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California cop under investigation for ‘playing with dead body’

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rudericky

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A police officer who allegedly 'loves playing with dead bodies' has been accused of 'tickling' the feet and yanking on the head and toes of a dead man who had been recently shot killed by cops.
Aaron Stringer, of the Bakersfield, California, Police Department, reportedly said 'tickle tickle' as he ran his fingers along the soles of the feet of Ramiro James Villegas, a 22-year-old whom officers killed the same day.
A trainee police officer who was with him at the time told how Stringer then pulled on the corpse's toes, and pulled his head back and forth while discussing rigor mortis after the shooting on November 13.
According to the Bakersfield Californian, he then said that he 'loves playing with dead bodies' and later told her to lie about what she'd seen.
Stringer has been on paid administrative leave from the department since it started investigating the chilling accusations in November.
Villegas was shot dead by police after crashing his car in a high-speed chase, ABC23 reported.
Officers say they gunned him down after he got out of the car and reached for his waistband, raising fears that he had a gun. It later became clear that he wasn't armed.
Stringer, who filed a police report about the day's activities, mentioned interviewing witnesses alongside trainee Lindy DeGeare, who eventually blew the whistle on the alleged corpse


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If that's what he does in front of a coworker he barely just met what the hell does he do when no one is looking. I would say a search warrant of his property and any storage sheds he rents is in order.
 
Sounds like he was giving a rookie a lesson in rigor mortis and trying to help her get over dealing with dead bodies. She was a special snowflake and ratted him out. On the upside, her future in law enforcement is dim. If you can't keep your mouth shut about something as minor as this, you're a liability.
 
Nebor said:
Sounds like he was giving a rookie a lesson in rigor mortis and trying to help her get over dealing with dead bodies. She was a special snowflake and ratted him out. On the upside, her future in law enforcement is dim. If you can't keep your mouth shut about something as minor as this, you're a liability.
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That is true. If she cant cover up somebody playing with a dead body. How will she cover up when cops violate our rights or kill us? Sounds like she has too much respect of citizens to be a cop.
 
Nebor said:
Sounds like he was giving a rookie a lesson in rigor mortis and trying to help her get over dealing with dead bodies. She was a special snowflake and ratted him out. On the upside, her future in law enforcement is dim. If you can't keep your mouth shut about something as minor as this, you're a liability.
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Hehehe, I read this post on my iPad mini zoomed out so the poster's name didn't show in order to make the text larger and easier to read, and I thought to myself, this sounds like Nebor.
 
Genx87 said:
That is true. If she cant cover up somebody playing with a dead body. How will she cover up when cops violate our rights or kill us? Sounds like she has too much respect of citizens to be a cop.
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I think you fail to consider in what ways Nebor's point of view is real world valid. It all depends on what respect really is. To know you have to know everything about the context. The realities of war, of police work, of a life surrounded by threat and danger burn away the niceties the comfortable erect as presence, things like some other-worldly, respect for the dead. It gets lost when your job is to survive and keep your team alive, I think, when you are knee deep in the dead. Not everyone gets to eat off a tablecloth. One needs a certain calousnes and gallows humor to survive and function at high efficiency. The problem of course is that the same forces that can strip away superficial and normative moralities, can lead to the destruction of morality itself. I see nothing about the cop thingi that definitely implies that. It could be a case of the toughened realist running into somebody clinging to the naive, rather than a sicko and a courageous whistle blower, I think.
 
Genx87 said:
That is true. If she cant cover up somebody playing with a dead body. How will she cover up when cops violate our rights or kill us? Sounds like she has too much respect of citizens to be a cop.
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Glad we can agree that she shouldn't be a cop.
 
Defiling might be a strong word, but his actions do indicate that he's taking the fact that somebody was killed a little too lightly, which is one of the problems. Cops don't seem to take it seriously when they kill people.
 
PokerGuy said:
I don't think I would consider that "defiling", I think what that cop was doing falls under "very creepy".....
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I don't think it was defiling or creepy, more like juvenile behavior.

Creepy is if he posed corpses and took a selfie with them, or something.

Defilement is if he ejaculated in them or something.

Regardless of categorization, it was disrespectful and he should be reprimanded.
 
Maybe you guys relate defiling to equal sex acts, but defiling is anything that degrades something sacred. Making light of a dead man's body by tickling it would rank up there. Its not in the same league as sexually molesting the dead body, but still a very serious act. He seems to have a humane disconnect.
 
Subyman said:
Maybe you guys relate defiling to equal sex acts, but defiling is anything that degrades something sacred. Making light of a dead man's body by tickling it would rank up there. Its not in the same league as sexually molesting the dead body, but still a very serious act. He seems to have a humane disconnect.
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Don't worry, Moonbeam said it's OK because he's a cop and because it's how a cop copes with the terrible things he deals with as a cop. I think this should be a reason that cops can do whatever they want no matter what. Well, this and "slips and control".
 
BoberFett said:
Defiling might be a strong word, but his actions do indicate that he's taking the fact that somebody was killed a little too lightly, which is one of the problems. Cops don't seem to take it seriously when they kill people.
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You would be horrified to see and hear what medical staff do. Humor is how people deal with difficult situations.
 
Spungo said:
You would be horrified to see and hear what medical staff do. Humor is how people deal with difficult situations.
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Do they make jokes about a body who comes to them already dead?

Or do they make jokes about the guy who just had the wrong leg amputated by mistake?

There is a difference.
 
It's a wonderful thing to honor the dead, especially for the living, bot it would be rational to hide behind a pile of them if they could protect you from being shot. Since we can't know the inner state of the cop or his motives and intention, we have to be open minded.
 
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