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Officer convicted in Calif. train station killing
Associated Press ^ | July 8, 2010 | GREG RISLING

Posted on 07/08/2010 4:26:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Lou Budvis; ColdOne

A cop mistaking a gun for a taser has happened before. I will link the article if you wish. It won’t change anyone’s mind though.


21 posted on 07/08/2010 4:46:36 PM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: conimbricenses

The judge will find as a matter of fact that he used a handgun in commission of a felony in controversion to Penal Code 12022.5. Otherwise known as a gun enhancement. He is looking at at least another three years to be run consecutively with his existing sentance and could get up to 10 more.


22 posted on 07/08/2010 4:48:13 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: conimbricenses

I think it is a fair resolution. I have been to many train stops in large cities and they attract some really bad people, bums, and thugs. They usually all carry weapons. These are not easy patrol areas. Not an excuse but I can see where you can be on edge at these areas and make a knee jerk mistake.


23 posted on 07/08/2010 4:48:24 PM PDT by mrsixpack36
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To: ssaftler
I'm perfectly willing to trust you that this ain't gonna be pretty. But that's not what I was responding to. You're clearly some kind of walking open emotional wound about "race whores," and you seem to truly want Oakland to burn.

I'm asking you to keep your baggage to yourself and either add something relevant and intelligent or shut it.
24 posted on 07/08/2010 4:48:46 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: Enterprise

The cops need to learn to do mind melds and an appropriate neck pinch.


25 posted on 07/08/2010 4:49:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Enterprise
A cop mistaking a gun for a taser has happened before.

In all likelihood it has. Most cops have a bad habit of styling themselves as gun "experts" because of a few hours of training at the police academy. It breeds a dangerous and deadly hubris that causes them to neglect basic gun safety rules that even most novice gun owning civilians know by heart.

26 posted on 07/08/2010 4:49:47 PM PDT by conimbricenses
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To: ssaftler

Yep, riots tonight, hotter tomorrow.


27 posted on 07/08/2010 4:50:22 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: Enterprise

You are right no one minds will be changed.. I just wonder... He may have made that mistake. We will never know.


28 posted on 07/08/2010 4:50:53 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who is this asshole talking like a moron with a painters cap?

“I have no power over anyone, even the dissenting juror who feels they have been slighted, etc, etc, etc.

What a jackoff.

Sorry for the loss of that kid but if he were a truly responsible citizen he would have given a short statement and skipped the questioning.


29 posted on 07/08/2010 4:52:20 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Smogger

I hope it happens, but I’m not holding my breath. Judges have a bad habit of inventing “exceptions” to gun enhancement upgrades for cops...except when they are border patrol going after illegal immigrants.


30 posted on 07/08/2010 4:52:36 PM PDT by conimbricenses
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To: All

For reference, Live Audio from Alameda Co. (Oakland):
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=5375


31 posted on 07/08/2010 4:52:37 PM PDT by elpinta (Jer. 10:23)
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To: ColdOne
How does a police officer mistake a gun for a taser???????????????????????????????????????

It's not the first time in California. In 2002, Madera Office Marcie Noriega shot Everardo Torres through the heart with a .40 Glock that she thought was a Taser. Torres was handcuffed in the back of a police car. He was trying to kick out the car windows. His BAC was 0.15. Officer Noriega was not charged.

It's not clear how the two cases differ.

32 posted on 07/08/2010 4:54:24 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
It's not the first time in California. In 2002, Madera Office Marcie Noriega shot Everardo Torres through the heart with a .40 Glock that she thought was a Taser. Torres was handcuffed in the back of a police car. He was trying to kick out the car windows. His BAC was 0.15. Officer Noriega was not charged. It's not clear how the two cases differ.Thanks for info!
33 posted on 07/08/2010 4:57:13 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: aNYCguy; ssaftler

Pretty sure he forgot the obligatory “/S” and thought it was implied.


34 posted on 07/08/2010 4:57:46 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: ssaftler

Are you listening to these guys?

They are absolutely ratcheting it up!


35 posted on 07/08/2010 4:58:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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You're clearly some kind of walking open emotional wound about "race whores," and you seem to truly want Oakland to burn.

For the last 18 months, we have heard nothing around here except how this was a WHITE Police Officer killing a poor, innocent "African-American" male. Nothing about the near riot on the BART tracks that the officers were responding to, nothing about the sheer numbers of people involved, not a DAMNED thing except how this was a racial incident.

I'm sorry if it insults your sensibilities that these people have no agenda save to make me ashamed that my skin isn't very dark. These people that purport to heed the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. seem to have forgotten his greatest comment, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

I hope I'm wrong about Oakland burning, I really do. But I'm enough of a realist and have seen enough of the local news lately to know that my chances of being wrong are not great.

36 posted on 07/08/2010 5:00:39 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: cynwoody

For one thing there was a video tape of this incident.


37 posted on 07/08/2010 5:00:49 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: aNYCguy; ssaftler

>> I’m asking you to keep your baggage to yourself and either add something relevant and intelligent or shut it.

And just who the hell are you to make a statement like that?


38 posted on 07/08/2010 5:01:46 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Vendome

Did you hear him pleading with his fellow rioters to NOT destroy the businesses with signage supporting the victim?


39 posted on 07/08/2010 5:03:20 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; All

Live radio feed for oakland fire and TAC riot squad?

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=183


40 posted on 07/08/2010 5:04:15 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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