A THREAD. @bala_nyc As public defenders we’re sharing our firsthand accounts of how officers lie to illustrate for you the reality of policing and why defunding is necessary. Join and share yours. #CopsLie #CopsLiesMatter. Here are a few of my stories: 
I represented a teenage boy who officers lied + said threw a Capri sun on the ground. They arrested him him for littering which is a violation and not a crime, they tased and beat him so many times he peed himself, was bleeding, had cuts running down his legs and couldn’t walk
Even the judge was appalled. The prosecution still refused to dismiss the case.
I represented a young man officers lied and said was being “disorderly” at a neighborhood game. They went to arrest him and a group of them piled onto his back and he’d recently had surgery on his back so he kept trying to tell them they were hurting him so they beat him
and charged him with resisting arrest. The arrest counted as a parole violation and he spent months in Rikers.
I represented a young man who police arrested and charged with criminal trespass as he was entering his own home. The address he was accused of trespassing at was his home address listed on his ID and the paperwork provided by the officers themselves.
The prosecution still refused to dismiss the charges for a couple of months and my client could not get employed because of the open criminal case.
