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Title: Omaha police officers did not plant drug evidence, jurors decide
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omaha.com
URL Source: http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/oma ... 3c-54ce-9438-6c2d11189c4c.html
Published: Feb 1, 2018
Author: Emerson Clarridge World-Herald staff wri
Post Date: 2018-02-01 08:20:33 by Gatlin
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Tabatha Manning sued the officers and the City of Omaha in U.S. District Court, alleging that they intentionally fabricated evidence and supported her false prosecution after she was arrested during a 2013 traffic stop. Manning is the mother of Payton Benson, who was 5 when she was shot to death four months later, in January 2014, by an errant bullet. The trial included testimony from former Omaha Police Chief Alex Hayes on allegations in 2010 that an officer had mishandled illegal drugs. In that instance, a police officer reported that a fellow officer had thrown a bag of marijuana onto a cruiser dashboard, saying they would need it “later.” That allegation resulted in an inadequate investigation, reflecting a pattern of indifference, Manning’s attorney said. Chief Deputy Douglas County Attorney Brenda Beadle also testified about her office’s decision to end Manning’s criminal prosecution. Manning was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance. The charge was later dismissed in large part as a humanitarian gesture that acknowledged Manning’s grief, Beadle testified. Manning said immediately after her arrest that she thought the officers were corrupt and her race was a factor. The prosecution seized on those motivations this week. “It’s about vengeance,” Omaha Deputy City Attorney William Acosta-Trejo told jurors of Manning’s civil filing. He referred to a recording of a telephone call in the hour after her arrest in which Manning angrily said she was going to “sue the (expletive)” out of the police. In the call, which she placed from jail and which was played for jurors, Manning told her children’s aunt that she suspected that the officers planted the bag because she is black. The officers are white. “I don’t know why they did it,” she also offered. In the civil rights lawsuit, Manning asserted that Officers Vaughn Cotton and Theodore Delezene conspired to place a half-gram bag of meth in the back seat of their cruiser and allege that it belonged to Manning. The lawsuit, filed by attorney William O’Brien, also said that the drug charge significantly disrupted Manning’s life. The jury determined unanimously that it was more likely than not that the officers did not plant the methamphetamine. Jurors were not asked to decide how it came to be in the cruiser. Manning, 35, told jurors she was stopped by police after leaving her job at Gallup and driving to her baby sitter’s house. The stop occurred about 10 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2013, in the baby sitter’s driveway, near 14th and Wirt Streets. Cotton and Delezene stopped Manning because the white brake light was showing through a broken red cover on the van she was driving, which is a violation of state statute. “This was supposed to be a stop that no one was going to remember,” Acosta- Trejo told jurors. Manning did not have registration, proof of insurance or identification. Manning told officers that she thought there was a warrant for her arrest and the officer confirmed that she had two active misdemeanor warrants for unpaid fines for driving under suspension. One of the officers handcuffed Manning and they drove her to the Douglas County Jail. The male officers did not search Manning because she is a woman, and they did not request that a female officer be dispatched to the stop to conduct a search. Poster Comment: The cops now need to sue her ass fir defamation ... A civil jury on Wednesday found that two Omaha police officers did not plant a bag of methamphetamine in the rear of a cruiser near a woman they had arrested.
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
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It just magically appeared!! Meanwhile in Baltimore: Corrupt Baltimore Cops Admit Planting Guns, Using GPS-Locators To Rob Drug Dealers It just magically appeared!! It “just magically appeared” from one of her body cavities, but the jury didn’t want to go there....PHEW. Meanwhile in Highlands Ranch: Funeral services for Douglas County Deputy Zackari Parrish set who was shot and killed early on New Year’s Eve in an ambush-style attack. Forever rest in peace, Deputy Zackari Parrish.
Jurors were not asked to decide how it came to be in the cruiser.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#2. To: Deckard (#1)
Jurors were not asked to decide how it came to be in the cruiser.
Meanwhile in Baltimore:
Corrupt Baltimore Cops Admit Planting Guns, Using GPS-Locators To Rob Drug Dealers
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