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Constable Shoots and Paralyzes Man While Serving Warrant Over Unpaid Parking Tickets
Reason.com ^
| July, 28, 2014
| Ed Krayewski
Posted on 07/29/2014 8:16:21 PM PDT by QT3.14
Imagine a company hiring a debt collector that sends armed representatives to customers homes and threatens to put them in cages if they dont pay up. Thats not allowed in America, unless your company is the government. NBC Philadelphia reports on the latest instance of police brutality during petty law enforcement to make the news:
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: lawenforcement; pennsylvania; police
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I'm pro-cop, but wow!
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:16:21 PM PDT
by
QT3.14
To: QT3.14
Well, maybe the continuing stories like this will make you realize that we now live in a totalitarian police state.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:21:22 PM PDT
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
To: QT3.14
I’m a retired cop, and yes ... WOW!
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:23:12 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: QT3.14
after a series of long, low-intensity wars, soldiers are cops and cops become soldiers.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:27:13 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: null and void
It’s a lousy day for liberty.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:29:54 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:30:16 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: QT3.14
“Imagine a company hiring a debt collector that sends armed representatives to customers homes and threatens to put them in cages if they dont pay up.”
Now, imagine that same company believes that a debt is created when someone merely breaks the company’s rules, and THEN sends an armed representative to customers’ homes and threatens to put them in cages if they don’t pay up.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:30:30 PM PDT
by
FLAMING DEATH
(I'm not racist - I hate Biden too!)
To: QT3.14
during petty law enforcement to make the newsIt worked.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:32:16 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: QT3.14
Police are crazy
No way this should happen over parking tickets, police need to start doing real police work for one thing.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:32:53 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: QT3.14
Was this a cop or an executioner?
Lousy at his job either way....
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:39:16 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: QT3.14; Alaska Wolf; TexasFreeper2009; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; napscoordinator; ...
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:40:24 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: doc1019
If the constable was serving an arrest warrant following a failure to appear or possibly numerous FTAs, and the habitual traffic criminal said to himself, “Screw it.” and threw the car in gear, gunned the engine. A car can be a deadly weapon.
Usually I’m with the mob in cops v. dogs, but here that defense might work. If true.
Otherwise, this constable punks ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan.
Or he might be as crazy as a thin-skulled woodpecker.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:41:51 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: QT3.14
I’m pro-GOOD-cop. But I think there seem to be an increasing percentage of cops who are ANYTHING BUT good-cop. This “not good cop” group contains incompetent cops and/or evil cops and/or too easily frightened cops.
Too many times these bad cops get away with their incompetence/evil/fright induced bad deeds with nothing more that a paid vacation (aka administrative leave).
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:49:29 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
To: tumblindice
A car can be a deadly weapon. It all depends on where the constable was standing when the person backed his car out of his driveway.
If the constable was behind the car, and less than six feet from the back bumper, then perhaps it was a righteous shoot. Otherwise, it was murder.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:57:16 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: QT3.14
Well, the important thing is the officer got home safely for dinner.
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posted on
07/29/2014 9:05:36 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(Obama's governing as president of a Latin American republic, where only the president matters-MSteyn)
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posted on
07/29/2014 9:31:13 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: QT3.14
Lysander Spooner said that law is force. Before we ever pass a piece of legislation into law we should ask, “is it worth killing a citizen for not following this law?”.
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posted on
07/29/2014 10:04:16 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: UCANSEE2
The petty law enforcement officer just needed some petty cash!
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posted on
07/29/2014 10:04:59 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: QT3.14
Anyone in or on a motor vehicle traveling more or less toward a police officer at any rate of speed is defined as assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and shooting the threatening citizen is the proper course of action.
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posted on
07/29/2014 10:05:57 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: House Atreides
there are so many bad cops it’d be incredibly stupid to believe you’ll be dealing with a good one. the bad ones make people assume there facing a bad one.
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posted on
07/29/2014 11:18:57 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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