Chase,Taser,Shoot

[Mr. Laz]

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

[BigMeatballDave]

Does Missouri still require the colored inspection stickers on the windshield?

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

Does Missouri still require the colored inspection stickers on the windshield?

[BWillie]

Let me tell you something. They signed up to use their weapons. Most of them, all right. But they watch enough TV.....so they know they have to weep after they use their weapons. There is no one more full of shit than a cop. Except for a cop on TV.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Strongside

All you have to do is look at the statistics to see that there's a problem in this country.

What do you suppose the problem is?

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

[Bugeater]

Interesting that Strongside didn't post anything from the article he pulled that graph from.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-d...-people-2014-8

There are some theories about why cops in America kill more people. Ladd Everitt from the Washington-based advocacy organization, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told Business Insider, "We see this as a product of the continuing arms race between law enforcement and civilians that has been going on for decades."

Everitt said the increasingly sophisticated weaponry being sold to U.S. civilians is forcing police to keep up, with both sides purchasing ever more powerful weapons.

The arms race means "police officers have legitimate fears about the nature of the firepower they are confronting on a daily basis," he said.

Curious to how similar a graph of how many police officers were killed by criminals would look...

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by KC native

Happy? No.

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

I know, right?

Check out this evil pig saving this black child...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/body-cam-fo...ry?id=29898186

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

I know, right?

Check out this evil pig saving this black child...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/body-cam-fo...ry?id=29898186

What they don't show you is that he shot him outside after he resisted the saving.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

Interesting that Strongside didn't post anything from the article he pulled that graph from.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-d...-people-2014-8



Curious to how similar a graph of how many police officers were killed by criminals would look...

Well, 50 were killed by firearms last year and 32 the year before that. Over that same time frame, 93 died in car accidents.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

Interesting that Strongside didn't post anything from the article he pulled that graph from.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-d...-people-2014-8



Curious to how similar a graph of how many police officers were killed by criminals would look...

According to the Officer Down memorial webpage 47 cops were killed by gunfire in the us in 2014. 2 by assault.

and I have no way of knowing this, but I'm guessing the number of cops killed by weaponry far exceeding department issue is somewhere around zero.

[kysirsoze]

It was his fault he got tazed and fell in the snow. Then she murdered him in a totally unrelated action. Saying running from the cops killed him is silly.

[BigRichard]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

It was his fault he got tazed and fell in the snow. Then she murdered him in a totally unrelated action. Saying running from the cops killed him is silly.

I don't think anyone is saying running from the cops killed him. I think everyone is trying to say is if he had not run he would still be alive today. They sound the same but are completely different.

[Bugeater]

Something else that graph doesn't tell you is how many of those shootings were situations where an officer's life (or someone else's) was legitimately threatened and how many were perception-type shootings such as the one in the OP.

And before we go down the gun-control road, Germany is #4 in the world for gun ownership and they apparently don't have this problem. For whatever reason here in America it seems both sides are more willing to shoot at each other.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

Something else that graph doesn't tell you is how many of those shootings were situations where an officer's life (or someone else's) was legitimately threatened and how many were perception-type shootings such as the one in the OP.

And before we go down the gun-control road, Germany is #4 in the world for gun ownership and they apparently don't have this problem. For whatever reason here in America it seems both sides are more willing to shoot at each other.

I'm sure it is true that almost all cop-suspect shootings are justified. As we've recently seen, it's also becoming more common for cops to behave recklessly and negligently, or perhaps we're simply becoming more aware of it because there are cameras everywhere. Killings like this one are the result of making stupid people cops. There are other examples where it's just plain old malice and meanness and power-tripping. It's unacceptable.

[Dayze]

I read the OP title and immediately thought it was a simple condensed phrase of how the single CPers go about picking up women at the bars and having sechs.