Word: cops
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...prosecution's effort wound down, there was a general consensus that all four cops were trapped by evidence that implicated them in the most damning way possible: Gunshots that traveled up Diallo's leg, indicating he was prone when some of the shots were fired; the sheer number of bullets discharged by the police; and an earwitness's testimony that there was a pause in the shooting, suggesting the cops may have had a moment to think before they continued firing. By the time the first cop took the stand, the defense had their work cut out for them...
Richard Murphy, 27, took the stand after Boss stepped down, and he climbed into the witness box with the demeanor of a man who wants nothing more than to be somewhere else. Young, nervous and not as sure of himself as Boss, Murphy was the fourth and final cop to testify, and his account seemed almost an afterthought - it served mainly to emphasize his own peripheral role in the shooting: He never entered the vestibule, and his actions were far more reactive and passive than those of his fellow officers...
...after all, Carroll, the eldest cop in the car, who was the first to approach Diallo, the first to falsely identify the victim's wallet as a gun, and, arguably, the force that precipitated the barrage of bullets that killed Diallo. A tragic mistake was made, and the political storm surrounding this trial virtually guarantees that someone will have to shoulder the penalty. Sobbing on the stand Monday, Carroll was the embodiment of anguish - and, the prosecution may contend, of the bulk of the guilt...
...much red," intones former Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher), returning to his old Baltimore squadroom and spying the whiteboard. Red ink means open cases; black, solved. That is, red means lack of closure, as when NBC iced this humanistic cop drama unceremoniously last spring. Pembleton, Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and most of the series' diasporic crew investigate the shooting of Lieut. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now a mayoral candidate. The case is mostly pro forma, but its powerful yet tender epilogue writes Homicide's epitaph in emotionally satisfying black...
...Since September, when the LAPD appointed a board of inquiry to investigate misdeeds in its anti-gang Rampart CRASH unit, a portrait has emerged of police power run amok on a horrifying scale. The investigation centers on the testimony of turncoat cop Rafael Perez, a Rampart CRASH officer who squealed after he was caught stealing cocaine from an evidence room. A cover story in Thursday's L.A. Times, for which the paper received exclusive access to Internal Affairs and D.A. documents of Perez's testimony, lists such police infractions as beating and framing innocent people, using deadly force against unarmed...