Take this dude named Gregory Orozco. Cops arrested in a car with a white couple. It wasn’t his car & he swore the pink bag containing a gun and kilos of meth wasn’t his. Morehead said it was. She even bought the bag to court, & got Orozco’s brother Jose to say the bag was Greg’s
In court, Jose identified the pink bag, the gun etc (except for a SIM card she said was empty) Orozco is convicted of trafficking w/a firearm. On appeal Jose reveals that he’s actually the drug dealer in the family. Morehead threatened to lock HIM up if he didn’t testify
But that’s not what freed Greg. He also discovered a bunch of pics in Morehead’s case file. Remember that SIM card? It had 100 of pics of the white couple who was arrested with orozco Even though Morehead told the judge & jury there was “nothing on the SIM card”
When she said that, she had already printed out about 40 of the pics.. Just the ones showing the white couple who carrying a pink bag In freeing Orozco, the appeals court said Morehead violated Jose’s 6th Amendment rights, hid exculpatory evidence & intimidated witnesses.
To be fair, there was nothing the judges could do about the corrupt prosecutor. See Morehead left her job as district attorney To become a US attorney. She literally worked for the department of justice.
That’s where she worked when she seized the family home of two twins convicted of drug dealing. The twins’ parents actually left them the home in their will but Morehead claimed they willingly agreed to forfeited the home… She just couldn’t find the paperwork
There was the man incarcerated at Leavenworth, where Morehead would occasionally call and instruct guards that she had judges’ orders to put him in solitary confinement No such orders existed
Then there was times when she just wanted REALLY harsh sentences. She asked a judge to give Mardell Trotter for a small amount of crack. One time She charged 42 people with selling the same weed. Thankfully a judge vacated that sentence
Only after the plaintiffs agreed not to file prosecutorial misconduct charges Then there’s the case of the interracial couple who beefed with Morehouse for years. They had a blog calling her corrupt… Until federal agents raided their home & charged them with wire fraud.
For illegally selling stuff on EBay. And when they kept writing about her, Morehead asked a judge to revoke their bond NINE TIMES. Anyway, this thread is getting long. You can read the story here theroot.com/evilest-white-…
Then, read my yearlong investigation into the group of Black women who brought down the drug-dealing, human trafficking, serial rapist cop who protected Morehead theroot.com/a-criminal-inj…
My point is that this is wh Black journalists are important.. I don’t know if I could have roamed & made ppl feel comfortable enough to talk to me if I was white. But I didn’t do this, a bunch of brave Black women did this.
@michaelharriot These women are incredibly brave, genuine heroes!
@michaelharriot Ok I’m white and I really hate white people sometimes!
@michaelharriot Mr. Harriot, one question for you, this article (on the webpage) doesn't seem to be dated, unless I've just missed it. It that deliberate? It is helpful to have the date context. It was a spectacular article.
@michaelharriot @MalcolmNance Just like what was done to my family in Meridian Texas and Hamilton county Texas a Serial Rapist and Serial Murderer Jimmy Earl Young of Meridian murdered my father Forest Young a businessman and veteran and my sister Sharon Young and he was protected by the Republican party ✅
@michaelharriot he should have been in prison a LONG time ago kansascity.com/opinion/opn-co…
@michaelharriot Reminds a little of the 1999 Tulia, Texas drug raid ....