r/worldnewsvideo • u/real-m-f-in-talk Worldly š • May 23 '23
News Report š NC sergeant suspended 5-days after driving pass stopped school bus, nearly hitting student.
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u/wolfballs1345 May 23 '23
What would have happened to a citizen driving and did the same thing with a cop behind the citizen? What charges would a citizen be facing?
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u/MarcLloydz May 23 '23
Likely class 2 felony, reckless driving, unauthorized passing of a school bus, attempted murder on a minor. Depending on the defendant's criminal history and how lenient the judge is (liberal or conservative), 2 to 20 years and a fine added to the sentence as high as $10,000.
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u/DeepSlicedBacon May 23 '23
Now imagine if he was black!
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u/kernandberm May 23 '23
GET ON THE GROUND NOW! ON THE GROUND! GET. ON. THE GROUND. NOW! ON THE GROUND! THE GROUND! GET ON THE GROUND!
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u/Danny_Mc_71 May 23 '23
STOP RESISTING!
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u/I_Am_Not_That_Man May 23 '23
GET ON THE GROUND! HANDS IN THE AIR! CRAWL TO ME! KEEP YOUR HANDS UP AND CRAWL! WHY ARENT YOU FOLLOWING MY ORDERS! HANDS NOW! I BEAT MY WIFE! SHOTS FIRED!
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May 23 '23
I thought he had a knife, your honor. He looked at me as someone who might have a knife would, you know? He must have hid it beneath his belly when he resistingly crawled towards me with his hands in the air, because I couldn't see it. That's when I knew it was gonna be me or him, your honor, I swear I had no choice
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u/MyWorkAccountz May 23 '23
Major over exaggeration.
https://www.browninglonglaw.com/library/passing-a-stopped-school-bus-in-north-carolina.cfm
Class 1 misdemeanor: " Most traffic violations are infractions, however, passing a stopped School Bus is a class 1 misdemeanor. The maximum punishment for a Class 1 misdemeanor is 120 days in jail. Typically, if found guilty of unlawfully passing a stopped school bus, one would not be sentenced to active jail time but rather probation and/or community service and some type of driving school."
He SHOULD be fired though, or at the very least, taken off the road and a hell of a lot more time off than 5 days.
The investigation showed that he was behind another car in traffic when he pulled into a turn lane to turn right into a neighborhood. He failed to see the flashing lights and was unaware the bus was stopped to let a child off.
Sounds to me like the douche bag was probably on his phone, not paying attention.
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u/WeirdFlexCapacitor May 23 '23
āI didnāt notice the school bus was stopped, so I passed on the shoulder which is also illegal.ā
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u/Bulok May 23 '23
it's just a ticket, that's an over exagerration
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u/Bottle_Gnome May 23 '23
Probably get hit with Reckless, and unlawful passing of a school bus. There is a chance of jail. But more than likely just some community service and driving school.
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u/cheerful_cynic May 23 '23
Really it depends on your skin color, how visible the proof is on the internet & how much the local police/prosecutor/judges like your family
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u/Ed_the_time_traveler May 23 '23
A friend of mine did this, he was close to home and had to take a massive shit and was stopped behind a school bus. He drove by, very slowly and cautiously, and pulled into his house. A week later 2 police showed up at his door and cited him. 500 dollar fine and a year of probation.
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u/EngagedInConvexation May 24 '23
https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_20/GS_20-217.html
(a) When a school bus is displaying its mechanical stop signal or flashing red lights and the bus is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers, the driver of any other vehicle that approaches the school bus from any direction on the same street, highway, or public vehicular area shall bring that other vehicle to a full stop and shall remain stopped. The driver of the other vehicle shall not proceed to move, pass, or attempt to pass the school bus until after the mechanical stop signal has been withdrawn, the flashing red stoplights have been turned off, and the bus has started to move.
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(e) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and shall pay a minimum fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00). A person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall not receive a prayer for judgment continued under any circumstances.
Subsection (g) relates to striking an individual.
Additionally
(g1) The Division shall revoke, for a period of one year, the drivers license of a person convicted of a second misdemeanor violation under this section within a three-year period. The Division shall revoke, for a period of two years, the drivers license of a person convicted of a Class I felony violation under this section. The Division shall revoke, for a period of three years, the drivers license of a person convicted of a Class H felony violation under this section. The Division shall permanently revoke the drivers license of (i) a person convicted of a second felony violation under this section within any period of time and (ii) a person convicted of a third misdemeanor violation under this section within any period of time.
