Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Ex-Florida police chief gets three years in plan to frame black people

quote [ The former police chief of a small Florida city will serve three years in prison for a conspiracy in his department to frame black people for crimes they did not commit. ]

Now he gets to be re-acquainted with the folks whose rights he violated. Full article in extended.

Reveal
MIAMI — The former police chief of a small Florida city will serve three years in prison for a conspiracy in his department to frame black people for crimes they did not commit.

A federal judge in Miami imposed the sentence Tuesday on ex-Biscayne Park chief Raimundo Atesiano, who had faced a maximum 10-year sentence. Three other former officers have also pleaded guilty in the case, which centered around efforts by Atesiano to improve his department's crime-solving rate.

Atesiano's lawyer says the victims were not randomly selected but were known to police as having criminal pasts.

Prosecutors say the crimes for which black people were falsely arrested included burglaries and vehicle break-ins.

Two ex-officers were sentenced to a year each in prison, while the third got just over two years behind bars.
[SFW] [crime & punishment] [+5 Good]
[by knumbknutz@7:34pmGMT]

Comments

EvilNinjaX24 said @ 9:43pm GMT on 28th Nov [Score:2 Underrated]
Three years seems so... few, I guess, for ruining a LOT of lives as well as violating the public trust. Shit, with good behavior, I'd imagine it'd be even less.
cb361 said @ 3:50pm GMT on 29th Nov [Score:1 Insightful]
Come on now, it's not as though he torrented a Disney movie online or anything
cb361 said @ 9:39pm GMT on 28th Nov [Score:1 Insightful]
The moustache was a dead give-away.
dolemite said @ 4:32am GMT on 30th Nov
Especially if he planned to coerce the resulting convicts into making porn.
zarathustra said @ 9:38am GMT on 29th Nov
I'm not a big fan of capital punishment, but since we have it this fucker should be first in line.
dolemite said @ 4:34am GMT on 30th Nov
3 years in general population might meet the same objective with less burden on the taxpayer. Janitors are cheaper than lawyers and executioners.

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