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Miama accused coverups { January 5 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nbc6.net/news/1869735/detail.html http://www.nbc6.net/news/1869735/detail.html nbc6.net 11 Miami Officers Accused Of Planting Guns, Cover-Ups Trial Set To Begin Monday POSTED: 11:49 a.m. EST January 5, 2003 MIAMI -- The trial of eleven Miami police officers accused of planting guns and covering up each other's crimes during the late 1990s is set to begin Monday. Two other officers have pleaded guilty and are touted as the star witnesses against the other eleven defendants in the corruption trial. Miami's latest police scandal is the city's worst since the 1980s when the so-called "Miami River Cops" stole cocaine from drug traffickers and sold the drug themselves. Three drug boat guards drowned when they jumped into the Miami River to avoid the uniformed officers and more than one-hundred officers were arrested, fired or disciplined. There has been community outrage over the four shootings spotlighted in the indictment from 1995 to 1997 and a total of 33 police killings in the past dozen years. Voters approved a civilian oversight board and members are about to be named. A jury will hear about four shootings that left three blacks dead, one wounded and one uninjured. Prosecutors say the guns were planted in all four cases. But an attorney for two of the indicted officers says the shootings were justified based on use of force and deadly force laws on the books. Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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