ABUSE OF AUTHORITY stories: Imagine if your picture showed up in the newspaper with "Prostitute" under it, courtsey of the police?

A woman sues for $10M lawsuit when police PUT HER DRIVER’S LICENSE PICTURE IN THE PAPER, saying she was a prostitute. She was not. Amazing.
Meanwhile, the government loses Jose Padilla interrogation videotapes, and the high-ranking Chicago police officials are tied to cover-up involving the torture of over 100 African-Americans. It’s racism as usual, but at least the kid who got life in prison for smoking pot was finally released after 17 years.

• Woman files $10M lawsuit when police PUT HER DRIVER’S LICENSE PICTURE IN THE PAPER saying she was a prostitute.

  Of COURSE it is stupid to put people’s photos in a public paper BEFORE they are convicted of a crime. They put a lady’s driver’s license picture in the paper, calling her a prostitute. It was the wrong lady, and the fact that the picture was taken from her driver’s license violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act.

  (tags: AbuseOfAuthority prostitution humiliation innocent innocentUntilProvenGuilty libel lawsuits police stupidPolicies)

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• WAR ON TERROR: Tape of Padilla Interrogation Is Missing

  So, an american citizen is denied trial for YEARS, unconstitutionally. Now a tape of his interrogation is missing. Amazing that Padilla is so important we must trample his rights, but not important enough to not lose videotapes of his interrogation.

  (tags: WarOnTerror incompetence JosePadilla enemyCombatant rightToTrial rights rightToLawyer interrogations)

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  Glad to hear that the 17-year-old who was sentenced to LIFE IN PRISON for smoking pot is getting out – after 17 years. That’s $510,000 in taxes to keep him locked up for smoking a joint. Probation violations are a tricky thing…

  (tags: harshPunishments Texas drugs marijuana WarOnDrugs lifeSentence pardons)

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• This one is troubling: Highest Chicago police officials tied to cover-up involving the torture of well over 100 African-American prisoners

  The scale of torture in this case is so rampant that it reminds me of the movie Hostel. I had heard bad things about Chicago, but it is really bad up there if you are black. 10,000 complaints resulting in only 18 actions taken against officers? “Techniques ranging from beatings with telephone books to suffocation with typewriter covers,
  handcuffing arrestees to radiators, electric shock and mock executions”.

Although 10,150 complaints had been filed regarding illegal arrests and searches, excessive force and racial and sexual abuse from 2002 to 2004, only 18 cops received suspensions of more than a week as a result of disciplinary action.

• (tags: politics AbuseOfAuthority police brutality policeBrutality torture coverups Chicago)