no, bo-sox. It looks like this cop was off duty and drunk. If a cop in america does that to a pregnant woman and unborn child, I think the result would be the same.

wow JECE... truly mind-blowing

Well, bo_sox raises a good point. We're increasingly becoming a society in which an on-duty police officer can shoot unarmed civilians without consequences.

COTW, can you provide some evidence to that? Is there a case you can point to, and then can you suggest why cops seem to get away with EVERYTHING here?

Oh good lord....another bo-sucks "Cops get away with everything!! Cops are evil!!!" thread... <yawn>

I'll be the first to say cops will probably get away with more than you or I. I will also be the first to say the constant mantra of ill-informed people like you that cops get away with everything all the time is part of the problem, not a part of the solution.

You're boring and trite.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/02/13/father-of-girl-killed-in-detroit-police-raid-convicted-of-murder/

Your perception of reality, as always, is wrong.

I don't know what you mean by EVERYTHING. But I damn well guarantee you that a cop couldn't get away with being drunk and killing a pregnant woman.
Take a look at that case about the retired police chief who shot someone in the movie theatre... bet he gets life/death.
And I'm not saying that cops aren't held to the same laws, but seriously, they get shot at and die more often that economists and computer programmers, so I'm sure there is slightly more understanding in their cases. After all, they are trained to protect themselves first and foremost, and when they do such a dangerous job, they understandably react. Not saying that many times they go over the edge and get off easy, but most cases are properly investigated.

"they get shot at and die more often that economists and computer programmers... they do such a dangerous job"

Oh, spare me. 7-11 clerks and taxi drivers face far greater risks than cops, but no one ever suggests they ought to be able to get away with killing customers because "they reached for their wastebands".

"far greater risks"
could you be any more subjective?
and no... noone does suggest that because that isn't their job. However, stopping crime and criminals IS the police's job. Sometimes criminals don't fight back or shoot at cops, but a lot of times they do. Cops are supposed to handle the situation.. and win. It's their job. People get killed all the time in my neighborhood, I wouldn't want to have cops that are afraid to shoot people watching the streets.

I think some of that depends on whether their customers are black and whether they are in Florida

"Sometimes criminals don't fight back or shoot at cops, but a lot of times they do."

If gunning down people is how you think cops are supposed to "handle" situations, you're sick. I live in a bad neighborhood, too (there was a stabbing on a sidewalk within sight of my front door last year, and year before that there was a three fatality gun battle during an attempted robbery of a drug house house two blocks away, among other things). But I'm more afraid of the police than anyone else - this, for instance, happened less than a mile from my house and is the kind of thing to expect when 'cops watching the streets aren't afraid of shooting people':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIedW4HG5gE

The police should only draw their weapons if lives are actually in danger. That's a very simple concept, but somehow it has failed to cross the Atlantic to the U. S..

Might have something to do with how well armed criminals are in the US and how frequent the murder rate is.

"If gunning down people is how you think cops are supposed to "handle" situations, you're sick. I live in a bad neighborhood, too"

Didn't you earlier claim you were a businessman making 6 figures? Why do you live in a 'bad neighborhood'?

"Didn't you earlier claim you were a businessman making 6 figures? Why do you live in a 'bad neighborhood'? "

Escuse me Putty, but isn't it you who derides anyone that moves out of the ghetto for safer havens? Now you are deriding someone who has the ability to live in safer havens for not?

You **really** need to learn how to be consistent in your thinking, just once in your life. I think if we were to examine "The Musing of Putin" in the collective archives of webdip, and then erase every statement you have made for which you have contradicted yourself at another point in time, the final tome "The Musing of Putin Filter for Consistent Thinking" would read like this:

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The end.

"Didn't you earlier claim you were a businessman making 6 figures? Why do you live in a 'bad neighborhood'?"

I believe that's Amy/Draugnar you're thinking of.