Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

I'm not sure where you're going with this?

I don't think anywhere is immune to bad policing. I think it has more to do with power. The more people you know, the higher up you are, the more likely it is things will be covered up. Hell, be a sheriff in a podunk Alabama town, you can damn near do anything.

 

Update from the beating death of Tyrie Nicols at the hands of the Memphis "Scorpion Unit." I thought there was a thread on it but could not find it...



3 of the 5 officers that beat Nichols elected for a trial for the state charges instead of taking a plea deal like the other two have learned their fates for the state charges.

Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith:

• Second-degree murder - Not Guilty
• Aggravated assault - Not Guilty
• Two counts of aggravated kidnapping - Not Guilty
• Two counts of official misconduct - Not Guilty
• Official oppression - Not Guilty

Welcome to America where a jury can find officers who beat a man to death not guilty of literally anything. No one thing.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s...found-not-guilty-in-the-death-of-tyre-nichols

A jury found three former Memphis, Tenn., police officers not guilty of all charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, including the most serious charge of second-degree murder.

This was the second time the three officers faced trial. Last fall, they were convicted in a separate federal case of witness tampering for misleading superiors about their actions. Bean and Smith were acquitted of violating Nichols' civil rights, but the jury found Haley guilty.

He eventually went into cardiac arrest at the scene, according to a responding paramedic and medical records. He died at a hospital three days later. An autopsy attributed his death to blunt force trauma to the head.

Throughout the trial, the sequestered jury from the Chattanooga, Tenn., area watched video footage of the arrest multiple times from multiple angles. Prosecutors said the men on trial either used or witnessed excessive force and failed to stop it. Officers also didn't alert medical responders, the prosecution said, that Nichols had been struck in the head.

 

For real.

 

I literally typed all that out, "unleashing law enforcement," and went back and deleted it before I hit the reply button. Your post is almost verbatim to what I erased. I actually had to scroll back up to see if I had deleted it or not.