The war on cops, another chapter

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wayneh

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For the record, the "War on Cops" title refers to what's going on in the political arena, not on the streets. The anti-cop rhetoric from politicians has spilled into the streets, but the useful idiots in the street aren't to blame for the war.
 

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I seem to be accomplishing my primary goal in the War on Cops, personal desensitization. After about 50 days of looking at news about police misconduct, I am feeling more and more like, "This isn't news". Another reporter arrested for filming, years after the Supreme Court ruled that there are absolutely no limits on filming the police in public. Another, "wellness check" ends up with the police killing the person after they were sent to insure her wellness. Another child shot because the cop missed the puppy, who promptly didn't bite him. Another windshield busted by a person's face because, "contempt of cop". Another wrong address and the home owner is killed because he had no suspicion that the armed men kicking down his door were LEOs. Another police chief indicted for over 100 counts of criminal activity. Two more cases of cops raping women at traffic stops. Three more narcs arrested for robbing drug dealers. And a partridge in a pear tree.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/
https://www.policemisconduct.net/
https://reason.com/
http://www.copblock.org/
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/
http://www.rutherford.org/
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/
https://www.eff.org/
https://www.rt.com/usa/
 

nsaspook

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wayneh

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Where is the outrage?
It's all around, but it doesn't align with any current media agenda. Move along, nothing to see.

They keep trying to blame guns but I don't think anybody is really buying that anymore. So they go silent and instead focus their outrage on men talking about groping women.
 

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wayneh

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Criminals have always been at war with cops. What's new is political leaders joining in. This nut-bag might have been politically motivated, but it seems more like a personal thing.
 

nsaspook

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That took a long time.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/16/us/officer-charged-philando-castile-killing/index.html
(CNN)The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi announced Wednesday.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...philando-castile-is-charged-with-manslaughter
Choi says that when Castile was stopped July 6 in Falcon Heights, Minn., the car was registered under his name and his license was not suspended. Choi did not release dashcam video, but described it as showing Castile turning over his proof of insurance and then "calmly and in a non-threatening manner" informing the officer that he was carrying a weapon.

Yanez warned Castile not to reach for the gun. He shot Castile seven times within a minute of the traffic stop.

Castile's final words were, "I wasn't reaching for it."

Investigators found Castile's gun inside his pocket. They also found his Minnesota driver's license and his permit to carry a weapon.
A bad shoot.
 
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nsaspook

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Tamir Rice was a sad case but it was completely different from the Castile stop. Don't try to mix the two, it makes you look totally uninformed about reality.
http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2015/12/30/prosecutor-indisputable-tamir-rice-drawing-gun-shot/
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said that U.S. Justice Department guidelines forced him to tell a grand jury that the enhanced security camera footage clearly showed that Tamir Rice was in the act of drawing a realistic replica handgun from his waistband when he was shot. Cleveland officer Timothy Loehmann were forced to fire as a result of Rice’s poor decision to draw the airsoft gun from his waistband as a squad car came to a stop just ten feet away.
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McGinty said the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s manual says a prosecutor must tell a grand jury when substantial evidence refutes the guilt of the target in the investigation.

Prosecutors decided they couldn’t get a conviction after seeing enhanced surveillance footage of the shooting, he said.
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The grand jury concluded that the officer and his partner reasonably believed that it was a real gun and that their lives were in danger, prosecutors said.

It was “indisputable” that the boy was drawing the pistol from his waistband when he was shot, McGinty said earlier this week. He said Tamir was trying to either hand the weapon over to police or show them it wasn’t real, but the patrolmen had no way of knowing that.
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Conservatively, Loehmann had at least three seconds to made his decision to fire. How long do officers typically have to make the life-or-decision decision to employ deadly force? Roughly 21-hundredths of a second. The average reaction time of officers is 1.5 seconds. Loehmann had plenty of time to make his decision, and based upon the evidence he had of an unknown hooded figure drawing a gun as his vehicle stopped mere feet away, his decision was clearly the correct one, even of the outcome turned out to be a tragedy.
 

nsaspook

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Note to self, check the CCW permit expiration date.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...unman-Pizza-Shop-Bucks-County--401397196.html
An armed customer who shot and killed a masked robber and injured the suspect's brother inside a Bucks County pizza shop Tuesday night will not be charged despite having an expired permit to carry a concealed weapon, according to the Bucks County District Attorney.
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Two brothers, later identified as Shawn Rose, 24, and Justin Rose, 22, entered the shop carrying realistic-looking airsoft guns, according to Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub.
 
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