You can screw up and damn near kill two innocent women, and you don't have to worry about being fired or seriously disciplined. Because you were 'on edge'.
Let’s recap what these officers did and will now only be required to
take a little more training. Police were searching for Dorner. Two
women happened by the police delivering newspapers in a blue Toyota
Tacoma pickup truck. (Dorner was driving a charcoal Nissan Titan pickup
truck). Without clear identification and without any appearance of a
weapon, the police fired 103 times at the truck.
A Commission has now completed its investigation of the officers and
found that the officers were not at serious fault in trying to kill two
innocent unarmed women and unleashing a wall of lead on a vehicle
The Commission found that
the officers did find that eight officers violated Los Angeles Police
Department policy. However, a violation that results in gunning down an
innocent elderly lady does not appear to be a firing or even suspending
act of misconduct.
But we're supposed to trust you. And believe you don't get special treatment.
The decisions in these two investigations will only reaffirm view of
many that police are beyond increasingly beyond accountability while
police powers are on the rise in our society.
Ya think?
It is also worth noting that citizens are regularly charged when they shoot at officers by mistake under the same chaotic circumstances. They have also been cleared in shooting citizens who appear with a weapon in response to commotion. In the meantime, we have seen officers cleared and even honored in mistaken raids or shootings (here and here and here and here and here and here).
Because they're never wrong. No matter who dies. No matter how they screw up. Because badge.
Read some of the cases he links to in that list bit; if you're not already pissed, you will be.
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