Monday, 27 April 2015
A spate of videos has brought what looks like police brutality into our living rooms.
Logic says these incidents are aberrations; that's what makes them news. But I'm having trouble clearing my mind of those ugly scenes — and I know I'm not alone.
Are these just individual cops gone rogue? Or are they the tip of a giant iceberg of on-duty misconduct?
That's become the subject of private small talk and public dialogue, as we grow uncomfortably accustomed to the sight of law enforcement officers meting out street justice.
This week brought criminal charges against a Los Angeles Police Department officer caught last fall on camera stomping and kicking a man being held down by other officers on a South Los Angeles street. The video from a store's surveillance camera hasn't been publicly released, but when the police chief pronounces it disturbing, you can imagine how bad it must be.
We did see the beating of Francis Pusok in San Bernardino County, shot by a television news helicopter this month. It shows sheriff's deputies kicking and punching Pusok, who is on the ground with his hands behind his back.
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Friday, 24 April 2015
A woman exonerated last year after spending 17 years behind bars for murder announced Thursday that she had filed a lawsuit accusing an LAPD detective of hiding evidence that showed the case's lead witness was known as a pathological liar.
Susan Mellen was released in October when a judge ruled that she had received “subpar representation” from a trial attorney who failed to adequately investigate the witness’ credibility. The judge later declared Mellen factually innocent of the killing.
The federal lawsuit alleges that Los Angeles Police Department Det. Marcella Winn suppressed evidence from Mellen’s attorneys that would have damaged the credibility of the trial's star witness, knowingly used false evidence and ignored leads that pointed to another suspect.
Mellen, speaking at a news conference outside the Torrance courthouse where she was originally convicted, said the detective's actions robbed her of being a mother to her children for 17 years.
“There’s no amount of money in the universe that can give me back what I lost with my family and my children, the pain and suffering,” she said. “I just want to live my life again.”
Winn did not immediately return a call Thursday seeking comment.
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