Posted on 01/25/2021 4:35:34 PM PST by absalom01
For two Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, charged with crimes and arrested.
But for five Seattle officers the outcome is less clear. Their identities still secret, two are on leave and three continue to work while a police watchdog investigates whether their actions in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 crossed the line from protected political speech to lawbreaking.
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They come from some of the country’s largest cities — three Los Angeles officers and a sheriff’s deputy, for instance — as well as state agencies and a Pennsylvania police department with nine officers. Among them are an Oklahoma sheriff and New Hampshire police chief who have acknowledged being at the rally, but denied entering the Capitol or breaking the law.
“If they were off-duty, it’s totally free speech,” said Will Aitchison, a lawyer in Portland, Oregon
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But Ayesha Bell Hardaway, a professor at Case Western Reserve University law school, said an officer’s presence at the rally creates a credibility issue as law enforcement agencies work to repair community trust, especially after last summer’s protests against police brutality sparked by the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Communities will question the integrity of officers who attended the rally along with “individuals who proudly profess racist and divisive viewpoints,” she said. “It calls into question whether those officers are interested in engaging in policing in a way that builds trust and legitimacy in all communities, including communities of color.”
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Ok so what kind of discipline will the person who shot and killed Ashli get?
You mean like Burn, Loot, Murder?
Paid vacation?
Right - but Police that knealt with BLM and, in some cases, looked the other way while the looting and burning took place were never investigated or penalized.
This is outright political persecution.
Now a "divisive" viewpoint, if expressed or "professed" by the right, is somehow a crime?
But for five Seattle officers the outcome is less clear. Their identities still secret, two are on leave and three continue to work while a police watchdog investigates whether their actions in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 crossed the line from protected political speech to lawbreaking.
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So the attempt is now to smear hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters for merely attending the rally as if they all broke into the Capital.
America is being kept in the dark over the murder of Ashli for obvious reasons. The blood is all over the hands of those who are set to get away with murder and to keep the coup going.
>>Ok so what kind of discipline will the person who shot and killed Ashli get?<<
If nothing else the other officers should be pissed at that guy for firing that shot. Could have easily missed her and hit one of them standing behind her. She was unarmed and posed no immediate threat. No reason for the shot to be fired in the first place and it endangered other officers to boot.
You mean the Brazilian who is all about BLM?
She was killed by a by an unidentified black man in the US Capitol building on January 6th.
Funny, diversity and divisive are from the same root word.
Do these people not understand the fundamentals of word origins and meanings?
Were they in uniform? No.
Then shutup. They were private citizens.
I always want to wait for all of the evidence before rushing to judgement, but having watched both videos, it is beyond me how deadly force could have been justified.
Looks like a straight up political execution at this point.
That is exactly where they are going with this.
The effort here is to strip first amendment protections not just from police officers , who, as you point out have the same rights of political self-expression as everyone else. No, not just cops or public employees...the left wants to make simply donating to, or working or voting for anyone other than a hard leftist “insurrection”.
They aren’t looking for “healing”, they want total victory, and will use the full power of the state to push their advantage.
Among the January 6, 2021 protestors at the Capitol rally
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[T]wo Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, charged with crimes and arrested.
five Seattle officers - [their] outcome is less clear
three Los Angeles officers and a sheriff’s deputy
Pennsylvania police department with nine officers
Oklahoma sheriff - denied entering the Capitol or breaking the law
New Hampshire police chief - denied entering the Capitol or breaking the law
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