Posted on 08/01/2010 5:41:28 PM PDT by driftdiver
Late one night in October, a 17-year-old on a bike was chased by a police officer in a cruiser. When the boy refused to stop, the officer aimed his Taser out the driver's window and fired. The boy fell off the bike and the cruiser ran over him, killing him.
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“Cops. Some of them are really stupid.”
Yes, but they all have guns.
Seems a bit of an understatement for manslaughter.
ML/NJ
Some people shouldn’t be cops.....
You are absolutely right. And what the Police and the Law and Order Conservatives fail to see is the very system they are cheering on is the very system that is pushing the country towards that fork in the road. One day the country is going to wake up and few if any of its citizens will trust the police.
It will be a sad day but its one we are fast approaching and just like the liberals who stick their head in the sand to avoid certain issues. The conservatives are guilty of sticking their head in the sand and avoiding this 8000 pound neon blue in the room.
Ding-ding. We have a winner!
The safest answer I could come up with....
At the request of the St. Petersburg Times, nationally known use-of-force expert Dave Klinger, who is a retired Los Angeles police officer and now a senior research scientist at the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C., reviewed documents and videos related to the case.
It didn’t make sense to fire a Taser at Victor on the bike, said Klinger, because of the likelihood he would get hurt. Furthermore, he said, Victor was not a suspect in a serious crime.
“You don’t Taser people in circumstances that increase the likelihood of injury unless they’re a suspect for something like rape or murder,” said Klinger.
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I usually back the cops but this case stinks to high heaven!
From the article it would appear that the officer had NO reason to believe the kid was armed — let alone dangerous.
Sounds like grounds for a wrongful death suit.
Unfortunately, a lawsuit won’t bring this kid back.
STE=Q
I don’t know what a law and order conservative is, but when society reaches a point when citizens won’t answer their doors for police, pull over for police, or are scared of who we should trust, we are heading down somewhere we don’t want to go.
“Interesting, that the gun was wiped clean. How did the kid put it in his pocket? Maybe he was a neatness freak?”
Source? I’m still looking for “the rest of the story”.
Very suspicious. God sees all.
The cop should have been polygraph.
You neanderthal! You insensitive twit!
You actually want to know the circumstances and facts before running off at the mouth in neurotic indignation?
Dude, that cop tasered a kid on a bike.
And then ran him over with a cop car.
And then planted a gun on his dead body.
And then got his cop buddies to look the other way.
And then found a judge to let him literally get away with murder.
Those are the only “circumstances and facts” one needs to know to form an opinion in this matter.
Badge = license to kill.
Or you could watch the video and listen to the commentary. But no its more fun to run off half cocked.
“You actually want to know the circumstances and facts before running off at the mouth in neurotic indignation? “
So is it ok for us to be indignant at the tazoring and the running over part? Why exactly did the cop who did the running over climb under the car with a silver object and then come out without the silver object?
What part of the police manual says he should do that?
Thanks DD. On that note, I’m going to watch Bobby Bowden do a cameo on “Glades” at 10:00. Hold the fort ;o)
You made five wild incendiary statementements without a scintilla of evidence or references of any kind. If you know something the rest of us don't, by all means, inform and educate us.
Locally, last week a kid in a stolen car was shot and killed after running into numerous cars, a house, a long chase through an urban area, collided with police cars and was in the process of attempting to run over the police when he was shot and killed.
The family sounded pretty much like the people on this thread -- hysterical -- demonstrations, gnashing of teeth, demands for hearings and firing and demonstrations, the whole usual enchilada.
The cop changed his story on why the pursuit began months later after confronted with evidence to the contrary.
Just amazes me that people will pick out the smallest item to discredit someone while ignoring the 800lb gorilla.
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