In kneejerk fashion, and "in an emotional ceremony held outside the Ogden City’s public safety building Friday, the city officially renamed the building the Francom Public Safety Building in honor of the slain officer [who was shot dead whilst busting into defendant Matthew Stewart's home]":
In stark contrast to this, supporters of Matthew Stewart held their own less prominent public vigil yesterday:
What a shame it is, wethinks, especially in the light of the most recent insult from Ogden's Cowboy Cop Culture, that so many lives have been forever changed, due to the unfortunate "militarization" of Ogden City's heretofore "Mayberry USA-style" police department.
So what say our ever-savvy WCF readers about all this?
7 comments:
"The
military’s job is to annihilate a foreign enemy. The police are
supposed to protect us while upholding our constitutional rights. It’s
dangerous to conflate the two.But that’s exactly what we’re doing."http://reason.com/archives/2007/07/02/our-militarized-police-departm
FAIR
trial? Had a post-conviction case from Parowan where the Courthouse had
posters for a fundraiser for the victim my client shot. Had a child
porn case in Castle Dale where the BACA boys showed up to every hearing
and the Court had their literature and posters on the outside of the
Courtroom door. Now Ogden names their building after their dead Gestapo
agent. Should be the "Fuck-em" Building.
FAIR trial? Had a post-conviction case from Parowan where the Courthouse had posters for a fundraiser for the victim my client shot. Had a child porn case in Castle Dale where the BACA boys showed up to every hearing and the Court had their literature and posters on the outside of the Courtroom door. Now Ogden names their building after their dead Gestapo agent. Should be the "Fuck-em" Building.
The fact is there was no "cause of action" for them to ever go into his home! Why is Matthew Stewart still in jail and on trial. There is some kind of big fraud going on here. When you act criminally and are killed even with an ounce of tin on your chest you reaped what you have sown. Cannot be injured by your criminal actions.
We moved to Utah from Illinois in 2005. One of the things we noted early on was the number of killings of alleged criminals by Utah law enforcement. This is something that did not happen in Illinois and would not be tolerated by the residents if it occurred with the frequency it occurs in Utah.
check out the headline article today...amazed at the re-direction of the department heads trying to turn the focus from what they did by looking for sympathy.... One simple thing they could do is to quit doing these raids in the middle of the night! Why can't they get that through thier thick skulls.... dumbfounded by the arrogance in the department.
looking at the article again "officer safety must come first"...I can agree with that....I can also agree with the "public safety must come first". Now combine those two and come up with a well thought out plan before you go serve a warrant in the middle of the night....say something like...do it in the day where...bring a helmet cam....check out the county's property tax info....simple stuff.
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