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A Dirty Cop And The Innocent Man He Framed Are Now BFFs
Jameel McGee has forgiven the former police officer who falsified evidence to get him locked up.
Jameel McGee could be forgiven for holding a grudge against former Michigan police officer Andrew Collins.
In 2005, the then-Benton Harbor cop falsified reports to put McGee behind bars for four years for dealing drugs — a crime he didn’t commit.
But details of Collins’ shady conduct eventually came to light, and he later spent 18 months in prison for falsifying multiple police reports, planting drugs and stealing.
“I took money from people. I took money from the city that I worked for. I was the lowest of low. In my mind now, as I look back, I was as low as you can get as a police officer,” Collins told The Herald-Palladium.
McGee, meanwhile, was fully exonerated — but understandably felt a seething sense of injustice at what had gone down.
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