Tony Norman's point about this case is that police are targeting people based on where they are at a certain time of day. Norman says that the officer's in the Pittsburgh police force are only looking out for each other instead of the common good. Miles was simply walking to his grandmother's house when he was targeted by three plain clothes police officers. The officers brutally beat Miles until his face was unrecognizable, all because they suspected he had drugs, alcohol, or money, which they had no proof of. Norman's point was that racially profiled Miles and after they realized they messed up, tried to cover their tracks.
Norman supports this claim when he talks about the charges the officers brought against Miles being thrown out because they were so outlandish.
"The charges the officers brought against Mr. Miles were thrown out. Pittsburgh Officers Michael Saldutte and David Sisak and former city Officer Richard Ewing, now with McCandless, claim that Mr. Miles was carrying a soda bottle in his jacket that they mistook for a gun."
The Mountain Dew bottle never turned up, although the defendants are now arguing that bullets found in the vicinity of one of the city's most crime-ridden neighborhoods days later somehow belonged to Mr. Miles, thus justifying his arrest after all. It is a stretch even by the outlandish standards of police defense lawyers.
Bear in mind that by the officers' own admission, they never saw Mr. Miles with an actual gun. If I were on the jury, I would wonder why the plaintiff would be walking around Homewood carrying bullets but no gun, unless they're supposed to believe he was some kind of weird urban iteration of Johnny Appleseed."
To be continued...
Norman supports this claim when he talks about the charges the officers brought against Miles being thrown out because they were so outlandish.
"The charges the officers brought against Mr. Miles were thrown out. Pittsburgh Officers Michael Saldutte and David Sisak and former city Officer Richard Ewing, now with McCandless, claim that Mr. Miles was carrying a soda bottle in his jacket that they mistook for a gun."
The Mountain Dew bottle never turned up, although the defendants are now arguing that bullets found in the vicinity of one of the city's most crime-ridden neighborhoods days later somehow belonged to Mr. Miles, thus justifying his arrest after all. It is a stretch even by the outlandish standards of police defense lawyers.
Bear in mind that by the officers' own admission, they never saw Mr. Miles with an actual gun. If I were on the jury, I would wonder why the plaintiff would be walking around Homewood carrying bullets but no gun, unless they're supposed to believe he was some kind of weird urban iteration of Johnny Appleseed."
To be continued...