Video Shows this Cop Shoot at Minivan Full of Children, How is He Still a Cop?

[TimTheEnchanter]

Originally Posted by KaaBoom

The cop was wrong, that says it all.

No, the police officer handled the situation badly, but the woman is the one who escalated it to the levels it got to. If she had taken her speeding ticket it would have been a done deal.

Originally Posted by Dude111

He is still a cop because THEY CAN DO ANYTHING THEY WANT AND GET AWAY WITH IT!!!! Its sad and disgusting

No, he is not "still a cop". He was fired from one job and got another job. He is a police officer again, not still.

Originally Posted by john620

The title should be why isn't this cop in jail for attempted murder. Police have no right to fire on people who are running or driving away. Nor do they have a right to fire on people period, unless a person is attacking......

The title should be "Woman and family freak out, resist arrest and attack police officer" because that is what happened.

Originally Posted by jp03

WTF with all these new threads? Mods open up a new grouping called "alleged racist cop threads from 1990" Then the rest of us can look at "current" events.

Yes, no more two year old stories from dubious sources in current events.

[Malloric]

Originally Posted by KaaBoom

Even when trigger happy cops are shooting at her car?

Lets take a nice white middle class soccer mom, put her in a car with her children and have a bunch of black thug cops start trying to smash her windows, and shoot at her car and see what she would do. She would do the same thing any mom would do, she would try to get a way from that situation, and get to someplace safe.

Unlikely to ever occur. A middle-class person, race regardless, probably hasn't raised their kids to attack police officers. They're highly unlikely to run from a traffic stop or give the cops any provocation to search the vehicle, especially if they have drugs on them which they're also fairly unlikely to do. I've been pulled over with drugs in the car in my much younger years. It was marijuana but still illegal. Routine DUI checkpoint in my dad's truck which tweakers had pealed the registration sticker off. I had the current registration but still got pulled out of line for a fix it ticket. What I didn't do at about the age of her son is jump out of the car and assault a cop or try and run. I was particular interested in NOT doing that since I had drugs in the car rather than the reverse. I went along my merry way a few minutes later with a fix-it ticket and smoked my joint and did some underage drinking.

Not being stupid does remarkable wonders for you in life. Nor was I some clean cut obviously middle-class kid going to church on Sunday. It was a ratty old pickup truck, I had a mop full of hair, and dressed like a typical white trash teenager in a pretty bad part of town late at night.

[ConeyGirl52]

Im against the patriot act, however, watching what happened, I would have to ask -

Why didnt the mother wait for her ticket?

She was told to turn the car off, and instead she drove away. WTF was she thinking??

She resisted being cuffed, which is standard procedure to prevent people from fleeing (I know this from personal experience, not because Im a cop - and although multiracial, noone looking at me is going to confuse me with anything but a caucasian), and is for everyone's protection at that moment. It doesnt mean they wont eventually release you - just like they did me.

If people are going to scream the police are bad, there are real instances that DONT envolve someone willfully disobeying and resisting an officer.

The kids stupidly jump out of the car to come to their Moms AID, in this resistance.

Just take the dang ticket and continue on your trip. Geez!

I think this need to be run periodicly as a true Public Service message. People obviously are 'out of touch' with how they are expected to respond to the Police. Even if she felt she didnt deserve a ticket, she could always dispute it and air her concerns in a Court room.


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...AF7DE86378CA09

[jayo2k]

Originally Posted by KaaBoom

What is she guilty of? Trying to protect her family from a bunch of racist, trigger happy cops shooting at her car?

where is the racist part?