‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation(www.theguardian.com)

posted 4 months ago

Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive

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4 months ago

This is extremely fucked. From another source:

Even after his father was recovered, alive and safe and sound, they persisted.

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