How long until the cop’s inevitable acquittal?
Involuntary manslaughter at a minimum. He knew better than to put his finger on the trigger.
The chief said this ““It was a pitch-black hallway,” .
Cops cannot clear the field in front of them, and then go find out what it was, cops have to start taking more risks, the citizen death count from clearing the area shootings is just too high.
The cop needs to be fired and charged. Easily startled, with his finger on the trigger, and pops off a round. When it comes to a life, he should have been more careful and kept his finger off the trigger until the target is identified as a threat. What if it were a child? Doesn’t matter, an innocent life was lost.
The NYPD’s current authorized uniformed strength is 34,450.[7] There are also approximately 4,500 Auxiliary Police Officers, 5,000 School Safety Agents, 2,300 Traffic Enforcement Agents, and 370 Traffic Enforcement Supervisors currently employed by the department
do they all get a freebie??
Please tell me how you “accidentally” pull the trigger on your service revolver - in a dark hallway, when you cannot identify your target, nor any others who may be in the line of fire, and nor do you have any threat made against you? So this a-hole just pops off a cap in the dark - because he was “afraid of the dark”? This is one more example of why I hate cops. The damn fools being hired today have neither the brains nor the moral fiber to be police officers.
You really outta see these trigger happy cops in NYC; petite women standing 5 feet, effeminate Asian men, and you name it. They walk up to with their hands on the trigger, because you could literally slap the taste outta their mouth. Scared, ignorant, poor, feeble, and sad. Truly, NYC cops are the bottom of the barrel.
Maybe there’s something going around—maybe some kind of brain eating parasite.
Cleveland police officer shoots 12-year-old boy carrying BB gun
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3230119/posts
For any who might fail to understand that last comment of mine, there was some irony and sarcasm in it. Look up irony and sarcasm in a dictionary. And stop using words like “utilize” in reports.
It sounds like trouble to me!
Pitch black? We’ll except for the flashlight.
I guess that extra heavy trigger pull that they require on NYPD Glocks is less effective than teaching them to keep their finger off the trigger until they have a reason to shoot. Notice that this being a Rat city in the North, there’s no big DOJ organized protest.
THIS is their attitudes about the value of our lives. This is not an accident, it was a deliberate choice to let unreasoned fear control his actions.
The standard for deadly force is REASONABLE fear, not “I’m peeing my pants at my own shadow.”
If you can’t handle fear, don’t be a cop. They claim to be a profession, but want unprofessional standards regarding mistakes.
These cops need a lesson that there are limits to how incompetent they can be and still walk from it. This is plain not acceptable, and neither is their dismissive attitude to mistakes.
Cops need to be afraid of mistakes, and they aren’t.
Uh-huh. Are we supposed to believe that officers don’t hear about the Four Rules of Gun Safety in the police academy now?
Not buying it.
1. Treat firearms as if they are loaded
2. Point the muzzle away from non-targets
3. Keep fingers off the trigger
4. Be sure of your target and of what is beyond it