Posted on 01/19/2022 8:23:20 AM PST by mcenedo
Three Pennsylvania police officers have been charged in connection with the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl and the wounding of three other people outside a high school football game, officials said.
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This a case where I think the cops should have immunity.
The cops may deserve to be fired, but unless there was an intent to injure, I don't think they should be charged.
The color of the tragically deceased assures indictments. So sad, all around.
There’s a shortage of details so far to know just what happened. But shooting in a “general direction” sounds bad.
When cops only have seconds to shoot to stop a criminal from killing someone or them, the cops will think about this and other cases. Their hesitation will be the undoing of many.
And bad guys will prevail over innocent victims.
This is just another log on the fire of democrat love for criminal America.
...and, maybe Alec Baldwin should get immunity also?
Why anyone would want to be a local cop is beyond me.
Obama/Holder made the final push to put all local cops under Federal control, and as part of that effort, all local cops are under intense political, prosecutorial, and media scrutiny.
Let’s face it, the leftists and the deep state have won.
Which would have never happened if the two Black thugs weren't shooting up the streets putting these cops into this situation in the first place.
I need more details - on one side the story makes it sound like they shot blindly - otoh I don’t think they’d be that stupid and they (or one) may have discerned a valid threat. (Or possibly they were shooting at the car and missed)
The truth lies somewhere in there.
I wonder how they'll manage to let the black cop off (Devon Smith), while sending the two White cops to prison for a half century.
I have similar thoughts.
I dont cut Alec Balwin any slack for violating rules 1 & 2 - Treat every gun as if loaded and dont point at anything you dont intend to destroy.
These officers violated rule 4 - know your target and whats beyond.
Cops have a tough job, and may deserve some ‘golf handicap’ in choosing tools including deadly force appropriate to perform that job under different circumstances. But some judgement is also required.
Need more info to say this was a bad shoot, but that may be the case here.
Definitely going to change the “Shoot, Don’t Shoot” training scenarios.
My brother and my nephew were both deputies in South Carolina, proud of them both, but they ‘retired’ when all LEO’s were being targeted as the Bad Guys in every situation. They both commented that in the past, Thank you was a common phrase, now it’s changed to just f bombs.
The danger they observed, was that a majority of LEOs now were Pistol Petes, and were eager to draw a weapon. And not usually safely.
Case for citizens having the legal right to wear kevlar.
Yes it does sound bad.. No specific target, etc. That smacks of ‘reckless,’ IMO. Maybe not criminal but their actions resulted in the death of a pre-teen minor and either they, or whoever put those guns in their hands need to answer.
You’re responsible for your bullets and you’re not supposed to shoot if what’s behind your target isn’t expendable. At the very least they broke some of the basic rules of shooting.
“This a case where I think the cops should have immunity.”
If an ordinary citizen would be charged in a given situation then cops should be too.
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The report reads like they had no clear target when the fired their weapons. They should be charged.
The majority are reckless gun slinger wanna be’s? I think maybe that isn’t a statement- Some maybe, but not the majority by any means.
There are literally millions of arrests and encounters with violent perps every year across the nation, with very very few incidents like this one. The vast majority of them are done by the book without tragedies such as this case. More cops were killed than unarmed black people in 2029. 2 unarmed black people were unjstifiably killed by police that year, while 54 cops were murdered that year. (And the cops involved in those 2 cases were convicted). I’d say it’s pretty remarkable that out-of millions of encounters with violent perps- that seems to me to be a pretty good accounting of how careful cops as a whole are
Now this is interesting. Waiting to hear the twisted logic that equates a negligent discharge to cops shooting at two criminals who were engaged in a gun fight and shot in their direction.
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