false arrest
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Driver Transporting 3,350 Pounds of Hemp Falsely Arrested After Officers Mistake It for Marijuana
As a California resident who declines to partake in one of its finest exports, I have no idea how to differentiate hemp from weed, and apparently police can’t either, as a U-Haul truck filled to the brim with approximately 3,350 lbs. of one of the above landed one poor unfortunate hired driver behind bars. From…
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Former Florida Police Chief Who Framed Black Teen and Multiple Black Men Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
The former Florida police chief who literally turned black people into statistics—framing them to juke his burglary record—has been sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Raimundo Atesiano to 36 months in prison for conspiracy of depriving multiple people of their civil rights.…
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A Harlem Restaurant Owner Tried to Help an Unconscious White Woman. Now, He’s Suing the NYPD for False Arrest
The owner of a well-known Harlem restaurant and two of his employees filed a civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD last week over a 2017 altercation involving a group of white women. Dr. Clyde Pemberton, a 68-year-old retired psychiatrist, and owner of MIST, says the NYPD violated his civil rights and arrested him and his…
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Childhood Friends Slam NYC Police for Wrongly Identifying Them as Shooting Suspects and Arresting Them
Two childhood friends have filed Internal Affairs Bureau and Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints against the New York City Police Department after they were wrongly identified as shooting suspects in Harlem and then arrested. According to the New York Daily News, Anthony Ross, 30, and Saquan Eadie, 29, ran into each other last month at…
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Brooklyn, NY, Man Who Doesn’t Drink Wins Nearly $1,000,000 After NYPD Falsely Charges Him With DWI: Report
The New York City Police Department picked the wrong one. In April 2015, Oliver Wiggins was driving through Brooklyn, N.Y., when a police officer in a marked SUV ran through a stop sign and crashed into his car. Still, it was Wiggins who was arrested in an attempt to cover up the cop’s first mistake.…