Posted on 06/07/2017 5:01:02 PM PDT by SMGFan
Hours after a video surfaced of police officers kicking and dragging the victim of a fiery car crash, city officials said they are looking to terminate the cops involved.
The video, obtained by Univision and shared with The Jersey Journal, shows a man emerge from a burning car on Tonnelle Avenue covered in flames. The man appears to have extinguished the fire himself and is then kicked in the head and neck area by a police officer.
After The Jersey Journal published the video Wednesday afternoon, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said it "believe(s) with certainty that this man is the bystander from West New York who suffered burns."
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Jersey City demands cops return new SUVs after police chase
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2017/06/jersey_city_demands_cops_retur.html#incart_river_index
I don’t care whether he was the runner or not, the officers involved were WAY out of line. The police should be held to a high standard of behaviour, and when they fall below said standard, they should be fired and prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law.
You or I make a minor mistake and the full weight of the law comes down upon us. Why should the police be treated any differently? They are not special, they are merely fellow citizens entrusted with the enforcement of the law.
It’s like when I hear them refer to us as “civilians”: SO ARE THEY! Unless they are military police, they too are civilians/citizens.
I don’t know when this whole “us vs them” thing started with the police, but it has been nothing but trouble for everyone involved.
Remember the old rule if you find yourself on fire...
“Stop, dropkick, and roll.”
Having lived for a year or so in that area of North Jersey, I would say that cops kicking the hell out of the burning victim of a car fire tells me that things haven’t changed too much since the late ‘70s.
I grew up in Newark and, yeah
Maybe they were stomping out the fire on him - that’s what their union defense lawyer would submit.
North Jersey?
Yeah, not surprised.
With your plan, cops will easily get 1/2 $million per year because the rest will retire and then come back for that high salary. I mean, at what salary would they work under harsh penalties. Of course it would be a look and take a report police action.
You didn’t answer the original question, which was: Why are the police not held to the SAME (let alone a higher) standard as everyone else? If you or I did what these police officers did, we WOULD be jailed as soon as we were identified and caught.
Why is it OK for the police to LIE to the public, yet if you or I misspeak even accidentally, we can be charged with obstruction?
ONE law for ALL is one of the pillars of Western Civilization! Having ANY group excepted from the law means there is no law at all.
Hey it works for them, so who am I to judge?
We've got fifty beautiful states, so if you don't like one, you go find another, right?
I'm surprised and amazed by how many people don't get this.
No problem with what you say, just very expensive.
Oh that's right he had to film it ;-/
Ed
They’ve changed a lot; we’ve had “de-policing” since our governor (Whitman) posed with a black perp spread against a police car years ago. Rather than lose their badges, pensions, and freedom, most cops simply “observe and report”.
I don’t know what triggered this chase, but it is no longer the norm. Crime is, but the police response is not.
Let me see: What would happen to either one of us if we “interfered with a police investigation”, hmmm?
I see a beat-down, cuffs and a holding cell in the immediate future for anyone brave/dumb enough to get involved with the gang with badges when they are “occupied with the detention of a possible felon”. (That is how they would phrase it in the arrest report.)
That they are out of control is beside the point. According to them, anyway...
Ed
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