Officer Charged With Killing Unarmed Driver Laying Face Down

[Abyssal Echo]

Harrisburg, PA (AP)- A Pennsylvania police officer was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide after investigators concluded she shot an unarmed motorist in the back as he lay face down after a traffic stop over an expired inspection sticker.

http://news.yahoo.com/pa-officer-charged-fatal-shooting-unarmed-motorist-165424205.html

[IconoclasticHeretic]

All Cops Are Bastards

[Uranus]

Oh Mai Gawd

[thatcountrykid]

All Cops Are Bastards

Yep cause all cops are brutal killers and racists and just hate everybody. Never knew my dad was like that. Sounds like something a criminal would say.


This is a case where an officer was in the wrong. As long as the probes from the taser were still in she could have just kept stunning him for compliance. You should never have both your taser and your sidearm deployed at the same time.

[IconoclasticHeretic]

Yep cause all cops are brutal killers and racists and just hate everybody. Never knew my dad was like that. Sounds like something a criminal would say.


This is a case where an officer was in the wrong. As long as the probes from the taser were still in she could have just kept stunning him for compliance. You should never have both your taser and your sidearm deployed at the same time.

Maybe not. But all cops are uniformed, armed gang members who protect the interests of the wealthy and disproportionately target the poor, racial, sexual and gender minorities. They assert their illegitimate authority over the "common" people and acts such as these are natural side effects of that system.

[Plane And Simple]

Let's keep it peaceful and RESPECTFUL from here on, or action will be taken

[Uranus]

Maybe not. But all cops are uniformed, armed gang members who protect the interests of the wealthy and disproportionately target the poor, racial, sexual and gender minorities. They assert their illegitimate authority over the "common" people and acts such as these are natural side effects of that system.

Where is it that you gained this information? Or did you just assume this?

[IconoclasticHeretic]

Where is it that you gained this information? Or did you just assume this?

Sorry, in many communities, a lot of people take this as given but I can provide sources if required.

Neutral Poll of Actual Police Officers (http://graphs.net/police-brutality-statistics.html)
UN Thinks US is too Extreme (http://thehill.com/homenews/225497-un-blasts-us-for-police-brutality)
Huffington Post on Chicago PD (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/chicago-police-brutality-report-united-nations-_n_6030664.html)
Police in Anaheim (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/10564-police-violence-racialized-indifference-and-a-hunger-for-justice-in-anaheim)
Independent Article on Police Control of the Working Class (http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2014/12/29/stop-kidding-police-created-control-working-class-poor-people/)

[thatcountrykid]

Maybe not. But all cops are uniformed, armed gang members who protect the interests of the wealthy and disproportionately target the poor, racial, sexual and gender minorities. They assert their illegitimate authority over the "common" people and acts such as these are natural side effects of that system.

Because there is in fact a disproportionate amount of crime in the poorer communities and a definitely more severe crimes. I'm not saying crime does not happen in the upper class but reality is that there are a lot more poor people than there are rich.

Yes race is an issue however I beleive it is blown out of proportion and honestly they do often fit in the lower class where crime is common.

You are absolutely right that my father, a lower middle class man who had to file bankruptcy is making money from protecting the rich.

[Vlerchan]

IconoclasticHeretic:

Given a hypothetical scenario where you can reform the police however you choose, how would you proceed?

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I also realise this is off-topic. But police brutality is VTs favourite topic and this sort of context is important if we (I) want to get to the bottom of his comments.

Right? Right.

[IconoclasticHeretic]

Because there is in fact a disproportionate amount of crime in the poorer communities and a definitely more severe crimes. I'm not saying crime does not happen in the upper class but reality is that there are a lot more poor people than there are rich.


Crime is just as prevalent in the upper class it's just funneled through offshore bank accounts, those suspicious are bought off or coerced, or legalized through the use of politicians despite it still being reprehensible behavior. Legal does not mean moral.


Yes race is an issue however I beleive it is blown out of proportion and honestly they do often fit in the lower class where crime is common.


As an anarchist, I hold that you are perfectly allowed to hold that belief regardless of how wrong you are. You are not a professor of sociology, anthropology, economics, etc, and you are not a person of color yourself. I don't know your particular specific situation, but if you think that racism doesn't exist, it is because you have not witnessed or experienced it. I hate to regurgitate tired rhetoric but your privilege is preventing you from seeing the challenges that people of color (and other minorities) face.


You are absolutely right that my father, a lower middle class man who had to file bankruptcy is making money from protecting the rich.

I know, thank you for acknowledging that.

IconoclasticHeretic:

Given a hypothetical scenario where you can reform the police however you choose, how would you proceed?

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I also realise this is off-topic. But police brutality is VTs favourite topic and this sort of context is important if we (I) want to get to the bottom of his comments.

Right? Right.

I wouldn't be a very representative (of VT) person to ask about this particular scenario because my solution would be complete and total abolishment rather than "reform". These news posts seem to be a lot stricter on topic constraints, I've noticed too. I never know where I stand.