by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

Hours of secret recordings have blown the lid off of widespread corruption and brutality within the ranks of a New York police agency, exposing crimes ranging from the framing and beating of residents to officers collaborating with drug dealers, among other shocking acts of severe misconduct.

Gothamist/WNYC revealed Wednesday that it has obtained the recordings that expose a culture of impunity and lawlessness within law enforcement ranks in Mount Vernon, a troubled majority-Black city in Westchester that lies just north of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

The Mount Vernon tapes cover a period from 2017 to 2020, and were recorded by 12-year veteran of the department Murashea Bovell, who has been blowing the whistle on corrupt fellow officers for years.

“I need to have something tangible … Something to prove that what I was saying is true, and wouldn’t fall on deaf ears if the time came.”

NEW: In secret recordings, police officers in Mount Vernon, NY say their colleagues framed innocent people again and again.

The @WestchesterDA got these tapes last year but kept prosecuting people⁠—without disclosing the evidence. Here it is:https://t.co/dfr6Q6mMBA

— George Joseph (@georgejoseph94) June 3, 2020

In one secretly recorded conversation, Mount Vernon police officer John Campo accused colleague Camilo Antonini of collaborating with an undercover officer from “the county police” to frame innocent civilians while giving preferential treatment to known drug dealers within the city.

“So they’re going to indict people on whatever fucking fake charges or whatever the fuck it is that don’t deserve to be indicted, because they weren’t even the right person he bought from, and ‘Nini forced him to sign it,” Campo said, in reference to Antonini.

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