Posted on 06/10/2013 4:44:58 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
A New Jersey police officer is being held on $1 million bail after he allegedly shot and killed a man in an apparent act of road rage while traveling with his family in Maryland. My FoxNY.com reports police say 40-year-old Joseph Walker, a sworn officer with the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey, shot and killed 36-year-old Joseph Harvey Jr. after an altercation on the shoulder of an interstate Saturday night.
Officials in Maryland say they were told that a road rage incident had happened between the two vehicles before they pulled over. Harvey had one passenger in his car at the time and Walker's wife and three children were in his minivan.
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Probably was aiming for his dog and missed.../ S
No death penalty in Maryland thanks to O Malley.
This guy will even be able to vote when he gets out.
Medication of some type being used by the shooter. I’d bet on that.
Note, around the same region about three years ago...we had some guy in a dump truck upset a guy driving in a pick-up with his kids. The pick-up truck guy got all aggressive and the cops were called to pull this guy over.
Well, as the cops-can-do-no-wrong crowd are sure to opine, if the police officer killed him, he deserved to be killed, he had it coming.
Hard to pass judgment on this story. The off-duty officer may have felt his family was at risk.
Police officers are allowed to carry unconditionally in any state?
Hard to pass judgment on this story. The off-duty officer may have felt his family was at risk.
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Oh, give me a break. The cop shoots and kills an unarmed man. And he does this after stopping on the side of the road with his family in the car. If he felt concerned about the safety of his family, he wouldn’t have stopped.
I suspect that when and if the truth comes out in this case, this out-of-control cop likely shot the unarmed man simply because he felt “dissed”.
But, not to worry, this is Maryland and the murderous cop is black. If the shooting victim is white, jury nullification will raise its head and the cop will either walk or have a small sentence.
It sounds like a case of self defense to me but in Maryland? The cop is toast.
>> Medication of some type being used by the shooter.
Steroids?
Yes, police officers can carry in any state. This per federal law passed after 9/11.
I have pulled over a couple of times because an aggressive driver was zipping around lanes like a moron behind me, and I wanted to wait until he was 10 miles down the road before getting back on the highway.
Cops murder citizens and dogs every day and use the “I felt my life was threatened!” defense as their free get-out-of-jail-free card.
Give that cop a donut, better yet - a dozen donuts. Those busy cleaning the gene pool deserve an appropriate reward.
The ‘dear departed’ walks back to engage in beating up another driver, and discovers said ‘beating victim to be’ is:
A) Armed
B) Angry
C) Identifies himself as a police officer
Mr. Departed then continues to approach said officer, with a friend who it is reasonable to assume will help Mr. Departed in administering the impending beating.
Two to one is considered “preponderance of force” and thus justifies use of deadly force.
Call the Darwin Awards Committee.
This is the unintended consequence of people carrying firearms.
Introduce a firearm into an "altercation" between two people and the chance of one of them dying goes up tremendously.
Those who think having a gun is always a good thing are relying on the invalid assumption that there is always an obvious and clear distinction between an aggressive perp and a defending armed citizen.
No specifics of the "road rage incident" are given, but MANY "altercations" arise when two guys are both behaving badly.
No gun, and there is a fistfight and maybe some relatively minor injuries. Add a gun, for either person, and a struggle immediately becomes a matter of life and death, since whoever doesn't have control of the gun is likely to die.
Cops murder citizens and dogs every day and use the “I felt my life was threatened!” defense as their free get-out-of-jail-free card.
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They do indeed...and it shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
If you would do a modicum of research before espousing the views of an uninformed idiot, you might come to a different conclusion. This was not a “two to one” situation. And it was not a Zimmerman situation where a perp was pounding the innocent person's head into the concrete and that innocent person pulls a weapon in self defense.
PS - After your IQ test, please consider the possibility of having yourself sterilized.
I know an NJ cop, Chief of Police, in a small NJ town.
He stalked a friend of mine. A married friend. He’d wait till her hubby left for work and then park his car at the end of her driveway forcing her to walk up to him to ask him to move. Whereupon he’d inform her he’d just seen her hubby leave and did she want to join him in extracurricular activity.
When she refused him he’d threaten her.
The family eventually had to move. Who do you report the Chief of Police to when they’re abusive?
This would seem to be one of those “better to be judged by twelve than carried by six” moments.
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