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Old 03-25-2015, 09:24 AM  
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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.

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Old 03-25-2015, 01:56 PM   #91
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No, he has no responsibility other than the pesky little fact that it was his decision to run that led to the chain of events that resulted in his death.
Running doesn't warrant being shot in the back after being tased.

Sounds like she panicked. Bad policework.
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Old 03-25-2015, 01:57 PM   #92
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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.
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Old 03-25-2015, 01:59 PM   #93
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Where in the **** are all these people screaming "HE RAN!! SHOOT HIM IN THE BACK!"?
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:00 PM   #94
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"'The emissions sticker on David Kassick's car was expired.

That's what first caught the attention of Lisa Mearkle, a police officer in Hummelstown Borough, Pennsylvania"

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/us/pen...icer-arrested/
I'm not even sure that warrants the use of a taser.

If he never ran in the first place, however...
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:06 PM   #95
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I'm not even sure that warrants the use of a taser.

If he never ran in the first place, however...
He freaked out, lost it apparently

Not sure why the cop chased him in the first place. Maybe she thought the car was stolen or something.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:08 PM   #96
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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.
AND NO ONE SAID HE DESERVED TO BE SHOT!
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:09 PM   #97
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He freaked out, lost it apparently

Not sure why the cop chased him in the first place. Maybe she thought the car was stolen or something.
Not sure why the cop chased him?

Are you ****ing serious right now.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:10 PM   #98
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The cop overacted, but the world has one less idiot out there breathing my air.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:12 PM   #99
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AND NO ONE SAID HE DESERVED TO BE SHOT!
Nah. You are just busy trying to justify it because he ran.

"Don't run from the cops, wont get shot! LOLOL!O!LO!L!OL!OLO!!!!LOL"
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Not sure why the cop chased him?

Are you ****ing serious right now.
Once they run....you have to back off.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:12 PM   #101
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No, he has no responsibility other than the pesky little fact that it was his decision to run that led to the chain of events that resulted in his death.
That's a load of horseshit. The responsibility for his death lies solely with the dumb **** who pulled a gun out and took his life. He didn't do one single thing to precipitate that action.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:16 PM   #102
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hey, if they choose to break the law then whatever happens,happens

Mad Max time
Hyperbole, much?
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:22 PM   #103
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No, he has no responsibility other than the pesky little fact that it was his decision to run that led to the chain of events that resulted in his death.
I just don't think he deserved to be shot at for that. I'd rather law enforcement watch a shitty but otherwise harmless lowlife run off into the night than take the change of accidentally killing him over a stupid vehicle emissions sticker.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:26 PM   #104
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She absolutely did overreact by shooting him, and no one is trying to exonerate her. She should get a manslaughter charge. She should never be a cop again.

If he stays in his car, he is still alive.
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Old 03-25-2015, 02:28 PM   #105
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Once they run....you have to back off.
No you don't.
Some municipalities have that as a local regulation but there is no law saying you don't chase someone that runs.
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