The Coward of Broward.
Posted on 06/04/2019 4:11:19 PM PDT by Texan4Life
The Coward of Broward.
Yes, the same type of idiotic program that allowed felon-in-training St. Trayvon of Skittles & Purple Drank to skate until he got his ass good and properly shot.
Deputies were told to set up ‘perimeter’ around Parkland shooting... - Miami Herald - March 01, 2018
They might get the perjury charge to stick, I don’t know the details.
But the other charges will either be dropped or found not guilty.
Certain.
It’s BS political theater by an out of control prosecutor.
“An outgunned and outmanned officer does not have a duty to die.”
If you have A gun and know how to use it you ain’t outgunned.
I agree. The guy is a waste of space, but this smells like scapegoating by the sheriff.
He was close to retirement, didn’t give a shit (FIGMO) and probably one of the more useless deputies in the department so they gave him a sinecure to finish out his time.
“The guy is a waste of space, but this smells like scapegoating by the sheriff.”
He lost his government retirement, but he’ll retire comfortably on his defamation and false prosecution settlement/suit.
AGREED, though I despise a coward.
TRUTH is that a SCOTUS decision out of DC says that police do NOT have a duty to protect any particular person or group of persons & therefore even if he is convicted, he will be freed upon appeal. = YES, that the law of the land, until/unless the SCOTUS reverses itself.
(The federal case is “on point” as it concerned the rape/assault/torture of two women, who repeatedly called for help, while the Metro Police “failed to respond” to end the criminal acts.)
Yours, TMN78247
“Should a police officer put himself in harms way to save innocent people?”
No one put a gun to his head and forced him to become a cop. With the great power authority that a cop wields, also comes a greater responsibility, along with pay and benefits. He defaulted on the contract, and thus should bear some consequences for his cowardly conduct. At a minimum he should lose his pension and be forever shamed for his cowardice.
I generally am a law and order gal. But I don’t know that cowardice is a crime. We’ll see.
I believe cowardice is a crime in the military,and with today’s too-militarized police I have no problem charging him with it.
Serve and protect used to mean something.
Apparently, Peterson might have fudged a little on his sworn statement of the incident, which I didn’t know was possible with the popo.
I agree. I think everyone would agree to incompetence, but that should result in civil penalties, loss of job, fines, benefits. But there is a dangerous trend in this country to find scapegoats and criminalize their actions whenever there is a bad outcome.
It’s much more likely that the guy was a coward or incompetent rather than someone that intended to create a bad outcome. Now if he were in the military and abandoned his post during a fight that would be different because he would be under a much different set of laws.
The fact that he’s a police officer should not put him above the law however. We have seen cases of police misconduct that should have resulted in criminal penalties. The “can’t breathe “ Staten Island comes to mind,
Finally, one of these do-nothing cops, who makes the vast majority of hard-working, running-in-when-we-run-out cops look bad, will see true justice.
PING!
He will walk.
Larry Nevers and Walt Budzen. It was a travesty of justice what they did to those two officers.
“I’m very intrigued by the perjury charge.”
As am I. That’s the one most likely to stick IMO.
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Bingo. Winners winner chicken dinner. Cops want to be above average citizens, play tacticool swat, military delta farce. Guess what. Go to jail for failure to follow the UCMJ. Otherwise if they have no obligation to act then I have no obligation to follow random commands under penalty of the law.
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