[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
[quote]MickD wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]MickD wrote:
No one is letting the police act as if they are above the law. The five officers in the video you posted were fired as a result of their actions. They crossed the line. The crazy guy in the car got a 20 year sentence pleading down attempted murder to aggravated assault.
I don’t agree that the video you posted is similar to the one that the OP posted.
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I cannot believe that was plead down to Agg Assault. If aiming your speeding vehicle at someone is not attempted murder, what the fuck is? They must have made a decision that they were happy with a 20 year sentence (very severe for an Agg Assault) rather than risk not guilty of an attempted murder, a finding of guilty on Agg Assault and a less severe sentence.
As for the cops that lost their job, they deserved to. But I certainly understand why they whipped that ass and I’d have done the same. They just watched that cocksucker aim his car at another LEO.
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I don’t know about most people, but I have yet to meet anyone that can jump in front of a moving vehicle and stop it. He shouldn’t have put himself in the road.
Coming from a (former/current?) bouncer/bodyguard, I would think you’d have a better understanding of not hitting people when they’re not coherent, let alone unconscious.
When citizens do shit like this, they can go to jail for it. With video technology nowadays Police officers should know better to keep their cool.
I’ve said this before, Police have to be held to a higher standard.[/quote]
They were held to a higher standard. They were fired. The officer wasn’t jumping in front of the car to stop it. He was throwing something in the path of the vehicle to puncture the tires.
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Yeah, I saw that that was what he was doing. He chose a very bad time to do it. In essence, he created his own occupational hazard. I hope he didn’t sustain any life threatening or long-term injuries but it wasn’t a smart thing to do, brave yes, but not smart.
I know they were fired as they deserved to be for what they did.
I guess what I mean by higher standard is that situations like these(the police assaulting people) are avoided altogether b/c police understand what their role is and isn’t.[/quote]
Oh, bullshit! That asshole swerved his car and tried to kill him. You can train people to react to many different situations, but you’ll never know how they will react until confronted with a real world situation. I’ve seen people in my life that I thought were gung ho kick ass mother fuckers, who have frozen or been less that decisive in actual events.
There is no way to know if a cop will go ape shit crazy when some dickhead tries to run down his friend until it really happens. These guys did and were dealt with accordingly.