Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

[gnome]

"Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, an ex-deputy with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, will spend a year behind bars for the stunt at his police station in November 2019, according to prosecutors."

The stunt?

THE STUNT!!!!????

It wasn't a friggin "stunt" like Super Dave Osborn or something, it was destroying evidence.

At this point I'm less interested in the length of the sentence than I am in finding out whether that person will still be allowed to be in law enforcement afterwards.

 

[Darat]

At this point I'm less interested in the length of the sentence than I am in finding out whether that person will still be allowed to be in law enforcement afterwards.

Why ever not? I am sure he has learnt his lesson and will be much more careful in future when destroying evidence!

Or

He still needs to make a living.

Or

Move states.

 

[tyr_13]

A Propublica article on the technique of 'cover charges'.

Essentially, these are charges used to cover up police misconduct. Things such as 'resisting arrest' are levied against people, usually black men, who have done nothing wrong besides get attacked by cops. Of course these arrests then drive up the arrest rates for black men, which some in turn cite as the 'real problem' being 'black culture' and it's crime rate. Of course if the police weren't making up crimes to charge black people with, the black crime rate wouldn't be as high and black people might trust the police more to investigate the actual crime, making the black crime rate to lower even more! Then how are people supposed justify blaming black people for things, and treating them worse?

 

[TurkeysGhost]

LAPD gunned down a bystander, a 14 year old girl, when they opened fire in a store crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Police bullets went through a dressing room wall and killed the uninvolved girl.

The suspect was also killed, though as of yet only seems to have been armed with a cable bike lock

The teenager was at the store in North Hollywood trying on dresses for a quinceañera, an LAPD source confirmed.

Preliminary information released by the Los Angeles Police Department indicated that police rounds penetrated a wall, killing the 14-year-old girl in a dressing room. Authorities said that they found a metal cable next to the suspect whom police officers were confronting but that no gun was recovered.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/2-shot-at-burlington-store-in-north-hollywood-suspect-detained

 

[Darat]

LAPD gunned down a bystander, a 14 year old girl, when they opened fire in a store crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Police bullets went through a dressing room wall and killed the uninvolved girl.

The suspect was also killed, though as of yet only seems to have been armed with a cable bike lock



https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/2-shot-at-burlington-store-in-north-hollywood-suspect-detained

Very bad policing - not one of them had a spare gun to drop by the body?

The police are already trying to justify the "accidental" killing of the girl and the injury of the woman (her mother?)

"Moore said it did not appear that the officer who fired “would have known that there was anyone behind there or that he was looking at anyone other than the suspect and a wall,” but he said every aspect of what occurred and why would be analyzed by LAPD investigators.

“There’s not a police officer in America who would ever want this type of circumstance to occur,” Moore stressed.

...snip...

At a news conference, Choi said the area behind the suspect “just looks like a straight wall.”

Yeah of course we all know internal walls are bullet proof!

 

[shemp]

Cue the lawyers who sue the store for not having bullet-proof walls.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Yeah but the two people could have committed multiple murders at some point in a hypothetical future, so really the cops are heroes if you think about it.

Or well that will be the narrative if either one of them are black. If they are white it might stay a tragedy.

 

[Bob001]

LAPD gunned down a bystander, a 14 year old girl, when they opened fire in a store crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Police bullets went through a dressing room wall and killed the uninvolved girl.

The suspect was also killed, though as of yet only seems to have been armed with a cable bike lock

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/2-shot-at-burlington-store-in-north-hollywood-suspect-detained

From the link:

At the store, authorities encountered a man they said was assaulting someone, and they opened fire, according to preliminary findings by the Police Department. It was not immediately clear what prompted officers to shoot.

Shoot first, ask questions later. Maybe if nothing else, cops need better marksmanship training, so at least they will only hit what they are aiming at.

 

[smartcooky]

Kim Potter guilty in Daunte Wright's death

The idiot cop who "mistook" her gun for her tazer and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop for having air fresheners hanging from his rear view mirror, has been found guilty of first and second degree manslaughter.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/outcome-reached-kim-potter-trial-daunte-wrights-death/story?id=81855781

Maybe the tide is slowly turning on cops who racially profile black people and kill them for no good reason.

 

[smartcooky]

A Propublica article on the technique of 'cover charges'.

