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Yesterday, the police arrested Francisco Torress of Queens, as well as Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom, in connection with the 1971 murder of a San Francisco police officer. Bell and Bottom are currently serving jail time for murdering two NYPD officers in 1971; while Bell and Bottom were convicted of the 1971 killing NYPD cops Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones, Torres and his brother were found innocent due to insufficient evidence. A SWAT team descended on Torres's home in Jamaica, Queens yesterday morning. A neighbor told the Post, "We thought he was a disabled Vietnam veteran. That's what he told people."
Torres, Bottom and Bell, as well as four others across the country, are accused of being a part of a series of attacks on police officers in the late 1960s and early 1970s planned by the Black Liberation Army. The San Francisco Police Department said that with the murder of SFPD Sergeant John Young, new "advances in forensic science led to the discovery of new evidence." Though Torres was heard muttering, "This is a frame-up" when lead out of One Police Plaza yesterday, the Daily News reports his DNA was found on a cigarette butt left at the scene.
Photograph of Francisco Torres being led out of Police Headquarters yesterday by Louis Lanzano/AP
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while DNA has proven many men and women in jail are innocent... murder cases of old with little evidence resurface because murder cases have no statute of limitations.
Nice guys: "A statement by the San Francisco police characterized Sergeant Young’s killing as a part of a “conspiracy to kill law enforcement officers” from 1968 to 1973, a plan that included the murders of two New York police officers, four attempted murders of law enforcement personnel, the bombing of a police officers’ funeral at a San Francisco church and the attempted bombing of another San Francisco police station, as well as three bank robberies, two here and one in Georgia."
Someone with the name Francisco Torres was a member of the Black Liberation Army?? Why? Couldn't he find a hispanic terrorist group?
The Center for Criminal Constitutional Rights has issued a press release hitting all the usual hot buttons:
CCR Legal Director Bill Goodman said, “The case against these men was built on torture and serves to remind us that the U.S. government, which recently has engaged in such horrific forms of torture and abuse at places like Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, has a history of torture and abuse in this country as well, particularly against African Americans.”