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Related: About this forumFlorida 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.
IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)it fell way harder than the officer had pushed. That lady looks like Aunty Fa.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)It is obvious. Way harder. Suspicious.
We may have seen an actual Antifa leader and drug ring runner there.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)You don't have to guess what party he belongs to.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)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)______________________________________________________________________________________
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)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.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)lostnfound
(16,173 posts)There were doubts, the government had sent him a letter about it a few months before he died.
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)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 theyre 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/