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Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice judged unfit for duty by police in 2012
theguardian.com ^ | 12/03/2014 | Tom McCarthy in New York

Posted on 12/03/2014 8:46:48 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments

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To: Forgotten Amendments
God sakes.

*Oy*. My head.

Someone ping me back and let me know whether the majority of users here on FR are standing tall behind this idiot cop, or not.

21 posted on 12/03/2014 11:15:07 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Tired of Taxes

Like cake decorating.


22 posted on 12/03/2014 11:17:22 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Rusty0604

Officer Garmack placed his partner in a bad situation by pulling up within a few feet of a possibly armed suspect, creating a very small time window for a proper reaction. Poor training or ignoring their training is what caused this incident. Garmack should have been fired on the spot. Loehmann was unfortunately put in a near no-win position thanks to his partner. His value as an effective officer is now gone and hopefully will no longer be an LEO. These officers should have been several YARDS from this kid, coming from different directions, barking out commands for the kid to follow. Poor or poorly executed training.......I smell a big, fat righteous civil suit a’comin’.


23 posted on 12/03/2014 11:38:31 PM PST by yadent
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To: yadent
Very bad judgement on the part of the officers based on the information that is out there.

Always give the officers the benefit of the doubt but this shooting seems very hard to justify.

24 posted on 12/04/2014 12:30:46 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: ansel12

It’s disturbing that the Cleveland Police Department would not have done enough research to figure out why anyone would leave the Independence PD for Cleveland.


25 posted on 12/04/2014 2:49:20 AM PST by grania
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To: Forgotten Amendments

I grew up in Independence. Nice town to grow up in, at least back then!


26 posted on 12/04/2014 2:54:42 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: matthew fuller

Well, doesn’t this just chap yer butt!

She will be scheduled for mandatory release in 2017 due to a Texas law to prevent prison overcrowding.[3] Jones is held in Dr Lane Murray Unit.

bedamned!


27 posted on 12/04/2014 3:27:02 AM PST by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: Forgotten Amendments

He’ll get away with it. Either he won’t get indicted or else he’ll get off at trial. All he needs to do is claim he thought his life was in danger.


28 posted on 12/04/2014 3:46:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Some cops that small towns really don't want endangering their residents are just what the cities want. Around here the Beach Police used to be the crazies and gunslingers until the long time police chief-then mayor- out there lost his job. In town We had two incidents of dogs being shot in one month a couple of years ago(not on the Beach). The sheriff had some input to the local police forces, some officers decided to relocate to other towns outside the county and dogs are safe from the police now.

I used to travel a lot and covered much of the southern and western halves of the country. I rode a motorcycle most of the time and, of course met lots of policemen. I noticed that in the 90s the character of police that I met changed. Before, however swaggering or officious officers were who stopped me for being on a MC in their small towns, they were never scary. I could talk to them and even sass them a bit without things betting physical. Cops tended to have been raised in their areas. In the nineties that changed. Cops that stopped me had accents at variance with the local speech and their attitude was dangerous. I found it advisable, when stopped, to put my hands on top of my head and wait for the cop to tell me what to do. More than once I pulled over and looked back to see the officer with his gun out and pointed at me and the guy would be ordering me to put my face in the dirt. I got no tickets during that 90s but the interactions became scary as hell. I took to carrying my DL etc in a clear flat box attached visibly to the "dash" of my fairing so that I didn't have to put my hands in my pocket. The officers where I live are mostly from elsewhere now. Fortunately the Sheriff, who advertises himself as a Constitutional Sheriff, doesn't countenance bad behaviour.

29 posted on 12/04/2014 4:25:52 AM PST by arthurus
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To: ansel12

The big cities recruit the psychos and malcontents that the small towns don’t want. The city governments are farther removed from the citizenry want to be feared. Psychos and bullies fill the ill nicely.


30 posted on 12/04/2014 4:30:05 AM PST by arthurus
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To: VerySadAmerican
"When will they start shooting cats?"

That train left the station in September...

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/09/04/stray-cat-suspected-of-having-rabies-recovering-from-police-shotgun-blast/

31 posted on 12/04/2014 4:32:24 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

“Unfortunately, I believe there are
way too many cops out there who can’t
wait to kill someone or some thing.
Maybe a dog? When will they start
shooting cats?”

Cats are the Devil’s familure. A house devided against itself can not stand.


32 posted on 12/04/2014 6:08:43 AM PST by LevinFan
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To: grania

Yep, heads should roll.


33 posted on 12/04/2014 7:08:33 AM PST by ansel12
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Cops once again degrading the position and trust of police officer to the same standards as burger flipper. Then they wonder why so many don’t respect them. Crap, they don’t respect themselves.

Tip to the LEOs here, if someone leaves a PD in 6 months, that is what we in the professional world call a red flag.


34 posted on 12/04/2014 3:27:45 PM PST by LevinFan
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