• @Birdie@thelemmy.club
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    810 months ago

    Officer Scaredy Pants is luckily a very, very bad shot, as are his fellow officers.

    Did I miss what’s been done about this? Surely he has been fired and disqualified from ever working in LE again. And surely the handcuffed person in the back of the police car has been offered therapy for the PTSD he must suffer from? (sadly, /s)

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      10 months ago

      The officer has been fired. The internal investigation actually did rule against him.

      The suspect, Marquis Jackson, has not as far as I know been offered anything but he likely has a very good case against the city with a combination of the publicly embarrassing footage and the official LEO determination of, in the investigation’s words, unreasonable excessive force.

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          10 months ago

          When the internal investigation concluded that he failed the standard for “objectively reasonable force” and therefore further concluded that he applied unreasonable excessive force, and he quit immediately without even attempting to fight the process, I consider that functionally a firing.