It’s funny how you two want to qualify yourselves as judges, not on the basis of your own accomplishments, but on those of people you know or are related to.
I’d rather be a former police officer and a former marine who has actually served his country and community than a couch coach who wants to sit on their ass and criticize those who actually do the job.
Decent human beings will actually withhold judgment until all of the facts are in. Our police officers deserve it. Our military personnel deserve it. I don’t expect you or Charles H to understand that though as you’re obviously better at critiquing others that actually doing something useful yourselves.
Ok...its not sinking in. My judgement is meaningless - but he has already been suspended, and his boss has already stated that he violated procedure.
The Texas Dept of Safety has judged. Not me.
But on the subject of judging. This is where I think we fundamentally disagree. You have essentially said that the public cannot ‘judge’, since we have never been police officers. I have to tell you that the public most certainly have every right (and responsibility) to judge police conduct. To say otherwise is both informative and chilling. IOW, the police serve the public. Period.
BTW, this couch warrior doesn’t spout off about his time in the Army, but been there, done that.