Officer William Melendez: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

[damnedifIknow]

1. Melendez Put Dent Into a Chokehold & Hit Him in the Head 16 Times"

2. He Fatally Shot an Unarmed Man in 1996 While He Was on the Ground"

3. He Was Accused of Planting Evidence & Has Been Sued At Least 12 Times"

4. Protesters Have Called for Justice for Dent"


5. Dent Plans to Fight the Drug Charges"

http://heavy.com/news/2015/03/william-melendez-officer-robocop-inkster-michigan-police-floyd-dent-beating-brutality-arrest-video-photos-lawsuit-suspended-investigation-detroit/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. That is an excellent read

And I like Mr. Dent's style - he's right - An innocent man does not plead guilty.


This will be an interesting one to watch on DU because it's looking like Mr. Dent is clean as a whistle. Literally clean.

[bravenak]

2. There is something terrible going on in that place.

I do not trust that police chief and I hope the federal government investigates what is going on up there. Dent was being honest, and that cop is a straight up liar. He's been getting away with this kinda stuff for years. This is wha happens when killer cops are not arrested and put on trial. They feel rightous and continue to damage and destroy.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. brave

When I saw Inkster - I wasn't shocked. That's not a place you can do a controlled delivery of goods and expect cooperation from the police. They aren't honest enough. Killeen Texas - yep. Toledo Ohio - Yep. Los Angeles - yep.

Inkster - nope. Might as well be in rural GA.

[bravenak]

4. But the levels of corruption run so deep.

I wonder if there are and cops out there who DON't bet the crap out of innocent people. I guess we should get used to the fact that ferguson is everywhere. I would expect them to at least chill out for a decade.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. You would think

You would think they would lay low.

Between Ferguson and Fort Lauderdale you would think every police Chief and Commisioner in the country would be sitting their employees down and say:

Get your heads out of your asses and do what those people pay you to do. Now stand up straight and fly right.

I think not a Police Force in the country (Maybe Pittsburgh could) could pass an internal audit by a Corporate Compliance officer.

[bravenak]

6. It's a part of cop culture.

I think that these recordings will continue to come out until they end this war on communities. They really do seem to think it's a war.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. I want body cameras on them

You turn it off - you are fired.

I'm in Corporate America - I don't get the second, third, fourth etc etc chances these people are getting. I fuck up - I'm fired. I'm flawless - I get laid off.

They need a hard dose of the real world.

[Downwinder]

9. Put a cockpit voice recorder in their vehicles.

And GPS tracking.

Good enough for pilots.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. There is serious truth here

And it protects good officers when they do come up against a genuinely bad apple.

[bravenak]

10. I agree.

They should not be a protected class in the way they are. No way he should have been on the streets.

[hifiguy]

8. Yet criminals like him keep their jobs as kkkops.

Police unions have an omerta that the Mafia can only dream of.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. And we the tax payers

Are the ones they shake down for the money when the citizen wins the law suit. That chaps my ass.