"LYING by police officers is done in EVERY court in the U.S. on a DAILY basis."

Reader W: "LYING by police officers is done in EVERY court in the U.S. on a DAILY basis."

Posted By: Lion [Send E-Mail]
Date: Tuesday, 5-Mar-2013 16:54:21

In Response To: NYPD Lied Under Oath To Prosecute Occupy Activist (Lion)

----------- Thanks, W Re: NYPD Lied Under Oath To Prosecute Occupy A.... LYING by police officers is done in EVERY court in the U.S. on a DAILY basis. All jurors needs to UNDERSTAND THIS -- Jurors tend to THINK that police officers don't lie and, because of this, they are letting their fellow citizens be QUASHED by the courts. *********** : NYPD Lied Under Oath To Prosecute Occupy Activist - And Gets : Caught By Jury : An Occupy Wall Street activist was acquitted of assaulting a : police officer and other charges on Thursday after jurors : were presented with video evidence that directly : contradicted the NYPD’s story. : Michael Premo was found innocent of all charges this week in : regards to a case that stems from a December 17, 2011 : Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Lower Manhattan. : For over a year, prosecutors working on behalf of the New York : Police Department have insisted that Premo, a known artist : and activist, tackled an NYPD officer during a protest and : in doing so inflicted enough damage to break a bone. : During court proceedings this week, Premo’s attorney presented : a video that showed officers charging into the defendant : unprovoked. : The Village Voice reports that jurors deliberated for several : hours on Thursday and then elected to find Premo not guilty : on all counts, which included a felony charge of assaulting : an officer of the law. : Since his arrest, supporters of Premo have insisted on his : innocence. : “They're trying to make something out of nothing and they're : trying to charge him with something that didn't actually : occur,” colleague Rachel Falcone told Free Speech Radio : News this week. : After being arrested, the Manhattan District Attorney's office : presented Premo with a deal that would have let him off the : hook by pleading guilty to lesser charges. : Maintaining his innocence, however, he was determined to fight : the case in court. : Premo was “facing serious charges and potential substantial : jail sentence, even though he never should have been : arrested at all,” his supporters claimed in a post : published on The Laundromat Project website. : Nick Pinto of the Village Voice says he was nearby during the : December 2011 rally and recalls watching Premo’s arrest : from a distance. : In his report from court this week, Pinto explains how the : details provided by the NYPD in this trial have been : fabricated to such a degree that the allegations presented : by the cops turned out to be literally the opposite of what : occurred. : “Premo charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a : lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he : fractured an officer's bone. That's the story prosecutors : told in Premo's trial, and it's the general story his : arresting officer testified to under oath as well,” Pinto : writes. : He adds that attorneys for the defendant underwent a lengthy : search to try and find video that verified their own : account yjpihj, and found one in the hands of Democracy : Now. : “Far from showing Premo tackling a police officer,” writes : Pinto, that video “shows cops tackling him as he attempted : to get back on his feet.” : The footage obtained from Democracy Now also showed that an : NYPD officer was filming the arrest as well, but : prosecutors told Premo’s attorney that no such footage : existed. : "There is no justice in the American justice system, but : you can sometimes find it in a jury,” Premo tweeted after : he was acquitted this week. : In an interview given to NBC in 2012, Premo identified himself : as a spokesperson for the Occupy Wall Street movement. : He has also led an initiative in the New York area that have : provided relief to those that endured last year’s : Superstorm Sandy and has also advocated for fair housing. : "The biggest thing for me coming out of this," he : told the Voice, "is not being discouraged by the : attempts of New York City to quell dissent and prevent us : from expressing our constitutional rights." : Reprinted with permission from Russia Today. : March 5, 2013 : © 2013 Russia Today http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=271040