We can only try to document a few of the atrocities they commit against people of color, lie about them in sworn statements and when found to be lying there are no consequences to them for their actions.>
Everyone knows that when you write a statement it ought to be a statement of fact as to the best of one’s recollection. Police officers do not have the right to lie to incriminate an innocent person. Police and prosecutors are duty bound by law to turn over exculpatory evidence to defendants counsel, however, police and prosecutors summarily lie and destroy evidence they [know] is exculpatory.
Prosecutors summarily refuse to prosecute police even when they are caught lying under oath in court, nothing is done so they move on to the next series of lies to convict people they do not like.
On the other hand, their statements which ought to depict sequentially their encounters with members of the public are arbitrarily riddled with lies and inconsistencies- again without consequence to them.
HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE
Chicago police accused of wrongfully raiding another home
A Black family is suing the Chicago police department for allegedly breaking down their door and pointing guns at two children before attempting to cover up that they had no evidence for the raid, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The Winters family filed the lawsuit Tuesday for police wrongfully raiding their home, which has reportedly become a frequent occurrence for people of color in the city.
On the night of Aug. 7, 2019, the children, two girls aged 4 and 9, were reportedly sitting on the bed when police charged in the room without warning or a warrant. Police pointed their guns at the sisters’ father, Steven Winters, whose back was later knelt on by an officer with a gun to the back of his head. Another officer charged into the girls’ room and pointed a flashlight and a gun at them, while a third officer pointed a gun at the children’s sleeping grandfather.
The incident reportedly left the children with “lasting trauma … in the form of nightmares, bed-wetting, trouble sleeping, decreased appetite, crying fits and fear and distrust of police,” according to the AP. The police department reportedly tried to cover up the incident by claiming they saw and heard a suspect run into the apartment, but these claims were proven false by the body camera footage that Al Hofeld Jr., the family’s attorney, acquired through an open records request. The city has yet to release bodycam footage of the incident. “They do not show anyone entering or exiting plaintiffs’ building or plaintiffs’ apartment,” the lawsuit said according to the AP. “Officers did not find any sign that any suspect had entered. Officers did not arrest anyone. The terror and stress to this innocent family were all for naught. ”
However, this is not the first incident where police used excessive force during a botched raid. Chicago has reportedly been plagued with false raids against people of color. In February 2019, a woman’s home was wrongfully raided and she was handcuffed naked for 30 minutes. Police later discovered they had the wrong home and attempted to prevent the release of the body cam footage. The city has reportedly spent hundreds of millions of dollars on police misconduct cases. The AP noted.