http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent?detail=email
It's official.
After being fired from the Inkster Police Department, Bill "Robocop" Melendez has officially been charged three charges including felony assault, mistreatment of a prisoner and misconduct in the brutal beating of Floyd Dent, an upstanding grandfather and Ford Motor employee, outside of Detroit, Michigan.
A drug possession charge against the man, Floyd Dent, 57, will be dropped, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. Dent's treatment by Inkster police during a Jan. 28 traffic stop sparked outrage after the video was released by NBC affiliate WDIV.
"We cannot turn our heads when the law enforcer becomes the law breaker," Worthy said during a news conference Monday. "The alleged police brutality in this case cannot and will not be tolerated."
Melendez is one of the most corrupt police officers in America. It's important to note that 12 years ago he was charged by the federal government as the ringleader of a band of corrupt officers in the Detroit Police Department, but he was able to beat the charges. He has been accused in wrongful deaths, planted evidence, and false reports over a dozen other times.
i can't help but think that this recent charging of murderous and brutal police although a welcome change but would we see these things if not for a series of things, camera phones, protest, audio and media repetitive showing and writing about them would we see this change happening? it was getting real stinky when we thought that DOJ's entry would bring charges and civil action only to be given "sorry we can't prove it" police comes off paid vacation a free man while families are decimated. while charges have been made in last few killings and assaults we have yet to see convictions and penalty's not wrist slaps, justice not just us.
finally it's becoming more evident that hiring "practices" or "criteria" for the hire really needs to be put in other hands or those that have shown a propensity to hire maniac cops be replaced by the people all of the people not just those in peril of that cop with a private agenda.
