Drunk Cop bashes and sober cops cover up

Police face cover-up charges
Two serving NZ police officers, a former officer and a man believed to be currently serving in the Queensland police force face charges of conspiring to defeat the course of justice after allegedly lying about the way a man died. The four appeared in Manukau District Court yesterday, the New Zealand Herald reported. Two of the four were granted interim name suppression. Serving officer Clinton Hill, 29, is charged with assaulting George Tipene Harris, 24, on October 3, 2004, shortly before he ran into the path of a street sweeper and was killed. Benson Murphy understood to be a Queensland police force officer faces a conspiracy charge. The charges follow a high-level police inquiry into an alleged cover-up over Mr Harris's death. The inquiry led by Detective Superintendent Malcolm Burgess was prompted by new information claiming Mr Harris was assaulted in the back of a police car shortly before the accident. The Independent Police Conduct Authority inquired into the death in 2004 but found no one at fault.

Let’s get this straight – an off duty and drunk by his own admission cop – Clinton Hill, arrests George Harris for ‘stealing his cell phone’, while taking him to a Police station, a cop car turns up and picks them up, Hill then allegedly beats Harris up in the car, Harris escapes from the Police car and the illegal beating he is getting from the cops in the Police car and runs into the path of a truck that kills him – these cops try a cover up that is so poor and obvious that even the Police prosecutor has no choice but to prosecute – but get this – the ‘independent’ Police complaints authority (the Government changed the name from Police Complaints Authority to the ‘Independent’ Police Complaints Authority – the only change being the inclusion of the word ‘Independent’ – it is still the secret, non transparent cops investigating cops bullshit it has always been) ‘investigated’ this case and found no one at fault – that shows what a piss poor check and balance system the Police Complaints Authority is and why no serious person who has been abused by the Police can ever bother complaining when they can make findings like this one. We live in a democratic state, NOT a Police State, yes the Police have a very hard job to do, and we underfund them and under train them (19 weeks is a joke to be a cop) we have lowered the physical requirements so that they are more reliant on alpha male behaviour obtained from tasers or pepper spray rather than the confidence from the authority of the uniform but like Dame Margaret Bazely who did a report on the culture of Police put it – she doesn’t believe the Police can change their culture without outside direction and called on her recommendations to be implemented by an independent body. This was a woman who had her investigation legally stymied by the Police every step of the way costing the tax payer over $400 000 in legal fees and she ended up having to call on the Prime Minister for protection after allegations that her 20 year old marriage to a person in the Mr Asia case would be made public in an attempt to smear her character and credibility – that’s what the Police tried to do to someone as protected and untouchable as Margaret Bazely – now what do you think they could do to little only you and me – how bout a beating in a police car leading to death and then a cover up?