According to a new report, police officers in a suburban Florida town were instructed to arrest black people they find on the street for unsolved cases, just so they could improve their statistics.
“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,” Anthony De La Torre, and officer who worked there, said during an internal investigation.
According to the investigation’s report, De La Torre was the only one to explicitly state that black people were targeted, but three others backed up the allegation that they were told to go after random people.
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Cops Ordered to Pin Unsolved Cases on Random Black People, Report Says
