Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE The Grand Rapids Police Department must release recorded phone calls related to the Kuiper wrong way crash. WZZM
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Officials have released recordings to a media company that reveal three Grand Rapids police officers discussing giving an assistant prosecutor a break in a drunken driving crash that injured one person.
The Grand Rapids city manager’s office says today that the recordings of five phone calls were released to the MLive Media Group following a court battle.
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In the recordings, Officer Adam Ickes tells then-Lt. Matthew Janiskee that Josh Kuiper appears intoxicated. But Kuiper wasn’t charged with driving under the influence.
Janiskee was fired. Ickes and another officer were suspended. They have not been charged.
Kuiper later was charged with reckless driving causing injury and resigned from the prosecutor’s office.
The calls were made on a phone line marked “non-recorded,” but an appeals court determined they should be released to MLive.
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Lylac_Krazy on September 14th, 2017 at 12:42 UTC »
This scares me more than bad cops. A prosecutor abusing the system has much more influence then nearly everyone else in the system.
verticaljeff on September 14th, 2017 at 11:33 UTC »
These tapes clearly show that favoritism in law enforcement is the norm on that force. They are desperate to treat this offender differently if they can, their only concern is what witnesses might have seen and how much evidence has been collected on bodies cams and the like. All those cops are completely blithe about the entire thing. Their only concern is with what and how much they can get away with, and it's absolutely routine and mundane to all of them. Disgusting.
Pogbaku on September 14th, 2017 at 10:19 UTC »
Body cam footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2bT8hzsyI
Recording of calls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFEy4j8rQ4U