An Occupy Wall Street activist was acquitted of all charges after jurors watched a video showing the NYPD doing the exact thing they had charged the activist with.
Michael Premo was found innocent of all charges after his lawyers presented a video that literally showed the NYPD attacking him which in turn means they lied under oath in an attempt to prosecute an innocent American.
“They’re trying to make something out of nothing and they’re trying to charge him with something that didn’t actually occur.”
I hope that the reporter files a civil suit!
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The controversial acquittal of a Philadelphia policeman caught on video violently punching a woman at a Puerto Rican Day parade last fall quickly produced a second stink bomb.
The Philadelphia judge who freed fired Lt. Jonathan Josey during a non-jury trial where that jurist brushed aside compelling evidence recorded on that video is married to a Philadelphia policeman.
The wife of Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Patrick F. Dugan was among the 100-plus police officers who jammed Dugan’s courtroom during Josey’s one-day trial in mid-February.
Judge Dugan neither revealed his marital relationship nor removed himself from the case – formally known as recusal.
Dugan presiding at Josey’s trial seemingly flaunted provisions of Pennsylvania’s Code of Judicial Conduct, particularly provisions prohibiting the “appearance of impropriety” by judges and judges not allowing “family to influence” their judicial judgment.
Dugan issued his acquittal verdict two weeks after Josey’s trial. When ruling, Dugan said he was troubled by Josey’s conduct captured on a cell phone video but he was impressed by the testimony from other police officers plus character witnesses for Josey who supported his claims of innocence.
Judge Dugan’s ruling favoring Josey, dismissing the video contradicting Josey’s courtroom accounts, continues an infamous judicial tradition across America of jurists bending both law and logic to excuse police misconduct, giving breaks to cops generally withheld from civilians facing comparable criminal charges….
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