That you can get away with spraying half a magazine into someone from behind and the government is ok with it:
For a little background, the wife informed one of the officers that her husband was upstairs, armed and holding the perp that they were looking for at gun point. He didn't pass that little tip onto his buddies, one of whom went upstairs and emptied six rounds into the homeowner from behind. The rest, well, if even half of it is true from what they did to him afterward, to the attempted cover up is almost surreal.A Phoenix police officer who mistakenly shot an armed homeowner during a search for an intruder was cleared of wrongdoing this week by a committee that reviews such shootings.
The ruling by the Phoenix Use of Force Board determined Officer Brian Lilly acted within police policy in the incident, in which he fired six shots at the homeowner amid the confusion of a home invasion last September.
"If Brian would have known there was a homeowner in there, he probably would have hesitated," Gannon [from the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association] said, "but if he had hesitated, and it was the (suspect), the outcome could have been tragic."As opposed to the actual events where a law-abiding homeowner was gunned down by a trigger-happy police officer who made no attempt to ascertain that the man in front of him was actually their target. One would also like to think that he would have hesitated instead of "probably hesitated."
That's the most fucked up cop story ever. They shot him on the ground and then drove him like that on the hood of their car? Is this for real?
Disheartening. The lawlessness is spreading rapidly, isn't it?
You have to wonder how guys like the head of the police union can defend scum like this and then wonder "huh, the public doesn't like us... why is that?" Is it deliberate or do the police genuinely not realize that normal people would not be sympathetic to this sort of use of force under virtually any circumstance?