Slideview? How do you come up with a name like that?
11-year old kid calls 911 when his mother tells him to. His step father had come in and was becoming irate. The kid comes out, hands in the air, as per the police instructions, and gets shot in the chest.
It’s not all that controversial to me, though – that cop should lose his job and be charged with reckless endangerment at least, maybe attempted manslaughter, if that’s a thing.
Again I have to ask, what happens to the average citizen who happens to ‘accidentally’ shoot someone?
Like really accidentally (drops a gun and it goes off, or out hunting and you’re the VP and shoot someone in the face)? Probably depends on their lawyer – from nothing to some jail time. However, if by accidentally you mean that the average citizen sees a person, points a gun at them, and fires, I imagine they’re in for a world of hurt.
“He was Black and threatening, so I stood my ground.”
No charges, handshakes all around.
FWIW, the cop was also Black.
A huge comfort to Aderrien, that is.
The cop was blue.
Probably easier to get the cop fired and indicted, I suppose.
This somehow seems appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LDPUfbXRLM
I hate it when that happens.
That reminds me, did I ever show y’all this?
This is from 2009, when our sheriff’s deputies had those stupid looking Impalas (but at least they were easy to spot at night). Just to the left of this is a footpath that cuts across the corner of a field. For whatever reason, the sheriffs always seem to have some unknown need to drive on it. This doofus decided he was going to take a shortcut to the footpath and didn’t realize there’s a little drop off right there. I saw him getting pulled out by a tow truck a little while later.
(PS there’s no reason to drive on the foot path. It’s like a quarter mile long, literally just cuts across the corner of a field. You can see just about from one end to the other.)
Cop call civilian and ask them to check on a nearby neighbor that made a 911 call. Civilian and spouse check on said neighbor and end up stabbed, slashed, tased but somehow not murdered.
Cops call bullshit and release a statement saying, in part, “Nor would the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office ever send a citizen to perform a deputy’s job,”
Their attorney found that this isn’t the first time the same scenario has played out.
in 1997, an “armed and belligerent” mentally ill man named Haskell Hall barricaded himself in his trailer. The sheriff’s office responded by asking Hall’s neighbor, Carole Laag, to enter the trailer and negotiate with him.
Hall stabbed Laag to death before he was shot and killed by deputies with the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office
In 2008, Deena McGaughey called the sheriff’s office about someone shooting toward her home, Mainzer said. When the responding deputy arrived, he reportedly had a neighbor dress in camouflage clothing and run across McGaughey’s property to distract the shooter so the deputy could find him.
“Zig-zag! Zig-zag!”
Serpentine, Shelly! Serpentine!
How many times do cops need to be informed that being filmed by an uninvolved party from a distance is a constitutionally protected activity?
Until the cops personally have to pay out, an unlimited number of times.
You’d think that at some point the departments and/or the municipal governments would get tired of paying out and would tell the cops in no uncertain terms to stop doing that shit.
The police aren’t paying out-The “Law and Order” , “Blue Lives Matter”, “Not In My White Back Yard” public are.
Hate to break it to you, but the “Black Lives Matter”, “Defund the Police”, and “I Can’t Breathe” public are also paying out.
Is true…but the others want to do it.