Discussion: Report: Supervisors Falsified Training Records For Sheriff's Deputy Charged With Manslaughter

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You leave John McCain out of this. Stay focused.

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Once again we have a case where an unarmed black man is shot and killed by the police and records in connection with the case are falsified. Now, it may have been that the records were falsified prior to the murder, or after, but it doesn’t really matter. Cops lying about things in order to avoid blame should be a prima facia case that they, and everyone involved needs to be cleaned out. The regularity with which this seems to occur should serve as notice to everyone that cops cannot and should not be trusted simple because of their badge. They are not due and deference. They are people just the same as the folks they shoot and kill. They lie, cheat, steal, coverup, abuse, take drugs, drink, drive drunk, all of it.

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I read that their supervisors ordered them to falsify records. I wonder how that will factor into any measure of accountability.

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Not soon enough.

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Any opportunity, no matter how contrived, serves as an excuse to pillory McCain. There is a special corner in Hell he’ll land, solely for allowing his campaign staff that phone call to Sarah Palin.

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Well, now we have a glimmer of understanding of what is wrong with the Secret Service.

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Even assuming for the moment that this guy took some training back in 2007 or 2008, that’s kinda a while ago. Once you have a badge and a gun you get to keep them forever?

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Repost-- of comment a few hours ago:

“This is your Taser
This is your Gun
One is for Killing
One is for Stun”

Got it , DeppityDawg?

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This goes beyond job repercussions. They should be charged with crimes related to their reckless and wanton (or at the very least criminally negligent) assistance in putting an untrained/undertrained man on the street armed with a tazer and firearms and the ostensible authority to use them to “enforce the law.” Their falsification of his training records could, in fact, be found by a jury to be causally related to this old white fool’s execution of a restrained man. Such a mishap was an eminently foreseeable result of arming him and setting him loose on the public.

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Also, he didn’t plant evidence or make up a phony story about the perp going for a weapon.

Amateur.

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That’s why training is important. If he hadn’t bought his way out of his training and certification he would have KNOWN that.

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I believe NPR said that the minimum penalty for his charged crime is $1,000. Fat chance it will be more than that, if that.

The nerve of cops to say “well it’s probably not true because you have no proof” after what we’ve seen lately about reality vs. their versions of what happened.

Something needs to be done to bring cops back into respecting the law. It’s not just that they do these sorts of awful things, although murder/manslaughter is certainly the worst. Their whole mentality is that the law doesn’t apply to them, and that’s as dangerous as it is wrong. I know cops who pay no attention to a few drinks before getting behind the wheel because they know they won’t get in trouble. It even pisses me off when I see them parked in a red zone to go to the ATM. Not because of the measure of the infraction, but because it just shows that their attitude about absolutely everything is that the laws apply to everybody else, but not to them.

I grew up at concerts and on tousr with my father’s work. I always had a laminated all access pass that would allow me to go and do pretty much whatever I wanted. My dad taught me that despite that fact, I had to follow the rules that everybody else followed unless I had good reason to not follow them. He said that if other people saw me breaking the rules without good reason, they would begin to think the rules didn’t matter and then they would stop following them.

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Gary Larson is the best.

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Manslaughter my ass. This was completely predictable. Second degree murder, at least.

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I was not even aware that this kind of shit was allowed. I’d say FBI and Justice Department investigations are in order and Congress needs to act to make this kind of thing illegal, training or no training. I mean, isn’t there a mandatory retirement age for beat cops to begin with?

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I’ll respect them a lot more if they go on record.

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The important message in this saga is that GoP tainted laws and policies are a true threat to All Americans!

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Well, they resemble him in their competence with firearms, that’s for sure.

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Look! An old photo of John McCain when he was in the Navy.

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“He made an error,” Glantz said. “How many errors are made in an operating room every week?”

This. This makes me want to scream and tear my hair out. The lack of humanity in such a statement, the lack of caring for the family of the man shot. The lack of concern for the fact that a 73 year old INSURANCE AGENT who just happens to have deep pockets is being forgiven by the Sheriff’s Department for such a grave error.

How many errors are made in an operating room every week? HOW MANY? I would say NONE because as soon as an error is made and someone dies, the doctor who made that error is SUED. Any competent surgeon would not make errors that result in people’s deaths on a weekly basis! That’s just the stupidest, most FALSE of false equivalencies I’ve EVER heard come out of the mouth of a law enforcement official. He’s basically just saying “Oh whatever. Shit happens. Too bad so sad”

What a DISGUSTING sociopathic ASSHOLE this Sheriff is. And they wonder why people don’t trust the police anymore. It’s SICKENING.

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