Discussion for article #244293
I am too impatient to read this story in its entirety but the headline indicates the lawyer in question is a male so why is there a woman’s picture in this story. I apologize if I missed something.
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I know these things get framed as a black and white issue. They are not. The police cover up wrongful death and abuse of white and black and Hispanics . It doesn’t matter what color you are. They see it as you against them . You are all just civilians . They are Law enforcement officers. They get special privileges. That’s how they see it.
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Meanwhile, NBC has a big drama tonight and tomorrow about Chicago’s fine, upstanding emergency services!
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Photo caption is at the bottom of the article.
I believe she is the spox for the IRPA, the independent police review board there.
But that is just an educated guess. The judge making the ruling and the prosecutor were both male.
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Every time I read about the City of Chicago it makes me sick to my stomach. I also don’t think this is isolated to Chicago, this type of police corruption happens all across America. If the police don’t follow the law then why should the average American citizen?
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Police defend police. True. Police offend more frequently against blacks. Also true. Blacks stopped more for things that are ignored in whites. Also true.
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“He said Jordan Marsh, a senior corporation counsel, also later lied about when he was aware of the evidence.”
So, is the Judge going to charge this “counsel” with perjury? If not why not?
Officers of the Court are NEVER “off the clock” for perjurous actions.
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Questions about how Pinex was killed have been out there for months. The trial opened up more questions because the cops claimed to have heard the call about a car involved in a shooting. The judge’s ruling is confirmation of not only the attempted cover-up by police, but now the City’s involvement in trying to protect these bad cops. The lawyer should not have been allowed to resign,he should have been fired and should be facing criminal charges and sanctions for his behavior.
The people of Chicago need a better police department and city government.
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Laws throughout the country should be changed to allow these officers and DA’s to be held financially liable for their malfeasance and unconstitutional behavior. There’s NO deterrent when they know the city taxpayers will cover their civil torts committed by them.
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Oh, I’d say it’s very much a black and white issue. It’s just not an entirely racial issue . . .
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I agree it’s not a binary issue of (check one) “[ ] Police are racist | [ ] Police are not racist.”
That said, the probability of a black man being the victim of police abuse in Chicago (or really any American city) is much higher than that of a white person. There a number of factors why this is so, but one of them, I believe, has to do with cultural presuppositions about African Americans, that are shared by police officers as well as others.
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A ruling like this from a judge doesn’t just affect the parties and the trial. In most states, a ruling like this is one that a state’s bar must necessarily take note of and disciplinary action normally follows as a matter of course.
Prosecutors often seem to get a pass for concealing evidence from state bar ethics councils, for reasons that are never clearly articulated, but in a civil action? Some people are at least getting a reprimand.
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These matters cost lives and shred families. And the cost Chicago Taxpayers a ton of money that we don’t have.
If they fired the 10% of the cops with the worst records they’d save themselves a ton of money.
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Easy solution: stop requiring all these damned cameras around that catch people doing bad things!
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Ah the strongly worded letter! That should do the trick. But just in case – fetch the comfy chair!
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A letter of reprimand from your bar association is more in the nature of probation than a good talking to. A public reprimand is like having two strikes called against you. Then there are the lawyers who end up getting a couple of private repremands which is, of course, basically Double Secret Probation.
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You’re right, of course, but who on earth puts a photo caption at the end of an article? Is it really asking too much to be able to see captions immediately beneath the photos they refer to?
Edit: And after all the complaints about this issue I don’t see why Josh couldn’t spare a couple of minutes to address it, either in the sense of changing the policy or explaining why it must be so.
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