The former Punta Gorda police officer who shot and killed a retired librarian during a training exercise last August is suing his department’s pension board for refusing to grant him a disability pension for post-traumatic stress he claims to suffer as a result of the killing. [More]We've talked about this shameless, incompetent parasite before. It looks to me like he's also going for sympathy in his pending manslaughter trial.
[Via Neil W]
When I was a kid, I learned an old joke about a boy who killed his parents and then begged the court for mercy because he was an orphan.
ReplyDeleteHow, in America, did self-evident absurdities become deserving of serious consideration? Back then, this was the kind of argument that would get you an immediate backhand from anybody within reach.
"How, in America, did self-evident absurdities become deserving of serious consideration?"
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He also probably wishes that hr gets a jury like the one that acquitted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate:
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chutz·pah
ReplyDelete/ˈho͝otspə,ˈKHo͝otspə/
nouninformal
noun: chutzpah; noun: chutzpa; plural noun: chutzpas; noun: hutzpah; plural noun: hutzpahs; noun: hutzpa; plural noun: hutzpas
shameless audacity; impudence.
synonyms: audacity, cheek, guts, nerve, boldness, temerity
"it took a lot of chutzpah for her to walk in on Owen's bachelor party"