Those hippy tree-huggers over at Amnesty International claim that all fifty U.S states fail to meet international standards on lethal use of force by law enforcement agencies.
Every state in the US fails to comply with international standards on the lethal use of force by law enforcement officers, according to a report by Amnesty International USA, which also says 13 US states fall beneath even lower legal standards enshrined in US constitutional law and that nine states currently have no laws at all to deal with the issue.
That’s ridiculous. Here’s an example of New Jersey police restraining themselves as a fellow police officer shot his ex-wife repeatedly.
Police would have been justified in using deadly force against Neptune Police Sgt. Philip Seidle Tuesday morning to stop him from repeatedly shooting his ex-wife as she sat in her car on an Asbury Park street, law enforcement experts say.
You think police get off easy? Here’s an example of an FBI agent in Utah who lost his job after strangling his girlfriend. And he had to plea “No Contest” to a charge he threw some of her stuff out a door.
A former FBI agent who was facing a felony charge after an alleged assault on his live-in girlfriend in December has resolved the case against him by entering a no contest plea to a misdemeanor.
Adam Grant Quirk, 36, was initially charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony, criminal mischief, a class B misdemeanor, and damaging a phone, a class B misdemeanor. Earlier this month, he pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor, according to court records.
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Quirk no longer works for the FBI. His no contest plea will be held in abeyance for nine months. It will be dismissed if he doesn’t commit any new criminal offenses during that time and pays $250 in court fees.
Hasn’t he suffered enough?
And sometimes police officers use “great restraint,” and only pepper spray teenage girls or break a jaw and ribs if they’re tweens, according to this report out of Ohio.
The family accused cops of excessive force, pointing to the fact that Dixon, who is pregnant, had to be checked out by doctors after the incident and that cops pepper sprayed teenage girls. What’s more, Dixon’s 12-year-old niece, who officers grabbed by the neck and slammed against the car, suffered a fractured jaw and broken ribs.
See there? No lethal force at all. What’s more, all those teenage girls (and the twelve-year-old) were black. They should count their blessings.
Those are just some examples I culled from a quick search of yesterday’s intertubes. Today, no doubt, there are more.