Michigan Judge Pulls No Punches in 30-Minute Sentencing Tirade Against Police Officer
Source: .Mic
Michigan Judge Pulls No Punches in 30-Minute Sentencing Tirade Against Police Officer
By Zak Cheney-Rice
3 hours ago
In a speech that lasted almost 30 minutes, Judge Vonda Evans of Detroit laid into 47-year-old William Melendez, the former Inkster, Michigan, police officer caught on video beating an unarmed black man in January 2015.
Melendez was sentenced to 13 months to 10 years in prison Tuesday for his role in the attack on Floyd Dent, a 58-year-old black auto worker, that occurred during a late night traffic stop in the struggling Wayne County suburb last winter.
"The one image (from this trial) that stood out to the court was looking at Mr. Dent in his cell, shaking his head in disbelief of what had occurred to him," Evans said in a courtroom video published by local television station WJBK.
"If his conduct was indicative of what he was thinking, I would have thought this: 'What crime did I commit, being a black man in a Cadillac, stopped for a minor traffic offense by a group of racist police officers looking to do a nigger?'"
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LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)He's thinking "We can win this on appeal!"
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)Sometimes they do not even need to leave their home!
Truer words, unvarnished or not, have not been spoken enough by the justice system.
And make no mistake, this is not a red/blue state thing. This covers the whole country.
You hire racist bullies/thugs, you get thuggish behavior.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)When people are above the law, whether it's cops or Wall Street, they do the worst things because they can. You start convicting them and it will stop, simple as that!
Kudos to the D.A. and the judge!
Chakab
(1,727 posts)weren't charged, reenacting the beating for their colleagues at the station and laughing about it.
They'd also disabled all of their body microphones and lied in the police reports to back Melendez by claiming that Dent was belligerent and making violent threats.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-beaten-police-floyd-dent-passes-lie-detector-test-n333586
"A few bad apples" my ass.
trillion
(1,859 posts)all over the country came out in veil off darkness - often at 3am, and physically attacked the sleeping protestors and destroyed their belongings.
I haven't trusted cops since. They all look like fine in day light, but so do sociopaths.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Until people stopped showing up.
But if you watched the news, you would think everyone just got bored and went home.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)Cops have lost their humanity. They're bloodthirsty animals.
irisblue
(32,829 posts)Good!
frylock
(34,825 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts).nothing in this that gives grounds for an appeal. The other side will seize on anything.
jpak
(41,742 posts)FU racistdoosh
rot in the Heck
ldDUmiddlefingersmilie:
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)to be impeached. How dare she hold white cops accountable?
What will be fun will be when some inmate yells "hey, officer" and the entire population knows a cop is among them!
Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)are black or brown because of bigotry. I don't think they will be his buddies.
(I responded to the wrong post. I meant to respond to yardwork's post - Boom)