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Well at least he didn't murder the kid for not following his commands.

I am wondering if the department violated an unwritten policy to obfuscate and cover for the deputy's crime. There is going to be hell to pay when the thin blue line turns on the law enforcement officer that investigated this incident. What is the use of abusing your power with impunity if there is no guarantee that you will get protection when your ass is on the line.

This just demonstrates that simply being a cop does not make a person a saint or a hero. Police forces have plenty of scumbags like most professions. The only surprise here is that charges were pressed and a conviction was obtained.

And the decentralization of the police... Police should be under state-level oversight. When a cop is suspected of doing bad shit, it should be some Admin from the other side of the state running the investigation.

I'm afraid to read this one. I don't like articles about hurting animals or children. I know it goes on... but I cannot face the details. I could however, pull the lever that operates the electric chair... or personally put the needle in without thinking twice about some of these twisted fucks.

How do you hurt a baby or a domesticated animal? Or any animal unless it's out of necessity? What goes wrong in your head that makes a person think that's perfectly acceptable behavior?

jazz music says

This is reserved for defendants with inadequate funds. Another atrocity of a brutal nation with a dirty filthy system.

DNA has exonerated so many convicts.

Yeah, we probably should have let Bundy go.

Seriously? Those cops in So. FL caught up in that dog fighting thing a few years ago... Picking up advertised "free kitten (or puppies) to good homes" and then using them in their dog fights. Sorry. I've got my stack of cannulas ready for inserting. You just send them on over.

Some people aren't fit for life on this planet. I understand that you might not like that... But the folks who don't premeditate killing children, innocent animals, adults, whatever, outnumber those who do. The answer is in perfecting the conviction process... Not in eliminating the remedy.

jazz music says

As filthy and rotten as our system is, it is hardly an appropriate to make a life and death determination.

Jazzy, you are awesome.... But on this one... I admit I have my own blind spots. I hear about some sicko doing something awful to another creature and I want him/her gone. It's just the way I feel. The feeling grows the more helpless the victim was. When I heard about those cops and the dog fighting ring... I could have pulled the lever myself. Without the slightest remorse. Sick animals like that don't deserve the gift of life. And we have enough people with a REAL chance at rehabilitation to waste our time on fully grown adults who think it's fun to put kittens in a ring with starving dogs.... Or get off on burning a child's genitals. Personally, I'd rather focus REAL resources on a kid who fucked up but who has a chance at change.

My guess is that deputy is voting for Trump, or would if he could.

Well, you are appreciated, and I hear what you're saying. There are no easy answers, and there will always be exceptions to the rule. But, in general, you cannot have monsters with no regard for life destroying people for their own amusement. Frankly, I wouldn't even want to subject regular criminals to that kind of evil. Why should a guy who committed burglary or manslaughter have to live with Ted Bundy or Dahmer types? If there were an operation that could right the defect that makes them monsters and still leave them functioning human beings, I'd support that. Just like I would support a cure for whatever makes a dog snap and bite half the face off a three year old. In the meantime, however, we know what we have to do with vicious attack dogs who rip faces off of little girls. We put them down.