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Thursday, November 5, 2015

How Law Enforcement Officers Kill People And Avoid Prosecution

In The United States Of Barbaria, We Train Our Cops To Kill

There's Never Been A Safer Time For Cops Nor A More Dangerous Time For Criminals

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/theres-never-been-safer-time-to-be-cop.html

Diane Rehm Guest Gets To The Nub Of Police Violence And How Easily It's Prevented

"Is The United States Still A Nation Of Law? Bad Cops And Bad Politicians Walk"

Killer Cops: Slow Motion Serial Killing By White People

How law enforcement officers can kill someone and avoid prosecution,” by Wesley Lowery: “Families of people killed by police rarely see the officers taken to trial. It was supposed to be different for the children of Larry Jackson Jr.: The Austin police detective who shot and killed Jackson was scheduled to be tried this week for manslaughter. At the last minute, however, a judge dismissed the case against the white detective, Charles Kleinert, ruling that he was acting as a member of a federal task force in 2013 when he shot Jackson, an unarmed black man. As a federal agent at the time, the judge ruled, Kleinert is shielded from state prosecution. The ruling stunned Jackson’s family, whose attorney called it a ‘great civil rights injustice,’ and dismayed the local prosecutor, who has vowed to appeal. Meanwhile, the case is shining a spotlight on a legal tactic rarely used in criminal cases, one that raises the question of when, if ever, a federal law enforcement officer can be charged with a crime for killing someone in the line of duty. The question is not theoretical: So far this year, federal officers have been involved in 33 fatal shootings nationwide…”


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