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Supreme Court Justice Slams Cops For "Shoot First, Think Later" Mentality
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to exonerate a Texas state trooper who, against orders from his superior, lethally fired his gun at a driver involved in a high speed chase. Though the majority opinion argued the officer acted reasonably, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent against the decision.
The 2010 case involved Israel Leijas Jr., who had had been stopped by a Tulia, Texas, officer and informed he was wanted on a previously issued warrant. Leijas sped away, commencing a chase that reached speeds from 85 to over 100 miles per hour. As the chase began, the initial officer warned that Leijas might be intoxicated.
Leijas reportedly called police multiple times from his cell phone during the chase to warn officers he had a gun and would fire at them if they attempted to capture him.
Though officers planned to put spikes on the road at three different locations in an attempt to halt Leijas’ vehicle, Texas Department of Public Safety State Trooper Chad Mullenix wanted to shoot directly at the car to stop it. When he radioed his superior, Robert Byrd, to ask for permission, he was told to stand by until the car passed over spikes situated near an overpass where Mullenix was located. Byrd wanted to see if the spikes would effectively stop the vehicle before taking further action.
Moments before the car reached the spikes, however, Mullenix began firing at the vehicle — in direct defiance of Byrd’s orders. The car skidded into the spikes and flipped two and a half times. Though Leijas was killed in the vehicle, authorities determined he had not been killed by the crash, but by Mullenix’s bullets. The officer shot six times, hitting Leijas in the upper body four times.
Leijas’ family sued, arguing Mullenix used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Mullenix argued he was entitled to the qualified immunity often granted to public officials when they act in the line of duty. Though Mullenix initially prevailed after several court battles, in 2014, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the prior ruling. Instead, it decided Mullenix was not entitled to immunity because the immediacy of the risk Leija posed was disputable.
On Monday, the Supreme Court overturned that decision, finding Mullenix entitled to immunity and therefore exonerated of his charges. In its unsigned per curiam ruling, the court said, “The doctrine of police immunity protects ‘all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law,” NBC reported, noting the court added “its previous rulings have never said that the use of deadly force during a dangerous car chase is automatically a constitutional violation.”
That conclusion was likely all but decided before the case even reached the Supreme Court. The court ruled on Mullenix v. Luna using only written briefings. It never heard verbal arguments or conducted a trial, which indicates “a sign that a majority of the justices considered the issue so clear cut that further briefing and courtroom argument were unnecessary,” NBC explained.
Only one justice, Sonia Sotomayor, objected to the opinion — and in doing so, indicted a philosophy that permeates police conduct in the United States.
She first noted that Mullenix “fired six rounds in the dark at a car traveling 85 miles per hour. He did so without any training in that tactic, against the wait order of his superior officers, and less than a second before the car hit spike strips deployed to stop it.”
She argued that had the majority on the court correctly interpreted the case, they would have been left “with no choice but to conclude that Mullenix ignored the longstanding and well-settled Fourth Amendment rule that there must be a governmental interest not just in seizing a suspect, but in the level of force used to effectuate that seizure.”
Sotomayor concluded:
“By sanctioning a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to policing, the Court renders protections of the Fourth Amendment hollow.”
In spite of her captivating dissent, the Supreme Court ruling signals an ominous future for further police brutality cases brought before the nation’s highest court.
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You can always trust your friendly neighborhood cop to do the right thing in a fascist, police state.
Cops in the land of the free kill at a rate 70 times higher than other first world nations.
Forward.
Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations
http://www.globalresearch.ca/police-in-the-us-kill-citizens-at-over-70-t...
The Biggest Crooks In America Are Now The Cops
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-12/biggest-crooks-america-are-now-...
If this were a Fascist country, we wouldn't have Jews running around telling us how evil we are. We'd be putting them in camps.
Welcome to the real world, Rip Van Winkle.
The Deep State runs everything in America since at least Nov 22, 1963. Kennedy promised to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. Instead, the CIA shattered his brains into a thousand pieces.
The NSA spies on the Supreme Court, Congress and the White House and you.
The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”
The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
"The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.”
