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Cop Arrested After Video Shows Her Shoot Unarmed Man in Back Lying Face Down in the Snow
By Cassandra Fairbanks on March 25, 2015

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Harrisburg, PA– Hummelstown police Officer, Lisa J. Mearkle was charged with criminal homicide on Tuesday in the shooting death of 59-year-old David Kassick on February 2.

Mearkle shot Kassick as he laid face down on the ground in the snow, unarmed, during a routine traffic stop gone awry.

Mearkle had attempted to pull Kassick over for an expired inspection sticker, but the situation escalated when Kassick attempted to flee from the officer.

Eventually Mearkle caught up to the motorist close to his sister’s home where he was staying, but Kassick got out of the vehicle and fled on foot. As he was attempting to run away, he was incapacitated by the officer’s taser which she held in her left hand. With her right hand, she unnecessarily pulled out her service gun and shot the unarmed man twice in the back as he lay face-down on the ground.

The 36-year-old officer claims that she shot the unarmed man because he would not show his hands and she was concerned he may have been reaching in his jacket for a weapon, but the recording from the deployed taser paints a different picture.

District Attorney Ed Marsico has stated that it appeared from the recording that Kassick was simply trying to remove the stun gun probes from his back before his life was taken.

“At the time Officer Mearkle fires both rounds from her pistol, the video clearly depicts Kassick lying on the snow covered lawn with his face toward the ground, furthermore, at the time the rounds are fired nothing can be seen in either of Kassick’s hands, nor does he point or direct anything toward Officer Mearkle,” the arrest affidavit reads.

A syringe was found near his body, and there were unspecified drugs as well as alcohol in his system when he died. His family has admitted that he has struggled with addiction, a personal problem which should not have cost him his life.

“Mr. Kassick is now dead as a result of a traffic stop, a routine traffic stop,” one of the family’s attorneys, Christopher Slusser, told the press. “He should not be dead. He should not have died as a result of that traffic stop. And the manner in which he was shot — you can infer from that what you will.”

Mearkle is currently free on $250,000 bail. She faces potential charges ranging from misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter to felony first-degree murder depending on what the prosecution decides when she is formally arraigned.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/pa-...v0jtryAGBAF.99

INB4 DC

In b4 hall

****, she was a horrible cop if this is true.

I will go ahead and take care of every reasonable person's post and say that if the thread title is accurate, that's deplorable.

So she faces charges that start at involuntary manslaughter? WTF?!

Routine traffic stop? Pretty sure I don't flee during routine traffic stops.

That said, he's a dumbass for running.

Oh....and throw that cop in jail for sure. That's ****ed up.

Hmmm. Tough to make a judgement without seeing the video. On one hand he's not "dead as a result of a traffic stop, a routine traffic stop,” - he's dead because he ran from the cops.

On the other, shooting a clearly incapacitated body is certainly excessive and should be regarded as such.

Bang bang didn't read lol

Kimmay is gettin away boys!!!

The DA saw the video and they got an arrest warrant for her for shooting a guy lying face down in the snow in his back.

If she doesn't get charged with murder then we should all be making plans to jump ship to another country.

So if she gets off, we riot right?

BURN THIS MOTHER****ER DOWN!!!!

If this is a white guy they should lock her up and throw away the key

Otherwise...

Face down, don't shoot?

lol

nb4 first racist post.

This should make all the cop haters happy

Happy? No.

Another example of ****ed up policing that reinforces the argument that cops suck these days? Ab-so-****inglutely.

Yep because you can name 1-8 stories about cops being idiots all 1.1 million of police officers are bad at their job. :clap:

Yeah, that pretty much summarizes the issue.

It's much higher than 1-8 stories.

I'm not going to apologize for expecting the police to be held to a higher standard.

I guess if she can't see your hands...Bang, Bang

He's dead because he's an idiot and ran from the police. That doesn't mean he deserved it, but that is why he is dead.

No.

He's dead because a cop tazed him and then shot him to death while he was incapacitated.

Pay no attention to the fact that nearly every one of these incidents involves someone who is resisting/fleeing. No need to hold criminals accountable for their actions... it's all on the cops.

He's dead because some cop shot him in the back in a situation where it was unwarranted.

His death was the result of an incident that began when he decided to run from the police.

No, he didn't deserve to be killed if the facts presented in the article (which reads as heavily biased) are correct. If this narrative is accurate then I hope the legal system takes care of it.

