Loach , have you ever had someone take your gun?
Dang, was really hoping that Loach would get back to us on how often “often” is.
Ah well, the Police Death Forces keep on keeping on:[
Officials in Washington say the Potomac Avenue Metro station is open again after transit police fatally shot a man while responding to a call about an “unauthorized person” on the tracks in a subway tunnel.
Metro Transit Police spokesman Mike Tolbert said the Potomac Avenue station reopened Friday morning, hours after the shooting. Tolbert said he had no details about the man, what he was doing in the tunnel or what prompted police to shoot him. He said no officers were injured.
](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d7af5d6a490a4dc3ae9a069aebd20d5b/police-fatally-shoot-man-found-subway-tunnel-tracks-dc )
Smapti
March 13, 2015, 1:49pm
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Well, the story as-is contains absolutely no details about who the man was, what he was doing, or why he was shot, but one thing we can be absolutely certain of is that the police must have been in the wrong. Right?
Smapti:
Well, the story as-is contains absolutely no details about who the man was, what he was doing, or why he was shot, but one thing we can be absolutely certain of is that the police must have been in the wrong. Right?
Given that it’s now 19 hours after the shooting, and police still don’t have an explanation for it, it strongly suggests that they’re having a hard time coming up with one that doesn’t make them look bad.
Semi-related, several Tennessee State Cops have stepped semi-forward to expose a DUI quota system in the highway patrol. Pressure to produce has led troopers into urban areas, which is kind of not really where they are supposed to be patrolling.
I mean, I can sort of see quotas for ticketing, but DUIs are pretty serious and can be life-changing-costly. I do want drunks off the road, but this just seems excessive.
Smapti:
Well, the story as-is contains absolutely no details about who the man was, what he was doing, or why he was shot, but one thing we can be absolutely certain of is that the police must have been in the wrong. Right?
No, what we can be sure of is that the lack of details makes this a controversial shooting.
Do you just have to be a close-minded reactionary authoritarian asshole when the subject is the police? WTF?
Snowboarder_Bo:
No, what we can be sure of is that the lack of details makes this a controversial shooting.
Do you just have to be a close-minded reactionary authoritarian asshole when the subject is the police? WTF?
He’s Smapti. it’s his thing. shrug
eschereal the seriously twisted:
Semi-related, several Tennessee State Cops have stepped semi-forward to expose a DUI quota system in the highway patrol. Pressure to produce has led troopers into urban areas, which is kind of not really where they are supposed to be patrolling.
I mean, I can sort of see quotas for ticketing, but DUIs are pretty serious and can be life-changing-costly. I do want drunks off the road, but this just seems excessive.
Next thing you know cops will actually focus more on high crime areas to catch criminals…
The inhumanity.
They can’t do that, because racism.
Thinking Wikipedia reflects an actual unbiased view of anything … dumb.
Right, but I resent that my tax money is paying for a Wiki troll. Or any troll.
mhendo
March 16, 2015, 7:29am
1058
In liberal hippie enclave San Francisco, the cops are probably sensitive to issues of racial diversity, right ?
In one exchange with an unnamed officer in May 2012, Furimnger asked whether he should be worried that the black husband of one of his then-wife’s friends had come over to his home.
The officer responded, “Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its (sic) not against the law to put an animal down.”
“Well said!” Furminger replied, according to the prosecutors’ court filing. “You may have to kill the half-breeds too,’’ the unnamed officer replied, adding: “Don’t worry. Their (sic) an abomination of nature anyway.”
“All n— must f— hang,” another unidentified officer texted to Furminger in an unrelated exchange. In another, one of the officers texted “White power” to Furminger, who himself repeats the phrase to another officer in a text.
Furminger gave his own address in a text to a civilian along with the description: “White power family.”
Nice!
Well, sure, taken out of context…
And all that is clearly a sign of the failure of liberal policies.