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Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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School resource officer pleads guilty to raping 14 year old student

Morrissey was arrested in March 2022. The Cayuga County Sheriff's Office said he had "repeated inappropriate conduct" with a student in the city and the school building itself. Court documents obtained when he was arrested show the victim was 14 years old when the incidents occurred.

He pleaded guilty to the entire indictment, which consisted of the following charges:

Sexual abuse in the first degree
Disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree as a sexually-motivated felony
Official misconduct
Endangering the welfare of a child
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https://13wham.com/news/local/former-school-resource-officer-in-auburn-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-abusing-student

Cops in schools won't stop a school shooter, but they will rape 14 year olds.
 
Thermal said:
There was some kind of ongoing gag where a training gun was pointed by the shooter at the victim earlier, that apparently everyone laughed at, like maybe the punchline to a joke she was in on. He did it again at the photo shoot but didn't realize he had a live weapon, which wasn't allowed in there anyway.
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You may be able to find the testing standards for you local police department's pistol qualification, but you'll probably find that they are ridiculously easy.

Not hyperbolic that I've taken brand new shooters out to the range and after an hour or so they would likely qualify using many police department's qualification test. Police are not known for their outstanding weapon handling skills, despite it being a central part of their jobs.

If they're not a hobbyist shooter in their spare time or part of a special team that emphasizes firearm competency they probably have rudimentary skills at best (the same could probably be said about general physical fitness as well).
 
TurkeysGhost said:
You may be able to find the testing standards for you local police department's pistol qualification, but you'll probably find that they are ridiculously easy.

Not hyperbolic that I've taken brand new shooters out to the range and after an hour or so they would likely qualify using many police department's qualification test. Police are not known for their outstanding weapon handling skills, despite it being a central part of their jobs.

If they're not a hobbyist shooter in their spare time or part of a special team that emphasizes firearm competency they probably have rudimentary skills at best (the same could probably be said about general physical fitness as well).
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Well yeah, but what I meant is that live weapons weren't allowed in that training area AT ALL. Like, not even inside the doors. So the trainer's **** up was having it there in any context. It was a library or something, right? Required for off duty officers getting training to leave the live weapons in the car.

From the meager reporting, I can see what could have happened. They are doing baton training. The victim said something cocky like "I could get to any shooter within 20 feet of me before he fires". So the instructor busts her chops by repeatedly drawing his training gun on her unexpectedly, to general laughter when she fails (as one article reported happened).

The fatal screw up happens when the cowboy instructor strapped on his live weapon when they were preparing to leave and did the final photo.

Not saying this is what happened, but it is plausible and fits the otherwise inexplicable facts.
 
Thermal said:
Well yeah, but what I meant is that live weapons weren't allowed in that training area AT ALL. Like, not even inside the doors. So the trainer's **** up was having it there in any context. It was a library or something, right? Required for off duty officers getting training to leave the live weapons in the car.

From the meager reporting, I can see what could have happened. They are doing baton training. The victim said something cocky like "I could get to any shooter within 20 feet of me before he fires". So the instructor busts her chops by repeatedly drawing his training gun on her unexpectedly, to general laughter when she fails (as one article reported happened).

The fatal screw up happens when the cowboy instructor strapped on his live weapon when they were preparing to leave and did the final photo.

Not saying this is what happened, but it is plausible and fits the otherwise inexplicable facts.
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Rules are for little people. Cop have terrible safety habits when it comes to firearms.

Sure, it's insane to bring a live weapon into an environment where non-firing training props are in use (shades of the Rust shooting), but we're talking about cops here.
 
Regarding the previously discussed incident about the police raid on small local newspaper office in Kansas:

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past.

Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s resignation was confirmed to The Associated Press both by Mayor Dave Mayfield and City Council member Ruth Herbel, following an announcement by Mayfield at Monday’s council meeting. Mayfield had suspended Cody on Thursday for reasons that have not been made public. In a text message Monday night to the AP, he said he couldn’t answer questions about the chief’s resignation “as it is a personnel matter.”
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In August the TikTok-famous police chief of the small town of Burns, Kansas, abruptly resigned in a letter giving a nebulous explanation. "I find it necessary to step down at this juncture. Recent events have made me reflect on my responsibilities as a leader and the impact my decisions have on the lives of others," the letter said. At the time, the city council offered him an extended "law enforcement consultant" position.

