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Hostage shot 9 times by the police; SCOTUS rules it's perfectly fine/legal for the police to shoot/kill victims/hostages in order to capture/kill an alleged suspect

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WTActualF!?!?!?!?!

This incident happened in 2015. (The SCOTUS ruling is recent.) The truck driver being held hostage was allowed to call 911 (by the suspect) and the suspect told him, he would not shoot him. He just wanted him to drive his fully loaded logging truck out of the wooded area. In other words, he wanted a ride for a possible escape.

The police opened fired upon the DRIVER, on sight, shooting 35 rounds, hitting him 9 times. 😳😳😳 (He, the driver, was awarded a mere $190,000. Just add a LOT of salt to those 9 gunshot wounds.) 😠

And now, this is law of the land. So if you're taken hostage, don't bother with 911. Just cheerfully follow the assailant's commands. You might get out alive. 😣😣😣

It's so absurd, it's almost hard to believe it's not an SNL skit.

#wtf

SeaGreenEyez 9 May 2
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1

This and the Floyd case seem to ring loud and clear. "Protect and serve" has nothing to do with us. Look at all the limited time given to cops if convicted.

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Yup..cops are here "to protect and serve" our 1%..Their property and Their lives..it's fuck everyone else..and SCOTUS wonders why we've lost faith in their judgements..

SCOTUS doesn’t care, …until…. Sometimes one of their own makes their ignorance embarrassing, as Neil Gorsuch did when via the Bostick case he made obvious to them that homosexuality and transsexuality are about sex. Do a search on “SCOTUS Bostick text” and follow the link to Cornell University’s Legal Information Institute. If you omit “text” you may get a lot of opinion.

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Being a hostage is no doubt the most dangerous situation one can be in, from both the 'bad guys' and the 'good guys'. this has been known for Quite some time......

2

What did the troopers know and when did they know it?

3

That's...so...wrong... I'm....practically... speechless 😶

You be a cop in that situation. What will you do?

@yvilletom Shoot the truck's tires, not the driver. Then talk to the nut with a gun. And if that doesn't work, maybe try to shoot him with a sniper rifle. Definitely not pepper the whole truck with bullets. That's just lame.

@SeaGreenEyez Did 911 tell the troopers who was driving the truck?

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I'm not surprised, the Court ruled in 2008 that cops don't have any responsibility to protect the public except in limited cases like they are transferring prisoners.

@SeaGreenEyez I remember Freddie Grey case - I had friends in Balt'more and was living just North in Pennsylvania. So many shitty cops and cops stories. An old boss, in the Navy, had rejoined and stayed till retirement after a stint as a PA state cop - he left after witnessing mass corruption (he was one of the people who reported hospitals being bombed in Vietnam, something that got held against him even though he never went public). My old insurance agent in PA was an excop - he became a cop to do good and after a couple of years saw how shitty other cops treated people, especially those in a mental crisis.

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