2 Los Angeles officers charged with raping women on duty
Source: Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press
2 Los Angeles officers charged with raping women on duty
Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press
Updated 7:12 pm, Wednesday, February 17, 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) While one Los Angeles police officer acted as a lookout in the front seat of a departmental car, a 19-year-old woman working as a drug informant was forced to perform oral sex on his partner in the back seat after being told, "You have to do what the police tell you to do," the teenager said in a federal court filing.
Another woman, also working as a drug informant, said the same two officers each forced her to have sex with them twice after threatening her with jail time.
Two other women told eerily similar stories.
On Wednesday, prosecutors announced that veteran Officers James Nichols and Luis Valenzuela had been arrested and charged with repeatedly raping the four women over a three-year period, mostly while they were on duty.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/2-Los-Angeles-officers-charged-with-raping-women-6837360.php
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)At least they charged these creeps. Who knows if they will be convicted.
I sure hope so.
mgmaggiemg
(869 posts)but hey my city has you beat on officer raping women then chopping them into pieces and stuffing them in luggage and dumping them in the ditch off the hwy....
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Cue the apologists making excuses for police behavior in 5,4,3,2,1. . .
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Life in prison and a $3 million bail.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Right now the majority of cops we are hiring are the type that just want others to "obey my authority!!!". The job description is supposed to be "protect and serve". Yet PDs have been eliminating candidates that score high in empathy and IQ on tests... and this is the result.
Hold cops accountable, sentence them just like everyone else, kick out the bad ones, get in good ones. FFS, this is fixable if we just do common sense things