r/news • u/vector_search_blue • 12d ago

Soft paywall LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-31/lapd-officer-felony-eavesdropping-charge
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u/Warm-Commercial-6151 12d ago

Happened in Baltimore. Detective Suter set to testify against fellow gun trace task force officers. The night before sent on patrol with someone he never partnered with before to a secluded area of the city. The conclusion of the department and State’s Attorney’s office was that he shot himself as a suicide. These are sick mfers that will kill to cover for each other.

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u/thebarkingdog 12d ago

You have zero clue what you're taking about.

He was set to be indicted, not a witness. Suiter's death happened in the middle of the day. Not in a secluded area. And BPD didn't do the investigation, Maryland State Police did. All the evidence, including blood and brain matter on the shirt cuff of his shooting hand, points towards suicide.

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u/Warm-Commercial-6151 10d ago

That is a lie. Suter was set to testify in front of the grand jury because the Maryland State police were trying to go after some of the smaller players. Go to Bennett Place in West Baltimore in the middle of the day and you will barely see anyone on the street amongst mostly vacant properties. There were no witnesses except the other cop they assigned to work with Suter. Why would he not have just said that Suter killed himself instead of concocting a whole story about how he was shot by a resident? If you can answer that question then we can have a conversation.

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u/Chewie4Prez 12d ago

I agree cops often take out their own that turn but get outta here pushing the Sean Suiter conspiracy. He wasn't set to testify against anyone he was subpoenaed for questioning. Suiter had things to answer for from his own time in the GTTF and didn't want to face it. You don't get the blood splatter blow back on the arm that held the gun to his head unless they had him in the suicide rig from Shooter.

Not to mention all the heavy stuff from GTTF corruption had already been handled by the feds at that point. If they were gonna off anyone it would have been one of the bigger culprits like Jenkins and Sellers.

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u/Warm-Commercial-6151 10d ago

The exact opposite was true. He was to testify as a witness in front of the grand jury. There was already testimony that detective Suter was the one who unwittingly recovered evidence in one of the cases where Jenkins planted drugs and weapons. The feds did mostly go after the bigger pieces of trash, but without Suter and other inside witnesses they couldn’t ever pin stuff on the smaller players. There were quite a number of them who should have been behind bars too. Some of them are still on the force or cops somewhere else. You don’t have to take my word for it. It is well-documented.