Of course the negative articles are put out there. Let us all ignore the damn good things cops do every day and point out the bad things that happen when the media decides to put it out there. What they did was disgusting, but those six officers don't account for the many LEO's out there.
I'm pretty impressed with/disgusted by the fact that the cops shot a guy brandishing a weapons six times and he's still talking about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's alive...but the adage "anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice" seems not enough for these clowns.
There are so many things wrong with this on so many levels . . . but the way the police handled the case after the shooting sounds criminal to me.
I certainly hope not. I'd think they'd be pacing a jail cell for many years to come. Incompetence aside, they're guilty of a long list of crimes, some of them felonies. Obstruction of justice, reckless endangering, torture... Sadly typical of the kind of people who are attracted to law enforcement careers.
There is probably not a luckier guy who has been shot six times on the planet. That guy, his kids and his great grand kids are going to be set for life by the time the lawsuit is over. I always wonder what life is like for a guy like Sgt Coutts a year or five years from now. What's it like to know that your kids have to go to school and be told by everyone that your dad is a corrupt SOB? The utter shame of it would be unbearable for me. I saw the Paris Hilton episode on South Park the other night. How much money would her father have to earn to make it worth it to know that people call your kid a "stupid spoiled whore"? And there's no argument to refute it? Thank god for kids. Among their many other benefits, they make even the most repugnant selfish assholes vulnerable.
