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--A police officer in Lake Wales, Florida has resigned after newly obtained surveillance footage shows that he shamelessly lied about an incident in which he assaulted a local resident. that Lake Wales Officer Colt Black has stepped down after he falsely accused local resident Chris Cordero of charging at him with his fists closed, which the officer claimed justified his use of violent force on Cordero.In reality, as a home security camera belonging to a neighbor revealed, Cordero complied with Black's commands after getting pulled over.Additionally, it showed Black sucker punching Cordero and then further beating him up along with fellow Officer Travis Worley, who arrived on the scene shortly after Black first assaulted Cordero.Cordero was then arrested and charged with resisting arrest, assault on a law enforcement officer and making a death threat to a law enforcement officer.After being let out on bail, Cordero went back to the neighborhood where he was pulled over and asked residents if they had any home security footage from the time the incident took place.When one neighbor provided him with footage, he took it to Lake Wales attorney Sara Jones, who forwarded it to the Polk County State's Attorney's Office, which immediately dropped charges against Cordero.Black, meanwhile, filed an updated report in the incident in which he claimed that "my perception was altered due to the high stress of the incident."Black has since resigned, while Officer Worley has been placed on administrative station duty pending investigation.Report typos and corrections to: .On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," former U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman discussed a key moment from his , "Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department."Specifically, Berman zeroed in on Barr's role in the , in which former President Donald Trump ordered both Barr and his predecessor Matt Whitaker to intervene on behalf of Turkish President Recep Erdoğan to avoid punishment for dodging sanctions on a state-owned bank — with potentially disastrous implications for foreign policy negotiations elsewhere."You write this: 'The DOJ is not supposed to operate according to the president's impulses, personal relationships and business interests. Whatever factors were at play with Halkbank, they flowed from Trump and through Whitaker and then Barr through various high-placed DOJ officials and came to me. As attorney general, Barr should have stood in the way of interference and he should say, no, that is not how justice works in America. Instead, every indication is that he was open to it. He was looking for clever and visible ways to let Trump undermine our rule of law on behalf of a foreign head of state,'" said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "Explain who that foreign state bank was and what the bank is.""So Turkey owns 51 percent of Halkbank, so for all intents and purposes, it is a state bank," said Berman. "And we were looking into — we had already gotten convictions against officers of Halkbank for sanctions evasion, in advantage of Iran sanctions.""A priority for Trump, right," said Wallace.RELATED: "Exactly," said Berman. "And at the time, that is when the government was trying to put maximum pressure on Iran to bring them to the table to get the best deal possible. And here is Halkbank funneling money to the Iranians. So, it really undermined a huge diplomatic effort by the United States. And we were — we had already gotten a guilty verdict against a bank official and we turned our attention to the bank and we were looking at criminal charges against the bank and this is where, you know, my conflict with Barr became, I think, the most intense ... because Barr wanted to pursue what he called a 'global settlement' which was not only a sweetheart deal for the bank, but letting — giving non-prosecution agreements for all of the other individuals who were involved and part of our investigation."Watch below or at this link.A federal magistrate judge Tuesday afternoon further unsealed the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago on August 8.Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, on MSNBC, says the additional information appears to confirm that Donald Trump likely played a role in instructing his attorney, who ultimately certified there were no classified documents remaining at Mar-a-Lago, before federal agents entered the Trump resort and retrieved more than 100 classified and top secret documents.“This does in large part make the information that’s been revealed consistent between the D.C. and the Florida investigations,” Vance, a professor of law, told Nicolle Wallace.Vance suggested that the newly revealed information appears to confirm that Trump was at least involved in the events that led his attorney to tell DOJ there were no more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.“If there’s one takeaway here and Nicole, and it’s not certain, but there’s more of an implication in this newly released information that the former president did play a role in the provision of information about documents to whoever the lawyer who certified this information to the Justice Department,” Vance surmised.“There’s this implication that documents were stored in storage areas and that there was nothing in personal offices and that seems like the sort of information that would have been very likely to come from the former president,” she added.“So this gives DOJ more of a basis to move forward. And of course, because this involves the grand jury, subpoenas are not documents that were ultimately seized in the search. DOJ is free to move forward with inquiries to witnesses without violating Judge Cannons order,” to not use the seized classified documents until after a special master has reviewed them.Watch below or :. reacts to Federal Judge Bruce Reinhart unsealing additional portions of the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit:"There's more of an implication ... that the former President did play a role in the provision of information about documents." — The Recount (@therecount)Former US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, of the Southern District of New York, began sounding the alarm in the middle of 2020 about what he was witnessing at the Justice Department. In a new tell-all book, "Holding the Line," Berman describes the ways in which former Attorney General Bill Barr managed to insulate Donald Trump and his allies.“Every single chapter is a new example of political corruption at DOJ," said MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline White House" while talking to Berman. "And you're telling that a lot of them are coming straight from the White House Twitter feed and I wonder if you were ever so concerned that you asked your inspector general to look into main DOJ, to Mr. Ed O'Callaghan, and you write about Brian Rabbitt. Did you ask anyone to look into what you describe as a pattern?""We handled the interferences, the attempts to interfere ourselves and we didn't have the need to refer it to the inspector general," said Berman.IN OTHER NEWS: "So, the first time an inspector general would read about this kind of political interference would be in this book?" Wallace asked. "We never took it to the inspector general. We didn't have the need for it," Berman said. "Did you sit as a group and wonder if you should go to the Oversight Committee, or Senate or House Judiciary?" she pressed further. "We handled it" Berman answered again. "And if we weren't successful in handling it, and maintaining the independence and integrity of the Southern District of New York, that was my job. That was my sole job. To make sure that we did things the Southern District way and we always did. If we weren't able to do that, then there might have been either methods. In fact, at end of my tenure, there was a situation where Barr was going to impose an outsider who he trusted in charge of the Southern District of New York. And at that point, I went public, I was noisy." READ MORE: He went on to say that he wasn't sure there was ever a precedent at the DOJ for what he did. "I sent out a press release and I told the entire country what Barr was trying to do and how he crossed the line and I used the language from the obstruction of justice statute. And it was because of that very noisy exit that Barr backed down and Audrey Straus, a person of highest integrity, took over as the acting U.S. Attorney."Former Trump officials have been criticized in the past for refusing to stand up and sound the alarm about illegal activities prior to releasing their book. It is frequently seen as their opportunity to make money over the safety and security of the American people. It was an accusation waged at Washington Post who released a book after the presidency that revealed Donald Trump knew that the COVID-19 pandemic was major, serious and deadly while telling the country it wasn't a big deal. New York Times isn't even released yet and already she's being criticized for holding back information about Trump before he left office that would have been helpful in the second impeachment hearing. Berman's book "Holding the Line" is available on sale now .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Copyright © 2022 Raw Story Media, Inc. PO Box 21050, Washington, D.C. 20009 | | | For corrections or concerns, please email corrections@rawstory.com. | {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}

--A police officer in Lake Wales, Florida has resigned after newly obtained surveillance footage shows that he shamelessly lied about an incident in which he assaulted a local resident. that Lake Wales Officer Colt Black has stepped down after he falsely accused local resident Chris Cordero of charging at him with his fists closed, which the officer claimed justified his use of violent force on Cordero.In reality, as a home security camera belonging to a neighbor revealed, Cordero complied with Black's commands after getting pulled over.Additionally, it showed Black sucker punching Cordero...

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