A Higher Level

Convicted: A Crooked Cop, An innocent Man, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Freindship – Jameel McGee and Andrew Collins with Mark Tabb (Waterbrook)

When you take into account the mis-statements, falsehoods and outright lies that have been repeated over and over again in the high profiles cases like the death of Eric Garner in New York City, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, that have spawned the Black Lives Matter movement and the pinhead Colin Kaepernick and his band of merry kneeling morons, the story of Jameel McGee and Andrew Collins and there unlikely friendship is all the more amazing.

In Convicted: A Crooked Cop, An innocent Man, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship, their story is an amazing mix of redemption, emotion and taking the ultimate higher road. In the small, coastal town of Benton Harbor, on Lake Michigan, Andrew Collins was an undercover drug officer, who apparently was unconcerned about living within the rules of the law.

Collins crossed paths with Jameel McGee and framed him for crack cocaine possession. Since Karma is a bitch, a few years later officer Collins found himself on the other side of the law. And this is where the story gets really interesting; McGee the innocent man crossed paths in the post prison system, and rather than seeking revenge he served up forgiveness.

It is a rare person who can put three years wrongfully behind bars aside and seek a higher power and inspire not only Collins redemption but form a friendship that moved well beyond what could have happened. McGee is truly the bigger man, something that has been absolutely unheard of in the high profile cases I mentioned.