Background Information
This page was made in effort to expose the way “The Law” breaks the law and tries to cover it up with lies, deceit and false allegations. Everyone has had some kind of encounter with law enforcement, whether it be good or bad. This is a story of an encounter with the law that never should have happened, changing one’s life forever by the “Lies of the Law.”
Cherise Rogers, then age 25, was at the top of her game. She worked for the Los Angeles Police Department as a Clerk Typist, just having recently passed the promotional examination to become a Senior Clerk Typist. She’d just obtained her Bachelors degree in Child and Adolescent Development in 2006 and was looking forward to moving up in life, pursuing her career in working with inner city/at-risk youth. She was seeing nothing but success in front of her until April 6, 2007, when her life was forever changed by the “Hands of the Law.”
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4 responses to “Background Information”
Michelle
April 9th, 2009 at 19:26
I am extremely dissatisfied and fearful of, not only the Los Angeles Police Department, but of our law enforcement on a national level. It is ridiculous that the very people we pay to protect us are the very people who harm us. Why is it that law enforcers get to hide behind their badges while we “common folk” get prosecuted to the fullest degree for petty crimes. I do not support the police. I’m not saying that all police are corrupt, but as for me, I’ll take my chances without them. I teach the children in my life not to trust the police. You put your trust in the members in your life that you know will have your best interest at heart. In my opinion, the risk in trusting the police is far greater than trusting a stranger.
Chris
May 10th, 2009 at 08:42
I think the heart of the problem comes from a higher source. We can put all the pressure we want on the police force but that is like treating the side affects from the AIDS virus, doesn’t stop the AIDS. I think it comes back to class warfare. What happens to a society, and their way of life, when the super rich persuade law makers/politicians to pass laws in their favor over centuries of time? Civil rights are slowly eroded over generations of time as not to alert the people and cause chaos. First it’s no machine guns, then no concealed weapons, then no loaded weapons, then no guns with barrels too short, then no carrying without permit, then you must have your weapon unloaded, locked in the trunk with the bullets in a separate case. Eventually guns are outlawed in cities and high population towns. Then it finally reaches your town and voula no more guns. In many different cases in the world, when guns are completely outlawed, the highest forms of government corruption evolve because there is no balance in the system. Joseph Stalin did just that. Outlawed guns, outlawed growing of food, consolidated farms, burned the farms and starved 20 million people. When government takes away guns, there is no stopping whoever leads them. Don’t allow the propaganda of guns are bad get to you, guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Nick DeVisa
April 5th, 2010 at 11:41
It is appalling what they will do to cover up their own injustice.May God be with you Cherise.
Raven
December 2nd, 2010 at 22:36
This is just sick. This is just…I put a link to your story in an article I just recently written on this subject because I was so revolted and awestruck at the level of violence and how violated you are by the system. But, the again, I wouldn’t be surprised. To the relative speaking on her behalf, I noticed you pointed out that the sheriff deputy did it because she was “young and attractive.” As I always say, never associate abuse with attraction. Beauty and abuse are mutually exclusive. What I feel he was going to do to you was rape you. As for rape, rape is about control. Look at the William Kennedy Smith case and an incident involving a rapist in McArthur Park to see that. William Kennedy Smith was a handsome man. He came from a wealthy family (the Kennedys). Two ingredients to attract any women from anywhere. Yet he chose to rape; not once, but twice. Both women were homely, almost manly, and would not fit my definition of supermodels. Yet he raped them and many more. Why? Control. The McArthur Park rapist was a handsome black man, had money, yet he chose to rape with emphasis on the women by frumpy housewife types to make my point. Why? Because it’s about control. Like a vampire, it is about the fear they get off on when looking at their prey – their victim’s eyes. You have to understand that he did not see you as a human being, much less attractive (You are attractive, but that had nothing to do with it), he saw something, a body, that he can abuse and control and take your body from you in the process by taking away your right to consent.
Now, here is why I think he went after you. You are black, female, in your 20′s. Just like another black sister – Mitrice Richardson – who went missing and was abducted at the hands of the LASD, they assumed that you were a sex worker, that you probably had a record, and that he could do whatever he wished to you which is why he did what he did to you. I don’t know if you can recall the male talk around your office at LAPD, but a lot of them look at us sex workers and women of color as less than human, hell, women period.
In essence, he felt that he could get away with it and unfortunately he did. That is why laws like that need to be repealed. He could of easily used discretion and said that you were intending on selling yourself when you drove off in your car (which escorts routinely do) and used that as “leverage” in his sick mind to justify attacking you. I am honestly pissed that he did what he did to you. If you need anyone to protest that station, let me know. I know some other groups/ spaces that can help. I can bring your case to their attention and try to bring about an end to this misogynist. racist violence.
Damn, I am so sorry….