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Kradek posted...

Sure, but a video of them literally running someone over and then the other cop laughing about how they killed her and it's no big deal is definitely enough for the public to go "these fucking killers".

Are they legally found guilty of murder? No, but it's basically the same as if you personally witnessed someone murder another and someone came in tut-tutting you with "uh uh uh, they haven't been found guilty in a court of law yet! Can't declare them as a killer!"

Even in the course of law enforcement cops are not given the authority to run over civilians in order to resolve conflicts. This is flat-out murder and I hope both of these cops, even the fucking sack of shit laughing about it, suffer the rest of their lives for it.

Also, while I don't know if turning off a camera should be considered destroying evidence, it should definitely still be considered concealing evidence because literally everything their cameras record is evidence, so they are concealing evidence by preventing the recording of it.

Unless they're in the bathroom, that absolutely should be guilty by default.

Yeah, just from watching that video, I really want these guys to feel the effect of their disregard for human life too.

Turning off the camera before committing a crime is definitely a crime in of itself if you ask me, though I don't know what the best classification for the charge would be. Tampering with evidence seems like it would be a stretch, but I'll take it for ordinary conversational purposes.

The words "guilty by default" are all I need to see that you don't really care to abide by due process in these instances.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Based on what? They are the police and already know not to destroy evidence. Therefore, the only reason they would destroy evidence in a case like this is if the evidence proves their guilt. Thats beyond reasonable doubt

Again, you're skipping way too many steps and making way too many assumptions in obtaining a solid guilty verdict.

I'm not some cop apologist and was very disturbed watching this video, but seriously guys, there's still rules you have to follow in getting a guilty verdict. Rules that would be very hard to change, and for good reason.

Also, once again, I never said anything to indicate I'm sympathetic toward the cops in this instance. I was never arguing about the facts of this story at all actually. It's just really easy to fall into these reactionary distortions of what we can do within the framework of the country's justice system.