I have just been browsing through the news this morning and came across two separate instances that should have required jail time in my opinion in which someone only received “disciplinary action.”
Can anyone possibly make a case in either situation for the individuals not receiving jail time. I can’t imagine them only receiving disciplinary action, I would hope at a very minimum they would be fired or charged with assault.
Both should lose their jobs, no desk job or substitute positions.
Teacher should serve 1 or 2 years at most, probably get less, send a message not ruin a life.
Police should face whatever anyone else would for a similar action, but they won’t because, like Steven Seagal, they are above the law.
Teacher needs to meet Dad
The cops need to go TO PRISON , I would say that was felonious
[quote]BeefEater wrote:
I have just been browsing through the news this morning and came across two separate instances that should have required jail time in my opinion in which someone only received “disciplinary action.”
Can anyone possibly make a case in either situation for the individuals not receiving jail time. I can’t imagine them only receiving disciplinary action, I would hope at a very minimum they would be fired or charged with assault.[/quote]
Teacher case is still open.
One cop was “sent home” (fired?).
But overall. agree.
Here ya go with a worse one along with a deliberate coverup.
This is the gist:
Prince George’s County, Maryland police officer Corporal Donald Taylor, a 13-year-veteran, claimed that after catching up to an aggressive youth who swung at him and began to flee, the youth reached for his gun, at which point he fired his gun at the youth in self defense. Despite this tale, newly released surveillance footage obtained by Fox 5 News shows the officer running up behind the youth, then smashing him in the head with his gun in a surprise attack, which triggered his gun to fire in the process.
The youth, 19-year-old Ryan Dorm, “spent about four months in jail before prosecutors dropped the charges against him,” NBC Washington reports.
“Well, the video contradicts what the officer originally wrote in his charging documents,? said Dorm?s lawyer, Jimmy Bell. ?What it shows is that my client didn’t lie. They print my client is a criminal. They put his face on television saying he committed these crimes, and he didn’t.”
Taylor was charged with second-degree assault last month.
Dorm and his lawyer filed a $10 million lawsuit against the police department and Taylor.
Unfortunately, as is the norm in these cases, police will simply rob taxpayers to pay a settlement. As to the cop’s punishment, last we heard back in August of this year, he was on “administrative leave” with pay for the past six months. The old saying, “crime doesn’t pay,” doesn’t apply if you’re a police officer.
This is the link to the site(yah yah shitty site I agree)
groo - I grew up close to, but fortunately not in PG county and the Police there have been criminals for years and years. You’re talking about a department that was so bad it was placed into federal oversight for 6 years. I’m not sure if that did any good but it probably sounded good to a lot of people at the time. Here are two more for you:
That’s the tip of the iceberg. It’s easy to find incident after incident going back 30-40 years there.
I can’t even think of what the cops were thinking. And likely this kid would have caught a felony without the videotape.