#BREAKING: All 6 former Philly narcotics cops charged with drug dealer shakedowns found not guilty.
Undated photos, from top left to right, show Philadelphia Police officers Thomas Liciardello, Perry Betts, Linwood Norman and from bottom left to right, Brian Reynolds, John Speiser and Michael Spicer. (Philadelphia Police Department )
Six members of an elite Philadelphia narcotics squad were acquitted Thursday of federal corruption charges.
A jury of six men and six women found Officers Thomas Liciardello, Brian Reynolds, Michael Spicer, Perry Betts, Linwood Norman and John Speiser not guilty of charges they beat and robbed drug suspects during their time as members of the Police Department's Narcotics Field Unit.
Each of the officers had faced one count of racketeering conspiracy. All but Reynolds and Speiser had also been charged with conspiring to violate the civil rights of drug defendants, among other charges.
In six weeks of testimony, government witnesses repeatedly said the squad conducted their duties like street thugs. They accused the officers of employing ganglike tactics like roughing up drug suspects, ignoring due process, planting evidence, pocketing seized money and lying on official police reports to cover up their crimes.
Targets who put up a fight, they said, were dangled over balconies, threatened with the seizure of their homes, held in hotel rooms for days, or beaten as the officers kept score on who could inflict the most debilitating injuries.
Prosecutors alleged that Police Department top brass never asked too many questions because the squad was one of the most productive on the force, often raking in large hauls of seized money and drugs.
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Comment by Anti Everything on May 21, 2015 at 5:56pm
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Elite Philadelphia narcotics squad are just doing their job,...apparently. I are missing something. The jury 'found' them not guilty. This is where the 'legal fiction' admiralty jurisdiction merchant law thing must be at work. In common law there must be harm and or loss to have a crime, there must be a victim. The only harm and loss I see is the beating people (and keeping score = victim) and hanging people over balconies (victim), stealing fiat currency etc (victim). There is something missing here. Some how we are 'consenting' to this out of ignorance.
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