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This week, the Seattle Police Department issued an apology to a 70-year-old black veteran who was arrested last summer when a female officer apparently falsely accused him of threatening her with a golf club.
William Wingate, a 69-year-old Seattle man who regularly used his golf club as a cane, was standing on a street corner last summer when Officer Cynthia Whitlatch pulled up next to him.
In a exchange captured on her police cruiser's dash cam, Whitlatch accused Wingate of threatening her with his club, repeatedly warning him, "You're being audio and videotaped."
But as the police department conceded, there's no evidence at allmuch less a recordingshowing that Wingate threatened Whitlatch in any way.
Read the rest at: http://gawker.com/seattle-pd-sorry-about-arresting-70-year-old-black-vete-1682456896
Edited to add link to additional story:
Seattle Police Chief Kathleen OToole Orders Review of Officer Cynthia Whitlatch's Conduct
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2015/01/28/seattle-police-chief-kathleen-otoole-orders-review-of-officer-cynthia-whitlatchs-conduct
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)(For the benighted amongst us, yes, its sarcasm.)
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Since when is a golf club a f*cking weapon?
See how easy it is for an innocent Black man to catch a misdemeanor conviction to avoid imprisonment?
This burns me up.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)That's the most critical point here.
He had to admit to a crime just to avoid being locked up off the cop's word alone.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)but a golf club can be lethal, ask Martha Moxley's family.
...Moxley's body was found underneath a tree in her family's backyard. Her trousers and underwear were pulled down, but she had not been sexually assaulted. Pieces of a broken six-iron golf club were found near the body. An autopsy indicated she had been both bludgeoned and stabbed with the club, which was traced back to the Skakel home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_Moxley
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)CanonRay
(14,111 posts)and hope to be believed? Her credibility is now and forever shot to shit. Which makes her semi-worthless as a cop.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)So unless you Google her or remember her name, she goes back into the pool of cops and the subset of racist ones at that.
People like her are no different than the Klan. In fact she does more damage nowadays. The Klan wishes they could ruin minority lives under force of law by handing out misdemeanor (and even felony ) convictions on innocent minorities.
CanonRay
(14,111 posts)and won't hesitate to use it, totally admissable as it goes to credibility. She's done as a cop in court.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Can that be challenged in court?
CanonRay
(14,111 posts)not sure if it would be successful, but if I were in jail, I'd sure as hell give it a shot.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)See, Brady Disclosure(s): http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/must-officers-prior-misconduct-be-disclosed-in-discovery/
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)all cops are like that! No wonder so many people hate them!
Madmiddle
(459 posts)republican scum. They hate Americans like Nazis hated the Jewish.
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drynberg
(1,648 posts)Him a lot of money. Does this Vet have a sharp lawyer? It's not too late to act. This is what the power brokers understand...lots of zeros with a number in front of the amount they have to pay for this crap.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)A lawsuit would cause Seattle taxpayers to pay. Those aren't the power brokers.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Gulf club.
And was walking !
matt819
(10,749 posts)If you aren't flabbergasted by this video, you aren't paying attention. This cop was so out of line, it's no joke. And, yet, if you go to the link, you'll see that she wasn't fired. She was counseled. What a crock. She's delusional.
Video evidence, physical evidence, whatever you want, it's not going to hurt them. During the MLK day protests downtown, there were multiple SPD officers who assaulted protesters with pepper spray. One of them was turning away to go to the sidewalk so he wouldn't get in trouble when he got sprayed full in the face. There's video evidence and numerous eyewitness accounts (including mine) that he was sprayed for no reason at all. Do I have any hope that cop's going to face charges, or even disciplinary action? Not at all.
Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)It should be easy to round up the hundreds of golf club-toting outlaws on the golf courses around Seattle.
irisblue
(33,018 posts)Racist rants worthy of a Ferguson PD member.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)The poor little poor white person meme, that is usually dragged out by a racist ass. It sounded like a speech right from a whiny white pride or klan rally.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)albino65
(484 posts)The video at gawker is very telling, and you can't fake that.