Chicago Judge Rules Police Obtained False Testimony

[mucifer]

Things don't seem to have changed all that much from the Jon Burge days:

Hours after he was shot multiple times by a Chicago police officer, Princeton Williamson was heavily sedated after emergency surgery when detectives came to question him at his hospital bedside.

One of the detectives, Brian Johnson, later testified that Williamson was alert and didn't appear to be in pain as he talked openly about what led to his shooting, according to a court transcript.

But two nurses gave dramatically different accounts than the detective, saying Williamson was in no condition to be interviewed because of a painful open stomach incision that required a continuous intravenous feed of morphine.

Williamson was in so much discomfort he could only mumble his words, one of the nurses said, so she communicated with him by having him squeeze her hands to answer questions yes or no.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-cop-shooting-judge-outraged-met-20160128-story.html

[CBGLuthier]

1. You know how you can tell a cop is lying?

His lips are moving.

[hobbit709]

2. Pretty much sums it up.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Chicago cops are standing on the tracks but not hearing the freight train coming.

I know most big PD's are messed up to some extent but Chicago has the whole world watching it and the cops just can't help themselves. It's going to hit the fan at some point.

[mucifer]

4. There seems to be a headline like this about once a week in the Trib.

It's really bad. I'm glad they are covering it.