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(g2) Pursuant to G.S. 20-54, failure of a person to pay any fine or costs imposed pursuant to this section shall result in the Division withholding the registration renewal of a motor vehicle registered in that person's name. The clerk of superior court in the county in which the case was disposed shall notify the Division of any person who fails to pay a fine or costs imposed pursuant to this section within 40 days of the date specified in the court's judgment, as required by G.S. 20-24.2(a)(2). The Division shall continue to withhold the registration renewal of a motor vehicle until the clerk of superior court notifies the Division that the person has satisfied the conditions of G.S. 20-24.1(b) applicable to the person's case. The provisions of this subsection shall be in addition to any other actions the Division may take to enforce the payment of any fine imposed pursuant to this section.
Doesn't appear this officer was actually charged with anything let alone found guilty, so technically none of this applies to this particular officer if done again, in my non-barred opinion.
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u/real-m-f-in-talk Worldly š May 23 '23
- Video Link this year a driver went by a school bus almost hitting 2 kids, he was charged, bond was $20 thousand....
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u/isadog420 May 23 '23
And this cop is āsuspended,ā soā¦
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u/phiz36 May 23 '23
Only because there is video, otherwise the cops wouldāve said the parents were lying.
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u/WeirdFlexCapacitor May 23 '23
I would think the bus driver reported this. Also Iām not sure about front facing, but school buses have cameras on them.
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u/phiz36 May 23 '23
Youāre probably right about the driver reporting it. I still think the cops would call them a liar or just ignore it if there wasnāt video.
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u/pakepake May 23 '23
That kid, fully aware of her surroundings, prevented herself a serious injury or death.
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u/Consistent-River4229 May 23 '23
So what I am hearing is that an elementary school girl is more intelligent than this cop.
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u/crazysoup23 May 23 '23
Intelligent students don't become police officers. It checks out.
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u/Blitzerxyz May 23 '23
Considering my province just decided you don't need a highschool education to become a police officer this is true.
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u/HumanAverse May 23 '23
Who passes on the right?
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u/Igoos99 May 23 '23
Not just on the right, but apparently in the gravel shoulder at the side of the road.
Pretty sure in my state, you can only go around on the right shoulder if the shoulder is paved. If itās gravel, you are supposed to wait for the obstruction to clear. (Typically the obstruction is someone making a left turn.) So, even if this wasnāt a school bus, heād still be breaking the law going around a stopped vehicle on a non-paved shoulder.
(I think this law varies by state so I canāt say for sure. but basically, he just flubbed this every way possible.)
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u/Kellykeli May 23 '23
Runaway trucks with nowhere else to go, race car drivers on race tracks, trains, and cops, apparently.
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u/MarkJ- May 23 '23
This is a lose your job violation. The punk just doesn't have the judgement to be a cop.
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u/scabbymonkey May 23 '23
Paid suspension. Paid. So a 5 day vacation for almost killing a child.
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May 23 '23
Newscaster said "without pay".
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u/Prettttybird May 23 '23
Iām sure heāll be ok on that 180,000 a year salary thanks to those beautiful NC residents taxes
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u/cmonbitcoin May 23 '23
They really make that much?!
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u/Sharticus123 May 23 '23
There were cops scamming the overtime system in Florida making 300 grand a year.
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u/blueJoffles May 23 '23
Top paid Seattle cop made over $400k a couple years ago. How tf are they still hourly? Teachers arenāt hourly, doctors arenāt hourly.
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May 23 '23
Wasn't there a cop recently that got caught being clocked in to 2 jobs at once? Here it is.
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u/HumanAverse May 23 '23
Base salary, no. With overtime and various extra and special pay (shift differentials, K9 handler, supervisor, etc) the pay can easily double the base salary.
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u/Alh12984 May 23 '23
Oh, yeah. That sure as shit work the system, so they make so damn much more than they should be able to. My good friend told me about that, just a few months back. Blew my mind, but didnāt surprise me.
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u/HumanAverse May 23 '23
In an interview with a county sheriff's department, I was told not to look at the base salary because overtime alone was going to cover my basic living expenses. Then you'd build up so much PTO that you could cash out once a year for a healthy unofficial "bonus".
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u/AWildRapBattle May 23 '23
5 days without pay, plus a ticket for the class 1 misdemeanor
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u/Aggressive_Ad5115 May 23 '23
His boss will make it up to him with some overtime suddenly available
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u/IrSpartacus May 23 '23
Iāve seen people lose their license over passing a bus on the leftā¦ this is insane.
