Pro-Life, Pro-Freedom TX Republicans Moving to Give Police More License to Kill

[iluvatar5150]

https://apnews.com/us-news/law-enforcement-texas-austin-legislation-general-news-4df5fc016676375c043101c9d9345485

House Bill 2436 would exempt law enforcement officers from being charged with deadly conduct for actions taken in the line of duty.​

It's already passed the TX Senate and it's moving through the House. Supporters say police just can't do their jobs without being able to kill. Some critics say that it'll let police kill more. Other critics say that removing culpability for this specific crime will motivate prosecutors to charge them with more serious crimes.

Here's a story with bodycam footage of the case mentioned at the beginning of the article. Anybody with half a brain can look at that and see how the police could have handled that better.

 

[johansen]

Anybody with half a brain

There are 3 million violent interactions between cops and civilians every year.

1 out of 3000 of them results in a lethal shooting

 

[rambot]

I'd be all for this if one (or some) of the following changes were also made:

* Killing cops got lighter sentences
* Police Pension plans paid for all "unnecessary use of lethal force" litigation scenarios with mandated minimums.

There's no good reason why it should be made EASIER to kill anyone in the US.

 

[Desk trauma]

Police Pension plans paid for all "unnecessary use of lethal force" litigation scenarios with mandated minimums.

I have been saying for a while settlement payouts should come from police pension funds. Covering for the bad apples would end overnight if it was their rather than taxpayers on the hook.

 

[Belk]

There are 3 million violent interactions between cops and civilians every year.

1 out of 3000 of them results in a lethal shooting

Got a citation for this?

 

[johansen]

Got a citation for this?

did some research, its not quite that high, there are lengthy reports you can read that are hundreds of pages long.

that number came from a lengthy letter to the editor in our local newspaper from someone who offered a well reasoned rebuttal to the current movement of the time several years ago: "defund the police"

america is a violent country, and the vast majority of folks shot by cops.. well, they got what came to them.

 

[Belk]

did some research, its not quite that high, there are lengthy reports you can read that are hundreds of pages long.

that number came from a lengthy letter to the editor in our local newspaper from someone who offered a well reasoned rebuttal to the current movement of the time several years ago: "defund the police"

america is a violent country, and the vast majority of folks shot by cops.. well, they got what came to them.

OK. So Less then 3 million? Google said somewhere south of one million at highest count.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

america is a violent country, and the vast majority of folks shot by cops.. well, they got what came to them.

Wow! Silverdale really went to hell. Glad I left in 2008.

 

[johansen]

OK. So Less then 3 million? Google said somewhere south of one million at highest count.

so 999 out of a thousand violent interactions do not result in death.

do you think you have better de-escalation skills than that? Because ultimately that's what all these arguments need to come down to.

 

[iluvatar5150]

so 999 out of a thousand violent interactions do not result in death.

do you think you have better de-escalation skills than that? Because ultimately that's what all these arguments need to come down to.

How are we defining "violent interactions"?

 

[wing2000]

Bad cops need to be held accountable. IMO, there have been far too many cases of cops pulling the trigger rather than de-escalating....


Christopher Taylor, an on-duty officer, shot and killed DeSilva that night. DeSilva’s father has said his son was not a threat to the police, only to himself. Prosecutors agreed.

Taylor last year was sentenced to two years in a prison for deadly conduct, a charge only a handful of officers have been convicted of in recent history.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Bad cops need to be held accountable.

Yeaaaah, about that...

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