I'm sure the Israelis give this directive the same careful and measured consideration they give to the legal rights of Palestinians.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is also involved in the effort to indoctrinate the U.S. law enforcement community. Its website’s Homeland Security Monitor chronicles numerous meetings between Israeli intelligence and police officials and their U.S. counterparts, to include numerous trips to Israel to learn from the masters of the craft about various aspects of security, including controlling borders and airports. Even firemen have made the journey, presumably to learn how a fire in Israel differs from a fire in the United States.
Ironically, American law enforcement and emergency services are every bit as capable as those in Israel and really have nothing to learn. The difference in practice is that Israel uses extensive profiling to identify threats, which means Arabs are regularly stopped and questioned. Exposure to that dubious technique is often paid for by the U.S. taxpayer as much of the travel to Israel is funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which provides billions of dollars in training grants to cover the expenses. Marc Kahlberg of International Security Consulting offers a package that is called “Eye of the Storm.” He promises “an exclusive learning tour into the heart of Hebron. You will have the opportunity to see first-hand how the police there are dealing with a daily volatile situation. You will feel the adrenalin, but be completely safe and will be the guests of the Israeli Police Commander.” As Hebron is the largest Arab city on the West Bank with a population of 250,000 that against its will hosts an illegal Israeli settlement of 1,000 protected by the police and army, it promises to be an interesting experience.
New York City’s unconstitutional “stop and frisk” police activity is a preemptive doctrine modeled on Israeli counter-terrorism practice and it should be no surprise that the New York Police Department has an overseas office in Tel Aviv.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/homeland-security-made-in-israel/5346796
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/from-occupation-to-occupy-the-israelificat...
Enjoy, ziolurking faygs!
need.more.federal.control over your local pd
This isn't a mentality. It is national policy.
The policy makers need to be identified and dialogued.
Then the policy gets changed.
Enjoy, imaginary nazi he-men.
https://youtu.be/pGdR8_uHp9A
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=11920
Back at you, actual judeonazi .
Shouldnt you be with your ideological fellow travellers in Judea and Samaria, burning infants and their mothers to death?
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-protects-it...
Tell me again how Everyone who opposes the racist violence and racial statism is a 'nazi.'
Tell me again how Immune from criticism you Jews are supposed to be - no matter what.
http://www.alternet.org/story/148016/how_to_kill_goyim_and_influence_peo...'s_shocking_religious_defense_of_killing_non-jews_(with_video)
Quick - say something clever. And try to work in nazi again.
It is very, very effective as a rhetorical device. And the hallmark of someone committed to discussion on the merits.
Almost as effective as assuming that anyone who doesn't agree with your worldview must be a homosexual Jew.
Oh, and before I forget, that picture you use is a very striking image. Lots of contrast.
I've never thought about the concept of an emo-nazi before, but now it's the first thing that crosses my mind whenever I see it.
The ziofayg, actual judeonazi, Jew congratulates you on your willingness to commence and maintain the discussion on a high plane.
TTFN
Im glad you admit that youre a nazi (proponent of racist state violence, anyway). Admitting you are a hypocrite is the first step.
But while you did, in an absolutely unforeseen rhetorical parry, call me a nazi yet again for my ongoing rejection of the tenets of violence, racism, supremacism, and statism - I did notice you avoided the bulk of my queries once more. Surely an oversight caused by your deliberate investigation of Israeli state terrorism.
I am quite sure you perused the links I offered as part and parcel of the high plane of discussion on the relevant merits of a polemic. I do await your rhetorical legerdemain as to the examples offered in evidence!
Fwiw, and leaving aside your satirical claim of how I tend to describe people who oppose my view of Israeli state terrorism and its ongoing brutal occupation and violence based on race - by 'fayg' I do not mean homosexual. I simply mean 'faggot' - for example, homophobes are faggots.
And so are Zionists, Jews or not, who apologize (i.e. Excuse) for any and all violence, hate, and racism when Jews do it.
