There are some text messages from active police officers to these two saying if there is something shady going on, for them to do something. Seems the locals are rather corrupt/lazy.
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scipioafricanus wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:12 am
There are some text messages from active police officers to these two saying if there is something shady going on, for them to do something. Seems the locals are rather corrupt/lazy.
If that's true, I suspect it will torpedo the murder charges.
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Netpackrat wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 4:13 am
The narrative seems to be that the two white dudes picked random black dude jogging through the neighborhood because racism. But if they recognized that specific dude from the security tape, while it doesn't mean they aren't still racists, it does cast the element of racism as cause for the confrontation in doubt. None of those details mean that they won't (or shouldn't) go to prison, but as I said before, they do make it perhaps not the open and shut murder case that is being assumed.
I haven't heard that narrative at all. It's more like they were racist for assuming that because it was a black guy walking around in the home under construction it had to be the same guy who stole a 9mm out of Jr's car.
"If that was a 26 yo white guy in khaki shorts looking around the site, would they have chased him down and shot him in the street?"
scipioafricanus wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:12 am
There are some text messages from active police officers to these two saying if there is something shady going on, for them to do something. Seems the locals are rather corrupt/lazy.
If that's true, I suspect it will torpedo the murder charges.
Netpackrat wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 4:13 am
The narrative seems to be that the two white dudes picked random black dude jogging through the neighborhood because racism. But if they recognized that specific dude from the security tape, while it doesn't mean they aren't still racists, it does cast the element of racism as cause for the confrontation in doubt. None of those details mean that they won't (or shouldn't) go to prison, but as I said before, they do make it perhaps not the open and shut murder case that is being assumed.
I haven't heard that narrative at all. It's more like they were racist for assuming that because it was a black guy walking around in the home under construction it had to be the same guy who stole a 9mm out of Jr's car.
"If that was a 26 yo white guy in khaki shorts looking around the site, would they have chased him down and shot him in the street?"
I have no idea if they are racist or not. I do not know if the shot dude was a burglar in his spare time or not either (I am confident he was not a choir boy.) One just cannot do what they did.
One interesting point, I seems our hero lost his badge (as many retired officers retain) and arresting rights because he seems to have refused to go to firearms and use of force training. I think perchance he could have used it.