Got 40 min to hear how Cops in Knoxville TN work?

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Police torture in Knoxville TN

When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen.

When Lester exercised his constitutional right not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the next two hours torturing him. They beat him with bats and guns, held loaded guns to his head, threatened to shoot him, dunked his head in the toilet, burned him with lighters, attached his testicles to a battery charger, threatened to cut off his fingers, and threatened to "go get" his wife and take his child away from him. Then they arrested him for "evading arrest"."

You can here nearly 40 minutes of the tape recording here

http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3

Transcript (http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/silertranscript.pdf)

[ka5s]

And here's (http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=27204&provider=top)
what happened to the cops: Their sentences ranged from fifty-one months to six years in prison.

Old news, BTW.


Cortland
KA5S

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Quote[/b] (ka5s @ May 31 2006,03:21)]And here's (http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=27204&provider=top)
what happened to the cops: Their sentences ranged from fifty-one months to six years in prison.
Yea not nearly enough for the tyranny that committed either. I am sure this is not the first time they did this nor are these the only cops that do this kind of stuff. Betraying the public trust is the lowest thing one in authority can do.

on another note its amazing how this story didn't make national headlines. I wonder what it would have been like if Siler was black??? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif