An unarmed black man was dragged from his car by Inkster, Michigan, police officers, put in an apparent chokehold, beaten, and tased during a traffic stop that was caught on the police car's dashboard camera on January 28, his lawyer said.
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Police charged Dent with assault, resisting arrest, and possession of cocaine, claiming they found the drug under the passenger seat of the car.
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Dent argues the police planted the drug at the time of the arrest. An Inkster district court judge dismissed the assault and resisting arrest charges, but Dent is due in court next week for a hearing on the cocaine charge.
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Officer Melendez was charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office for planting evidence and falsifying reports in 2003 when he was a Detroit police officer. A jury found Melendez not guilty.
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Here is the twist. Video evidence of... Planting drugs.
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"You can definitely see the officer searching the vehicle and coming out with empty hands," Rohl said of the video. "In a matter of 2 to 3 minutes he digs into his pockets, pulls out a plastic bag while someone covers the camera for a second."
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Last edited by combustiblefuel; 04-01-2015 at 03:28 PM.
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Still no dice and the youtube link on the player just takes me to the front page as if the video was removed.
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
That is shameful if it is was it looks like. Not only does it set back race relations and hurt trust with the police even more, but now any time a criminal is busted, it gives more plausibility to the idea that the police might have planted evidence.
Also, I can't believe Carmen Harlan is going to be 62 this year. She looks almost the exact same from when I was a kid.
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Black man pulled over beaten and charged but wait a minute