That offer had to be quickly rescinded in an emergency session a week later when the state charged him with over 30 counts related to child abuse material found on his electronic devices.

A couple of days ago, two federal charges were added in a new federal complaint, which offers more details than previously made public - including that the police chief had a secret Twitter account that used "pedobear" for a PFP and had a DM conversation with at least one gatekeeper for a "real incest" Telegram channel.

ETA: his TikTok account
 
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bruto said:
And meanwhile, in Connecticut, police responding to a possible suicide found the man had not killed himself, so they did it for him.

https://www.courant.com/2023/10/19/...police-officers-fatally-shoot-man-in-his-bed/
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I REALLY don't get this one. Why be in the doorway? If he's laying on a bed, with no one else in the room, back off, call for a negotiator. Treat it like a barricaded suspect with no hostages. The only threat the guy posed was to himself until the officers moved to contact. At the point they fired, I'm sure they had to but why did they let it get to that point? You don't have to go full Eric Cartman and make them respect their authority.
 
bruto said:
And meanwhile, in Connecticut, police responding to a possible suicide found the man had not killed himself, so they did it for him.

https://www.courant.com/2023/10/19/...police-officers-fatally-shoot-man-in-his-bed/
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I really appreciated this part:

Speaking generally, Lawlor said a debate and policy focus has emerged in recent years over whether the question about police shootings should be whether they were necessary instead of whether they were justified.
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I've never heard this point expressed so succinctly. Anyone who answers other than "DUH!" I have serious questions about.
 
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How about this, cop runs someone over killing them, other cops cover it up and hide the body. Mother files missing persons report and a month goes by before she finds out her son is dead and buried already.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bettersten-wade-dexter-jackson-mississippi-police-missing-rcna121697?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6539347f1014b100019757f7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR1KqrtAlg7b5hqKnLVLmZpku_LsyOSXZ82lIKdWPxcdbFRdD3d-VgExhGk
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Perhaps they thought they were helping financially so she didn't have to pay for a funeral...
 
//Slight hijack//

Minor side note in such a horrible series of events but it's weird and sorta "off" to me that we still have "pauper's fields."
 
All charges, including murder, reinstated against Philly cop (NBC News link) who shot a man through a window's up, locked car door, then lying saying the shooting happened outside the car when the man lunged at him with a knife. The former officer was fired for not cooperating with the investigation after his body cam showed the incident happened almost nothing like the report stated it happened. This overturns last month's dismissal by a different judge.

This former officer is actually being held without bail before his trial too.
 
Police investigation underway after children left behind following arrest at traffic stop in Hazelwood

A bystander captured the traffic stop on camera. Hibler is heard saying it “isn’t even serious” as police hold him against the squad car and moments later tase him.

Meanwhile, the four kids, ages 14, 13, 11 and one year old, sit in the car. The video shows police drive Hibler away and then check on the kids, asking if any of them have a driver’s license. But then officers leave the scene. Video from the bystander shows the car on the side of the road with the children inside.

“What the hell? Who would leave minors in the car by themselves late at night,” is the question JaCee Robertson can’t stop asking.

She was still at her father’s funeral when she got the text from her fiancé that he had been pulled over. She finally reached her children who were hysterical. She drove the route home and found them.

“We see them on the side of the road, with the door open, the headlights on, the car still running,” said Robertson.
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WTF??? Leaving four kids alone in a running car? Idiots!
 
Former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby found guilty of perjury

Mosby, who was Baltimore's highest-ranking prosecutor from 2015 to earlier this year, was found guilty after she falsely claimed she was suffering from "financial hardship" because of the pandemic and obtained federal funds illegally.

She used the money for down payments on two vacation homes in Florida, according to the Justice Department.
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Mosby was known for charging the six police officers involved in the Freddy Gray case, a Black man who died while in police custody in 2015. The officers were later either acquitted or their trials were declared a mistrial.
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