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California cops planted drugs in a woman’s home to frame her after finding nothing in their illegal search of her home, a lawsuit alleges.
Allison Ross has filed a federal lawsuit against against the Santa Clara sheriff’s department, crime lab and 12 officers that she claims participated in a conspiracy to plant drugs in her house and frame her for a crime she did not commit.
Most shocking of all, Ross’s lawsuit alleges that dashcam footage actually recorded the police discussing their plan to plant drugs inside her house.
Police charged a New Jersey man with resisting arrest and assaulting an officer, but recently revealed footage from a dashboard camera told a different story: Not only did the officers start beating the man for no apparent reason, but they actually crashed one of their vehicles into the man’s car.
Then they allegedly lied about what transpired and suppressed the evidence, but were somehow found innocent during an internal investigation.
Prosecutors, however, dropped all charges against 30-year-old Marcus Jeter, a black man, once they saw the incredible video footage, which fully corroborates Jeter’s side of the story.
Jeter’s nightmare began when Bloomfield police pulled him over on the highway. Police claimed that Jeter eluded them, even though the footage clearly shows him pulling over promptly.
One of the officer’s approached Jeter’s vehicle with his gun raised, and pointed it directly in Jeter’s face. Another officer was carrying a shotgun in the altercation.
“I was afraid that I might get shot,” said Jeter in an interview with WABC.
What happened next was so crazy that Jeter’s lawyer didn’t believe it–until he saw the footage for himself. Another cop car responded to the scene and crashed right into Jeter’s vehicle. This detail was not mentioned at all in the police report, and the officers pretended like it never happened–until the video contradicted them.
Next, the footage clearly shows Jeter raising his hands in the air, initiating no violence against the officers. The cops respond by punching him repeatedly, all while yelling at him, “Stop resisting! Stop resisting!
Dashcam video shows that tension at the stop quickly escalated. Two officers jump out of the patrol car and order Jeter out of the car at gunpoint. One is holding a pistol at the man while a second holds a shotgun at his side.
A second tape, of a backup officer responding from the other side of the highway, shows the patrol car swerve across oncoming traffic and running into the front of Jeter’s SUV, causing him to hit his head on the steering wheel.
Neither that video nor the fact the officer struck Jeter’s SUV with his patrol car was ever mentioned in any police report of the incident.
“Get out the car!” one officer yells as he uses a baton to smash the driver’s side window. “Get out!”
Read more: www.nydailynews.com...
One officer retired after pleading guilty to tampering. Officers Orlando Trinidad and Sean Courter, both 33, were arraigned Friday on charges of official misconduct, tampering with public records, and false documents and false swearing, Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office told the Daily News. Trinidad also faces an aggravated assault charge, she said.
“The second dash cam video contradicted statements made by the police officers,” Carter said.
The fact it took so long for the second video to come to light enraged Bloomfield’s Mayor Michael Venezia, who said on his Facebook page that he was “outraged” over “this police cover-up.”
“I am outraged by the police dashboard video and the fact that these charges were initially dismissed by our internal affairs division,” he wrote. “This behavior is unacceptable. I have contacted the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office to request an investigation of our police department’s internal affairs division.”
Read more: www.nydailynews.com...
In all honesty I'm sure most of you understand that someone is arrested every 1.9 seconds in America. Over 13 million a year. Continuously trolling the cop hating websites to cherry pick out arrest that went wrong accomplishes nothing since 99.4% of all arrest go as planed and there is no need to post your hate. - See more at: www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: peter vlar
a reply to: jude11
Jude, in all fairness, it was a confidential informant who planted the drugs in that particular incident. Once the store owner and his attorney released the surveillance footage the charges were dropped and a manhunt was on for the CI who was prosecuted and is currently doing time for it.
originally posted by: benrl
originally posted by: peter vlar
a reply to: jude11
Jude, in all fairness, it was a confidential informant who planted the drugs in that particular incident. Once the store owner and his attorney released the surveillance footage the charges were dropped and a manhunt was on for the CI who was prosecuted and is currently doing time for it.
An in all fairness the CI was probably pressured into situation over something, most likely drug related by the very same police.
Prohibition has incentivized corruption and the police state.
So I guess its now the Citizens burden to ensure innocents after they prove you guilty first.
since 99.4% of all arrest go as planed and there is no need to post your hate. - See more at: www.abovetopsecret.com...