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eridani

(51,907 posts) Mon Jan 19, 2015, 03:12 AM Jan 2015

NYPD Under Investigation for Routinely Planting Guns on Suspects and Fabricating--

--Circumstances of Arrests

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28109-nypd-under-investigation-for-routinely-planting-guns-on-suspects-and-fabricating-circumstances-of-arrests

A Brooklyn man who claimed the police manufactured gun-possession charges against him had his case dismissed on Thursday, amid two investigations into the practices of a group of police officers in the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush.

The man, Jeffrey Herring, had maintained his innocence ever since his arrest on June 4, 2013, asserting that officers had planted the gun on him and fabricated the circumstances of his arrest.

The officers claimed that they got a tip from a confidential informer that Mr. Herring had a gun. Prosecutors had been instructed to bring the informer to court on Thursday; the defense had challenged whether that informer even existed.

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NYPD Under Investigation for Routinely Planting Guns on Suspects and Fabricating-- (Original Post) eridani Jan 2015 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Jan 2015 #1

+10 sakabatou Jan 2015 #7

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2015 #2

fucking cops gopiscrap Jan 2015 #3

Here's your motive for these cops fabricating this: icymist Jan 2015 #4

KnR Hekate Jan 2015 #5

"One man, Eugene Moore, could not afford bail. He spent a year in jail until a hearing..." pinboy3niner Jan 2015 #6

Kick, kick, kick! Heidi Jan 2015 #8

Kick N Rec-nt Anansi1171 Jan 2015 #9

It'd be nice if society could track sources of these guns, but scientific analysis based on data lostnfound Jan 2015 #10

Response to eridani (Original post)

1000words This message was self-deleted by its author.

sakabatou

(42,165 posts)

7. +10

Reply to 1000words (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 05:07 AM

Jan 2015

uponit7771

(90,348 posts)

2. +1

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 03:45 AM

Jan 2015

gopiscrap

(23,762 posts)

3. fucking cops

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 03:49 AM

Jan 2015

they're all like that and we let it happen by not challenging them..."give them respect my ass" fight the fuckers anyway legal...do what they in a stop so the fuckers won't shoot you, but don't cow tow to rage aholic arrogant anti social assholes

icymist

(15,888 posts)

4. Here's your motive for these cops fabricating this:

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:04 AM

Jan 2015

From the article:
<snip>
Eight months into the case, prosecutors gave defense lawyers papers showing that the police had requested a $1,000 tip for a confidential informer in this case.
<un-snip>
Gee, at $1000 a pop, how much money did these guys, um... the 'informant', make last year?

Hekate

(90,763 posts)

5. KnR

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:15 AM

Jan 2015

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

6. "One man, Eugene Moore, could not afford bail. He spent a year in jail until a hearing..."

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:20 AM

Jan 2015

One man, Eugene Moore, could not afford bail. He spent a year in jail until a hearing in which a judge said he did not find the testimony from a detective, Gregory Jean-Baptiste, “to be credible” and dismissed and sealed the case. Another man, John Hooper, also spent almost a year in jail after his arrest. After a hearing in which a justice said he found it “incredible that they thought it was a gun,” speaking of the officers, prosecutors offered Mr. Hooper time served and he accepted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/nyregion/charges-dismissed-in-brooklyn-gun-case-as-police-are-investigated.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=3

Heidi

(58,237 posts)

8. Kick, kick, kick!

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 08:51 AM

Jan 2015

Anansi1171

(793 posts)

9. Kick N Rec-nt

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 10:36 AM

Jan 2015

lostnfound

(16,189 posts)

10. It'd be nice if society could track sources of these guns, but scientific analysis based on data

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 02:32 PM

Jan 2015

Collection of data is precluded by the NRA. No serial numbers? Would love to be able to have investigations of 1) where do crazy people and felons get their guns and 2) how many guns found near victims of police shootings were found during previous confiscations.

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