Well, well, well — it turns out you can shame the Devil.
Earlier this month, we reported that Daniel Flores, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, was charged with 16 felony counts of eavesdropping on or recording confidential communications, charges that could have resulted in a 13-year prison sentence if convicted, after he filed an internal affairs complaint against his LAPD colleagues containing recordings of them making racist, homophobic, and sexist comments. Instead of taking any meaningful action against the bigoted cops tasked with protecting and serving the public, LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman decided that the message that needed to be sent was one that punished the whistleblower for secretly recording the private conversations of said officers.
This, of course, outraged civilians across the city, and now Hochman has changed his tune, opting to downgrade the felony charges against Flores to misdemeanors because he still needs to send his goofy, pro-racist cop message to the public, but he doesn’t want to erode what little trust many people have left in law enforcement. At the very least, though, Flores will avoid jail time if convicted of the downgraded charges.
From ABC 7:
Hochman said once the charges are reduced to misdemeanors, Flores’ attorney will likely ask for the officer to be placed into a court diversion program that could result in the charges being dismissed after a year if Flores does not commit any other offenses. Flores had...
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