Megathread of Bad Cops

[xBMTx]

https://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/fredericksburg-settles-lawsuit-alleging-excessive-force-in-use-of-taser-against-motorist/article_e857dbad-4613-56e8-9056-779e71fc41bd.html

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Washington’s lawsuit claimed he was in "obvious and critical need of emergency medical care” and never gave police a reason to believe he posed a threat. It lists the city, Jurgens, and Officers Matt Deschenes and Crystal Hill as defendants.

The suit claimed Deschenes and Hill held Washington at gunpoint for several minutes as he sat unresponsive in the driver’s seat of his stopped car. The officers asked him to show his hands and exit the car, but Washington could not do so because he had suffered from a stroke while driving.

 

[xBMTx]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-ca

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A woman in the US state of Kentucky was shot and killed by police after they raided the wrong address, according to a lawsuit.

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician (EMT), was shot eight times when officers entered her apartment in Louisville on 13 March.

They were executing a search warrant as part of a drugs investigation, but no drugs were found in the property.

The lawsuit accuses the officers of wrongful death and excessive force.

It was filed by Ms Taylor's family last month and says the officers were not looking for her or her partner - but for an unrelated suspect who was already in custody and did not live in the apartment complex.

 

[xBMTx]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ups-hijacking-gun-battle-florida-killed-two-nearly-200-shots-n1104961

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Nearly 200 shots were fired during a gun battle between police and robbery suspects in South Florida earlier this month that ended in the deaths of a UPS driver who had been taken hostage and a 70-year-old bystander, state officials said Wednesday.

 

[Alpha_TATEr]

this should be good.

[xBMTx]

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/police-officers-who-shot-two-innocent-women-103-times-wont-be-fired/357771/

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The eight Los Angeles police officers who shot at two women over 100 times will not lose their jobs. They won't even be suspended. They'll just get some additional training.

 

They'll need it, since the shooting happened at the height of the manhunt for cop-killer Christopher Dorner, when police mistook two women delivering newspapers in a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck for one man hellbent on revenge in a charcoal Nissan Titan pickup truck and shot at them 103 times. One of the women, who was 71 at the time, was hit twice in the back. The second woman was hit by broken glass. I would say those cops should get some training in target practice, but then it's probably best for innocent newspaper carriers that they don't.

 

[Paul852]

Don't worry, there will be a resurgence of "Blue Lives Matter" signs on lawns now. They went on a bit of a hiatus when people were upset that they couldn't get haircuts.

[mr_hunt]

[Mike030270]

2 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

Thousands?

[mr_hunt]

3 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Thousands?

stats show around 1,000 people shot to death by police in both 2018 & 2019...most undoubtedly in self defense & justified, i'm guessing.  but yeah, over the years...thousands. 

[Mike030270]

2 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

stats show around 1,000 people shot to death by police in both 2018 & 2019...most undoubtedly in self defense & justified, i'm guessing.  but yeah, over the years...thousands. 

I was curious if they were mixing justified shootings with non-justified shootings

[mr_hunt]

Just now, Mike030270 said:

I was curious if they were mixing justified shootings with non-justified shootings

idk, man. i just saw the pic posted on instagram. i didn't vet it.   

[NOTW]

Kz will be starting a topic to dig into the victim's dark pasts to reveal their thuggery such as:

• purchasing beer under 21
• not returning a Red box DVD on time
• HOA fines for lawn not mowed
• getting detention for talking in class too much
• using another person's Netflix account

 

[dawkins4prez]

2 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Kz will be starting a topic to dig into the victim's dark pasts to reveal their thuggery such as:

• purchasing beer under 21
• not returning a Red box DVD on time
• HOA fines for lawn not mowed
• getting detention for talking in class too much
• using another person's Netflix account

 

In all fairness, exes using Netflix accounts do deserve firing squad.  So my salary wasn't good enough for you but you can't lay 8 bucks for Netflix? That's evil man, evil.

[Mike030270]

6 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

idk, man. i just saw the pic posted on instagram. i didn't vet it.   

