it's so sad for the victim and his family that this cop was found not guilty. I hope that thee are federal charges brought against this pos that was just waiting for the chance to "legally" kill someone.

It was his personal weapon that the department allowed him to use.

He was fired for that inscription.

I bet a lot of this has to do with jury selection. Defense attorneys know who to pick to get an acquittal. And I doubt prosecutors go very hard against police defendants.

I agree with your sentiment. You going against one of your own. And this case was done to appease the public. We don’t convict policemen of murder on the job, especially when going out on a call that a “maniac is pointing a rifle out of a hotel window.”

We demand tough on crime policing. And then when it occasionally goes haywire, like in this case, we can’t believe these are the people we have protecting us.

Prosecuting this guy was a waste of resources. It wasn’t like there was one juror holdout. Or discussions that even made it an entire day. I bet most of the jury deliberations consisted of an agreement not to talk to the press.

They could have run a jury in a “law and order” town as many times as they wanted. Score is always going to be same. 12-0.

Golfnutt I've been kind of indifferent about you up to now. But now I wish you'd just stfu and remove yourself from this forum.

It was a waste of resources trying to convict a murdere? That’s an interesting, albeit dumb as ****, take

You did recognize that the guy playing Simon says, with cross your legs, keep hands in the air, fall on your face, etc. was not the shooter.

Don’t you think the cop that was barking all those orders had some part to play in this fiasco?

I've thought for a while now that if I was a minority and pulled over, I'd probably put my hands out the window before the cops approached and request that I be handcuffed for everyone's safety. They'd probably shoot me for making a suspicious request.

Firing? How about charging? Him and his supervisors who allowed it. The people who support this bull**** are the same ones who are furious about that "**** Trump," decal on the truck in Texas because of the offensive language... But a cop, a role model, can have "YOU'RE ****ED" on his gun? Come on.

He was looking for a chance the day he had that etched on his gun, and he finally got it.

We don’t convict cops in this country on the job. Cops kill people all the time.

Number of policeman in entire country convicted of murder
In 2014: zero
In 2015: zero

You aren’t getting a conviction when it involves a response to a suspect pointing a rifle outside a window.

The officer wasn’t even that surprised when the verdict was read. The jury was out of there so quickly that he knew it was acquittal.

Why try a case that you know you are going to lose?

100% safest play imo, especially with the cams

Just wanna point out that golfnutt is a known troll. He has been contained in OOT.

Morality? An interest in justice? Just say what you think bro. Vic deserved to die, shoulda listened better.

Edit: on second thoughts they'd probably jump on your back, scream that you're resisting and pop one anyway. It's so ****ed up it's depressing.

Two ways to go here.

A) You're never going to convict them, so shut up and cheer them on as they protect, serve and leave a trail of "collateral" carnage of, often, the very people they were supposed to be protecting and serving.

B) Let's make a change. The first part of that is trying every one of these cases until people, on a large scale, come to be aware of what's going on... while also protesting and using politics to get the word out.

Yet, whaddayaknow, every time anyone tries to do any part of B, there's someone there to yell at them for wasting taxpayer money, being racist, being divisive, hating all cops, etc, etc...

Stop being part of the problem.

They're clearly stating that he should have been fired before the shooting.

Lol @ people talking to golfnutz

WE DON’T CONVICT COPS.

You have an unarmed white guy sobbing. Pumped full of lead from a team of commandos at the La Quinta Hotel in Mesa.

If the officer was found not guilty, with damning video, there is no prosecutor that is going to try another case. You look real bad when you lose. There is no moral victory. You don’t get promoted. You prosecute a police officer, you are going after yourself. There were police officers called as witnesses on both sides.

Even if you win as a prosecutor, you lose. Putting a police officer in jail who was responding to a weapons call will cause a lot of animosity. As someone said, prosecutors do soft play these cases. As did the judge. Who didn’t allow the weapon to be shown! The weapon used to kill another person. Imagine any other homicide case where the weapon isn’t shown.

Stacked deck. The outcome was already known.

Think prosecutors are itching to try other cops after this?

How does it make any sense that the jury gets to hear about the alleged waving the gun out the window but not about the GET ****ED on the murderers gun?

Golfnutt, just admit you've signed up cheerfully for a future in which cops mow down unarmed civilians at their whim with zero repercussions. Otherwise, shut the hell up.

Did anyone follow this trial closely? Did the victim, or someone in that room, actually point a rifle out the window?

Did anyone at trial give any explanation for the bizarre orders that the cop gave to the victim? I know very little about policing, but surely it is safer if you are a police officer to tell someone to lie facedown with arms out while you approach. I just don't see how telling someone to crawl towards you could ever be part of any accepted police procedure. The video almost seems like the cop was trying to precipitate a crisis.

If you look at the reforms Black Lives Matter campaigns for, they are on point for this case. Having sane policing would benefit all races. Even if you don't believe white supremacy is the disease, the cure is good.

https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision

That's just one section.

The guy yelling commands wasn’t the shooter? These guys suck at their job.

The crawling seems like a fine idea under the circumstances which are supposedly the cop worried about getting shot through the door or something, but the screaming and shooting was psychotic. It was an insane stupid psychopath playing Simon Says. I haven't seen these so I don't know, but maybe it came from one of those Saw movies.

He was getting shot no matter what he did.

I’ve heard a lot mentioned about an open door. Did everyone watch to the end where to door was closed and they tried several time’s to open it with a key card?