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Florida Police Chief Gets 3 Years for Plot to Frame Black People for Crimes

Florida Police Chief Gets 3 Years for Plot to Frame Black People for Crimes

Raimundo Atesiano, a former police chief in Biscayne Park, Fla., was sentenced to three years in prison for encouraging wrongful arrests.CreditCreditVillage of Biscayne Park

A former police chief in Florida was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for ordering officers to arrest black people for crimes they did not commit in order to give the impression that his department was…

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Our story begins with police “charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record.”

“The arrest reports are sketchy by any measure, listing no witnesses, fingerprint evidence, confessions or even property stolen. Instead, the reports used the same vague language — that the ‘investigation revealed’ T.D. [the teenager accused] employed the same ‘M.O.’ and the homes had a ‘rear door pried open.’ The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office soon dumped all the cases ... ... No formal charges were ever filed.”

Bad enough? Nope.

The false charges were filed against a black 16-year-old.

Bad enough? Nope.

Police chief Raimundo Atesiano allegedly instructed his officers to “solve” unsolved burglaries by targeting and arresting black people specifically:

“If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries ... police officers were directed to pick up people of color and blame the crimes on them. ... About a quarter of Biscayne Park’s population is black.”

Bad enough? Nope.

Atesiano was police chief for two years, 2013-2014. As a result of his racist policies, “of the 30 burglary arrests documented in 2013 and 2014, nearly all were of black males.”

Bad enough? Nope.

The police “solved” 19 of 19 burglary cases in 2013 and 10 of 11 in 2014, until Chief Atesiano “abruptly resigned” during the internal probe. In 2015, after he left, “village cops did not clear a single one of 19 burglary cases.”

Bad enough? Still nope.

Check out Atesiano’s second-in-command, Captain Lawrence Churchman:

“The report quotes officers saying [Capt. Lawrence] Churchman used racial, homophobic and gender slurs. ‘The captain has said on several different occasions he doesn’t want any niggers, faggots or women bitches working at Biscayne Park.’”

Atesiano and Churchman deny all of the allegations.

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#1yrago Florida police chief gets 3 years in prison for framing 3 innocent Black men

For framing innocent black men, a police chief in Florida will go to prison for three years. Impunity is the norm in America for cases like this, so the conviction is a big deal.

Raimundo Atesiano, the former police chief of Biscayne Park, Florida, stands convicted of directing his officers to frame innocent men in a series of unsolved burglaries. He now admits he was trying to please white community leaders, and manipulate property crimes statistics in the town of 3,000 residents.

From the Miami Herald:

“When I took the job, I was not prepared,” Atesiano told a federal judge on Tuesday. “I made some very, very bad decisions.”

His apologies did not sway U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore, who on Tuesday sentenced the 53-year-old former cop to three years in prison. He allowed Atesiano to remain free for two weeks before surrendering so he can care for his mother, who is dying of leukemia.

In September, Atesiano pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge of depriving the three suspects of their civil rights because he and the officers charged them without a legal basis. Atesiano’s conspiracy conviction carried up to 10 years in prison.

What about the three men who were falsely arrested in the criminal cops' conspiracy? Not much detail there, but hopefully they'll receive some form of restitution.

https://boingboing.net/2018/11/27/justice-served-for-once.html

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Talking about former police chief Raimundo Atesiano of the Biscayne Park Police and what this means for the black & brown coaltion. 

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Florida News: Former Biscayne Park Chief of Police Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Other Officers to Violate Victims’ Civil Rights by Making False Arrests

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Florida News: Former Biscayne Park Chief of Police Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Other Officers to Violate Victims’ Civil Rights by Making False Arrests

Florida – Former Village of Biscayne Park Chief of Police, Raimundo Atesiano, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with subordinate officers to violate individuals’ civil rights by making false arrests, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Miami Field Office, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney, and Troy Walker, Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

According to documents filed in connection with the plea entered today, Atesiano was acting under color of law as chief of police when on three separate occasions he ordered officers under his command to falsely arrest and charge individuals with unsolved burglaries. In court filings related to the plea, Atesiano admitted that on one occasion he instructed an officer to falsely arrest and charge an individual for several vehicle burglaries based upon what Atesiano knew were false confessions.

According to the documents, Atesiano intentionally encouraged officers to arrest individuals without a legal basis in order to have arrests effectuated for all reported burglaries, which created a fictitious 100% clearance rate for that category of crime.

Guillermo Ravelo, a former Biscayne Park Officer who is named in the superseding indictment, previously entered a guilty plea for his role in the conspiracy with Atesiano to violate individuals’ civil rights. Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, former Biscayne Park officers who also are named in the superseding indictment, previously entered guilty pleas for their roles in effecting false arrests.

