Oh I thought I had posted this already but I just scrolled back and didn't see it.

Last week, friday afternoon we're at Junior's baseball game. I see the local news choppa passing overhead.

As we're leaving the game we pass a huge scene, cop cars everywhere, huge wreck, road blocked etc. I notice some of the cop cars are from Bartlett, which is odd because that's a suburb town pretty far from where the wreck was. So it was obvious this must have been a high speed chase that covered a pretty significant distance.

On the news that evening we got more details. The suspected crime that triggered this? Surely it was murder or rape or kidnapping, right?

Nope, it was shoplifting. Crab legs from a supermarket. And apparently this pursuit went through several residential neighborhoods, and the chase concluded about two blocks from a orthodox synagogue. And remember, this was late friday afternoon, the congregation was walking to services at the time. The crash ended in front of the home of a family that was literally walking out the door to go to services. It's basically a miracle that nobody was hurt.

Now, in between the shoplifting and the crash, however, there are some events that contributed to this.

* The suspects "threatened to kill" anyone that followed them out of the store.
* an officer (possibly a plainclothes detective) approached the suspects at a stop light a few blocks away, the suspects took off (and this is where the chase actually started)
* the day of the chase the news reported that the officer was struck by the suspects' vehicle (and this is apparently what the Bartlett PD used to justify their pursuit when they contacted the Memphis PD for permission to pursue into Memphis jurisdiction) but none of the reports since then have mentioned that.

The best part was in the newspaper a few days later, some guy wrote a letter to the editor pointing out how dangerous this was, and in the comments was this gem:

"you are Socialist that believe criminals should escape the law. My only regret was that the police were not firing their guns at the thieves. This is a typical response from a LIBERAL."

initial news footage: http://www.wmctv.com/story/14688293/...police-pursuit

If there's one thing that I definitely associate with socialist regimes, it's being very lenient towards criminals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital...ublic_of_China

Here is a really shameful part.
earlier in the same piece
It appears the went through the house and found the wife and child in the closet. Also since they were there, they would know the only shooters were outside the house. It is outrageous that these officers aren't currently being held awaiting trial for murder.

Pulled out of the line at mcdonalds lol.

1. Dance at the Jefferson Memorial
2. ???
3. Profit Get arrested!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDhjNF9eUQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kFQEbLyPSQ

These scumbags lucked out in that they didn't kill his wife and child and have a real media frenzy on their hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uyia...eature=related

Apparently dancing = protesting and protesting is illegal on federal parks. Funny. I thought the bill of rights applied everywhere in this country.

P.S. Thomas Jefferson is probably the President who would be the most outraged by this.

Cops: She asked to be arrested, then resisted

Where does this story fall in the "Voluntary Interaction" argument?

crazy bitch gonna crazy bitch?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06...html?hpt=hp_t2

Looks bad imo

2nd video and more info on that Memorial Day police shooting: http://www.miamibeach411.com/news/memorial-day-video2

And in other police news: Ottawa police try to shoot dog during raid, miss and instead hit man lying prone on the floor. Man sues for 7oo,ooo loonies.

Shocking the things that happen when you give a bunch of wanna-be cowboys a gun, badge, and the authority to be reckless, trigger-happy loons with basically no real consequences for all but the most egregious offenses and no accountability for how they treat people and conduct their job. Government failure at its finest.

so he was going to step on a gun to destroy it? This paragraph makes zero sense. The only explanation is that he wanted it destroyed.

lolz start around 0:30

"ionized" metal bracelet is the first clue that the guy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

Decided to go out at about 3:45 am Saturday night (technically early Sunday) to get some food...I keep odd hours.

Upon finding everything closed, big surprise, on my way home I get pulled over on these little backroads leading to my neighborhood. I'm totally not surprised, for some reason this little area is like a police state, there are always cops everywhere and I haven't really figured out why, there's little to no crime in my area so I guess they are just bored.

He gives me some made up reason of "failure to maintain lane" (totally bogus) but upon seeing that I am in my pajamas basically and haven't been drinking or anything he lets me go with a "warning."

Basically I was guilty of being out at an odd time and place, so he was gonna find a reason to stop me.

Police officer in this one acts like my dog. Lets a bunch of bicyclists go by, but after a while he just can't resist himself anymore and has to take a swipe at one.

Once that's done you have to arrest the guy who filmed it.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f4_1308033758

This is so standard

It's like this in the town next to me for some reason. There's no real crime in either town. Just two very similar quiet medium sized towns. In my town, the cops really don't do anything. Mostly they stand in front of road work/tree-trimming and direct traffic. Maybe they grab up 3-4 DUI's a month on the weekend nights. Beyond that, you wouldn't even know they existed.

In the town next to me, there are cops EVERYWHERE. Always have people pulled over, often with multiple cop cars. They're always out and about, cruising around downtown. I started doing some of my grocery shopping there in the past couple of years, and in any given week, I see more people pulled over there than I've seen in the last 5 years in my town. It's totally bizarre.

They are generating revenue to pay their salaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio

Another murderer

Well at least he was booked into jail. He wasn't charged with murder immediately, but at least he was taken into custody.

Edit to add: I didn't research it, but the comments indicate he was then indicted. I don't know of being arrested for a lower charge and then indicted has any meaning.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/22...ilmed-cop.html

Somebody recruit this guy for the part of snarky jackass ASAP!