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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by HarryHirsch on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:23PM (#23354397)
It's hard to see why union rules would trump criminal procedure - if that were true the cops would really be a law above the law. You'd think the much delayed arrest was so that the suspects had time to scrub social media, get rid of Nazi paraphernalia, get their stories straight, that kind of thing. They can't get their fellow officers in trouble, that's part of their code.
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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by meragrin_ on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:21PM (#23356233)
It is a government position. It requires training and interactions which may cause death. If a person were trained to restrain a person in a manner which has a high likelihood to cause death and not informed of the risks, should the incorrectly trained person really be held liable for the person's death?
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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by michaelmrose on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:20AM (#23358440)
As I sit here trying to imagine the manner it which someone could come to the same conclusion as you I find myself unequal to the task. I don't know how it is possible for a person to come to the same conclusion after watching the tape.

It took 8 minuted for him to die 3 minutes of which he was unresponsive while people warned the cop and asked him to stop. The victim informed the murderer of exactly how he was being murdered and asked him to stop. He called out for his mother then stopped speaking at all while he died in silence. The method he was being killed would have been completely obvious to anyone who possessed a pair of lungs or understood how breathing worked.

Nobody gives precisely one hot damn what manner of training he received. It was obvious he was murdering his victim to a human of ordinary capability. The logical conclusion is that he didn't care or wanted to murder him.

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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by luckylion on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:18PM (#23354998)
Or, hear me out, the "delayed" arrests are so they don't make mistakes that would result in a mistrial because they don't want you to jump up and yell "they intentionally violated their rights so the judge would throw the case out".
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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by HarryHirsch on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:40PM (#23355247)
There was more than enough probable cause for arrest, and after the perp has been arrested, prosecution has 72 hours to build a case and press charges. This is just more of the usual, also because the career of the prosecutor depends on the goodwill of the cops.
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