager, the spokeswoman for the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office denied to Ars that the dropping was related:
I am unable to provide the information you requested. Despite the opinion of the defense attorney in this matter, the dismissal of the cases was not related in any way to any technology used in the investigation."
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Saturday May 02 2015, @01:06AM
"There is video footage of him attacking a store keeper and stealing goods."
That is the police edited version, find and watch the full length version and it shows him paying the clerk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @02:54AM
I believe you. How many times will we have to go through this? Even in Baltimore and the "Riotous thugs" with the police having a credible thread about gang members allying to "take-out" law enforcement officers. Dig into it and see that the police orchestrated it, antagonized it, broadcast it, made damn sure it was gonna happen, then played the sympathy card for three days.
Still didn't get their murderous pals from getting in trouble, but did postpone it a few days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @04:37AM
I saw footage of the looting and burning of a pharmacy there. It wasn't police doing the looting and burning. It was black youth.
I keep hearing how "bad" the police are, yet it's always the black youth who are looting, stealing, and destroying the property of others during these incidents, whether we're talking about Baltimore or Ferguson or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Touché) by deimtee on Saturday May 02 2015, @10:54AM
I saw footage of the looting and burning of a pharmacy there. It wasn't police doing the looting and burning. It was black youth.
I see. This obviously justifies the pre-emptive shooting of Michael Brown a few days before the looting.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @03:38PM
He's black, so of course he was going to be looting. Don't you know, you can tell everything about a person by looking at the color of their skin. Whites are good, honest, God-fearing people, and blacks are no good thugs who riot, steal, and kill at every opportunity. Why not preemptively get rid of the trash since we already know they're trash? That is, after all, the whole point of the "drug war".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @11:43AM
The police often act like thugs. Never heard of the drug war? Never heard of civil forfeiture? Never heard of stringrays? Never heard of stop-and-frisk? Never heard of all the cases of the police using excessive force? And the 'justice' system is heavily biased in favor of police.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @03:44PM
it's always the black youth who are looting, stealing, and destroying the property of others during these incidents
Because whites never [nypost.com] riot [storify.com] at all [therichest.com], right [mic.com]?