THE JEAN MACEAN MONSTER MOB IS A RISK TO YOUR FAMILY

People say I must be friends with Jean Macean, when I advocate that the legal process should not be influenced by a mob feeding frenzy, publicly trashing and inciting against suspects, and even dragging them in chains to be publicly humiliated on TV cameras like something from primitive society. The reality is I am protecting myself, the people I care about, and even you, from your neighbors. Your neighbors will gladly overlook our designed system of rights being replaced with mob justice. Mobs like the one you are a part of, are a bigger risk to me and you, than Jean Macean is.

You actually try to act dangerous, to put on a show of being aggressive, of indulging your impulses while imagining your own moral superiority. You should not then wonder why someone like me finds you dangerous. I can defend myself and the people I care about against little black guys with knives. Not so much when it comes to mobs, and the public officials who run to the front of them. Irrational mobs and aggressive governments are the most dangerous animal in history, like Hitler.

You may think it is harmless for judges to overcharge people in arrest affidavits, or even to sign arrest affidavits with questionable probable cause for whomever police point the finger at, if it increases the odds of getting murderers off the street and convicting them. And whether or not it has been done in this case, you would even overlook police lying in arrest affidavits, or conveniently leaving out contradictory facts, if it hacks the courts to achieve the demands of the popular and the powerful. And then you not only have no problem with the media going on a feeding frenzy against the suspect, which corrupts investigators, witnesses, and even jurors, you support it. You support a tribal conflict, rather than the deliberative search for truth which courts put on a facade of.

But your risk of losing your life because of an aggressive arrest affidavit, a reckless news media that Florida law rewards for promoting embellished gossip, and a mob of bloodthirsty idiots, is real and is far greater and more common than the chance of being murdered by a total stranger.

My own friend is serving life without parole in the death of a man who was reputed to be a rapist, convicted of racketeering, prostitution, domestic battery, DUI, violation of probation, known to drug employees and force them to come home with him, wildly drunk and coked up at the time he died. Not only did the media leave all that out and cover wall-to-wall that he was an angel whom everyone loved. That is also all the jurors were told, and his own family actually believed it. At the same time the jurors were reading how evil the suspect was, on their tablets in the jury box. I won’t stand by while cases are tried in the media, inciting mobs for clicks.

The arrest affidavit is not just a preliminary step, it is often the point of no return. It is the key point at which innocent people are actually convicted. And even co-conspirators or primary actors get away. Because it is the point after which the cops pay the greatest cost for reversing course, and the least cost for moving forward. And it is the point after which it is easiest to fake evidence, evidence practically fakes itself.

We can debate the extent to which sadistic cops, and the voters who support them, like to lie to victimize the innocent, the poor, and the incompetent for sport and fake glory. But you do not need to be a sadistic liar, just an ordinary human, to convict the innocent in cases with a lot of publicity like the Aultman murder. A cop does not go into it saying I am going to arrest an innocent person, or promote a story that is basically wrong, and then fake the evidence later. Rather a cop becomes possessed with suspicion focusing on a certain person. He thinks if he can just get the arrest affidavit, he will surely find the evidence to prove it, in the suspect’s phone or car. Or he simply responds to public pressure and reward. And then he finds himself in a position he did not plan to be in, where he has told the world he has the murderer in his jail, but he does not have sufficient evidence to back up his claims, or his case contains basic flaws.

Understand that after this point the cop does not have to fake anything, everyone else will take over. Police will not look for other suspects. They will not dig for evidence with the potential to cast the suspect’s guilt into doubt, and ruin the case and embarrass the department. Don’t swab things which could have been touched by different people, or if you do, don’t send those swabs to the lab. Don’t pull the suspect’s cell tower records. We already have someone who says she recognizes the suspect from the scene and can adjust her story if necessary. We don’t need something that might say the suspect was elsewhere and muddy the case, we don’t want hard evidence that is inflexible. By the time the public defender looks at it a year or two from now, the cell tower records will have been deleted. That is if the public defender even bothers, which he won’t.

