Tom Coleman, Texas Lawman of the Year

If one were to define America’s Criminal Justice System as impartial, fair, honest, or evenhanded, it would be a misconstrued and ignorant comprehension of an eminent grasp of a several of words written in a dictionary. These words that most of us define America by are not for us to live by, but just judge our meanings of the world by. Americans gullibly read these words confiding true representation by those embodying our criminal justice system. The validity and consistency of our criminal justice system has become subject to question with law enforcement officers such as Tom Coleman, “Texas Lawman of the Year”, and the hero of Tulia, Texas by “clearing its streets of “scumbags and garbage” (theage.com). Mr. Tom Coleman not only inherited this habitual practice of dishonesty, deceit, and corruption via our criminal justice system, our “ justice system” seemed to have escorted him throughout this funnel of distortion.

On July 23, 1999, a small struggling town of Tulia Texas was hit with one of the strongest forms of bureaucratic corruption placing a collective group of people constrained in hand-cuffs. An internet article, theiceage.com states that fort

This 18 month investigation survived and succeeded solely on the allegations of a single informant, a man who worked alone and had virtually no evidence beyond his word - such as audiotapes of his supposed drug buys, Tom Coleman (www.hr95.org/tulia.htm). Agent Coleman did not wear any wires during these alleged drug transactions, worked without video surveillance, without fingerprinting evidence, without a notebook, and no second officer was

The question still lies, just who is the criminal in our justice system. Is it the criminal on the street that makes the system tick , or the system that criminalizes the crime? The criminal in this case, as other corrupt investigations and police brutalities is the authorities in our criminal system. The highest crime being the exploitation of authority, influence, and power over the naïve and undereducated Americans.

available to corroborate his reports, in most cases, there were no witnesses at all. When asked to supply the claimed evidence of recorded names, dates and other pertinent facts about his buys, Coleman stated he had written that information on his leg, and not a notebook. Surprisingly enough this was found to be suitable for this “high crime” investigation and arrests (www.refuseandresist.org). It would be expected that when preparing for such a concrete bust, Coleman would have protected his case with evidence or at least worked with someone else to collaborate his investigation. That is if there were no fraudulent motives, as he states.

When these “high trafficking drug dealers” were distur

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