Posted on 11/06/2013 8:32:18 AM PST by Rusty0604
LOUISIANA, MO. -- The Missouri State Fire Marshal continues its investigation into an early morning Thursday fire that took the life of a 3-year-old Louisiana, Mo. boy. A city police officer stunned Riley's stepfather Ryan Miller with a Taser gun three times as he tried to enter the burning house. Lori Miller, Riley's grandmother, said police stunned Ryan Miller as he tried to get back in the house.
“He tried to get back in the house to get the baby,” Lori Miller said. “They took my son to jail because he tried to save his son.”
Ryan Miller's sister-in-law doesn't think the police handled the situation correctly.
"It's just heartless. How could they be so heartless? And while they all just stood around and waited for the fire department, what kind of police officer wouldn't try and save a three year old burning in a house?" said Emily Miller. "We've been going through pictures and he's just smiling in every picture. He was just a happy, go-lucky kid."
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Well said.
I demand the right to die trying to save my kid. It doesn’t take a panel to make that decision for me. Woe unto anyone trying to stop me.
I understand your point, but it does not give then an excuse for bad behavior. The absolutely rampant abuse of steroids by LEOs is probabaly a bigger contributing factor than anything coming in from the culture. ‘Roid rage looks bad on anybody.
The cop should have just turned his head and crossed his fingers.
But you know what? The man is alive and now has the cop to blame which is better than being dead or Alive and riddled by guilt for the rest of his life.
So the consensus on the thread is:
(1) The cop should have committed suicide by walking into an inferno or
(2) Should have watched someone else commit suicide by walking into an inferno.
Many deep, analytical thinkers here.
Yeah, poor guy, he'll have to retire at 50 years old with $80,000 per year...In fact with all this stress, like so many others in government, he'll likely do a medical retirement and add another 40k a year to his pension to help him get through this.
However, she feels entitled to blame the cop for not going inside and for preventing the child's stepfather from not going inside.
No way she was burning to death - but her husband and the cop should have.
Police are mere public servants. We don't pay them to play god.
yes, it is.
What good will a dead father be to his other child?
It does not relieve anyone else from the moral responsibility he has to prevent you from killing yourself.
Nope, it’s nothing like you see on TV is it.
When I was in high school a friend of mine and I got 3 people out of a burning house.
Man, his wife, and 5yo grandson.
We would get them out and they would go back inside.
Got the old man out 3 times, the old woman 4 times, and the 5yo kid 3 times.
Old woman kept telling the kid to go back to bed.
Fire was in the back of the house and there was a closed door between the back of the house and the front.
I went back in one last time to make sure no one else had gone back in again when the fire burned through the door.
I didn’t make it through the screen door on my own, the fire ball blew me through the screen door.
The whole house was one big fireball in seconds.
I agree with you, too many people get their idea of reality from TV.
A decent human being does not stand around and watch someone kill himself and no one can tell me or anyone else that I have any obligation to just watch a suicide and do nothing about it.
Not the cop’s call to make. He doesn’t own this man or his family.
Repeating a morally flawed statement three, or even three hundred, times does not magically make it unflawed.
Did they keep returning because they wanted to salvage property, or because they were too unintelligent/mentally incapacitated by age/smoke inhalation/illness to realize they were returning to a deathtrap?
And while we are on the sublject of decent human beings, a decent human being would have tried to save the child. Our erstwhile cop instead assaulted the only person on the scene willing to do so.
The man was on his own property trying to save his child. What was his crime that made a father`s rights "imaginary"? And have you told your children that under a cop`s orders, you`d see them burn?
I’m sorry as a former LEO I would take my pound of flesh from this guy and damn the consequences.
I think we agree. I don’t think it gives LEOs an excuse for bad behaviour either.
You are insane. Nobody has the right to keep you from entering a burning house to save your child. The offending officer wold pay the price from me personally first chance I got and I’ll fade the heat in court.
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