Here's an update on a story from my neck of the woods. Last December, a Cop...got pissed at the owner of a meat market for not putting hot pepper flake in his jerky. The argument escalated until the Cop pulled his gun on the store owner.We discussed this jerk...uh...jerky a while back.
And naturally, his fellow investigating "Only Ones" wanted to clear their trained professional and file charges against the guy who brought a box of venison to a gun fight.
[Via xilch2004]
More and more we see this carte blanche for any bad behavior a cop wishes to indulge.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson they are teaching and one that is starting to resonate with former respecters of Law Enforcement is not one police officers will be happy to have the public learn.
That lesson is that if you are assaulted by a police officer, the only justice you will get is that which you exact yourself. Due to the evident one sided review of such incidents, it is far better if the corrected officer is unable to testify and/or perjure himself. It also removes the pressure on other officers to show unity with a criminal in uniform.
The process of rendering an officer unable to testify is not one that anybody sane would like to see become commonplace. However, there seems to be a certain inevitability factor at play when more and more decent citizens are afraid of their police officers and more and more of those decent citizens realize that the fear is justified. Especially so, since more and more police officers realize they will not be held accountable for criminal behavior, making law enforcement a perfect recruiting ground for the sociopaths among us.
"The prosecutors reasoned that, as a police officer, Evans has a heightened sense about predicting what a person is going to do."
ReplyDeleteDidn't Tom Cruise star in this movie?
Yeah, this cop just knew that this market manager was going to drop a 10# box of meat, and before it hit the ground he was going to reach under his apron, dig into his coveralls, pull his roscoe out of his deep cover inside-waist-band hoster and try to terrify a customer into buying something he didn't want.
ReplyDeleteSo, just to make sure there was no intimidation in this commercial transaction, the cop took preemptive action.
It sounds so logical when you explain it right.