Hamilton officer acquitted in botched drug raid An Ontario court judge has delivered a stinging rebuke of the Hamilton Police Service in his acquittal of an officer charged in the botched drug raid and takedown
“I find the collective evidence of the witness officers to be troubling. Their inconsistencies in their version of the evidence and their apparent inability or unwillingness to identify the person attached to the leg, as most were easily serving in close proximity to the person who was attached to it, strains credulity and raises the spectre of a cover-up,” Currie said in his ruling.
You have said earlier on this blog that the testimony of cops can, almost always, be relied upon as trustworthy. But given these eleven cops - all within three feet of the stompee's leg - were unable to see whose body said leg was attached to - doesn't that suggest a basic perceptual/cognitive malfunction peculular to these cops that might undermine all future eye witness testimony on their parts?? In other words - if they are telling the truth - they must suffer the same cognitive deficits that will impede their ability to see anything. Or am I missing something?
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Hamilton officer acquitted in botched drug raid
An Ontario court judge has delivered a stinging rebuke of the Hamilton Police Service in his acquittal of an officer charged in the botched drug raid and takedown
“I find the collective evidence of the witness officers to be troubling. Their inconsistencies in their version of the evidence and their apparent inability or unwillingness to identify the person attached to the leg, as most were easily serving in close proximity to the person who was attached to it, strains credulity and raises the spectre of a cover-up,” Currie said in his ruling.
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Mr. Morton,
You have said earlier on this blog that the testimony of cops can, almost always, be relied upon as trustworthy. But given these eleven cops - all within three feet of the stompee's leg - were unable to see whose body said leg was attached to - doesn't that suggest a basic perceptual/cognitive malfunction peculular to these cops that might undermine all future eye witness testimony on their parts?? In other words - if they are telling the truth - they must suffer the same cognitive deficits that will impede their ability to see anything. Or am I missing something?
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