A white police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black woman holding her 1-year-old son thought he was being fired upon by a drug dealer when he pulled the trigger, his attorney said Tuesday.Turns out his fellow raiders were the "Only Ones" who fired...
Eight months maximum sentence...? Really?
And an all white jury in a community with a substantial black population?
Oh, this should end well.
[Via The Price of Liberty]
I just assume that governments at all levels don't care, because they no longer think they need to. After Waco and Kelo, what can happen if they do something we don't like? Angry emails? They get those anyway because half of everyone doesn't like what they do anyway.
ReplyDeleteSerial malfeasance is like serial killing. They will do it regardless of the law and public opinion until there are real, tangible consequences.
Exactly Defender. I also like how they try to blame everyone BUT the cop who pulled the trigger. Would you or I get the same treatment? NO! We would be charged with multiple felonies.
ReplyDeleteI used to live in Lima, I am not surprised. Every Lima cop I ever met there was a thug. And they have carte blanche.
ReplyDeletereal and immediate consequences are the only way this shit is going to stop. Pretty damn hard for District Attorney lower consequences for a corpse.
But they keep pushing for it. What kind of reception will these bastards get next time in that neighborhood?
There was a kid in Decatur,Il who was accused of vandalizing a school. He was 16. The cops beat a confession out of him. The court would not let him retract his confession and claimed not to believe him. After 7 years in the pen where he was greatly abused, another person was arrested and turns out he was the guilty party for the school vandalism also.
It took the kid's lawyer 2 years to get him released. The day he was released he was met at the gate by cops, rearrested for filing a false confession. He was convicted and sent back to prison.
After being paroled for that conviction and several months had passed he got drunk one night, called in an anonymous complaint to the police dept. for the trailer park where he lived. When a squad car showed up with two officers he opened fire on them. he was too drunk to hit them.
The DA had the unmitigated gall to wonder aloud in a press interview what could have made this man so hostile to the police. No shit.
Anyway, this kind of stuff will keep up until people not to drunk start being successful at it unless there is fundamental change in the disparity of the application of the law.