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Likely his playtime as a cop is over, regardless of what happens in court.
If he is convicted, will that mean he at least has to relinquish his guns? It's a small step, but one at a time we can get these guys (in the heat of the "stressful" moment, he can't tell the difference between a gun and a taser!) off the street.
Would someone please explain what exactly this man should be doing? Should he sit somewhere out where the public can see him and keep his head down? Would that make it all better?
There is no way that you can confuse a stainless steel revolver with a black plastic taser. The revolver would weigh significantly more, the grip is a completely different size and shape and as you are looking down the barrel it would be clear that you are holding a shiny metal gun and not a matte black plastic taser. The guy is lying, plain and simple.
Would someone please explain what exactly this man should be doing? Should he sit somewhere out where the public can see him and keep his head down? Would that make it all better?
Live a quiet existence while awaiting trial, and not go off on luxury tropical vacations mere weeks after killing a man.
You know that if someone "by mistake" shot and killed a cop they would not be out on bond and if by some miracle they were they would never be allowed to leave the country.
Support your claim.
This guy shot a cop in a hunting accident and was out on bond.
I haven't really kept up on offshore banking and the regulatory fallout after 9/11 but I suppose he's also in the Bahamas to be setting his financial house in order before what will possibly be one financially devastating civil lawsuit.
He's almost certainly shielded from civil liability in this situation.
I'm a former cop and a white one at that. What I see is you touting wealth and privilege you may or may not have and may or may not ever have along with a disdain for human life you clearly do have unless you're just play-acting at being a tough guy.
I found this case, and the similar one by the Metro cop in San Fran, to be ...interesting, with the whole I thought I pulled my Taser excuse. Cops around here wear their Tasers on the weak side, opposite their gun. I suppose , stress can make you forget if your left or right handed? Idk...its just to convenient. How any discipline should fall, what charges, if any, will be brought, doesn't matter, there won't be any consencus amongst folks.
Somebody will be "outraged". Personally, I think this needs looking into. We sure don't need "highly trained" cops on the beat that can't remember right from left and can't tell their LTLW from their sidearm. Just sayin'....
It's even worse than that, Bates said when he exited the car he had his revolver in one hand, the pepper ball gun in the other- so wouldn't he have had to do some 'thinking' when he decided to pull the taser out? He had to drop the pepper ball gun or something, even saying that he got too amped up and made a 'simple mistake' is complicated by the fact that he had to free his hand to even draw the taser
How can you switch gears so quickly from a fair tone of civil rights and respect for all and then go all racist like that?
Well, that's what he is, isn't he?
That's the excuse ALL the racists on C-D use when they post article upon article upon article about Blacks behaving badly.
"Gee, I'm not a racist, I just keep looking for and finding all these articles about Blacks! I can't help it if they are Black!"
Those same people evidently don't bother searching for Whites behaving badly.
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