Sorry if I don't have much faith in the information the police are giving out, when stories like this exist about the exact same police department and their apparent inability/refusal to keep records about which of their officers have had citizen complaints filed. This entire department sounds like a cluster, and it looks like it's been a cluster for quite some time. They wrongly arrest a man, and then beat him, charge him with "property damage" for bleeding on their uniforms, and then under oath say that he was not bleeding and there was no blood on their uniforms. They provide the wrong surveillance tape to the judge, and then it turns out they don't actually seem to keep records on use-of-force by their officers.
Yeah I totally trust these guys to tell the truth about what happened that day.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...loody-lie.html
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Indisputable evidence of what transpired in the cell might have been provided by a surveillance camera, but it turned out that the VHS video was recorded at 32 times normal speed.
“It was like a blur,” Schottel told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “You couldn’t see anything.”
The blur proved to be from 12 hours after the incident anyway. The cops had saved the wrong footage after Schottel asked them to preserve it.
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“On September 20th, 2009, was there any way to identify any officers that were subject of one or more citizens’ complaints?” he asked.
“Not to my knowledge,” Moonier said.
“Was there any way to identify any officers who had completed several use-of-force reports?”
“I don’t recall.”
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The entire police force just seems to be pretty questionable, and at least some of their officers have proven willing to lie under oath.
EDIT: I also find it really interesting that the entirety of the report given by the Ferguson police department is about the alleged robbery--and the only two bits of information about the actual death of Michael Brown are that the first officer arrived at 12:01 and by 12:04 when the second officer arrived, Brown was already dead.
Where is the use-of-force report from the officer who shot Brown? Where is the information from the officer who arrived once Brown was already dead? Where is the autopsy report showing how many times Brown was actually hit? Where is the actual information about Brown's death itself, rather than just the robbery--which the officer who shot Brown knew nothing about at the time?
So you release information proving that Brown is a criminal, thus killing him was obviously justified, but you don't actually offer any information about what actually happened between 12:01 and 12:04 that day. Okay, Ferguson PD.