Considering today's attitudes towards the police, he will probably get tried, convicted, sentenced, hanged, shot, burned, and quartered before Thanksgiving. Of course, he will keep his job and pension because Union.
I have a friend who works for a small town upstate. The town is small enough that it doesn't have a police department -- they have a contract with the state to provide a couple of state troopers for patrol, supplemented by a couple of part-time local constables.
That is ... they
used to have local constables. It seems that earlier this year one of the assigned troopers got drunk when off duty and crashed his state police cruiser into a tree. One of the local constables responded to the accident and "helped" the trooper by writing a report that attributed the accident to a deer jumping in front of the car, and conveniently omitted mention of driving under the influence.
I guess it unraveled when the state police garage looked at the damage and determined that the damage was not consistent with the report. The trooper was suspended (may have been fired, but my friend only knows that he's no longer assigned to that town), and the local constabulary was disbanded.
As bad as the current rash of cop killings is, I think in addition to Obama the police community in general bears much responsibility. While it's no doubt true that most cops are basically honest and "good" cops, the problem is that thin blue line mentality. Too many "good" cops know about the bad apples and don't do anything about them, allowing abuses to continue and to escalate. This is how entire departments wind up being investigated by the FBI and being put under federal supervision. We've had several departments in my state go through this in recent years.
