Albany Judge Clears BLM Protestor Of All Charges Due To Missing Tapes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An Albany judge decided to dismiss all charges against Lexis Figuereo, who emerged as one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the city. The ruling comes after the Albany County District Attorney’s Office confessed that it failed to adhere to evidence discovery rules.

The charges were a result of two protests in front of Albany police’s South Station in April of last year. Figuereo’s lawyer, Mark Mishler, asked for the charges to be dismissed after discovering that the police department’s Office of Professional Standards had made audio recordings of interviews with officers as part of its review of the officers’ behavior during the protests.

Apparently, several officers hid their badges and name tags in violation of department policy during the protest on April 22. According to documents, the district attorney’s office recognized they were unaware of those recordings and agreed to the charges being dropped.

In the official letter that showed the charges were dismissed, the district attorney’s office said it only realized the department had the recordings after Mishler brought it to their attention on August 1.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/albany-judge-clears-blm-protestor-161000376.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. You can hear the squealing from the christofascists' now...conspiracy!

[rsdsharp]

2. They "hid their badges and name tags."

Always nice to see the police are proud to be part of the blue line gang. At least they weren’t part of the Here or There families of police officers. Oddly, all of those families — men and women — are named Right. At least what they say as they point to their chests when asked for their name.