rowe33
1965
Well yeah, a non-white cop shoots a white woman…I’m surprised the GOP wasn’t calling for a hanging right away.
Was also a foreign citizen living in the US so the Australian government got involved; suppose the partner also testified that Noor shot her through the window across from the partners face (if I recall correctly) as she was talking with them. But yea, probably cause it was a white person being killed and no other circumstances affected the outcome.
Oghier
1967
They’re still processing the idea that someone named “Noor” can be a po-lice officer, right here in the US of A!
Reading some accounts of his trial, apparently a fairly big deal was made of the fact that the incident took place in an affluent, largely white part of town. How could the officer feel credible fear considering he was among innoncent, non-violent white folks, seems to be the idea.
This shit is something else. WTF is wrong with cops?
rowe33
1970
Here’s a news story for it. Fuck these cops so much. They clearly don’t see these citizens as human.
I hope Dukes is enjoying is stay in Federal prison.
Indeed. He got 42 months and 3 years of supervised release. Sure doesn’t seem like enough.
When he gets out he will be a hardened Nazi, needing the aryans to survive prison as a cop of course, and will be immediately hired again.
Matt_W
1976
Cops really are the worst. Prediction: nothing will happen because of this.
rowe33
1977
#BlueLockerRoomTalkMattersAndIsTotallyOK
CBP and ICE have even less oversight than Cops. They need rigorous oversight now as they are the tyranny of petty men with a bit of authority, and it is WAY out of hand.
rowe33
1979
Seems like the President himself is personally overseeing and approving what ICE and CBP are doing. No other oversight needed!
This is a pretty amazing decision.
tl;dr: Georgia cop holds family of children at gunpoint, lying on their lawn. Then he tries to shoot family dog (who was not attacking anyone), misses twice, shoots a third time and hits kid. Family sues. District court rules that cop doesn’t get qualified immunity because he was being an asshole who didn’t need to be shooting at anyone or anything. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals says nope, he’s got qualified immunity because he wasn’t clearly violating anyone’s rights and wasn’t clearly incompetent.
rowe33
1982
Here’s a short article on it. Apparently the kid was only 18 inches away when he was shot. What a travesty of justice that this cop gets away with this bullshit. Innocent kid from an innocent family suffers.
Matt_W
1983
Not shooting, but ruining peoples lives for the hell of it. Cops! Gotta love the cute mischief they get up to.
Qualified immunity and thug culture within our security forces are going to be the end of our culture. It won’t be Trump that’ll do us in, it’ll be this.
Oh, those wascally cops! What’ll they do next?