Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

Hojczyk ^ | September 3,2016 | Gerry Spence

[Hojczyk]

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state?

In Police State, legendary "country lawyer" Gerry Spence reveals the unnerving truth of our criminal justice system. In his more than sixty years in the courtroom, Spence has never represented a person charged with a crime in which the police hadn't themselves violated the law. Whether by hiding, tampering with, or manufacturing evidence; by gratuitous violence and even murder, those who are charged with upholding the law too often break it. Spence points to the explosion of brutality leading up to the murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, insisting that this is the way it has always been: cops get away with murder. Nothing changes.

Police State narrates the shocking account of the Madrid train bombings - how the FBI accused an innocent man of treasonous acts they knew he hadn't committed. It details the rampant racism within Chicago's police department, which landed teenager Dennis Williams on death row. It unveils the deliberately coercive efforts of two cops to extract a false murder confession from frightened and mentally fragile Albert Hancock, along with other appalling evidence from eight of Spence's most famous cases.

n Police State, Spence issues a stinging indictment of the American justice system. Demonstrating that the way we select and train our police guarantees fatal abuses of justice, he also prescribes a challenging cure that stands to restore America's promise of liberty and justice for all.

[Dawgreg]

I thought that bloviating jerk retired......guess not......

[Moonman62]

Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

[Safetgiver]

We (the police) are being asked to do a lot of social work along with law enforcement..That’s the problem. When I was a Peace Officer, I never put up with the crap until a Social Worker was hired by the City gov;’t. We beat a guy on his legs during a disturbance? We were brought in to the social worker. When I threw a guy down his steps when beating his wife, and his wife jumped me from behind and we all went down the steps? I was blamed for hurting the woman. The world has stuttered, stopped and backed up in AMERICA.

[Jack Hammer]

Well, then, let’s disband the police and let criminals run free.

Oh, and yes, let’s eliminate the Second Amendment and leave honest citizens naked to the depredations of murderers and other thugs.

[mfish13]

Madrid Train bombing. ISn’t Madrid in Spain?

[sargon]

Legendary douche Gerry Spence, a legend in his own mind.

You mean the "douche" that defended Randy Weaver and got him acquitted?

From Wikipedia:

Weaver was charged with multiple crimes relating to the Ruby Ridge incident, a total of ten counts including the original firearms charges and murder. Attorney Gerry Spence handled Weaver's defense, and argued successfully that Weaver's actions were justifiable as self-defense. The judge dismissed two counts after hearing prosecution witness testimony. The jury acquitted Weaver of all remaining charges except two, one of which the judge set aside. Weaver was found guilty of one count, failure to appear, for which Weaver was fined $10,000 and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He was credited with time served plus an additional three months, and was then released. Kevin Harris was acquitted of all criminal charges.

Gerry Spence, whatever else he may be, is at least a staunch defender of the Second Amendment right to self-defense, and did yeoman's work in the Weaver case...

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