Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

[womanofthehills]

The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what seems like an unlikely stroke of cosmic karma, the recording came about after a camera belonging to the protester, Michael Picard, was illegally seized by a trooper who didn’t know that it was recording and carried it back to his patrol car, where it then captured the troopers’ plotting.

“Let’s give him something,” one trooper declared. Another suggested, “we can hit him with creating a public disturbance.” “Gotta cover our ass,” remarked a third.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/police-accidentally-record-themselves-conspiring-fabricate-criminal-charges-against

[uponit7771]

1. Yeap, I would put good money on it that the relationship with the local LEOs and the community is

... bad too.

I notice no one in DFW blew up over he bad shooting here that was on the news for around a week.

I didn't see any blow ups in Tulsa either...

That's a tell tale to me the LEOs there have bad leadership

[gopiscrap]

2. Typical

fucking crooked cops

[underpants]

3. Damn that's was really stupid of them

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Why?

They do whatever they want and nothing ever sticks. When cops start serving prison terms for their actions, then it will be dumb.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. K&R for exposure.

These crooked cops ought to be arrested and charged.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. K&R

Makes me sick. And it makes me wonder just how many times this goes on as a matter of course.

The police have turned from working to protect citizens rights to finding ways to erase them.

[Mariana]

7. Imagine that, three cops, and all three of them conspiring

to fuck this person over. Funny how it always seems to happen that way - when one cop does wrong, all the other cops on the scene go along with it. Not one of these three said anything like, "No, that's not right, we shouldn't charge him for something he didn't do." No, all of them knew that the others would have no problem falsifying their reports. It was simply a matter of getting their lies straight ahead of time. Kinda does away with any idea that rotten cops are just a few bad apples, doesn't it?