Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[ineffabelle]

“It is not the obligation of this court to police the police department”*
- Court of Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?

Well I guess the cops are now de-facto dictators, unless you are connected enough to pull strings.



* context: a drunk, off-duty cop pistol whipped someone who he thought might have punched him in a bar.  After driving drunk, mind you, to find the guy.

Comments

[sammhain.livejournal.com]

Nothing new, there's long been a legal precedent supporting the idea that citizen can't hold cops accountable...there was a list of specific cases in disinfo's 50 things you aren't supposed to know