Via mind jog comment by Anonymous on Why you can win the gunfight and lose everything else
Durham’s police chief says that Jesus Huerta, the 17-year-old who died in police custody last month, shot himself in the head after he had been searched, handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car.
“I know that it is hard for people not in law enforcement to understand how someone could be capable of shooting themselves while handcuffed behind the back,” Chief Jose Lopez told reporters Wednesday. “While incidents like this are not common, they unfortunately have happened in other jurisdictions in the past.”
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DeleteAnother parade of gibberish from an Only One trying to excuse the inexcusable.
ReplyDelete"...it is hard for people not in law enforcement to understand..." This is not an explanation, it is an attempt to avoid having to make an explanation. As well as being an insult to the intelligence of the people.
"...incidents like this...have happened in other jurisdictions..." This statement means nothing, about the alleged other incidents or about the one under discussion.
I would have hoped that someone who has spent at least some time around courtrooms and lawyers, as Lopez surely has, would have learned enough about argumentation to avoid spewing this kind of drivel.
Guess that was the best they could come up with.
DeleteI wonder how long it took them to find a pair of handcuffs with a chain that long.
ReplyDeleteEveryone I've ever seen has about 4 or 5 links between the cuffs and a lot of times the cops (being the sadist that many of them are) twist the cuffs to shorten the little bit of chain there is.
4 or 5 links between the cuffs
DeleteThat's what I was thinking.