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Shop NowIt’s easy to get a conviction when the cop plants bogus evidence. Unless his bodycam films him doing it. Lieutenant Sean Kane thought it was off when it wasn’t. Oops. Alvin Harper looked like a drug dealer, even though he’s actually “a celebrity fitness trainer.” Kane looks like a Nazi Gestapo officer, so that makes them even. The New Rochelle Police Department allegedly had it in for him. Now that the case against Harper has been dismissed, he’s about to start legal action of his own. For damages. The police ruined his fledgling acting career and he’s going to make them pay for that.
Cop planted evidence
One evil cop managed to bust himself. In court on Friday, August 23, the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office sheepishly asked the judge to dismiss their case against Alvin Harper. They were not happy to inform the court that the “decorated” New Rochelle police lieutenant, who was their star witness, “was caught on his own bodycam appearing to plant evidence.” That’s that, then. Case dismissed, the judge gaveled.
Not so fast, your honor, Harper interjected. He’s not ready to let the lieutenant off that easy. “Harper believes he was targeted because he had a pending notice of claim against New Rochelle for false arrest after he was picked up for drug possession last year.” That case was dropped “earlier this year but Harper said he believes the cops didn’t forget about the clash.”
Mr. Harper, currently residing in Denver, Colorado, had a few choice things to say. He may have won the drug case against him but it’s an empty victory. “I feel defeated,” the 45-year-old trainer and aspiring actor informed the court. The dirty cop ruined his life. “Before Officer Kane planted those drugs on me I was a very upbeat, happy person.”
Alvin Harper, a celebrity fitness trainer who lives in Denver, was cleared of drug possession charges after a New Rochelle cop appeared to get caught on his own boydcam planting drugs. pic.twitter.com/fXnViaF0D1
— Tpapa OG (@XViralNews7) August 27, 2024
His lawyer advised him to get a few things into the record transcript for his pending civil action. He told the judge “that he had appeared in the Amazon Prime movie ‘Shadows‘ this year — and he expected to get more work from the next few installments.” Instead, he got canned because they think he’s a drug dealer.
“I’m just a mere shell of myself,” Harper testified. “I can’t sleep at night. This has destroyed me.” Only a miracle kept him out of prison on totally bogus charges. The Judge in suburban New York didn’t overtly acknowledge his appearance caused automatic bias. Thankfully, the cop was stupid enough not to know his camera was rolling.
“What if I would have never had this video? Who would’ve believed me?” Legal Aid lawyer Sydney Stanley notes, “this is not harmless that I have a person standing to my left whose life was negatively affected by the bringing of criminal charges.”
A stolen Cadillac
Harper actually started the problem himself, without even knowing it. The cop pulled him over because his Cadillac Escalade had been reported stolen. My bad, he told the officers. “Harper had filed the report himself, claiming at the time that a family member had made off with the truck without his permission.”
At some point, he got the vehicle back. It’s not clear if he ever actually told that to the police.
Another complicating factor he’ll have to explain to a civil jury if he wants to cash in, “that night, Harper had taken off running as soon as Kane rolled up and got out of his cruiser, the officer’s bodycam footage showed.” He’ll probably claim that all black people need to flee from the police because every minor traffic stop puts their lives in danger.
New Rochelle man, who claims police lieutenant planted drugs, has charges dismissed https://t.co/aMXidcmWJg
— grandted 212.914,415, 510, 707, (@grandted212) August 26, 2024
Depending on the jury, they might believe he was justified to run from a cop. Especially, if he files his case in liberal Denver. For possession of crack and cocaine that really belonged to the cops, he was charged with “third-and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.”
The video shows Kane “pursuing Harper into a parking garage across the street.” It goes black. Then the video comes on but not the audio. Kane probably got what he intended to do backwards. When the video resumed it shows Kane “driving with a small baggie in his right hand.” He pulls back into where the Cadillac was parked. Then, the cop “hit the bodycam again to restart the audio — but he may not have known that the video was already recording.”
The lieutenant “got out of his cruiser, walked up to a parked minivan and reached under the front driver’s side tire.” Next, “he got back in his car and radioed in that felony drug charges were necessary.” The report claimed “Harper threw a plastic bag under a parked car, and that Kane picked it up.” In a separate report, “Officer Maria Vasquez wrote that Kane watched Harper toss the bag.“
