More tactics from good cops of the #NYPD planting evidence on Black Men ... is it just me, or is this the standard for how cops handle gun buy back programs? Only to replant them on innocent civilians, to fulfill their daily quotas? One has to wonder how competent any of these officers are at solving real crimes ... The suspects said the guns were planted by the police. There were other similarities: Each gun was found in a plastic bag or a handkerchief, with no traces of the suspect’s fingerprints. Prosecutors and the police did not mention a confidential informer until months after the arrests. None of the informers have come forward, even when defense lawyers and judges have requested they appear in court. Taken individually, the cases seem to be routine examples of differences between the police account of an arrest and that of the person arrested. But taken together, the cases — along with other gun arrests made in the precinct by these officers — suggest a pattern of questionable police conduct and tactics. Mr. Moore’s case has already been dismissed; a judge questioned the credibility of one of the officers, Detective Gregory Jean-Baptiste, saying he was “extremely evasive” on the witness stand. Mr. Hooper spent a year in jail awaiting trial, eventually pleading guilty and agreeing to a sentence of time served after the judge in his case called the police version of events “incredible.” In another example, Lt. Edward Babington, one of the four officers in Mr. Herring’s case, was involved in a federal gun case that was later dismissed and led to a $115,000 settlement. In that case, a federal judge said she believed that the “officers perjured themselves.” Debora Silberman, a public defender at Brooklyn Defender Services, has been fighting Mr. Herring’s arrest, filing a two-inch-thick motion detailing the problems with his case and the similarities to others. On Thursday, after inquiries from The New York Times, prosecutors said that they were re-evaluating the case. Ms. Silberman said she had always believed Mr. Herring. “Nothing in his story has ever changed,” she said. nytimes/2014/12/12/nyregion/gun-arrests-with-2-things-in-common-the-officers-and-unidentified-informers.html?_r=1 #handsupdontshoot #blacklivesmatter #ferguson #ericgarner #every28hours #aiyanajones #tamirrice #antoniomartin #mikebrown
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:44:21 +0000
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