You see, very much unlike proponents of (and apologists for) racial state violence - I abhor such violence. No matter who does it. So while I applaud your tenacious opposition to 'nazis' I do wonder at your embrace of their, if you will, reprehensible Weltanshauung.
I do hope this clears the matter up somewhat. Truly.
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il
Well, if US law enforcement is learning how to control borders and airports, as well as profile Arabs, from the Israeli security forces, they are doing an extraordinarily bad job of either taking notes or carrying out what they have learned.
I will give the Palestinians some credit, however, since they will fight to the last knife against their sworn enemy of Israel.
Unlike you armchair warriors. Why aren't you Jew-haters out holding bake sales and sending the money to your Palestinian brothers fighting to free you from the evil yoke of Judaism? I mean, since you hate them so much, why are you sitting here in your warm little footies, sipping hot chocolate and shopping for a new health care provider?
You could be shooting off rockets into midtown Manhattan, or digging tunnels, or, well, something. The Russian military accepts foreign volunteers. Why not sign up to fight the evil ZOG/ZATO in person over in Syria?
Well, probably because we're in the middle of the ZFL season and you want to strike it rich on Draft Jews or Fan Zio.
Yes those damned natives with their rocks and knives constantly putting their children and hospitals in the way of Gods Chosens light-unto-the-nation flechette shells, du munitions and white phosphorus.
Dont they know that even though Bibi's family lived in eastern europe for 1,000 years that he, and not they, are the rightful owners of the land?
There is no occupation or perpetual stare and settler terrorism of course. Anyone eho says so just hates Joooos. Who again - can do no wrong. Ever. God said.
http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-02-11/aussie-tv-dares-to-show-the...
What is it like, Tarabel, to have absolutely no shame?
Oh, it's really quite liberating and great for a laugh. Much better and far more honest than the burst of modern syntho-outrage that seems to pervade so many discussions nowadays.
The truth is that everybody is standing on a rock that somebody else used to call their own at some point back in time. How about you?
You seem to feel strongly that the Palestinians are being totally given the purple shaft. Yet you do nothing tangible to help them. Are you sending them money? Enlisting in their armies? Sponsoring a refugee and sleeping on the couch while they take the bed?
No, you're living large in the bosom of the Great Satan and all of his easy friends. Sex. Money. Power. Reliable internet service.
And you think I have no shame.
Ah, Ye Olde Violent Conquests Have Always Happened So Are Consequently Always Moral argument.
Hasbara 201, I should think?
A laughable fallacy of course but I do now wonder (and bet the vet does, too) if you consequently hold the Germans blameless for using violence to 'cleanse' *their* land of non-Germanic peoples?
Or does might only make right for the self-chosen?
Hmmm... A sticky wicket, indeed.
Oh, there's nothing sticky about the wicket at all. I'm into basketball myself, but I do know enough about the sport of cricket and the affectations of simpering degeneracy that seems to fascinate some people.
I don't recall saying that standing on someone else's rock was moral but merely real and (dare I add) the inevitable way of the world, no matter how enlightened and above it all we might pretend to be, eh wat?
For that matter, I don't recall saying that might makes right in any case but merely creates facts on the ground that have to be taken into consideration, apart from those who choose to live their lives in volkenkuckkucksheim and shriek outrage about things they have no intention of actually doing anything about.
So what about you, monsieur cheveaux? I've asked the same question in two different formats of your friends up there, so I'll see if you're as eager to change the subject as they are.
Since the "Hasbara 201" textbook apparently involves challenging the sturdy defenders of the poor, helpless, oppressed Palestinians to either put up or shut up, I should like to know if you are doing anything tangible to help them?
Performing some act of self-sacrifice in order to further their cause such as walking to work for a week and sending the gas money to the starving orphans would be a nice gesture. No?
Life is very comfortable beyond the borders of suffering Palestine that you care so much about. Not everyone is cut out to be Mother Teresa, though a lot of people pretend otherwise.
+1 well said, Senor Horscaulk.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Oh its far worse than that
http://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/
Still think the ZOG is a 'canard?'
The origin of course, of this power, is the fiat issuing power, media control and the voting power of the only group of people I actually approach hating: 'Christian' Zionists.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/scofield.htm
This didnt get much msm coverage, did it?:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-accuses-israel-of-al...
