Yesterday people were bashing law enforcement and today we have a case where a cop screwed up. Made the wrong decision in a split second and shot the wrong person. Who would want to do a job where a mistake that causes a workplace accident leads to prison? The officer went to help and made the wrong call in a split second to try and save someone from getting stabbed. He screwed up. Criminal charges though?
Yeah, who among us hasn’t committed a workplace mistake? Sometimes I’m a couple days late turning in my expense report, basically the same thing right?
So you are careless. I guess we all should be relieved that you are not a cop then because being careless when you are stressed and in fear can end in someone’s death. But sure, you are a hero. take a bow for your typo joke.
Get the gun nomenclature correct. A magazine is a spring-loaded, box-like device that holds ammunition and feeds it into a firearm’s chamber, while a clip is a separate, often metal, device used to load multiple rounds into a magazine or cylinder.
“unloading a clip”
Maybe you should learn something about firearms and their use, with a split second to decide to stop what appeared to be a stabbing in progress? BTW, it is not a “clip”, but is a “magazine”. The magazine was not emptied.
I get that officers are put in hard positions all the time, but we give them the power of the state to kill people, so we should expect more. Characterizing this as just a mistake that causes a “workplace accident” is fucked up dude. The officer killed a guy. His name was Brandon Durham.
And the police were at the Brandon’s house the day before, they knew who he was.
And yes we bring criminal charges so the system can determine if he’s guilty. He gets the same due process that everyone else gets.
And maybe the fact that there’s repeated complaints and articles about police fucking up should lead to changes or something different.
Charges don’t automatically mean prison. He has the same rights anyone accused of a crime does and several advantages that almost nobody accused of a crime would ever have.
Has he been criminally charged? All I heard was that it was going to a grand jury. I see this as Wolfson just giving himself political cover as DAs frequently do. “I took it to the grand jury, and the grand jury decided not to indict. Don’t blame me. Blame the grand jury.” Insert ham sandwich quote about grand jury indictments here…
I would be all in favor of this position, if the offending officer were a CoLV Marshal.
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March 28, 2025 10:00 am
Grand Juries: Used to indict anyone for anything. Except when Cops are the defendant. Then it’s like FJF trying to leave Oakland.
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March 28, 2025 12:12 pm
RJ probate article seems like they really want to make a lot out of very little. The real estate agency made 800k over, what, 8 years? The law firm made 1 million in the same time period? That doesn’t sound like misbehavior, it sounds like a middling performance of normal business.
My favorite line from the article about OJ’s estate is “LaVergne, who came to court in an exercise suit, said he was concerned about the financial cost of an evidentiary hearing “gobbling up” estate assets.” I’m guessing he is not the estate’s attorney but just the appointed administrator.
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March 28, 2025 4:23 pm
My understanding is that for most criminal cases, the DA seeks to do preliminary hearings before a Judge to see if there’s probable cause for a criminal indictment. Grand juries in state court are seldom used (again from my understanding). What is the purpose of using a secretive grand jury in this case? Why not use a public-preliminary hearing?
GJ’s are used by the DA when the DA doesn’t want to take responsibility or when a JP is assigned who they fear might grant a motion to suppress or find no probable cause at a Prelim.
Yesterday people were bashing law enforcement and today we have a case where a cop screwed up. Made the wrong decision in a split second and shot the wrong person. Who would want to do a job where a mistake that causes a workplace accident leads to prison? The officer went to help and made the wrong call in a split second to try and save someone from getting stabbed. He screwed up. Criminal charges though?
unloading a clip into an innocent man on the ground is a workplace mistake?
Yeah, who among us hasn’t committed a workplace mistake? Sometimes I’m a couple days late turning in my expense report, basically the same thing right?
I accidently filed something with a few typos. Pretty much the same as murder.
So you are careless. I guess we all should be relieved that you are not a cop then because being careless when you are stressed and in fear can end in someone’s death. But sure, you are a hero. take a bow for your typo joke.
Clip? Is every handgun a Glock? Is every black gun an assault rifle? Are semiautomatic and automatic synonymous?
Get the gun nomenclature correct. A magazine is a spring-loaded, box-like device that holds ammunition and feeds it into a firearm’s chamber, while a clip is a separate, often metal, device used to load multiple rounds into a magazine or cylinder.
Perhaps correct in only the most technical sense. Merriam-Webster says clip is synonymous with magazine. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clip
And according to their explanatory notes, it’s a secondary variant: “Secondary variants belong to standard usage and may be used according to personal inclination.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/explanatory-notes/dict-entries
Clips, mostly seen in last century bolt action military rifles, such as the 1903 Springfield.
We all understood what the OP meant. Nobody GAF about the distinctions you keep prattling on about.
“unloading a clip”
Maybe you should learn something about firearms and their use, with a split second to decide to stop what appeared to be a stabbing in progress? BTW, it is not a “clip”, but is a “magazine”. The magazine was not emptied.
He stopped the stabbing in progress by murdering the victim. But the good news was that the victim was not stabbed.
I get that officers are put in hard positions all the time, but we give them the power of the state to kill people, so we should expect more. Characterizing this as just a mistake that causes a “workplace accident” is fucked up dude. The officer killed a guy. His name was Brandon Durham.
And the police were at the Brandon’s house the day before, they knew who he was.
And yes we bring criminal charges so the system can determine if he’s guilty. He gets the same due process that everyone else gets.
And maybe the fact that there’s repeated complaints and articles about police fucking up should lead to changes or something different.
Charges don’t automatically mean prison. He has the same rights anyone accused of a crime does and several advantages that almost nobody accused of a crime would ever have.
Has he been criminally charged? All I heard was that it was going to a grand jury. I see this as Wolfson just giving himself political cover as DAs frequently do. “I took it to the grand jury, and the grand jury decided not to indict. Don’t blame me. Blame the grand jury.” Insert ham sandwich quote about grand jury indictments here…
I would be all in favor of this position, if the offending officer were a CoLV Marshal.
Grand Juries: Used to indict anyone for anything. Except when Cops are the defendant. Then it’s like FJF trying to leave Oakland.
RJ probate article seems like they really want to make a lot out of very little. The real estate agency made 800k over, what, 8 years? The law firm made 1 million in the same time period? That doesn’t sound like misbehavior, it sounds like a middling performance of normal business.
John Barlow is so squeaky clean that soap asks for his autograph
Oh, God. Sigal Chattah as the USA for Nevada. Let the shitshow commence.
Shit show, clown car, dumpster fire, train wreck.
Plane crash, tornado, hurricane, tsunami, asteroid colliding with the Earth, all of the biblical plagues all at once.
Thank heavens it was not Craig Mueller.
My favorite line from the article about OJ’s estate is “LaVergne, who came to court in an exercise suit, said he was concerned about the financial cost of an evidentiary hearing “gobbling up” estate assets.” I’m guessing he is not the estate’s attorney but just the appointed administrator.
My understanding is that for most criminal cases, the DA seeks to do preliminary hearings before a Judge to see if there’s probable cause for a criminal indictment. Grand juries in state court are seldom used (again from my understanding). What is the purpose of using a secretive grand jury in this case? Why not use a public-preliminary hearing?
GJ’s are used by the DA when the DA doesn’t want to take responsibility or when a JP is assigned who they fear might grant a motion to suppress or find no probable cause at a Prelim.
The DA uses grand juries all the time because grand juries will indict anything that breathes.
IF the DA truly wants the GJ to indict.
If the DA doesn’t want to indict, they put on a crappy case and nobody is watching
..also will indict a ham sandwich.