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[Bossun]

What a weird story.

It's true that is weird that the victims didn't wake up after 45 minutes of police officers yelling at you, setting a barricade and everything. You can be a heavy sleeper but still....

What happened after the call? Did the police immediately came to the car with a whole squadron or what?
Didn't they think of sending someone to do the most logical thing in this situation? Knock on the glass and asking what's going on?

Did they seriously looked at sleeping/still people for 45 minutes and didn't realize anything? That's the most ridiculous thing done by stupid people i've heard...

 

[Greddleok]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

The best part is when he threatens to "smoke" him if he doesn't get out the car. Is he implying that he'd shoot a man for blocking traffic?

 

[SlaughterX]

OK well were they conscious at the moment they decided to shoot to kill? Because if not then the cops are in the wrong.

Damn being conscious is reason enough to justify being killed by the police now.

 

[GrizzleBoy]

Damn being conscious is reason enough to justify being killed by the police now.

Essentially.

Wake up so I can kill you!

Or I'll kill you!

- America

 

[MJLord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

GTA becomes less and less like satire every day doesn't it.

 

[Vicetrailia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

This is what the police do, not surprising. It's not even a low point.

 

[SlaughterX]

The best part is when he threatens to "smoke" him if he doesn't get out the car. Is he implying that he'd shoot a man for blocking traffic?

Officer Jergens... fitting name for a jerk off.

 

[Johnlenham]

Essentially.

I laughed out loud but Jesus christ.

We have Police over here who will fight deranged men with machetes, bare handed to arrest them and you guys have cops shooting up anyone in site.

 

[hemo memo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

My god.. I don't want to watch that. It's disturbing enough from the man describing the video.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

I think the crazies thing about this already crazy, sad, and downright ludicrous situation is that there wasn't just a lone officer panicking at the thought of these drunken brutes turning their imaginary weapons on him, it was an entire SWAT team that was called in. And this team somehow managed to talk themselves into these two people in the car being an absolute menace.

[*speculation time*]OR, one trigger happy idiot fired off a round, spooked everyone else, and prompted the bloodbath. A big part of me would like to believe it was just one bad apple spoiling the bunch. But the cops would never admit to something like that. Because it would cost at least one officer his job, and make the entire department liable for negligence. The blue wall offers no sacrifices, especially not from the LAPD.

Amazingly enough, reading the comment sections for the news articles, you can already see the public defense force has formed for the cop's side of the story. Even if no weapon is ever found, there are people who've already convinced themselves that the shooting was justified. And these are the people who frequently end up on our grand juries and juries.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Someone pointed out to me that this website has been known to post BS stories. A lot of what's mentioned here sounds really ridiculous. Do we have more proof this is a legitimate story?

 

[Aselith]

Someone pointed out to me that this website has been known to post BS stories. A lot of what's mentioned here sounds really ridiculous. Do we have more proof this is a legitimate story?

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...ce-shooting-asleep-mayor-butts-369902981.html

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Someone pointed out to me that this website has been known to post BS stories. A lot of what's mentioned here sounds really ridiculous. Do we have more proof this is a legitimate story?

NBC posts BS stories? The LA times posts BS stories?

But hey why actually read the OP when you can have others point things out for you?

 

[Dice]

You mean like the NBC news article and TV report linked in both the article and the OP?

As expected, there haven't been riots over this to use for trying to demonize blacks and call them thugs, so I haven't seen any national news on it.

 

[Cow Mengde]

You mean like the NBC news article and TV report linked in both the article and the OP?

Didn't see the NBC link.

NBC posts BS stories? The LA times posts BS stories?

But hey why actually read the OP when you can have others point things out for you?

I read the first link and didn't notice the NBC one.

 

[UrbanRats]

After admitting that the couple was asleep, Butts quickly defended the officers, noting, “Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.”

Obviously they first threatened the police, THEN decided to both take a nap in the middle of the stand off.
This makes complete logical sense.

