‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive.
During the 2018 interrogation of Thomas Perez Jr by police in Fontana, a city east of Los Angeles, officers suggested they would have Perez’s dog euthanized as a result of his actions, according to a complaint and footage of the encounter. A judge said the questioning appeared to be “unconstitutional psychological torture”, and the city agreed to settle Perez’s lawsuit for $898,000, his lawyer announced this week.
The extraordinary case of a coerced false confession has sparked widespread outrage, with footage showing Perez in extreme emotional and physical distress, including as officers brought his dog in and said the animal would need to be put down due to “depression” from witnessing a murder that had not actually occurred.
In case anyone forgot, ACAB
Does anyone think the officers who did this are going to face legal consequences? Does anyone think they feel a shred of remorse for what they did? Does anyone think that after they come back from their paid leave that any of their fellow officers are going to speak out against their return?
No?
ACAB. Fuck them all.
They fuck up, get paid vacations and tax payers pay for their mistakes. Yup, they will do it again
Didn't know what that stood for, I had to look it up.
I'm going to hope that's wrong, and that it's just a certain percentage in any professional caste that has bad apples.
I am willing to believe that the percentage of bad apples is larger in law enforcement, only because of the type of people who would gravitate to that type of position that would give them control over others, and how much money is spent on monitoring law enforcement personnel by the government for legal and ethics compliance, as well as mental suitability to do the job.
And no need to reply to me with every bad thing that's ever been done by police officers. I read them all, here, as well as elsewhere. I just can't subscribe to the 100% pop that ACAB stands for.
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ACAB because even if they’re not “bad cops”, they protect the bad cops with their silence. Any cops that breaks the blue line gets fucked over until they leave. Or worse.
Yet they want everyone else narcing and snitching
well, yeah. it's hard to do their job without snitches. I mean. all that paperwork? uhg. who has time for proper investigation?
People tend to forget the full saying, so just for posterity:
A few bad apples ruin the bunch
You know what bad cops call the good cops?
Accomplice.
Starting to feel willful, honestly
I don't recognize that second quote, as it wasn't stated by me. Could you elaborate?
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