Posted on 10/05/2007 5:08:56 PM PDT by police
Hillary Clinton would like to forget this but as a retired NYC Police Officer I will never forget and want to remind others what she said and was even defended by the President her husband Bill Clinton and she did this all for the Afican American vote and could have cared less about these 4 Officers who were all acquitted
Those “Ask Me About Hillary” buttons are going to be a double edged sword.
I despise Hillary but I’m going to put aside what she said in this case.
If it had been my friend, my father, my cousin, ANYONE who was gunned down in that manner-—that’s a MURDER and those cops ARE murderers.
Can anyone demonstrate that Diallo had a criminal record, had a reason to be shot down with 40+ shots for pulling out his wallet and maybe not understanding English quickly? Are people not innocent?
If he were white would this have been an issue? No. He’d have been given the benefit of the doubt by police on the scene.
Did they mean to kill an innocent man? No. But were they guilty of reckless disregard for the life of an innocent human being? YES-—A thousand times YES.
Blacks always ‘look like a suspect,’ when you hear about these cases. That some suspects are black doesn’t give police carte blanche to kill them when they haven’t even been ARRESTED yet.
Yes.
Then it was a lie!
No, Skywalk, that’s a not MURDER and those cops ARE not murderers.
40+ shots might show a lack of discipline and training, but 40+ shots don’t make it murder.
If he were white, he might have been might have been given the benefit of the doubt by police on the scene, but, as you admit, the cops didn’t mean to kill an innocent man.
It ain’t murder.
Guess some writers at the Village Voice are not too supportive of the junior U.S. Senator from New York.
Wonder if they will still have jobs on Monday.
>>If he were white would this have been an issue? No. He’d have been given the benefit of the doubt by police on the scene.<<
You don’t have any way of knowing that. You are making the baseless charge that these men were racists, without knowing them.
Shame on you.
Hillary never Mis-Speaks. She only Mis-Polls.
must be a deep cover sleeper agent.
regards - red
Actually, reckless disregard for human life can be used in 2nd degree murder cases.
It’s funny how these ‘accidents’ always happen to black suspects.
It does sound surprising, but yes, they will have jobs. I believe the Voice dislikes Hillary immensely, or at least likes others better, so they'll still have jobs.
Kneecaps, on the other hand, . . .
They’ll all vote for the Stalinist (Hillary) when the time comes.
LOL That’s absurd. I have thousands of posts on this forum and I don’t need to prove myself to you. I just am waiting for a white suspect to get filled with lead by ‘mistake.’
And even though it was a ‘mistake’ it’s odd how the person’s life is devalued, even moreso than if he HAD been an outright murder victim.
Some of you are letting your hate for Hillary blind you to the fact that this man was killed and it was no ‘mere accident.’ If it were you son or father or brother or friend, you would not be so quick to dismiss it as a terrible mishap.
Police should be PEACE officers, not paramilitary as they’ve become. Nor should any person, simply because they are the same race as an assailant and in the area of a crime that was committed be targets of an overzealous stop that results in their death.
This is not the War on Terror, this ain’t Iraq. Police are not and SHOULD not be given the same leeway as soldiers who may make mistakes in war.
RON PAUL stickers EVERYWHERE!!
Stalinist? They’d vote FOR STALIN if they somehow resurrected the old tyrant.
So long as he didn’t have an “R” in front of his name.
Hillary? Hillary? Hillary? Isn’t that the wife of the guy who was accused of raping a woman? They never did address that accusation, did they???????
Certainly it was a grievous case.But the issue is that 4 people (yeah, they were police - but they were people nonetheless) were under trial for a capital offense. Those people were innocent until proven guilty, and Hillary as a lawyer had an affirmative duty to not publicly prejudge their case.
What she did was admittedly not as egregious as what Nifong did in Durham, but it was wrong in the same way that Nifong was wrong - in both cases a Democrat was pandering to his base when talking out of turn about a pending criminal case.
And that is still true no matter how sure you are that the four were guilty as charged.
Again, I HATE Hillary and I’m not saying that her comments were just or appropriate.
I do NOT think that calling it a ‘murder’ was out of bounds as it was a homicide investigation and typically that’s what those are called until there’s reason to reduce the charges or scope of the case.
This is not about Hillary but about the case itself. As I see it, the only reason they should have been acquitted is because the DA was too stupid to charge them with something below murder (manslaughter would have been appropriate. IF I’m wrong and he DID do that, then I retract this bit.)
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