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u/Liorkerr May 23 '23
"Suspended" bullshit, what would be the penalty for a regular not above the law citizen?
Give him that, then triple or quadruple it.
Those who are tasked with enforcing the law should be held to a higher standard not a lower standard.
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u/DaBushDwella May 23 '23
As a kid I'd of walked right In front of that cop and took it. Pay day and make sure piggy gets worse
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u/ImmediatePatience835 May 23 '23
If the kid died the dude wouldāve been moved to another department. Cops donāt follow the laws they strictly, forcibly put on others
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u/UndeadJoker69420 May 23 '23
Needs longer than just a 5 day suspension these people need to be taught that they are not above the law.
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u/UnderScoreLifeAlert May 23 '23
Cops in the US need to fail an IQ test to graduate from the academy
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u/Alone-Business4652 May 23 '23
How about FIRED if not , at least a demotion from sergeant. For Christ sake us NORMAL civilians would have had to jump through hoops just to not get some sort of felony charge!!!!!
Have tinfoil badgeā¦ā¦ get away with EVERYTHING EVERYTHING people!!
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u/Glum-Statistician-51 May 23 '23
Hereās a a link to their Google location in case anyone wants to go leave a 5-star review for this brave act./s
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u/WoogiemanSam May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23
Iāve said it before, what else do you expect? Theyāre straight-C high school students with insecure superiority complexes joining a union and then theyāre in the club. Most of these bozos should be working on loading docks or making french fries.
No offense to logistics workers and fry cooks. At least youāre not an ever-present danger to everyone around you.
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May 23 '23
For everyone criticizing the bus driver, the bus driver is clearly near the edge of the black paved portion of the road. The cop has 4 wheels on what is the breakdown lane (or maybe a sidewalk, but most likely just a wide portion of the breakdown lane). What the cop is driving on is clearly a different color.
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u/Fancy_Grass3375 May 23 '23
Who the fuck in their right mind passes a school bus on the right shoulder?!
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u/Stardust_Particle May 23 '23
The bus should be in the right lane and pull over to the curb to prevent this. This is dangerous behavior on behalf of the bus driver. Did it have itās stop caution lights flashing? Canāt tell from the video.
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u/AGripInVan May 23 '23
The door was open, bro.
NWA all day, bro.
Straight from tha underground
(Hardly "zooming" by, to be fair.)
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u/MrsCCRobinson96 May 23 '23
We all have to STOP! He isn't the exception to the rule! Suspended without pay is still a spit in the face! I wonder if he did it on purpose!?? I feel like shit is being done on purpose because they know that they'll get time off paid or not.
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u/radehart May 23 '23
Better luck next week. Play some GTA during your vacation, gotta stay focused.
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u/in_a_minute_44 May 23 '23
The bus driver also needs to park crooked blocking the road. Nobody is supposed pass up a school bus letting children out ever.
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u/doiwinaprize May 23 '23
I was in a cab the other day and the driver said in reference to me reminding him to stop for the school bus: "I don't go to school, I don't even see the damn things until I run into them!"
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u/KccOStL33 May 23 '23
Why TF would he pass on that side!? Dude should be fired for directly and negligently endangering the safety of a child.
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u/RexLexChex May 23 '23
If he had actually hit that child I still think he wouldn't have faced real consequences. Lots of people are sick for more than five days, and still have no reprecussion at work. This man got time off work (sounds like a holiday to me) for almost killing a child in the most obviously reckless way possible.
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u/ImpressingRosin May 23 '23
Is there one company wrapping these terrible police cars? The ones in Toronto look identical.
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u/stigaman123 May 23 '23
If my country's traffic was like this, I wouldn't have been so reluctant to go to school every day. Our traffic is so bad that walking across a street = climbing with no protection.
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u/Thiccpoppychungus May 23 '23
Ridiculous, if a civilian did this, it would be balls to the wall with punishments. I really don't understand why police officers aren't held to a higher standard as they are the ones who are suppose to "know" the law.... Pathetic
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u/Thiccpoppychungus May 23 '23
Ridiculous, if a civilian did this, it would be balls to the wall with punishments. I really don't understand why police officers aren't held to a higher standard as they are the ones who are suppose to "know" the law.... Pathetic.
In the military, ignorance is not an excuse and punishment that is dealt keeps going higher in the chain of command, if it was a lower enlisted who had an issue, it is also his supervisors problem and his next line supervisor and so on....
