Today in cops gone feral

There's a battle among sheriffs in the yokel-heavy counties of Florida to be the next Grady Judd.

 

Sheriff in Clay County, just south of Jacksonville and where I grew up, arrested.

Clay Sheriff Daniels faces arrest after sex scandal investigation

 

Huh... ...I tell you fuck that motherfucker!

 

'He wanted fancy, fancy:' Sheriff, top execs rent $35,000-a-month office space in Gardens

Damn - sheriff's in Florida having a day.

 

New video: Sheriff’s deputy the 'undeniably initial aggressor' in Toronto Raptors shoving match

 

God bless the sacred cop unions ...

According to Transparent California, Strickland
earned $224,000 a year, not including benefits, in 2018.

 

Best job in the country.

 

We have a daily double.

First up, and I’m not sure this is such a bad thing: FBI worried that Ring doorbells are spying on police and also Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned

And then we get the big one: Whistleblower: California Deputy Killed Teen to Join LA Sheriff Department’s “Gang”

 

If that gang story is true, it's both huge and disturbing.

 

Maybe equip all of them with a Taser but cut the number of officers with guns by at least half.

 

Good.

Nicolas Chavez, already weakened by two gunshot wounds, was on his knees and pulling a Taser toward as four Houston Police Department officers fired a fatal barrage of bullets, according to police video of the encounter.

The officers involved in the April 21 death — identified as Sgt. Benjamin LeBlanc, officers Patrick Rubio, Omar Tapia and Luis Alvarado — were fired Thursday for what police Chief Art Acevedo said was their decision to fire a combined 21 rounds at Chavez, who was suffering from an apparent mental break and who died following their 15-minute encounter in east Houston. Acevedo determined the fatal shots were “not objectively reasonable.”

“You don’t get to shoot somebody 21 times,” Acevedo said. “Because, at the time, Mr. Chavez was at his greatest level of incapacitation.”

Prior to his death, Chavez, 27, had already been shot, stunned and was unable to get up on his own, Acevedo said. The officers, he continued, could have taken two to three steps back when he reached for the spent Taser but instead opened fire.

“I cannot defend that,” Acevedo continued.

Mayor Sylvester Turner tearfully said he had watched video of the encounter several times and for most of it, he did not fault the officers for their actions. Watching the eight seconds surrounding Chavez’s death, however, is what led him to question what happened. He concluded that Chavez did not pose an imminent threat to the police officers.

“He could have lived and could have gotten the help that he desperately needed,” Turner said.​

'I cannot defend that': 4 officers fired as HPD releases footage of fatal shooting of Nicolas Chavez — Houston Chronicle