Mesa cop who was acquitted after playing simon says with a drunk man before shooting him, was then re hired so he could claim medical pension, for the PTSD he suffered, from shooting the drunk man. Though he was acquitted from criminal liability, he was fired immediately for violating numerous department policies. However, the deptartment then rehired him so he could get his pension for life. This man took an innocent mans life because he did not want to follow policies, he should not have been re hired.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA17]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
2 cosponsors are on that committee.
Whenever the police use excessive force, such as in cases like Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, etc., police officers often get acquitted in criminal cases. However, civil suits that follow usually are losing battle for police departments, forcing them to pay up and sustain damage to their public image.
While financially hurting the police and hurting public trust is a good response to misconduct, I don’t think it goes far enough. It seems many cases are internally investigated and, surprise surprise, they find no wrongdoing. The officers are put on paid administrative leave and suffer no real penalty most of the time.
I think it’s time to hurt them where it matters: their pay. I’m not opposed to garnishing the offending officer’s salary, but I have a better idea. When a police department or city government settles a wrongful death lawsuit, at least half of the money used to pay the victims should be taken from police pension funds.
And yes, I do mean the fund as a whole. Which, yes, that does mean the “good” cops who oppose (and even police such behavior) will be punished for the actions of one bad officer. By cutting into their retirement funds and threatening money needed to support their families, it could cause the “good” cops to turn on the bad ones, and pressure them into avoiding reckless behavior.
The general takeaway should be that if you disregard safety and the law as a cop, it’s your retirement/pension that is going to suffer. And the entire department should be punished. I recognize this might encourage more coverups, but when the cops fail to do this they face financial catastrophe.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA1]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and one other committee which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA1] is the ranking member of the House Committee on Ways and Means.
If you follow up with a "That's okay! I've just got a habit of tidying up things people are still using and now I always make sure to ask." it usually prevents them from getting insulted.
Of course doesn't work for all customers, but I can say that I only find myself putting away a few things most of the time than having a one person tornado.
Order, order!
Minister's Questions are now in order.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, /u/KeelanD, will be taking questions from the house.
The Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, /u/WillShakespeare99, may ask as many questions as they like.
/u/Orage38 and /u/R_Temple_ as major Unofficial Opposition Spokespersons, may ask up to 6 initial questions.
Everyone else may ask 2 questions; and are allowed to ask another question in response to each answer they receive. (4 in total)
In the first instance, only the Minister may respond to questions asked to them. 'Hear, hear.' and 'Rubbish!' (or similar), are permitted.
This session shall end on Wednesday.
I was on the night shift last night, and I asked some of the other nurses and doctors to find out if anyone else had experienced anything strange, and the responses were insane. One of the nurses, let’s call him B, said something that really shocked me because I’d never thought about it before.
“Ever seen where the bodies go?”
I asked him what he had meant by that, because obviously the deceased would be taken to the morgue. Or so I thought. B had been a nurse at the hospital since he left college, so he had been working for a long time, and as a bad stroke of luck, often during the night shift. I’ll be telling his story from his perspective:
“I’ve seen a few of those creepy crawly characters come in here. I don’t know what they are. They’re not human, that’s for sure. Ever noticed how their emotions seem false, like they’re pretending to be hurt and show pain?”
(That’s true, for the most part. Most accounts of these odd patients have stated the same thing; lack of real emotion.)
“This one time, a little boy walked in, around 9 or so. He looks completely fine to me, so I’m assuming he’s lost, because no adults walk in with this kid. It’s just him, alone, in the dead of night. I’m asking him all these questions, you know, if something hurts, where’s your mommy and daddy, etc. This kid just stares up at me, with these dead eyes, opens his mouth, and this huge river of water just falls out of his mouth, and it just keeps on coming out until the whole floor is covered, and keeps going and going. All the while he’s just emptily staring at me, like a dead fish. When the water stops, he just collapses and dies. This kid had enough water in him to have drowned 2 horses, yet he was walking around completely fine, just looked kinda damp.”
“So we clean him up, and I’m about to take him in the staff elevator to the morgue, but this senior doctor stops me and tells me that we send ‘those kind’ down by themselves. He said that we don’t let nurses or doctors be alone with the dead patients that come in on the night shift. I heard that, apparently, when the morticians open the elevator door, all they find is an empty bed.”
If what B said was true, that would add up with A’s theory that these patients are not human. But that raises more questions than it answers.
If the hospital staff know these things aren’t human,
... keep reading on reddit ➡20-25 years ago, I was given a shitload of bullshit tickets by a cop who didn’t like my face. All dismissed right before they hit the court, of course.
Meanwhile, my college best buddy goes into municipal politics, and over the years, he makes it all the way to police commissioner.
Then, I hear that Mister Bullshit Ticket Cop (now captain — and hereinafter referred as “Captain BTC”) has applied to be the head of the road safety department… Oddly enough, this is right after the police department had been pushing on honesty after a few cops were caught meddling with cases…
So, the next time I meet my buddy, I chatted about those bogus tickets (with the ethics committee complaint papers as proof)… Well, as it happens, Captain BTC’s application was rejected on some technicality. Enjoy not having that plush boss job right before retirement, Captain BTC, and also enjoy a non senior department head pension!
Revenge is a dish best served cold!
