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      Absolutely. Assault on an unarmed civilian, clear unnecessary use of force on video, over a stop for a mud flap.

      Why didn’t the prosecutor charge him yet? The video isn’t enough evidence?

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        Presumably he was fired for forgetting to turn his camera off. Not for the action itself.

        It’s a PR move to try to limit fallout.

        Full on criminal investigations take ages, so the firing comes now and by the time the prosecution gets round to criminal charges the police force can have distance themselves nicely in that time.

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          While criminal investigation does take time, yes, that doesn’t stop them from arresting people ahead of time if there’s even a moderate amount of evidence. I mean, that’s never stopped police from arresting “suspicious” black people (eg, someone who simply happened to be black in an area where a crime was allegedly committed by another black person; even if they look nothing alike). Police consistently treat themselves with kid gloves while treating people of colour as hyper dangerous and must be immediately arrested (or shot).

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          Bingo, they intentionally fired him in such a way that union arbitration will get him a reinstatement where he’ll get letters of recommendation and a lateral to another department.

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      I agree that he should be arrested, convicted and spend a good amount of time in jail. But just out of curiosity, what’s the penalty for someone whose dog severely injures someone? Of course police dogs should be held to a higher standard and it varies by city/country, but is the average person responsible legally or civilly if their dog injures someone? I hope someone in this community has an idea, I’m very curious

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    He’ll be a new hire in a neighboring County in a couple of months.

    This is a resume builder for a lot of cops

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      It may look like you’re exaggerating to the casual observer, but as an Ohioan, this exact same scenario happened in my county and the county next to me. An officer handcuffed a mentally disabled woman and drug her down the stairs by her ankles, face down, and roughed her up a bit. He was fired from the Wayne County sheriff’s dept and hired onto the Holmes County sheriff’s dept the next week.

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      Which is really strange because clearly they’re a liability that will attract future lawsuits and misconduct. There’s a reason hospitals don’t hire doctors and nurses who got fired from other hospitals for bad behavior. But cops don’t pay out those lawsuits.

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        Costs will be paid by city or county taxpayers, as the case may be. So no financial pain will ever be felt by the department that hires a shit bag like this.

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      Exactly, it should be fired, charged, loss of required policing license if found guilty (or if a police license board decides so, even without conviction)

      Currently I’ll take just fired and charged, since we don’t have policing licenses as of yet.

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      I’ve read this article twice, where does it say Green is employed by a nearby department?

      I’m sure he is, but I’m not seeing anything that says it in that link. Am I missing it?

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    How can you justify releasing a damn dog on someone who ain’t doing shit? These kids are more often than not from questionable origin, like a racist system or family, psychopaths, not meant to be the high water mark of justice, and the people they should actually be fucking with, either slip through the nets, or are running the show. Capitalist bootlickers is all it comes down to. I couldn’t imagine wanting to be a cop.

    When I get pulled over now, I’m always like “damn its a kid”, knowing there are zero consequences for their actions, a push from on high to make arrests in any way possible, depending on who needs to get paid that day, doesn’t make me feel any better.

    I got pulled over last week…for having a dealership border around the license plate. Thats it. LOL. All pretense to see if he liked my face and clothes. I don’t think police should be interacting with citizens in this manner, let alone releasing fkn dogs on unarmed people.

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      Apparently, from another article, it’s policy

      For context, this city is well outside Columbus and what you’d consider ruralish trashyish

      Basically once you get an hour outside the big cities in Ohio it’s not much different from the south

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        Well it’s depressing that that’s the explanation.

        I will never understand why the US government is happy for large sections of its country to essentially operate as if it’s the 18th century. It is like someone went back in time and gave them all tractors, and coke (both types) but otherwise they’re just carrying on as per.

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          Because it’s like stacking the jury with your friends.

          The only people who can really change it are in the same cult party as the ones doing the bad things. It’s not going to go anywhere

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    But because we have an intentionally broken system, that officer will wait a couple months, move two counties to the left and be rehired on another force (and likely promoted).

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      Not really… cops get fired all the time and then hired again at different places with no issues.

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      There is nothing wrong with police dogs. Officers assigned to handle the dogs can be problematic though, if they don’t have the discipline to put their prejudices aside.

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        My friend has a dog… good dog, very quiet and likes to play fetch with his toy. Growls and barks exclusively at black people. His owner is not racist. We think it is because a black guy accidentally stepped on his paw (resulting in no permanent harm) about 12 years ago.

        Just saying, dogs can be racist as well.

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          Nonsense, says Dr. Nicholas Dodman, a professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and author of several books on animal behavior, most recently If Only They Could Speak. “Any behavioralist knows that dogs don’t like subsets of people,” he says, and though the most common subsets are broad—strange men or little children—”sometimes it can be quite specific. It could be tall men, or men with beards. It might be men who are wearing big shoes, might be as subtle as men who smoke cigarettes—which can be hard to pick up on—but it can also be black guys.”

          https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/02/can-dogs-be-racist.html

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        I think the dogs leave too much room for fake ass probable cause. They should only be used for maybe bomb scare or smth. Having them deal with everyday citizens? In the current system police are just trying to make money off charges for their bosses. Get rid of the dogs for now. Maybe in the future we can have nice things.