Homeless black teen hits back at Florida police after they admit to framing him for multiple burglaries

[phands]

Yet another one....

homeless black teen is suing police in Biscayne Park, Florida after the town’s police chief admitted to framing him for multiple burglaries in order to clear the department’s backlog and make it look like he’d “eradicated” crime in the village of 3,000.

The Miami New-Times reported that former Biscayne Park police chief Raimundo Atestiano admitted to framing the teen, identified in court records as “T.D.,” for both burglaries and 22 traffic violations in 2013.

Three Biscayne Park officers admitted that Atestiano instructed them to pin crimes on random black people, the Miami Herald reported last month.

“If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries,” an officer named Anthony De La Torre said in an internal probe in 2014. “They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city.”

Now, T.D. is suing the former police chief, three officers involved in the false charges and the Village of Biscayne Park, “alleging that the group violated his civil rights and maliciously prosecuted him,” the New-Times reported.

“The defendants were part of a conspiracy to satisfy the Village that crime was being eliminated,” T.D.’s lawyers argued in their federal lawsuit.

In the indictment, Atestiano is accused of intentionally setting up T.D. for four burglaries that took place between April and May of 2013. Federal prosecutors claim the ex-chief did so because he “wanted to tell the town government that he’d solved every single burglary in town,” which the report noted is “basically impossible to achieve.”

Atestiano allegedly instructed two of the officers named in the suit to arrest T.D. in June of 2013 for the “unsolved burglaries knowing that there was no evidence and no lawful basis to support such charges,” prosecutors claimed. The suit further alleged the officers then gathered evidence to make a case against him and “included a false narrative” to justify their phony affidavits.

I leave it to the resident racist to tell us why this can't be racist because the bad racist guy is Hispanic.

 

[Derec]

I leave it to the resident racist

Underseer?

to tell us why this can't be racist because the bad racist guy is Hispanic.

Indeed, part of left-wing dogma on race is that only whites can be racist.

Seriously though, just because the victim is black does not in itself mean the perp is racist. TD could have been picked random black guys because they are most likely to have criminal record or be more likely to be involved in burglary-type crimes. I.e. verisimilitude. Or he could be racist - unlike leftists I do not think non-whites cannot be racist.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

It's an example of racism.

 

[southernhybrid]

Yes Derec. There are certainly times when non white people can be racist, but the example in the OP is very clearly an example of police racism directed at a black person. This happens a lot more than you may realize.

And, since you live in a city not too far from mine, let me share an example of local police racism with you. One day while getting ready to visit a small local restaurant, we noticed that the police had just pulled a car over with three young black men in it. One of the restaurant managers ran to the car because the driver was her son. I am very fond of this woman and so I asked her what had happened. Apparently they had pulled her son supposedly due to a broken tail light, you know, the usual lame excuse. When they saw there were three young black men in the car, they asked for everyone's ID and checked to see if any of them had outstanding warrants. The manager is a smart woman who has a degree in law enforcement so she knew this wasn't legal. Actually, it's against federal law but some states have made a point of doing it anyway. When she asked the police why they checked all of the young men's ID, they actually told her this. "We are supposed to check for warrants of everyone in the car whenever we pull a black male drive and he has at least two black males with him". Do you think that's not racist? If you and two friends were pulled over and told that the police were supposed to check for warrants every time they pulled a white male with at least two other white males in the car, you would be right in thinking this was racist. I've just never known of any white person being told they were being checked for warrants due to their race.

There is a lot of racism in the US, more so since Trump became president. It's mostly directed towards black folks, and sometimes toward other ethnicities that aren't lily white. Sure there are some bigots who are black, but I know a lot of black people and I've never felt that any of them judged me because I'm white. In fact, the black people that I've known in Georgia have been some of the friendliest, warmest people I've ever known, with very few exceptions. It sickens me that they have to put up with so much shit. Why aren't you able to realize that black folks are treated much more poorly by the police than white folks are, when it's so obvious to the rest of us?