Posted on 02/13/2020 1:48:35 PM PST by Abby4116
Ditto all that..!!!
That was a bad / wrong thing to say...and you owe some FReepers an apology.
I answered a question asked in post 6, I wasn’t commenting on the article.
Is a dog lethal force...in your opinion?
No, I’ve already addressed this several times in the thread.
Thanks!
At the local level, no one made a complaint against her. The Feds charged her five years after the incident.
But, she was never acquitted. The trial ended in a hung jury, so the case went to trial a second time, and that’s when she was convicted.
Yes, it’s possible the other officers threw her under the bus to save themselves. I mentioned the same possibility earlier. I’m not arguing that she wasn’t thrown under the bus by the Feds or anyone else.
Just trying to understand the case myself and get the facts straight. Every news article says something a little bit different.
Even worse.
“The courts banned the use of lethal force on a fleeing suspect many years ago.”
It had to be done through the courts because such legislation would never have passed. That’s something that needs to be reversed, ASAP.
Other police officers testified against her.
And just now learning that another officer there was charged, too, and that the men were sleeping on the roof.
Too much info is missing from these news articles. None of us can know whether she was truly guilty or not.
But, the sentence of 10 years sounds extreme for a dog bite.
For real???
It was a deliberate political witch hunt during that era, and the Federal prosecutors involved just didn't give a sh*t if someone was innocent or not, they just wanted scalps they could present to their boss.
Given what I have been told of his experience, I have absolutely no confidence in the integrity of the prosecutors that prosecuted this woman. Even on the face of it, the case doesn't sound right. Given the facts claimed from the differing sides, at worst she made a mistake in judging the intentions of a suspect. The suspect was not even badly hurt. Certainly not to the extent that she deserved 10 years in prison.
For that kind of sentence, the suspect should have been crippled by the attack or something.
But perhaps she is guilty. My point is that I trust nothing Federal prosecutors did during this period to be honest and forthright, and if I was to bet, I would bet she was wrongfully convicted by Federal prosecutors who threatened anyone they needed to threaten to force them to assist them in obtaining a conviction.
IF she's lying, then the other officers told the truth. We'll never know, but 10 years seems a long time for a dog bite.
I think you have a pretty good idea of what is going on. I see you've considered both possibilities, and that is all anyone can ask.
Agreed. No matter what happened, that 10-year sentence sounds excessive.
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