The Court set the sentencing date for Atesiano on Nov. 27. Guillermo Ravelo is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 4, and Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez are scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 16.

“The vast majority of law enforcement officers across the nation serve our communities with honor and integrity,” stated U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg. “We will not allow the minority of officers who cast aside their oaths to tarnish the reputation of those who protect us all. Instead, as evidenced today with former Chief Raimundo Atesiano’s guilty plea, we will continue to hold them accountable in federal court for criminal acts that threaten our constitutional guarantees.”

“The right to be free from false arrests is fundamental to our Constitution and system of justice,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore. “Law enforcement officers who abuse their authority and deny any individual this right will be held accountable. As the Chief of Police, Defendant Atesiano was trusted by his community to lead their police officers by example; he has failed his community and the officers of Biscayne Park.”

“Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a great deal of responsibility and authority and therefore must be held to a high standard. Raimundo Atesiano failed to meet this standard by abusing his authority and breaking laws,” said Scott A. Rottman, Acting Special Agent in Charge, FBI Miami. “Unfortunately, the actions of a very few dishonest officers, such as Atesiano and his co-conspirators, undercut the public’s trust and they must be rooted out. His actions do not represent the overwhelming majority law enforcement officers who are diligent, honorable professionals who are worthy of that trust.”

“It is a deliberate injustice to intentionally charge and arrest an innocent man. Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano’s actions were intended to give his community a false sense of security and were a betrayal of his oath to protect the residents of Biscayne Park and all the people of Miami-Dade County,” commented State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. “I applaud the combined efforts of our law enforcement partnership to end this calculated abuse of power.”

“Law enforcement officers must be held to the highest moral standards and when that trust is broken, FDLE will work aggressively to investigate and find the truth ensuring all citizens are treated justly,” said FDLE Miami Special Agent in Charge Troy Walker.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the FBI Miami Area Corruption Task Force and the FDLE, with assistance from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry C. Wallace, Jr., Trial Attorney D.W. Tunnage of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and Assistant State Attorney Trent Reichling.

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SOURCE: news provided by JUSTICE.GOV on Monday, September 17, 2018.

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Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano used to brag about solving 100 percent of the town’s crimes. However, this week he admitted to how he accomplished such an impossible feat — he framed innocent black people.

#PoliceThePolice Full Story: https://bit.ly/2Nk49R5

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Police Chief in Miami Suburb Instructed Officers to Arrest Random Black People and Charge Them With Multiple Burglaries A small suburb of Miami called Biscayne Park previously achieved a nearly perfect rate of "crime-solving" when it came to burglaries, one that the town's former police chief Raimundo Atesiano viewed as a source of pride.

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Amid a widening probe into cops framing innocent people in the small village of Biscayne Park, prosecutors have thrown out the burglary convictions of a man who wound up deported to Haiti after serving five years in state prison.

The wrongful conviction is the latest revelation in a handful of cases that have exposed blatantly racist policing tactics during the tenure of ex-Chief Raimundo Atesiano, who abruptly resigned four years ago. He faces an upcoming federal trial on civil rights violations based on allegations that he ordered some officers to falsely arrest several black men for burglaries to improve the village’s crime statistics. Three former officers have already admitted in other cases to making false arrests.

Two other “suspects” wrongfully arrested in 2013 and 2014 had their cases dropped within weeks of their arrests. But not so with Clarens Desrouleaux, who went to Florida prison — and whose story remained untold until Friday, when state prosecutors asked a judge to strike the conviction from the record.

“It is this office’s position that the charges brought against Clarens Desrouleaux ... cannot be substantiated and require that the judgment and sentence be vacated,” Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Justin Funck wrote in a final memo on the case.

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Police Chief BUSTED For Framing Black People - 13 Jul 2018

Lives wasted and destroyed by a racist police chief :( Officers working on a small-town Florida police force were directed to arrest any black person with “somewhat of a record” and pin unrelated crimes on them, the Miami Herald reports. The goal of this clearly illegal and highly unethical practice was to achieve perfect crime stats, which the department frequently boasted about, even if they were fake. 

It worked, for a time at least. In 2013 and 2014, the police in Biscayne Park, Florida, a quiet suburb of Miami, solved 29 of 30 burglary cases. It was a point of pride for former chief Raimundo Atesiano, and according to one officer who worked under him, he wanted to keep those stats by any means necessary.

https://youtu.be/WviKFf6Rbyo

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#1yrago Feds indict Florida police chief who framed a teen for burglaries so he could boast about perfect record

Raimundo Atesiano was chief of the Biscayne Park Police Department in 2013, and he was proud to boast about his department's 100% clearance rate for burglaries -- but according to federal prosecutors who just indicted him, Atesiano conspired with two of his officers to frame a 16-year-old child for unsolved burglaries so that they could impress local officials.

