Posted on 12/02/2015 9:22:30 AM PST by Theoria
HUNDREDS OF CASES PROSECUTED WITH PLANTED EVIDENCE, MANY WRONGLY CONVICTED STILL IN PRISON
The Alabama Justice Project has obtained documents that reveal a Dothan Police Department’s Internal Affairs investigation was covered up by the district attorney. A group of up to a dozen police officers on a specialized narcotics team were found to have planted drugs and weapons on young black men for years. They were supervised at the time by Lt. Steve Parrish, current Dothan Police Chief, and Sgt. Andy Hughes, current Asst. Director of Homeland Security for the State of Alabama. All of the officers reportedly were members of a Neoconfederate organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “racial extremists.†The group has advocated for blacks to return to Africa, published that the civil rights movement is really a Jewish conspiracy, and that blacks have lower IQ’s . Both Parrish and Hughes held leadership positions in the group and are pictured above holding a confederate battle flag at one of the club’s secret meetings.
The documents shared reveal that the internal affairs investigation was covered up to protect the aforementioned officers’ law enforcement careers and keep them from being criminally prosecuted.
Several long term Dothan law enforcement officers, all part of an original group that initiated the investigation, believe the public has a right to know that the Dothan Police Department, and District Attorney Doug Valeska, targeted young black men by planting drugs and weapons on them over a decade. Most of the young men were prosecuted, many sentenced to prison, and some are still in prison. Many of the officers involved were subsequently promoted and are in leadership positions in law enforcement. They hope the mood of the country is one that demands action and that the US Department of Justice will intervene.
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Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit
Convictions overturned... voting rights restored
Well, yeah. Don’t they have a course at the LEO academy on planting evidence to prove a crime.
If the documents are valid, the convicts should be freed, compensated, and have their records wiped, even if they wre “known” to be guilty of similar crimes but the cops had no proof. The cops and those who covered it up belong in prison for at least triple damages - three times as long as they sent innocent people to prison.
If this is true and there is ample evidence to support this, fry the bastards, I am no fan of the stupid thugs but not a fan of stupid cops that believe they can get away with this, let bubba deal with them in prison if they get convicted.
P.S. Regardless of my skin color I am American I am not going anywhere, but they can go, down to Hell that is.
Sounds really bad.
But the Southern Poverty Law Center does not have a good track record at objectivity.
That and the city disbanded and returned to the county for governance.
Too many criminals get away with their thuggery due to evidence that is suppressed or deemed “irrelevant” by the type of scum lawyer that the SPLC has employed..
Lets say this makes up for the ones that are getting away with murder.
I love how they got the Confederate flag mentioned. This is agenda driven - maybe even false.
How much Federal money did that bring in?
How much State funding?
Is the local prison/jail a commercial venture or State/County owned?
If a Commercial venture, who owns it?
Who has the meal and custodial contracts at the jail?
In either instance above, are those ventures, should they be commercial or contract services, owned by people related to those in the local judiciary, DA's office, or Police Department?
Agreed. But the Southern Poverty Law Center has nothing to do with this (other than labeling the organization the officers belong to).
Somewhat sceptical...lets see statistics on Dothan’s drug related crimes compared to similar demographic cities. Revisionism is rampant today. While I certainly see a motive for falsifying historical records to give felons the right to vote, I find it hard to see the motive of planting drugs on an innocent person? Additionally, across the country the statistics say that young black men deal drugs and commit crimes in the greatest percentages of any group...(1 in 4 go to prison)...
This is full of shizzit.
Anything from the SPLC is highly suspect as being a pack of lies.
At best this is all untrue. At least - maybe 10 percent.
If true; a disgusting situation. Something that happens in 3rd world countries; should NEVER happen here.
Absurd, and something you should mutter to yourself in private.
Being innocent in prison is hell.
“the Southern Poverty Law Center has nothing to do with this”
How do you know?
Yes that is a fact, but we also hold dear the idea of holding the individual accountable, not in holding a group responsible.
Secondly, .gov is always never to be trusted, but held accountable in all levels.
Those cops have to go to jail.
All of which are purported to have occurred in the 20th century. Since then convictions have been overturned and perpetrators have been convicted. This is a very old story that saw the light of day 15 years ago.
Years ago, at least one Texas police department between Houston and Shreveport, La. used to routinely pull over cars with young white males in them — particularly if the cars had a Shreveport album rock station bumper sticker.
After a search, if they found no drugs they would plant them and arrest the occupants of the car.
This went on for several years.
If it’s true, fry every pos involved with this fiasco. Sending innocents to prison on false charges should be a death penalty crime. “Innocent’ in this case meaning not guilty of the crime they were falsely prosecuted for.
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