04-21-2021, 02:12 AM
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
Just to be clear - I do not advocate for finding the officer who shot Toledo innocent. I was just trying to point out why I think police officers are often not found guilty by juries - that juries tend to want to give the officer the benefit of the doubt (makes it harder to get to "beyond reasonable doubt") when the decisions they make are made very quickly in volatile conditions.
Maybe it's time to stop defending and giving cover to all the excuses for killing people? The problem has not been juries, it's been the lack of any prosecution at all. And lies and cover up from police amd prosecutors.
Who made the situation with this child "life or death?" It was not the child. He was running away from police, they were chasing him. They did not know who he was or if he had committed any crime or if he was a threat to anyone. They got a report of shots fired at 2 am. That was it. After the killing apparently the cop called his supervisor and said "this one looks young" referring to the Mexican American child lying there dead. They did not know who he was for 2 more days.
I agree with most of that. I was trying to present one of the reasons I think this jury trial against an officer came out differently than many other trials of police officers. I didn't intend to imply anything about the lack of charges being filed in the first place in many instances of police killing someone that did not appear to be an immediate threat.