Seattle police Sgt. Rich O'Neill, president of the Seattle Police Officer's Guild, said he had not been contacted regarding the shooting, but said that officers have a right to protect themselves and should be given the benefit of the doubt while the allegations are investigated.And I give Sgt. O'Neill the benefit of the doubt that he would have made an identical statement had the gunfire come from the Hells Angels rather than the Iron Pigs, and that none of them would have been arrested.
Don't you?
[Via MacEntyre]
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By what authority is the Seattle homicide team being sent to S.D.? Do you reckon they'll be greeted with open arms.
Jesus Christ, their guy hasn't even been arrested. How much of a damn break do they think is enoug?
Don't forget--this occurred at a bar. I wonder if anyone decided to see how many drinks the cop had downed before the incident. You know they would've assumed any Hell's Angel was drunk.
Funny thing is, I'd trust a Hell's Angel before I'd trust a cop.
See, here in SD, we are not allowed to carry in establishments that derive more than 50% of their income from alcohol sales. This being the Loud American, a very prominent bar in downtown Sturgis, that should have been abundantly clear.
However. I was at a MG shoot east of town that day and several LEOs showed up to shoot. I was working on getting some stuff back on the firing line and overheard that the officers that were present at the MG shoot had been at the LA as repsonders. From what I was able to overhear, it seems, at least to them anyway, that the shooting was entirely justified. Go figure, eh?
Anyway, here is the latest on the incident from the Rapid City Urinal. http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2008/08/12/news/local/doc48a1919e004c9263412824.txt
The Seattle police officer who reportedly shot a known member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang at a weeklong rally in South Dakota was previously disciplined, once for taunting fans at a football game and another time for allegedly threatening to shoot a restaurant manager who had asked him to leave.
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