Hmmmm - previously fired from a police force, for unsatisfactory performance.
Is that some sort of trend now? It seems to have happened before …
Hmmmmm…
But Barney Fife wasn’t a killer.
One for the Good Guys
The journalist will be allowed to retain his integrity:
http://wgntv.com/2017/12/13/reporter-jamie-kalven-wont-have-to-testify-in-jason-van-dyke-trial/
Cops in Grand Rapids, MI were out looking for a suspect in a homicide. The person they were looking for is a 40 year old white woman. Somehow, while canvassing the neighborhood, the cops end up drawing their guns and cuffing an 11 year old black girl. She was, apparently, coming toward them too fast. She was walking toward them backwards, with her hands up, as they had ordered. I guess they were concerned about the threat posed to them by the 11 year old girl. AFAICT neither the 11 year old girl nor her mom were suspected of a crime. I don’t know what happened prior to the start of the video that may have caused the two armed, trained police officers to regard the 11 year old girl as a threat.
Yes, the city of Chicago has spent well over a half of a BILLION dollars settling police misconduct cases in the last dozen or so years.
“Approving police misconduct cases has become a familiar chore for Chicago’s leaders and the city has spent more than $660 million since 2004 on settling the cases.”
ETA: Source is the local Fox affiliate, NOT Faux Cable Bullshit
You got a cite? I ask because:
“McCoy noted that this has more to do with income than race. The felony rates for poor whites are similar to those of poor blacks.”
Yeah but that’s because they took away all his bullets except one that he kept in his shirt pocket.
It’s in my post.
:shrugs:
Shodan’s Law - if they didn’t read it the first time, they won’t read it the second time either.
Regards,
Shodan
The initial events happened a long time ago, but the effects are still being felt today: I Was Tortured By The Chicago PD: This Is What I Saw
Craziness in DC from year ago starting to reverberate in courtrooms.
But that’s not all!
Regarding horrific Mesa, AZ Daniel Shaver hotel shooting + acquittal, I am trying to wrap my ahead around the jury’s decision and I just can’t, except that once again lawyers and a judge focused on 1) How we MUST understand and follow the instructions of law enforcement officers literally and quickly no matter what the circumstances; and 2) If officers feel threatened- even if the threat is imaginary (they assumed a gun was in his back pocket and he was going to draw and actually hit them), killing is justified.
I guess society would collapse, according to the courts, if officers have to take things into context, wait to actually see a weapon, or try to deescalate situations.
Daniel was clearly trying to comply and was probably slow due to being drunk, but all the shouting and having guns pointed at him made him more nervous. He failed at playing Simon Says under stressful circumstances.
It’s a cop power trip. I used to watch baseball back in the day, and some umpires would be jerks just to get a guy ejected, while others let them blow off steam, and after the games they would drink beers together.
The video in this case demonstrated- if you do not follow instructions about left foot, right foot, kneeling, fingers interlacing, arms down, arms up, and crawling- to the tee, they will shoot you.
Philip Brailsford may have been the killer, and by all his other incidents is horrible person, but it is Sgt. Charles Langley’s voice that intimidates, threatens, and makes nervous Daniel.
Langley (now retired and living like a king in the Philippines) should have been brought up on charges too.
Brailsford and Langley are the real criminals here, closer to Stephen Paddock than some unlucky drunk dude in a hotel.
More from the clusterfuck that is the Baltimore Police Department.
And the consequences keep building:
Alabama cops beat the shit out of a 17 year old.
They claim he had a gun, but they dropped all charges against him. I wonder why.
Hey, he reached for his waistband like he was trying to grab a weapon! I can’t think of anything more dangerous.
Except maybe the cops actually SEEING a weapon
Isn’t this a good sign that times may be changing ? Usually this kind of situation have ended the kid having dozen or more bullets in his body.
( Also AtomicDog; there’s a typo in your sig line 
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If they’re even being honest about that much. We’ll see (eventually) whether or not body camera video exists – and if so, if it upholds the officers’ version of events.
Something’s gotta give somewhere. “Reaching for the waistband” is becoming the new “I was in fear for my life”. Police officers, as I understand it, are taught that once they actually see and visually confirm the weapon in the hands of the perpetrator, it’s too late to defend themselves. So, I don’t know where that goes in the future.
Yeah, I think that training standard is a bunch of crap.
Well shoot, you hid the cite under the word “cite” How the hell was I supposed to figure THAT out.
Yes black culture is more violent for all sorts of historical reasons and toxic cultures have a way of perpetuating themselves. But the high correlation between poverty rates and getting shot by police is hard to ignore.
Hunh, I expected the kid to be white.
Then I saw he was a baseball fan which is almost the same thing. Not to derail the thread but when did baseball become so white? I go to basketball and football games and there is some diversity in the crowd. I got o a baseball game where the tickets are much cheaper and its like the cast and crew of braveheart.
How so? "Keep your hands where I can see them"seems like a reasonable request. Shooting someone who is facedown on his belly seems less reasonable.