Quote (GLYC123 @ May 10 2020 10:37am)

Agreed.

Cops can get charged and convicted. And there are bad cops and bad cops that do deserve to get convicted. And they do get convicted.

The reason why other cops don't get convicted lie in the unique position that they hold and the general public doesn't understand that because they know little of what it is like to be in a position where you have to make use of force decisions in split seconds with limited information.

A lot of people can't fathom the idea of this, for some reason. You have to look at the information an officer had at the time of the incident, if they acted in good faith and if there was legitimate concern for their life or the life of others.

They're granted special protections because of that and rightfully so.
However, those protections only help in specific situations.

Quote (Skinned @ May 10 2020 10:52am)

For every officer who faced justice, there are a dozen Officer Stephen Roaches and Ray Tensings.

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A lot of people can't fathom the idea of this, for some reason. You have to look at the information an officer had at the time of the incident, if they acted in good faith and if there was legitimate concern for their life or the life of others.

They're granted special protections because of that and rightfully so.
However, those protections only help in specific situations.

Quote (Skinned @ May 10 2020 10:52am)

For every officer who faced justice, there are a dozen Officer Stephen Roaches and Ray Tensings.

Quote (Goomshill @ May 10 2020 03:07pm)

Both Roach and Tensing were judged by a juries of their peers in Cincinnati.

Quote (GLYC123 @ May 10 2020 12:32pm)

I stand by those statements.

Also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a92XfiEatRo