Every opportunity to bust on the cops. You're getting a little tiresome with this sh$t. The story says the cops admits he was practicing his draw and had a ND. WTF are the cops hiding then, huh?? That he removed his gun to take a dump and fired it in the stall?? If they had written that, you'd be calling BS on THAT? Get off it would you!!
You may want to look back at my posts and see if you're all pizzy about the wrong person. Nice rant though.
I'm not anti-cop. Have a number of very good friends who are cops and I was a Sheriff's dispatcher long ago.
But I'm also not stupid, and know better than to buy every story that makes it through the blue line and the PR professionals. Been around that game for a long long time.
Not only that, I think anyone "practicing quick draw" in an airport bathroom, needs to be banned for a period of time from wielding deadly force, until they have a much greater respect for their firearm. Should have been suspended without pay, too.
If it was anyone who wasn't a cop they'd be charged with reckless endangerment, and it would stick. They'd be thousands of dollars poorer just paying the lawyer to stand there and let the Judge give them probation and if charged with a felony, they wouldn't be carrying that firearm ever again.
That's why I know the story is bogus. Quick draw my ass. And if it is true, he should have been charged with the same crime anyone else would have been. He had no reason to be unholstered or practicing a damn thing in an airport bathroom. Idiot kid.
Your version is likely what happened, and the PR person probably didn't want it to turn into a running joke. Didn't want the kid labeled "the popper shooter" in the Press. Or worse.
But anyway. I'm not anti-cop at all, and have talked with a number of cop friends this year who are concerned about the cop-killer attitudes amongst various racist organizations.
We've talked this year on the phone of a many a time when I warned them that just "being a good cop and ignoring the bad ones" was going to come back and bite everyone on the job in the ass, and it is now.
It only takes a handful. Two decades of allowing the handful to do bad things and pretend IA or the union would take care of it, and some departments can't fix their cultural problems now. Not all. Some.
They seem much more interested in cleaning up the ranks from inside these days. Which is good. They admit it's hard to justify to even the most supportive friends and family, things like the ABQ vagrant shooting with an AR, or the $2.3M DPD has paid out to families affected by a single hot head officer who's still on the road and not hidden away somewhere behind a desk because the union protects him.
The Sheriff I worked for was too small to have much of that stuff, but we all knew who'd be in trouble before anyone else would. No union at that place to save them, either. The Sheriff had the ability to hire and fire at will, which was much much smarter than large city departments. And he had to answer to his actions directly to the voters.
Which IMHO is a much safer scenario for those served than cities where the Chief is protected by a Mayor and a completely political staff.
Law enforcement is too important not to have a direct line to fire the upper management at the ballot box. Just a personal opinion.
I'm also a strong proponent of making LE a professional job with significant degrees and training required and much MUCH higher salaries. That also comes along with removing the liability veil of government to make it work.
LE is in charge of lives. Paying a five year degreed LE with the equivalent of a Masters degree a fat paycheck and letting them buy liability / malpractice insurance on the open market like a Doc, seems a very good way to weed out the high school football player who couldn't spell their own name types who want to fight with bad guys every chance they get and enjoy legal protection, paid for by the served, from personal consequences.
But anti-cop? Nope. You've mistaken me for someone else. I love my Sheriff and his staff, and think his addition of a local Posse to assist in keeping costs down, is great. He's got some other areas where cost cutting should have been done, and he's heard from me about them. I understand his position and he mine. It's not enough of a problem not to re-elect him. In fact, the county just voted to lift the term limits on him placed by the State many years ago with the ability for counties to vote otherwise if they chose to do so.
How's that for a silly law? State votes to enact term limits on county voted seats and of course has to leave wording in there that any county may vote the term limit away because county term limits aren't and never were, a state function.
LOL. Dip****s at the State House wasting everyone's time and money.
....now what kind of violations are enforced?