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.
(Excerpt) Read more at henrycountyreport.com ...
I hate anybody that says blacks must return to Africa.
What if I said, “We should have picked our own damned cotton.”
Why wait 15 years to break the news in a day when we have whistle blower protection laws? Something smells very fishy...
If that is the case, and a perverse incentive exists for cops to arrest the innocent, then we should see this occurring all over the country and across all racial groups
Non sequitur - we'd see it only if it were commonly the case that someone who knew of it had motive to bring it to light.
Well you would not have that dixie land song lol, /sarc
“Well I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times are not forgotten, look away, look away, look away, Dixie land”.
You know what, my Boss came from there, has BA and MA computer sci and communications, does not want to go back.
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I agree with you, but blacks today are 5th-6th generation Americans.
If it was indeed documented, everyone who perused those documents and failed to report the injustice should be locked up and the key thrown away. There is no excuse for that, even when dealing with real criminals.
It appears the officers who made the accusations are frustrated innocent people are still imprisoned and the individuals in law enforcement who were involved have faced zero discipline or prosecution.
Hundreds of innocent people rot in prisons for 15 years, waiting the “honest” officers to get frustrated enough to finally blow the whistle? Possible, but seems unlikely...
Except they did not wait. They blew the whistle back then, repeatedly, within the chain of command.
Really, it's all in the article if you care to read it.
This makes up for?
How about you get arrested and go prison to make up for someone elses crime? Makes up for? Whats wrong with you? Could you have said anything worse?
If that is the case, and a perverse incentive exists for cops to arrest the innocent, then we should see this occurring all over the country and across all racial groups
Non sequitur - we'd see it only if it were commonly the case that someone who knew of it had motive to bring it to light.
I showed that your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise ... which is what "non sequitur" means.
Regarding the motive to bring it to bring the perverse incentive to light, it is possible that an institutional cover-up exists nationwide
Red herring. There need be no nationwide institutional cover-up, only a collection of local 'blue walls of silence' - against which our battered Christian Ethos is far-from-reliable protection (IMO you were more right than wrong when you said it "existed", past tense).
last time I checked, the US constitution required the individual to be found guilty, not collective or transferable guilt
What? This is not Ad Hominem...honestly, are you taking psychotropic drugs? You have just shown the world that you do not understand what “non sequitur” and “red herring” mean. Just a reminder, you are the one that suggested that a perverse incentive exists for policemen arrest the innocent and plant false evidence. I employed reductio ad absurdum and you shout “non sequitur” and “red herring”. Go figure.
I'm content to let the reader decide.
Correct, I did not.
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