According to evidence presented at trial, Sease conspired with other Memphis drug dealers to arrange drug deals so that he could rob the other dealers when they arrived. On one occasion, evidence showed that Sease had a co-conspirator resell cocaine that Sease had stolen from one drug dealer to another drug dealer. Sease then pulled the buyer’s car over, stole the cocaine again and resold it. Sease and his co-conspirators kidnapped several drug dealers in an effort to get them to set up additional drug deals for Sease to rob.This "Only One" brought to you courtesy of the War on Drugs...
Sease was a Memphis police officer from 2001 through 2005. He was discharged in 2005 for misconduct relating to one of the robberies. After he was fired, one of Sease’s co-conspirators, Andrew Hunt, became a Memphis reserve police officer and the two continued to rob drug dealers while pretending to be police officers, according to evidence presented at trial. [More]
Which, as we all know (or should by now), establishes optimum conditions for the War on Guns.
That's an interesting way to fight crime.
ReplyDeleteHe was fired. That's it? A really special "only one." Wonder how much of the swag he "gifted" to his bosses to get that sweet deal?
ReplyDeleteA pox on all of them.
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What about all those "good" police officers? You know, the ones who didn't do anything about it? Oh wait, they weren't that good after all, were they?
ReplyDelete"The shield...will not be tarnished"?
ReplyDeleteA liitle late for that - it already is.
Discharged for "misconduct." Immediately started doing it again with his co-conspirator.
ReplyDeleteIf ordinary citizens do that, it can mean a life sentence. Well, theoretically. Once in a great while, they do sentence a big, well-televised drug gang leader so we know they're doing their jobs! For us!
I think the public is the only one not in on all the PRETENDING. Cops, courts and politicians wink and nod, and the press laps up the latest press release, having a very short memory.