The arrests have been made after Harris county deputy has been shot in the head in what appears to be racially motivated crime.
Where are you getting that it was a racially motivated crime? Nothing in that linked article even hints that race was a factor; in fact, the article doesn’t even list anyone’s race (although there is a picture of the two people arrested).
Also: what, in your opinion, is at all controversial about this case you’ve brought to our attention?
Look at the join date: it’s today.
Trolling, pure and simple. Just let it go.
The victim is a white police officer, the suspects are African-Americans.
The lack of nation-wide media coverage of the apparent hate crime we’re dealing with here.
- The fact that the victim and shooter are of different races doesn’t inherently make it a hate crime
- It’s far more likely that the victim was shot because he was a cop than because of the color of his skin
- Obviously there’s media coverage of it, because
3.1) Otherwise you wouldn’t know it happened
3.2) You posted a link to media coverage of it - If you don’t think it’s getting enough attention, go and protest or something
Oddly written story.
“…he was last listed in unsatisfactory condition. …”
Well I would hope so. I mean, I don’t hope so, you know, but I mean, he was shot, you know.
“He is now in Russell County Jail as a fugitive from justice, according to a jail official.”
Such good writing.
Resolution of a encounter that has been discussed previously in this thread:
A former volunteer deputy sheriff in Tulsa, Oklahoma was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for shooting an unarmed suspect after he had been taken into custody. Robert Bates, now 74 years old, said he mistakenly shot and killed Eric Harris in April 2015 during an illegal gun sales sting when he mistakenly drew and fired his handgun, which he thought was his stun gun. Cite
Had he been an actual police officer, nothing would have happened to him.
Sadly.
Last October, a man whose car had broken down in the middle of the night in Florida was killed by a police officer while waiting for roadside assistance. Seven months later, the officer has been charged by Florida prosecutors with manslaughter by culpable negligence and attempted first degree murder. According to Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, a grand jury found that the officer’s use of deadly force was unjustified.
Maybe one of the law-talking guys can explain the ‘attempted’ part.
Does “law enforcement” in thread subject include judges? What about the Santa Clara County judge who gave a rapist only a short jail sentence because a prison term might have a “severe impact” on the white middle-class young man?
I guess overcrowding in prisons means we need to give white-skinned rapists short sentences to save room for black thugs who sell cigarettes, or fail to signal turns.
While I’m here, let me plug Michael Moore’s latest movie. The comparison of the Land of the Free™ with civilized countries should be shameful to Americans.
What are you talking? Affluenza. It’s a thing now. Worked like a champ the last time they tried it.
It looks to me like it was the jury who decided, not the judge.
Regards,
Shodan
Dashcam footage of cop tasing, dragging, and dropping teen is unsealed. “Graphic footage of the 2014 abuse of a 17-year-old by a suburban Kansas City, Missouri, police officer. Officer Timothy Runnels received four years in prison after the incident was captured on the officer’s dashcam.”
There was a linkin the comments that had a great write-up of the events.
From that story I learned that “on October 12, 2009, Taser International, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based maker of conducted electrical weapons, released a training bulletin suggesting that officers should avoid shooting suspects in the chest whenever possible.” It’s been known for years that Tasers kill. Also, dropping people on their face doesn’t help either.
Can’t believe that cop only got 4 years.
Anyone who’s a regular reader of this thread is probably already familiar with civil forfeiture and the gross abuses it’s enabled. You regularly hear stories of people being pulled over and having any cash they have on them confiscated without ever being charged with a crime and, conveniently, the districts where this happens the most are the ones where the police get to keep any money they seize.
Well, the Oklahoma Police, not being content with mere cash anymore, are rolling out a system where they can also seize the money on your debit cards. Not only that, the deal with the systems provider is that the state kicks back to them 7.7% of any money seized.
Civil forfeiture has always been one of the most nakedly corrupt parts of the justice system and the brazenness of how it’s being extended over time is shocking and deeply depressing.
Meaning being OTW and having too nice of a car?