TYT: Cops Planting Evidence Standard Operating Procedure?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses the comments from a Fox Legal Analyst that said it used to be standard operating procedure for police to plant evidence on a suspect to guarantee a conviction.

"The shooting of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager went viral after a video that suggests Slager was attempting to plant evidence at the time of the shooting. Fox & Friends weighed in, brining on legal analyst Arthur Aidala who told everyone that it used to be standard operating procedure for police to leave evidence around a killed suspect so that the officers could avoid an investigation. Brian Kilmeade was quick to add that in the age of smartphones it was unlikely that this was still the case."

Read more here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-legal-analyst-planting-weapons-on-victims-used-to-be-standard-operating-procedure/

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. For police who plant evidence, I favour capital punishment. Nothing fancy. Just

a bullet in the back of the head. If it's on video, no trial and preferably within a few hours of the event.

[RufusTFirefly]

2. A pity you're not a time traveler

You'd fit in quite nicely in the 1930s. Either Germany or the Soviet Union would do. Even Italy in a pinch. Your choice. Take your pick.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Thank you. I'll leave you till last. How's that?

Fascism is one of my pet hates, but it is said that probably the only good thing Mussolini did was get rid of the mafia; and I doubt he 'sweet-talked' them out of their activities. Of course, the age-old nexus with the political right probably means that the 'others' who were 'encouraged' simply went into government employ.

It's one thing to forgive your own murderer and quite another to forgive that of others, especially in such a cowardly manner as these renegade police are doing. But I believe liberals have a different take on the Gospels. Am I right?

Actually, it's not about judging in an eschatological sense. From the Christian angle, how we judge each other, for the most part, doesn't mean a thing. God knows we never believe so firmly in hell as when we condemn someone and wish them in hell - which was why Jesus immediately followed up his warning against judging others with a warning against condemning them.

No. This is about rock-bottom practical deterrence. 'Tyrannize' and 'murder' are not synonyms for 'serve' and 'protect', but antonyms for them. If a person charged with the latter, commits the former, and is recorded doing so, on the basis of entirely trumped up charges, and then seeks to cover it up, not in a panic, but cold-bloodedly, including planting a gun to cover up the crime, he's no better than a serial killer, for whom the death penalty, in my view, is appropriate. Pope Francis thinks otherwise, but he was not speaking ex cathedra. Bad enough if those police were ordinary civilians.

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