Faith Reconciles an Innocent Prisoner With the Man Who Framed Him
Jameel McGee, 35, an innocent black man from Benton Harbor, Michigan, who was imprisoned for four years after a police officer framed him as a drug dealer is calling the now former officer a friend after his Christian faith helped him forgive.
McGee told CBS News that he was minding his own business one day in 2005 when then officer Collins accused him of dealing drugs and then arrested him.
"It was all made up," said McGee. And Collins agreed.
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"I falsified the report," the former officer told CBS. "Basically, at the start of that day, I was going to make sure I had another drug arrest."
Collins, 33, explained in an earlier AP report that he quickly evolved into a "dirty cop" shortly after he became a narcotics officer.