Hi Finn (et al.) I am sorry you disapprove of me providing a link about Israeli spying on the US being described as 'terrifying.' I know you think Israel can do no wrong and Jews are the invisible man's in the sky favorites - that Palestinians are untermenchen and so forth, and I regret, deeply, that speaking about a foreign country's ceaseless meddling and spying (well at least when its Israel) causes you angst, but imagine how irritating it is to have Israel Firsters and Jewish Supremacists patrolling Non-Israeli websites to attempt stop any discussion of the various negatives we Americans have had to endure because of that shitty little, racist, expansionist, apartheid, nuclear rogue parasitical state.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/11/23/israel-americas-biggest-fr...
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/09/how-israel-out-foxed-us-presidents-4/
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=11920
Anybody talking about putting people in camps because they are a member of any group - deserves to be sent to a camp of their own.
i was curious about nidstyles comment as well. seems s/he has a very specific fascism in mind, one that cannot conceive of jewish/zionist/israeli fascism or, more oddly, fascism that is not anti-jewish.
the third reich lasted only a dozen years but it clearly affected impressionable minds.
While I agree with her on this, I must say fuck you lesbo bitch scumbag treasous titbag.
I suspect her dissent was some form of racial justice activism, and had nothing to do with the 4th amendment. After all, she and her statist ilk have spent decades doing all they could to destroy the Constitution. There is no longer a 4th amendment, except when it furthers the progressive attempt to destroy America.
either george w. bush is a progressive or progressive has little to do with it.
i'm thinking authoritarian or statist may be the word that fits better.
don't listen to what they say, watch what they do.
Like Gaza?
The fact that she is a Latina has nothing to do with it... /sarc
Reckless Stupidity in a landslide, 8-1.
It's not any different to what happens all the time "destroy first, think later", Iraq, Libya, and let your imagination roam.
The "Wise Latina" pisses and moans about "shoot first, think later" police while denying Americans rights to self defense while she and her progressive ilk and establishment pubbie pals piss and shred the Constitution by "making law up first, judging it OK later"!
Fucking gutless two-faced whore!
The Supreme Court ain't what it used to be as it was before Citizens United and the Obamacare Tax ruling.
Citizens was correctly decided.
Not liking the ramifications has nothing to do with whether the first amendment allows the gov to (selectively?!) fine or jail people for making political documentaries.
https://reason.com/blog/2015/05/15/hillary-clintons-supreme-court-litmus-te
The ACA case was absolute horseshit. Dont take my word - go ahead and read the 9th and 10th amendment and the Anti-Injunction Act...
This, from the same woman who voted with Roberts to force us to buy health insurance from corporations or face a tax/fine/penalty from THE GOVERNMENT.
There-is-no-way-to-figure-out-the-mind-of-a-progressive-because-they-are-insane.
One is left to assume that if a security guard, employed by Walmart (the employee of a corporation) had scored four hits with only six shots on the fucker as he drove by at EIGHTY FIVE MILES AN HOUR everything would be "going according to plan" ;-)
3 junks so far, okay - anyone care to venture an argument why the law at issue in that case did *not* violate the 1st Amendment?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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'In March 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, regarding whether or not a political documentary about Hillary Clinton could be considered a political ad that must be paid for with funds regulated under the Federal Election Campaign Act.[18] In January 2010, the Supreme Court struck sections of McCain–Feingold down which limited activity of corporations, saying, "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech." Specifically, Citizens United struck down campaign financing laws related to corporations and unions; law previously banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of "electioneering communications" paid for by corporations in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general election. The ruling did not, as commonly thought, change the amount of money corporations and unions can contribute to campaigns. The minority argued that the court erred in allowing unlimited corporate spending, arguing that corporate spending posed a particular threat to democratic self-government.[19]'
Many people wrongly think that Constitutional cases are decided rightly or wrongly depending on the {purported} bad affects. But this is absurd on its face - one may as well dispense with a constitution at all if it is to be ignored or followed based only on what 5 unelected judges think the political effects might be.
