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More fuel added to the fire. :-( 2 officers shot in Louisville as protests erupt nationwide over Breonna Taylor case. Does nothing get learnt from in the U.S.? Or will it take a full on civil war before that happens? |
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Or will it take a full on civil war before that happens? King Donald's wet dream. |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19527 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
What a _______ mess. Police make a dubious case to a judge to do a "no knock" raid on Breonna Taylor's house, Judge authorises raid. Police batter on the front door. Breonna Taylor's boyfriend thinks criminals are attacking, calls 911, and fires legally under common law self-defense "defending castle" law , with legally owned firearm at unknown attackers. Hitting police Sgt in thigh, severing artery. Door collapses and two policemen open fire legally under self-defense law. Breonna Taylor is shot several times and dies. Another police officer fires through window, with drapes drawn, doesn't hit Breonna Taylor. Cases against Breonna Taylor's boy friend and the two policemen have to be dropped as they all fired legally under the self defense laws. The third officer cannot be charged with killing Breonna Taylor because he didn't hit her. He is though charged with firing recklessly because his bullets went into an adjoining property. So really the true criminals are the lawmakers who don't think through the consequences of their actions. Probably because their ambition exceeds their capabilities, nothing new there. |
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Sadly that's the crazy wild west for you where only the gun truly wins. :-( |
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Sadly that's the crazy wild west for you where only the gun truly wins. :-( The gun or the ammo maker? |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19527 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Sadly that's the crazy wild west for you where only the gun truly wins. :-( or the Federal government, $7 billion taxes/year. |
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or the Federal government, $7 billion taxes/year. Chump change |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24926 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
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Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24926 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Nothing new really, it's always been controversial. Met to be sued Stop & Search 2019 Got stopped many a time back in the 70's. Didn't like getting searched in public & always refused. Until one day, they took me up on what I said. (I'll allow myself to be searched at a station - most of the time, they let me continue on home.) Oh did I say I was on my way home from the trains? Didn't get in the car with them but turned around & walked back (Station was approx. 8-10 min walk from where I got stopped). Arrived at station & explained the situation to the duty sergeant who then started going through my equipment bag. Seeing the big LT symbol on the front, he stopped, looked at me ( I removed my overcoat) & stared at my uniform. Then asked me a question: "Why are you walking as you got free travel" Me: Just stabled the last train in the depot, & had to rely on the night buses to get home. They were one an hour. Got to the area where stopped & as I missed the one that took me home, walked - time 25 min, next bus in 1 hour. What would you do?" He stopped the search & told me to go home. The best one in my view was the stop about 8 months later, As I refused, they nicked me. A week later standing before the magistrate who was not a happy chappie, told me that I had to allow the police to do their job. When he got told that I was prepared to be searched at a police station but the officers concerned wouldn't have it, he threw the case out. To this day I still can't see anything in their powers that disallow that as one can see from the updated powers amended last year. Too many cops in East London those days were more bent than a 10 bob note. I can't see much has changed since then. Oh, I eventually ending up buying a motorbike & used it mainly when on dead late turns & on the rare occasions where I had to do early turns. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24926 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
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Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24926 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
A disquieting report. Were they armed? |
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Just a typical police chief No I won't enforce masks. Say of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "I pray all those in that picture hang on the gallows and are drawn and quartered!!!! Anything less is not acceptable." |
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W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19527 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
The good guys, video in link. BBC - Driver trapped in sinking car rescued by Ohio police officers |
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Just in case anyone decides that the systemic issues are exclusively a U.S. problem... Toronto police officer says she faced years of sexist, racist retribution for reporting colleague ![]() |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24926 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
But in the face of criticism the government added an amendment, specifying that Article 24 "will only target the dissemination of images clearly aimed at harming a police officer's or soldier's physical or psychological integrity".Thugs in Blue |
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Yes this new amendment is not a good look at all to most of us around the world, in fact it looks more like trying to protect bad cops. :-(But in the face of criticism the government added an amendment, specifying that Article 24 "will only target the dissemination of images clearly aimed at harming a police officer's or soldier's physical or psychological integrity".Thugs in Blue |
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Perjury Protection League inspired I am sure.Yes this new amendment is not a good look at all to most of us around the world, in fact it looks more like trying to protect bad cops. :-(But in the face of criticism the government added an amendment, specifying that Article 24 "will only target the dissemination of images clearly aimed at harming a police officer's or soldier's physical or psychological integrity".Thugs in Blue |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24926 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
A timely reminder which shows that not much has changed since. It seems that rule of law overrides collaboration with the enemy. Barrister Patrick O'Connor QC, who took up the case pro bono, said: "It was a longstanding injustice for which the courts were responsible, and which the courts should therefore remedy.""Robin Hood" coppers |
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It never ends does it. :-( Feds to investigate after a sheriff's deputy killed a Black man entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio. A sheriff's deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a case that is now being investigated by federal authorities. |
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