A cop was jailed for making the story of 'Melanin Man Shooting Him' that led to cops rounding up Melanin people
The fabricated story of how Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Angel Reinosa was shot within the shoulder by a sniper as he walked from his automobile into the station. an enormous manhunt ensued as heavily armed deputies in military attire founded a fringe and locked down the realm but it might all be vainly. Reinosa was arrested the subsequent week because he made the whole thing up. Then, but every week later, another cop in Ohio was arrested for doing the precise same thing.
This week, Warren policeman Noah Linnen was sentenced to 9 months in jail after pleading guilty to charges of tampering with evidence, inducing panic, and disrupting public service after he lied about being “shot at by a melanin man” and returned fire.
On Tuesday, Linnen issued an apology saying he was ashamed of his actions.
“I apologize to the African American community, especially to those directly laid low with my actions that day. Further, I apologize to all or any of the primary responders, especially the cops who were plagued by my actions and whose image was tarnished by the actions of that day,” Linnen said.
This apology doesn't go far enough, however, as Linnen’s actions that day led to the loss of freedom for several “melanin men” accused of shooting him.
On January 13, 2020, approximately 50 officers from ten different departments combed a prominently black neighborhood trying to find a non-existent suspect. This swarm of cops was reportedly detaining innocent people, pulling over others, and shaking up a whole community. All of this chaos and rights violations were because Linnen falsely claimed he’d been involved in an exceedingly shootout with a melanin person during a black SUV.
Linnen told investigators that he’d stopped a melanin person in an SUV who began shooting. He claimed the non-existent suspect was a tall, thin, black male. “He said the suspect was wearing a black hoodie with the hood up and had a gray t-shirt pulled up over the lower half his face sort of a mask. He also described the suspect as having a high-pitched voice and carried a silver revolver with a black handle,” WFMJ reported at the time.
Naturally, after hearing a Melanin would dare shoot at one among their brothers in blue, the cops deployed full force. Multiple innocent black men were subsequently detained for a big amount of time—otherwise referred to as kidnapping.
This dragnet was extended by police and innocent people were detained and kidnapped without one shred of evidence presented by Linnen. Had a mean citizen made an analogous claim, rest assured that this may are entered as a journal entry into a police notebook and should or might not have resulted in an exceedingly patrol unit receiving it as an assignment. No dragnet would’ve happened and no lockdown.
Due to the large police presence dedicated to their brother in blue, however, this lying cop’s story began to unravel as evidence surfaced. the primary evidence came within the type of surveillance cameras within the area. After launching an enormous manhunt, police finally checked out the surveillance footage from nearby properties and never saw an SUV fitting Linnen’s description. So, the lying cop changed his story.
Linnen then changed his story and reported the “suspect” was on a bicycle and fled on foot, but no bicycle was found at the scene either, the affidavit states.
In total, this lying cop would change his story fourfold after each lie he made up was close up by investigators. As Tribtoday.com reports:
In the final version of the story listed within the affidavit, Linnen told Howland detectives Jeff Edmundson and Sean Stephens there was no robbery, and he fired his police-issued revolver through his car thrice at a passing vehicle with bright headlights that looked as if it would be driving toward his vehicle, which was parked on the side of the road.
He could offer no description of the vehicle he claims he shot at, in step with the affidavit.
Linnen’s latest claim is that he used his backup weapon and fired it toward himself after firing at the vehicle, as he developed the story to elucidate why he shot his gun, the affidavit states. One bullet ripped his jacket but failed to wound Linnen.
“Your criminal acts, dishonesty, lack of integrity, and total disregard for the implication of your actions clearly prove that you just don't buy the morals, values, and mission of the Warren department of local government,” Warren police officer Eric Merkel wrote in Linnen’s disciplinary letter. “Your description subjected every melanin male within the entire Trumbull County area, especially within the near vicinity, to the torment of being accused of shooting a peace officer.
“Your description perpetuated a stereotype that black males make more credible suspects,” Merkel continued. “You sparked an emotion throughout the black community that widens the gap of police-community relations.
“I won't allow one officer’s actions to tarnish the connection we've got built with our community,” Merkel stated.
Merkel conveniently unseen the part about his officers following through with the oppression of a complete community supported one officer’s stereotype.
No amount of “not allowing” the link to be tarnished will stop the connection from actually being tarnished, however. Almost constantly, we are told that cops are these infallible heroes who are to be believed over everyone else, and everyone too often, the other is true. Literally, thousands of innocent people are rotting in cages at once all supported by the lies of public servants, and each time their lies are exposed, we are told it’s a nasty apple that shouldn’t ruin the link with the community. Well, we decide to disagree, bad apples spoil the complete bunch.
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