Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims

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Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents

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PunkRockSportsFan @fanaticus.social 1mo ago
Lying cops should be turned over to the People
- womjunru @lemmy.cafe 1mo ago
  Or at the very least, fired, which is unlikely to happen.
  
  Lyra_Lycan @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1mo ago
  Or if they are, they get rehired at a different precinct to do their crimes freely
  
  nickwitha_k (he/him) @lemmy.sdf.org 1mo ago
  Should be Felony: Perjury of Office with a minimum 5 year ban on holding any position of power in public or private sectors.
octopus_ink @slrpnk.net 1mo ago
So we'll be prosecuting those border patrol agents any day now, right?
hobovision @mander.xyz 1mo ago
If there are no consequences for cops lying then it will keep getting worse.
Optional @lemmy.world 1mo ago
And then those perjurers were convicted and sentenced, right?
. . . Right?
Optional @lemmy.world 1mo ago
Out of nine “assault” and “impeding” felony cases the justice department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges.
In reports that led to the detention and prosecution of at least five demonstrators, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents made false statements about the sequence of events and misrepresented incidents captured on video.
One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester.
One indictment named the wrong defendant, a stunning error that has jeopardized one of the government’s most high-profile cases.
- cloudless @piefed.social 1mo ago
  The third point is the exact definition of projection.

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