For framing innocent black men, a Florida police chief gets three years in prison

[malaise]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article222205540.html

Raimundo Atesiano, the former Biscayne Park police chief who directed his officers to frame innocent black men for a series of unsolved burglaries, admitted he wanted to appease community leaders and polish the village’s property crimes record.

Even in a small village of about 3,000 residents, the pressure was just too much, he said.

“When I took the job, I was not prepared,” Atesiano told a federal judge on Tuesday. “I made some very, very bad decisions.”

His apologies did not sway U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore, who on Tuesday sentenced the 53-year-old former cop to three years in prison. He allowed Atesiano to remain free for two weeks before surrendering so he can care for his mother, who is dying of leukemia.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article222205540.html#storylink=cpy

[RT Atlanta]

1. Terrible

Hope there is some form of remuneration that he and/or the police dept. are ordered to pay to those falsely framed.

Expect there will be a large African American population at the jail where he will serve time. Perhaps they will help the former police chief see the err of his ways?

[Basement Beat]

2. I wonder how many innocent men...

missed out on the last days of their loved one's lives. Or funerals missed. Stop showing so much compassion to people who outwardly ruin and end lives just because they are behind a shield.

He should get every falsified day that those innocent victims received.

[malaise]

3. I had the identical thought

Bangs head

[lostnfound]

7. I think the compassion is being given to the mother, not the man

No reason to rob her of the company of her son in her final days.

[flotsam]

9. Take it a step further

Every person facing trumped up charges spent many weeks or months twisting in the wind and confused as their lives disintegrated in the system-these folks suffered much more and much longer that JUST time served in jail.

[pansypoo53219]

11. damn straight.

[Historic NY]

4. Disgusting.

[safeinOhio]

5. Under Color of Law.

I’ve seen judges throw the maximum at those violations, as they should.

[lostnfound]

6. Better than nothing. Nt

[USALiberal]

8. I am shocked any police officer ever gets punished! nt

[dalton99a]

10. Kick