Discussion for article #238913
Now, that’s the picture they should show of Tensing in news reports.
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I hope he rots in hell and other various and sundry things
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Sean Hannity will have to spend at least one full evening slot bellyaching about this cop getting a raw deal. He’ll share the desk with three Uncle Toms that agree white people have it real bad.
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I think this guy has a real problem. His bodycam video isn’t remotely related to his story of what happened. I understand that his lawyer is still pushing his report of what happened instead of trying to explain the video. At best the video shows he reached inside the car and grabbed the driver while he was pulling his pistol. The driver’s foot might have come off the brake at that point which might have caused the officer to discharge his pistol. Another way to look the video is the officer reached for the driver with his gun drawn. He shot the driver in the head and the drivers foot came off the brake. Either way the officer was the aggressor. There was no justification for the officer to grab at the driver.
My guess is in 6-12 months the cop pleas to manslaughter.
What’s truly alarming is that, without that video, he’d walk.
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I wonder what municipal insurers’ policies are when death or serious injury occurs to a citizen at the hands of a police officer that is later convicted of a crime relating to the incident? I’d think if settlement payments were withheld in these incidents and cities had to absorb the judgment we’d find police departments training and forcing officers to conduct themselves differently. This kind of stuff has to hurt the purse eventually, doesn’t it? To the point somebody decrees “Knock it the hell off!!!”?
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One of the talking heads on O’Donnell I think it was mentioned that DuBose has 10 children. The lawsuit the family brings must bring a judgment that covers these kids and the rest of his family.
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A way to put him down, I’m sure. Profligate and immoral will be the read - he’s no Duggar. Jesus wept.
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Sad but true. That’s probably the calculus that will shift the behavior, ultimately.
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Behind bars is exactly where he belongs. For life.
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Bring up the UC officer case here, and inevitably some one will shut down your discussion by bringing up the case of a city police officer who was shot dead by an erratic black man in June 
Cincinnati is notoriously resistant to change. Until 10 years ago, only Cincinnatians could be considered for police chief here.
There’s all kinds of loopholes written in legislation protecting these guys as well as the municipalities they work for, but unfortunately not the people they come across everyday. That is why they kill with impunity and get away with it.
If the municipalities experience budget shortfalls based on settlements like these, all they have to do is vote to raise property taxes to recover the funds paid out. So we the taxpayers get screwed either way.
Until the officers themselves are held responsible financially based only on the degree of egregiousness and/or culpability, it likely will not end.
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BTW he is the fourth black guy to be killed by the same PD and they have paid out $3M in settlements to date. Chicken change as far as they are concerned.
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Without the Black Lives Matter protests, this wouldn’t even be in the news. The increased scrutiny is starting to make a difference. Too late to save this guy, but maybe others in the future? Oh, and a big F.U. to privileged assholes like Bill O’Reilly who refuse to admit that there’s even a problem.
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Hey Tensing! Meet your new room mates-- Ben Dover and C Howett Fields.
…and TonyScalia’s lapdog, ClarenceThomas.
Prison rape jokes are beyond the pale offensive.
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We need to change the script for traffic stops. Traffic stops are the major way in which the police interact with the public. Ostensibly, a traffic stop is how we maintain safe roads and enforce rules. However, in reality, a traffic stop is a way for police to single out an individual. When we have many rules that can result in a traffic stop, most of which are enforced very lightly, it is a recipe for abuse. Add to this the war on drugs, and the police now have a motivation to pull traffic over and search them. All of this results in uneven policing, with a reliance on the gut and instinct of the officer to decide who to pull over and what to do.
I suggest we flip things around.
We increase automatic enforcement of traffic rules, and other non-criminal interventions first. If we can reduce the need of police officers to pull people over and harass them, it’s a good thing. Also, automatic enforcement of things like following distance, speeding, and traffic light violations, will increase respect for the written law, and lead to higher compliance over all. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that if the sign says 60 MPH that this is the speed you are expected to actually drive?
We eliminate the “just a warning” system which gives cops the discretion to harass. If a cop pulls you over, the only thing he should do is check to make sure that the driver matches the picture of the registered owner in his car, and issue a ticket without further conversation or harassment.
Increasing automation, removing ambiguity, and removing the chance for a police officer to make so many judgements over exactly which motorists to harass is how I think we move on.
Asking white people to stop being assholes helps too.
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