He was far enough away from her and told her to put the pot down or he was going to shoot her in the fucking face. Then when she bent down to put the pot on the floor, he shot her in the fucking face.
He is the one who sent her to the stove to deal with the boiling water. He should have just dealt with it himself in the first place if he was so worried. He was also hostile to her from the get go. He was harassing her for taking too long to answer the door.
It seemed like she was making a dumb joke about an exorcism or something after the officer said he didn’t want her throwing the water at him. He said that after she asked why he was backing up as she carried the water to the counter/sink. I think it was a dumb joke because she immediately dropped it once the gun came out.
Pay them better. Train them better. Give them better tools to deal with people who are maybe having a mental problem.
Shit, I don’t know. Just one more stupid fucking tragedy to add to the pile.
Thanks!
What do you think of this video:
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Which will result in better paid, better trained tyrants.
The problem isn’t low pay, and the problem isn’t lack of training.
So, what is the problem?
The fact that a large proportion of the population want brutal, extra-judicial punishment, as long as it’s happening to “others”
When I talk to cops in social situations (I live in a very cop-heavy suburb) the language they use to describe the populations they are policing (minority-majority cities) is absolutely dehumanizing and most of my neighbors are lapping it up.
Lack of accountability.
Qualified immunity.
An “us against them” mindset/culture in most departments.
Seriously, how does a person go from being called to help a distressed homeowner to thinking that homeowner is going to violently attack you, because she picked up the pot of boiling water that you asked her to deal with?
It’s like cops are spending all day every day thinking every one of us is itching to kill them for being cops. How can you live like that? If you are living like that, why aren’t you on the forefront of trying to get guns out of the hands of “civilians”?
But what do I know, maybe it is for the best that cops approach every traffic stop they make like the driver is prepared to blow you away rather than get a ticket for rolling through that stop sign.
Sadly, a huge amount of their training is about “officer safety.” It is drilled, and drilled, and drilled into them. (They get almost no training on constitutionally-protected rights.) The result is cops who think everyone is out to kill them. It makes them paranoid and trigger-happy. At the same time, I believe many cops fantasize about killing the “enemy” (i.e. anyone who is not a cop). It’s a sick culture that needs to be eliminated.
Recently there was the scandal when NJ’s and other police officers attended seminars given by one Dennis Benigno, and video was released that outsiders weren’t meant to see. Thuggish bravado, racism, sexism, contempt for oversight, the usual.
But who sets these animals loose? What system makes the phrase “to Protect and to Serve” Orwellian? If their true mission is to Control the Population (regardless of human rights), on whose behalf is that done? Not the population you and I may think ourselves a part of.
The imgur link is the same video but without the blurring. Also the links I posted have sound, and are longer, than the one in the article.
This has to be a big part of the problem: officers are not accountable to their charges. They live in Slide Pointe and work in Skid Road. They have no personal connection to their workplace, it is just where they commute to. Policing is a unique job that calls for unique requirements, such as, live where you work.
I’ll give you that the cop may not have seen the person, but it bugs me that the “the individual was struck by a black SUV” but “officers … struck a body that was lying in the roadway”.
Either the medical examiner declared the person dead and the cop later drove over them or the cop drove over a (possibly) still living person. I hope the the time of death isn’t until the ME got there and the family can try to hold the cop, at least in part, responsible for killing the person.
Also, they never caught the person they were chasing.
Police recruit who lost both legs in ‘barbaric hazing ritual’ sues Denver, paramedics and officers
https://apnews.com/article/denver-police-hazing-lawsuit-9098ccb36f43762c9f9fa91ab54041dd
Sean Grayson, 20 months ago:
If the clips don’t load, they’re both here.
That’s the idiot who got kicked out of the Army, right?
Yeah, but he’s “better” known as the cop who told a woman to deal with the boiling water then shot her when she picked up the pot.
Yes, he got kicked out of the army for DUI, had another one, then got hired as a part-time deputy before getting certified as an Illinois police officer. Had 6 jobs (3 of them part time) in 4 years. There is no reason this person should have been carrying a badge.
