Posted on 04/01/2002 3:11:55 PM PST by Pern
WEST PALM BEACH -- A teenager who faces a murder charge in the heart attack death of a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy is being kept in juvenile detention after his first appearance before a judge Monday morning.
On Sunday, William Robert Waters Jr., rushed at deputies after they found the 17-year-old Lake Worth High School sophomore lying on the ground at the Casa Del Monte trailer park, according to reports.
The deputies, including Donald Lee Schavolt, 48, were investigating a loud music complaint when Waters kicked Schavolt in the leg. Schavolt later collapsed and died at Wellington Regional Medical Center, apparently suffering a massive heart attack.
There is no word yet on whether the State Attorney's Office will charge Waters as an adult.
Authorities said they have no choice but to charge the teen with second-degree murder. Waters committed a felony -- resisting arrest with violence -- that resulted in Schavolt's death, a sheriff's spokesman said Sunday. Waters could face life in prison.
Read the full story in tomorrow's Palm Beach Post or online at PalmBeachPost.com.
Those Krispey Kremes taste soooo good they MUST be made with tallow or something else equally baaaaad. Two a day will do ya quicker than a serious Jack Daniels and Marlboro habit.
Take a look at those faces. Take a long hard look. Think of them and their families. These are just a couple of the 72 police officers that lost their lives saving others on September 11. These are the brave men and women who gave their lives. These are men and women who would have saved YOUR life if given the chance. They weren't eating donoughts and looking for seatbelts that weren't fastened. They were making sure that other people could live in the face of terror.
None of these men or women pictured ever went home. They are all dead. Think about them the next time you say that cops are on the take and tell me if you would get up every morning knowing you could die saving a stranger.
Well, if you're not armed and determined to defend yourself, they (eventually) show up, scribble a report about how you died and draw a chalk outline around you.
Your point about the stupid harassment, via stupid laws, by petty tyrants is well taken. Cops need to be confined to doing useful things, like keeping bad guys sweating and worried. Deterrence is 80% of their role.
People like me making fun of donut fed cops?
Or people like you using the memory of heros to obscure the fact that most police work is revenue raising traffic stops, some of which invovles the cops literally being pimped out by their departments to the LIDAR company they are splitting the revenue with, and that most fatalities among cops come from stepping backward into traffic while being pimped out to the LIDAR company to make your quota?
There are real reasons cops deserve respect. The problem is there are MANY MANY reasons they piss away the respect they should be getting. And who's fault is that?
Cops need to be confined to doing useful things, like keeping bad guys sweating and worried. Deterrence is 80% of their role.I don't know about the deterrence part. If they would simply clear out their backlog of arrest warrants for theft and robbery, and bring their solution rate for property crimes up to a not-laughable level, I'd be happy with that. Let the three srikes law handle the deterrence (or the consequences).
Like I've stated on many posts, one rule applies to all. Once there is an established 'Upper Class' that thinks it can rule ordinary citizens, where will the atrocities stop? And easy answer, they won't.
...which is exactly why they have absolutely nothing to do with this thread. Doh.
See post # 11.
It's been my experience that those who show such malice towards ALL cops are generally those who are only one casual LEO encounter away from being Spike's woman cellmate.Cops stupid? Why would anyone think that? With deathless prose like the above, it shows they are all poets in blue. Philosophers with mace. To see the conversation here elevated thusly, we are humbled. Any lack of direct refutation of sloth, corruption, and double standards is, of course, merely an oversight that will be corrected with blazing brilliance. Any... moment... now...
People are people and because your a cop or a teen gives no excuses on your actions.
I truly support our LEOs but I will not countenance misbehavior on their part nor on my own. The brotherhood that died on 9/11 were doing what they were supposed to do, Protect and Serve. I spent 20 years in the US Army so I can identify with another poster above who said you might wonder what your fate might be on any given day.
If this perp can be proven to have contributed to this officer's death in a collateral manner then he should be prosecuted that way. If it is more direct then more power to the DA.
Contribute an opinion instead jerking a knee.
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