Today in cops gone feral

All of the Mississippi Goon Squad members are getting sentenced this week. This one gets 40 years in federal pound me in the ass prison.

And an interesting note: This guy is reportedly the cousin of a man who was sentenced to two life sentences in 2015 for the racially-motivated murder of a black man, in another infamous case.

https://www.wlbt.com/2024/03/20/christian-dedmon-member-goon-squad-sentenced-40-years-prison/

Life sentence in Mississippi hate-crime case | CNN

 

Anyone can be gotten to in prison. Anyone.

 

Dahmer was not in gen pop. That didn’t go well for him.

 

Neither was Bernie Madoff.

 

Oh so now I suppose that’s #problematic.

https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/rep...emeaning-attitude-toward-black-residents.html

 

Houston mayor says police chief is out amid probe into thousands of dropped cases

"Finner's retirement comes as police investigate the dropping of more 4,000 sexual assault cases that are among more than 264,000 incident reports never submitted for investigation. Finner apologized in March after revealing that officers were assigning an internal code to the unsubmitted cases that cited a lack of personnel available. [Mayor]Whitmire also launched a review by an independent panel."

 

It's a huge mess. He wasn't chief at the time, but he might have known about it, since he was among the leadership then. The new mayor isn't great either, since he's close to a DINO, and already doing things like encouraging the building of more roads and eliminating bike lanes because a mega church complained.

 

MIAMI (AP) — Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-airman-florida-8bcc82463ada69264389edf2a4f1a83d

 

Houston police chief retires suddenly after questions raised about more than 260,000 suspended investigations

 

I have lately been going down a YouTube rabbit hole of incidents like this. In many cases, what the cops do - kill someone, shoot or taze someone, throw them around and injure them, kill their dog, destroy property - might be justified... if they were at the right address.
It's almost always the same: "Oh, shit. We're at the wrong address. Sorry we broke your shoulder or shot your dog. Our bad. Have a nice day." Cover body cam. Mumble, mumble, mumble. "Uh, is there something we can charge these people with to make it seem legit?"

There can't be qualified immunity for that. They didn't just pull over the wrong car and let the person go once they realized all was good. They altered people's lives and homes forever.

 

Agreed, to some extent. Sometimes some $15-an-hour dispatcher transposes the numbers or mixes up “street” and “avenue.”

There was a case last year in New Mexico where this happened. Cops pointed to the wrong address to respond to a domestic. Cops show up at the house, guns drawn, repeatedly identified themselves and got no answer. On their last warning, the (white) guy comes out with a pistol and points it at the cops. You know how this story ends. Apparently and coincidentally, someone had robbed his business a few hours before, and he thought the cops weren’t cops and were trying to lure him out and finish the job.

That’s an extreme case, of course, but I’d argue cops deserve qualified immunity there. I’m not anti-cop, but I am empathetic to those who are.