Constable Shoots and Paralyzes Man While Serving Warrant Over Unpaid Parking Tickets

Reason.com ^ | July, 28, 2014 | Ed Krayewski

[QT3.14]

Imagine a company hiring a debt collector that sends armed representatives to customers’ homes and threatens to put them in cages if they don’t pay up. That’s not allowed in America, unless your company is the government. NBC Philadelphia reports on the latest instance of police brutality during petty law enforcement to make the news:

[QT3.14]

I'm pro-cop, but wow!

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Well, maybe the continuing stories like this will make you realize that we now live in a totalitarian police state.

[doc1019]

I’m a retired cop, and yes ... WOW!

[gaijin]

after a series of long, low-intensity wars, soldiers are cops and cops become soldiers.

[Slings and Arrows]

It’s a lousy day for liberty.

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[FLAMING DEATH]

“Imagine a company hiring a debt collector that sends armed representatives to customers’ homes and threatens to put them in cages if they don’t pay up.”

Now, imagine that same company believes that a debt is created when someone merely breaks the company’s rules, and THEN sends an armed representative to customers’ homes and threatens to put them in cages if they don’t pay up.

[UCANSEE2]

during petty law enforcement to make the news

It worked.

[GeronL]

Police are crazy

No way this should happen over parking tickets, police need to start doing real police work for one thing.

...

[Vendome]

Was this a cop or an executioner?

Lousy at his job either way....

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[tumblindice]

If the constable was serving an arrest warrant following a failure to appear or possibly numerous FTAs, and the habitual traffic criminal said to himself, “Screw it.” and threw the car in gear, gunned the engine. A car can be a deadly weapon.

Usually I’m with the mob in cops v. dogs, but here that defense might work. If true.
Otherwise, this constable punks ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan.
Or he might be as crazy as a thin-skulled woodpecker.

[House Atreides]

I’m pro-GOOD-cop. But I think there seem to be an increasing percentage of cops who are ANYTHING BUT good-cop. This “not good cop” group contains incompetent cops and/or evil cops and/or too easily frightened cops.

Too many times these bad cops get away with their incompetence/evil/fright induced bad deeds with nothing more that a paid vacation (aka administrative leave).

[Leaning Right]

A car can be a deadly weapon.

It all depends on where the constable was standing when the person backed his car out of his driveway.

If the constable was behind the car, and less than six feet from the back bumper, then perhaps it was a righteous shoot. Otherwise, it was murder.

[Gritty]

Well, the important thing is the officer got home safely for dinner.

[bamahead]

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[Jack Hydrazine]

Lysander Spooner said that law is force. Before we ever pass a piece of legislation into law we should ask, “is it worth killing a citizen for not following this law?”.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The petty law enforcement officer just needed some petty cash!

[arthurus]

Anyone in or on a motor vehicle traveling more or less toward a police officer at any rate of speed is defined as assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and shooting the threatening citizen is the proper course of action.

[Secret Agent Man]

there are so many bad cops it’d be incredibly stupid to believe you’ll be dealing with a good one. the bad ones make people assume there facing a bad one.