IN ADDITION TO SHOOTING, BEATING AND STRANGLING UNARMED CITIZENS, COPS LOVE TO LIE ABOUT IT.

They plant evidence, and regularly lie about what happened in court.  No wonder they need body armor, militarized vehicles and weaponry!

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/29570-cops-have-been-setting-up-suspects-with-false-testimony-for-decades

Hater

Don't break the law and you won't have any
Of these consequences you describe.

KarlRove wrote:Don't break the law and you won't have any
Of these consequences you describe.

So says the white boy from the sticks who probably wears his uniform to eliminate...

You should probably read the article before commenting.  Here's some of it:

Cops Have Been Setting Up Suspects With False Testimony for Decades

By Frank Serpico, Politico
11 April 15


"I call it “testi-lying.” It has been a regular practice in police forces across the United States, at least since I served on the NYPD: official testimony that is made part of a police after-action report but is a pure lie, an invention. In the old days police would carry a “drop gun” or a “drop knife”—an inexpensive weapon cops would bring along on patrol to drop onto or next to a suspect they had taken out so they could say he had threatened them. Today you don’t even need to do that; all you have to do to justify the use of deadly force if you are a police officer is to say that you feared for your life, for whatever reason. If the victim dies, that just means there will be one less witness around to contradict the testi-lie.

In the case of former Officer Michael Slager of the North Charleston police, it appears he was being extra-careful to cover his tracks. Probably he could have gotten away with simply declaring, as he did in his radioed report, that Walter Scott “took my Taser,” and in the after-action report he would have said simply that he had felt threatened by Scott. That probably would have sufficed to exonerate him. But Slager, having shot Scott eight times in the back—as everyone can plainly see in the now-famous video—perhaps felt that he needed a little help explaining what he was up to. So he apparently dropped his Taser next to Scott’s body, which would obviously help to make the case that Scott “took my Taser.”

If you think that what happened in North Charleston is a unique case, it is not..."

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Sal wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:Not all cops are bad!

But all young black men who do not play for sport franchises of which you approve are.

We feel ya, Joanie.

Never ever ever said that.....and you know it.

Joanimaroni wrote:Not all cops are bad!

Yes, but the good ones won't speak up against the bad.

Legally, doesn't that make one a co-conspirator?

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:Not all cops are bad!

Yes, but the good ones won't speak up against the bad.

Legally, doesn't that make one a co-conspirator?

And you think that ia what happens all the time?

I have personally experienced police from Pensacola Beach lying in court. I have also been excused from jury duty by answering no to the question, "In the absence of other witnesses, do you trust the word of the police?" (paraphrasing)
Yes, I'd say the police stick together...and there might be repercussions for not supporting fellow officers who try to make their cases hold up in court. If police have an "incident" that falls outside of protocol, or if they make an arrest, from that point on, there is pressure to make the charges stick or the incident to appear "justified".

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:Not all cops are bad!

Yes, but the good ones won't speak up against the bad.

Legally, doesn't that make one a co-conspirator?

And you think that ia what happens all the time?

Yes.  Absolutely.  Show me ANY proof of a police officer reporting a fellow officer for brutality.  ANY PROOF.