Ari Danikas
Ari Danikas (pictured below), is a celebrated whistle blower and campaigner for press freedoms. He won a special recognition award from Blueprint for Free Speech for blowing the whistle on human rights abuses by the Cato Manor unit, and has been described by CIA torture whistle blower John Kiriakou as a man of unimpeachable honesty and integrity.
Danikas’s evidence, as relayed in this article, included:
- Photos, some of which he took, of bodies being moved at two crime scenes before Independent Police Investigative Directorate investigators arrived (warning: Graphic content);
- The contents of the hard drive of a Cato Manor member’s computer he was repairing that contained incriminating evidence, including what the member told Danikas was his personal collection of trophy photographs of dead, wounded and dying suspects;
- Videos of a Cato Manor crime scene where the suspect was allowed to bleed to death while the policemen were making fun of him (warning: Graphic content);
- Videos that he took of a suspect being tortured at the Cato Manor offices by Cato Manor unit members (warning: Graphic content);
- A video in which a high ranking-officer linked to the Cato Manor unit describes, in the presence of Danikas and his wife Shelley, how he and Cato Manor members were shooting at black pedestrians for fun with a pellet gun while on duty.
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