Officer Ross had no legal obligation to step out of harm’s way, but that game wasn’t how he was trained. I don’t know which of the officers had the handheld video. But it shows an officer walking right in front of this idling vehicle before speaking to Good, the driver.
What will happen when the prosecution has an ICE trainer on the stand and they ask the trainer if officers are trained to approachthe vehicle of a suspect so closely? And this won’t be in a vacuum. The same officer was dragged by a vehicle in June of last year requiring a tournequet and a lot of stitches. That’s because he reached inside a rear window he had broken in order to unlock the driver door. Was he trained to do that too?
My view is that he probably won’t be convicted of murder and good chance that he won’t be convicted of anything. But this isn’t a hill worth dying on. He had an obligation not to put himself in harm’s way by the training and duties of a law enforcement officer. And this is at least the second time he violated that.
Finally, we know of these two cases only because someone was seriously hurt or died. He has shown that he’s a danger to both himself and others. He should not be a law enforcement officer.
She and her husband (the dominant of the pair), it seems, had spent the morning using their White Woman Privileges to harass these same officers, which is why she said “I’m not mad at you” before trying to run him over. She wrongly assumed that this escalation would be protected, too.
Is there any guy, white or black, who’d believe he could block cops on a street for over three minutes while laying on the horn and not be rewarded with a free ride in the back of a cop car, but instead be able to just drive away?
If the problem is bad training, it’s in training officers to tolerate repeated provocations and escalations because of the fear of higher level bureaucrats of looking bad.
(If the agents really are the Gestapo, then these “legal observers” and their keyboard warrior supporters have no idea how the real Gestapo dealt with their behavior.)
As for prosecution of the agent, they’ll only happen as a distraction to the indictments of Walz, Ellison, Frey & co for their parts in the daycare and medical transport scams.
“Finally, we know of these two cases only because someone was seriously hurt or died.”
In other words, you don’t have to kill cops, just make them look bad.
Officer Ross had no legal obligation to step out of harm’s way, but that game wasn’t how he was trained. I don’t know which of the officers had the handheld video. But it shows an officer walking right in front of this idling vehicle before speaking to Good, the driver.
What will happen when the prosecution has an ICE trainer on the stand and they ask the trainer if officers are trained to approachthe vehicle of a suspect so closely? And this won’t be in a vacuum. The same officer was dragged by a vehicle in June of last year requiring a tournequet and a lot of stitches. That’s because he reached inside a rear window he had broken in order to unlock the driver door. Was he trained to do that too?
My view is that he probably won’t be convicted of murder and good chance that he won’t be convicted of anything. But this isn’t a hill worth dying on. He had an obligation not to put himself in harm’s way by the training and duties of a law enforcement officer. And this is at least the second time he violated that.
Finally, we know of these two cases only because someone was seriously hurt or died. He has shown that he’s a danger to both himself and others. He should not be a law enforcement officer.
She and her husband (the dominant of the pair), it seems, had spent the morning using their White Woman Privileges to harass these same officers, which is why she said “I’m not mad at you” before trying to run him over. She wrongly assumed that this escalation would be protected, too.
Is there any guy, white or black, who’d believe he could block cops on a street for over three minutes while laying on the horn and not be rewarded with a free ride in the back of a cop car, but instead be able to just drive away?
If the problem is bad training, it’s in training officers to tolerate repeated provocations and escalations because of the fear of higher level bureaucrats of looking bad.
(If the agents really are the Gestapo, then these “legal observers” and their keyboard warrior supporters have no idea how the real Gestapo dealt with their behavior.)
As for prosecution of the agent, they’ll only happen as a distraction to the indictments of Walz, Ellison, Frey & co for their parts in the daycare and medical transport scams.
“Finally, we know of these two cases only because someone was seriously hurt or died.”
In other words, you don’t have to kill cops, just make them look bad.