Posted on 03/06/2013 10:59:58 AM PST by Altariel
The address is on the far South Side. If you go to Google Maps and click Street View, all visible residents are black: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10640+S.+Prairie,+chicago,+il
The progressive states of Indiana and Texas empower their citizens to resist illegal acts by law enforcement and to do so with lethal force.
Illinois obviously could benefit from such a law to help keep their thugs-with-badges in check.
The officers have immunity. Not jack is what’s going to happen to them. Nothing ever does.
Indeed.
BECOMING? Where have you been?
Where the heck are the editors these days?
Well, Sheriff Andy and Deputy Fife haven’t militarized yet.
Eventually, the tide will change; people are more vocal about this sort of abuse than they have been in years back.
The thugs simply haven’t figured that out yet.
And I speak as someone who has and celebrated 23 years clean and sober last month. I agree with you opinion. The end result of protecting people from their folly is a world full of fools.
Nicely put!
It is perhaps relevant that this story is not reporting facts.
It is reporting claims in a lawsuit by people who have been coached by attorneys. And we all know attorneys and their clients are always entirely truthful.
Do I believe this could have happened exactly as claimed? Sure, and I also believe it could be greatly exaggerated or even invented completely.
There is no way to form an opinion just from this story.
Well, one fact seams certain. They raided the wrong house.
You are correct. The lawyers and family will spin this any way that will benefit them. Potentially, there could be a lot of money on the line.
But these days I have doubts about taking the word of the cops. Unless they have non-cop corroborating witnesses or video and recordings, I wouldn’t believe darn thing they say.
At least they didn’t shoot any dogs or stomp any cats.
I don’t believe the cops always tell the truth either. Way too much “us against them” there for me. The isolation of cops from the general populace is a really bad thing for both groups.
But I don’t think we should accept the claims of a plaintiff in lawsuit as the complete truth either.
I have to wonder why good cops tolerate the bad ones and the stupid ones (can’t tell what floor the warrant is supposed to be served on? C’mon. Even Chicago cops can’t be that illiterate.). Do they have any idea how much of their credibility is being compromised here?
It’s the whole notion of closing ranks to protect your “brothers.”
A feelings that is absolutely essential to men doing dangerous work, BTW, but one that seems to be getting increasingly out of hand, IMO.
I am in a line of work where there are crooks, as in most lines of work, and I am more offended by them and want to see them punished than the average person is. They make me and the other good guys look bad. I have no idea why so many cops don’t seem to feel the same way about bad cops.
In an early scene of the excellent movie The Big Easy Dennis Quade explains that it’s very simple on the street, it’s the good guys versus the bad guys.
Of course the rest of the movie demonstrates conclusively that good guys can very easily morph into bad guys, sometimes without even fully realizing what they are doing.
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