1980 – Ex cop: Milwaukee police covered-up the murder of a black man
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Published 2020-06-07
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All Comments (21)
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The Whole SYSTEM is COMPLETELY BROKEN. Just IMAGINE HOW MANY COVERUP CASES WERE BURIED WITHIN THE CENTURY.
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The only really unusual thing about this story is that there was actually a cop who had a conscience.
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Imagine the number of innocent black men in prison
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That's why the country is burning right now.
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Imagine how much of this crap was going on during that period, no cellphone video. 😤
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Daniel bell is my cousin uncle and we will never forget this
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For a broken taillight
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"Remember what they thought at police training school? Put a knife in their hands, put a gun in their hands - protect yourself" Damn, institutional rascism and law breaking.
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Let me get this straight he told the truth and then feels bad the cop was sentenced to prison for 7 yrs. Gtfoh.
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Unfortunately, we know this scene all too well, all across the nation.
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A damn shame. The only difference between then and now is the use of recording devices.
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I love 60 minutes, no bias just reporting the truth!
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30 yeas ago they killed, my brother DANNY THOMPSON, in Chicago Illinois 1982.... No body talks
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I knew they were lying when he said the guy jumped out the car and said "you would never catch me I'm a stick-up man' how corny does that sound, I'm a stick-up man? He got that from a nursery rhyme the gingerbread man, run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man. only a white person would think of something corny like that.
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With so many documented "bad apples"...that bunch been spoiled since the 1870's.
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on the tape Grady says "in training school they said, protect yourself, put a gun or a knife in their hands" - This is part of the systemic issues that still pervade today's Policing.
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He feels sorry for the killer! Oh my God... WS runs deep. Still won’t give up the names of the people involved in the coverup. What about the man who was murdered, any empathy for him or his family?!?! He’s still disgusting.
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All I have is wow.... This makes me sick. Accidental? BS!
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Same thing that's still happening and a lot of blind white people act like we making it up.
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I'll never forget the time, a long time family friend asked my dad to lie for them (cops) in a statement saying he saw someone pointing a gun at them. The cops killed an unarmed kid a few houses down from us. He wasn't dead for more than 60 seconds when that dirty cop went in the trunk to pull out a "burner" pistol to plant on him. We later found out it was a kid on the basketball team my dad coached a few years prior. This was Richmond CA in the late 80's and my family was never friends with that dirty cop again. The whole neighborhood saw what happened and knew my dad was a stand up guy. Pretty sad that this is still happening in 2020
