Awwwww. I was hoping the slide would be this one.
…aaaand fired.
Was that not the plot of the classic movie Shoot, Pray, Leave ?
WHAT in the ever-loving fuck is this bullshit???
How can someone be acting in self-defense of a handcuffed, restrained person for 30 fucking minutes?
Santa Clara County, California:
More info about Cedric Lofton’s death:
That judge in Tennessee who illegally jailed thousands of black children announced her retirement. This will halt the investigation into her actions, meaning there will be no criminal charges.
It’s good to be a judge. Or a president. Or wealthy, that works too.
Just as long as you’re white.
I saw this on the auto site Jalopnik; a small Alabama town called Brookside has less than 1,300 residents, but at least nine police officers (the chief, eight new hires and several part-timers, though the chief refuses to say how many are on staff out of “security” concerns), or about one officer per 144 residents. The national average is closer to 600 residents per officer. And now fines and forfeitures represent the majority of town government revenues. The county sheriff and the district attorney see the problem as does the state government, so perhaps something will be done.
Short version: Cop barely gets through police academy at the bottom of his class and is passed only with the intervention of county officials, and then is fired for being a shitty cop. Then he is hired at another police department, and in a confrontation with a woman having a mental health crisis, he shoots her six times while she lies unarmed on the floor trying to surrender.
Looks like he needs to print up some resumes. I’m sure some other law enforcement department will pick him up. They always do.
Seriously. There is a national database for sex offenders, why isn’t there one for shitty cops?
It is starting to look like that list may not be an impossibility.
Lots of cheap towns would see it as a recruitment list.
A great law in Colorado that’s failing. State law requires untruthful officers to lose their POST license. Departments may fire them but are failing to report it to the state so they keep their license.
So the police are refusing to follow the law? Does everyone have that option, or just them?
Remember they support Law Enforcement, not enforcement of laws.
Oh right, of course. Where was my mind?
This looks questionable:
Nashville police release bodycam video showing 9 officers fatally shoot man on interstate
Police released a video late Thursday showing body camera footage of a standoff with a man on Interstate 65 who pulled out a “metal, cylindrical item” from his pocket before nine officers fired their guns, killing him.Landon Eastep, 37, was killed after a several-hour standoff with officers about 10 miles south of downtown, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. It began around 2 p.m. Thursday when a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper stopped after he saw Eastep sitting on a guardrail on the side of the interstate.
Landon Eastep
I wonder what the"metal, cylindrical item" was.