Posted on 07/27/2018 9:11:20 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A former Florida police officer has pleaded guilty in a civil rights case regarding false arrests in which he admitted to framing innocent black men.
Guillermo Ravelo, 37, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Miami federal court to conspiracy to deprive a person of his civil rights and deprivation of civil rights under color of law.
Ravelo is accused of making the false arrests while working for the Biscayne Park Police Department in Miami in 2013 and 2014.
Prosecutors say Ravelo falsely arrested 35-year-old Clarens Desrouleaux in January 2013 for two residential burglaries, claiming at the time that he had confessed to the crime.
He also allegedly falsely arrested 31-year-old Erasmus Banmah for five vehicle burglaries despite knowing there was no evidence that connected him to the crimes.
Ravelo falsely claimed in paperwork that Banmah had taken him to the site and confessed to the items that he stole.
Authorities say Ravelo also struck and handcuffed another suspect during a traffic stop.
The charges against both Desrouleaux and Banmah were later dropped.
His boss at the time, Biscayne Park police chief Raimundo Atesiano, has been accused of urging his staff to pin unsolved crimes on random black people with prior records in a bid to boost the departments arrest rate.
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It is. He deserves a very long sentence.
Disgusting.
Or call it Treason and execute him/them.
Yes disgusting and evil.
Hopefully Biscayne Park police chief Raimundo Atesiano if
truly guilty will get to spend sometime among the guilty.
Good cops are great, no question about it. But bad cops are worse than the criminals they pretend not to be.
IMHO.
It only takes one for the left to impugn every cop.
It's too bad these bad apples keep popping up reinforcing the leftists view that cops are creeps.
Hey, it’s all good. They were black, after all. /sarc
Whether it’s Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein or the beat cop, “law enforcement” trying to pin a crime on innocent people is the lowest thing a government employee/agent can do.
kind of like Comey and Meuller
DIsgraceful. I hope they throw the book at them.
This doesn’t just harm the fellows they framed,
it harms all of us, it harms society.
What century are you in? Police are an all powerful government bureaucracy who are our geatest threat to freedom. The good ones are powerless & disappearing.
Amen. I have never been arrested, always try to live an honorable life; can’t imagine the chaos, expense, and grief a false arrest can cause for a person and their family. Moreover, targeting someone just because they are black! Sick bastards. This is the kind of crap we are fighting against. Toss these disgusting slugs in jail for a good long time.
Must be one of those Hispanic white supremacists.
He’d probably be right to do it more often than wrong but still cant do it. Ends doesn’t justify the means.
...and any law enforcement officer at any level convicted of doing so should face an extremely harsh sentence. Tyranny must be rebuked forcefully, and those who practice it under the auspices of government power should be made an example of as a lesson to any other official who would dare to even contemplate such a thing.
One bad cop. He will be tried and if guilty receive the appropriate
sentence.
You know what is evil? Gangs of blacks beating the heck out senior citizens; Black children being shot up because they’re caught up in gang crossfire;.staggering numbers of Black on black murders..
Where’ the outrage?
.
With you all the way there.
There's always a first time. But, I doubt it.
I’m pro police, but I never trust them. It don’t get any worse than this.
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