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In reply to the discussion: Official autopsy shows Michael Brown had close-range wound to his hand, marijuana in system [View all]marym625
(17,997 posts)Taped the officers. The kid (I think around 18) had been charged with a gun offense prior to this and was cleaning up his act. The cops started picking him up and threatening him. They drove him around in cuffs and told him if he didn't give them a name they were going to plant a gun on him and he would do hard time.
He recorded all of it. When they picked him up after his 24 hours were up he was able to talk them into giving him a few more hours. He then gave everything to his attorney. They are now under investigation. Video is included in link below. There are other publications that are more "mainstream" but this one is a bit more detailed
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/st-louis-police-framing-gun-charges/
Here's a link to just the local news story
This article shows how horrible the "legal" system is in STLC.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/16/why-we-need-to-fix-st-louis/
Stuff in that article will make you think they can't be talking about the USA.
Last night one of the chiefs of police agreed to meet with the protesters if there was no press. For whatever reason, they allowed the streamers to stay. Although it was supposed to be no yelling and one person at a time, one of the protesters, the first to ask a question, wouldn't really allow the Chief to respond. He wasn't really giving straight answers but she was definitely not following his agreed rules. But he came in with a major attitude and said within the first couple minutes, "I don't have to do this" and "I will just leave if you're going to. .." This woman started saying to others she didn't want to talk to him anyway and kept telling him to please take his hand off his gun. He refused to remove it (resting on gun in holster) and he just stormed out. Whole thing couldn't have been 5 minutes.
It caused a great deal of friction between protesters as some wanted some serious dialog. But from what I saw, he was going to use the first excuse he could to high tail it out of there.
There are so many stories like the above out there it is mind blowing. There is zero transparency into law enforcement. There is no doubt in my mind that VonDerritt Myers was murdered.
Finally, on their lovely little local cop watch blog, they have this. That's the streamer who doesn't protest but a cop called her employer trying to get her fired.
