@60sgirl wrote:
@deeva wrote:
I wish more good cops would stand up against the blue wall of silence when they see their fellow officers abuse citizens and falsify reports.
where did you see examaples of police falsifying reports? During an internal investigation it is my understanding that no stone is left unturned.
just because the public doesn't agree with outcomes at times does not mean there was falsification or lies being told.
Here is just one exapmle, though I'm guessing this will get poofed.
A young man was shot by a police officer in Chicago 18 months ago. Numerous police were on scene, and they were requesting a unit with a taser to come to the scene, as the kid was not listening to orders to surrender. they had the streets blocked off, the kid was wandering around. in this video, a police car pulls up, a cop gets out and shoots the boy 16 times as he was walking away. The city kept this vidoe under wraps for 17 months. All of the police officers put in their official reports that the boy 'lunged' at this cop (meaning, it was justifiable). that was the official story until the video came out. It is right below, you can see for yourself, he did not lunge. He was walking away. The cop has now been charged with murder. The city tried to cover it up by paying the family 5 million dollars as long as they agreed to keep the video under wraps. If an investigative journalist had not sued to get the video released, that would have been the 'official' story, this cop would never had been charged, and would possibly go on to kill another person while on duty. Only after the video was released was the police superintendant fired. This is why there are protests daily in Chicago and calls for the mayor to resign.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/us/chicago-laquan-mcdonald-shooting-video/