In Bloomfield, New Jersey DJ Marcus Jeter, 30, was charged with eluding police, assault and other crimes based on the sworn reports of two Bloomfield police officers. The officers accused him of fleeing a scene and then assaulting them after they were called to his home with his girlfriend. It was all a lie but multiple officers joined in framing Jeter. The problem was a police dash came video that prosecutors never bothered to review despite his denials. It was once again the media that did the due diligence and presented the evidence to the prosecutors who dropped the charges. Prosecutors however claim that the fault rests with the police.
Jeter said that he thought he was free to go. However, he was soon pulled over immediately but stayed in the car on the New Jersey Turnpike. One tape shows a second police car coming from the opposite direction, crossing the median into ongoing traffic, and then striking Jeter’s car. The collision is not mentioned in any of the police reports. He said that they had their guns out.
He is now free thanks to those dashcam tapes. It’s the video that prosecutors say they never saw when the pursued criminal charges against 30 year-old Marcus Jeter . In the video, his hands were in the air. He was charged with eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. One officer in the video can be seen throwing repeated punches.
You can clearly see Jeter pulling over and stopping on the side of the Garden State parkway. The cops pull out guns. He said that officers began hitting him while telling him not to resist arrest. The beating continues while he was in handcuffs. The videotape confirms his story and shows him not resisting.
Notably, the prosecutors did not review the evidence even though they were trying to put him away for five years. More importantly, the Bloomfield Police Department’s Internal Affairs fully investigated that complaint and cleared all of the officers.
Two Bloomfield police officers are now indicted for falsifying reports and one of them is charged with assault. A third has pleaded guilty to tampering. A third pleaded guilty early on to tampering.
However, as usual, there is no word on discipline for the prosecutors or the investigators who either failed to review the tapes or failed to turn them over. We not only have three officers involved but an Internal Affairs investigation that cleared the officers. I cannot imagine what they reviewed if not the dash cam video. If they reviewed it, there is the added element of collusion in this coverup to frame an innocent man. While the prosecutors are blaming the police, it is also unclear why a prosecutor doing due diligence would not demand and review the videos. The question is whether that demand was made by the prosecutor and whether the police lied or refused to turn over the evidence. That is a lot of questions to be answered before this matter is closed. However, given the poor record of police and prosecutors, a full record may not developed without a lawsuit and discovery.
Source: ABC/a>
Victoria,
Hidden dashcams? That might be something for some entrepreneurial type to dream up.
No matter what lies the cops gives, it is LEGAL to record the police in every state. If you don’t assert your right if challenged they will be more than willing to take it away.
See what the USDOJ has to say about the matter in their letters Garcia v Montgomery County and Sharp v Baltimore PD.
There is a nifty “thing” on available via the Internet for smartphones, Bambuser(dot)com. Bambuser allows live streaming video that a police officer cannot smash. Streaming video would prevent a police officer from smashing the video of the police officer failing to attempt to smash the video by smashing the smartphone used to make the video, by sending the video to Sweden for safekeeping.
Philosophical principle? If it is a problem, a solution to it can eventually be found. If no solution to it can ever be found, it is simply not a problem.
With Bambuser the censorship and illegal confiscation of your camera is already in the cloud.
Assert your rights! Every week we see how video exonerates a falsely accused citizen.
Except – “FtP” (does anyone use that any more)…
When the police confiscate your camera and tell you its against the law to film them and/or that you a breaking the “lawful” order of them telling you to leave and stop filming.
All police video and audio needs to be held by a third party so that “lost” or “malfunctioning” video will always be available to the public. At most a judge can issue a gag order for a reasonable period of time, but eventually all video will see the light of day.
Yo JT? You really need to proof read your stories a little better or at all. It’s hard to read your stories when they appear to be written by folks like me! The lead in tease was wrong and there were more mistakes in the full story. If you don’t care enough to get it right why should we care enough to read it? Just sayin…….
The sworn word of the cop is worth nothing. An IA investigation is worth next to nothing. Every week we see another story of how willing (and seemingly eager) they are to destroy an innocent person’s freedom. ALWAYS record the police. You may save yourself or a stranger from police abuse.
Unfortunately if the ‘officer’ is of the rogue variety, he, they will probably smash your dashcams – wonder if anyone makes an ‘invisible’ dashcam – I will investigate that. So now we are all trying to figure out how to outsmart these rogue police !! Don’t they realize that this is a slippery slope downhill ???
As soon as I found it feasible after a police officer wrote a lie about me in a “citation,” and a judge “found me guilty based on clear and convincing evidence” based on the police officer’s lie about me, I set out to get a dashcam with GPS logging.
If ever a situation again arises in which a police officer writes a citatation containing a similar lie about me, I shall inform the prosecuting attorney of the lie and the dashcam evidence of the lie.
I tend to doubt that my so doing will ever preclude or prevent my being found guilty based on clear and convincing evidence.
I have two notably differing transcripts by the same court reporter of the trial at which a judge found me guilty based on clear and convincing evidence. I have shown the transcripts to people who are well-educated (such as a Ph.D. in psychology?) without anyone finding any evidence, whether or not clear, whether or not convincing, in the transcripts of my having ever committed the violation the lie written up by the police officer; the police officer never entered the lie in his court testimony.
At the time of the trial, in 1987, Wisconsin had yet to adopt Daubert, so I had no safe way to provide evidence of the police officer having written a lie about me into the complaint. A form of Daubert only became Wisconsin law in February, 2011, as I recall.
I find that the social construction of reality (a sociology area of scholarly inquiry) condemns law enforcement personnel to sometimes telling lies in order to avoid violating their oaths of office.
To me, as a bioengineer and Professional Engineer, the contemporary state of human social evolution effectively precludes truthfully honest law enactment and effectively precludes truthfully honest law enforcement.
When law enforcement persons violate the law while attempting to enforce it, they are bringing to the realm of possible conscious public awareness the message if the tragedy of law as adversarial process becoming its own best process adversary.
The messenger is neither the medium nor the message?
I am pondering the wisdom of outfitting any motor vehicle that I drive with four “dashcams,” one covering each observable quadrant of my surroundings.
Gee, another case of the police basically saying “Who you gonna believe? Us cops or your own eyes watching video?”
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Where’s the video? What’s your source? C’mon Turley! You can do better!
I agree with Nate, this one was particularly challenging to read for what you meant rather than what was posted.
Why can’t you at least read through your writing once before posting it? Every post is littered with errors, some that actually make it hard to understand what you are trying to say.
Justice only comes through due diligence and it is not seen happening too often.
I believe that the prosecutors and DA are elected offices. Next election, there should be a competent lawyer willing to actually follow the law and be an ethical lawyer. I know that it will be difficult to find such a lawyer, but there must be some available, and at least one lawyer might feel it is their duty to provide ethical prosecutors, even if they are not too enthusiastic about being a DA.
It has come to the time that citizens must have their own dashcam as our comrades in Russia have. In a recent story of Police harassing a channel 2 ( ABC) reporter, the dashcams of all 9 police vehicles on the scene were “malfunctioning” and did not record the incident.
I hope that the cops are charged with multiple felonies, and that the internal affairs officers are also fired. They too should be charged with felonies if they saw the videos. Convicting them of felonies and doing prison time will hurt them more than anything since it will take away their legal ability to own any firearms for life. After they get out of prison, the cops should do random checks of their homes to make sure they have no guns available to them. I can bet that they will get guns once they get out.
I hope Jeter sues. This stuff has to stop.
The incompetence of the prosecutors is just business as usual.