An elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is under investigation due to its alleged involvement in the mass falsification of reports, which wrongfully classified innocent people of color as gang members.
In a repeat misnomer reminiscent of the LAPD’s infamous “Rampart Scandal” of the 1990s, an undisclosed amount of officers working in South LA’s Metropolitan Division are suspected of falsifying documents in order to criminalize unassuming civilians.
In response to this new scandal, the LAPD said it has assigned officers as inactive and removed others from law enforcement.
In an exclusive interview, Silva Megerditchian, CEO & President of SLM Law, told KABC-TV (a local ABC News affiliate in Los Angeles) that every report the LAPD has made should be called into question in light of this new scandal.
“It is one of the most awful designations that a defendant can have, quite honestly, because being a gang member has harsher sentencing consequences. This follows them through every arrest, through every interaction with police officers, because if they’re going to lie on something like that, how can we trust them to write anything that’s factual and accurate,” Megerditchian told KABC.
Source: LAPD Falsely Classifies Innocent Blacks as Gang Members
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