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Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 02:16 PM Jun 2020

Florida Officer Caught Planting Evidence

From last year. This is an example of an obvious systemic corruption and everyone is invited to be a victim of it if you get a psycho cop who gets a kick out of planting. Isn't that illegal? He's carrying drugs? Well, if you get away with it, what does legality have to do with it? If the evidence of such activity is hidden or ignored, tough luck to the victims. Maybe keep those jail cells filled?

Feeling safer? The criminals on the side of the law are a major threat to us.

From last year:

A Florida police officer has been caught planting evidence. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report.


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Florida Officer Caught Planting Evidence (Original Post) Newest Reality Jun 2020 OP
The drugs tripped and fell IronLionZion Jun 2020 #1
I noticed that... Newest Reality Jun 2020 #2
Larry Basford is running for State Attorney Major Nikon Jun 2020 #3
Quite the story on this thug wester. All LEO should be filmed and MarcA Jun 2020 #4
He has been charged with 70 counts of planting evidence..Trial is set for this November. Stuart G Jun 2020 #5
Think of all of the money these people had to pay for their criminal defense! Dustlawyer Jun 2020 #6
+1000 Newest Reality Jun 2020 #9
George Floyd's conviction was based solely on a cop who in a later case made up evidence lostnfound Jun 2020 #7
This is a must watch. dalton99a Jun 2020 #8

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. I noticed that...
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 02:38 PM
Jun 2020

It is obvious. Way harder. Suspicious.

We may have seen an actual Antifa leader and drug ring runner there.

MarcA

(2,195 posts)
4. Quite the story on this thug wester. All LEO should be filmed and
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:03 PM
Jun 2020

before anyone can be sentenced to jail the film must be reviewed by judge and
defense attorney. No holding anyone who can't afford bail, there are other ways of
keeping track. As for wester, life spent in restitution.

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
5. He has been charged with 70 counts of planting evidence..Trial is set for this November.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:13 PM
Jun 2020
https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/crime/trial-date-set-for-former-jackson-county-deputy-accused-of-planting-drugs-on-innocent-people/
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from above link:


"A jury trial will begin November 4 and may continue until November 20.

Wester is facing many different charges including racketeering activity, official misconduct/ misuse of public office, perjury, fabricating physical evidence, possession of controlled substance, false imprisonment and more. "


From the link below, you will read that 119 exonerated.:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/10/former-jackson-county-deputy-zach-wester-arrested-drug-planting-probe/1693260001/

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
6. Think of all of the money these people had to pay for their criminal defense!
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:58 PM
Jun 2020

An arrest for drugs negatively impacts a person in so many ways even if later proven innocent. The fact that there have not been criminal charges against this officer for drugs, perjury, abuse of official government authority... is criminal in and of itself! The D.A., by dismissing all of those cases has a duty to at least investigate the officer and/or take the case to a Grand Jury for an indictment.

Due to the inherent conflict of interest between the D.A.'s office and the police department working together to prosecute criminal cases, they should not be the ones to decide whether or not to prosecute. We need a special prosecutor's office to investigate and prosecute cops accused of wrongdoing in each state. That should be the only job of this proposed special prosecutor's office. They would have no allegiance to any local police department and their results could be judged by their performance overall.

lostnfound

(16,173 posts)
7. George Floyd's conviction was based solely on a cop who in a later case made up evidence
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 11:57 PM
Jun 2020

There were doubts, the government had sent him a letter about it a few months before he died.

dalton99a

(81,450 posts)
8. This is a must watch.
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:11 AM
Jun 2020
During one of the arrests cited in the new indictment, Wester sang, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” as he searched a Chevrolet Tahoe he pulled over in the Lowe’s parking lot in Marianna. The entire 40-minute traffic stop, which culminated in the arrest of the driver, happened while Wester’s body camera was running.

“Man, I am in the Christmas spirit,” he said as he rifled through the SUV. “I mean, I like to hum a tune in case something ever goes to the jury, you know, so they’re not just sitting somewhere ... chilling.”

In another of the new cases, Wester stopped a woman with two kids in the car because one of her brake lights was broken, according to arrest reports. After a search of the vehicle, Wester claimed several baggies with suspected meth were found on the front console under her wallet. She denied it was hers. But Wester arrested her for felony possession and — because kids were present — child endangerment.

Four of the newly identified victims arrested by Wester had their charges tossed before sentencing. In one case, however, a woman was sentenced to nearly a year in county jail after pleading no contest to possession of a controlled substance. Several months later, a judge ordered her sentencing and plea set aside, and prosecutors dropped the charges.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2020/02/10/accused-drug-planting-deputy-slapped-two-dozen-new-charges/4670519002/
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