But because we have an intentionally broken system, that officer will wait a couple months, move two counties to the left and be rehired on another force (and likely promoted).
I like how this is considered politics and not crime.
Great, now criminally charge him.
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Asshole should be charged
Absolutely. Assault on an unarmed civilian, clear unnecessary use of force on video, over a stop for a mud flap.
Why didn’t the prosecutor charge him yet? The video isn’t enough evidence?
He’ll be a new hire in a neighboring County in a couple of months.
This is a resume builder for a lot of cops
That’s rare.
Not really… cops get fired all the time and then hired again at different places with no issues.
The moment a government agent chooses to violate someone’s rights, they should be assumed to have resigned their position effective instantaneously.
Their actions from that point on are those of a private individual. Their previous status as a servant of the public is no matter; they abandoned that status the moment they forswore their oath of office.
A private individual commanded a dog to attack a harmless member of the public; and the dog obeyed that command and attacked that person.
The private individual is to be charged with a felony, and the dog is to be put down as a danger to humankind.
You had me right up until putting the dog down. I get what you’re going for, but the dog was doing exactly what it was trained to do. That in of itself may be a problem, but putting the dog down only serves to add a level of moral and emotional ambiguity in most people’s minds. In reality 100% of the blame, culpability, and punishment should land squarely on the officer.
A few days ago when this popped up, I saw a bunch of comments saying how everyone bets he gets a paid suspension at worst. I’m aware that officers are practically immune from the terrible things they do on the clock. I am at least glad all the commenters that thought no justice at all would happen were wrong.
The union is already fighting it.
That is the union’s job. Just like defense attorneys fight against guilty verdicts for even blatant murderers, the union is representing a union member.
A union doesn’t always fight for a union members job. The union will have a contract and if the union member violates the contract or puts the union in a bad light or weakens it’s position to fight for it’s members as a whole it can absolutely not support them.
A union should be prouder than this. They should want to have better member and other union members shouldnt want to be in an organization with someone who gives them a bad name.
Annnnd that’s why cops shouldn’t have unions.
The police dept is already loathe to hold officers accountable, we don’t need a whole ass union protecting cops from people who already don’t want to hurt them.
So you’ve never been in a union that fights for workers to get better pay, reasonable hours, and decent healthcare? I’ve had unions at two jobs and they fought hard to make sure workers were treated fairly. Football players have a union. Many service workers have a union. Unions are not a bad thing.
I love unions, unions are great, more people should be in them. Just not cops. If all they were doing was fighting for better hours and pay I’d have no problem (acab aside), but police unions go to bat for violent cops who hurt people. Police unions fight to keep those violent cops in those positions of authority, paid by our tax dollars, with a gun, on the streets where their next potential victim waits.
That’s a problem for me.
Unions are not a bad thing, rightwing unions however betray all other unions and undermine the entire system.
interesting bit of law regarding police dogs in Ohio --> https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2921.321
