Miami police kill 2 unarmed suspects by shooting disabled car 377 times

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. Some Miami Cops are cool, but most are crooked. I knew about the "Miami River Cops" before the

real cops did. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1988-09-24/news/8802240596_1_police-officer-river-cops-indictment

My cousin and I were cruising through Overtown one night, looking to score some weed. Overtown was the best example of inner-city decay at the time, and most cops were even afraid to go in there after dark. Well, we come around the corner, I'm driving my Dade Cable van (this was before Storer Cable bought Dade Cable out... I cussed Peter Storer out to his face too, but that's a different story) and there was a cop car sitting right in front of where we wanted to go so my cousin says "go around a couple blocks and come back". I drive 2 more blocks down, make a right, go 3 blocks, make another right, go the two blocks to the stop sign to turn right to where the dope house was and my cousin says "go ahead and turn, the cop is gone!" I put my blinker on, check the rear view... and say "yeah, he's right behind us!"

I turn right, and the cop blue lights me immediately. I pull over, get my license out and wait for him to come to the window. He gets to the window and it's this HUGH (and I was 6'3", 235) African American cop. He asks me "what are you doing in this area?" I say "just driving around and a little lost". Cop says "don't bullshit me, I grew up in this neighborhood and I *KNOW* what you're doing here!" My cousin leans over and says "ok, we were here to get a dime bag of weed but you wree parked where we wanted to go, so we were driving around waiting for you to leave!"

I'm about to shit myself in disbelief when the cop looks at me and says "there, was THAT so hard to do? You have this nice van full off electronics and I don't want to see you get ripped off for it. I'll follow you down, you get your weed, then get the hell out of here"! He followed us.. we got our weed, he waved us goodbye and we were on our way back home. That was the good cop!

Another time I got popped for driving on suspended license and the cop was taking me to jail. He pissed me off, so I was getting to be a smartass with him. He didn't like that, o he pulled into an alley between some buildings, yanked me out of the car and was gonna tune me up a litte. Suddenly we heard a noise, he looks up and a guy is coming down a fire escape with a pillowcase full of stuff and a bicycle over his shoulder. The cop lokked at the guy coming down, pulled out his gun, and shot dude off the fire escape. He then looked at me and asked "you didn't see *ANYTHING*, did you??" I said "NO SIR! DIDN'T seee NOTHING!!" He said "Good, now get out of here before I shoot you too! I was gone in a flash and never looked back.... This was a bad cop!

Peace,

Ghost