A twitter thread was shoved in my face, and it turns out to have an interesting take on the issue of arrest-related deaths. Apparently, there is a sort of exoneration specialty in the medical field, and LEAs know exactly who to go to when they need the right result.
Warning: Disturbing video embedded in the tweet.
Short version: Young-buck cop drives his car at insane speed through city streets with intent to join a foot chase in progress elsewhere; his car jumps a curb and wipes out a completely innocent pedestrian before coming to a stop against what appears to be a tree; he and his equally young-buck partner exit the car and sprint back to the pedestrian’s corpse, begging him to wake up.
And the punchline is, this cop who was at the wheel somehow remains on active duty as the investigation into his act of egregious stupidity is conducted.
FFS!!
A resolution to a very old case:
Victim was an asshole, but FUCK.
Video shows cop shooting several rounds through a wooden fence THEN identifying himself as a police officer. It is not clear that the officer even saw who he was shooting at.
Aye; that’s pretty fuktup.
Did anyone else notice that the cop who did the shooting pushed his way past a cop with a handgun, a cop with a shotgun and a cop with some kind of less than lethal rifle. It’s fluorescent green, looks like a M4 stock, so probably fires rubber bullets or pepper balls. Any one of those other weapons would have been better than firing a rifle from 20 feet away in a store when you don’t know how many people are hiding or running around.
Also, one of the officer yells out several times that there is a changing room on the right.
I know the video is long, but if you start at about 29 mins. there will be a bunch of slow motion replays so you can get a better idea of what happened.
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/police-officer-charged-guilty-video-1.6306079
Good thing she had that camera; you know: the one that the officer saw and acknowledged.
Just saw a thing about a couple of lapd officers who had their dismissals upheld. They were sent off for a '17 incident in which they ignored a robbery call for backup, instead choosing to chase a Snorlax in the Pokémon game.
It is being discussed on Radio Dead Air right now.
While most of incidents discussed here involve guns, there are also a lot of unmentioned controversial encounters involving reckless driving by the police, such as:
Red Oak is in Iowa and has a population of slightly over 5,000 people.
I am glad that he is being punished, and also envious that this officer in Canada gets a harsher penalty for trying to scare someone than American officers often get for beating citizens.
Yea, that’s messed up. On the one hand, sure, someone shooting a gun in the air is an idiot of the first order. And they should be arrested and charged with something. But stopping them using deadly force isn’t warranted IMO.
Should be charged with felony reckless endangerment. A bullet shot straight in the air will reach the top of its trajectory and start tumbling. But most people do not shoot straight in the air, and once the angle gets to somewhere between twenty to thirty degrees off vertical, the bullet will clear the top of its arc without tumbling and become a spinning flechette.
Although quite rare, people have died from celebratory gunfire, usually a great distance away from the shooter. And imagine a roof leak caused by a bullet hole: you have no idea there is a problem until rain has caused a lot of damage in the attic.
Yeah, it should probably not be a capital crime, certainly not with ad hoc enforcement, but it ought to be a you-never-ever-get-to-touch-a-firearm-again-for-the-rest-of-your-life felony.
Agree. OTOH, shooting someone who’s doing it isn’t warranted. It’s like shooting a drunk driver who is about ready to drive off in their car.
OTOOH, shooting through a privacy fence, where there could very well be bystanders just milling about is extremely not warranted. It’s not a stretch to think the cop put more innocent people at risk than celebratory gunfire guy.
No argument here. Both should be arrested.
Fun fact: Thanks mainly to Kasserine Pass, Red Oak had for a while the highest per-capita WWII casualty rate of any city in the US. It evened out as the war progressed but still had a disproportionately high rate by war’s end. They had a Victory ship named after it, one of three still left.
Not remembering that, I looked it up:
If you saw Patton the opening minutes – after The Speech – shows him touring the KP battleground just after the battle.