If I can be charged with a crime that was done by accident so should the police. Two sets of laws are not acceptable.
Well cmon, just because he threw it in the babies playpen doesn’t mean he should be responsible.
First off, I am not defending the cop here.
However, I would like to point out that my friends father admitted to the family shortly before his passing that he mistook an American patrol for enemy combatants on one of the islands during WWII and open fired, killing a brother marine and wounding another. It was termed "the fog of war" and he lived with that guilt his entire life, but was never charged as a crime. I bet this cop is torn up inside and will never forgive himself for doing this after seeing that baby in a pool of blood, but I think that the higher ups who expected him to do what he did and made it their SOP is really who should be held accountable.
Now granted in small town America it's not a war zone, but in places like Detroit and Chicago it sure as hell isn't like it was a while ago either.
30 years ago I was going to be a reserve police officer, my parents talked me out of it because it would conflict with our business. Now I wouldn't be a cop and have to deal with the kind of people you have to day in and day out for all the tea in China.
This is so true yet they really are above the law themselves. This has been proven time and again lately:(