Police officer sentenced to 15 years for falsely claiming she was shot In the wake of police shootin
Source: Washington Post
In the wake of police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Sherry Hall sparked a manhunt with a phony attack story.
By Tom Jackman
October 4 at 6:08 AM
A rookie police officer who caused an uproar when she said she'd been shot without warning, at a time when shootings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge had the nation on edge, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 23 years of probation.
The initial report by Officer Sherry Hall, now 43, in September 2016 sparked an intense manhunt in the area of Jackson, Ga., about 50 miles southwest of Atlanta. She said that a black man, 6 feet, 250 pounds, wearing a green shirt and black jogging pants, had suddenly opened fire on her and that she had fired back. A bullet was found in her protective vest, and a shell casing was found in the nearby woods, in addition to two casings found near Hall's police cruiser.
Two months earlier, five police officers had been killed in Dallas during an unprovoked attack, and soon after that, three officers were killed without warning in Baton Rouge. Was this another random attack on a law enforcement officer?
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2018/10/04/police-officer-sentenced-years-falsely-claiming-she-was-shot/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3af9eff62860
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BumRushDaShow
(129,063 posts)A shame because during that time when she lied about who purportedly shot her, the usual "harass black men who 'fit the description'" was underway. That is a pretty touch sentence though so good.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)Stuart G
(38,428 posts)Oh, and the story of a black man is not even new. I wish I could recall the names, but a white lady, with 2 kids purposely killed them to please some lover..She also made up a story about a black man, but she made a mistake in making up the story about a traffic light that couldn't have been red as she described it due to the timing of that street and the way the lights reacted to the timing.
....When she first told the story about the black man jumping into the car at that red light, (which couldn't have been red, due to timing) the officers followed the clues as a procedure. They put out an all points looking for that black man that they knew couldn't exist. The whole state was on the lookout for that non existent person. About 10 days later, they grilled the lady during a follow up talk. (which was not really follow up) The officers knew from the beginning that she lied, but they set up a series of events to catch her. And they caught her.
She has got a life sentence in some prison.. Give me a few minutes, and I will google the story and tell you who she is.
Ok..here is one link to the story about Susan Smith..this happened in October of 1994
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/susan-smith-mother-who-killed-kids-something-went-very-wrong-n397051
Here is a link to the Wikipedia story about Smith killing her two children...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith
So, you see the story about the black man killing someone in a situation is not even new. Why do I remember this? I was teaching at the time in a high school. And we talked about lying to the police. And this event had happened with Susan Smith, and we talked about it. If the police are honest and most are, they will know that you are lying. Why? ..That is their job, to catch the dishonest crooks. And when they find a liar, who blames some unknown person that doesn't exist..the police get even more determined to catch the liar.........................
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...and...please.....hold on...stay with me on this..............That is why Mueller will get Trump. Mueller is honest and well....... Trump is a fucking liar and a fucking crook. Mueller will get Trump and he is determined to get him. He has already got a few of Trumps lesser liars..that is the plan. But Mueller will get Trump, he will work his way up, and he will get Trump and his crew of crooks..He is probably one of the most determined investigators I have ever witnessed. He will get Trump. For exactly the same reason that the police got Susan Smith in 1994. She lied and blamed someone else for her crime. ..... Trump is always blaming someone else for what he does. Doesn't he??
TexasBushwhacker
(20,192 posts)The crimes are less obvious than 2 murdered kids. I feel confident Mueller will get to the bottom of things, but he first has to find the crimes, then find and prove how Trump was to blame.