Discussion for article #234659
Pittsburg and Philadelphia with Alabama in between. Just sayin’.
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If the victim is white, she will be charged and convicted. If black, she will not even be charged. It’s very predictable.
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She should be facing the death penalty
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I can’t get over that 4 second gap
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Neither can the victim.
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When the drive speeds off after a cop tries to pull them over, then gets out of the car and runs, it stops being a “routine traffic stop” as the family’s attorney claims. Not that the guy deserved to be killed, but there certainly were some odd circumstances to try to paint some pollyanna picture of it.
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This is the primary reason all police should wear cameras. If I were a cop, I would want one - in order to prove my actions were either justified or reasonable under the circumstances. No one unarmed should be dead as the result of a traffic stop, but…a camera would certainly record whether an officers “feared for his/her life” defense is reasonable. I think it is dangerous for us as a society to “determine guilt” before all facts are weighed.
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So they say. I grew up in rural upstate New York. People look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them some of the backwoods towns and living I saw in Mississippi (when I visited friends) reminded me of where I grew up in New York. Sadly, the sentiments of my fellow Caucasians in New York weren’t that different than MS - and still aren’t. Glad I left NY long ago.
Racist South? Sure. Northerners are just “smarter” about how they go about their “business”.
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Lawyers for Kassick’s family and estate issued a statement: “Thank god he was white or we’d be watching her walk free.”
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Sad but true. Whenever I’m watching one of those “COPS!” type shows, I always mention to my wife when a black guy is being arrested, “I wonder if he realizes how lucky he is because it’s all being filmed”.
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Hardly lucky if it’s a wrongful death suit. If he can manage to survive a beating, then he might be int he money tho.
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I’m assuming the ones that might result in death are never televised. Tapes are probably burned, with the real cops forcing the camera crews at gunpoint to do so. My point - which I think you get - is that if there were no cameras, that poor bastard would probably be dead at the hands of some cops who were washing dishes in their previous job.
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Mearkle, 36, told investigators she fired because he would not show her his hands and she thought he was reaching into his jacket for a gun.
Because someone who has just been hit with 50,000 volts is in complete control of all of his bodily functions.
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And not a single thing in this report indicated that her life was in any danger. So what’s your point again?
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It’s important to remember that it’s 2015, and in this day and age most police receive military style training, so they’re trained to treat every engagement as a military encounter rather than a civilian encounter. The number of offenses that will get you shot probably now outnumber the ones that won’t, so always assume in any situation that the officer intends to kill you.
Until people start treating encounters with officers in the same way that they’d treat an encounter with an armed criminal, we’re going to see reports like this. At least as long as we keep training police to be soldiers and not punlic servants.
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The cop started wondering if she could predict his actions or not.
But Tamir Rice only got 2 seconds.
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“a tragedy for all involved”
Just not quite to the same extent and quality.
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Did her lawyer get pictures of the tire marks that press release from her department left on her back? She might as well start working on her cop in prison survival plan.
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