 

[A Serious Man]

I can't wait for the "dehumanizing snores" defense.

 

[geetec]

Seriously, I don't even...
I get being a cop isn't easy, being on edge 24/7 can get to you but... Agh..
I feel bad for the kids.

 

[params7]

Good God. Feel sorry for the children.

 

[YoungFa]

“Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.”

Und so schließt er Messerscharf, nicht sein kann was nicht sein darf

 

[Trojita]

There needs to be a federal investigation into this. This is straight up bullshit.

 

[darkinstinct]

If I saw some people that don't react to anything for 45 minutes my first instinct would be to break open that door and get an ambulance. Not shoot them. FFS, America. Get rid of the guns, then your cops win't have any lame excuses anymore.

 

[Buttermilk]

This is way I feel nothing when I hear about bad things happening to cops. I can't.

So several people in a large group of people do some terrible things and now you hate the whole group?

 

[Tenebrous]

7 kids without parents because a cop caught them taking a nap? Fucking hell.

 

[Lister]

So several people in a large group of people do some terrible things and now you hate the whole group?

When the rest of the group are nothing but enablers and defenders of the others? Hell yes.

 

[Dryk]

If I saw some people that don't react to anything for 45 minutes my first instinct would be to break open that door and get an ambulance. Not shoot them. FFS, America. Get rid of the guns, then your cops win't have any lame excuses anymore.

As anti-gun as I am the guns aren't the problem here. Cops all around the world carry guns but don't have these problems.

They need to be held accountable, they need to have respect for their positions and above all they need to remember that their fucking job is to put their life on the line to protect civilians and not the other way around.

 

[forms]

What the hell is happening over there?

 

[Bluekaveli]

I honestly don't understand what's going on. This is ridiculous

 

[YoungFa]

When the rest of the group are nothing but enablers and defenders of the others? Hell yes.

Its too complicated to think differentiated.

 

[Kuraudo]

This story literally makes no sense. Surely the only way to tell if the couple were sleeping is if one of the cops had ascertained that fact before shooting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

Wow, what the fuck?


Seriously, get your shit together, America.

 

[entremet]

This story literally makes no sense. Surely the only way to tell if the couple were sleeping is if one of the cops had ascertained that fact before shooting.



Wow, what the fuck?


Seriously, get your shit together, America.

Body cams were always a bandaid solution.

These issues are much deeper than body cams can solve.

 

[theignoramus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

Think there was a thread about this at the time. Pure cruelty and incompetence here.

 

[TalonJH]

KABC TV website.
Put Inglewood shooting in Google news search.

Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXjfACemmA

All three cops had bodycams on too and it was fully recorded

...SMH

So afraid of black people. I guess, at least he wasn't shot.

 

[Paracelsus]

Terrible. Someone mentioned the other day how the GTAV police is unrealistic for shooting at your avatar just for standing still in front of them. I suspect rockstar was ahead of the curve.

But yeah, either you jail them for murder or lock them away for paranoid schizophrenia.

 

[bachikarn]

"Felt threatened" is carte blanche to kill whoever you want. Though that rule isn't applied equally.

Yeah, I find this to be the biggest BS excuse. You are a cop. You will most likely be in threatening situations several times. Your job is to react properly regardless.

 

[Can Crusher]

If the justice system fails in such a black and white case like this, then there's no limit.

 

[Buttermilk]

When the rest of the group are nothing but enablers and defenders of the others? Hell yes.

Yes! That's easier. It gets so hard when you have to start looking at individuals separately. It's much easier when you just put them into groups.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

This story literally makes no sense. Surely the only way to tell if the couple were sleeping is if one of the cops had ascertained that fact before shooting.

That's what I was thinking. Does anybody here know if autopsies can tell if someone was murdered in their sleep, because otherwise this seems to suggest that they were aware that the couple was asleep when the shooting started.

 

[DarthWoo]

Yes! That's easier. It gets so hard when you have to start looking at individuals separately. It's much easier when you just put them into groups.

Different PD, but same old story of enablers. I guess there's at least ONE there we could look at individually.

 

[Jackben]

Cops becoming a firing squad once one member opens fire is a deliberate pig tactic to help cover blame. The cherry on top is the "felt threatened at some point" and "well he committed a crime 7 years ago" bullshit they divulged after the story was picked up by the news.

Classic police work.

 

[Buttermilk]

When the rest of the group are nothing but enablers and defenders of the others? Hell yes.

Different PD, but same old story of enablers. I guess there's at least ONE there we could look at individually.

You got me. We should just start putting everybody into classes or groups.

 

[GreatestHits]

This will hopefully prompt the younger less indoctrinated generation to get even more adamantly involved in our governmental structural nightmare, and push our unchecked, negligent, racist and bloodthirsty police force to the top of the list of issues that have to change immediately, with extreme scrutiny. I see no other positives in this situation, I hope some kind of karma or what have you balances out the lives of these children

 

[Big Baybee]

So several people in a large group of people do some terrible things and now you hate the whole group?

When the whole group actively defends and enables............what are you expecting? Seriously.

 

[Enzom21]

You got me. We should just start putting everybody into classes or groups.

Stop beating around the bush and compare a chosen profession to race, gender or sexuality already.

 

[Mass One]

You got me. We should just start putting everybody into classes or groups.

Why are you acting like People were born into police. They have unions and power and receive taxes. And all of them should be held accountable. All of them should be as vocal against the injustices that their uniforms commit. Problem is none of them will speak up and and as such they're all complacent and deserve no lenience, no respect, no trust.

I see your what your trying to equate with your previous comments. Its nonsense and you know it.

 

[Buttermilk]

Why are you acting like People were born into police. They have unions and power and receive taxes. And all of them should be held accountable. All of them should be as vocal against the injustices that their uniforms commit. Problem is none of them will speak up and and as such they're all complacent and deserve no lenience, no respect, no trust.

I see your what your trying to equate with your previous comments. Its nonsense and you know it.

Police choose to be in that profession for a million different reasons. You cant start to group them all together. I was just trying to get that point across. It's very dangerous to put people or their professions into groups. I don't think it's a huge stretch to compare the two.

 

[elrechazado]

Have any additional details emerged?

 

[Mass One]

Police choose to be in that profession for a million different reasons. You cant start to group them all together. I was just trying to get that point across. It's very dangerous to put people or their professions into groups. I don't think it's a huge stretch to compare the two.

Yes you certainly can group a profession together. They are no longer individuals under the uniform. Because they are professionals they should call each other out. Every other profession does it. Dentist, Psychologist, Truck Drivers. You can see the individual sure. But I'm not lumping individuals, I'm lumping the professionals, the uniforms together. You aren't born a police officer, you choose it.

 

[The Adder]

Police choose to be in that profession for a million different reasons. You cant start to group them all together. I was just trying to get that point across. It's very dangerous to put people or their professions into groups. I don't think it's a huge stretch to compare the two.

Point me to a cop who spoke out against other cops and wasn't fired, ostracized, or killed by cops.

When you fail to do that, maybe you'll have some understanding.

 

[Principate]

Police choose to be in that profession for a million different reasons. You cant start to group them all together. I was just trying to get that point across. It's very dangerous to put people or their professions into groups. I don't think it's a huge stretch to compare the two.

Corrupt organisations are corrupt organisations, If your a part of an organisation that's corrupt, does nothing to help fix the organisation and are implicit in it's cover up you will inevitable bare some of the blame by association. Every single evil and corrupt orgnisation in existence has "innocent people" who come under fire by association.

The reason why people blanket blame the police are because the police are fundamentally corrupt, it's not even a maybe it's just a fact. Because the people in power are corrupt the organization is corrupt you won't make any headway until the organisation is fundamentally changed.