Oklahoma 'taser Error' Ex-Officer Jailed For Four Years

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36423816

Shock horror ! An American policemen finally goes to jail for killing a black man.....who would have thought it possible !

[anotheoldgit]

First one in history is it mikey?

[mikey4444]

No, not the first, but a rare event netherless.

[Hypognosis]

The article describes him as an "ex-Police Officer". I have, in the past, described him as a "pay-to-play-at-cops", that is to say one of many who, coming from a civilian background, pay a fee to become a deputy, with full police powers and, in this case, weaponry.

I know nothing of their state of training but, here, mistakes were made or he overstepped his authority.

If he had prior service (before retirement age) as a police officer then I should retract my previous statements.

[mikey4444]

Hypognosis....I think he used to be a serving Police Officer.

But my point is that people like him seem to be so rarely successfully prosecuted.

[anotheoldgit]

A more detailed report, not the BBC's limited information.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/former-reserve-deputy-robert-bates-sentenced-to-four-years-in/article_ec042b6d-11d2-5ee1-95d9-cf9e5ee78aba.html

Four years for a man of his age, is very harsh, it was an accident and nothing more.

/// Bates’ attorney Clark Brewster gave the judge a dozen-page sentencing memo that he said includes 40 years of data indicating that probation is the standard sentence for a second-degree manslaughter conviction. ///

[piggynose]

This is what sent him to prison... he was culpably negligent in mistaking his gun for a Taser and fatally shooting 44-year-old Eric Harris, who was unarmed and the target of an undercover gun-sale operation, on April 2, 2015.
how could i mistake a gun for a taser?

[RandyMarsh]

How do you know it was an accident AOG?, there is not 100% proof that it was an accident.

[ummmm]

Lol @ Randy...

[Svejk]

What are you lolling at, ummmm? I don't 'get it'.

[youngmafbog]

Neither do I.

[youngmafbog]

Just out of interest are there figures on black Policepersons killing white persons?

[Peter Pedant]

// How do you know it was an accident AOG?, there is not 100% proof that it was an accident.//

the accident would be that he thought it was a tazer and er it was a loaded gun.

in the UK depending on the facts ( whether or not there was gross negligence or recklessness involved ) he would still be convicted of manslaughter.... and a naughty boy ! slap on the wrists may NOT be judge's sentence

and anyway like AOG mikey I thought american policemen were employed to shoot black people - am I wrong ?

[Peter Pedant]

// What are you lolling at, ummmm? I don't 'get it'.//

LOL at the junction between accident and 100%
accidents arent 100% anything

it makes me sure that there are some accidents I just doan wanna be around.

[Orderlimit]

There is no 'conspiracy' then?

[Peter Pedant]

// There is no 'conspiracy' then?//

yeah - wot wiv "no conspiracy ven ? " - course there is a conspiracy wiv de CIA [is that how you spell it ? ] or FBI or NCIS