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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumscops run stop sign and hit car. arrest sober driver for DUI as cover
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/man-claims-cops-frame-dui-charge-article-1.2298358A Brooklyn man claims NYPD cops in a SUV passed through a stop sign and broadsided his vehicle then allegedly fabricated charges that he was driving under the influence of alcohol.
I think the whole thing was insane, Oliver Wiggins, 31, told the Daily News. They ran a stop sign and I think they were trying to hide that they caused the accident.
Wiggins lawyer has sent a letter to Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson requesting an investigation of the questionable arrest.
Last week, a prosecutor moved to dismiss the case after the results of a blood test that Wiggins voluntarily took after the accident showed a blood alcohol content of zero and no trace of drugs.
Official documents reviewed by The News raise serious questions about the veracity of the police account charges stemming from the April 19 collision.
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cops run stop sign and hit car. arrest sober driver for DUI as cover (Original Post)
Liberal_in_LA
Jul 2015
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Go Vols
(5,902 posts)1. :/
safeinOhio
(37,018 posts)2. The 80% bad cops
ruin it for the 20% that are good cops.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)3. There's some creative problem solving
Did they really think the driver they arrested wouldn't fight this? Maybe the cops were drunk? Anyone give them a test?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)4. victim is young black male.. they probably thought it was a slam dunk
lpbk2713
(43,249 posts)6. Now that explains it all.
They MUST be right and he MUST be wrong.
That's no doubt how the officers expect Internal Affairs to see it.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)5. Cops who lie should go to jail.
Those charges are in addition to false arrest, etc. 3-5 years in jail should be about right.
uponit7771
(93,491 posts)9. +1
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)7. Cops - lies
so what's new?
Logical
(22,457 posts)8. How the fuck these cops are not in jail is a mystery. I am sure the "union" is defending them. nt