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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 05:10 PM Jan 2015

The Prosecutor Who Filed Murder Charges Against The Cops Is Becoming A Police Target

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/27/3615644/police-retaliating-prosecutor-filing-murder-charges-cops/

At least professionally, the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s office has already paid for filing murder charges against two cops who shot and killed a homeless man in Albuquerque, New Mexico....

But this isn’t the only way Brandenburg may have paid for her decision to file murder charges. Buried deep in an expansive New Yorker report on Albuquerque’s investigation of police shootings, reporter Rachel Aviv lays out how Brandenburg may have faced other personal pressures aimed at intimidating her out of using her enforcement powers....

Last October, Brandenburg told an attorney for the police union that she was considering filing charges against the cops who killed James Boyd, a homeless schizophrenic man approached by the officers for sleeping in the Albuquerque foothills. “Within weeks, Brandenburg found herself the target of an investigation by the Albuquerque Police Department,” Aviv explains.

The investigation related to theft by Brandenburg’s son, who had stolen money from friends to feed his heroin addiction. Brandenburg had offered to pay back the victims of the theft, and somewhere along the way, police developed a claim that Brandenburg had bribed witnesses related to the case.


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The Prosecutor Who Filed Murder Charges Against The Cops Is Becoming A Police Target (Original Post) KamaAina Jan 2015 OP
Just one more reminder of how far we have slipped 99th_Monkey Jan 2015 #1
Wtf, indeed. HappyMe Jan 2015 #2
Yeah.. uh... Lancero Jan 2015 #3
Everyone who is surprised by this stand on your head... hifiguy Jan 2015 #4
Sounds like $$$ privilege GeorgeGist Jan 2015 #5
K&R! Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #6
That's why most of these cases .. MinM Jan 2015 #7
and MinM Feb 2015 #8
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. Just one more reminder of how far we have slipped
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 05:24 PM
Jan 2015

into becoming a Police State, with 'law enforcement' agencies operating
'above the law', and unaccountable, even to their own prosecutors, for
their bullying murderous crimes, perpetrated against unarmed citizens.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
2. Wtf, indeed.
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 05:25 PM
Jan 2015

I guess you don't file charges against cops because the union and the cops will try to fuck you up.

Lancero

(2,979 posts)
3. Yeah.. uh...
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 06:43 PM
Jan 2015

If you admit that your son stole money to feed his heroin addiction, it's pretty hard to claim that the police investigation is retaliation.

Awkward timing for sure, but the investigation itself isn't retaliation.

The police claim of bribery might be, though by loose definition she did bribe them.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
4. Everyone who is surprised by this stand on your head...
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 06:50 PM
Jan 2015

Seriously, what did she expect? The kkkops will never stand for this and no one is going to stop them.

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