Bad cop, good cop stories, III

I've not kept up closely with this trial but I believe these three didn't actually beat Nichols, but rather didn't stop the two who were actually beating him. The two who beat / kicked him to death have already pled guilty to federal and state charges.

I read an attorney's description of the charges and he said the bodycam footage proved them not guilty based on the jury's instructions, some of which were:



Not defending anyone here, just posting what I've been reading.

To be 100% clear, Tyre Nichols was murdered and didn't deserve the way he was treated.
That makes sense to a point, but it's hard to imagine how they weren't guilty on that last charge--An acquittal there basically means that police are under no legal obligation to enforce the law.
 

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.

The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year.
 
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Famed Tennessee sheriff who inspired Hollywood movie killed his wife in 1967, investigators say - CBS News

Authorities acknowledged that the finding will likely shock many who grew up as fans of Buford Pusser and watched 1973's "Walking Tall," which immortalized him as a tough but fair sheriff with zero tolerance for crime. The movie was remade in 2004, and many officers joined law enforcement because of his story, according to Mark Davidson, the district attorney for Tennessee's 25th judicial district.

There is enough evidence that if Pusser, the McNairy County sheriff who died in a car crash seven years after his wife's death, were alive today, prosecutors would present an indictment to a grand jury for the killing of Pauline Mullins Pusser, Davidson said. Investigators also uncovered signs that she suffered from domestic violence.
 
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Here is the statement that I was going to read today at the hearing, but the time was cut from 3 minutes to 90 seconds so I had to adjust. I posted the following on the written record.

SB 5974 Statement
In the interest of time, I’ll skip the fake pleasantries and get right to it. Elections have consequences, and I acknowledge that. Democrats have a super majority in the house, the senate, governor, and every statewide executive office. You have it all except the office of sheriff, and once you have control over sheriffs you think you can impose your will on people like me.

Some of my colleagues naively believe that they can come here and reason with you. They think you don’t understand what’s at stake here. They don’t understand you like I do. You know what is at stake, and you are acting on it. You are not dumb, you are evil. But I am not surprised.

You are going to pass this qualifications bill for law enforcement, but you will not hold yourselves accountable. You say, “We have to hold the chiefs and sheriffs accountable because they enforce the law.” That’s just the excuse you use for the low information people that vote for you. If you really wanted accountability, you would have qualifications for anyone who runs for office. You write the laws that we enforce so why should you not have the same qualifications?

I propose that everyone who runs for an elected office go through a background check, a social media review, a polygraph, and a psychological test. Democrats won’t agree to that because you have convicted felons who are elected officials, and you want more.

I represent almost one million people in Pierce County, many more people than any of you do. I wasn’t elected chief of police. Being sheriff of Pierce County is much more than just police work. Citizens reach out to me all the time regarding overreach of the government by you. Some say they finally have a voice because of me, and you want to silence my voice. If I towed the Democrat line, you would not have any issue with me, but since I know what a woman is and I know transgender women are men, you want me silenced. You want to give an un-elected bureaucracy the ability to de-certify me and remove me from office because you don’t agree with my speech.

You Democrats hate President Trump so much, yet you do the very things you accuse him of doing such as imposing these types of controls over other independently elected officials.

Also, just for the record, my deputies don’t wear face masks, but once you pass the law that they can’t, I will not only allow them, but I will also encourage them to do so.

I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me, and when you try to remove me from office before my term expires, thousands of Pierce County residents will surround the County City Building in downtown Tacoma and not allow that to happen. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but I and they are prepared. Are you prepared?

Finally, anyone who votes for this will never have an audience with this sheriff.

 
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Its getting to the point where running as an Independent has its advantages. No wasting money on a primary, avoid the absolute nutty policy positions from party candidates, and inclusion in the general election where all the normal people turnout to vote.
 
Its getting to the point where running as an Independent has its advantages. No wasting money on a primary, avoid the absolute nutty policy positions from party candidates, and inclusion in the general election where all the normal people turnout to vote.
One would think, but alas, no. The mouth-breathers who only need to see the red or blue emblems of subservience will continue to vote as they’ve been programmed to do. It will take more than expensive eggs or the heavy-handed tactics of feds to mark a change in voting habits in these pitiful souls. In the meantime, we continue to stand alone in a sea of conformity.
 

Forty-one DUI arrests by Asa Pearl, Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper. All dismissed. Twenty-two drivers were sober or within the legal limit. Completely sober.

The trooper “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases.

Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding obviously corrupt officers. Fire them. Flag them. Make their record follow them so they can’t quietly move to the next department and start over.
 
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