Discussion for article #230669
Who is the victim?
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We demand body camera’s! NOW!!!
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I am still trying to figure out why police unions would ever oppose body cameras.
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Peruse their reports. The officers who shot Tamir Rice made claims of demanding “three times…” which the video makes difficult to believe.
Body cameras may be less important than a voice recording within the patrol car. Body cameras collect so much data as to make its review cumbersome. Departments have/will not hire the resources of people or secure archival storage necessary.
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“only to then be placed on restricted duty again for political reasons, according to CNN.”
A telling turn of phrase. The way to write that sentence would have been to start the entire thing with “According to CNN,” but (setting aside the comma) leaving the “according to CNN” at the end makes it sound even more like CNN is the entity opining that they were put on restricted duty for political reasons (not the lawsuit’s allegations)…and as we know, CNN (and the rest of the MSM) just LOVE to mix fact with a manufactured narrative, particularly if it involves absolving white cops of shooting black people.
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I choose to read that as sarcasm hehe 
Why…the white people of course.
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Those poor oppressed white police officers!
They have such a difficult existence, always fighting against the institutional reverse-racism that keeps them from fully participating in society.
Oh, the humanity!
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An attorney is going to make out on this suit. The cops sure as hell aren’t.
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Seriously? They should be glad they still have jobs and aren’t on trial.
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That must have been a hell of a line up picking which cops get trashed worse than the others involved.
Oh wait my bad. It’s color coded: white, black, brown and shades of brown,black and white.
Now for the definition of “harsh” according to the dead people involved. “Deadly Force Works”
I must be old fashioned, but I really don’t see why the police should shoot anyone unless they are being shot at themselves.
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Look at the bright side…I think he just admitted that African Americans are people. That’s progress.
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I think that you should talk to any hearing impaired person. Reading lips is a very legitimate way of discerning what is being said, or not said, as in the case of Tamir Rice. It’s clear from the footage that the officers never said anything to the child, they just opened up on him, without justification.
That aside, I would not disagree with you in the least at requiring cameras and audio recorders on all police persons. After all, weight, bulk and storage capacity has ceased to be a legitimate objection to this requirement through advances in technology.
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Man that got that crap down pat don’t they? I shot him but I’m the victim! GOP cops (and many, many cops VOTE GOP) have learned how to work the system. Corrupt system.
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So how exactly do they think they should be treated when they killing people? Medals? Parades? TV Show?? Hero praise?
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Well, the attorneys may regret filing such a frivolous lawsuit, depending on the crankiness of the judge they appear before. Federal Courts now are freely granting attorneys fees and costs to the winning party on a motion to dismiss for failing to state a cause of action. A particularly surly judge might even add contempt fees as a punitive deterrent against the lawyers.
Oh, and by the way, those kinds of costs and penalties are normally specified by the judge as being the responsibility of the attorneys, not the clients. And frequently such idiocy as this garners a notice to the Bar’s disciplinary committee, making it even worse for these attorneys. I can’t think of a nicer bunch of jackasses to have all this dumped on them.
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It makes no sense to me that police would see themselves as treated harshly when they kill someone. Are we supposed to think they “did good” when they kill and unarmed person? As it is the police generally get to walk when a death is involved in the course of what they do. The courts are lenient because of the nature of what cops do. I think excessively so in too many cases. I think Darren Wilson should have been indicted. Now, an indictment isn’t the same as being found guilty and it’s not a trial. But it would have gone a long way to calming Ferguson down. A trial would have sorted the facts out far better than being exonerated by a grand jury. As it is people feel that the police in America are above the law.
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