former incident = tragedy, direct fault of idiot officer and drug policies latter incident = don't hold a gun when confronting the cops
and the latter incident has nothing to do with drugs?
They got robbed because of marijuana's black market. When have you ever heard about someone getting their home invaded because the criminals wanted to get their budweiser stash?
I get the impression Hav grouped em up together to make them both look like incidents directly related to drugs as well as both incidents where the NYPD are entirely at fault....
when in reality, they're both very separate incidents probably worthy of separate threads.
how very disingenuous, but not surprising coming from OP
what are you talking about? They are both drug related incidents, the first not being forgivable, the latter still needs to be investigated thoroughly. The bottom line is the NYPD treats situations differently when blacks and latinos are involved. Could you imagine this ending up bein the same result if a homeowner in upstate NY came out of his home with his hunting shotgun? They would not be as quick to pull the trigger. Let the facts come out but for now there needs to be more accounts from non-police witnesses as to what happened at that scene. Cops aren't infallible (duh), and they could have lied to protect themselves as far as gun holding victim's movements.
The War on Drugs has always been a stupid idea. To add insult to injury, the cops will get a slap on the wrist if found at fault, which will aggravate relations between them and civilians. The judicial system seems to avoid making an example out of police, no matter how egregious the conduct, which is bad policy altogether. Do we need a cop who moonlights as serial killer or something?