If one of my rounds “went astray” and killed an innocent person I’d be up on charges of manslaughter so fast it’d make my head spin. But then I’m just a citizen of Illinois with a CCL. Cops are “special” and the mostest importantest part of the story is that the cop made it home safely.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, else matters and that includes the dead citizen.
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If your bullet traveled through the intended target, it did not go astray. The fact that it went through one body to hit someone else is ... I don’t know. If someone is killed as the result of someone else’s criminal assault, wouldn’t the instigator be charged?
While that night be a Chicago quirk, the civilized world doesn’t imprison people for accidental death during self defense.
If one of my rounds “went astray†and killed an innocent person I’d be up on charges of manslaughter so fast it’d make my head spin. But then I’m just a citizen of Illinois with a CCL.
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And you aren’t sent out to resolve domestic disturbance calls where people may be armed and violent.
That is certainly true in Chicago. The corruption in and of that city is breathtaking in its vastness.
I ride the train into the city every day for work, as my office is in the Loop. I go into work in the morning, and leave in the evening. I go straight from the train station to my office, and then reverse course without any deviation at the end of the day. I try not to spend so much as a dime in the city while I am there, or in Cook County, for that matter.