Lol you didn't fact check your meme!

[mr_hunt]

5 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Kz will be starting a topic to dig into the victim's dark pasts to reveal their thuggery such as:

• purchasing beer under 21
• not returning a Red box DVD on time
• HOA fines for lawn not mowed
• getting detention for talking in class too much
• using another person's Netflix account

 

yeah, when situations like this arise & you find yourself always arguing the side of those opposite the poc, you gotta wonder.... 

[NOTW]

Just now, Mike030270 said:

Lol you didn't fact check your meme!

The "left" only fact checks "the right" memes.

 

[mr_hunt]

2 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Lol you didn't fact check your meme!

chuck d posted it, brah.  he wouldn't make sheet up. 

and it says killed by police...which they were.

[mr_hunt]

3 hours ago, mr_hunt said:

no big deal....just a 68 y/o black woman & her son thrown down on the ground & arrested at sam's club for picking up a tv they purchased. 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/missouri-prosecutor-investigating-brutal-arrest-caught-video-n1211956

Derek Gray, who lives in Virginia, was first accused of stealing the large TV after he purchased it for his mother on March 23. The store had agreed to hold it because it wouldn’t fit in his SUV with his other purchases, the lawsuit said. But when Gray returned later that day, he was initially told he was suspected of stealing the TV, even though he had a receipt, attorney Andrew Stroth said.

Although an employee confirmed that the TV was purchased, a police officer in the store followed Gray when he took it to his vehicle, the lawsuit said.

Gray and his mom decided to return to the TV after he told her what had happened. The lawsuit said that while the Grays were at the store seeking a refund, four officers "violently and physically seized Marvia Gray and Derek Gray, throwing them to the floor, beating them, handcuffing them, then arresting them.”

not a murder this time.  this one got buried in the minny thread. 

 

[xBMTx]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey

 

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On July 18, 2016, Charles Kinsey, a mental health therapist, was shot by police in North Miami, Florida. Kinsey had been retrieving his 23-year-old patient with autism, Arnaldo Rios Soto, who had wandered from his group home. Police encountered the pair while searching for an armed suicidal man. Kinsey was lying on the ground with his hands in the air and trying to negotiate between officers and his patient when he was shot.

Both Kinsey and his patient were unarmed. Following the shooting, Kinsey said he was handcuffed and left bleeding on the ground for 20 minutes with police giving him no medical aid. Authorities said they were investigating the incident, which received significant media attention following the appearance of cellphone video footage. The officer who shot Kinsey was arrested in 2017 and charged with attempted manslaughter and negligence. However, he remains employed and has not been terminated.

 

 

[mr_hunt]

^^^ ahh...i remember that one.  again, the only reason any of us know about it is because it was caught on video. 

[20dawk4life]

[PoconoDon]

Counterpoint.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2016/08/12/police-officers-positive-work-crane/88410664/

 

[Kz!]

There's not shortage of bad, under-trained, undisciplined cops out there. It's a sad reality of the world we live in. The profession just doesn't attract the best and brightest always. I think it's important to remember that cops, by the nature of their jobs, have to deal with the worst society has to offer on a daily basis. Interactions like this one are incredibly common:

There's no harm in striving for justice, and, yes, the Minneapolis officer and many posted here should face repercussions, but we should still keep perspective. Police killings are still statistically rare justified or not. It just doesn't happen as often as our media would like us to believe. The over-sensationalizing of this event will undoubtedly lead to more death and violence if our media doesn't start reporting it honestly. If this is truly about limiting deaths, propagating the lie that blacks are unsafe to walk the streets because of trigger-happy cops will only lead to increased tensions and more mistakes and tragedies. Let's be responsible and keep perspective. 

[VanHammersly]

Cops should be paid more.

[Kz!]

1 hour ago, mr_hunt said:

yeah, when situations like this arise & you find yourself always arguing the side of those opposite the poc, you gotta wonder.... 

In what ways have I argued against blacks in the Minneapolis incident, hunt?