But why focus on trivialities like this when much worse is going on. Look at those plea-bargin snowballs### in places like Tulia, Texas & Union, Alabama, where there were mass raids & hundreds were arrested (every black family in those towns was effected, particully those that owned their own homes, as they were really forfeiture scams) though no evidence was found, all on the say so of the uncorrobarated testimony of a paid snitch. These forfeiture scams that the police run, just to get bonus payments are having a lot more negative effect on peoples freedoms than some woman getting strip searched (even though she's bound to get traumatised from such a humiliation).
### That's where someone's arrested & the only evidence is the testimony of a paid informent & they are told to plea-bargin & get 4 years by snitching on someone else or else they'l get 100 years. There was even a secret recording made by a defence attorney of the prosecuter telling someone that it doesn't matter if he dosen't know any drug dealer, just testify against any old aquaintence (whether guilty or innocent), because they'l roll over & plea-bargin out by snitching on someone else anyway; or else they'l be up for a 100 year term too (there's the effect of those mandatory minimums, redneck polticians love, or should I say polies trying to appeal to the redneck vote). Consequently these things snowball & hundreds get arrested, all on the uncorroborated evidence of a paid snitchs, which mostly doesnt even get tested in court.
A good percentage of the people on Clinton's pardon list are people who were cought up in these plea-bargin snowballs who were thought to be innocent.
Thent we have incidents like that LA copper who admitted to murdering 9 people & framing 70 others, including someone he shot & parralised before putting a gun in his lap to make out it was self defence. Or police that get bonuses such as ski trips to Aspen, based on forfetures. So we have cases like what happened in Louisiana where over 100 motorists driving high value interstate cars were framed (by police for example dropping a joint in the car as they reached in & grabed their keys) just so they could confiscate their cars. It didn't even matter if they got cleared in court, as they still would have to take the police dept to court to get their car backs.
Or this case in LA
8. News in Brief
Scott Family to Get $5 Million Settlement for Shooting Death
An agreement has been reached between the state of California, the county of Los Angeles and the family of Donald P. Scott that will give Scott's family $5 million in compensation for his death at the hands of police. Scott, a 61 year-old millionaire, was shot dead in his home by agents of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office as they executed a no-knock warrant looking for marijuana. No drugs were ever found on the property, and a subsequent investigation by Ventura County District Attorney Michael Bradbury concluded that the warrant was secured with false information. "Clearly one of the primary purposes was a land grab by the Sheriff's Department," he told reporters.
So, they don't just target poor regional Blacks, either.
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