re: #51 goddamnedfrank

This is just the most flagrant kind of inappropriate behavior. Not only is it professional misconduct for a police officer to tamper or in any way try to steer a witness’s recollection or testimony, but for a cop, an authority figure to actually correct a witness during questioning, to tell them that what they said isn’t right, because it doesn’t line up with someone else’s account constitutes witness tampering, and possibly intimidation.

It’s just so wrong, so deeply and utterly the opposite of proper police work that I basically have to believe that there was an overt agenda at play.

That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn at this point is that the Sanford PD purposefully screwed up their own investigation. Whether the motivation was racial bias, disinterest in cases that virtually impossible to prosecute successfully, or something else doesn’t matter. Heads should roll and, God willing, very likely will when the Feds get done with their investigation. Zimmerman may not go to jail, but there are a lot of people involved in this mockery of justice who should.