Cop in America doing a bad job, again

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/georgia-cobb-county-officer-racial-comment-trnd/index.html

A police lieutenant in Georgia caught on dashcam telling a woman in a traffic stop that "we only kill black people" plans to retire.

Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott stood to lose his job for the remarks. But Cobb County Public Safety Director Samuel Heaton said Friday the department had received an e-mail from Abbott requesting immediate retirement.
"He was eligible for that. Once he retires he is no longer employed so no disciplinary action can take place. He is entitled to his retirement, which he would've received even if he was fired," Heaton told CNN.
They should check the rules to see if he can effectively retire in that way, with no notice. If he has to provide notice then fire him while on it.
Edit: forget it. At least he didn't violate anyones civil rights, that time.
 
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/georgia-cobb-county-officer-racial-comment-trnd/index.html

A police lieutenant in Georgia caught on dashcam telling a woman in a traffic stop that "we only kill black people" plans to retire.

Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott stood to lose his job for the remarks. But Cobb County Public Safety Director Samuel Heaton said Friday the department had received an e-mail from Abbott requesting immediate retirement.
"He was eligible for that. Once he retires he is no longer employed so no disciplinary action can take place. He is entitled to his retirement, which he would've received even if he was fired," Heaton told CNN.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic, making a joke. Still shouldn't have said it, but I don't think he was serious.
 
A while ago a US police officer went for training in the UK and wrote an article about how shocked he was by the difference in approach. I'll try and look out for it when I have a bit more time.
Probably shocked at the lack of guns too. "How do you exert control?".
 
Sure, but how many times are they in a shootout? Most interactions are with unarmed people.
Just seems to me that some cops are on a power trip.
 
Imo it should be the hospital's head doctor or whoever is in charge of it duty to prosecute that officer dickwad for this type of shit. Make a fecking example of the cnut.
 
Imo it should be the hospital's head doctor or whoever is in charge of it duty to prosecute that officer dickwad for this type of shit. Make a fecking example of the cnut.
Doctors and heads of hospitals can't prosecute any one. They can support the nurse and encourage her to press charges if there are any to press or a lawsuit in civil court.
 
Doctors and heads of hospitals can't prosecute any one. They can support the nurse and encourage her to press charges if there are any to press or a lawsuit in civil court.

Well that's shit news then, hope she gets all the support she can and picks up the fight.
 
If you have a society that dehumanizes criminals(especially if you are poor or black), the change will not start with the cops.
It took me 20 minutes to explain to a class of 16 year olds that keeping people in an outdoor prison in a desert (Arapio's prison) isn't okay.

They even acted offended when I quoted the Bill of Rights.

These are the same people who call themselves "conservative Republicans" and say it's the "liberals" who hate the Constitution.
 
Thought my thread had a better title. American cops suck. Full of neo nazi cnuts looking to kill minorities.

EDIT: They don't suck, they're scum. Pure fecking scum.
And you must be dreaming in living in completely anarchy, the question is how long you would survive without the "scum" to protect you, after all we know we have bad apples in our basket but we know we have more cops than any other country so we have a few more bad apples.
 
It took me 20 minutes to explain to a class of 16 year olds that keeping people in an outdoor prison in a desert (Arapio's prison) isn't okay.

They even acted offended when I quoted the Bill of Rights.

These are the same people who call themselves "conservative Republicans" and say it's the "liberals" who hate the Constitution.
Depends which type of criminals you are talking about, murderers, rapists and violent crime criminals don't have my sympathy actually they should suffer 10 times more than their victims
 
Depends which type of criminals you are talking about, murderers, rapists and violent crime criminals don't have my sympathy actually they should suffer 10 times more than their victims
Were you in that class? You sound just like them...

I'd like for you to show me where that caveat to the 8th Amendment is located.
 
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It took me 20 minutes to explain to a class of 16 year olds that keeping people in an outdoor prison in a desert (Arapio's prison) isn't okay.

They even acted offended when I quoted the Bill of Rights.

These are the same people who call themselves "conservative Republicans" and say it's the "liberals" who hate the Constitution.
Often it's the same people who are very vocal about their fear of Sharia law and how primitive it is. Only to advocate Stone age justice in the comments of the next news story about some crime.
 
Often it's the same people who are very vocal about their fear of Sharia law and how primitive it is. Only to advocate Stone age justice in the comments of the next news story about some crime.
Yep! And then also defend their outlook by saying America "was" and/or "should" be a nation with laws based on the Bible.
 
They're being video'd now, all the time, body cams, car cams. They've had them for ages. And they still don't behave themselves, it's like they don't know.
 
Looks like a fecked up accident.

An accident in this case that could have had life ending, not just altering, consequences. Accidents happen to everyone all the time, but in situations where the possibility could be someone dying, you really can't afford to make a mistake like just blindly firing at someone without, at a very minimum, giving some kind of command.

The photographer has been in good spirits about it, and hopefully manages to get his Nikon replaced that got ruined in the rain when it was out in the street overnight.
 
An accident in this case that could have had life ending, not just altering, consequences. Accidents happen to everyone all the time, but in situations where the possibility could be someone dying, you really can't afford to make a mistake like just blindly firing at someone without, at a very minimum, giving some kind of command.

The photographer has been in good spirits about it, and hopefully manages to get his Nikon replaced that got ruined in the rain when it was out in the street overnight.

Exactly...

The guy nearly killed his friend, I hope that sinks in for that whole department. They need to stop excusing fcukries and call these incidents out tho, I could go on but I've said it all before :(
 

Wow that's just bad. Reeks of incompetence. I've drawn my gun out before and proned a guy out that wasn't the suspect in question. But at least he somewhat matched the description given. Felt like shit afterwards though. I don't know how they concluded she was the suspect with the description they were given. Does Bakersfield have a sizable black population?
 
'Blue Lives Matter'

My god, what utter delusion and frankly, a slap in the face.
 
Not really interested in a blue lives matter website. Give me a better source.
I'll save you the time. It suggests that it was Bennetts fault because he didn't act accordingly, asserting his claims are false. It has no video surprisingly, to back up these claims...
 
I'll save you the time. It suggests that it was Bennetts fault because he didn't act accordingly, asserting his claims are false. It has no video surprisingly, to back up these claims...

Yeah, I've read the accusations by the Las Vegas police union. Surprising.