Trooper Arrested For Pointing Gun At Officer
BOSTON (WBZ) ― A veteran state trooper on military leave was arrested early Saturday morning for allegedly driving drunk, crashing his car and pointing a gun at an off-duty officer.Got that? He drove drunk. Strike one. He pointed a gun at a police officer (albeit off-duty). Strike two. He fired his gun once, possibly twice. Strike three. He struggled with police officers after all of this. Strike four. And yet he was arrested and taken into custody without being shot dead, without being tasered, without being beaten to within an inch of his life.
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Once there, he was approached by an off-duty Boston police officer. According to the police report, Walsh pointed a gun at the officer before heading inside.
At least one shot was fired in the home. Police surrounded it. When Walsh walked out the front door, officers struggled with him and arrested him.
As opposed to lawful CCW holders in Nevada:
Shoppers Take Stand In Costco Shooting Inquest
LAS VEGAS -- Several Costco shoppers present when police shot Erik Scott took the stand Saturday to describe their versions of events in the fourth day of emotional testimony at a coroner's inquest hearing.Yeah, it's really too bad that the surveillance camera footage of the event was "damaged" after being confiscated by police - the same department involved in the shooting. I'm certain that they reviewed the tape, found that their officers acted 100% appropriately, and then mysteriously hit the red button marked "ERASE" by accident, right?
Testimony was heard by 17 witnesses, mostly shoppers, each with a slightly different version of what happened, in Saturday's portion of the inquest. The proceedings will determine whether three Las Vegas Metro police officers were justified when they shot and killed Scott outside a Costco store on July 10.
Two veterans, two analogous situations - they both faced police officers while armed with a firearm. One is taken into custody after a struggle, the other gets three .45 ACP slugs through his heart. The only difference is that little metal badge. One lives, one dies. One will most likely get a slap on the wrist, some administrative leave, and go right back to his life. The other gets a grave site and a grieving family full of questions.
It's hard not to buy the "Only Ones" rhetoric with stories like this.
That is all.
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And as a side effect of stories like these, it makes people trust the law enforcement less, which in turn could lead to even more confrontations...
Distrust of the police also makes it harder for them to do their jobs.
That said, with cases like that of Erik Scott they're not doing themselves any favors. Whether he had narcotics in his system or not is irrelevant. Responding officers were in the wrong on so many levels, and they needlessly killed him.
I am not paranoid about the police but my reliance on them is tempered by knowing they arrive after the fact.
There are few if any reasons to call the police.
A slow evolving crime like a drinking party.
To file a report of some crime that has happened(past tense!).
I've had to call the cops a few times and the minimum response time was 10 minutes at 1:30am. All other times it was to file a report though it only was to satisfy the insurance claim as the police never caught the felon or recovered the lost items.
I've reached the point if I do not have to file I don't. It's meaningless, nothing recovered, none caught. If they dust for prints they
leave a mess. I put my effort into better locks, lights, and cutting away shrubs to hide in knowing if I make it obviously harder and risker they will move to a different house.
Eck!
here's a tactic for Vegas....
http://middleoftheright.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-i-have-idea.html
Is Trooper Tim Walsh planning to transfer to Indianapolis, perchance? Sounds like he'd fit right in.
Of all the things wrong with the Eric Scott shooting, the lack of survellience video is NOT the fault of the cops. COSTCO reported the HD as wonky days before the incident. The cops seem to have tried/are trying everything pproper to get any data off the HD.
But still, the "Only Ones" attitude still pervades the Thin Blue Line to their continuing detriment. If anything they should be held to a higher level of accountability rather than excused for as much as they seem to be.
stay safe.
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