The other notion, that only humans have 'rights' is both irrelevant and false.
Irrelevant because 'shall make no law' is a * limitation on the state * to make laws abridging speech. Its not a grant of a right, it is a preclusion of state power. False because the text says nothing about government being able to abridge speech (and no the case did not say money = speech, but if I cant spend money to make a movie or publish a book, it clearly abridges my speech and the caselaw has said this for decades, at least). There is also nothing to suggest that I lose my capacity to speak free of government abridgement when I come together with other people and form an entity to engage in speech. Indeed most newspapers are corporations, and no - 'the press' did not and does not mean the 'news media.' It means the printed word - political pamphlets being vital political speech once upon a time.
None of this means corporate money and influence is not a problem. It is and so is the impact of billionaires (maybe more so).
What it means is that, more philosophical arguments about the value of free speech per se aside, a law allowing the state to fine or jail political film makers does not at all comply with the 1st Amendment's plain text and meaning.
To claim that it does, furthermore, opens the door to all kinds of criminalization of speech - perhaps one day speech *you* agree with, or engage in yourself.
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https://reason.com/archives/2013/06/05/political-derangement-threatens-b...
Given what we know now about the NSA's monitoring, I think it's safe to say that any justice that has so much as jaywalked with a personal locator beacon -- erm, cellphone -- with them is compromised. The O-care vote change postiively stunk of some type of manipulation.
The entire government is compromised, I wouldn't expect any decisions in the interest of the people.
I'm sort of shocked by Sotamayor's loud proclamations, though. Political cover?
Fuk da progressive liberal democrap scotus... Fuk those overprivilege overentitled overpaid fossils.
This is a mindless puff piece. Sotomayor is no better than any other "Justice." She has gone along with plenty of shitty decisions. None of the assholes on the Supreme Rubber Stamp Board have a conscience when it matters; they just take turns pretending to have a conscience. A dissenting opinion is exactly worth the paper it is written on.
And in Idaho this last week:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article43654638.html
Cops murder local rancher!!
I follow this because I used to live there and knew that rancher. Cold blooded execution for the crime of "contempt of cop" Jack "dissed" them over the way they were handling putting the bull down. They backed off a bit, conversed together, then walked over and shot him at point blank range. They were not arrested by the "Sheriff" and have been moved out of town on their paid vacation while the phony investigation continues, in spite of scads of eyewitnesses, including the rancher's wife.
This case is absolutely nothing new. Cases where police action was far more egregious have still enjoyed QI. Here - lethal force was not clearly unnecessary. Its reasonable for cops to have QI here - the problem is that the threshold for the behavior is way, way too high. In essence the conduct has to, I shit you not, 'shock the conscience.'
I am a very harsh critic of police violence but while people may disagree, this cop was definitely not acting with the sort of willful misconduct required under many years of case law on Q Immun and 42 usc 1983 color of law cases.
And no - it doesnt matter if you disagree with that. Having no QI at all would essentially preclude law enforcement.
But while this justice may want to appear to be a real civ lib here, her views on the power of the state is fucking TERRIFYING.
Sotomayor is out of her mind with her armchair quarterbacking rant.
I'd like to see one of those Supremes walk in the shoes of a cop on night patrol in Harlem or the lower East side ... or any inner city in America.
They may decide differently if they had some first-hand experience.
Teen killed for his coat in lower East Sidehttp://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/teen-killed-coat-eastside-article-1....
Take away their immunity and then see how different they act toward the citizenry.......
Fuck that stupid dindus bitch she should have thought about the evil state before she benifited to the extreme from the Nazi IRS.
Nothing tops the cop shooting a person simply fleeing a traffic stop on foot in Penna. www.pennlive.com
SotoMayor is a communist enemy and should be shot.
Even the nazis got show trials first, bro.
Douglas Reed is worth a few hours of your time.
http://www.douglasreed.co.uk/prisoner.pdf
Is there anything that is more adorable or heart warming than a self aggrandizing finger pointing pompous pontificating know-it-all marxist-leninist power monger?
