Dirty ex-cop Louis Scarcella’s framing of innocent black men is costing NYC millions

(theGrio)  Louis Scarcella was considered one of New York’s finest, then the word fine leaves much to be desired.

By all accounts, the former NYPD detective is a bad man who helped put innocent people behind bars for decades, used phony witnesses to get the job done, and even beating some suspects into false confessions. And he is costing the city millions of dollars. You know you’re bad when you have a reputation among prisoners for being crooked or when the district attorney begs the judge to throw out the convictions of people you arrested.

Scarcella, 62, was on the force for nearly three decades, stationed in Brooklyn. And he had an impressive record of nabbing killers, doing whatever it took to get suspects to talk. As Sean Flynn reported in GQ magazine, the heavily decorated Scarcella received Chief of Detectives’ Award for Outstanding Police Investigation for the cases he purportedly solved.

NYPD cop killings must not be allowed to derail the movement

(theGrio) The execution-style shooting of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn was a cold blooded, senseless murder, and we must call it for what it is. But we have to be able to condemn the killing of police officers as we condemn police brutality. The two are not mutually exclusive, and I would suggest they are interrelated. The #BlackLivesMatter movement is far too important to allow the actions of one sick individual to derail it.