A Black Texas man who aspired to become a police officer spent 16 months fighting felony accusations that he assaulted two officers during a “welfare check” at his home. A jury acquitted him after his son recorded video of the arrest.
The video caught Huntsville police and prosecutors by surprise, Stewart said, because they had expected to secure a conviction based on the officers’ accounts.
The cops accused Stewart of spitting in one of their faces and shoving the other officer, but none of that is captured on video.
“I don’t like to call people liars,” Stewart told ABC 13 Houston after his acquittal.
“But fabrication, yes. Cover up, yes.”
Guilty until proven innocent seems to be increasingly common…
Police testimony consistently gets the benefit of the doubt among plebs who don’t understand that these people are constantly lying.
I know I wouldn’t consider a witness to be overly reliable without supporting evidence.
Veteran DAs are very good at lining up exhibits and experts that get admitted as evidence.
Civilians who think they can simply outwit the system will routinely step right in the first trap, because they don’t even know the rules of the game they’re playing. It wasn’t just the son’s video that saved him. This guy must have had an amazing lawyer and an abundance of good sense. How many hours did he sit in an interrogation room without talking? How many jail-house snitches and journalist phone calls did he no-sell? How much physical, psychological, and financial abuse did he endure? The article doesn’t say.
Increasing more exposed to have already been common.
Reading comprehension. It says right there in the headline that he is black.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but this is the internet, and some twats don’t always understand that concept, so I’d advise a “/s” at the end of comments like that.
And be deprived of the entertainment generated by Poe’s Law? Never!