It’s awful how little coverage this story has garnered
“Did he somehow forget that he was in fact guilty?”
Perhaps he has some sort of dual personality? Not using that as an excuse but perhaps he has blocked it out?
Let’s be honest here–if this was the first such complaint you heard about a particular cop, what would it take for you to believe it?
As for the acquittal on some of the charges, remember that a jury is entitled to believe or disbelieve testimony that it hears. It could be that the judge instructed them that proof of guilt on one charge isn’t proof of guilt on another charge, also.
It used to be that I’d believe cops. Now, with all the videos surfacing, I wouldn’t believe a cop on the stand if he said the sky was blue. The accuser has reason to lie, but the cop also has reason to lie. We now know that entire police departments have videos showing police misconduct, and they suppress or destroy the videos and put out lying press releases.
Fivethirtyeight has an interesting article about citizen complaints on cops. It turns out that the best way to predict if a Chicago cop is going to get citizen complaints against him/her this year is whether he/she got complaints last year. Evidently, Chicago is doing nothing to throw out bad apples.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-predict-which-chicago-cops-will-commit-misconduct/
Truly a madman, a pernicious one at that. His tears and cries of woe were pathetic. This and other recent events show us that there are predators and fiends in some police departments. How do these evil tendencies not show up when these guys are first recruited or hired? And do their peers know or suspect such behavior?
The problem is their peers cover for them. In the few cases that the wall of silence is broken, those officers have been treated harshly.