Posted on 05/29/2010 10:19:58 AM PDT by Drew68
OLYMPIA — Sarah Harris goes through the motions of her day trying hard not to think about what life was like a year ago — or what it would be like now if not for "the incident."
She feels guilty leaving the house, even if only for a couple of hours to visit her mom or sister, to run errands, or go grocery shopping. She still cries every night.
Her husband, the first boy she kissed and the only man she's ever loved, suffered a catastrophic brain injury when his head slammed into a concrete wall after a brief footchase with two King County sheriff's deputies on Mother's Day 2009. He's now confined to bed, unable to talk, walk or do anything for himself.
Christopher Sean Harris spent six weeks at Harborview Medical Center, where his family was encouraged to remove him from life support because doctors didn't think he'd ever come out of a coma. But he did, and was transferred to an Edmonds nursing home in June.
Sarah Harris, who worked as a manager for Nordstrom and dreamed of becoming a buyer for the department store, gave up her job to care for her husband.
"I loved my job, and I miss it all the time," she said. "But I knew there was no way I could go back to work and leave him alone in a nursing home all day. There was no decision to even make."
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Obviously they concern you deeply...
It's significant sense a lot of people never go past the their first impressions from reading from a liberal rag. I would have liked to see what happens when the guy is portrayed as an innocent bystander mugged by ninja dressed thugs.
How would this go if the story went with a line on how this dude paid $60 to a buddy to drive him 70 miles to a dark alley in Seattle at 1 AM and then ran from the cops for 2 1/2 blocks, reaching into his pocket just as the cop was about to catch him. The cop didn't know whether it was a gun or drugs. No time to stop and think. Delay could mean a dead cop.
And undue haste could mean a paralyzed citizen who hasn't been charged with jack.
Obviously, you can’t handle defeat. I’ll let you go.
I guess I should be grateful you didn't slam my head into a concrete wall.
If he hadn't run, he would be out on bail explaining to his dear wife why he was 70 miles from home (actually his father's home since the guy spends all his minimum wage on booze and drugs) in a dark alley buying drugs.
I guess I should be grateful you didn't slam my head into a concrete wall.
Actually, that is not exactly what happened. The cop body-slammed the dude several feet away from the wal as the dude slowed down at the end of the chase and reached into his pocket.
I don't know how many times on this thread I've said that the guy exercised poor judgment by running, and he's dealing with the consequences. The officer on the other hand, is paid by the taxpayers, and is expected to exercise good judgment. He didn't and has faced no consequences. See the disparity there?
The cop should have seen that as a likely consequence of his action. As I've repeatedly said elsewhere, this demonstrates a level of poor judgment equivalent to the officer discharging his firearm at a a suspect with a crowd of people standing behind him.
No, numbnuts, our duty is TO GET THE JOB DONE, period. Personal safety is not even a consideration. Look at the Medal of Honor citations to get the idea. Only ego-driven jerkoffs like you would whine and cry about getting hurt on the job. And if the cops at Columbine had gone in and saved lives by killing the shooters I would have given them due credit for doing their job and saving innocent lives.
What would have happened if the suspect stopped three steps sooner, put his hands over his head and left the evidence in his pocket? What if the suspect had obeyed a lawful order to stop in the first place?
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the
same cover in the cool night,
In the stillness, in the autumn moonbeams, his face was
inclined toward me,
And his arm lay lightly around my breast—And that
night I was happy.
Maybe he saw the consequence of not taking the dude down would be his demise.
No I didn't...I said that he had to have been fully at top speed for a few seconds prior to getting to the guy...ergo my previous comment, "unless this guy has better acceleration than Shelby Cobra..."
"You expect him to make a physics calculation in that time, under what he had every reason to believe was a dangerous situation? "
Actually, I don't expect much from this officer at all, least of all I don't expect him to face any consequences.
Since you're making me continuously go over things I've already addressed, I'll simply type this and refer you to my previous posts. The officer did not exercise the judgment or restraint he should have. I KNOW personally, and for a fact that these types of decision are frequently made in fractions of a second, and hopefully the level of training is such that these responses have been ingrained and become virtually instinctual. We also expect that judgment to be guided by an attitude of public service and protection of the innocent. If one feels that is expecting too much, he or she should turn in their badge.
Just another example of folks who got picked on in high school becoming Cops and thinking they are actually NAVY Seals and this is Tora Bora
That's a dangerously arbitrary standard...Imagine this hypothetical...a string of armed robberies/home invasions has occurred in an area. Unbeknownst to a traveling salesman the neighborhood is on edge, and the salesman approaches a door knocks, and reaches for his pocket to produce a business card. The homeowner draws, fires and kills him because *maybe he saw the consequence of not taking the dude down would be his demise.* Think the homeowner would be getting off as easily as this cop?
The cop did not draw, fire and kill the dude. Bad example.
Ok. What would you do. You are apprehending a suspect and as you near him he reaches for his pocket. What do you do?
Is that easier for you to understand?
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