These cops absolutely have no place in law enforcement. There isn't one citizen that would want these men protecting him/her. The truck wasn't even the same model. And according to what I read, there were no warnings given before they shot. And honestly, if the ex-cop was in the car, then who would have the other person been? It could very well have been an innocent captive that was kidnapped who would have been shot dead. Based off of the manifesto, I find it really surprising that officers involved in the Rodney King incident are still in LAPD and been promoted. If this is true, then I don 't even these cops will get fired or persecuted. Just suspended... with pay.
You should not be surprised. The men were tried and found not guilty. If the LAPD were to fire them or block promotions they had merited because of crimes a court had already determined they had not committed, they'd get sued. The greater part of the US thinks they're guilty, but the LAPD has to pretend that they are not.
You're right. Let's go all the way back to the 1800's where vigilante justice was prevalent. Spaghetti Westerns are pretty badass, amirite? There is a reason we do not let citizens take matters into their own hands.
I can't believe are sympathetic towards this piece of S***. I don't care if you were wrongfully terminated or not who the f*** are you to decide it's ok to use violence to that extreme just to put wrong doings of the LAPD in front of the media. You are just as big a scumbag as a drug addict that stabs a person to death for a rock of crack.
Anyone else think this was LL Cool J at first glance? Could give 2 ****s if someone went around and killed dirty cops. Killing their families makes him no better than the dirty cops.
He looks like LL Cool J. So much so that LL Cool J probably can't walk around LA or he'd get shot by LAPD.
You don't need to look like him to be shot by LAPD, just ask 71-year-old Emma Hernandez and her 47-year-old daughter.
Not sure if I should encourage that post, but if dude weighs in at 270, it's more like chocolate thunder rambo.
I think you just have a higher expectation of law enforcement than I do. Sure, there are a lot of good cops: ex soldiers, honorable men and women, etc. I just think there's also a lot of dopes in uniform. I mean, it's a job where it's not really survival of the fittest, unlike a lot of the business world...as a cop, you lose your job due to terrible luck or terrible incompetence. Now I think it's absolutely wrong for what those cops did to the innocent victims, but I'm not surprised. They're scared and they're not elite military. They're just cops, some of whom are scared for their lives, making bad judgments, and, endangering the public due to their fear.
Well, if we're going to be inappropriately humorous in this very grim topic, I will just quote a story from the LA Times. This is from someone who lives in Torrance, in the cul de sac the LAPD shot up by mistake. "When I heard all the pop-pop-popping, I dropped to the ground, crawled around and pulled my wife out of the bed and I got on top of her," he said. I guess you never know if you have a gunfire fetish until you're put in a situation like that.
If he can just hide out and disappear somewhere, even kill himself in a place no one can find, that would cause quite a bit of psychological stress on the LAPD and their families.
This is the guy who got kicked in the face from his manifesto <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LFZR6tjeu-A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Not rooting for or against the guy, but at least at one point in his life, he was a decent guy: http://enidnews.com/localnews/x964898713/ENE-Archives-Vance-students-turn-in-lost-church-money
