(June 21, 2018 at 6:51 pm)Manowar Wrote: Just heard about this one. The cop was sworn in a few hours earlier, apparently common sense not to shoot someone in the back was not covered.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...719334002/
Manowar
I'm sure he'll end up with a good conduct medal.
Here's one in which our fascist supreme court apparently couldn't even buy this pig's bullshit.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/supreme...plica-gun/
Quote:Supreme Court spurns appeal in police shooting of boy with replica gun
Quote:A California sheriff’s deputy will face a civil rights lawsuit for fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a plastic pellet gun resembling an assault rifle after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the officer’s appeal.
The justices turned away the appeal by Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy Erick Gelhaus of a lower court ruling that he did not have immunity from the lawsuit filed by the parents of Andy Lopez, who Gelhaus shot seven times in Santa Rosa in 2013 after mistaking the toy for a deadly weapon.
Quote:In appealing to the Supreme Court, Gelhaus and the county had warned that the 9th Circuit ruling could impact how police respond to the threat of assault rifles, which can discharge dozens of rounds in seconds.
Anything that causes you to stop and think before blowing a kid away can't be a bad idea.