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To: beaversmom

Personal financial and criminal culpability for the Officer that shot Gary. Same goes for the supervisor and trainers. Until LEO are held personally financially culpable this will happen again. Oh. We should stop venerating this institution and the officers who work the job. They are not soldiers. They are not heroes. The are the strong men for politicians and the Deep State. Unionized thugs. Don’t tell me this instance is unprecedented but sad. This incident is common as dirt and makes nobody sad but the insurance companies who will pay out.


15 posted on 08/02/2018 1:42:27 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane

Something is telling me that this officer is one of those roided-up cops. We all know the ones.


20 posted on 08/02/2018 1:50:45 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: DariusBane
Statistically normalized by population, a police officer is twice as likely to be killed in the line of duty than a non-LE is to be killed by a cop.

So this incident isn't exactly "as common as dirt." The number of people killed by police, including those who deserved it, is statistically miniscule out of a population of 320 million.

I agree that police officers who do make questionable or worse decisions should be held more liable than they frequently seem to be, but to say that all cops are "thugs" or trigger-happy is a misrepresentation.

30 posted on 08/02/2018 2:14:50 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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