Cops behaving badly ...

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This turned up on my FB feed

 

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#261
Not sure from which State this account originates, but I thought citizens prone to loss of consciousness had restriction or suspension of driver's license.
At the dawn of the autonomous / non-human piloted automobile, wouldn't it make sense for such medical patients to leave the driving to the car?

"... so I punched him in the face." first officer on scene #261

And is still employed?

"I'm very sympathetic for the poor deaf guy." #261

What "poor deaf guy"?

 

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#261
Not sure from which State this account originates, but I thought citizens prone to loss of consciousness had restriction or suspension of driver's license.

I do know that a good friend is epileptic and, although she hasn't had a seizure since her teens (she' in her late 50's now) she's not allowed to have a drivers license.

 

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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor

"no active warrants"

I'm not accusing the chiefs of police for being the trigger-man directly.
But I have enough understanding of military, and paramilitary (including police) chain of command to conclude something else is going on here.

These murders by police are far too frequent to be dismissed. Yet they continue. Why?
There are a variety of possible explanations, among them:
chronic manpower shortfalls in part due to low salary and intermittently dangerous work conditions bring police commanders to the following conclusion:
they can discipline, but only so far, and are aware if police patrolmen are perceived to be disciplined too harshly, it may precipitate most or all of the department resigning.
Thus there may be a delicate balance, and police commanders have decided it's better to have some crooked COPs, than to have a smaller police department.

And the murders continue.

Bottom line: we point the accusatory finger and dramatically lament, "Ain't it awful!", but the murders continue. We need something better than lament.
And if for example rebalancing salaries so police employment applications meet / exceed demand doesn't affect this, look elsewhere.

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Shrug, and lament some more, accusatory finger pointed away

 

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Minneapolis police say they 100% failed Black man allegedly shot by white neighbor​

Officials say John Herbert Sawchak, 54, shot Davis Moturi, 34, after victim reported neighbor for racist harassment

Minneapolis police have apologized for failing to address a local Black man’s complaints of repeated, racist harassment from his white neighbor until after the neighbor shot the victim in the victim’s own yard.

The attack on 34-year-old Davis Moturi this past Wednesday as he performed yard work left him with a fractured spine, two broken ribs and a concussion. Authorities by Thursday had obtained criminal charges against John Herbert Sawchak, who is accused of shooting from an upstairs window in his home to wound Moturi – but they waited until early Monday to arrest him.

“We failed this victim 100%,” Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief, told reporters. “And to that victim, I say I am sorry that this happened to you.”
Moturi’s shooting comes after a US justice department investigation last year concluded that the Minneapolis police department had a “pattern or practice” of discrimination against Black Americans, among other ....

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"... shot the victim in the victim’s own yard." #266

And the victim, Davis Moturi survived, gave press interview from his own hospital bed.

John Herbert Sawchak, who is accused of shooting from an upstairs window in his home to wound Moturi

W H A T ?!?!

Shoot to wound ?!
In the chest ?!
Shoot to wound is usually in the thigh. If the shooter was a highly disciplined technician with meticulously honed skills, shoot to wound in the chest might seem a shade more plausible.
Discipline does not seem to accurately characterize this criminal.

"– but they waited until early Monday to arrest him." #266

Perfunctory minimum.