Seattle Prosecutors Railroaded Elderly Black Veteran

Let me get this straight.  A seventy year old black military veteran was arrested in Seattle on false charges of using his golf club-walking stick as a weapon.  The dash-cam video disproved the officer's charge.  And yet the King County prosecutors and the so-called public defender forced this man to plead guilty for a crime he did not commit, under threat of imprisonment if he didn't.  Bytheway, the prosecutors and public defender (who was being paid to advocate on the man's behalf) never even bothered to view the video.  This whole business is rotten.  No, it is evil.

The arresting officer, Cynthia Whitlatch, then went on Facebook criticizing  “black peoples (sic) paranoia” in assuming whites are “out to get them, ” and cited the Ferguson, Mo., riots that followed the fatal shooting of a young African-American man by a white officer last summer.  Seattle police chief, Kathleen O'Toole, overlooked the miscarriage of justice and merely re-assigned Whitlatch to a desk job.

Now it turns out that Whitlatch's former friend  claimed that the two had smoked marijuana stolen as evidence, and regularly referred to blacks using the n-word. Even if we disregard this piece of information coming from an ex-lover, who had resigned from a neighboring police force because of a criminal conviction, there is this to ponder. Have prosecutors been aiding this abuse of police authority in other cases as well?  How many other such incidents of police brutality and the false arrest of blacks might now tumble out of the clown car that Seattle calls a criminal justice system?

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