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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't wait for the Capitol Police bootlickers to come in here and celebrate.[/quote]

I'm probably someone you'd call that.  But I don't think he should have been pardoned. He clearly violated departmental policy. It wasn't a fuzzy line. It wasn't nuanced. He violated policy.

I don't know DC criminal law well enough to comment on whether the criminal charges are appropriate. In Maryland, I'd think something like involuntary manslaughter would be appropriate.

Cops need to be given room to be human, which includes making mistakes. But that doesn't mean they get to intentionally violate their own departmental policies.

I will add, when someone so egregiously disregards policy like that, it likely is a symptom of a larger problem with supervision and accountability in general. If cops know they can skirt certain rules, many more cops will feel free to do the same. [/quote]

Policy violations don't automatically equate to crimes.  They are instances of breaking internal rules, and internal discipline at some level may be appropriate.  To criminally charge LEOs when a criminal ends up killed or injured as the result of their own criminal activity and bad judgment is ludicrous.  If the kid hadn't been breaking the law, if he had stopped when told to, he'd be alive today.  He didn't, but his death is somehting he brought upon himself; he had no idea what the police rules on vehicle pursuits were, and they matter only insofar as they were a violation of internal (and ill-advised, because they give criminals a free pass to run) policy.  Criminally sanctioning the officers under such circumstances is way disproportionate to the circumstances.  Had they done what they did, but the kid was eventually captured unharmed, would they have been charged criminally?  not a chance.  The criminal's own conduct is the distinguishing factor, not the actions of the officers.  [/quote]

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