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HOME INVASION ROBBERY and FIRST DEGREE MURDER, With Special Circumstances of Using a Firearm during the Commission of a Violent Felony.
THEY ALL DESERVE LIFE IN PRISON!
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While I couldn’t agree more with you about the wrongness of what happened, all the cops who participated must share some of the guilt, but, there was only one cop who shot his gun at the guy apparently.
He should have to go to prison for a long time, what he did was evil and there was no excuse for it. I feel sorry for the stupid cop but examples need to be set or others will do the same thing.
I agree that if there was no written policy on how to handle the situation then the chief should suffer severe punishment along with the city that hired him.
This should never happen in America. The man was a war hero who was treated like a low down common criminal, actually worse. Criminals get to go in and out of prison this guy is dead and his poor wife a widow.
I fear what will happen instead is that since the old man had a gun the cop will get off with NO PUNISHMENT. Mind you guns are legal. He probably had a newspaper and a church baptism certificate too. He has just as much right to have the gun as the newspaper and baptism certificate. Someone needs to pay!
I understand, but under the FELONY MURDER RULE in California,
EVERY LAST PERSON INVOLVED is Just as Guilty of FIRST DEGREE MURDER, from the Dispatcher to the Chief. Now it might be a stretch to include those 2, but THE LAW does not make that distinction, it clearly states “ALL PARTIES” which would include EVERY PERSON that had any involvement of ANY KIND, regardless of how minor or incidental.
If your neighbor asks you to drive him to the store and he just happens to shoot and kill the clerk, the State will arrest YOU and try YOU for first degree murder with special circumstance, the use of a gun in the commission of a crime.
For those of you in Rio Linda "special circumstance" means you are quite eligible for the death penalty.
The State doesn't care that you had no foreknowledge, and odds are good this isn't the trigger happy cop's first excessive use of force rodeo, and equally good his colleagues thin blue line covered for him (read that as 'they flat-out lied').
When good cops shield bad cops they become bad cops themselves, sooner or later.
What about the poor soul that was killed. His wife is now a widow and old in age with no one to take care of her. And she will probably have to sell the house, because it will probably be too hard emotionally for her to live where her husband had his life unnecessarily taken. That is where my sympathies lie. But each to his own.