Wednesday, March 6, 2013

"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
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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.
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: 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

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the near future, handing out OPPT papers to police officers will have the effect, for them, of taking an icy shower, when they realize they have unlimited personal responsibilities for their acts. Which police officer would be willing to lose all his possessions?

Anonymous said...

Nice thought, when OPPT is proven to the public to be valid AND enforceable. I really hope it is, but before I shove papers in a cops face, given the rampant brutality we are all too familiar with, I need more than I have now to hang my hat on it. TYJM frj