Allegation: Philly Cops Leaned Suspect Over Balcony To Obtain Password

[Boyd Crowder]

found on /.

If you want access to encrypted data on a drug dealer's digital device, you might try to break the crypto—or you might just try to break the man.

According to testimony from a police corruption trial currently roiling the city of Philadelphia, officers from an undercover drug squad took the latter route back in November 2007. After arresting their suspect, Michael Cascioli, in the hallway outside his 18th floor apartment, the officers took Cascioli back inside. Although they lacked a search warrant, the cops searched Cascioli's rooms anyway. According to a federal indictment (PDF), the officers 'repeatedly assaulted and threatened [Cascioli] during the search to obtain information about the location of money, drugs, and drug suppliers.'
That included, according to Cascioli, lifting him over the edge of his balcony to try to frighten out of him the password to his Palm Pilot. That sounds like a good time for a duress password.

more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...e-over-18th-floor-balcony-to-get-my-password/

 

[D. B. Doober]

Hopefully this gets taken seriously. Sound like some overly-ambitious, crooked local cops pretending to be DEA. No warrant? No entry! Hope the judges do something.

 

[waveguide]

i'd have shoved a thermometer up his cock and smashed it with a hammer.


it's like that marine in tucson, the local NORML was all up about police brutality...

dude's house had cash stashed in bundles and over thirty cellphones... enough to network all the Gs on the block... and a fucking corpse.......


30 cellphones and a fucking corpse and NORML want me to believe he's on my side????????

because he was in the marines and smoked weed?

couldn't care, cop, gangbanger... smoking weed doesn't make you a good guy. being illegal doesn't make you a good guy.


all of these people who you don't know what happened about, ain't shit but theatre. holding an opinion when you don't know is crap. there are a lot of people the po should throw over a railing.

 

[Sisu]

He's lucky he didn't get the nickel ride downtown. Or maybe he did.

 

[stoned-trout]

cops suck ass...yeehaw ...I don't wonder why they get shot

 

[DickAnubis]

Here's a link to an accurate telling of the whole story.
http://articles.philly.com/2014-10-29/news/55402034_1_officers-balcony-cops

 

[DickAnubis]

Another link from last August with pics of these scumbags.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/26148415/sources-6-former-philadelphia-narcotics-officers-under-arrest

As mentioned the trial of these alleged thugs began March 16 and will take 10 weeks to conclude so some time in late MAy early June we'll hear the verdict.

If they did what they are accused of, and it seems the evidence had accumulated over at least two years about five or six years of activity, with the city having paid out close to a million dollars already to settle lawsuits stemming from all this, 40 years jail time is too lenient.