Stupid, Pointless Trigger Happy police KILLED A Truck Driver!!

Yeah, people of all races are being shot, but blacks account for a disproportionate amount compared to population size. I think at least double. They're also killed about 3 times white people are
Racial disparity in police shootings unchanged over 5 years

 

Yes and no. Like the job does draw a certain type, and then there is a lot of institutionalized bs. Like yeah there's probably plenty that joined because they have a genuine urge to help and stuff, but then get corrupted by others that maybe aren't so noble.

 

Did they even think about the truck could have kept rolling along after shooting him? Tried to CUT the airlines? Just knock the glad hands off.

 

I don't have the time or the inclination to answer your entire screed... but handcuffing is NOT an arrest. Hindsight is wonderful, but at the time, they did not know exactly what was going on. Having a bunch of unarmed, panicked civilians running randomly into the school definitely would not have helped at all. I am NOT excusing the inaction, and if they were truly "hiding under their cars" there should be charges. But it is also possible that they kept some of those people from getting themselves smoked. It is also possible that dealing with the folks pressing the perimeter delayed their action even further.

There have been plans found in several places overseas to use that very tendency to effect coordinated atracks on Schools here, then attack the responders, and anyone else that presents themselves as a target. You NEVER assume that there is just one random #### head with a gun...there could always be more.

 

Also.... you aren't looking very hard... EVERY COP I KNOW is saying that IF the stories about them just hiding are true, they need to be prosecuted....period. In a lot of places there is already a charge that exists for this very thing. It has been used before. It goes by various names, such as "official inaction", or "Dereliction of Duty".

 

Dereliction of Duty or Conduct Unbecoming of An Officer.
After what happened in Uvalde it’s guaranteed that there will be a shakeup in that town’s police department. The city might even go bankrupt with all the lawsuits that it’ll eventually face!

 

It's not more common, it's just easier to document. Cell phones, door bell cameras, body cams, dash cams, etc make it easier to prove the misconduct.

A few years ago there was a kid who stood 100 yards down the road from a dui check point with a warning sign. Cops told him to leave, and when he didn't they arrested him. They put the kids cell phone/stuff on the trunk lid as they huddled up to figure out their story.

Kid was charged with a bunch of minor stuff like interfering with an investigation and felony resisting arrest. Charges were dropped after The cell phone audio clearly depicted the officers conspiring to fabricate evidence.

Without the evidence, the kid is screwed. This kind of stuff has been going on for decades (please see Geroge Carlins bit on police), but there was no way to prove it.

 

You are seeing it more because of actual evidence is now available. It's no longer someone getting abused and harassed by a cop vs. the cops word.
A couple points to prove this. Look at all the arrests for filming the cops happened in the early 's 2000's when cell cameras started to become a thing. It took the supreme court to rule it's a 1st amendment right to record anyone, officers included, in the public. And there are still cases of officers making up excuses to arrest a person for filming them. What's the favorite saying by law enforcement and their worshipers? "If you have nothing to hide, then you should have no problem with (insert abuse here)."
Two. The Brady List was established from a 1963 supreme court case. If you don't know what a Brady List is, it's a list by the prosecuting office of cops caught lying under oath and falsifying evidence.

1963 folks. This is not new....

 

And yet prosecutors still aren't obligated to disclose Brady/Giglio impaired officers to the defense.