Still doesn't change the fact that if you don't start none, there won't be none.

It is when the cop shoots a guy in the back while he's face down in the snow and helpless because he was already tazed.

For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. I'm not saying what she did was right but c'mon there has to be some personal responsibilty on the part of citizens to follow basic directions of law enforcement.

If he had got run over by a semi while running away there would still be people blaming the police....

She shot him in the back when he was lying face down in the snow, post-taze, and making no hostile act.

This is 100% on the cop.

I would say that it's 100 percent on the cop and 100 percent on the guy who caused the chase.

The justice system holds them accountable for resisting/fleeing. Unless they are murdered by the police first.

I've never run from the cops. Consequently, I've never had one beat/taze/shoot me. Coincidence or just white privilege?

He made a poor decision to run, that doesn't justify being shot, especially after already being caught.

If the story in the OP is accurate, there is simply no way to justify it. Zero. Zilch. Natha. Nothing.

Wait...was the victim white?

If so, "unarmed white man" should be in the title.

Or does that shit only apply to cops that assault blacks?

Yep....white guy.

Oh, he's white?

ROFL ROFL ROFL

No wonder this is the first i've heard about it.

Now i understand....yup....white people riot time. You guys should go burn down a Starbucks or something.

Funny....I don't see this on ANY major news site right now.

Hot Topic is gonna BURN FOR THIS!!!

Is trying to remove the tazer probes a hostile act?

Ultimately if the cop goes to jail and the low-life drug addict is dead, everybody wins.

The guy didn't deserve to die, and she should be charged with something, but that dipshit contributed to his own death.

That kind of thinking is a huge part of the problem in this country. Assuming the story is correct, at no time did the 'dipshit' do anything that warranted lethal force being used against him.

If he died from the tazer....would it be his fault?

Of course not

:facepalm:

How so?

You've got to be trolling.

this

but he's getting a lot of bites

GTFO You're ****ing stupid if you truly believe this.

IF HE DOESN'T FLEE, THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN.

I've already said what should happen to her, but his action is partly to blame for his death.

Have people completely forgotten what personal responsibility is?

Have people forgotten what it takes to constitute lethal force?

This guy deserved to be tazed. This guy deserved to be arrested. This guy deserved to spend at least the night in jail. This guy did NOT deserve to be shot.

Face palm all you want. It doesn't change the facts of the case.

Do you even have to ask that? We live in a time now where it's not your fault.....it's everyone else's.

Not going to answer my question?

If he was hit with the tazer and he died....how was it not his fault?

His flight didn't warrant a bullet in the back. How ****ing tough is that for you to wrap your mind around?

And if he died from the tazer.....would it be his fault?

How does dying from a tazer equal getting shot in the back with a bullet?

A tazer is considered non lethal. Is a bullet fired from a gun considered non lethal?

Why would I break down such an obvious answer?

How the hell would it possibly be his fault?

You people don't even bother to think on this subject.

LMAO You've got to be trolling.

Then you are justifying the gunshots that killed him.

No, I'm using my brain to actually think. I understand that such a process is uncommon when it comes to police threads around here.

If he doesn't flee.....the tazer isn't needed. That doesn't make sense to you?

It was a hypothetical situation for JPB.

And I've already stated that bitch needs to be locked up.

Holy ****ing shit :facepalm:

No, I'm not.

You used the word "Fault". Do you not grasp that words mean things? It's not the guy's fault if he dies. JFC


This thread's going to be a waste of time, because people don't bother to think.

Personal responsibility is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions. A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable.

If he is partially to blame for his own death, and his death is the result of being shot, then you must feel that being shot was at least partially a reasonable response.

He should not have been shot, that is on the cop, however, he made the choice to run.

Had he not run, he doesn't get shot.

What if his hand twitched in the car when the officer was at the window during the routine traffic stop?

The equal and opposite reaction to a fleeing suspect seems to have been the taser to me. The prison sentence for the officer would be the equal and opposite reaction for murder.

If he runs into traffic and gets hit by a semi, that's Darwin.

You said equal but opposite.

Do you know what equal means?

Man, I am surprised this thread has made it this long in the lounge. Good job at being civil everyone...:D

That's all that really needs to be said.

I never said that it justified being shot.

I can totally agree that there should be some personal responsibility on the part of citizens. But if an otherwise nonthreating person should for some reason not show that desired personal responsibility, it shouldn't result in their death.