The Agitator has the transcript and audio tape (warning: very explicit) of a brutal case of what can only be described as torture by the police of a drug suspect:
The police are attempting to get the illiterate man to sign an admission of guilt without telling him what it says. They beat him, over and over, hook electrodes up to testicles and shock him, threaten to kill him, and threaten to go after his family. Early news accounts reported that the torture continued well beyond the end of the recording. After the tape ran out, the same deputies apparently repeatedly submerged the guy's head in a fish tank and a bath tub, threatening to drown him unless he confessed.
How have we sunk to such depths? Listening to the audio was like putting an earpiece to a Soviet gulag. And that's not a comparison I make lightly.
If it wasn't for the extraordinary audio tape, this barbarism probably would never have been dealt with:
It's worth keeping in mind when you read about a case in which a suspect claims his confession was beaten out of him, and police, to a man, keep to a remarkably tight story stating otherwise (as they did in Siler's [the victim's] case, before the audio came out).
The transcript bears this claim out--the officers tell their victim what "happened"--that they came in, he first fled then resisted arrest, nearly beat them up, so they had to fight back (by electrocuting his testicles, obviously).
May they rot in jail for the rest of their miserable lives.
Via Sebastian Holsclaw.
sweet jesus.
ReplyDeleteToo bad all worthless dope-selling vermin wouldn't be treated the same. Thank you, officers.
ReplyDelete"Too bad all worthless dope-selling vermin wouldn't be treated the same. Thank you, officers"
ReplyDeleteSorry, I thought this was America: innocent until proven guilty.
We lower ourselves to the level of the police when we accept their torsuring suspects for out benefit. How low do we have to get?
ReplyDeletedeath sentence for the cops.
ReplyDeletedeath sentence after torture in front of a public audience.
sick fuuuuccckkkss.
Damn...
ReplyDeleteAll five officers involved were fired, tried and convicted, and sentenced to terms of between 42 months and 72 months. It ain't life in prison but it ain't a cake walk either.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/text/0,1406,KNS_347_28813,00.html
Hell that shit goes on every day in this great country from sea to shinning sea and does that mean that all cops are guilty by association, some are just criminals to me it sounds that they just wanted the dope and money, perhaps the cops are running their own drugs...
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