They face 11 years in prison, each, if they are convicted of "conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law and deprivation of the 16-year-old’s civil rights."

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/12/raimundo-atesiano.html

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NPR News: Ex-Florida Police Chief Sentenced To 3 Years For Framing Black Men And Teen

Ex-Florida Police Chief Sentenced To 3 Years For Framing Black Men And Teen Raimundo Atesiano wanted to reduce his town's crime statistics so he ordered officers to arrest innocent people for a slew of unsolved burglaries. "I made some very, very bad decisions," he said. Read more on NPR

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Florida Police Chief Gets 3 Years for Plot to Frame Black People for Crimes

The former chief, Raimundo Atesiano, ordered officers to arrest people without evidence to make his department look like it was successfully fighting crime, according to court documents.

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Ex-Florida police chief gets 3 years in prison for framing black men for crimes

Ex-Florida police chief gets 3 years in prison for framing black men for crimes

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Raimundo Atesiano, a former police chief in Florida, will serve three years in prison for a conspiracy in his department to frame black people for crimes they did not commit. (Biscayne Park Police Department)

A former Florida police chief who admitted to framing black men for crimes they did not commit was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday.

A federal…

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Florida News: Former Biscayne Park Chief of Police Pleads Guilty to Conspiring With Other Officers to Violate Victims’ Civil Rights by Making False Arrests

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Florida News: Former Biscayne Park Chief of Police Pleads Guilty to Conspiring With Other Officers to Violate Victims’ Civil Rights by Making False Arrests

WASHINGTON – Former Village of Biscayne Park Chief of Police, Raimundo Atesiano, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with subordinate officers to violate individuals’ civil rights by making false arrests, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida, Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Miami Field Office, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney, and Troy Walker, Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

According to documents filed in connection with the plea entered Friday, Atesiano was acting under color of law as chief of police when on three separate occasions he ordered officers under his command to falsely arrest and charge individuals with unsolved burglaries.  In court filings related to the plea, Atesiano admitted that on one occasion he instructed an officer to falsely arrest and charge an individual for several vehicle burglaries based upon what Atesiano knew were false confessions.  According to the documents, Atesiano intentionally encouraged officers to arrest individuals without a legal basis in order to have arrests effectuated for all reported burglaries, which created a fictitious 100% clearance rate for that category of crime.

Guillermo Ravelo, a former Biscayne Park Officer who is named in the superseding indictment, previously entered a guilty plea for his role in the conspiracy with Atesiano to violate individuals’ civil rights.  Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, former Biscayne Park officers who also are named in the superseding indictment, previously entered guilty pleas for their roles in effecting false arrests.

The Court set the sentencing date for Atesiano on Nov. 27. Guillermo Ravelo is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 4, and Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez are scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 16.

“The right to be free from false arrests is fundamental to our Constitution and system of justice,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore.  “Law enforcement officers who abuse their authority and deny any individual this right will be held accountable.  As the Chief of Police, Defendant Atesiano was trusted by his community to lead their police officers by example; he has failed his community and the officers of Biscayne Park.”

“The vast majority of law enforcement officers across the nation serve our communities with honor and integrity,” stated U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg.  “We will not allow the minority of officers who cast aside their oaths to tarnish the reputation of those who protect us all.  Instead, as evidenced today with former Chief Raimundo Atesiano’s guilty plea, we will continue to hold them accountable in federal court for criminal acts that threaten our constitutional guarantees.”

“Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a great deal of responsibility and authority and therefore must be held to a high standard.  Raimundo Atesiano failed to meet this standard by abusing his authority and breaking laws,” said Scott A. Rottman, Acting Special Agent in Charge, FBI Miami.  “Unfortunately, the actions of a very few dishonest officers, such as Atesiano and his co-conspirators, undercut the public’s trust and they must be rooted out.  His actions do not represent the overwhelming majority law enforcement officers who are diligent, honorable professionals who are worthy of that trust.”

“It is a deliberate injustice to intentionally charge and arrest an innocent man.  Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano’s actions were intended to give his community a false sense of security and were a betrayal of his oath to protect the residents of Biscayne Park and all the people of Miami-Dade County,” commented State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.  “I applaud the combined efforts of our law enforcement partnership to end this calculated abuse of power.”

“Law enforcement officers must be held to the highest moral standards and when that trust is broken, FDLE will work aggressively to investigate and find the truth ensuring all citizens are treated justly,” said FDLE Miami Special Agent in Charge Troy Walker.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the FBI Miami Area Corruption Task Force and the FDLE, with assistance from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry C. Wallace, Jr., Trial Attorney D.W. Tunnage of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and Assistant State Attorney Trent Reichling.

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SOURCE: news provided by JUSTICE.GOV on September 14, 2018