Cop in America doing a bad job, again

Dobba said:
10 years for murdering someone in their own home :lol:

What a shit heap of a country.
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Meanwhile some crimes like the ones below granted some people life sentences:

  • Possessing a crack pipe
  • Possessing a bottle cap containing a trace amount of heroin (too minute to be weighed)
  • Having traces of cocaine in clothes pockets that were invisible to the naked eye but detected in lab tests
  • Having a single crack rock at home
  • Possessing 32 grams of marijuana (worth about $380 in California) with intent to distribute
  • Passing out several grams of LSD at a Grateful Dead show
  • Acting as a go-between in the sale of $10 worth of marijuana to an undercover cop
  • Selling a single crack rock
  • Verbally negotiating another man’s sale of two small pieces of fake crack to an undercover cop
  • Having a stash of over-the-counter decongestant pills that could be used to make methamphetamine
  • Attempting to cash a stolen check
  • Possessing stolen scrap metal (the offender was a junk dealer)—10 valves and one elbow pipe
  • Possessing stolen wrenches
  • Siphoning gasoline from a truck
  • Stealing tools from a shed and a welding machine from a front yard
  • Shoplifting three belts from a department store
  • Shoplifting several digital cameras
  • Shoplifting two jerseys from an athletic store
  • Taking a television, circular saw, and power converter from a vacant house
  • Breaking into a closed liquor store in the middle of the night
  • Making a drunken threat to a police officer while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car
  • Being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm
  • Taking an abusive stepfather’s gun from their shared home

Even if not first offenses, is laugable
 
4bars said:
Meanwhile some crimes like the ones below granted some people life sentences:

  • Possessing a crack pipe
  • Possessing a bottle cap containing a trace amount of heroin (too minute to be weighed)
  • Having traces of cocaine in clothes pockets that were invisible to the naked eye but detected in lab tests
  • Having a single crack rock at home
  • Possessing 32 grams of marijuana (worth about $380 in California) with intent to distribute
  • Passing out several grams of LSD at a Grateful Dead show
  • Acting as a go-between in the sale of $10 worth of marijuana to an undercover cop
  • Selling a single crack rock
  • Verbally negotiating another man’s sale of two small pieces of fake crack to an undercover cop
  • Having a stash of over-the-counter decongestant pills that could be used to make methamphetamine
  • Attempting to cash a stolen check
  • Possessing stolen scrap metal (the offender was a junk dealer)—10 valves and one elbow pipe
  • Possessing stolen wrenches
  • Siphoning gasoline from a truck
  • Stealing tools from a shed and a welding machine from a front yard
  • Shoplifting three belts from a department store
  • Shoplifting several digital cameras
  • Shoplifting two jerseys from an athletic store
  • Taking a television, circular saw, and power converter from a vacant house
  • Breaking into a closed liquor store in the middle of the night
  • Making a drunken threat to a police officer while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car
  • Being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm
  • Taking an abusive stepfather’s gun from their shared home

Even if not first offenses, is laugable
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Yes it is annoying but the solution is to move away from mass incarceration, not make things even by doling out life sentences.
 
I wonder what the sentence would've been if he murdered her because he thought she was an intruder. Well tbf she was, and it would've been completely justified.
 
Tarrou said:
I wonder what the sentence would've been if he murdered her because he thought she was an intruder. Well tbf she was, and it would've been completely justified.
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The "sentence" would have been death, and would have been carried out by the responding officers.
 
Denis79 said:
Think so? Say he had a gun and shot her instead when she walked in to his living room.
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He was a black guy in America who, in this hypothetical situation, had just shot an off duty cop dead. You think the responding officers would do anything other than shoot him?

Interesting to see his brother hugging the cop in court. He's a better man than me.
 
adexkola said:
Yes it is annoying but the solution is to move away from mass incarceration, not make things even by doling out life sentences.
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Move away from it for things like stealing tools from a garden shed or taking two jerseys from a store. Murdering someone in their own home should absolutely be life.
 
Denis79 said:
Think so? Say he had a gun and shot her instead when she walked in to his living room.
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He would have been sent away for life in prison at least. Who the hell in texas is going to believe a white woman cop broke into his house and he shot her because he thought he was going to die.

They would have pointed to the fact that there was no forced entry, she's white a woman and a cop. Probably come out and say that she was his lover and he killed her in cold blood. That's the state of affairs in the USA at the moment.
 
Rado_N said:
He was a black guy in America who, in this hypothetical situation, had just shot an off duty cop dead. You think the responding officers would do anything other than shoot him?

Interesting to see his brother hugging the cop in court. He's a better man than me.
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And me.
 
