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"niggawhoopa" <no@nigs.net> wrote in message news:<vjnef11v5pen8f@corp.supernews.com>...
> Affirmative Action chickens come home to roost.  HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!
> 
> http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/0803/14police.html
> 
> Feds say cop led gang
> 
> Acclaimed officer arrested on the job
> 
> 
> An Atlanta police "Officer of the Year" was arrested Wednesday on federal
> racketeering charges as an alleged leader of a notorious
> drug gang.
> 
> Officer David Alan Freeman, 38, is among 16 people indicted since March as
> members of the Diablos gang, which authorities describe
> as "very violent."
> 
> Freeman was arrested after a morning "roll call" to start his 7 a.m.-to-3
> p.m. shift. The officer was assigned to the Zone 1
> district in the northwest part of the city.
> 
> He is charged with warning the Diablos of police investigations,
> confiscating drugs from arrested suspects in rival gangs and
> attempting to recruit gang members.
> 
> Freeman, clad in dark pants and a white T-shirt, pleaded innocent Wednesday
> afternoon before U.S. Magistrate E. Clayton Scofield
> III, who ordered him jailed pending a bond hearing scheduled Monday.
> 
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Yonette Buchanan said she will oppose bond for the
> officer, arguing he is a flight risk and a danger to the
> community.
> 
> Freeman, who has been on the city police force for 12 years, was suspended
> with pay pending a hearing before police Chief Richard
> Pennington within a week, said Sgt. John Quigley, a police spokesman.
> 
> The federal indictment charges Freeman was a key lieutenant in the Diablos
> gang, where he went by the name "Day Day." He resorted to
> violence, threats and intimidation to supply the gang with drugs and money,
> according to William J. Duffey, the U.S. attorney for
> the Northern District of Georgia.
> 
> Freeman worked closely with alleged gang leader Billy Durante Ladson, 26,
> alias "Billy Diablo," to control drug traffic in northwest
> Atlanta, where Freeman grew up in a housing project, authorities said.
> 
> Two weeks ago, Freeman was named his zone's "Officer of the Year."
> 
> At a news conference with federal authorities, Pennington was asked how the
> officer could be involved in gang activity. The chief
> replied that corruption investigations are "always difficult because people
> are often afraid to come forward about corrupt police
> officers."
> 
> Pennington, hired to head Atlanta's Police Department a year ago, recalled
> that a former officer in New Orleans, where he had been
> chief, is now on death row for murder. That officer had been known as "Robo
> Cop" for his high number of arrests.
> 
> Police officers who wind up being convicted of crimes sometimes are "among
> the most aggressive and tenacious, the ones who make a
> lot of arrests," Pennington said.
> 
> "I won't tolerate corruption," the chief said. "I'm not saying it's endemic
> to the system. I'm saying we will root it out when it
> exists."
> 
> Duffey, the U.S. attorney, said Freeman's alleged criminal activities "cut
> at the very heart of the law enforcement community."
> 
> Since 1997, according to the indictment filed under the federal Racketeering
> Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the Diablos
> gang acted ruthlessly to protect their "power, territory, and profits."
> 
> Freeman is specifically charged with:
> 
> . Alerting the gang to law enforcement investigations and search warrants.
> 
> . Suggesting the robbery of people he knew to be drug dealers.
> 
> . Transferring cocaine and other narcotics from drug suspects to the
> Diablos.
> 
> Ricardo S. Mosby, Freeman's attorney, said the officer is a victim of
> mistaken "guilt by association."
> 
> "The Diablos, to my knowledge, are a musical group, and he was a security
> guard for this group. I don't know about any gang," Mosby
> said.
> 
> Freeman grew up in Bowen Homes, where he knew and formed a friendship with
> many in the "group," Mosby said.
> 
> "Two weeks ago, he was awarded Officer of the Year in Zone 1. It will be
> proven that he is an exemplary officer, and I think the
> city's going to owe him an apology," the attorney said.
> 
> This is not Freeman's first brush with a criminal accusation. In 1997, he
> was charged with aggravated assault after allegedly
> beating and pistol-whipping the campaign manager for Atlanta City Council
> member Jared Samples. The campaign manager, Edward Traylor
> Jr., said Freeman, who was Samples' campaign treasurer, complained about
> Traylor's work.
> 
> Freeman was off duty and out of uniform during the alleged attack and was
> cleared when a Fulton County grand jury declined to indict
> him.

Is anyone surprised? 

Max