I don’t know all the facts but this looks bad for the cop. What I do know is if a civilian shot a kid who turned out to only have a bb gun he would be sitting in jail or out on a massive bond (10% of which he would never get back) while the DA goes over the case. A cop on the other hand gets paid administrative leave.
Police are civilians.
Army, Navy, and even Air Force are not civilians.
Marines get to not be civilians (though for most of their history they were the Navy’s police force).
“I don’t know all the facts but this looks bad for the cop. What I do know is if a civilian shot a kid who turned out to only have a bb gun he would be sitting in jail or out on a massive bond (10% of which he would never get back) while the DA goes over the case. A cop on the other hand gets paid administrative leave.”
This is the age of the government employee, uber alles.
Secure, overpaid, over benefitted, over pensioned.
A disproportionate portion of all government deliberations are spent preserving and expanding the above. School district boards, city councils, county, state and federal.
First and foremost, they take care of their own, and take care of them well.
In California government employees retire at 90% pay, with 30 years service. Including platinum health care for the retiree and his/her spouse’s lifetime.
Obamacare will expand the numbers of government employees.
Not at all. All the cop has to do is say the cop magic phrase "He made a threatening gesture" and he's home free. It then becomes a "good shoot" and the official police whitewash truck will come and cover everything up. Dead men (or teens) tell no conflicting stories.