Essentially, these are charges used to cover up police misconduct. Things such as 'resisting arrest' are levied against people, usually black men, who have done nothing wrong besides get attacked by cops. Of course these arrests then drive up the arrest rates for black men, which some in turn cite as the 'real problem' being 'black culture' and it's crime rate. Of course if the police weren't making up crimes to charge black people with, the black crime rate wouldn't be as high and black people might trust the police more to investigate the actual crime, making the black crime rate to lower even more! Then how are people supposed justify blaming black people for things, and treating them worse?

"73% of the time someone is arrested on a “cover charge” alone, they’re Black"​

That is a pretty telling statistic!

The term "cover charges" is insufficient to properly describe what these types of charges really are. They should be called "cover my white arse charges"
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[JoeMorgue]

"73% of the time someone is arrested on a “cover charge” alone, they’re Black"​

That is a pretty telling statistic!

The term "cover charges" is insufficient to properly describe what these types of charges really are. They should be called "cover my white arse charges"
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But our racists apologist will be along to go "Oh but I don't see race, therefore I can't see when one race is being treated worse than the other, therefore you're the real racist."

 

[tyr_13]

But our racists apologist will be along to go "Oh but I don't see race, therefore I can't see when one race is being treated worse than the other, therefore you're the real racist."

Hey, if cops can't arrest black people for false charges then the cops can't deal with the out of control crime rate in black neighborhoods. I mean, look at how many resist arrest! /s

 

[Aridas]

Hey, if cops can't arrest black people for false charges then the cops can't deal with the out of control crime rate in black neighborhoods. I mean, look at how many resist arrest! /s

But, but... if it's black cops doing a disproportionate amount of such, that would make it totally not racist, right? /s

 

[smartcooky]

But, but... if it's black cops doing a disproportionate amount of such, that would make it totally not racist, right? /s

Dare I say such cops could be described as Oreos ? /s

 

[JoeMorgue]

How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody

Inside the self-reinforcing ecosystem of people who advise, train and defend officers. Many accuse them of slanting science and perpetuating aggressive tactics.

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

 

[JoeMorgue]

Tennessee cop arrests two Latino men for "hootin' and hollerin'" during his coffee break.

Officer Wes Martin (who I can only assume changed his name from Yosemite Sam) arrest of Carlos Geana and Rodriguez Escobar was filmed. After threatening to and then arresting the men on the made up doesn't exist because it's not actually a crime charge of making too much noise, you can pretty much just watch the moment where he up and invents out of thin air a "Public intoxication because I'm lying that I smell alcohol on your breath" charge.

https://www.comicsands.com/tennesse...i4l-eyLSe4t4-_7mBEh1TrST2wpKQv7eZnK8wIpL7puOY

 

[bluesjnr]

Tennessee cop arrests two Latino men for "hootin' and hollerin'" during his coffee break.

Officer Wes Martin (who I can only assume changed his name from Yosemite Sam) arrest of Carlos Geana and Rodriguez Escobar was filmed. After threatening to and then arresting the men on the made up doesn't exist because it's not actually a crime charge of making too much noise, you can pretty much just watch the moment where he up and invents out of thin air a "Public intoxication because I'm lying that I smell alcohol on your breath" charge.

https://www.comicsands.com/tennesse...i4l-eyLSe4t4-_7mBEh1TrST2wpKQv7eZnK8wIpL7puOY

Wow, that's a messy link right there. Have you a direct link to the video?

 

[gnome]

I get frustrated with those sites, which is about 10% reporting and 90% mining social media for reactions.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Bodycam out of the LAPD snuffing out that 14 year old girl. It's as bad you might imagine. A cop with a rifle is champing at the bit to kill the suspect and wastes no time opening fire. Rifle rounds penetrated the interior walls, killing the bystander.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcdanUhmSY&feature=youtu.be

The man was armed with a cable bike lock, the victim of his attack was already crawling away and largely out of danger by the time the cop with the rifle opened fire.

 

[Nessie]

Bodycam out of the LAPD snuffing out that 14 year old girl. It's as bad you might imagine. A cop with a rifle is champing at the bit to kill the suspect and wastes no time opening fire. Rifle rounds penetrated the interior walls, killing the bystander.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcdanUhmSY&feature=youtu.be

The man was armed with a cable bike lock, the victim of his attack was already crawling away and largely out of danger by the time the cop with the rifle opened fire.

The body cam has just been shown on Sky News in the UK. The cop with the rifle pushes other cops out the way to get to the suspect, he is so desperate to fire his rifle. As you say, the suspect is no danger to anyone, there must be half a dozen cops there. It reminds me of the Daniel Shaver shooting, because the cop is clearly on a mission to use his gun.