Police claim Casey Goodson was driving down the street waving a gun (which he had a license to carry), confronted him as he was unlocking his front door and shot him three times in the back as he refused to drop his sandwich weapon. The suspect later died at the hospital.
We know the police account of the incident is wholly accurate because there are no witnesses or bodycam footage, and the police never lie.
Man drives his car into two sheriff’s deputies. Man says was in fear for his life. I guess the deputies had no such fear, as neither tried to fire their weapons.
Which is odd, right. We have seen cops fire at cars for far less than this, right?
In cases of malfeasance, I’ve always thought it would be just for the prosecutor to serve the sentence that they falsely tried to foist on someone else.
There’s been quite a lot of talk over the past year or so about qualified immunity for government employees like police, but I think that one of the real problems in our justice system is the almost absolute immunity enjoyed by prosecutors. They can do just about anything to get a conviction. If their misconduct gets found out, the conviction might be overturned, but they still can’t be sued.
From the article, “The 23-year-old suspect police were looking for actually lived in the unit next door to Young at the time of the raid and had no connection to her.” You think maybe he skedaddled while they made a very loud raid next door? Or at least got rid of the weapons he wasn’t supposed to have?
I was a bit perplexed by the video. They showed the team breaking down the door with a battering ram. Not her door, the security door. How fucking lazy and incompetent are they that they cannot be arsed to find out who the building manager is and buzz him to let them in? Is the whole show-of-force thing so vital that they have to fucking inconvenience everyone who lives in the building?
