Today in cops gone feral

What a ginormous piece of shit.

 

duPont Manual High School. There is hope for our industry, or at least the journalism part of it.

Unrelated but also in Kentucky:

Two members of the grand jury involved in the Breonna Taylor case are accusing Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron of falsely representing their position on potential indictments for the officers involved in Taylor's death.

The jurors, who asked to remain anonymous, told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King in an exclusive interview that they were never presented with the option to consider indicting officers on charges directly linked to Taylor's death.

"It was a betrayal," Juror No. 2 said. "They didn't give us the charges up front… when they gave us all of that testimony, over 20-something hours, and then to say that these are the only charges that they're coming up with, it's like, 'Well, what did we just sit through?’ ” …

Juror No. 2 said there was an "uproar" among the grand jury when they were told by prosecutors that the wanton endangerment charge was the only one to consider after hours of testimony.

According to Juror No. 1, prosecutors said that "there were other possible charges" that were considered, but none they could "make stick."

"They never gave us the opportunity to deliberate on anything but the charges for Hankison. That was it," Juror No. 2 said. "There were several more charges that could have gone forward on all of those officers or at least the 3 shooters."

Asked what stands out to him the most, the jurors' lawyer Kevin Glogower said, "from a legal perspective, it looked like they weren't following the grand jurors and they only wanted the grand jurors to follow them, which is contrary to the actual rule."

"Normally," he said, "the grand jurors are presented with the law and the charges so that they can listen to the facts with an open mind and apply those facts to the law, almost as a road map."

In Breonna Taylor's case, Glogower said, "it was done in the complete reverse."

Juror No. 1 and No. 2 say what prompted them ultimately to speak out was the press conference held by the Kentucky attorney general. In it, Cameron said "While there are six possible homicide charges under Kentucky law these charges are not applicable to the facts before us because our investigation showed, and the grand jury agreed, that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their return of deadly fire."

While he did not give CBS News a new statement, Cameron told a local Kentucky TV station in September that if the grand jury "wanted to make an assessment about different charges, they could have done that."

The jurors claim they were never given the option to consider different charges, which left them feeling frustrated and disgusted.

Juror No. 1 said that press conference was the "first time" he heard any mention of "six possible murder charges."

"It was not presented to us," he said.

Juror No. 2 said he felt "this was all Cameron.”
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Breonna Taylor grand juror claims there was enough evidence for homicide charges, police "covered" their mistakes - CBS News

 

Dateline change: Philadelphia.



It gets uglier from there.

 

I’m surprised there’s only been one so far.

 

High-ranking ‘anti-harassment’ NYPD cop a virulent racist: City Council probe

https://nypost.com/2020/11/05/high-ranking-anti-harassment-nypd-cop-a-virulent-racist-city-council-probe/

 

But something, something Kathy Griffin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/09/arkansas-chief-resigns-parler-democrats/

 

Off-duty Forest Grove police officer accused of harassing family | kgw.com

He's on desk duty while the thing is investigated. My goodness. They always say they're police officers 24/7.

 

Heroes

 

Just another day that ends in 'y'

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