Texas Police Kill Unarmed Man Before Confiscating Witness Camera and Deleting Images

[Tannerm]

Clips.... Ugh.

[mikec]

What if they just shoot you?

I'll just shoot his ass back!!!!

[Broncojohnny]

Too bad Air Marshall bluballsgt isn't here any more. He is probably going to show up at this guy's trial and try to be a character witness....

"But your honor, he was a COP....."

[GhostTX]

I normally don't get too involved in these threads, but...

Cops hire from the same pool that everyone else comes from. I'm sure there are doctors, hamburger flippers, and oh yea, military members that screw up.

Cops fuck up too. It's no secret. The stats of non-cops committing offenses are far less than that of the general public.

What kind of fine is just compensation for killing someone?

Screw up? F*ck up? No, the wanton destruction of evidence and trying to hide it is no "screw up".

Overzealous with a gun? Maybe. But an illegal confiscation without a warrant outside of a crime scene and destruction of private property is far from just messing up.

Police are bestowed with the public trust. To violate that with the willful abuse of power to hide the truth of matters is out right disgusting and an affront to that trust. Cops that use their power to abuse the system deserve what us "civilians" get, but 10 fold.

[stevo]

When they take you to jail they will confiscate all of your personal possessions. Make sure you have a friend there to secure your belongings and password protect your phone, you aren't required to give them your password.

Case law says that your personal devices are not subject to privacy laws and that law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to access them.

Stevo