Expert questioners will have a crack at the suspect, sociopaths whose life sport is to psychologically torture a captive for 11 hours, into admitting to something he did not do. People hammered for 11 hours with the doorway of saying what they think you want to hear, only need to say it once. And people who have never studied any history or wondered why there is a fifth amendment will say “He confessed, case closed!”

Not only can this convict your innocent brother or son. It can lose the opportunity to focus on a different suspect who may be a co-conspirator, the lead conspirator, or even the primary actor. For example, there could be someone who met Jean Macean at the end of that block in a car, killed the Aultmans, and went the other way. Once the case narrative gains momentum centering on Macean, the only interest police will have in that other person, is as a witness to swear Jean Macean did it. There are many such murders with two suspects, where police get the actual murderer to testify against the one who didn’t do it. Police can put on such a fraud because family members shout “kill the suspect” rather than “let’s examine this”.

At the same time, witnesses will come forward who have seen the story on the news, and say completely false things just because what they heard. They will say I knew the suspect, I always thought he was suspicious. I recognize the suspect from his picture, I saw someone who looked like that running from the murder scene. I knew the victim, he was a pure angel, he did not deserve anything like what this monster did. Or if a witness says something different that doesn’t fit the narrative, don’t write his name down. The public defender six months later, will never find this witness who told the truth or even know he existed.

It is vitally important in the Aultman case to know Jean Macean’s state of mind before this happened. There was someone who took pictures with Macean in them shortly before the murder. That person might be able to tell you what Macean’s mood was, what he said. But after all the TV coverage that person’s statements will be corrupted. He will say “Macean seemed edgy, weird, aggressive, like a monster…” regardless of what Macean’s behavior really was.

Suppose under public pressure, police pick up a random person with a flimsy arrest affidavit. Such a suspect will call his parents on the recorded jail phone to try to convince them he didn’t do it, he was home all day. A cop will hear this and go to the suspect’s apartment complex, remove the video recorder and delete it, then hand it to a technician who will swear it was faulty and nothing could be recovered. They cannot admit even to themselves that they could be wrong, they are blinded by bias that they are doing the right thing. It is a trick they need to play not just on the public to save embarrassment, but even on themselves, a psychological self-defense mechanism. And it is better than losing the next election if they are found to have overzealously arrested the wrong guy, an innocent person from a different town or race or political party.

Once a suspect is arrested, police have total control over his car and house. When their case suddenly falls apart, they will say screw it, go stick a credit card from the victim in this guy’s house and photograph it there. We know we have the right guy. And even if not, we are doing the good thing getting a scumbag with a past drug arrest off the street. The people will thank us, and it will save us having to arrest him again the next time he does a drug deal. That may sound extreme, but cops will very rarely pay any price for it, and will usually be rewarded. Whereas admitting error and letting a guy out will create immediate costs. The perps lie, so it is fair to lie.

While the suspect is held without bond, nobody will look for exculpatory evidence or witnesses. They won’t think they need to, they imagine police will search for the truth, if it is there to be found, but they won’t. After a few days held without bond, the suspect will lose his job, his car, his apartment, all his friends, even his own family will think he is guilty. Within a few months all the video that could have proved his innocence will be lost, all the furniture at the victim’s house will be sold, the victim’s body which could have shown different wounds will be cremated. The only thing left will be the narrative police wrote in their arrest affidavit, the witnesses they found willing to recite it, and the few fragments they preserved which support it. From a world of possibilities, the only evidence produced and preserved will be that which points in one direction.

Finally, the prosecutor will patch up the fake case, that is his job. They will bring over every inmate from the jail who was housed with the suspect, and saw the story of the crime on TV. They have literally dozens of people facing 30 years in prison for victimless drug crimes, who all know they can get out of jail today if they know the story and say the suspect confessed to it. It is not like a slot machine, it is a guaranteed jackpot. With that many people, the math guarantees at least one or probably more than one inmate will come forward and say the suspect confessed. And you are never allowed to tell the jury that there are 1,000 inmates willing and encouraged to lie, for every one suspect who actually confesses. And yes the prosecutor is politically rewarded and is never held to account for putting over such a crooked scam. The prosecutor is in fact legally immune to paying any price whatsoever even when he is proven to produce perjury over and over. And no the legislature would not do anything to stop it, even after DNA exonerations prove that is what is going on if the math and the law and the politics didn’t already tell you.

