Hitcho looks like the typical resident of that area. It is a crappy little town outside of Bethlehem. If his neighbors thought he was filth, you know he was bad news. The towns only claim to fame is a motorcycle hill climb.
Posted on 08/12/2011 12:20:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
FREEMANSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a police officer slain while responding to a domestic disturbance in a small eastern Pennsylvania borough had pointed a stun gun at two dogs before being shot.
The Morning Call of Allentown reports Freemansburg police Officer Robert Lasso had pointed at the attacking dogs when the homeowner pulled out a shotgun and fired the fatal blast Thursday evening.
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Hitcho looks like the typical resident of that area. It is a crappy little town outside of Bethlehem. If his neighbors thought he was filth, you know he was bad news. The towns only claim to fame is a motorcycle hill climb.
This instance does not sound like an insane cop that needed to be dealt with....it sounds like the guy with the shotgun was the one that was insane.
Nothing can be designed that is 100 percent perfect, but then cops leaving while someone bleeds out is not the answer either and that is why we have the current laws.
Dang, Troy Aikman really let himself go.
This wasn't a swat raid gone bad. This wasn't a homeless man getting beaten to death by rogue cops.
This was a cop doing his job responding to a domestic dispute with a known problem neighbor. And he was pointing a STUN GUN at the dogs, not his service weapon.
Yeah, police activities sometimes go too far. But so does the cop-hatred. Both are signs of unbalanced minds.
This is how it usually happens. It’s not the cops that deserve it that get plugged, nor is it the average Joe that does the plugging. Cops get away with murder (just look at the Fullerton PD) all the time and then something like this happens where an A$$h##e offs someone that sounds like an OK cop.
However, if we did not live in a police state neither would be happening so it’s kind of like who cares anymore? Cops shouldn’t have the right to invade our property just based on some allegation of wrong doing and attack our dogs/property/persons at will and if they do then be prepared for this kind of thing to happen and for more and more people to not really care.
Support for cops is slipping away as more and more people get caught in the gears of the police state, either for revenue enhancement (traffic tickets at $500 a pop! and $100 for a parking ticket out here in CA) or some silly DV accusation by a PO’d wife/GF or some cops looking to work off a little roid-rage. That plus there is a growing part of the population that have no respect for the law what so ever, illegals and other minorities in particular. Means that more and more are not going to give a damn when someone pops another cop off as they are starting to look like part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
Do you REALLY have to ask that one? Jeez. They are helping fundraise for FR to keep the site going.
I sincerely hope you forgot your “sarcasm” tag.
The articles give some more info but not enough. Why was the officer in the rear and not the front?
And I have no use for statists that don't respect property rights.
/johnny
Wow, that was stupid.
I agree one hundred percent.
Geez...it’s Brad Pitt in “12 Monkeys”.
You think a man deserves to die for shooting a dog? That’s carrying animal rights too far.
Cops getting killed at family beefs is not unheard of.
You are right in this instance, but I don't think that we can make that a blanket statement about law enforcement anymore. A lot of these small town cops have gone from being the neighborhood protector to being some sort of paramilitary thug thinking he is on an episode of cops. Freemansburg cops are notorious for just sitting in bar parking lots to hit DUI's.
The most consistently professional cops in PA are the State Police. No matter the situation I have seen them in, they stay calm and try to handle the situation as efficiently as possible. They also don't go out of their way to bust people for revenue enhancement.
As for the moronic anti-Mormon snake-handling, strychnine swilling freaks, there is no shortage of them either.
Domestic violence laws in themselves border on the unconstitutional anyway.
And tell me what is wrong with keeping a drunk from getting on the road and causing an accident?
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