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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)marble falls
(57,204 posts)Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)After a full investigation by his brothers in blue.....
Iggo
(47,565 posts)They're the best!
(I bet over a thousand of my 22,000 posts are "Yay, Cops! They're the best!"
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Daniel Harmon-Wright found guilty of voluntary manslaughter
The former Culpeper officer on trial for killing a 54-year-old woman last February was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a jury on Tuesday.
Daniel Harmon-Wright was put on trial on charges of murder, malicious shooting into an occupied vehicle resulting in a death, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony for the Feb. 9 shooting death of Patricia Ann Cook.
On the day of the shooting, Harmon-Wright was responding to a call for a suspicious vehicle in a church parking lot. He testified during the trial that he shot Cook after she had trapped his arm in her vehicle and began to drive away. Cook was unarmed at the time of the shooting.
Harmon-Wright was fired from the police department after he was indicted for the crime.
Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/01/daniel-harmon-wright-found-guilty-of-voluntary-manslaughter-84562.html#ixzz2YZxbfcL5
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TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Much appreciated.
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)he got 3 years for manslaughter.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Even in this flyspeck MidWest burg, we have examples of the polar extremes in LEO - state troopers from the county office led by a fascist thug, a town deputy of sterling character, and the chief of police who can be trusted on a good day - he's the one I told to contact me by phone in the future unless his legal duty required him to enter the premises. I got tired of him showing up on my doorstep at all hours to relay a complaint from one of my next door neighbors, a senile old coot who for some reason has a lot of pull around here. Eventually the chief got tired of being sent after me for misdeeds that happened only in his friend's imagination, so he's quit bothering me at all - for now.
But when I was stranded in AZ for 8 hideous years, I had good reason to fear the state troopers, because they were as sorry a lot as could be found. Some drug dealer about a mile from where I lived got shot, probably for crossing the HA's, and the cops decided to lean on me to identify their favorite suspect. I kept refusing, so for a year and a half, every time I left home I could count on being followed - by the cops. No matter I was headed to the nearest town for night duty as a private nurse. One time a cruiser parked outside my client's home all night long, which easily could've got me fired. Except when the lady asked why the cop stayed there all night, I told her there had been burglaries in the area but she didn't need to worry because I'd requested special protection. She went to bed happy and slept like a baby.
Some cops are very good and brave public servants. Others are the scum of the earth. Same as other human beings.
1monster
(11,012 posts)Remember the BART cop who killed the handcuffed man in the train station? One year. No doubt that cops are members of the priviledged class.
video at the link
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/05/daniel-harmon-wright-sentenced-to-3-years-87338.html
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)We whitewash violence and brutality in America.
We constantly fail to acknowledge the atrocities of war, the real side of violence on our streets, and the grave human rights abuses that our own government is committing.
According to the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project, from April 2009 to June 2010 there were nearly 6,000 reported cases of police misconduct across the country, and a staggering 332 fatalities were linked to cases of police misconduct.
Yet, how many times have you seen a picture of a bloody victim of police violence? Probably never.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17470-americans-need-to-see-the-violence-of-war-police-and-torture
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)He had no alternative than to just kill her? Wow....
rwsanders
(2,606 posts)in hand caused people to view a image of another person flashed on a screen as dangerous 40% more of the time.
In other words, if your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail.