Police protest arrest of cop for murder

[Quantum Windbag]

This is one of the reasons I keep saying we are on the way to a police state. Whenever one group gets a different set of rules to play by than everyone else we are not a nation of laws. If we are not a nation of laws, what are we?

Hours after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot an unarmed man, the department made a rare move: It charged the officer with voluntary manslaughter.

Sounds reasonable, doesn't it? The cops investigate a shooting, and arrest the guy they think broke the law. It happens thousands of times every year, but this was different.

Most police departments, including Charlotte, usually take weeks — sometimes months — to complete an investigation of a police shooting. But the decision to quickly charge Randall Kerrick is now drawing sharp criticism from police groups and being followed closely by law enforcement departments across the country. Critics call the department's move a rush to judgment and say it will have a chilling effect on officers in the field.
"What it does is it shakes their confidence because, like it or not, most cops like to think their department has their back," Randy Hagler, president of the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police, told The Associated Press. "That's not to say the department is going to cover anything up. They just want the department to give them a fair shake. That's all we ask for. And officers in our community don't necessarily all feel that way."

Groups criticize NC officer arrest in man's death

Get that, the department is supposed to have the back of the cops, not the citizens.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

If a cop shoots at an unarmed person, then to me, they shouldn't get away with it.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[R.C. Christian]

Hmmm, tough one, but for now fuck the pig.

 

[Moonglow]

What a twist!