“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Words fail me.
Posted on 05/08/2023 8:48:47 AM PDT by King_Corey
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A federal appeals court has ruled police can shoot hostages — even intentionally — if they fear for their lives or to stop a fleeing felon.
The case is more than just a legal footnote to Don Davis. The Georgia truck driver was shot nine times by troopers and deputies who were trying to stop a murder suspect holding Davis hostage in his truck.
While the shooting occurred in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court just this week let stand a federal court ruling that police owe the hostage nothing for his medical bills or the lasting effects of the officer-inflicted gunshot wounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at atlantanewsfirst.com ...
This seems so wrong.
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Words fail me.
Next up: When a wanted individual forces their way into your home the police can level your house and everyone in it.
Seems? Seems?????
It IS so wrong!
Badge # 007, licensed to maim and kill!
You must have missed the Fed's Waco-Weenie-Roast.
"They" aren't seeing that as a problem.
You have to reframe the changes in our society in your mind. You may be stuck in an old paradigm.
Here is your brain OS update:
-Your military hates you
-Law enforcement hates you
-The criminal justice system hates you
-The media hates you
-Your healthcare provider hates you
-The global corporations hate you
-Your elected representatives hate you
Once you update your brain OS, then articles like this aren’t surprising at all.
Hypothesis: To an honest citizen, the police are a greater threat than are common criminals.
Observation: The police are allowed to shoot honest citizens with impunity. Criminals are forbidden to do so.
Observation: At least in some jurisdictions, honest citizens are still allowed to shoot common criminals. Honest citizens are forbidden to shoot the police.
Further observations, and intelligent discussion, are welcome.
When you can shoot the hostages before you start the negotiating, it sends a strong message to the criminal.
I get that cops have a dangerous job, and often have to make difficult decisions. But damn it, do they no longer have any sense of decency?
The gunfire is now over. The hostage is laying on the ground, all shot up. From the article:
The trooper in the cruiser can be heard saying, “hey, all’s well that ends well.” The officer on the phone added, “Amen.”
The trooper summed up the conversation. “As long as none of us gets hurt, we’re making memories.”
It’s easy to be a policeman, in a police state.
So on the hook if someone resists arrests and dies but not for shooting a hostage? Not on the hook for damage to property in the cause of pursuing a suspect either. Hmmm.
-The schools hate you.
these are the stories that turn good citizens against the cops....
whenever govt employees....any of them....are not held to the same laws we all must follow, its tyranny.
“Observation: The police are allowed to shoot honest citizens with impunity. Criminals are forbidden to do so.”
Here’s a few other observations:
The police can commit armed robbery against honest citizens and steal their cash with both impunity and immunity.
The police can assault honest citizens for no reason whatsoever and usually get away with it.
The police can retaliate against you for protected speech and usually get away with it.
And now the police can kill victims of crimes and get away with it.
Now remind me why we have police when in the WORST places in America they do everything in their power to prevent honest citizens from protecting themselves from criminals? And now who is supposed to protect us from the police when the it’s the police trying to kill us?
It is well past time to end policing as we know it. They have become the standing army our Founders warned us about.
I think of the children killed in at the school where the big tough cops WAITED til it was safe for them to actually do something.
Was that the cowards of Broward, or the eunuchs of Uvalde?
(that police owe the hostage nothing for his medical bills or the lasting effects of the officer-inflicted gunshot wounds.)
That’s ridiculous.
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