The California Justice Department announced today that it has found no cause to file chargesagainst a Los Angeles police officer who, while aiming at a suspect, shot and killed a 14-year-old girl hiding in a department store fitting room.
Fourteen-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta was picking out a quinceanera dress with her mother just before Christmas in 2021. She was shot and killed by a bullet that ricocheted off the floor.
Remind me again why vigilante justice is discouraged in favor of unhinged cops?
Because vigilantes won’t selectively enforce the laws so that friends of the elites can do whatever the fuck they want.
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Ah yes. The classic “We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong defence.”
Things like these need to be held by an independent team and no info given about those involved, e.g. the shooter was a police officer. Some people keep saying the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The fact the shooter was an officer should have no bearing on the outcome then.
Also, getting an independent team means new jobs for people. Get better results and be a job creator.
How is it not negligence? If a citizen did the same thing, they would get charged with negligence.
Deny justice long enough and people will get their own in the worst way possible.
The cops show up and kill more people than the suspect. How surprising.
Step 1: Take away cops guns. No lethal weapons for cops. Not a SWAT team? No guns.
Neat.
This is obviously sarcasm
Guess only you understood lol
Sounds like an honest accident to me. I don’t think we should punish people for accidents or for the very least it should be taken into consideration in the sentencing. He was there after an active shooter. That takes courage - we need people like him.
- There were other officers on the scene
- The other officers had warned the officer who fired to slow down and de-escalate, but they were ignored
- The other officers had non-lethal options, but the officer escalated and fired live rounds in a situation where they couldn’t know if they were putting bystanders in danger
Any asshole with a gun can shoot it. If you want courage, you want officers who are professionals, trained to de-escalate, contain and protect, not militant thugs who spray rounds at the spray rounds at the slightest provocation with no regard for bystanders
He was there after an active shooter.
He was there after an active bike lock swinger. Get the facts straight before you get to licking boots.
I mean, there was an active shooter.
That was just shooting at all the things (like the floor), not even aiming. I wonder how many shots it took the active shooter to realise he was the only active shooter. Or was that completely besides the point of wanting desperately to use that gun?
He thought it was an active shooter so the courage it takes to go in is the same even if it turns out later that it wasn’t. Calling me a bootlicker is a completely unecessary ad-hominem.
Do you think maybe the cop was lying about mistaking the bicycle lock for a gun considering bicycle locks do not look remotely like guns and lying about it would give him cover?
Just astounding what people will accept as truth from cops. If I said “I saw someone swinging a bicycle lock around and I thought they had a gun instead so I shot them,” no one would buy that excuse. But if a cop says it?
He thought it was time to play commando and ignored the more sensible and responsible officers around him. But you’ll believe his lies and consider him a hero despite his absolute incompetence causing the death of an innocent young woman. I hope the boot polish gives you cancer.
Yes, every other cop there knew and tried to get him not to shoot but he was the special snowflake that day so his idiocy must be respected.
These MFS think acorns are gunshots. We cannot trust them to tell the truth about what the felt in the moment. It’s a problem whether or not you can sympathize with the officer.
How about no, and you should really be fucking ashamed of your pandering ass. Imagine one of your loved ones was murdered by a cop who was just being brave….you’d be fine with that? Don’t answer, just gtfo.
I AGREE! I don’t care HOW MANY INNOCENT CHILDREN DIE, we need MORE COPS COURAGEOUSLY killing people armed with bike locks!
