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Four current and former Miami-Dade police officers involved in a dramatic 2019 chase and shootout that left four people dead are facing manslaughter charges this week in Florida court, a rarity in a state in which only one officers has been convicted for an on-duty killing in the last 40 years.

Rodolfo Mirabal, Richard Santiesteban, Jose Mateo and Leslie Lee were among the 20 different officers across several different agencies who were part of a December 5, 2019, shootout with a pair of jewel thieves who hijacked a UPS truck with its driver inside and then got stuck in a busy intersection in Miramar.

Officers and the two alleged thieves, 41-year-old cousins Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, exchanged some 200 rounds before the firefight was over. When the dust settled, Alexander, Hill, UPS driver Frank Ordoñez, 27, and bystander Rick Cutshaw, 70, were dead.


All four officers, who were charged last month, have pleaded not guilty.

“These are trained, good police officers that are now having to defend their actions on protecting the people,” South Florida Police Benevolent Association President Steadman Stahl told Florida news station Local 10 on Monday. “Those officers didn’t pick that location to have the shootout in. It’s the bad guys. They could’ve stopped it at any time.”

A trial date is set for February.

Prosecutor Chuck Morton indicated that the government plans to turn over about 6,000 pages of evidence.…..

 
A group of United Nations experts is calling on the US federal, state and local authorities to take “immediate and comprehensive” action to resolve a long-standing scandal where people are languishing behind bars after being allegedly tortured by Chicago police to extract false confessions.

The group of UN special rapporteurs, who specialize in addressing the scourges of contemporary racism and torture, has released a report detailing a long history of brutal and racist police misconduct.

They became involved at the behest of an activist mothers’ organization in Chicago that was exasperated at what they saw as the patchy response of the authorities over the years to shocking injustice.

Numerous cases are highlighted in the 26-page report and there are many more regarded as unresolved for decades. The group of special rapporteurs cited “information we have received regarding historical and continuing allegations of the systemic corruption and use of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by law enforcement officials in the Chicago area”.

The report says that such treatment has resulted “in wrongful convictions and unjust incarceration of affected individuals, who are disproportionally of African and Latino/Hispanic descent”. The names of individual police officers accused of mistreatment have been redacted.…….

 
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Two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy after she called 911 for help, in the days leading up to her death, according to records released Wednesday.

In a third call, Massey’s mother, Donna Massey, reports that her daughter is suffering a “mental breakdown” and tells the dispatcher: “I don’t want you guys to hurt her.” She adds that she fears the police and asks that no officer who is “prejudiced” be sent.

In the other calls, a woman calling from Sonya Massey’s address, who doesn’t identify herself, says people want to hurt her, and a day later, a woman identifying herself as Sonya Massey reports a neighbor had hit her with a brick.


The Sangamon county sheriff’s department is still trying to determine whether Massey’s history of mental health issues was relayed to deputies responding to the call about a suspected prowler, which ended in her death on 6 July.…….

 
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Two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy after she called 911 for help, in the days leading up to her death, according to records released Wednesday.

In a third call, Massey’s mother, Donna Massey, reports that her daughter is suffering a “mental breakdown” and tells the dispatcher: “I don’t want you guys to hurt her.” She adds that she fears the police and asks that no officer who is “prejudiced” be sent.

In the other calls, a woman calling from Sonya Massey’s address, who doesn’t identify herself, says people want to hurt her, and a day later, a woman identifying herself as Sonya Massey reports a neighbor had hit her with a brick.


The Sangamon county sheriff’s department is still trying to determine whether Massey’s history of mental health issues was relayed to deputies responding to the call about a suspected prowler, which ended in her death on 6 July.…….

Whether or not info on her mental state was relayed, it was clearly evident and at least one of them knew that something was going on with her because he asked her if she was alright. Her reply to that questions was "I need help".
 
When you think this story couldn’t get more tragic
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Two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy after she called 911 for help, in the days leading up to her death, according to records released Wednesday.

In a third call, Massey’s mother, Donna Massey, reports that her daughter is suffering a “mental breakdown” and tells the dispatcher: “I don’t want you guys to hurt her.” She adds that she fears the police and asks that no officer who is “prejudiced” be sent.

In the other calls, a woman calling from Sonya Massey’s address, who doesn’t identify herself, says people want to hurt her, and a day later, a woman identifying herself as Sonya Massey reports a neighbor had hit her with a brick.


The Sangamon county sheriff’s department is still trying to determine whether Massey’s history of mental health issues was relayed to deputies responding to the call about a suspected prowler, which ended in her death on 6 July.…….

You know if her history had been given to the pigs, they'd only have been even more trigger happy.
 

"The FBI has said Bauer forged a letter that scrubbed his record clean and helped clear the way to his hiring by the Alabama state police in 2019. The document, obtained by AP, confirmed his decade of “creditable service” and deemed him “eligible for rehire,” but the FBI told AP the letter in question was “not legitimate.”"
 

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