Another inmate sustained a skull fracture and was left with the imprint of a boot on his back from an assault involving multiple officers. In another case, a young man was taken from a classroom after falling asleep during a lecture and was beaten severely. Teachers heard him screaming and crying for his mother.
there has to be some kind of punishment for the officers that were involved.
Agents tend to be older, more experienced and better trained than city police officers. And they generally are involved only in planned operations and tend to go in with “overwhelming presence,” minimizing the chaos that can lead to shooting the wrong people,
when a shooting is deemed as improper the officers are usually younger and lack the experience needed to male a good quick call.
she naturally bounded out to greet him. In a moment captured by disturbing surveillance footage, as Dutchess came toward the officer, he instinctively fired three gunshots into her head.
how would it be different if a person came bounding out of the house towards the officer?
These comments played into the defense’s theory of the case that the officer and his partner used excessive force against their client and then planted a gun on him to justify the force used in effecting the arrest.
everything that we post on social media can have some kind of backlash, not always to this extent but there still can be some.
The lesson should be clear: Bad statistics live on; they take on lives of their own
it seems like the more out there the stat is the more likely people are to repeat it.