Police *& prosecutors* openly lied about this shooting.
It's being exposed in this case. But how many thousands of people have convictions or are in prison because of tainted testimony & lies, and of prosecutors who are complicit or who look away?
Just last week, the Queens district attorney responded to the revelations of misconduct by her staff that led to a wrongful conviction for 24 years by... shrugging this away as isolated, and not ordering a review of other cases by the same people.
When the Westchester County DA received *recorded tapes* of police officers admitting they were framing people, he reacted by... continuing to rely on these same offiers' testimonies to send people to prison!
gothamist.com/news/mount-ver…
In 2016, an NYPD officer had just lied in a gun case, a video obtained by the defense team confirmed. But the Bronx DA's office just continuned to use that officer's testimony in similar cases going forward.
A pattern that held true elsewhere: theappeal.org/prosecutors-po…
All three stories I have thought of putting into this thread were written or co-written by @georgejoseph94, which says a lot & you should obviously be following him.
Adding to list: Fairfax County, VA, now may vacate 400 convictions obtained via an officer who was falsifying reports. 400!
If this feels like a rare case with consequence — think of how easily lies got thru, & so much harm that can’t be walked back. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/…
This thread could just gone forever: the frightening thing is, when we *do* hear about a scandal, it’s because of a rare instance of review or exposure (as though the system works), but these moments (these reviews, let alone consequences) are so rare and case-by-case.
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