The Chicago Independent Police Review Authority has been around since 2007. In that time, the city has paid out an estimated $500 million in excessive force claims.And in that time not a single police officer has been recommended for termination. Until now.
In an 8-0 vote, the Chicago Police Board voted at its monthly meeting to dismiss Officer Francisco “Frank” Perez for the 2011 shooting outside a Mexican restaurant in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood. One board member, John O’Malley, did not vote because he’s new to the board.
About freaking time!
The incident in question occurred in 2011 and involved the officer firing into a vehicle 16 times. The vehicle he fired into, a blue Chrysler 300, was allegedly mistaken by the officer for a red Mitsubishi Galant. His defense was that he could not distinguish between the two vehicles Fortunately video evidence disproved his claims that he thought he was firing at the red Mitsubishi.
Meanwhile, his attorney Daniel Herbert, described his client as a hero and dismissed the allegations against him as preposterous.
He was not terminated for lying to investigators and has the right to appeal his termination. In all likelihood, and based on the length of the investigation, his appeal will take long enough to earn him a taxpayer-funded retirement.
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88 responses to “There’s A First Time For Everything”
Dammit, people!! Heroes don’t have time to aim!
“The vehicle he fired into, a blue Chrysler 300, was allegedly mistaken by the officer for a red Mitsubishi Galant.”
Ok, so maybe those two vehicles do not look EXACTLY alike! And I suppose you glibertarians want to protect dope pushers too when an officer honestly mistakes some tomatoes or marigolds for marijuana. Look, glibertarians, when you’re on the front lines fighting for AMERICA, you don’t have time to separate the Nazis and the Gooks, you gotta make a good shoot for FREEDOM!
Hey, I’m just glad you commented.
And that you got an avatar, lol.
Says the man whose pic didn’t post.
The smart people are fixing this dumb guy’s fuckup as we speak. So you’ll look stupid soon!
I took a screen shot
::sigh::
Wait, look! I think it was your browser because it looks fine to me.
Hey sloop, if you’re a site dev, it’s alway the users fault.
1. Looks fine to me.
2. Works for me
3. Clear your cache.
4. Reboot!
5. You’re stupid!
That works if you’re dealing with people that aren’t as competent as you. Unfortunately, I’m the technical version of Forrest Gump to their Bill Gates.
Well, ya’ll are doing a mighty fine job on this here chat room. Looks like you have all the talent in place.
Download adobe reader.
I’m trying to talk SP into giving him the cat butthole for an avatar.
If I do it again, I’ll accept the punishment for a day.
Just be glad he was off-duty. You don’t wanna know what the outcome would have been were he on the clock.
Twice as many shots fired, half as many hits?
Hey! Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs
MedicalPolice College, too?*Did…
/WTF, this ain’t FF VII!
Half as many? These are big city cops. Try a quarter.
Ok, so maybe those two vehicles do not look EXACTLY alike!
Kinda like how during the Dorner search the cops mistook two Asian ladies for a large black man?
yup.
Seriously, did no one give them the updated version of Grievance Pyramid? Exchange rate is 1.72.
And nothing else happened.
Four comments in on that linked article and we have a Blue Lives Matter moron.
I forgive some of them, a bit, because I know where they’re coming from.
Like one of the gun range dudes who I’ve debated on the topic a bunch keeps pointing out that all of his cops are great. He lives in a rural county. He went to high school with three of the ten deputies, two others go to his church, and he knows them all by name. To him, Officer Friendly really is a friend. The deputies are real community police. He just cannot wrap his head around the idea that his local deputies are not the norm.
Just good ol boys, never meanin no harm…
Yeah, I know exactly where he’s coming from. I’ve lived in those small towns, long time ago. The cops really were the good guys in that universe. They pulled your uncle over drunk, they escorted him home. They caught you out raising hell and getting into trouble. They called your parents and escorted you home. And maybe there are still places like that. Somewhere. But it’s not the norm these days.
my small hometown is not like that anymore. I’ve never seen that in person.
Get off my lawn!
He should have at least claimed something slightly plausible like red-blue colorblindness. It’s like he wasn’t even trying.
Hell, I have had to fire people for calling in sick because of a hangover, because they were too dumb to notice me trying to coach them on how not to get fired. I would try to tell them, “OK, you’re pretty good at your job, so I will let that slide, But if HR asks about your sick day, you just had some, bad chili, shellfish, or undercooked chicken last night. Whatever you do, Don’t say you were hungover.” And their first response to question of why they took a day off was they had a massive hangover. And I would just slam my head into a desk, and get busted for covering for my employees.
Or its possible that your friend’s experience is exceptional precisely because he knows the guys. Ask him if the cops in the next county over, or a couple of counties over are as great. Human beings, being what they are, generally find it a lot easier to be a creep to strangers than people they know.
One of my favorite scenes in any movie in the otherwise forgettable Will Ferrell vehicle The Other Guys was when the two tough, play-by-their-own-rules super cops played by The Rock and Rob Riggle are so high on their own rep that they think they can survive leaping off a building.
Not quite, boys. Splat-splat!
But this really has nothing to do with the topic at hand…..
It’s still a funny scene.
A block and a half away.
He will run the appeal process for years and then in the event he loses he will sue for racial, gender and age discrimination. The attorneys will then tell the council it is better to cut their legal expenses and just give him his pension and back pay to go away. In the end he’ll get his money. Christ, now I need some D’usse cognac cause I depressed myself.
Over at TSTSNBN, it’s too ugly to look. Ok, I warned you. Shikha is back. No, that’s not sarcasm. Well, at least our favorite high priest of the Hummus Cult of Doom, Hugh, is still there. Hugh, only Hugh can prevent florist friars. Yeah, I was drunk when I remembered that from.
you leave my cult out of this!
