So Darren Wilson has a clean record?
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Brown. His crime was negligible, reminds us of Jean Valjean’s. Yet some are arguing he deserved to die.
Ferguson police beat a man and then charged him with ‘destruction of property’ for bloody uniforms
Daily Beast article by Michael Daly, was the way use of force complaints were treated by the Ferguson PD.
In brief, Henry Davis was arrested in Ferguson on Sept 9, 2009, when he took the wrong exit off of the highway and pulled over to wait for a heavy rain to lighten. He was arrested in a case of mistaken identity, beaten by four officers in his cell, after they knew he was innocent, and then charged with damaging police property i.e. he got blood on their uniforms. BTW, first they handcuffed him. Then they beat him.
Schottel got another unpleasant surprise when he sought the use-of-force history of the officers involved. He learned that before a new chief took over in 2010 the department had a surprising protocol for non-fatal use-of-force reports.“The officer himself could complete it and give it to the supervisor for his approval,” the prior chief, Thomas Moonier, testified in a deposition. “I would read it. It would be placed in my out basket, and my secretary would probably take it and put it with the case file.”
No copy was made for the officer’s personnel file.
Daily Beast – August 15, 2014
Chief Jackson changed that policy when he took up the reins of the department in 2010, but a policy change that fundamentally alters the long term relationship between the police and the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect, would probably take a while to implement. If it could, in fact, be implemented.
the report of one woman who had an earlier encounter with him.
Daily Beast article as signing the complaint and then denying the facts in their depositions.
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