Police admit to framing a Black man who did 5 years in jail and then was deported back to Haiti

[Judi Lynn]

By Kia Morgan Smith - August 13, 2018

Another wrongful conviction has been tossed involving the ex-Florida police chief Raimundo Atesiano, who ordered officers to frame several Black men in order to improve his area's crime statistics, reports the Miami Herald.

Atesiano, who resigned four years ago, was the Chief of Police for a small suburban village between Miami Shores and North Miami. During his leadership, his officers solved 19 burglary cases, or so everyone believed.

In the latest case, prosecutors dismissed the wrongful burglary conviction of a man who they found was framed, serving five years in prison and then was deported back to his native country, Haiti.

"It is this office's position that the charges brought against Clarens Desrouleaux ... cannot be substantiated and require that the judgment and sentence be vacated," Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Justin Funck wrote in a final memo on the case.

More:
https://thegrio.com/2018/08/13/police-admit-framing-black-man-5-years-in-jail-got-deported-back-to-haiti/

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142132644

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ex-Florida police chief Raimundo Atesiano

Police chief told cops to randomly arrest black people to boost crime stats: probe
By Joshua Rhett Miller July 13, 2018 12:56pm

A former police chief in Florida allegedly pressured some officers to frame "anybody black" for unrelated crimes so the department could boast perfect crime stats, according to an internal probe of the small-town department.

Records obtained by the Miami Herald indicate that high-ranking officers in the Biscayne Park Police Department pressured some cops to make unwarranted arrests of random black people in order to better the department's crime stats, one cop told an outside investigator in 2014.

"'If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries,'" Officer Anthony De La Torre said he was told. "They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city."

Another of the officers, Omar Martinez, told investigators in a statement that he wouldn't carry out those "illegal and unethical" orders.

More:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/13/police-chief-told-cops-to-randomly-arrest-black-people-to-boost-crime-stats-probe/

[Hav]

1. It would be nice if he'd be send to jail

and that his prison sentence would be at least the sum of all those wrongful sentences.

[avebury]

2. I don't understand why criminal charges are leveled against Atesiano

and the officers that went along with the scheme. They falsified police records and the police chief suborned purjury for any officer that got up on the stand and lied in court. I have got to think that they had to have broken some laws in the process.

I would like to see a civil RICCO case brought against Atesiano and his cooperating officers.