Police DO always clear themselves, especially when the DA is besties with the Sheriff. That’s what happened here in my hometown of Santa Rosa, with the shooting of 13 year old Andy Lopez a few months ago by Sheriff’s deputy Eric Gelhaus. The DA (who campaigned for the Sheriff, her special buddy) declared — two weeks after HER reelection — that the shooting was justified, nothing to see folks, move on — and now that the Sheriff is out of town on vacation and “can’t be reached for comment” they’ve announced that Gelhaus is to be put back on active duty, on County roads. Makes me want to puke. I went to a protest about this today (I’m not a big protester but this got me going) and there were only about 30 people there. People are f***ing blind. If it doesn’t directly impinge on them they have no clue. We have the crap government we deserve, it seems.
The “officials” who call themselves public servants have come to believe that the public works for and are subservient to them. Why wouldn’t they with their generous pensions and benefits funded by taxpayers.
That is the mindset of elitism that needs immediately changed. Government works for us, not vice versa.
Hetty_Fauxvert, when I lived in Santa Rosa’s West End a few years back, a SWAT team marched into my house with their weapons drawn and pointed at my wife and children. They were looking for the drug dealer who lived on the next street and got the address wrong. Apparently he was wanted for the theft of semi-automatic weapons from the sheriff’s department. If I had been home there’s a good chance I would’ve been shot as a precaution....