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[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 28 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Thats crazy wth the cop murdered her... and what do you mean 'violating civil rights' he killed her

[–] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

This officer didn't shoot anyone. The guy that DID shoot her had already been acquitted. This cop fired blindly into their apartment. He didn't hit anyone.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

She doesn't have civil rights anymore after she was killed so technically true. /s

Edit:

I just read it and it seems it may be another cop who shot her?

The Justice Department's sentencing memo for Hankison downplayed his role in the raid at Taylor's home, saying he "did not shoot Ms. Taylor and is not otherwise responsible for her death."

[–] webp@mander.xyz 35 points 11 hours ago

How many months of death was Ms. Taylor sentenced to?

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't he violate her rights by murdering her?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Murder is such a harsh word. It creates the idea that there is a systemic problem with the police. No these are just happy little civil rights violations.

[–] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Given that this cop did not, in fact, actually shoot anyone, it seems like an appropriate charge

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 148 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I would have liked to see harsher penalties for all involved, but a cop getting real prison time for his involvement in killing an innocent person under color of law is encouraging.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 63 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Perfect is the enemy of good. Maybe these "bad apple" cops I keep hearing about will commit less hate crimes against their community after sentences like these.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 46 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Why is the rest of that saying not used?

It goes, "One bad apple spoils the bunch."

They're all bad.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

96% of the planet - checks notes - doesn't have american cops running the show.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 10 hours ago

Your cops take First Nations people and leave them barefoot in the snow to die of hypothermia.

All Cops Means All Cops.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Why is the full understanding of that saying not used when completing it fully? You remove bad apples from the bunch so that the rot doesn't spread. They all become bad if you don't do that. Not saying that's the case for cops in any of these digestions, one way or another. But just saying, sayings.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Our idiom fluency will have to pull itself up by its own bootstraps one supposes

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 12 hours ago

Right wing people are either stupid or dishonest. The stupid ones don't understand the saying and never thought to look it up, and the dishonest ones don't care.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 10 hours ago

Because once the rot has discovered it’s already spread. You need to throw the whole thing out or else everything else will get tainted as well.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 14 hours ago

Even if this guy is imprisoned, it's the cop equivalent of martyrdom.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 15 hours ago

He'll get a suspended sentence and serve less than a year at best, if he doesn't get off on appeal, just you watch.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, not that it should be the case that the insides of prisons are kinda torture but, cops usually don't have a very good time behind bars

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world -4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

"Real prison time?"

Go find out what a black person gets for murder 1 against a white person. Then come back and spew some more bullshit about "real prison time"

[–] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

This guy didn't shoot anyone.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Go spend the better part of three years in prison and tell me it isn't real prison time.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry... I try not to break the law

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Being in prison is real prison time. Yes, people of color get disproportionately more time (of they live), but prison time is prison time.

[–] jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world 78 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Missing from headline: "... despite federal prosecutors requesting a 1 day sentence"

Glad the judge was able to see the absolute ridiculousness of that.

edit: I thought at first it was 33 years for some reason... sad day.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

in the whole bad apple metaphor, who are the prosecutors, and why has the farmer not yet set fire to the orchard?

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 13 hours ago

Thirty three months.

That's as long as it takes for a kid to learn to use a fork.

Fuck that bullshit, dude should have gotten a life sentence.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Presidential pardon incoming in 5, 4, 3...

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Murderer goes free, but at least there's something. Having to emphasize that take makes me ill.

[–] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Who did this guy murder?

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If Trump's Justice Department got their way, he would have served one single day. Not joking...

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Trump will pardon him.

He wont see prison time.

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Gotta keep that ‘back the blue’ vote.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

No... fuck that cop

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago

More than I expected, to be honest.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He'll prolly get pardoned

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

A little under three years in I'm assuming minimum security and a high likelihood of commuted sentencing.

[–] HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Sacrificial lamb..

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Jails in the US are shitty enough that there's still time for him to lose teeth and get stabbed.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Of course they aren't going to put this cop into the common population of criminals. They are going to treat this piece of shit with more dignity and pamper him in his own fancy cell with separate nicer rations, and treated better than you could possibly imagine.

And when he gets out, there will likely be a nice six figure salary job lined up for him by wealthy Republicans running a corrupt physical security company willing to hire this pig racist cop.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago