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Jury Finds D.C. Police Framed Man For Rape, Murder After 27 Years In Prison

November 19, 2015November 19, 2015 Asa J 1700 Views 27 years in prison, Accountability, Attorney Peter Neufeld, Civil rights, civil rights lawsuit, civil rights settlement, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, D.C. police, D.C. police department, D.C. police framed man for murder, D.C. Superior Court, Dishonesty, Donald E. Gates, exonerated by DNA testing, fabricated confession, FBI, Federal Civil Rights case, federal lawsuit, framed, Framed for rape and murder, Georgetown University, Informant, Justice System, life in prison, perjury, Police State, right to a fair trial, Rock Creek Park, U.S. Attorney's Office, withholding evidence, wrongful incarceration

Sixty-four year-old Donald E. Gates was sentenced to life in prison in 1982 for the Rock Creek Park rape and

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DC Mayor: Body-Cam Footage Stays Private If Officer Charged With Crime

September 11, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 1270 Views Accountability, body cameras, Body-cam footage, copblock, copblock.org, D.C., D.C. city council, D.C. police, D.C. police department, David Grosso, Deputy Mayor Kevin Donahue, Dishonesty, district of columbia, double-standards, film the police, Filming police, foia, FOIA exemption, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, the Washington Post, Transparency

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser initially proposed a blanket FOIA exemption in April prohibiting the release of police body-cam footage,

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DC Mayor: Body-Cam Footage Stays Private Unless You Give Us $1.5M

June 24, 2015February 28, 2016 Asa J 1356 Views body cameras, copblock, copblock.org, D.C. Council, D.C. police, foia, Freedom of Information Act, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, Privacy, seattle, Transparency, Washington D.C., washington post

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser threatened Tuesday that if members of the D.C. Council reject her request to keep body

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