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‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
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Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

This is extremely fucked. From another source:

But the investigation didn’t stop there. Detectives obtained a warrant to again search Perez’s house for evidence that he had assaulted an “unknown victim,” according to Gee’s summary. It appears none was found.

Even after his father was recovered, alive and safe and sound, they persisted.