Well for one. When your boss is bringing a big bag of fetish porn and dildos to the office. That’s probably not a good thing. That shit was his work bag.
But the hook here, and apparently the reason for the torture, is that Burke left the bag with his duty weapon and badge in it in an unlocked police car in a public place. Which is a felony. The guy they beat up apparently made a statement to officers Burke could not pressure, and on tape I think, that the car was unlocked and he had not broken into it.
So the whole black site thing was about getting him to change his statement. It’s been reported that Burke had done this before and kept it quite . Apparently been reprimanded for similar things more than once. And as some one who is both highly placed in a real corrupt circle, and pretty much a giant shit show, he’s kinda the week link on this shit.
