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The night Sean Bell was shot to death outside a Queens strip club last month, the spray of bullets was so wide that one shot punched through the glass of a sky tram station a block from the suspect's car. Of the 50 rounds fired, four wound up in Bell, killing the unarmed 23-year-old the night before his wedding.
In Atlanta, during a no-knock drug raid, police kicked in a door and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnson as the frightened grandmother met them with her revolver blazing.
In both cases, the police officers involved claimed probable cause and self-defense: Johnson ... Read more
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Chicago Sun-Times - United Sta
05 January 2008
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Chicago: Judge astounded by go
A federal judge Friday had sentenced a crooked Chicago cop to nearly 10 years in prison, and the hearing was over, but the judge wasn't finished.
In an unusual move, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Guzman commented on what he saw over the last two days after he sentenced a parade of rogue officers who robbed drug dealers for cash and cocaine.
What he saw was "almost schizophrenic," Guzman said.
The cops were good family men, according to court testimony.
Pastors sang their praises.
They gave back to the community.
One was a Desert Storm veteran. Another made more than 1,000 arrests.
And they were part of a ring that sold stolen drugs to return them to the street.
The judge said he had never seen anything like it.
"Good guy on one side," Guzman said. "Bad guy on the other side."
Guzman sentenced former Chicago Police Officer Corey Flagg to 9½ years in prison, a significant break because of his extensive cooperation against his former fellow officers.
Three of them were sentenced Thursday, with prison terms ranging from 19 years to 40 years.
Guzman appeared exasperated at times as he sentenced the former cops, noting that if the men were one-tenth as concerned about the children living in the poor neighborhoods they patrolled as their own children, they never would have resold the drugs.
Flagg, 37, was the right-hand man of the dirty cop running the drug ring, Broderick Jones.
But Flagg was also the first officer charged in the case to cooperate and for that he got a break.
That cooperation was key to taking the corruption case as far as investigators did, federal prosecutor John Lausch said. The prosecutor suggested Flagg's cooperation could continue in other investigations of police corruption.
Flagg, a decorated officer and father of four, apologized to the judge and to the city for his crimes, saying, "I didn't become a police officer to become corrupt."
His attorney, Jeff Steinback, noted: "It's difficult to say now, but Corey Flagg always wanted to be a police officer."
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