I would have liked to see harsher penalties for all involved, but a cop getting real prison time for his involvement in killing an innocent person under color of law is encouraging.
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Perfect is the enemy of good. Maybe these "bad apple" cops I keep hearing about will commit less hate crimes against their community after sentences like these.
Why is the rest of that saying not used?
It goes, "One bad apple spoils the bunch."
They're all bad.
Why is the full understanding of that saying not used when completing it fully? You remove bad apples from the bunch so that the rot doesn't spread. They all become bad if you don't do that. Not saying that's the case for cops in any of these digestions, one way or another. But just saying, sayings.
Our idiom fluency will have to pull itself up by its own bootstraps one supposes
Right wing people are either stupid or dishonest. The stupid ones don't understand the saying and never thought to look it up, and the dishonest ones don't care.
They’re all bad because no one ever plucks out the bad ones before they spoil the rest. This bad apple has been plucked out. Just left on the counter and will probably be back in three years but at least it was removed before it spoiled more
Even if this guy is imprisoned, it's the cop equivalent of martyrdom.
He'll get a suspended sentence and serve less than a year at best, if he doesn't get off on appeal, just you watch.
I will be unsurprised if orangeboi pardons this fucker.
Is this a federal charge?
Even if it’s not, I wouldn’t be super shocked if he tries it anyways to see if he can make it stick, regardless of whether or not he even has the legal power to
Yeah, not that it should be the case that the insides of prisons are kinda torture but, cops usually don't have a very good time behind bars
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Missing from headline: "... despite federal prosecutors requesting a 1 day sentence"
Glad the judge was able to see the absolute ridiculousness of that.
edit: I thought at first it was 33 years for some reason... sad day.
in the whole bad apple metaphor, who are the prosecutors, and why has the farmer not yet set fire to the orchard?
Thats crazy wth the cop murdered her... and what do you mean 'violating civil rights' he killed her
This officer didn't shoot anyone. The guy that DID shoot her had already been acquitted. This cop fired blindly into their apartment. He didn't hit anyone.
If a person fires blindly into Police Department but doesn't hit anybody you think he just gets 33 months?
And what do you think a getaway driver is charged with when a heist goes bad and someone is killed. If they’re guilty of murder or accessory to murder, certainly someone spraying bullets blindly into a building is
She doesn't have civil rights anymore after she was killed so technically true. /s
Edit:
I just read it and it seems it may be another cop who shot her?
The Justice Department's sentencing memo for Hankison downplayed his role in the raid at Taylor's home, saying he "did not shoot Ms. Taylor and is not otherwise responsible for her death."
Thirty three months.
That's as long as it takes for a kid to learn to use a fork.
Fuck that bullshit, dude should have gotten a life sentence.
Didn't he violate her rights by murdering her?
Murder is such a harsh word. It creates the idea that there is a systemic problem with the police. No these are just happy little civil rights violations.
Given that this cop did not, in fact, actually shoot anyone, it seems like an appropriate charge
Is that all? Fuck me.
If Trump's Justice Department got their way, he would have served one single day. Not joking...
Trump will pardon him.
He wont see prison time.
Gotta keep that ‘back the blue’ vote.
No... fuck that cop
More than I expected, to be honest.
He'll prolly get pardoned
A little under three years in I'm assuming minimum security and a high likelihood of commuted sentencing.
Presidential pardon incoming in 5, 4, 3...
Out solders are held to a higher standard for fucks sake.
Sacrificial lamb..
Murderer goes free, but at least there's something. Having to emphasize that take makes me ill.
Who did this guy murder?
The person who wasn't a target of their warrant? I can't tell if you're serious or being a troll.
Jails in the US are shitty enough that there's still time for him to lose teeth and get stabbed.
Of course they aren't going to put this cop into the common population of criminals. They are going to treat this piece of shit with more dignity and pamper him in his own fancy cell with separate nicer rations, and treated better than you could possibly imagine.
And when he gets out, there will likely be a nice six figure salary job lined up for him by wealthy Republicans running a corrupt physical security company willing to hire this pig racist cop.
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