This is the problem with American Justice. What these cops did was far more evil and more injurious to society as a whole that then what they framed others for doing.
They should hang from tallest tree and their corpses should rot there.
Run all the sentences separately and consecutively. That should do it.
Life with no hope of parole or release, and then bury them in the prison yard - or leave them for the rats.
I am against vigilante justice, and against revenge, but that is because I believe that a properly functioning justice system is vastly preferable to vigilante justice system.
However, if someone subverts the justice system, and uses it to create injustice, then they have absolved themselves of deserving of justice themselves, IMHO.
As a citizen, breaking the law subjects you to the justice system, and while I would like to see a number of reforms made to it, that is probably much better than many alternatives.
However, as a member of the justice system, breaking the law breaks the justice system. You have decided that justice is not good enough for the citizens, so it cannot be good enough for you either.
I normally feel that the victims of a crime are those least able to determine a reasonable punishment for their aggressors, but for this, I say, we let the people wrongfully convicted decide what happens.
Another side of this is that the people who actually did what they were convicted for will be released because of his actions. If the only time he planted evidence was that one that was recorded (I don’t believe that), it still throws reasonable doubt on every case he’s ever touched. So Merry Christmas to everyone that pulled a get-out-of-jail-free card from this moron.
Any guesses as to the millions of dollars in settlements this is going to lead to?
In some states, wrongful incarceration gets you nothing for compensation and you can’t sue. In FL, if the person has a prior criminal history, all you get is released.
Maryland police raid wrong address, two officers shot by resident. Astonishingly, resident won’t be charged. Let’s hope he isn’t investigated by police.
Hopefully, but don’t be surprised if they try to “cook something up” in reprisal.
“We just happened to find drugs at the crime scene.”
Here’s a depressing case.
A police officer was chasing a suspect through back alleys and houses in Indianapolis. The officer sent his canine partner after the suspect. The canine went into a back yard, causing the dogs living at that address to start barking. The resident of the house, a pregnant woman, went out the back to see what was going on, and the police dog attacked her.
The resident filed a lawsuit against the city. The judgment (PDF) describes the outcome of the dog’s attack on the woman:
And from the ruling itself:
So, basically, because the dog mauled an innocent bystander in her own back yard, rather than the feeling suspect, and the officer’s intent was to send the dog after the fleeing suspect, the innocent bystander has her claims against the city dismissed.
And, summing up:
As the conclusion notes, this court relied on an earlier ruling by the 7th Circuit in a case (Bublitz) where the police laid spike strips to stop a fleeing car, and when the car ran over the strips it veered across the road and crashed into a minivan, killing a man and his son. In that case, too, the claims made by the family of the dead father and son were dismissed because they were collateral damage, and not the intended target.
I guess that when the police injure or kill you intentionally, you probably did something to deserve it; and when they injure or kill you when they were actually chasing someone else, you’re also out of luck.
A good piece of news: Man kills one officer and injures 4 other officers, but they managed to take him in alive.
Guess they didn’t fear this guy was a threat to their lives.
It should be. Try each incident as a separate case, and run the sentences sequentially. Ten years for this guilty. Five years for the next. Twenty for the one after that. Etc.
What the fuck is with Baltimore Cops???
Just posted a thread in GD - CPD officer Van Duke guilty of 2d degree (rather than 1st) for shooting Laquan McDonald 16x. Faces minimum of 6 years. Hopefully no riots will ensue.
Hey, it’s f@&$in’ Baltimore.
Amid massive public outcry, Tamir Rice’s killer won’t be a cop again after all—for now
Less than one week after former Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, killer of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, was offered a “second chance” and a new badge and gun in the southeast Ohio village of Bellaire, the disgraced cop has rescinded his own application.
In addition to a coordinated social media protest, Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, had planned to protest inside the town of about 4,100 in order to get the police chief, Dick Flanagan, to reconsider.
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Flanagan defended his choice to hire Loehmann alongside another troubled Ohio police officer, Eric Smith, who is currently under investigation by the state attorney general.
Bellaire Police Chief Richard “Dick” Flanagan confirmed Friday that he hired Loehmann and Smith. He said he believes both men deserve second chances.
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Samaria Rice summed up Loehmann’s lack of qualifications best.
“He is emotionally unstable and mentally unstable,” Rice said of Loehmann. “Anytime your mother has to come and get you off a gun range, you are a problem. I think that town and that police department are going to be in danger.”
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Why do people deserve second chances when their “mistake” ended up killing a human being, but we never even think to consider giving these second chances to anyone else.
We give second chances to people that rape and commit sexual assault too, not just murderers. Remember, these people are victims too. :rolleyes:
I suspect the reason that he was getting a “second chance” (actually a third chance as he had already been fired by another town before his hiring by Cleveland) is that damaged goods are cheap. These tiny police departments do not have a reputation for attracting talent. Ohio has way too many small local governments, and one of the consequences is that shitty cops can skate by for years by moving between jobs. (See this story from my area as an example. And then the followup demonstrating just how well his new job went.)
Wait, Police Chief was not a salaried position in that town? That does not seem right.