General Police Misconduct aka Murdering Black People

[orestes]

What would a conviction or non conviction have to do with anything? Seems a bit irrelevant.

It's called character assassination. It's pretty reckless and irresponsible journalism to be reporting allegations of a prior conviction if court records haven't been released.

This thread is starting to veer into Infowars territory.

[tony.parente]

It's called character assassination.

I think you're right, I could see why the defense attorney would try and use that as proof that Mike may have been a bad seed before the incident and try to sway the jury to believe it wouldn't be out of his general character to attack a police officer, but I would NOT be a fan of using that information for that purpose.

It's low hanging fruit and I don't think it really has any relevancy to the case at hand.