Discussion for article #235655
The only way this all stops is for new rules regulating when a cop can discharge his weapon…the old-tried-and-true-cover-it-up excuse of " I feared for my life" bullshit needs to end. My recommendation would be this one time…“when you are drawn on then may you return deadly fire…all other times you will find non lethal methods” No killing over screw drivers, Skittles, skateboards, etc etc etc…“only when a gun is being drawn shall you draw in return”…that’s how the rest of the western world deals with this. I just don’t understand why killing someone is the first option, not the last. Yes, you pull a gun out on a cop and get shot then you got what you deserved…but no other time does a person deserve to be killed, tased or bean bagged, yes, but not killed. And how does a cop shoot someone in the back 3 times and claim self defense when you have a gun and they dont?
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Her lawyers say she acted in self-defense.
Of course they did.
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How about some proportionality to the offense? Police are supposed to be trained to defuse a situation, but day after day we’re seeing capital punishment for expired stickers, a non-working headlamp, a bench warrant for delinquent child support, and small-bore traffic violations by bicyclists.
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You obviously haven’t seen the latest kung-fu films, where people restrained face down magically flip up off the ground, spin around in mid air, and administer a lethal strike to their captors.
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Police say the video from the stun gun of Hummelstown Police Officer
Lisa Mearkle shows her shooting 59-year-old David Kassick twice …
Wait - she had her stun gun out as well and didn’t use that instead? W. T. F.?
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i’m unclear if she shot him with a stun gun or a real gun?
update: ah, apparently she shot him with both. “Mearkle then incapacitated the man with a stun gun in her left hand, but she fired two shots into his back with a gun in her right hand.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2027308/david-kassick-death-video-footage-allegedly-showing-officer-lisa-mearkle-firing-two-shots-in-unarmed-mans-back-could-soon-be-released/#GQVW4KjUAqFevssh.99
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It’s something they put out there in case there’s no video or what there is never goes public and viral. Nobody takes it SERIOUSLY, fcol. Now that the video’s out, okay, fine, they’ll start working on some other product line.
I really am getting tired of TPM posting pictures without a caption. I assume this is the guy who was killed, but other times, I’m left to wonder who the fuck the picture is of.
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This is the correct approach! B’mo PD, will have to face the music no later than next Friday, May 1, 2015. However, it looks very bad for them to take nearly 2weeks to produce it!
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Hey… They needed the time to find good video editing software…
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Or they had a vacation in the Bahamas already planned and of course shooting an unarmed person in the back while they lay incapacitated on the ground should never interfere with a cop’s vacation.
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