Probe found Fla. police chief told officers to pin unsolved crimes on random black people: report
The police chief in a small Florida town is accused of encouraging his officers to pin unsolved crimes on random, nearby black people so the department would have a better arrest record, the Miami Herald reported Thursday.
Former Biscayne Park Chief Raimundo Atesiano and two officers, Raul Fernandez and Charlie Dayoub, have been charged with falsely accusing a black Haitian-American teenager — identified as T.D. — with burglaries to impress local officials in the village north of Miami Shores.
All have pleaded not guilty to the accusations. A trial date is set for later this month.
The charges were part of a long history of targeting random people to achieve a spotless crime-solving record before an internal investigation in 2014, the Herald reported.
Innocent until proven guilty and all that, but apart from that I got nothin’.
I still don’t see what those football players are going on about.Report
Yeah, I’m gonna have to call this fake news. I’ve been reliably informed by many people that racism is over, there’s just the occasional isolated incident and we can all move on.
Clearly this didn’t happen, or if it did, it’s just one bad apple that clearly has no connection to any broader trend or anything because racism is over.Report
Biscayne Park is tiny. Total land area 0.6 square miles. Total population 3k people.
You can end up with seriously unprofessional people in professional political roles at that size.Report