This reads like some sort of dark comedy.
These police officers plant drugs on the poor guy's car, they then take him out. He wasn't even the driver BTW.
Because he asks them to be careful of his recently stitched up stab wound the officers decide to toss him on the ground breaking open his stitches and causing him medical problems.
Then, they hold him for two weeks because of course he can't pay bail.
When it comes to light that the officers planted the evidence... mind you, not because the department handed over the footage, but because a non-profit got their hands on it... the case gets dropped.
The officers walk away with no punishment and the man got nothing for the two weeks he had to spend with ouy of a job and for his new medical expenses.
Is there a way to just start over when it comes to policing in America? Stories like these make me think that our problems are so deeply rooted that this is the only way to resolve them.
These police officers plant drugs on the poor guy's car, they then take him out. He wasn't even the driver BTW.
Because he asks them to be careful of his recently stitched up stab wound the officers decide to toss him on the ground breaking open his stitches and causing him medical problems.
Then, they hold him for two weeks because of course he can't pay bail.
When it comes to light that the officers planted the evidence... mind you, not because the department handed over the footage, but because a non-profit got their hands on it... the case gets dropped.
The officers walk away with no punishment and the man got nothing for the two weeks he had to spend with ouy of a job and for his new medical expenses.
Is there a way to just start over when it comes to policing in America? Stories like these make me think that our problems are so deeply rooted that this is the only way to resolve them.