Wow. Much better illustration of context.
I’m torn between being happy that they were stupid enough to not only video their assault, kidnapping and murder, but to then release it thinking it was exonerating, and the fact that that stupidity is part of the reason that they are racist fucks who murder black men for no reason.
From the Wikipedia quote a few posts above:
The rule may be even more all-inclusive than that. It’s not even necessary, apparently, that the offender kills someone. It may suffice that somebody somehow dies in the commission of a felony, then every accomplice can be charged with Felony Murder.
I recall a case from some time ago: A bank robber robbed a bank, and while trying to make his getaway, got shot dead by the police. (I don’t know if he fired first or any other details.) Note that the offender didn’t kill anybody. The police killed him. So the police went to the offender’s home and arrested his wife on Felony Murder charges, claiming that she had conspired with him to help plan the robbery. (I never saw any follow-up as to how that case turned out.)
And Noor was:
- black
- not well liked by fellow officers. (He was hired as part of a program to increase racial diversity in the police force; not through the normal hiring/training process.)
In the Breonna Taylor case, the prosecution says that it’s dropping the charges against her boyfriend.
We’ve talked quite a bit about civil asset forfeiture in some of the cases in this thread, and about how it often allows law enforcement to take property even in the absence of a conviction.
This week, the Arizona House of Representatives voted on SB1556, a bill that would require a criminal conviction before any attempt to take a person’s property through the process of civil asset forfeiture. The text of the bill can be read here (pdf), and the section of the bill directly relevant to forfeiture, section 13-4304, can be found starting on page 18.
The red deletions and the blue all-caps show what has been deleted from, and added to, the previous version of the statute. You can read more on the linked document if you want to see the other provisions of the bill.
While the State Senate passed the bill unanimously, the House of Representative voted it down last Thursday, with EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT voting against the changes. You can see the results here, if you’re interested.
Why did they vote against it? This article from the Arizona Capitol Times gives some information. Basically, the Democrats argued pretty much the same thing that all defenders of civil asset forfeiture have been arguing for decades:
Basically, “We know this deprives people of their rights, but we really need the money.”
There’s nothing new regarding this dirty cop’s trial; he’s under home confinement on bond, waiting for his trial.
I just wanted to note that prosecutors in Houston, back in February, dismissed 73 cases in which this cop was the only witness to alleged drug activity. And they are now moving to dismiss another 91 cases where he wrote affidavits that were used to obtain search warrants that led to drug arrests.
This quote from the newspaper article is particularly depressing:
Police kill another unarmed African-American in Minneapolis. I guess “not breathing” is the same thing as “subdued”.
I don’t know, this doesn’t seem very controversial to me – they straight-up killed that guy. Can someone ping one of the local cop-defenders so I can get my eyes opened about how a guy in cuffs on the ground has to have a knee in his neck?
Forgery??
Since the article twice references “Cup Foods” which I assume should be “Cub Foods” (a grocery chain), I’m hoping that is another example of how crappy the reporting is.
Forgery in progress.
“OK MOTHERFUCKER,DROP THE PALETTE, BRUSH, AND CADMIUM YELLOW.”
Cup Foods is a take out chain in Minneapolis-this took me 7 seconds of Googling to find out. At least put a little effort into it. :rolleyes:
I did put a little effort into it (relying on my memory of Twin Cities retail establishments and assuming the worst of coastal based reporter not familiar with an area). Obviously not enough, though.
FTR, I assumed that it was a typo for Cub Foods as well.
What I want to know is why were the cops only fired and not charged with any crime?
No, it’s CUP Foods. A tiny little storefront on 38th Street in South Minneapolis. (Kinda known as a druggie hangout in the neighborhood.)
Years ago, CUB Foods (SuperValu) considered suing then for copying the name, but decided that while they would probably win the lawsuit, it would just give that store more publicity.
Because the cause of death seems to be a drug overdose, not something that was caused by the cop.
That’s gonna need a fucking cite.
No prosecutor is going to charge a (former) PO with murder until that prosecutor is close to 100% sure of conviction (and even then sometimes they still won’t). I really hope the former cop will be charged, but it really is unreasonable to expect charges to happen this quickly.
Yeah, that system isn’t fucked up at all.
Cite?
If that’s true can’t the cop be charged with something less than murder?