Right - it’s pure copaganda. They even write cops “fired back” despite there being no claim anyone other than cops fired.
Isn’t that The Shield?
And I don’t mean they shouldn’t report what they police said. Just say “according to police statements” or something ffs. They present it just as fact with no attribution because they are afraid to make it sound like they could possibly doubt the word of the police. Maybe that’s smart considering cops run around murdering people.
Having spent a lot of time in Farmington, answering the door to an unknown guns drawn is 100% standard.
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Lol, the tweet:
https://twitter.com/theonion/status/1644731899523264515?s=46&t=hBjtNd-alOHNrDUHnSOwyQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/10/scottsdale-lawsuit-settlement-hit-run/
Yessenia Garcia and her boyfriend turned to police in May 2020 after a vandal shattered the windshield of her car. Instead of helping, those officers accused Garcia of being involved in a hit-and-run with a pedestrian, arrested her and took her to jail, where she spent the night.
Nearly three years later, Garcia settled a federal lawsuit for $200,000 last week with the city of Scottsdale, Ariz., its police department and the officers who arrested her in an incident first reported by KNXV. In 2021, Garcia filed the suit in the U.S. District Court of Arizona, with claims of false arrest, negligence and denial of due process.
“Yessenia is totally innocent,” her attorney, Benjamin Taylor, told The Washington Post. “… She reached out to Scottsdale police for help as a victim, and she ended up being victimized.”
Lawyers representing the city and police department did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment. But in January 2022, Police Chief Jeff Walther announced the conclusion of an internal affairs investigation into the incident. Investigators determined that seven department employees violated policy in connection with the incident, including three officers who failed to perform their duties by not thoroughly investigating Garcia’s report of vandalism. Two of the officers were punished with unpaid suspensions of 40 hours and 20 hours.
About 15 minutes after Garcia and her boyfriend flagged down officers, one of them left to review footage from a surveillance camera that had recorded what happened at Garcia’s parking spot, the internal affairs report says. Even though the video confirmed Garcia’s account, the officer allegedly returned to keep accusing her of driving off in a hit-and-run.
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20 and 40 hour unpaid vacation time off will definitely prevent these incidents from happening in the future… well played scottsdale PD…
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Imagine what $200k coming out of these dicks’ pensions would do
https://twitter.com/LAPDChiefMoore/status/1646891732091404289
Crazy how you can be a police chief while knowing jack shit about how laws work.
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You’re surprised? MAGA cops get enraged when protesters are yelling and swearing, since to cowardly cops this means they’re “not being peaceful.”
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Still stinging from this imo
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this dude absolutely knows how laws work
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A tale of two shootings.
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Thing is if the only person’s word you have is the shooter who claims self-defense and no witnesses to say otherwise, what can the cops do there? Just because he got released doesn’t mean he did nothing wrong. It only means that they don’t have enough for an arrest yet.
That said, allowing him to go home to chuck away any physical evidence that could provide more detail about the situation is incompetence. But can a cop bar a person not being charged with a crime from their property?
I think the DA has to at least charge the shooters and take them to trial. As you say, it’s one person’s word against another’s. As the DA I’d listen to the two accounts and if it as bad as it sounds, I’m gonna take them to trial and at least make them sweat.
common denominator is boomer shooters likely scared shitless of everyone and everything by fox news watching
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But it wasn’t that yet. The kid was shot and fighting to survive in the hospital. At the station, all they had was the guy’s word. After 24 hours, they either have to charge or release him. If they don’t have the other side of the story, then they have to release him.
Yeah. I mean sure.
Something that was obvious when a white women gets shot is somehow really complicated when it’s a black kid.
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