Police Bratility

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mistrial saying that coroner Dr. Cyril H. Wecht "tainted the jury" when he said to the defense attorney "Its not for me to tell you what your client did. It is for the client to tell me, the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what he did." (Fact Sheet on the Murder of Johnny Gammage). Finally after the re-trial the officers were acquitted. Judge Cashman ruled that the death was an accident. This is proof that police can get away with murder. You can not suffocate somebody to death by accident. When the officer was restraining Gammage, he knew that he was using too strong of a force. On June 13, 1996, in Brooklyn, two white plains clothes officers killed Aswan Keshawn Watson, a 21-year old black male. They fired 18 bullets into him. Watson was not armed. A jury acquitted the officers though. The jury said that they were justified in believing themselves to be in danger. The officers said that they mistook Watson's car steering-wheel lock for a gun. The policemen sure did not have to shoot him 18 times. Two or three times would have been sufficient. Baseball hall of fame Joe Morgan won a $540,000 lawsuit against the Los Angles police department. A city policeman accused him of being a drug courier. Morgan was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the floor and handc...