Indict a Ham sandwich but not a cop

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Cardus

And give me less of people who title a thread "Indict a Ham sandwich but not a cop" without knowing what a grand jury heard and saw.

It escapes me why people make conclusions about legal matters without knowing or understanding the evidence and applicable laws.

I didn't reply to your comment cause it was beyond absurd. When is it necessary to have to read a grand jury testimony before you comment on current events based upon what is in the public domain.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cardus

Some of these posts were the same ones made in the immediate aftermath of the Trayvon (sp?) Martin matter, and in the Michael Brown matter, and so on and so on...

i didn't criticize the cops regarding browns shooting, but i did criticize the extreme reaction to the protests. and then, of course, when i defended protests, that meant i was somehow defending looters....
at any rate, i said at the time of the shooting that the story sounded...off...because no cop reaches out his window to try to grab someone and 'drag them inside'. to me, from the get go, it sounded like someone trying to explain why brown was struggling with the cop in his car, while making it seem it wasn't brown who was the instigator.
now, this one tho with the chokehold-whole 'nother ball game. the cop broke the dept rules, and a man is dead.
the police are important, obviously. but they shouldn't be above the laws they're supposed to uphold. and with this latest case, you have to wonder-who is holding them accountable?


and no sooner do i leave here and go to my homepage, than i see this:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/...ent/ar-BBgkVkB


People who investigate use-of-force claims admitted they conducted probes with the goal of portraying officers as favorably as possible and some said they used an improperly high, beyond-reasonable-doubt standard, the report said.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cardus

A few points:

If only the video mattered, then the grand jury wasted nine weeks while interviewing numerous witnesses, no?

NYPD has not classified the officer's action as a chokehold. This matters.

of course they're trying to say that the chokehold wasn't a chokehold, else he violated their rules and procedures. the medical examiner rules it a homicide, citing 'compression of the neck'.
as for the cop who did the chokehold, pantaleo...he already cost ny money on another lawsuit, and has another pending.

[jms62]

This won't sell any papers so we barely hear of it

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s...oting-27362718

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by jms62

This won't sell any papers so we barely hear of it

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s...oting-27362718

Those stories are all over the paper, not because they sell papers, but because the mainstream media loves those storries. They don't like reporting black on white violence because it's not PC to talk about those cases. This story of black teens with hammers murdering a Bosnian man in St. Louis a couple of days ago and now today attacking a Bosnian woman and beating her will not get much press coverage.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...1ffbe56f3.html

[Rupert Pupkin]

Al Sharpton and all the race baiters are like the boy who cried wolf. They lost almost all their credibility by making a big deal of the Ferguson case and other cases that have no merit. Now there is finally this case in New York that may have some merit but the majority of the population probably won't pay much attention because Sharpton has no credibility left. When a guy cries racism and/or police brutality every two seconds, even when there is none, who is going to pay attention to him when there is finally a legitimate case? Everyone will just assume he is full of it like usual.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

Al Sharpton and all the race baiters are like the boy who cried wolf. They lost almost all their credibility by making a big deal of the Ferguson case and other cases that have no merit. Now there is finally this case in New York that may have some merit but the majority of the population probably won't pay much attention because Sharpton has no credibility left. When a guy cries racism and/or police brutality every two seconds, even when there is none, who is going to pay attention to him when there is finally a legitimate case? Everyone will just assume he is full of it like usual.

Sharpton lost any credability 27 years ago.