Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
And we all know journalists are infallible; especially those from the centrist and equitable WaPo.

Far from lying, this is more a case of cognitive biases and perceptions. This whole case is silly; from the $10 bust to quibbling over a bottle.
It's not quibbling; the point is that all the police who testified conspired to lie in court.

Also, I don't care for the TSA at all, but I think I'll said with them in one case;
According to a Tampa police log, two TIA police officers responded to a disturbance call at 9:15 a.m. when Andriani, 56, who was in line for a flight to New Jersey, became irate when airline flight crew members were permitted to pass him in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint. He took pictures of TSA agents' badges, police said.

Ann Davis, TSA spokeswoman, said the passenger yelled at TSA officers, complained about the screening process, displayed a badge and said he was a police officer.

Airport police ran a wanted check on him before allowing him to continue to his flight, the police log said.

Hoboken Police Chief Anthony Falco said that, since this relates to an internal investigation within the police department, he is required by attorney general guidelines not to comment. Falco said he does not know Andriani's current residence.
This 'officer', Andriani, was the leader of a Hoboken, NJ, SWAT team that went down to New Orleans after Katrina, and again some time later, to "help" with hurricane recovery. Instead they went to a Hooters restaurant, took pictures of the girls posing around their van, with guns, and of themselves downing jello shots.

Andriani and other members of the city's SWAT team had gone on a supposed mission of mercy to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Photos and videos, though, showed them in police-issued gear posing with bare-breasted women at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, letting Hooters girls hold their weapons in Alabama and downing Jello shots in a Louisiana bar. They also show him posing in a Confederate cap and pretending to be a Ku Klux Klan member at a restaurant.
And the most disgusting part? When the photos surfaced in 2007, Andriani was punished - with a two year suspension, paid.

Yes, he was given his full salary every month for two years and didn't have to work. That's $132,000 a year for doing absolutely nothing.

Gee, with such decisive punishments, it's no wonder there's so few cops who break the rules!



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