Crooked cop sent innocent girl to prison for 2 years

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Crooked Cop Sent Innocent Girl to Prison For 2 Years!
https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2023/08/07/crooked-cop-sent-innocent-girl-to-prison-for-2-years/
John H. Bryan (07 August 2023)

Police officer Heather Weyker, of the St. Paul, Minnesota, Police Department, was found by the federal courts to have fabricated false charges against several dozen Somali refugees, including Hamdi Mohamud, who spent 2 years in prison for it. Hamdi is now represented by the Institute for Justice, who represents her in an almost decade-long lawsuit against Weyker, which so far has been unsuccessful. Believe it or not, Weyker is still working a six figure job at the St. Paul Police Department, despite having been adjudicated as a liar [archive link: https://archive.li/ahOCY]. Her attorney, Patrick Jaicomo, of the Institute for Justice, joined me to explain this insane story.

Even though the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found in 2016 that Officer Weyker had fabricated false charges against numerous individuals, the St. Paul Police Department used her in a recruiting video in 2017!

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Crooked Cop Sent Innocent Girl To Prison For 2 Years | Was NOT Fired!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3feQTcnuM

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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_NetF2l9k
{Institute for Justice | 25 August 2025}

In this episode, we bring you the disturbing story of St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker, whose lies led to the wrongful prosecution of dozens of people—and put an innocent teenage refugee in jail for two years. Will she ever be held accountable?

Today we’re joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, one of the leaders of IJ's Project on Immunity and Accountability.

We’re discussing Patrick’s lawsuit against Officer Weyker, how courts have systematically closed doors to government accountability, and how IJ is trying to wrench those doors back open.

Hamdi’s Case Page: https://ij.org/case/task-force-immunity-and-accountability/
James King’s video: Officers Nearly Beat Innocent College Student to Death—Then Claim Immunity from All Accountability




Regarding the James King case, see the following thread:

'Cops Mistake Innocent College Student for Suspect, Beat Him Unconscious'

Apr 6, 2016

Grand Rapids, MI – In a case of mistaken identity, an undercover cop and an FBI agent beat an innocent college student unconscious because he matched a vague description of a different suspect. After a jury acquitted him of felony charges, the young man recently filed a lawsuit against the officers for using unreasonable force and ordering witnesses to delete footage taken of the incident.

On July 18, 2014, Grand Valley State University student James King was walking to his job when FBI Special Agent Douglas Brownback and Grand Rapids Police Detective Todd Allen approached him...

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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed...

Heather Weyker... lies... wrongful prosecution... innocent teenage refugee... Will she ever be held accountable?

That a serious question? I'm thinking we all know the answer.

MN is one of the blackest of the black states. One of my sisters-in-law lives in Minneapolis. I think she's crazy to live there.

 

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That a serious question? I'm thinking we all know the answer.

MN is one of the blackest of the black states. One of my sisters-in-law lives in Minneapolis. I think she's crazy to live there.

One a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being the safest, Minneapolis is a 1. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mn/minneapolis/crime