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Originally posted by Kankindog
Charges were not filed against Birk because it is believed that he acted without malice towards Williams
Originally posted by Alien Abduct
******If you are already familiar with the story you can skip ahead to the update if you like or you may want to refresh your memory*********
A few months ago supposedly a call was made about a suspicious woman in a church parking lot. The suspicious person was Mrs. Patricia Cook. A normal looking 54 year old lady, wife of a preacher sitting in her newer jeep.
The cop said that he asked Mrs. Cook for her licence and as he reached for it she rolled her window up trapping his arm, then proceeded to drive off. The (still unnamed) police officer states that he had no choice but to pump 6 rounds into the vehicle and Mrs. Cook for fear of his life.
However there are at least two witnesses stating that they seen the whole thing clear as day and the story the police officer is telling is not true. Keep in mind these two witnesses were not standing next to each other when this incident occurred and in fact these two witnesses don't even know each other. The witnesses claim that at no point during the police officer's "altercation" with Mrs. Cook was his arm stuck in the window, and that "there was no reason for him to shoot her like that".
Here is an update on this story. I will be checking on this story for more updates when I can.
LINK
Mr. Cook’s lawyers, in a very smart move, are suing the police officer alleged to have shot Patricia Cook Feb. 9. This way there cannot be any plea bargain kind of deal and it forces the issue into trial for the alleged shooter to bring it all out in the open. The Virginia State Police will now have to come up with some kind of report of their findings after a lengthy investigation that started on the wrong foot by making it appear like Mrs. Cook was trying to either hurt or kill the shooter.
May justice prevail and all those trigger happy thugs take note.
-Alien
Originally posted by Kankindog
Originally posted by Alien Abduct
reply to post by Josephus
Did you say five times!?! he shot him five times?
Please don't tell me that cop got away with that? How many people die at the hands of our own "public servants" every year? And indeed by the hand of our entire government..
Excuse me I need to go puke now.
-Alien
The family of the woodcarver is getting $1.5 million from the city of Seattle in what was ruled an unjustified shooting.
Link to Story.
Williams was killed in an Aug. 30, 2010, police shooting ruled unjustified by the Police Department's Firearms Review Board. Birk, resigned Feb. 16 after King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced charges would not be filed in the incident.
Charges were not filed against Birk because it is believed that he acted without malice towards Williams.edit on 24-5-2012 by Kankindog because: changed quoted text to off-site content
Originally posted by PerfectAnomoly
I am sure there are some that are bully's and some that are overly aggressive
Originally posted by Kankindog
Originally posted by Alien Abduct
reply to post by Josephus
Did you say five times!?! he shot him five times?
Please don't tell me that cop got away with that? How many people die at the hands of our own "public servants" every year? And indeed by the hand of our entire government..
Excuse me I need to go puke now.
-Alien
The family of the woodcarver is getting $1.5 million from the city of Seattle in what was ruled an unjustified shooting.
Link to Story.
Williams was killed in an Aug. 30, 2010, police shooting ruled unjustified by the Police Department's Firearms Review Board. Birk, resigned Feb. 16 after King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced charges would not be filed in the incident.
Charges were not filed against Birk because it is believed that he acted without malice towards Williams.edit on 24-5-2012 by Kankindog because: changed quoted text to off-site content