Trooper breaks into homeowner's residence....

[stevo]

Wonder. Drunk cop busts through your door and you shoot him, do you still get charged with killing a cop?

Probably so until you spend a million dollars in lawyer fees to get it changed.

Stevo

[kingjason]

Probably so until you spend a million dollars in lawyer fees to get it changed.

Stevo

NO

[stevo]

NO

OKAY

Stevo

[Lone Sailor]

Being in New York I'm surprised they haven't charged the home owner for resisting.

[jewozzy]

Yes, but they are people that can ignore speed limits, red lights, DWI laws, if you hit one in a bar you get an elevated offense and so forth.

Where do you come up with this bs?

[stevo]

Being in New York I'm surprised they haven't charged the home owner for resisting.

Unlicensed carrying of a hammer?

I'm sure they'll figure out he had a valid, legal reason to be in the house, like being drunk.

Stevo

[Forever_frost]

Where do you come up with this bs?

You mean police routinely exceeding the speed limit when not on a call or on duty in squad cars? Or police getting drunk and running a squad up a light pole?

[Samhain]

One more for the ignore list.

[Osiris]

Yep. He fucked up. It'd be no billed here in Texas if he got shot under those circumstances

[Forever_frost]

Thanks for the answer Osiris. That's what I wanted to know. What would you do as an officer if you were called out on this? One of your buddies got drunk, kicked in a door and was shot. Do you harass the homeowner or what?

[jewozzy]

You mean police routinely exceeding the speed limit when not on a call or on duty in squad cars? Or police getting drunk and running a squad up a light pole?

About off duty cops getting in fights at bars and the person being charged as assault on a peace officer...

[32vfromhell]

should be attempted murder, or assault with a deadly weapon.

[Osiris]

Thanks for the answer Osiris. That's what I wanted to know. What would you do as an officer if you were called out on this? One of your buddies got drunk, kicked in a door and was shot. Do you harass the homeowner or what?

It would be handled as any other shooting investigation. The guy was off duty and drunk for christ sake. I think you're trying to solicit an argument out of ne

[kingjason]

Thanks for the answer Osiris. That's what I wanted to know. What would you do as an officer if you were called out on this? One of your buddies got drunk, kicked in a door and was shot. Do you harass the homeowner or what?

No! We would stay away from that victim like no other unless he needed help. Screw a bunch of official oppression. It is not his fault the officer screwed up. Also if the officer still had a job after it was all over we would beat on that guy all day everyday for a longggg time about the incident.

I am sorry but I was not around during the hey day of the secret brother hood. Things are way different now I am positive of this. I worked with a guy that was in his seventies for a while and I am pretty sure back in the day there was some strange shit going on. Now days that does not fly in the majority of departments. We have cameras that are on all the time, we are taught you lie you die, it is just not what some guys think it is. I like it that way and I tell guys all the time, just go in and tell them you fucked up. Yeah you may get in trouble but not near as much as if you omitted a small piece of critical information. Not to mention the respect you lose from your fellow officers.

[Ruffdaddy]

Officers should only be charged with a harsher punishment when in uniform or using their official authority.

If this guy was out of uniform I think he should be charged just like anyone else. He is a person afterall and if he's not abusing authority there's no reason for extra punishment.

Does it say anywhere if he was in uniform?