The prosecutor will call the witnesses in one by one, the week before the trial or their deposition. He will say this DNA swab labeled “swab from stain on shoes”, that was from the the stain on the suspect’s shoes, not the victim’s shoes, right? I just wanted to square that away. You say you saw the suspect throw something in the trash, did it look like anything, did it look like gloves maybe? Yes? Because in your initial police interview, it just says you saw the suspect taking out his trash. Remember, this is a double murderer who killed these two sweet angels, and we are all depending on what you saw to get justice. Okay, so you saw the suspect throw gloves in the trash. That’s all I need, thanks.

All this stuff starts with a cop under pressure to stretch the truth in a flimsy arrest affidavit, and a judge who is politically punished if he does not sign it. That is why they call it a railroad. The system is designed to convict whomever police point the finger at. It is circular, the public will condone police cutting every corner and lying to convict you, and will shame witnesses who don’t lie if necessary, because the paper told them who you are and what you did. It is all justified, if you begin with the self-reinforced mob belief that you are an evil person who did it. And that is why the Jean Macean arrest affidavit, together with the foaming mob of people who are incited to support this sort of thing, are a great public danger, a risk to the lives of you and your family. It is the worst of human nature, the most dangerous animal, more dangerous than a criminal, literally like Hitler.

People say cops only lie if you were doing something wrong. Don’t get arrested, don’t hang out with dirtbags and you won’t be falsely accused of resisting arrest, or charged with possession of heroin that belonged to your best friend. People facing their own charges won’t have the opportunity to lie and say you did it. But too many people have had their lives ruined by their bloodthirsty neighbors, who lie even to themselves that they are doing something moral, when they send police to indulge their lust for aggression and cleansing and punishment of undesirables, of people they don’t like.

When my friend got life without parole from age 21 for a crime that didn’t happen, I sat in court and watched witnesses tell lie after lie, based on things I had personal information to know were false. And not just me. Everyone in court other than the jury and the victim’s family (and maybe my friend’s grandmother), knew the witnesses were lying. I thought this must be really unique, so I spent six weeks writing a book to document it.

During that six weeks people I met would say what’s up, and I would say I am busy writing this book about cops who lied to convict my friend of murder. And suddenly people who never said a thing before would open up and start gushing about how they or their brother or their best friend, was also a victim of police lying and had their lives ruined. Half the people I met or knew, seemed to have some secret story, which they only opened up about because they took what I said as an invitation or maybe a rare sympathetic ear.

They never mentioned it before, because they know people don’t care, people will say you were doing something wrong that cops lied about you. I had even myself been the victim of police lying in four states, and I did not think it was that big a deal. A cop tears your car apart trying to prove you stole your own car, a cop plants a bag of weed on your friend or lies that he saw you driving on the grass, the prosecutor just dismisses it. I always thought when it comes to serious matters like murder and life without parole, cops would be more serious. But just the opposite is true. It becomes a feeding frenzy, a social phenomenon nothing like a CSI TV show. The truth becomes a product of mob psychology.

It begins with something the government is rewarded for doing, and which newspapers are immune and rewarded for amplifying: Inciting a mob against a person ahead of the evidence, and certainly ahead of conviction, and without being restricted to what is true. Flimsy arrest affidavits and malleable mobs are a spinning wheel that has landed on me, on my friends, and on people I know. And it has a high probability to land on you or your family member, much more likely to land on you than being murdered by a complete stranger. Tribal justice mobs are an extremely dangerous enemy of ordinary people like me. Ignoring this is akin to driving drunk and thinking that bad stuff only happens to other people. If you don’t wish to protect yourself, at least don’t make enemies of those who are more cautious and want to protect their loved ones from the foaming mob.