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Cleveland police officers punished for 137-bullet chase
CBS News ^
| 6-11-2013
| CBS News
Posted on 06/11/2013 12:31:36 PM PDT by deport
The city fired a police sergeant, demoted two other supervisors and suspended nine more
Tuesday for their roles in the chase in which officers fired 137 shots and killed a fleeing driver
and his passenger.
....
Of the 276 officers on duty on the evening of Nov. 29, 104 were involved in some way in the chase.
Russell was shot 23 times and Williams 24 after a half-hour pursuit.
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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biggestgangintown; cleveland; donutwatch; keystonecops; leo; police
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:31:36 PM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
How about sending them to the range for practice instead?
2
posted on
06/11/2013 12:33:26 PM PDT
by
Mouton
(108th MI Group.....68-71)
To: deport
We have to demand that LEO’s have an IQ greater than 60. I suggest at least 90. Any higher than that they’ll notice they have better opportunities at McDonald’s.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:33:29 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
I read an article several years ago where a man had been rejected for a job as a police officer because his IQ was too high.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:35:54 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: deport
Gees itlooks like they were using some those Billions of rounds HLS has purchased!
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:35:55 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: deport
137 slugs....cutting into the DHS supply I see
To: deport; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
How many dogs did they hit?
To: deport
It’s like Clint Eastwood’s bus ride in “The Gauntlet.” Every cop in the area got in a few shots.
To: deport; Revolting cat!
Of the 276 officers on duty on the evening of Nov. 29, 104 were involved in some way in the chase.
To: Blood of Tyrants
The premise of the, “Your IQ is too high so we won’t hire you” is this; cop training is expensive and brainy guys get bored and quit soon, draining resources.
That’s what the high court said, anyway.
But the consensus among street cops is that that was artifice —that the real reason was AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.
Looks really bad if all the guys in the back of the squad are 1 or 2 races, and then the drivers on the other side of the cage are always 1 or 2 races.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:39:39 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: deport
In the words of Roland Deschain, “They’ve forgotten the faces of their fathers”.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:40:32 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: deport
Dare I ask why they were chasing 137 bullets? What a sloppily written headline!
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:44:30 PM PDT
by
NRA1995
(I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
To: Mouton
LOL; my first chuckle of the day.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:44:38 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: Red_Devil 232
A reasonable explanation as to why so many rounds were purchased—These gubmint clowns couldn’t hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle.
Thanks for your service!
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:45:45 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
To: SkyDancer
We have to demand that LEOs have an IQ greater than 60.Good luck, the state has more than one use for Useful Idiots.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:45:58 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: deport
Got them dead .... damn sure dead.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:48:36 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(An ignorant electorate kept Slow Joe from his true calling as a circus clown or union thug.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
I read an article several years ago where a man had been rejected for a job as a police officer because his IQ was too high.After which Jay Leno's writers penned the little ditty
"Dumb cops, Dumb cops, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do with a low IQ?".
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:49:18 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Arm_Bears
These gubmint clowns couldnt hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle.....It’s why they went to automatics. Lots of noise, lots of damage but few hits. Wheel gun, 2-3 shots, somebody dead or disabled.
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posted on
06/11/2013 12:52:25 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: deport
A 7 round magazine limit might not be a bad idea for some cops.
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posted on
06/11/2013 1:00:57 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Mouton
Well apparently they hit their target 47 times, which is a pretty good hit ratio.
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posted on
06/11/2013 1:02:38 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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