If cops aren’t shooting us dead, they’re planting evidence to “find” at crime-scenes. Fortunately, Officer Genius seems not to have understood how body-cameras work, so he inadvertently taped his assistance to the prosecution: “Police cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video before activation, but without audio.”
Ergo, the device was silently recording when, “during a drug arrest in January,” Genius “plac[ed] a soup can, which holds a plastic bag, into a trash-strewn lot. … the officer [then] walks to the street, and flips his camera on. ‘I’m gonna go check here,’ the officer says. He returns to the lot and picks up the soup can, removing the plastic bag, which is filled with white capsules.”
Imagine the damage these cretins would do us if they could walk and chew donuts at the same time! (And thanks to Bill Martin for the link.)
Second, in “The Cops Strike Again,” I argued that calling the cops is suicidal. A reader reminded me, “You don’t HAVE to call the cops! Sometimes, some other fiend calls them on you.” He’s suffered that problem twice, when “concerned citizens” reported him for “alleged crimes THAT DID NOT TAKE PLACE.”
Indeed, the woman in our story had done exactly that: she called the cops because she heard a rape in the alley behind her home. And she died, in her pajamas no less, when the cops shot her, not the assailant. (As Mark, another reader, wrote, “If armed government agents in any South American country acted in such a manner they’d be called what they really are, Death Squads.”)
Finally, with regards to “Cops Strike, II,” yet another sharp reader noticed there’s more to the story than the Boston Globe reported. It seems the dead man’s father has long been a thorn in the side of the local PD. Casts a whole new light on the cops’ extremely provocative and way-over-the-top “help,” doesn’t it?
11:31 am on July 20, 2017
