fuck jail time, they should be brought out into the middle of the sea and kicked overboard. if they're strong enough swimmers they might die of dehydration

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cops who deliberately lie to get a confession should be punished with the maximum sentence for the crime they were trying to pin on their victim.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, from a technical standpoint there isn’t much of an alternative method of getting a confession outside of lying and manipulation - perhaps torture, but that doesn’t exactly work. But planting memories into someone is just evil. They likely noticed he was mentally unwell and figured he was a good fit to send to the Tyson slaughterhouse to replace the prisoner/migrant worker/drug addict/troubled teen who caught the flu and died.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

nah just bullet and dog food

[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

I read that the cops haven't even been fired

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

Literal monsters

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

The actual article: https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/

[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this is why confessions don't mean shit.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

I often think about how the inquisition tortured Giordano Bruno for the better part of a decade before burning him at the stake for crimes like thinking far away stars are other suns and that Mary wasn't perpetually a virgin.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

barbara-pit

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Something that really gets me, is that if they found any recent victim in a 50-mile area, they would've said this is the guy, locked him up, and it would never have even been a news story. It's a long established fact that forced confessions are worth diddly, yet the only reason this got picked up is because there was no dead person to tie off the loose end.

What's scariest about this story is not that it happened and they got caught, it's that they must have done it a hundred other times and not been caught. How many other people are in prison after being psychologically tortured into falsely confessing?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago

All I have to say is 🔻

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pffft at least this isn't communist china, there the government would take all your monies. At least in burgerland you can do a lawsuit after all the endured torture. Can't do that in a comunist authoritarian dictator country.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

But the money comes from taxpayers and not the cops’ paycheck, so basically we do live in communist china!

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

illegal-to-say

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

For anyone who doesn't already know this, this is why you NEVER speak to the police without an attorney present!!