The real damage was done when the Supremes said anonymous tips give cops the PC to pull you over, end of game.
And the smell of weed creating PC to search a house.
I think we all know the 4th doesn't exist in practice, the only way it's applied is after the fact if a lawyer can find a decent procedural violation.
Add in the wonderful concept of "parallel construction" for the last coffin nail.
Before Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Mo on August 9, 2014, I don't remember an avalanche of police shootings like the shit storm of violent police behavior that followed Brown's murder.
And that storm wasn't confined to a particuliar area or section of the country. It just generated itself from coast to coast spontaneously.
But was it spontaneous? Coincidental? Or did the NSA, after Crimea, talk to the large police departments in the country and scare the shit out of every officer, especially the paranoid nut bags whose psychological problems had lead them to work on a police force in the first place?
Justice Sotamayor what would you have done if you were the police officer? Get down from your exalted perch and get on with the job of reviewing the Constitutionality of cases brought before you, not pass disparraging remarks against people who risk their lives every day protecting law abiding citizens.
Leijas sped away... warned [threatened] officers he had a gun and would fire at them
http://amarillo.com/opinion/editorial/2015-11-10/editorial-deadly-force-...
I find it fascinating and absurd that the politicians in the black robes have to spend so much time accumulating credentials for their "education" and "training" in constitutional law only just to emit opinions no more constitutional, moral or rational than can be obtained from any random human, darts on a board, cards from a deck, or other rube-goldberg selection process.
Change the "judges" and you get a different personal opinion masquerading as a so called "constitutional" opinion - it is no different than being dealt a hand of cards, ie just shuffle the deck and you get dealt a different hand.
Well put.
What do you expect from the professional, "Wise Latina". This fat ass lesbo is an ignorant, unqualified asshole appointed by Obama.
He disobeyed a order from his superior and fired without good cause. Once the vehicle passed the spikes then if the suspect was still a threat, deadly force would be justified.
This ruling will cause an uptick in police brutality and killings.
I don't like any of those traitors on the court,,, but,,, that said,,, Sotomayor was correct.
http://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=circ...
The world is indeed turning upside down. Have to agree with (gulp) Sonia Sotomayor.
Another execution whitewashed by government actors judging other government actors.
I disagree with the pretext of the article. Cops do not have a "Shoot first, think later" mentality. What they have is a shoot first, don't think mentality because they don't know how to think. Thugs with guns.
Without a doubt, there are some cops like that.
Then you have to consider that the federal government is creating a deeper divide between the police and the general public by offering funding and training (everybody is a domestic terrorist!).
Then consider the daily grind of dealing with shitbags, almost all day, everyday. That'd probably turn even the Dalai Lama into an asshole.
Also consider that you'll invariably attract psychopaths to ant job with any semblance of authority. It certainly doesn't mean that all of them will be psychopaths, but you'll definitely have some.
At the end of the day, it's a wonder that there are many good cops, but there are plenty still.
Mayberry is long gone from the American landscape bro, it's been replaced with militarized SWAT teams in bullet proof vests, armed to the teeth, and driving armored troop carriers who see the people they "serve" as the "enemy". Even the average cop on the street is loaded down with multiple weapons, rows of bullet magazines, extra handcuffs, and more. "Normal" cruisers are decked out with high powered weaponry and battering ram front bumpers.
She first noted that Mullenix “fired six rounds in the dark at a car traveling 85 miles per hour. He did so without any training in that tactic
The officer shot six times, hitting Leijas in the upper body four times.
I think this is pretty good shooting considering he had no training in that tactic.
What does she expect head shots?
It bugs the shit out of me that we let dual citizens and persons with foreign allegiances on our Supreme Court, Id like to see Trump negate "those people".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor_Learning_Academies
grades? LOL the worst in LA Unified and most expensive
Just the bond debt alone is over a billion dollars.
Mabbe they kill to recharge their soul gems (soul harvesting) as in Skyrim
I heard Americans said, "Let shoot 'em all. Let God sort them all!!"
Well.. isn't that you got your wish?? Bwahahahahaha...