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Here's what happens when you don't stop when a cop is pointing a gun at you. This is also what happens when the policeman tries to be Dirty Harry. The cop should have pulled right up behind the car, blocking it from exiting the parking lot and then from behind the safety of his open car door demanded the kid to get out of the car.
This was an undercover sting operation on the girl in the passenger seat, who was suspected of dealing marijuana. The two teens were on a first date. The cop is not being disciplined because an investigation concluded that he was in fear for his life thinking he was going to be run over.
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A local prosecutor in South Carolina said Tuesday that she would not bring charges against a police lieutenant who fatally shot a 19-year-old man during an attempted drug arrest in a Hardee’s parking lot in July.
The case has drawn outrage in some quarters, partly because a private autopsy on the man, Zachary Hammond, who was unarmed, indicated that he had been shot from the side and the back, and through his car’s side window.
That seemed to contradict the account of the officer who killed him, Lt. Mark Tiller of the Seneca Police Department, who said that he had fired two shots at point-blank range because Mr. Hammond had rapidly accelerated as he drove toward the officer, and that he would have been run over had he not pushed himself off Mr. Hammond’s car.
Investigators refused for months to release video of the shooting from the officer’s dashboard camera. That graphic video was released on Tuesday, and it did little to mollify Mr. Hammond’s family or their lawyer.
In it, Lieutenant Tiller is seen moving quickly on foot toward the driver’s side of Mr. Hammond’s car, which has backed up and is beginning to turn so it is parallel with the curb at the back of the parking lot. Then it begins to speed away. Lieutenant Tiller fires his first shot just after using his left hand to push off Mr. Hammond’s car near the driver’s-side mirror; he fires the second shot as Mr. Hammond passes him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/u...olina-officer-who-killed-zachary-hammond.html
Today's COPS Incident 10/27/15
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by InTheLight, Oct 28, 2015.
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The girl was found with 10 grams of marijuana on her. That is less than half an ounce. The other cop in the pickup parked next to the perp's vehicle said he did not shoot because he didn't think it was a life threatening incident. -
Guy gets out of car as ordered and doesn't try to run, he lives.
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When are we, as a country, going to learn that Prohibition was, and is, a failure! All prohibition did was create a criminal underclass to fill the need for booze. And now we have created a criminal underclass to fill the need for MJ.
Legalize it. Control it. Tax it. Lay off the entire DEA and every Narcotics Officer in the country. End of problem! -
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Sent from my Motorola Droid Turbo using Tapatalk. -
...and the guy still attempts to drive off and is shot. Nothing changes. The only thing that could change the result is if he doesn't try to run. If he runs, he dies.
Bottom line. No matter how it's done. He doesn't run, he lives. -
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Running from the police isn't a capital offense.
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And how does he drive off if his car is boxed in? -
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But hey, he got what he deserved. Or as Carpro says, "Nice Shooting." -
But it could be fatal if the cop feels his life is threatened by it.
He doesn't run. He lives. -
There were 2 police cars there. He ran before another could possibly arrive.
He doesn't run. He lives. -
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There are two phrases that have been misused by LEOs.
The first is "for your safety and mine" as an excuse to violate a persons 4th amendment rights.
The second is "I feared for my life" as an excuse for an unnecessary shooting.
And compounding the problem of a lack of criminal and civil liability is "qualified immunity." If "ignorance of the law is no excuse" for the rest of us it ought to also apply to the LEO. -
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Armchair second guessing strategy.:rolleyes:
He doesn't run. He lives. -
It's the standard by which they are judged.
He doesn't run. He lives. -
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The simple fact that you keep parroting that one liner in a country that is the leader of the free world is indicative of a problem.