{"id":177557,"date":"2019-08-19T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/19\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-12\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:38:00","slug":"live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/19\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Obedient Fear, Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Portland, Oregon police, last seen colluding with Neo-Nazi white supremacists, has reached new heights in complete f%$#ery when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2019\/08\/the-case-of-the-missing-tattoos-altered-photo-lineup-by-portland-police-draws-objection.html\">Photoshoped a booking photo of a suspect in order to get witnesses to pick him out of a photo lineup<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There\u2019s no mistaking the elaborate tattoos that cover Tyrone Lamont Allen\u2019s forehead and right cheek.<\/p>\n<p>But when Portland police suspected Allen was involved in four bank and credit union heists, and none of the tellers reported seeing tattoos on the face of the man who robbed them, police digitally altered Allen\u2019s mugshot.<\/p>\n<p>They covered up every one of his tattoos using Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI basically painted over the tattoos,\u2019\u2019 police forensic criminalist Mark Weber testified. \u201cAlmost like applying electronic makeup.\u2019\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Police then presented the altered image of Allen with photos of five similar-looking men to the tellers for identification. They didn\u2019t tell anyone that they\u2019d changed Allen\u2019s photo.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tellers picked out Allen.<\/p>\n<p>The practice came under fire this week in a federal courtroom in Portland as Allen\u2019s attorney argued that the manipulation allowed police to \u201crig the outcome\u201d of the photo lineup.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you think?<\/p>\n<p>Someone should go to jail over this.<\/p>\n<p>They should, but they won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland, Oregon police, last seen colluding with Neo-Nazi white supremacists, has reached new heights in complete f%$#ery when it Photoshoped a booking photo of a suspect in order to get witnesses to pick him out of a photo lineup: There\u2019s no mistaking the elaborate tattoos that cover Tyrone Lamont Allen\u2019s forehead and right cheek. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,435,526],"class_list":["post-177557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}