germanchoclate1981,
I am not seeing a solution. At least not yet. Frustrating as hell.
Getting rid of the bad & guilty is not enough. This is a sickness/evil that is being tolerated & probably hidden & overlooked & denied.
I am thinking & praying.
This isn't like a leaky faucet that can be repaired or replaced then the problem is gone. Removing all command and officers won't work either.
Tell me if this makes sense to you.
Anytime there is an officer involved shooting the evidence collection and investigation should immediately be handed over to the SBI. If there is a civilian death in an officer involved shooting (not the death of an active shooter) the investigation and evidence collection gets turned over to the FBI.
BODYCAM BODYCAM BODYCAM... Have I said it enough times? Apparently not. Audio definitely adds to the value of body or dash or security footage. In the case of bad lighting, a fall, visual obstruction etc, the audio corroborates what the video shows. In this particular case the burger king security cameras tapes were reported destroyed by the police. Maybe that's what the other officers were talking about standing around McDonald's dead body. AUDIO... Hello people.... Oh, you can't hear, there's no audio.
Before everyone had quality video or smartphones, people didn't ask as much about dashcam footage much less audio. We watched C.O.P.S. and said im glad things aren't that bad here. Now the citizens are showing us all how often, how similar, how widespread, and how acceptable unwarranted shootings unannounced, unidentified, running over people with cruisers. You name it pretty much we have seen it in the last two or three years. Wheelchair bound, innocent, unarmed, walking, standing in a hotel lobby reading, not all shot not all dead but all dead wrong. The 4 year old in Louisiana, that takes the cake.
Not all agencies have been complicit some have turned things over to the FBI or US Marshalls immediately and kudos for that. Anyone who hides or destroys evidence, impedes or obstructs investigations, or allows an officer with as egregious a record as this ******* had needs to be imprisoned, point blank period. People like him, Wilson, Tensing, Miller, gliniewicz (sorry piece of chit) are like gangrenous limbs killing the agencies and departments they represent. You can fire them, you can suspend them and accomplish nothing. 'you shot a 4 year old, go sit in a corner'. Unless these people, these citizens in uniform, are subject to the same law and penalties as any other citizens they are (not seen or perceived as) carrying out the BUSINESS of the agency they represent. Whether that be assault, robbery, murder, drug and gun trafficking, whatever their actions in uniform or plain clothes with a badge. Any civilian who unloaded on a 17 year old whether he had slashed a tire or not, would face as many charges and the highest bail the judge or magistrate could legally set. This should be no different.
Imagine your children, nieces, nephews, grandkids, whatever, have 6 seconds after the police who arrive on
the scene (with 5 or 6 other officers already very much in control not threatened in any way) begin to unload. 15 seconds later, the guy is reaching for a second magazine. Now nothing is released to the public for a year and now we learn there was evidence destroyed and the city cuts a check for hush money. This might have been how serfs or indentured servants had to live (and die) but that is not what OUR CONSTITUTION and current States legislations allow.
How much evidence do we need? How many lives ruined? How many innocent deaths? How many mockeries miscarriages or complete absences of JUSTICE when WE HAVE THE TOOLS?