Its all good.
Hey, sloop, shreek’s hijacked your avatar.
Ok, that’s weird, it’s back to normal. Maybe the german beer is really good…
what beer?
This one: Schlossbrauerei Fatti Export Lager
now I’m thirsty.
It was me. I tried to self-impose a penalty but don’t want to get labeled as a cat’s ass for the wrong reason.
But you could have gotten a trophy!
A….trophy…
This already needs to become Glibertarian slang.
“Don’t be a cat’s ass!”
“You keep that shit up and you’ll be cat’s-assed!”
“You’re commenting in a cat’s-assly like manner.”
etc.
Motion seconded and carried!
Cat Ass:
Catwoman or GTFO!
I’ll also say, searching for “catwoman arkham city”, seeing there’s a “Sexist” subcategory and clicking on it is a profoundly disappointing experience.
Added to Media library for future use, HM.
I was always partial to Lum.
Here’s a nice little power pop tune.
Pez Band: Baby Its Cold Outside
https://youtu.be/37viINMxk7k
Man, I remember that music as being a lot grittier. But when I hear it now it sounds so…sanitary.
Hmm, today is the anniversary of the killing of Malcolm Ten.
Stiv Bators: It’s Cold Outside
https://youtu.be/jaESMilUb2Q
That’s better.
i feel like there should be a version of ‘Its Cold Outside’ written from the perspective of members of the Donner Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFCZDNwomRA
Scratch Acid “Cannibal” : https://youtu.be/cUSw0XUA9-U
You guys know a lot more music than I do. I defer to your wisdom.
I was thinking more based on the OG concept – a ‘discussion’ between 2 people, where one is enticing the other to sidle up closer…. only the real motive is that he intends to eat them.
Cool vintage film images of New York in the mid-70’s accompanying the music of Modern Lovers: She Cracked
https://youtu.be/oJfPGgr8080
Did you see where Modern English are touring? Probably worth a looksie.
Not a Modern English fan. That shits in the past. I’m living in today. Got tickets fot Twin Peaks in April, and Death By Unga Bunga in March. Speaking of the past, Urge Overkill “Crackbabies”. https://youtu.be/5zo2k7HPzjc
I’m a little drunk.
I know it’s pedestrian to say so, but I’ll always give “Roadrunner” a listen.
R.I.P. Ken Arrow who proved that it is impossible to correctly account for group preferences.
If they are ranked preferences. IIRC, Arrow’s Theorem doesn’t apply to up/down only preferences.
True, but it is why we can’t have nice presidents.
NO! Not the South Sudan Pound!
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/is_south_sudan_hyperinflating.pdf
You know, this probably deserves a stand-alone post. It’s actually quite compelling and shouldn’t e resigned to a late night post in an article on a dumbass cop. Just saying you ought to write a piece and have it put upon its own.
What POV to take though?
That Hanke’s rules for what counts as hyperinflation are a little too tight? By his measure they didn’t have H-I but they still had a 390% inflation rate for the year. Does it really matter if they are not “qualifying” or unlocking the hyper-inflation achievement?
That this is yet another fiat currency that’s taking a dump?
That there is no reason whatsoever to trust any central bank ever?
The weird thing is that if you look to the Somali Shilling that was massively printed by their Marxist government and in the warlord years, massively counterfeited; the value of a Shilling never dropped to and stayed at zero. It usually stayed just above the cost of printing a note. So it usually wasn’t very profitable to keep printing more as transportation and circulation costs what eat up your profit. Yet people kept using them (in huge bricks) as a medium of exchange. And as demand for the Shilling went up the presses would run for a bit until the profit was gone. Thus the Shilling achieved a sort of equilibrium due to a lack of anyone messing with the price system.
I read that years ago, and I don’t know if things have changed but I’d bet that the South Sudan Pound will fall into that same sort of thing if the government there lets it happen. But Somalia at the time didn’t have anyone who could interfere. South Sudan does.
Take whatever position you want. That’s the beauty of this place. We don’t pigeonhole.
No true libertarian would fail to pigeonhole!
Or maybe no true libertarian would pigeonhole!
Dang, now I’m confused.
Well, that’s a dead giveaway. No true libertarian is ever confused. Every true libertarian is confident in his philosophy to a transcendent, life-altering level.
Very poppy modern power pop. Jangly guitars, and catchy as hell. David Brookings “The Basement Room”: https://youtu.be/3F1_4gijqyQ
Patti Smith “Ask The Angels” live: https://youtu.be/ot2-kPbCigg
My apolologies to the fine people who put this excellent website together. Tremendous work. I hope you dont mind if i just link to a bunch of youtube videos of punk, power pop, psych stuff. Is it libertarian? I dont know. It has to help the SEO , though.
The Seeds https://youtu.be/G48q-u3GznY
I can’t speak for the admins, but late night links have traditionally tended towards weirdness, where our drunk and stoned asses would post whatever weird-ass links we could find. If we could get some Agile Cyborg in here, then the circle would be complete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upb2m2JTGGA
He’s still over at the other place-looks like he’s not going to jump ship.
Few rules here, other than don’t be a dick.
You want me to get the butthole, boy? Well, do ya?
*cue ominous cat purring*
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Sorry Swiss, just learning stuff here.
Metal
My own test.
Well crap.
OK, so how are people embedding images into their posts?
I think that’s for mods only
Did he remember to yell “It’s coming right for us!”?
Because that’s important. If he didn’t yell “It’s coming right for us!” before he shot, then it is a fair result.
Hopefully he put that poor Chrysler vehicle out of its misery.