Shadow wrote:What does the police community think of the documentary, Daz? Just that those few cops were corrupt and others had to back them up?
Can't speak for everyone but most people I've spoken to agree that Lt lenk and Sgt Colburn were blatantly planting evidence and corrupt as they come. In fact I very much think most of the manitowec county sheriffs department were complicit in the cover up. The sheriff clearly held a grudge after the 85 incident still refusing to accept he was innocent despite the DNA proving him 100% innocent.
I feel the officers from the other county who came to deal probably weren't involved but at the same time probably weren't told why manitowec shouldn't be involved. Therefore they wouldn't have been watching them closely or even contemplating the notion of evidence tampering.
But like most police throughout the world I don't believe in coincidence. It's far too convenient that when Avery was on the verge of a big civil lawsuit that would have personally affected many of the local officers, that those very same officers should find themselves at the centre of the investigation and being involved in "key" evidence which effectively ended his civil lawsuit and left them in the clear.
Now I don't believe the police would go as far as murder to save themselves but it's clear they were pushing the investigation toward Avery.