Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Ferguson

UPDATE:  
Cop Being Sued Over Beating Is Now a Ferguson City Councilwoman

Don't miss this story about the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and the prosecuting attorney. It seems there is currently a lawsuit on appeal by a black man who was wrongly arrested (mistaken identity - same name, different middle initial - how difficult is that?), beaten and bloodied by Ferguson police held for "several" days, and then charged with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms after having missed his exit in a heavy rainstorm.

In the second link, we learn that, while police are saying Darren Wilson (the officer who shot and killed Mike Brown) was a model officer and had no previous incidents on his record, it is possible that, according to the way the police department kept records prior to 2010, he could have been writing his own use of force reports, and that none of them went into his file.





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