rollingstoned!
Bluelighter
http*//www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/camden_police_officer_in_polic.html
http*//www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/camden_police_officer_in_polic.html
These stories are more common than many people would care to admit.
This isnt exactly about officers planting evidence, but about them lying....
One time at a protest the police surrounded us on TWO sides...the state park troopers on the other TWO sides. The BOTH ordered us to disperse but would NOT ALLOW US TO LEAVE, even as they were giving the order....peaceful legal permitted protest....being broken up because some other march down the road had an unruly protester who spray painted a political slogan on a temporary wall that was coming down in a few days anyway.....had nothing to do with us....
Anyways, they charged us with "failure to obey" and "Failure to disperse". They claimed that they were not preventing us from leaving because they only blocked us on two sides....together they blocked us on all 4 and would not allow us to escape....next they started beating people with clubs, including old women and small children, used plastic handcuffs so tight that peoples hands turned blue, threw us onto busses for as long as 14 hours with no food or water or bathroom access, then booked us downtown and gave us FBI files after a harsh interrogation....We did nothing wrong besides holding signs in a park and played some drums. Nobody did anything illegal. Nobody was antagonizing the police.
That sounds like the shit that happened on Pitt's campus during G-20. More than likely the guy that caused the shit in the first place was probably an undercover cop posing as an "Anarchist" to give them an excuse to arrest peaceful protesters.
These anecdotal reports and opinions are fine and all but I wonder why someone has not posted documented court proceedings of these sort of things.
I have had numerous run in's with the law and have had my share of bad and decent treatment by them.