Posted on 05/13/2007 2:09:20 AM PDT by billorites
It was Carl Drega. Up in Columbia. Just below Colebrook.
From the article mentioned in # 13.
The feeder street outside my subdivision is 45 mph and has a blind corner. Pull out and somebody doing 60+ flys around the corner and starts hitting the horn and flashing lights as they start riding your bumper.
I think the dead scumbag had a number of problems, all cured now but at the terrible loss of a LEO. To shoot a cop and then run over him. I don’t care what the provocation, that’s just wrong.
He’s the offspring of hippy parents and fits the image. I doubt if he has a lot of money. And his image was tarnished (rightfully so) after the ‘06 Olympics.
I’m sure Floyd was trying to make a citizens arrest.
“I live on a 25 mph street and people routinely flash through doing 45 mph.”
Speed bumps.
When I lived in Rochester,NY you could call the city and request they install speed bumps on your street. It only took a few residents asking to get the city to install them.
Pulling people over for small traffic violations sometime leads to bigger crimes, but then you may know about that.
Drive by character assasination...how quaint, and predictable. Intimating that I would escalate the situation if I were to be pulled over 'cause I'm a criminal at heart?
Do you think we did not watch him?
Oh, I'm sure we did.
Now Phil I bet if some guy told you he had no problem killing you, you would demand the cops protect you, or would you kill him first?
Now, tiger-1, you're coloring the picture. I would have no problem killing you, or anyone else, if they were in the act of harming myself or others and I was in a position to stop it. I would expect that someone else in the same position would put me down. So see, I've got no problem with someone saying they had no problem killing me. A cop would say such a thing, wouldn't they? "I have no problem killing "whomever" if I caught them in the act of a crime endangering myself or others."
Would you like to "kill me" right now for being such a smartass (in your perceptions, of course)?
However, if you, or someone else, were to say straight out that they were going to kill me (see how the words shift the emphasis in how they're said) then that's another story.
As to police protection, you should be the first person to know that the proper course of events would be to put a restraining order out on the person making such a threat, not go out and kill them first. I would, however, take all precautions I thought necessary to protect myself from that person including arming myself, 'cause cops have no duty to protect me, that duty is mine! (or do I need to show you the court cases where that is shown?)
Could you be any more obtuse and condescending?
Nothing like getting the whole story, is there?
Pat Grossmith needs to find a new line of work, either that or sober up and put down the bong before attempting to keyboard.
Yeah, it's no model of clarity.
Pat Grossmith, there are a lot of unemployed ink-stained wretches wandering around out there today. Better get your A-Game on.
You have that right. Was Cpl McKay following department policy in the stop? Pulling in front of the suspect's car, backing into the car and pushing it off of the road? Pepper spraying the occupants and then walking away? Not wearing a vest?
This was designed for disaster.
I guess we’ll have to disagree on this issue.
There are many ways to handle “rogue cops” without killing them.
Every encounter I’ve had with an LEO I’ve been polite from the start, even when I was in the wrong. The LEO was polite, even when he gave me a ticket.
More people should try being polite, it works wonders.
Which, of course, justifies Kenney shooting the officer dead (possibly in the back, but undrawn nonetheless) and then running over him with his car.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
Regardless of the ‘long standing issues’ between the two, Kenney had been stopped justifiably.
No problem. IMO 70% of the people reading this thread, and the other threads on it, won’t go any further than what they read at FR. Following links pays off. (and I didn’t have to register anywhere to do it!)
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