Rayshard Brooks: Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe charged with felony murder + 10 other crimes

[bolamig]

So an innocent bystander gets a bullet in their Chevy Trailblazer and the only charge for that is criminal property damage? Justice for whoever the heck that was!

Very reminiscent of what I posted in another thread:

@bolamig

I watched the hour plus body cam video from homicidal officer Rolfe in Atlanta. The part that killed me was when he was talking with his superior officer and they laughed about how there must be a lot of accidents in the police parking garage due to the poor parking, but they get reported as property damage rather than going on the officers record. Wink wink. He said that knowing his body cam was rolling on what would obviously be the most carefully reviewed night of his life. And then we find out that he has been in five reported car accidents. Who knows how much “property damage“ he suffered.

[ee0r]

Please don’t quote this as if I said it. I was relating a quote from somebody else, and I thought I made that clear. I don’t believe the shooting of either Rose or Brooks was justified.

[WorkWatchBuyRpt]

Evidence of no change: Atlanta cops are pushing back against their brother officers being held accountable.

CNN reporting “Atlanta police officers are not responding to calls in three of the department’s six zones” and “unusual number of officers working the late shift had called out sick”.

[LDoBe]

Okay. Fire their asses. All of them. Then rebuild the department. Obviously they’re lazy slackers who aren’t doing their job anyway.

This is america. You can fire anyone you want with no explicit reason. If you don’t like it move to a socialist country that cares about worker protections. I know I want to. But all the borders are closed.

[Bobo]

Well, the difference is that they face liability for their actions on the job.

Hmm… Wonder what would happen if you took bar bouncers, gave them military equipment, had them infiltrated with white supremacists, hopped them up on steroids, then basically gave them near total impunity for their actions…

Nah, that sort of situation is so absurd that there’s no way any sane society would ever let something like that happen…

[AlexG55]

Plus even ignoring this (tasers can be used in ‘‘drive stun’’ mode even after they’ve been fired), a taser is either a deadly weapon or it isn’t.

If it isn’t a deadly weapon, then somebody fleeing with one (loaded or not) isn’t a threat that needs to be ended with deadly force in the way that someone fleeing with a handgun might be.

If it is a deadly weapon, then why were they using it in the first place?

[jra]

Excellent. Let’s just keep tossing those bad apples into the compost.

[anon29537550]

This is exactly the point. If a taser is a deadly weapon, then Mr. Brooks’ actions were absolutely warranted in an attempt to save his own life by fleeing a maniac who deployed deadly force in an unjustified manner. If the taser is not a deadly weapon, a position the police hold so long as they have the taser, then there was no justification for deadly force from the officer. Either way, the cop done wrong. No ifs, ands or buts.