Corrupt Baltimore police officer sentenced to 25 years

Washington (AFP) - One of the most corrupt police officers in the history of the Baltimore police station was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday.

Sheriff Wayne Jenkins led an elite unit called the Gun Tracking Task Force and was in charge of amazing abuses in troubled American cities.

Their job is to take illegal guns from the street. Instead, the Task Force resolded the weapons they stole, robbed drug dealers, and buried the wrong evidence.

According to the Baltimore Sun newspaper, Catherine Black judge sentenced Jenkins to 25 years imprisonment. This is less than five years of the maximum penalty allowed by his case agreement.

The newspaper quoted US Secretary of State Leo Wise as saying that Mr. Jenkins operated his department "like a criminal organization" and gave "immeasurable" damage.

"I know that this is my fault, I ought to be punished, I should go into prison," Jenkins said.

The victims of the Gun Trace Task Force are all blacks, many of them are drug dealers, corrupt police know they can not complain to the authorities.

During the interrogation of the other two policemen, the court heard a statement about how Task Force members invaded the safe in a drug dealer's house that had $ 200,000 in cash.

They took out 100 thousand dollars and put 100 thousand dollars back inside, then shoot themselves as if for the first time and opened the safe.

In Baltimore, police distrust has been plagued by high levels of crime, drugs, poverty.

In 2017 there were 343 murders, Baltimore was the city with the highest per capita murder rate, recovering from the riot that occurred in 2015, the young black Freddie Gray died after being held by the police did.

A 25 - year - old man was arrested at the Baltimore police after being discovered in his pocket in April 2015. Gray died of an injury in the neck during police custody. The Baltimore grand jury prosecuted six police officers and covered a series of claims from unintentional negligent murder to reckless danger. A 43 - year - old man was shot dead in July 2015 for a body camera video. Official Ray Tensing was criticized for homicide and murder due to voluntary negligence. Tension testified that he was dragged on his left arm when he extended his hand to shoot DuBose and the prosecutor said that there was no need to fire with DuBose that he was not pulled by the car It was.

Baltimore - A 25-year-old black Freddie Gray, charged with six people indicted for spinal cord injury during police detention, was tried in Baltimore and defended Thursday. The defense counsel transferred the case to another jurisdiction "not fulfilling constitutional obligations". In making the decision, the judge of the Baltimore City Circuit Court, Barry G. Williams said that a strong publicity surrounding Mr. Gray's death and subsequent riots prevented the defense lawyer's claim that officials would prevent officials from accepting just and fair trials I dismissed it. In the city

This is the three Baltimore City police officers facing criminal charges at the death of a 25 - year - old black man, Freddy Gray, who was suffering a fatal spinal injury during his detention in April. Brian Rice, Garrett Miller and Edward Nero are also involved in negligent lethal and second-class homicide claims. When Michael Brown was killed by Missouri Police Officer Ferguson in August, the media emphasized obvious differences. 67% of Ferguson's population is black, and only three out of 53 city policemen are Caucasians. The police chief is white. The same can be said of the mayor and most city councils and board of education. Due to this imbalanced power structure, the report suggests that there is such a tense relationship between Caucasian law enforcement agencies and blacks.