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Armybrat

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    53 minutes ago, Homercles said:

    Was there any full on report released?  My assumption has always been that 99% of the gunshot wounds were caused by police, and I’ve been curious if anyone actually had evidence of a 1%’er actually firing a weapon.  

    I thought that the initial rumble inside the restaurant was a gang stabbing in a restroom, followed by a biker outside on a truck bed shooting at scattering people, then in the ensuing “furtive movements” the cop snipers laying in wait began their turkey shoot.

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    5 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    75 years go today, the Battle of the Bulge began.

    And my Dad, delayed a week by my birth on 5 December, was well on his way from Fort Benning to rejoin his infantry battalion in Strasbourg, France., 

  3. 14 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Respectfully, I'm sure Al Capone's mom thought that her sweet boy was just being persecuted by that awful Eliot Ness and those dreadful revenuers.

    The point being is that you're not an objective witness.  As someone who has more than one criminal in the family, the family is usually the last one to suspect and the very last one to believe.

    Rightly so--that's part of the point of family.

     

    There are two convicted criminals in my extended family, so I am under no such illusions.

  4. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Seriously?  Neither you nor I know what one of them did that time (for example) they saw a colleague beat the crap out of a suspect.  Did they report it to command?  Or did they look the other way?

    Come on.  You know what path is VASTLY more likely.  The "blue wall of silence" isn't something I made up on this board.

    I know my relatives, you don’t.

  5. That’s not the attitude the cops in my family have, nor have they ever said anything similar.

    There were four LEOs in my extended family.... two still on duty (one a highway patrolman in Nebraska, another a K9 officer in the Dallas area), one just retired after 35 years service in the Hill Country, and one is deceased (she committed suicide with her service pistol after being diagnosed with a debilitating disease that would have forced her medical retirement.

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    2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Ken Anderson lost his license.  And who led the charge to make sure that happened?.......

    Members of the bar.  IIRC, hundreds of attorneys signed correspondence to the bar demanding that a disciplinary proceeding be opened up (hell, I can't even recall -- I may have even been one of the signatories -- that was a while ago).  Many attorneys volunteered time not just on Morton's exoneration case, but on Anderson's as well.

    That's a PERFECT example, and I'm very glad you brought it up.  Not only did I not claim that there are no bad actors in any profession, I expressly acknowledged that fact -- EVERY profession has bad actors in it.  The test is what is DONE about those bad guys.  Ken Anderson -- absolutely a bad actor, no question.  When his bad action came to light.....how did the profession respond?  Well, we pretty much, with one voice, yelled for him to be drummed out of the profession, and to face criminal consequences as well  (he went to jail).

    You keep pointing to our profession (which, again, for the jillionth time, is FAR from perfect, both with respect to bad actors and how effective we are at drumming them out -- I would very much like to see us do even better) as a COMPARISON to how the police behave, and all you've succeeded in doing is highlighting the CONTRAST.

    And if law enforcement took a similar approach, I'd be thrilled.  Seriously, I don't expect anyone to be perfect.  It's a world full  of imperfect human beings.  I simply expect them to honor the system and enforce the law, as opposed to openly DEFY it.  Which is, I have concluded, obviously too much to ask.

    25 years late, correct?

    I hope and expect law enforcement to clean up its act too..... where it is warranted. But you are on record here as saying they are all corrupt.

    No, they are not.

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