Would really start putting these psychologically tyrant men and women in their place. They wonder why the general public avoids them at all costs, due to the corrupt and absolute insanity of dealing with law enforcement in the U.S.
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u/Oobaha May 23 '23
wow 5 days without pay. He will never financially recover from this. If this was a civilian...
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u/JangusCarlson May 23 '23
Wow. 5 whole days? Man, what cruel and unusual punishment, considering he would have just killed- maybe- a child.
/s
ACAB.
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u/Procrastanaseum May 23 '23
Didn't think I'd see a followup to this but good riddance.
Put him on desk duty after his timeout!
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u/Dear-Unit1666 May 23 '23
Why does he get a 5 day paid vacation on our taxes? Drove truck for a while, there were always warning signs hung up on the office every year when school started to watch for school busses. It's a huge fine and it was well known we could easily lose our jobs or have that massive fine to pay ourselves or best case scenario you got moved to warehouse picking orders and probably never would drive again. Truck driving is known as the #1 job for high school education, everyone thinks of truckers as lower class yet they have higher safety standards than the police apparently and higher consequences... How does that even begin to make sense ?
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u/marfatardo May 23 '23
But if that was just us regular folks, we'd be in jail with fines we couldn't afford to pay, so many points on our license that we'd never get insurance again, etc. This system is so rigged. We need to go France on these turds.
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u/Billitpro May 23 '23
Hopefully without pay, and while we're taking care of things like this how about suspending SCHOOL BUS drivers that barrel through school zones here on Long Island?????
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u/Bluefalcon1735 May 23 '23
NC police have a license to do whatever they want. No one can hold them account due to qualified immunity and sovereignty immunity.
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u/abatkin1 May 23 '23
I feel like this should be one of those things that keep you from being a cop.
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May 24 '23
So he gets five days of fun time for almost taking someone's child away from them right in front of their house? What a society we live in.
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u/m0stw4nt3d1 May 24 '23
If this isn't a recruitment video for police I don't know what is.
The level of lawlessness is crazy when you're in a position of power or influence. You can virtually do anything except yell tazer and fire your gun or shoot someone in their own apartment while theyre eating ice cream but still it's not forever in a box.
Us Joe Smoes would be in a world of legal litigation and penalties that we would be riding the city bus before days end for the next 10 years.
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u/dirtymoney Sourcer š May 24 '23
And ticketed. Anyone know what kind of ticket he got?
IMO he still got off lightly.
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u/somedudeinlosangeles May 24 '23
Another pig doing pig things. Like who passes a school bus on the right side of the bus during fucking school hours? I mean there is no longer situation that surprises me when it comes to pathetic mouth breathing drooling pigs.
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u/mariboo_xoxo May 24 '23
Letās seeā¦a police sergeant illegally passes a stopped school bus, almost hits a student that stepped off the bus, all while driving fast. AND he only received a 5 days suspension without pay, plus a ticketā¦it must be nice to just get a slap on the wrist. š¤Øšš¤
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May 24 '23
Bet he was on the laptop. I had a cop almost sideswipe me on the freeway cause he was fucking around on his laptop.
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u/-unas-annus- May 24 '23
Ok, so they do it and get a 5-day paid vacation. But when I do it, my license gets revoked forever šš
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u/Moonunit_1 May 24 '23
It might have been answered already but why does the bus drop kids off i the middle of the street?
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u/ElusiveCookie73 May 24 '23
The only reason theyāre actually punishing him is because it was caught on camera.
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u/ifsavage May 24 '23
What would happen to a civilian(sorry wrong word choice. Cops are gangbangers not military)in the situation?
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u/OkResponsibility7642 May 24 '23
He only got suspended for that, I've been fired for dropping an F bomb in front of the boss.
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u/Rough-Blacksmith1 May 24 '23
If I was the childās parent, I wouldāve sued the department and then filed a separate civil suit against the officer for reckless endangerment, negligence, failure to yield, all the fucking charges they often find to pile on civilians to make sure they understand the gravity of the situation and to make a point. So being a 15 year veteran of the force gets you 5 days off from work for almost killing someoneās child?
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u/Jazzlike-Principle67 May 24 '23
ONLY suspended 5 days? Hopefully the community will demand a greater punishment.
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u/WebFuture2858 Jun 17 '23
Only fair outcome is that the little kid gets to kick you repeatedly in the balls until you cry in front of the whole town.
Also, you donāt get to be a cop, and the civil suit comes out of the cops pensions and not taxpayers money.
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