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When the power of arrest corrupts cops.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

If a cop is going to arrest a reporter and news camera operator for covering something as non-political and non-controversial as an overturned truck from the opposite side of the highway, imagine what the same cop will do under the cover of the night passing by people doing "oink, oink" pig sounds. That is, unless the cop gets demoted to a desk job.   Former El Paso police sergeant Raul Ramirez went on a power trip last April, manhandled the reporter and cameraperson, and arrested them, while letting the onlooking civilians to continue to watch the scene. His misdeeds were caught on camera and audio. How many people has he manhandled worse when he thought nobody was videotaping, watching, or witnessing?   Mr. Ramirez was demoted over a previous police abuse incident...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).