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It's OK, Shoot Wrong Car Over 100 Times

Mike

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The eight Los Angeles police officers who shot at two women over 100 times will not lose their jobs. They won't even be suspended. They'll just get some additional training.

They'll need it, since the shooting happened at the height of the manhunt for cop-killer Christopher Dorner, when police mistook two women delivering newspapers in a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck for one man hellbent on revenge in a charcoal Nissan Titan pickup truck and shot at them 103 times. One of the women, who was 71 at the time, was hit twice in the back. The second woman was hit by broken glass. I would say those cops should get some training in target practice, but then it's probably best for innocent newspaper carriers that they don't.

Yesterday, a commission found that the officers violated department policy when they thought the sound of a newspaper hitting the pavement was a gunshot and opened fire on two women who were, again, doing absolutely nothing wrong except driving a truck that didn't even look like the one they believed their suspect to be in.

The officers faced suspension or even firing, but police chief Charlie Beck elected instead to let them all return to duty once they undergo some additional training, according to a memo obtained by the AP. The officers have not been named, so you'll probably never know if the guy writing your speeding ticket once shot at an innocent senior citizen.

Shortly after the women were mistaken for Dorner, another police officer shot at another pickup truck. This one was black Honda Ridgeline. Brian McGee drove his cruiser into the truck and opened fire three times. The man inside the truck was not hit, but he sustained back and head injuries. The city of Torrance, where the incident took place, gave him $20,000 to replace his truck which was, again, a black Honda Ridgeline and not a gray Toyota Tacoma.

Last month, prosecutors found that the officer was "justified in using force to stop the vehicle and in discharging his firearm" and declined to press charges.

"Although mistaken," the district attorney's report said, "McGee honestly and reasonably believed that Dorner was driving the truck."
 

Broke Cowboy

Well-known member
Despite the fact there are some good police out there - and in my opinion that number is going down - this is exactly why the police are so mistrusted today.

The social media and media available today has allowed many incidents that were once unnoticed to now be published far and wide - including video.

This incident would never have made it out of the front office of any police department 10 or more years ago. It would have been covered up with a statement from the police chief saying that all was well and it was a police matter and we would have believed him - much like the trained seals we had become.

Today we now see how corrupt and self serving and self protecting many police departments actually are. National, state and provincial police of North America are no longer the respected institutions they once were - and it will get far worse before it even comes close to getting better.

Best to all

bc
 

Mike

Well-known member
Narcissists gravitate toward certain professions — typically the ones in which they are given a lot of power and admiration for being the good, strong and knowledgeable ones who have power over people…

OT is a fine example of this disorder.

And here's another:

A monster former NYPD cop who raped an elementary school teacher on her way to work wants his 75-year prison sentence reduced — a scenario his victim called her “worst nightmare.”

In papers filed in a Manhattan appeals court, Michael Pena’s lawyer says the sentence is so long that it’s “an injustice” to the fiendish ex-police officer.

He “was punished more harshly than Al Qaeda terrorists, vicious killers, kingpin narcotics offenders, violent gangsters and racketeers,” wrote Pena’s lawyer, Ephraim Savitt.

He called the former NYPD officer’s sentence “politically motivated and media-intensified vengeance,” and noted in the Jan. 27 filing that the first-time offender was slapped with a prison term “three times the mandatory minimum sentence for murder.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/rapist-ex-nypd-asks-shorten-75-year-prison-term-article-1.1610805#ixzz2t6iG2i9C
 
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