No Charges For LAPD Cops Who Killed Hostage Because They Feared For Their Lives

[CCW]

Cop murders innocent citizen
No charges filed
Wash-Rinse-Repeat

LAPD Officers Violated Policy in Deadly Hostage Shooting, Panel Says

 

[M1911]

That's not murder. They didn't intend to kill her. It is incompetence.

 

[Whiskeywon]

That's not murder. They didn't intend to kill her. It is incompetence.

I agree that it isn't murder due to intent, but it is gross negligence manslaughter. At that rate, might as well have let the hostage taker shoot her given what these a**h***s did.

 

[jkelly1229]

Shoot the hostage Jack

 

[swatgig]

That's not murder. They didn't intend to kill her. It is incompetence.

I'd say it qualifies as "depraved heart murder".

"Depraved heart murder" - Killing someone in a way that demonstrates a callous disregard for the value of human life. For example, if a person intentionally fires a gun into a crowded room, and someone dies, the person could be convicted of depraved heart murder. Murder

I remember studying murder in criminal law and the distinction between shooting at a boxcar on a train and killing a hobo being classified as manslaughter, but shooting at a passenger car being depraved heart murder. In one case, there was no expectation that the shot would kill someone, but in the other it was almost unavoidable.

 

[eboos]

Looks like a zero classifier. Too many hits on a no-shoot target.

 

[MGnoob]

Video says it all

 

[Bonesinium]

Protected and served the shit out of her. Well done.

 

[Dadstoys]

Everyone made it home safe, oh wait, guess not.
I've seen the unedited video.
That was a clustef*ck.

 

[BrianWilson]

You'd think in L.A. they'd have a much better looking reporter than that, all those out of work starlets and all.

 

[Queen Bee]

with the amount of shootings in california you would think they would be proficient in their marksmanship to not shoot through a hostage...

 

[Dadstoys]

I first heard the joke "Bang, Bang ,Bang LAPD Stop or I'll shoot " somewhere's about 40 years ago if that tells you anything.

 

[fencer]

Why do they feel the need to fire so many rounds? Guy had a knife.

 

[SKumar]

Why do they feel the need to fire so many rounds? Guy had a knife.

Exactly. Three guys with tasers, I'm sure they could've subdued him. But you know how their training teaches them to be trigger-happy goons.

 

[Wrench75]

"Feared for their lives"? There was a walker a chair and a f***ing person between them and the scary knife. If there were a clear or even remotely clear path between them then, OK I get it. In this instance, it's one of the most absurd excuses I've ever heard. Hopefully the Chief at least cans their asses for conduct unbecoming, or something similar, so they lose their pensions and get barred from civil service. It's about the best we can hope for at this point.