Police Lie - The Marcus Jeter Affair
I have previously written that the police are prone to force false murder confessions from defendants or fabricate evidence in order to bolster the case against someone they believe to be a killer. Some of my readers may excuse that behavior because at least the police have good intentions, as evil as that may be.
I should have been more clear: many times the police lie, fabricate evidence, force confessions and will do anything even when they know the person to be completely innocent of any wrongdoing. Consider the case of Marcus Jeter:
Hip-Hop and Politics, 24 Feb 2014, NJ Police Threaten to Kill Black Man-Say He Assaulted them..He’s Saved by New Footage
[A] young Black man named Marcus Jeter from Bloomfield, New Jersey was on his way to jail for 5 years because of the deliberate and over the top nihilistic behavior of 3 police officers who then lied and piled up a bunch of charges.
As you watch the video and hear officers yelling ‘He’s got a gun, He’s got a gun”, one can’t but help wonder how many innocent people are languishing in jail or have been killed by police behaving in this manner. Jeter had no gun. Jeter didn’t assault an officer. One can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if Jeter didn’t have the temperament and presence of mind to take a beating vs panicking and running away or resisting as a way to protect himself..
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In this latest case involving Marcus Jeter, what[']s even more disturbing is one of the officers who tampered with evidence and hid it from defense lawyers wasn’t even indicted, he was allowed to simply retire. Now we’ll see if these indictments of the other two lead to convictions. This all underscores the fact that we need to have special incorruptible cameras on police at all times and we as citizens when pulled over or stopped need to have some irrefutable protections for ourselves.
YouTube, Dash cam shows New Jersey police falsely arrest, beat Marcus Jeter
For more details about what really happened that night, click on the link here.
