Posted on 07/20/2017 11:21:30 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
OK. Unfortunately, when it comes to young black men, cops are indeed wary and may occasionally make very bad judgment calls. In this case, though, who would blow away a blond woman? She’s not from the class of people who truly prey on our cops.
I’ll believe it was jihadi terrorism until some hard and clear facts prove otherwise. You’re not alone in your thoughts.
Exactly. Had a similar situation...my mind worked that way too.
That sounds great - until you understand that a lot of cops mostly deal with those who have no problem telling flat-out lies. Hence the derogatory 'dindunuffin'.
Sometimes it's a need for revenge. That truck with the women were driving away down the street when the cops opened fire, riddling the back and rear windows with holes. Oops, not the bad guy but two innocent women in the truck.
Long ago, a brother-in-law told me about when he and a bunch of other cops were looking for a suspect, spotted the car, stopped it, dragged out the driver and started a beatdown. Then the radio announced the perp was caught elsewhere. Oops. Nowadays cops don't get away with this stuff.
And yet somehow the overwhelming majority of police officers manage to do a difficult and dangerous job day after day without shooting people who posed no threat to them. Wonder how they manage that? </sarcasm>
And what result is that?
Millions of dollars of taxpayer money paid out as settlements to the victim’s family. Any sane person supports law and order, though they have to figure out how to decouple taxpayer dollars from being used as an ATM by the legal system every time they f&$k up. There needs to be a direct feedback mechanism. Take it out of their pension fund.
At least one might think they would be a little more circumspect about whom they hire? Just thinking outloud. The cops deserve our support - guess who the mob is going after, once the police has been eliminated - but I don’t see why my property taxes have to go to pay for these knuckleheads that shouldn’t be on the force in the first place.
Wrong,wrong,WRONG! First,what are the chances that these lawyers would believe for a minute that this was jihad? Remember,99% of this nation's "personal injury" lawyers are Rats.
Second,even if these lawyers were open to the possibility of jihad they'd be stupid to explore it because doing so would surely lessen (perhaps dramatically) the amount their clients got.
If jihad is investigated it will be by the DoJ...not the press,not the Rats,not the lawyers.
No indictment on the grounds that the officer feared for his safety and that of his partner. Works every time.
Millions of dollars of taxpayer money paid out as settlements to the victim’s family. Any sane person supports law and order, though they have to figure out how to decouple taxpayer dollars from being used as an ATM by the legal system every time they f&$k up. There needs to be a direct feedback mechanism. Take it out of their pension fund.
The problem is that when they f&$k up then someone dies. The responsibility has to lie with the city who should not have put the officer on the street to begin with.
At least one might think they would be a little more circumspect about whom they hire? Just thinking outloud. The cops deserve our support - guess who the mob is going after, once the police has been eliminated - but I don’t see why my property taxes have to go to pay for these knuckleheads that shouldn’t be on the force in the first place.
I don't think anyone begrudges the police all our support when they deserve it. When they don't they need to pay the same price for killing someone that you or I would.
I expect Bennett chased down the family and told them he had experience in a similar case.
I have noticed that there seems to be no one asking about any statements his partner might have made. Yes, the killer in this case does have the right to remain silent to protect himself, but his partner does not.
I suspect you are right. Of course if your average citizen were to just kill some random unarmed person because they made a "furtive movement" or just because they were scared of the dark, we'd not get the same consideration. The king can kill his subjects any time he so pleases.
Mussie scum with a badge and a gun.....what could go wrong?
You’re probably right.
Seems as if the cop panicked.
It reminds me of the time in LA when there was a crazy cop killer on the loose and a bunch of police got so scared they thought women delivering the paper in a truck were the guy and they opened up fire on the truck.
It was pure fear and panic.
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I think you’re right in both cases. The cops in LA were really scared, which I think was a management failure. Now to find out why Noor was so scared. He should have known an ambush would be very unlikely in that location.
Actually, they’re very similar cases. In both cases a human being was senselessly murdered by someone who thought he could get away with it because he had a badge.
However, in the Castile case, there is also a Second Amendment issue not present in the more recent one.
Have to confess I’m astonished any person here would ever imply that possession of a legal firearm by a CCW holder in any way justifies his street execution.
It will be real interesting to find out if both shooters were sterling graduates of the same POST academy.
Wow! You sound like a defeatist type of person. I wouldn’t want to have you in my corner — I don’t hang with people who are ready to surrender before they begin. But I see your point and hope that their attorneys are made of sterner & more perceptive stuff.
Your response gave me a good chuckle.You clearly haven't had many encounters with lawyers.Come back and talk to me once you come to understand that all the lawyer jokes you've heard are really serious analysis.
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