WNYT News – by Bill LambdinSCOTIA- Donald Andrews, Jr. operates a so-called smoke shop on Mohawk Avenue in Scotia.
It sells incense and other smoking paraphernalia, legal stuff but material that might also be re-purposed for other illicit activities.
Scotia and Schenectady County police became suspicious and targeted Andrews’s shop, sending an undercover informant in twice in March.
The second time, Andrews’s attorney Kevin Luibrand does play by play that appears to show the informant planting, then photographing crack cocaine that led to Andrews arrest.
“He comes in,” Luibrand narrated over video shot on in-store surveillance cameras. “Places the crack on the counter. Crack, which under federal sentencing guidelines, would get him 4 years in jail. Under New York State law would get him 2 to 7 years in jail.”
There are seven cameras in plain view in Andrews small store.
Members of the Schenectady chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference viewed the apparent framing of an African-American businessman and were outraged.
“It was a set-up and I believe that he was racially profiled and targeted,” said Treasure Clayton. “It would be easy for them to say that he was selling drugs because he was black.”
Neither the Schenectady County Sheriff nor the Scotia Police Chief were available to be interviewed about the apparent planting of evidence.
By phone the Sheriff acknowledged proper procedures were not followed but denied his investigators purposely framed the suspect.
The Sheriff blamed the informant, who has taken flight.
Andrews was arrested but released when he was able to get police to look at the multiple camera angles.
He’s taken the first step toward filing a lawsuit for wrongful arrest.
This has nothing to do with race. If our police do not like they will frame you, slander you, beat you, and laugh in your face about it. Been there and had them do so more than once. They will even go so far as to try to run over you with there cars. They live on were the police we don’t like and we only cover for our friends and buddie’s. They are the law on the street they think and do what ever they like. A disgrace to the Nation. And allowed to be that way. Race has nothing to do with it. We all suffer at there hands. And are forced to pay them for it. Low life’s with guns on our streets.
And every case that used this or any other CI, any case handled by the officers involved, and any case by this department where prosecution was aided by similar evidence needs to be reviewed.
With the amount of cases that should be under the microscope, the department should just have a pile of pre filled form letters at the front desk for lawyers to initial.
Yep, I think that they profiled the business and they singled the business because the guy was black. I was profiled many times because I was a tall skinny long haired overly ambitious white guy too but because I am white it is no big deal . Because this guy is black though it is a issue…………. These gd cops know exactly where the pig under cover cop is and they are protecting him, guarenteed. This kind of thing happens all of the time, every day and if you don`t have money or turn snitch for the cops you will go to jail or most likely prison everytime. This cop as well as every one involved should be in jail without bail awaiting the bus to prison. Better yet cops rarely ever go to prison so I think that street justice is in order for these cops just like the cops act out on the people.
You’re right…no race is immune & money is the game. And people wonder why I am paranoid when interacting with LEO.
I’d be willing to bet there would be no crime whatsoever in this country if we got rid of all cops.
With no cops anywhere, Americans would expect to have to protect themselves, and would be armed-up to do so. Criminals would be too scared for their lives to break the law anywhere.
Far from the oft-repeated mantra that states “we NEED cops”, the exact opposite is true. We have crime BECAUSE we have cops, but Americans have their heads so stuffed with BS that they actually believe these pig bastards fight crime, and they tolerate all kinds of abuses at the hands of cops because of this erroneous belief.
Watch a few more episodes of Adam-12 and tell me more about how much “we need cops”, you f&%kin’ moron.
What’s frustrating is that it’s almost impossible to convince Americans of anything that runs contrary to what their TV-god has brainwashed them with, and for that reason, we have gangs of armed thugs roaming the streets who are actually funded by our taxes.
Even before the Adam-12 propaganda, there was “Dragnet”. This good “Cop” indoctrination has been going on since they’ve been putting images on celluloid. Just with that tidbit of trivia, one can see how long this Zioturd cabal has been working over the public.
Car 54 Where Are You? Two thumbs up. My all-time favorite cop show (actually my ONLY favorite cop show).
Might be before your time, though.
🙂 🙂 🙂
The best cop show! Fred Gwinn rocked!
He and Al Lewis teamed up together again in The Munsters, another classic. 🙂
Do you remember that episode where officer Toody would pull on his ear lobe to shutoff someone yacking at him, and officer Muldoon reached over and yanked on Toody’s earlobe to get him to listen?
🙂
Sorry, I don’t have much memory (as far as specifics) from those days. What I do remember though, was that show had me cracking up when I was a kid. That, and The Real McCoys, if you remember it.
Tooty says ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
If it wasn’t for the video, there wouldn’t be anything said. No wonder the Zioturd trained thugs hate video when the public is doing the filming. Trouble is, even caught red handed, they cover their azzes & lie. The judicial then lets them go on to frame more victims.
video wont stop spinning some logo. Cant watch it but I know cops are POSs enough to do that kind of crap. If he is on the “lamb” the people need to organize and suss him out. The cops wont. the whole FOP homo-party looks out for themselves.
7+14=21 black jack
Awesome how he was considered guilty till he could prove he was innocent. An informant, that thrives on being on the good side of police is trusted to gather evidence instead of police, why? And how was he arrested merely on a picture that showed it in his store instead of police entering the establishment and catching him in the middle of a transaction? I don’t believe this was racially motivated they just wanted to bust someone who was selling paraphernalia.
anyone ever hear of the ten commandments? “thou shalt not bear false witness” comes to mind.
American government policy and law enforcement break every single commandment, they covet, lie they adulter, murder, steal, false idols, etc… but they make a lot of money.
And yes this was race motivated at the higher levels as there are plenty of smoke shops run by “whitey”. So why were none of them targeted with undercover operations?
The comment was: “anyone ever hear of the ten commandments? “thou shalt not bear false witness” comes to mind.”
According to the ZIONAZIS, the Ten Commandments are applicable to Jews only. The rest of us are mere animals to be raped, robbed, and murdered at their pleasure.
And he was one of the very few who was lucky enough to have caught it on video.
As I recall, however, it did nothing for Rodney King.
The only reason Rodney King was thrashed as he was, is because the locals witnessing the incident either weren’t armed, or they were totally ‘domesticated.’
“Officers of the court have no immunity, when violating a Constitutional right, from liability. For they are deemed to know the law.”
— Owen v. City of Independence, MO,[445 U.S. 622, 100 S.Ct. 1398, 63 L.Ed.2d 673 (1980).]
“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529.
The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
Sorry, I wasn’t referring to to the actual beating itself, but the video of it that failed to convict those cops.
We all know that what happened was engineered by those who do the bidding of the ‘chosen ones’.
Can’t wait to see ’em all hang.