Amid a widening probe into cops framing innocent people in the small village of Biscayne Park, prosecutors have thrown out the burglary convictions of a man who wound up deported to Haiti after serving five years in state prison.
The wrongful conviction is the latest revelation in a handful of cases that have exposed blatantly racist policing tactics during the tenure of ex-Chief Raimundo Atesiano, who abruptly resigned four years ago. He faces an upcoming federal trial on civil rights violations based on allegations that he ordered some officers to falsely arrest several black men for burglaries to improve the village’s crime statistics. Three former officers have already admitted in other cases to making false arrests.
Two other “suspects” wrongfully arrested in 2013 and 2014 had their cases dropped within weeks of their arrests. But not so with Clarens Desrouleaux, who went to Florida prison — and whose story remained untold until Friday, when state prosecutors asked a judge to strike the conviction from the record.
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In 4 years, Thomas Sankara Built 350 schools, roads, railways without foreign aid, Increased the literacy rate by 60%, Banned forced marriages and female genital mutilation, Gave poor people land, Vaccinated 2.5 million kids against measles, fever etc. Before his tenure, Ministers used Mercedes Benz cars. He sold them and bought cheap Renault 5 cars for them to save costs. Thomas Sankara refused to have his portraits hung publicly. He renamed the country, Burkina Faso
(Land of Honest Men) and composed the National Anthem. He reduced the salaries of Government officials including his own. He was murdered by his best friend, Blaise Compaoré who ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years (1987 to 2014). He became Burkina Faso's 🇧🇫 President at the age of 33 in 1983, and served until he was murdered on October 15, 1987.
In 4 years, Thomas Sankara Built 350 schools, roads, railways without foreign aid, Increased the literacy rate by 60%, Banned forced marriages and female genital mutilation, Gave poor people land, Vaccinated 2.5 million kids against measles, fever etc. Before his tenure, Ministers used Mercedes Benz cars. He sold them and bought cheap Renault 5 cars for them to save costs. Thomas Sankara refused to have his portraits hung publicly. He renamed the country, Burkina Faso
(Land of Honest Men) and composed the National Anthem. He reduced the salaries of Government officials including his own. He was murdered by his best friend, Blaise Compaoré who ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years (1987 to 2014). He became Burkina Faso's 🇧🇫 President at the age of 33 in 1983, and served until he was murdered on October 15, 1987.