Posted on 07/08/2014 7:08:32 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
But you do know. The questions I asked amounted to 4 no's. Why hide behind some quirk in the law to justify murder?
As far as I am concerned, the incident is over. He has to live with what he did. He knows he murdered the kid. The kid knows he was murdered. He knows, down deep inside, what he is. As previously stated by me, if he was a decent human being, his conscience would bother him. But, as far as it is publically known, that is not the case. In any event, What one sows, one also reaps.
I know the neighborhood, intimately. When I first moved to Santa Rosa, many years ago, I lived 1/4 mile from where the teen was killed.
I still make sales calls in this area. I have never, EVER, felt threatened in this area. The only time I’ve felt threatened was when a SWAT team marched into my house and pointed their weapons at my wife and children while looking for a suspected drug dealer who lived around the corner. If I’d been home I’m fairly certain I would’ve been severely roughed up and/or killed.
You can be an apologist for this officer all you want. In my experience it’s not the Santa Rosa gangbangers who are the real threat....
You may want to have a look at the DA’s report.
http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/documents/da/2014/andy-lopez-information.pdf
“In my experience it’s not the Santa Rosa gangbangers who are the real threat....”
You are welcome to them. Heck, have Chuckie Manson over for brunch. I work in areas where there are illegal grows. These sites are booby trapped and people who wander in to them disappear. You are welcome to your illusions.
You are like my customers who think the wild horse or feral cat is sweet until they are seriously hurt.
He is not a Nazi. He made a mistake. It must be wonderful to have never made one of those or to have a job where your mistakes are meaningless.
The decision is made as to what the perception of the situation was at the time. It was reasonable for him to assume the weapon was real. If you armchair quarterback and judge by what we wish things could have been, good luck getting anyone ever showing up to assist.
This reactionary name calling is what Democrats and progressives love to do. Show yourself above them abnd refrain from such antics.
I appreciate you having the patience to be civil to me. And because of our communication, I bear him no animosity.
This is an addendum to post 147.
I do believe from your responses to me that you are a decent person.
All cases of police violence and abuse against the public need to be evaluated for prosecution by citizen grand juries and not left up to DAs.. Only when citizens start deciding the fate of cops will they start respecting the public. DAs are in the club.
Well, thank you. That is most kind.
May I add that most people are, or think they are doing right. As misguided as Hitler was, I am rather certain he thought he was doing right; bizarre to think about, I know. There are not too many who truly believe they are evil and act evil. Of course that does not make their intention right or good. People still do evil things with good intentions.
I am certain Gelhaus would take the bullets back, if he could. I do not think he had bad intentions. Again, it does not make the outcome right, but I do not think the outcome was evil simply a tragic mistake.
Thanks again.
Like I said, the only people who’ve marched into my house and have stuck weapons in my family’s face have been Sonoma County’s finest....
Ahh that's what it's called when it's not your ox being gored or your life being taken -- a "tragic mistake" that would cost the average citizen 20 years for manslaughter atleast, and will now cost the taxpayers atleast $15 million in a civil suit.
Until they start taking this money out of the police retirement funds and people quit lying to defend them these "tragic mistakes" will continue.
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