ChaddyP said:
He would have been sent away for life in prison at least. Who the hell in texas is going to believe a white woman cop broke into his house and he shot her because he thought he was going to die.

They would have pointed to the fact that there was no forced entry, she's white a woman and a cop. Probably come out and say that she was his lover and he killed her in cold blood. That's the state of affairs in the USA at the moment.
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That is just frightening... How can the judicial system be so flawed in a democracy?
 
Denis79 said:
That is just frightening... How can the judicial system be so flawed in a democracy?
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Exibit a.




Amber will be out in less than 5 years for good behaviour. The power of a priveleged white woman's tears is very powerful.
 
ChaddyP said:
Exibit a.




Amber will be out in less than 5 years for good behaviour. The power of a priveleged white woman's tears is very powerful.
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I really don't know what to say, The US needs a complete overhaul in their judicial system.
 
4bars said:
Meanwhile some crimes like the ones below granted some people life sentences:

  • Possessing a crack pipe
  • Possessing a bottle cap containing a trace amount of heroin (too minute to be weighed)
  • Having traces of cocaine in clothes pockets that were invisible to the naked eye but detected in lab tests
  • Having a single crack rock at home
  • Possessing 32 grams of marijuana (worth about $380 in California) with intent to distribute
  • Passing out several grams of LSD at a Grateful Dead show
  • Acting as a go-between in the sale of $10 worth of marijuana to an undercover cop
  • Selling a single crack rock
  • Verbally negotiating another man’s sale of two small pieces of fake crack to an undercover cop
  • Having a stash of over-the-counter decongestant pills that could be used to make methamphetamine
  • Attempting to cash a stolen check
  • Possessing stolen scrap metal (the offender was a junk dealer)—10 valves and one elbow pipe
  • Possessing stolen wrenches
  • Siphoning gasoline from a truck
  • Stealing tools from a shed and a welding machine from a front yard
  • Shoplifting three belts from a department store
  • Shoplifting several digital cameras
  • Shoplifting two jerseys from an athletic store
  • Taking a television, circular saw, and power converter from a vacant house
  • Breaking into a closed liquor store in the middle of the night
  • Making a drunken threat to a police officer while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car
  • Being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm
  • Taking an abusive stepfather’s gun from their shared home

Even if not first offenses, is laugable
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All are embarrassing yet typical for my homeland, but where did the italicized bulletpoint occur? Would love to know more context to this travesty (christ, it's from my home state of Florida. Figures...)
 
Also related: Woman who filmed Dallas police officer Amber Guyger shoot Botham Jean fired.

The witness has been identified only as Bunny and has stated that she recorded Guyger on her cellphone after hearing the fatal shots and Botham asking Guyger why did you shoot me. That video was seized by prosecutors and has not been seen by the public. In addition, she was placed under a gag order by the prosecution and cannot discuss the details of the video in public. Despite the fact she was only a witness to the shooting, she has received death threats and now she says she has been fired from her job.

According to her, people began contacting the pharmaceutical company where she worked claiming that she was a radical, anti-police and a Black extremist. As a result, she claims the company did not want the publicity and fired her as well as revoking the credentials of her profession.
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There's been another police killing of a person doing nothing wrong in their own home, in Fort Worth. Victim black woman, shooter white man.
A black woman was shot dead by police through a bedroom window on Saturday morning, following a request to check on her welfare.

Atatiana Jefferson, 28, had been staying at the Fort Worth residence with her eight-year-old nephew.

A neighbour said he called a non-emergency number after becoming worried in the early hours about an open door.

Police have released body cam footage of the incident, which shows a confrontation lasting only seconds.

The clip shows officers circulating the perimeter of the residential property and spotting a figure at the window. After demanding the person put their hands up, an officer then fired a shot through the glass.

The Fort Worth Police Department said in a statement that the officer, who is a white man, had "perceived a threat" when he drew his weapon.

He has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, officials added.

The shooting happened at about 02:30 local time (07:30 GMT) on Saturday morning.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50032290
 
When is it going to stop? Either it is intent to kill black people or its just plain cowardice. I feel it’s a little of both. If someone knows there is going to be no punishment involved and they have a preconceived notion that all blacks are criminals then it looks to be dangerously close to being intent to kill.
Either that or they are just poorly trained,scared, and inept and will shoot at anything with the same notions that all blacks are criminals. It has to stop
 
"Fired through a window" what the feck man! Some of these guys think they're in a movie.
 
"Perceived a threat"...I am fuming right now. 28, just ended her life for nothing.
 
I read a comment on Reddit saying being black in America is an extreme sport.
 
They're shouting through a window...

I mean, just as a for instance, say that person is hearing impaired?
 
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