A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.
A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.
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A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.
...which gets paid to the teen by the taxpayers rather than the police union, which should be paying.
Should be the cop's personal liability insurance since they were breaking the law.
I would rather make the police union responsible. It's the only union Republicans care about and the only union that exists in part to oppress union organizers.
Beau had a good take, that incentivizes cover-ups.
They don't need to incentivize coverups. They happen all the time regardless. And body cams make it a lot more difficult. Body cams conveniently not working at a specific time doesn't look great either. Of course, cops generally get off anyway.
We can't punish cops or they will just get better at lying!
Is that actually the extent of your take, or all that made it through the keyboard?
Yeah, the taxpayers should be completely off the hook!
Now, how do we best ignore the overwhelming support taxpayers have for police, police brutality, and for supporting corrupt sheriffs that regularly get reelected?
Overwhelming support for police does not mean that taxpayers should be on the hook when they fuck up.
There's also overwhelming support for doctors, who carry personal liability insurance and don't get bailed out by the taxpayers when they screw up.
Can you blame people for being brainwashed?
Why should the police union be held responsible?
if a steel-worker breaks a machine, do you also wanna hold the union responsible?
no, this was this single specific person. He should be held reliable, noone else. Collective punishment is not a good thing, you know?
Because the unions shield the cops and fund their legal defenses and because that single person is almost never held responsible.
Also, I don't know what you think corporal punishment is, but it isn't that.