Or find a way to give the partners of asshole cops the ability to stand up to them. From the story above, it seems that the arresting officer’s partner was not fully behind his actions and yet did not feel empowered, for whatever reason, to stop him.
mc
Well, he was black, for one. Same for the officer in disbelief who was taking her prints.
Even the officer’s superior, appears to have been frustrated at the officer’s actions, but NOTHING was done.
This is a SYSTEMIC problem, I don’t know how many times this has shown to be the case in this thread alone. The problem is not a few racist, incompetent, or thuggish cops, it’s a system that enables them. And unless we do something about THAT nothing will ever change.
Today we can focus on [an event in Jersey City, New Jersey (Video embedded on page; does not auto-play):
But, in any case, what did you expect? With him flailing around on fire like that, it certainly seemed like a good candidate for resisting arrest.
That’s my point.
mc
Beat first, ask questions later.
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Yes. Thank you. Sorry about that link, folks.
This happened right on a street I usually take home from work.
Apparently they broke all sorts of rules of conduct, you know, aside form kicking at an innocent man engulfed in flames. They are only allowed to pursue in specific cases (usually violent suspects of a serious crime) and this appears to not have been the case. Officers are supposed to assess risk and the ability of apprehending at a later point in time.
Police are NOT ALLOWED to fire their weapons at fleeing/moving vehicles for motherfucking obvious reasons, fucking shit heads could have killed someone, what if there had been a child in the car? Fucking asshats. These cops fired multiple times at the suspect’s vehicle as they were chasing it.
Road blocks are prohibited except where in otherwise lethal force would be justified. Yet police here did exactly this.
It seems like our Mayor is doing the right thing, coming out and saying these guys will be fired and there is a possibility for criminal charges.
I sure as hell hope so. This seems like poor training overall though. I hope they retrain officers.
In Missouri, two members of the Board of Probation and Parole literally played games during parole hearings.
Ruzicka is a former state representative. He is a member of the Green Party. Ha! Just foolin’! He’s a Republican. Didn’t see that coming, did you? I guess this could go in the SRIOTD too. Anyway I suppose it could have been worse. They could have shot at the prisoners’ feet and me them dance for their release.
That’s extremely fukt up.
[Houston, Texas: a sheriff’s deputy and her husband have been indicted for murder.
](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEADLY_FIGHT_TEXAS_TXOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-08-23-37-18)
The Houston Press and a couple other local media outlets have stories that include the video footage; it’s fairly upsetting, IMO. I’m curious why the several people who tried to stop the video recording haven’t been charged, but I suppose it might be hard to prove culpability in court.
It wasn’t a chokehold, it was a transportation assistance maneuver.
See, their plan was to get the guy urinating in public to put out the guy on fire.
Best of intentions and all that…
ETA: Those assholes that were standing in front of the camera, blocking it, should be charged with accessory and conspiracy to commit murder. they were more concerned about evidence being created than a man being killed.
Very nice on their part. I love the official reasoning for the selfie, too:
I guess good cops don’t mind civilians having records of their actions.
That totally fucking rocks!
I wanna buy those 2 cops a beer!
I want to give them a job training US cops. (Not that they would take it.)
[The jury in the Philip Castile shooting case asked to see two videos again while in deliberations today. They are scheduled to resume deliberations tomorrow.
](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CASTILE_SHOOTING_OFFICER_TRIAL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-13-20-14-18)I don’t understand how or why the judge denied the request; weren’t these brought up as evidence during the trial? Why would defense attorneys a) deny the request and b) have the ability to deny the request?
At a guess, because the defence can’t provide the context for those transcripts which could cast doubt on guilt.
You are saying that the defense would deny this request, because they may cast doubt on guilt? Isn’t that what the defense is supposed to do?
I don’t think you understood what Steophan said.
Regards,
Shodan