Police Walk Back Explanation for Shooting Death of 6 year old

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Svnla

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Svnla said:
Breaking news - the two cops are in deep trouble now, being charged with 2nd degree murder, the State Police commander just said so on a news conference a few minutes ago on TV.

Stay tuned for link(s).
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The police chief announces the charges?
 
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Darwin333

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NAC4EV said:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2453598


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisia...s-fired-18-rounds-killed-autistic-6-year-old/
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Anyone else find it odd that the friggen state police doesn't even know why the cops, who at the time were working a side job as marshal's and not on the clock police officers, decided to engage this guy in the first place?

No warrants as far as anyone can tell, including the state police.

With the above known it's crazy to think that 4 LEO's were sent after him for whatever other reason.

And the kicker is, the LEO's involved in shooting and killing a 6 year old child are refusing to cooperate with the other LEO's investigating said killing. Yet we are supposed to give these guys the benefit of the doubt despite them stonewalling the investigation???

LEO's get extraordinary leniency even when they do fuck up horribly and it's caught on film and blasted on the news from day one. To think that not one but four separate LEO's need to clam up and get their stories straight after they get the benefit of looking at all of the evidence shouldn't sit right with anyone.
 
UglyCasanova

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From what I can tell so far one of the cops supposedly knew the guy and had beef with him, possibly due to an argument from earlier at a pool hall.
 
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Ackmed said:
When did I say that? Cop should be held to one of the highest standards there are. I was putting out another terrible tragedy of a child being killed. But since cops weren't involved, it didn't make the usual rounds. Tons of people die, tons of black killing blacks, but #blacklivesmatter are nowhere to be seen. If a cop had been involved in any way in the 9 year olds death, THEN it would have been posted. THEN the movement would have brought it up. Since it wasn't, none of the above happened. Nobody here posted it. Just exposing the hypocrisy.
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Maybe its because the blacklivesmatter movement isn't about that. Instead its about how "people" like you somehow regard people killed by police as deserving it.

Shit, if this kid who was killed was black in case, you would already be posting wall of text on how they deserved it and the officers should get medals for taking a thug off the street.
 
runzwithsizorz

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Svnla said:
No, the Louisiana State Police commander, not the local police chief. I just added a link with more details in the above post.
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Looks like the State police are taking over the investigation. Also, a member on the DA's staff has some sort of relationship with one of the officers, so they won't be handling the prosecution. State DA????
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"The community needs to know this that our district attorney's office and the State Police and local police department did not directly contact each other in the case because of the relationship of one of the accused who was arrested tonight and one of our assistant District attorneys," said District Attorney Charles Riddle.Riddle said he was called Friday night and it was the first time he was given some of the details of the case.
He said the 12th JDC will be filing a motion to recuse the office from prosecuting the case.
Riddle said once the judge signs the motion, the case will be turned over to the Attorney General's Office who will work with State Police moving forward.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing. No word on if any more charges would follow.
 
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Ackmed said:
I claimed the same thing yesterday, that we don't have enough facts. I claimed very few things, that he was a criminal based on his actions. A bunch of he said this, she said that at the moment is all we have. I did give my opinion yesterday based on what we know, I also said we don't have enough to really judge. I think I even said it in multiple posts. So my main point was the same yesterday as it is today. We don't know enough. But hey, look at you insulting like always! Always insulting, trolling, and making ignorant accusations. Internet tough guys are funny.

Just so you don't think I am "running away" because I am sure you will reply, in your usual manner. I will not be back on until Monday.
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Yet the only people charged with crimes are two of the police officers charged with 2nd degree murder and attempted 2nd degree murder. I have yet to hear of the father being charged with anything.
 
Subyman

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Wow, a lot has changed. Story started to stink pretty quickly and got worse when they were "off duty."
 
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waggy said:
whoa. with that new information it looks really bad for the cops. It sure looks like they just opened fire without care.

I blows my mind they are allowed to have days to get a story together and they can just refuse to talk to anyone. cops should not get special privileges for having the badge.
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Of course, I don't know what happened. I first heard of this story on ABC news last night, at least 2 cops were handcuffed and being taken into custody. A man who was evidently local police chief (or similar) was making statements evidently at a news conference to the effect that what he saw in the videos made while the event transpired were the worst thing he'd ever seen in his life. The 6 year old kid killed was hit by at least 5 bullets and his father was unarmed.
 
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purbeast0 said:
just saw this, yeah sounds like they are f'ed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisia...rrests-norris-greenhouse-jr-derrick-stafford/

i like how when it's a white cop killing a black person, the races of both parties are thrown all over and in the headlines. in this story, i haven't once read anyone saying "black cop kills white kid". haven't heard the race anywhere and didn't even know/care about the race until i saw that video.
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The cops are black? Or at least one of them? If so I wonder why that wasn't made known in all of the headlines? hmmm:sneaky:

Yup both seem to be black.
 
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Maybe because it doesn't actually matter with the case at hand. Unless they guys had a habit of pulling over white people for no reason and threatening them.
 
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CitizenKain said:
Maybe because it doesn't actually matter with the case at hand. Unless they guys had a habit of pulling over white people for no reason and threatening them.
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C'mon. If this was 2 white cops and a black child they killed THAT would be front and center. Race probably had nothing to do with this, I'm talking about the press.
 
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The head of the Louisiana State Police says a video of the shooting is one of the most disturbing things he's ever seen, CBS News' David Begnaud reports.
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Any news on the video? Once it gets released maybe the story will get more press.
 
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Darwin333

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Subyman said:
Any news on the video? Once it gets released maybe the story will get more press.
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I doubt we will see that video for a long time. They are trying to get this investigation right.


I have another question, maybe I'll make a thread with a poll:

Should LEO's have 5th amendment rights when working as armed agents of the state? If you sign up to any position that requires you have top secret clearance you basically give up all 4th amendment rights and give them free reign to dig through your entire life. If you don't like it then you don't get the access. Should the same principal apply with the 5th when as an armed agent of the state you shoot and kill someone?

I just don't think they should be allowed to refuse to answer why they, working as armed agents of the state, even initiated the stop.
 
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