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Verdict upheld against police in gun-planting Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer A federal appeals court upheld $3.7 million in damages Tuesday against the city of Oakland and two police officers who, according to a jury, planted an assault rifle on a parolee's property. The officers, John Parkinson and Marcus Midyett, denied wrongdoing. Alex Katz, spokesman for City Attorney John Russo, called the verdict a "travesty" Tuesday and said that "the officers are the victims." John Burris, a lawyer for Smith and Gray, said Oakland should have fired both officers. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Verdict-upheld-against-police-in-gun-planting-3263947.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DOUBLE STANDARD: By Barry Leibowitz/CBC NEWS (CBS) IRVINE, Calif. - An Orange County couple, both lawyers, knew exactly what they were doing when they planted drugs on the president of the school PTA, Irvine police say. The couple face charges including one felony each of conspiracy to procure a false arrest, and conspiracy to falsely report a crime, Irvine police said. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/married-oc-lawyers-planted-drugs-on-pta-president-say-irvine-police/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NYPD Narcotics Detective Admits Cops Regularly Plant Drugs On Perps A former NYPD Detective testified last week that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest quotas. The corruption I observed... was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," Anderson testified, according to the Post. Asked by Justice Gustin Reichbach how he felt about setting up innocent men, Anderson replied, "It's almost like you have no emotion with it, that they attach the bodies to it, they're going to be out of jail tomorrow anyway; nothing is going to happen to them anyway." http://gothamist.com/2011/10/13/nypd_narcotics_detective_testifies.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIA unit's wacky idea: Depict Saddam as gay By Jeff Stein Posted at 6:00 AM ET, 05/25/2010 During planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA's Iraq Operations Group kicked around a number of ideas for discrediting Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his people. One was to create a video purporting to show the Iraqi dictator having sex with a teenage boy, according to two former CIA officials familiar with the project. “It would look like it was taken by a hidden camera,” said one of the former officials. “Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a sex session.” The idea was to then “flood Iraq with the videos,” the former official said. Another idea was to interrupt Iraqi television programming with a fake special news bulletin. An actor playing Hussein would announce that he was stepping down in favor of his (much-reviled) son Uday. “I’m sure you will throw your support behind His Excellency Uday,” the fake Hussein would intone. The spy agency’s Office of Technical Services collaborated on the ideas, which also included inserting fake “crawls” -- messages at the bottom of the screen -- into Iraqi newscasts. Video of Cops Planting Drugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6albpebjvQ Then Cop is cleared by superiors and district attorney. http://www.newschannel5.com/story/7943329/officer-cleared-of-wrongdoing |
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