Extremely Disturbing

[Abrad]

http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3

[The Doors]

I didn't listen to the whole thing, only about 5minutes of it. But what the hell is going on? lol seriously I have no clue.

SWIM really doesn't know either!

[HippieD9]

Jesus, what the hell is this from?

[Alfa]

Just a minute longer would have given a clue. Those cops take all possesions and all drugs from a drug suspect and torture him until he signs some fucking form. Probably his confession.
Any word on what happened to these cops after this tape was released?

[Abrad]

Audio tape reveals abuse during Campbell Co. officers' interrogation
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=3568680
July 7, 2005

JACKSBORO (WATE) -- Friday will be the one year anniversary of when five Campbell County deputies beat and tortured Lester Siler, a convicted drug dealer.

The lawmen were serving an arrest warrant on Lester Eugene Siler in July 2004. Siler ran when officers arrived but was caught.

According to court documents, Siler was beaten, pushed into an overflowing toilet, hooked to a battery charger and hit with a gun to coerce him into signing a consent form to search his home.

McClellan fired the deputies after hearing the recording.

Former deputies William Carroll, Samuel Franklin, David Webber, Shayne Green and Joshua Monday later pleaded guilty for using excessive force. They will be sentenced next week.

Siler filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal District Court at Knoxville against the five former officers. Sheriff Ron McClellan and Chief Deputy Charles Scott are also named in the suit, which claims they instigated the incident.

A 40-minute audio tape was released Thursday of a recording that captured the violence of that incident. Siler's wife secretly made the recording before she was ordered to leave their home by deputies.

Repeatedly, officers are heard asking Siler to sign a consent-to-search form so they can search his house for drugs.

Edited portions of the transcript detail constant badgering, crude language and indicate Siler was in pain during the interrogation.

Officer Webber: You hear what I told you? I told you not to be talking. Didn't I tell you not to talk? That's just the (bleep) beginning. This (bleep - bleep) right here, he loves seeing blood.

Siler: (moans)

Officer Webber: He loves it. He loves seeing blood. You're talking too much. You're talking too much. He (bleep) loves seeing blood. He'll beat your (bleep) and lick it off you.


Officer Webber: I don't want your help. I don't want your help. I want you to sign that form because you're the one we want. We got you. If you don't sign it, you probably won't walk out of here. We'll have to call a (bleep) ambulance to haul your (bleep) out of here. Is there any part of that you don't understand?


Officer Carroll: Sign the (bleep) paper and we'll leave you alone.

Siler: (moaning)

Officer Webber: Why don't you want to sign the form, Eugene? You got a bunch of dope here, buddy? Huh?


Officer: You won't sign it.

Siler: (mumbles) Ahhhh!

Officer: You won't sign it? You won't sign it? Yes or no? Do you want to sign it?

Siler: Don't!

Officer: Yes or no?

Siler's attorney says his client was hit several times on his face and body during the incident.

The tape was released as the deputies head to court for their sentencing hearings next week.

As for the civil suit filed in Siler's name, it's against the deputies, Campbell County itself, and Sheriff Ron McClellan for more than $19 million.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/022505tntorture.cfm

http://www.truthinjustice.org/TN-torture.htm

[Alfa]

July 13, 2005

Two more former Campbell officers sentenced in torture case

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Two more former Campbell County sheriff's officers were sentenced to prison Wednesday for the beating and torture of a suspected drug dealer.

David Webber, 40, was sentenced to 57 months and Samuel Franklin, 42, received 54 months for the assault last July on Lester Eugene Siler.

U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan sentenced former deputy Joshua Monday, 25, to 72 months on Tuesday. Two other former officers awaited sentencing later Wednesday.

"It's a tragedy for all concerned," the judge said.

The officers claimed they went to Siler's home to serve him with a warrant for a probation violation. They told the FBI they were trying to get him to sign a form allowing a search of his home.

But a secret tape recording made by Siler's wife of a portion of the two-hour interrogation revealed demands by Webber for cash and drugs.

Webber was the sheriff's chief narcotics investigator. Franklin was a 17-year veteran detective and head of the sheriff's D.A.R.E. anti-drug program.

Awaiting sentencing were former reserve deputy Shayne Green and part-time process server William Carroll.

All five pleaded guilty to attacking Siler.

"Things did go wrong, and I have taken responsibility for what I've done," Monday told Varlan before he was sentenced.

Monday, who faced a seven-year term for pointing a gun at Siler and threatening to shoot him, is cooperating with authorities. Varlan was briefed behind closed doors on what information Monday has provided.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Atchley said the former officer still should be punished. "It's disgraceful. It's absolutely horrible behavior that is not tolerated in the United States of America," he said.

Siler, who attended the sentencings, has filed a $19.5 million lawsuit against Sheriff Ron McClellan and Chief Deputy Charles Scott for the attack.

[Alfa]

Hopefully next news article up: Conficted sheriff's officers raped in jail.

Sue me.

[Creeping Death]

Hope he gets some money for it.

[Nahbus]

I hope he gets money to buy some fun things for himself.

[Nagognog2]

So they got caught, which is very rare. What they got caught for is not rare at all. And now that torture is a national policy - and considered "patriotic," I bet it's happening more and more. But reporting it would be an act of treason. Remember: Drugs fund terrorism!

[Pinkavvy]

they beat him up pretty bad, the full un-edited transcript is here : http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/silertranscript.pdf would copy and paste, but it's a pdf.

I hope he doesn't get any money, and I hope he is smart enough to have disapeared by now. If you read the transcript it seems that he was setting up a deal to narc out people. During the torturing he was promising to help them bust a bunch of people, but if you read even near the begining it appears even before that day had talked to the one officer about narcing on somebody.

Poor dude didn't deserve to be tortured like that, but I'll bet the guys he was trying to narc on wouldn't have been as nice as the cops.