No charges for Miami-Dade officers in bloody sting that killed four suspects, including informant
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Thursday, 03.13.14
No charges for Miami-Dade officers in bloody sting that killed four suspects, including informant
Prosecutors criticized a Miami-Dade police squad in the 2011 Redland sting that left four dead but they said there was not enough evidence to support charges.
By David Ovalle
dovalle@MiamiHerald.com
A group of Miami-Dade police officers will not face criminal charges in a botched, bloody 2011 sting in the Redland that killed four armed robbers in a hail of bullets including a law enforcement informant who had surrendered and was lying on the ground.
But in a stinging 40-page final report released Thursday night, the Miami-Dade State Attorneys Office also stopped short of ruling that most of the members of the departments Special Response Team were justified in gunning down the band of armed robbers at the South Miami-Dade rural property.
Prosecutors branded many decisions of the officers that chaotic June night unusual, counter-intuitive, suspicious
disturbing, and pointed out severe flaws in the police operations.
Miami-Dade police detectives, working with an informant within the gang, had tricked the men into believing there was a sizable marijuana stash inside a home on the 18900 block of Southwest 216th St. The investigation into the gang was set up by the Miami-Dade robbery bureaus Street Terror Offender Program, known as STOP, a group that targets violent career criminals.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/13/3993660/no-charges-for-miami-dade-officers.html#storylink=cpy
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Right....
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)We need a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)rpannier
(24,330 posts)When they do, no matter how obvious the crime, the jury won't convict.
It's a sad state of affairs, that will continue until the public stops giving police a free ride on everything they do
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Sad, but true.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)This crap happens way too often.