DA drops charges after video shows cop misconduct

[GarfieldtheCat]

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“As soon as they opened the door, one officer reached in and punched me in my face. As he’s trying to take off my seat belt, I’m thinking, ‘Something is going to go wrong.'”

The cops kept telling him to “stop resisting” and claimed that he was “going for” their guns. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

“And when they open the [police car] door, about to put me in, the officer hits me in the back of the head again,” Jeter recounted.

At least these cops were arrested after the DA saw the video. But why did the victims lawyer have to request the video in the first place? Up until them, the DA was trying to give the defendant a plea deal of 5 years, so he was more the happy to lock him up without even looking at the video.

Shouldn't the DA (or someone in his office) be looking at the video BEFORE charging the guy? They just blindly take the cops word? What ever happened to looking at the evidence?

 

[Brainonska511]

Just some bad apples. Nothing to see here.

 

[Pipeline 1010]

Wow, this guy was facing 5 years in jail because of their lies. They were trying to take this man away from his family, away from his freedom, away from his job for 5 years! What kind of an animalistic psychopath tries to do that to another human being? And for what gain?

If there are only a few bad apples, then why do their coworkers accept them on the force?

Who wants to bet that these guys aren't going to be facing 5 years in jail for what they did? They need to face at least double the prison time that they were trying to give this guy. He needs to be able to sue them personally. Why are consequences so small for trying to do such an evil thing to somebody?

 

[Bock]

Holy shit. Also with the court system of "lets make a deal", he should be glad that tape never disappeared.

& ppl still wonder why black people don't like the police.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I couldn't stop thinking about this the whole time watching the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxrMOHsMNiA

 

[Blanky]

It's seriously like these pigs don't realize they are on video. On THEIR OWN cameras.

Glad to see some decent charges and these piggies aren't pleading guilty, which means they should receive additional sentencing for still pretending they are decent people.

Only justice here would be jail time for all cops involved.

 

[Genx87]

Our justice system has become rotten. The DA basically conspired with the police to lock up an innocent man until the defense team forced them to turn over evidence that the cops were guilty. The DA has access to those tapes and would had looked at them before charging this guy with a crime. I say toss the DA in jail as well.

 

[master_shake_]

more of the same us against them bs from every tier of "justice"

judges, da's, police...

they're all in it together.

more reasons why private prisons do NOT work.

 

[Brainonska511]

Our justice system has become rotten. The DA basically conspired with the police to lock up an innocent man until the defense team forced them to turn over evidence that the cops were guilty. The DA has access to those tapes and would had looked at them before charging this guy with a crime. I say toss the DA in jail as well.

It's been like this for a while. Just look at how the deck is already stacked against defendants even in non-police involved cases. Chipping away at 'fruit of the poisonous tree' evidence exclusion, pre-trial seizure of assets that inhibit a defendant from hiring a good lawyer, rules on appeals, the re-appropriation of some laws to target other crimes (and effectively over-charge), prosecutors not personally liable when they don't hand over exculpatory evidence (IIRC, there is a case heading to the SCOTUS about this, where it was argued that the process was systematic in New Orleans, so the prosecutors shouldn't lose their qualified immunity), the difficulty in suing due to qualified immunity...

Sure, some defendants are pricks, but they still have rights. We shouldn't just railroad people.

 

[oobydoobydoo]

Disgusting. The level of just... apathy... it's like they just don't give a shit if this guy spends five years in jail. Ruin his life, beat him up, take him away from his family... and for what? The thrill?


I don't know how any LEO could sleep at night, knowing they were employed by a institution that would support people who outright abuse citizens and then put them in prison for the fuck of it. I hope one day that cop gets beat, and threatened with prison, for nothing.

Edit: After looking at the video, that guy is lucky to be alive!!! Can you imagine being in a car, as a black man, with cops on either side of you screaming at you to get out of the car, and you don't know if they will just kill you as soon as you try? Black men have been killed by cops for less.... and they would get away with it too. That's why they don't give a crap about endangering people like this, they have zero culpability regardless of their actions.

 

[Linux23]

Disgusting group of paid fucking legal thugs.

Why were they pulling him over in the first place?

 

[Brovane]

Hopefully they will be held fully accountable for their actions. However I suspect that they might be allowed some favorable plea that lets them off with no jail time. By default a DA should be requesting dash-cam video.