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Originally Posted by smoore
.....Of course he could be a career abuser but there is no evidence of this happening. The guy is clean up until now. No beatings, no sodomy and no shootings.
I've had my share of "contact" with LEOs and I can spot a dirty cop from a mile away. This guy doesn't seem dirty to me. Of course I could be wrong but I doubt it.
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The two officers made the decision not to secure the site and have their supervisor call in a shooting investigation team. It was brought out in the cross examination of officer Ramos that he never called "fire !" into his radio, and never warned other arriving officers, before or after he fired a shot at the fleeing suspect, that he thought he saw a weapon in the suspect's hand. In every way that the information that Ramos and Compean fired shots at the suspect because they thought they saw a weapon in his hand, and thus, feared for their personal safety, could have routinely come from them....over the radio microphone clipped to their uniform shirt, or via direct verbal communication to arriving officers, or finally, via orally reporting the discharging of their weapons to supervisors, they chose not to communicate.
Later, they came up with assertions that they thought the suspect running away from them had something in his hand, something shiny, possibly a weapon.....
And by the way....why is this forum so dysfunctional that a discussion about this controversy, like the one here:
http://patterico.com/2007/12/03/ramo...gument-update/
....does not take place?