The country has seen revelations about off-books police interrogation warehouses in the past.

A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then released them, often without their being charged with a crime. Soon after the lawsuit was filed, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the allegations of misconduct at the now-shuttered warehouse known as “the BRAVE Cave.”

  • kautau@lemmy.world
    471·
    1 year ago

    What a shit headline. More like “power hungry cops committed human rights violations after their unit was disbanded for improperly using federal funds”

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      You really should read the article,this headline is 100% on point. Federal funding supported the creation of the team that carried out this torture while the people in charge were celebrated as reform leaders.

      This sort of thing happens a lot with federal funding into state/county/municipal police departments because we haven’t had an administration/Congress that cared at all about police brutality since I don’t know when and it’s just very easy for them to sign the checks and look the other way, like when the Biden administration approved Memphis’s plan to spend COVID money on the police department that went on to murder Tyre Nichols.