Prosecutors will not charge the police officers who killed a motorist on South Beach in a hail of bullets after a chaotic chase during Memorial Day weekend four years ago.
In a long-awaited ruling on the controversial incident, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office officially ruled Tuesday that the 12 officers were "legally justified" in killing Raymond Herisse after he plowed into several cars and nearly ran over several bicycle cops. Police bullets - over 100 were fired in all - also wounded four bystanders.
Though opening fire on a Collins Avenue teeming with a holiday crowd might not have been a safe choice, under Florida's "fleeing felon" law, prosecutors decided that officers acted lawfully in trying to keep Herisse from hurting anyone.
"This was not a routine stop of an individual who had committed a traffic violation," prosecutors wrote in an 88-page final memo detailing the controversial May 30, 2011 shooting. "The surrounding officers obviously and correctly viewed this as a dangerous and potentially desperate suspect."
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7 comments:
LOL.
These are your "leaders" and "protectors".
Its perfectly fine with them that police fire 100 rounds on a crowded street to get the felon and if some INNOCENT people get killed or wounded, well, citizens got expect some losses, right?
Cops want to "go home every night", huh?
I suppose innocent citizens would, too, but when it comes down to who gets to go home, citizen or cop, then cops choose cops every time.
Gone are the days when the choice was always "the citizen".
Just like the time in New York, when SEVEN police opened fire on a criminal. The ONLY people they hit were innocent bystanders.
Now you know where your "leaders" and your "protectors" have placed on the food chain.
Citizens have to be ready to take one for the team. Your death, though tragic, was necessary to the government. That, concisely, is the "fleeing felon" reasoning.
Keep cheering.
Hey Larry, why dont YOU become a police officer and then show the world how its done? Then maybe when something bad happens, you can turn a horrific scene caused by someone else into a perfect outcome every time. Im not saying police are always right, but you seem to have all the answers. So keep cheering Larry. (Or just keep selling furniture, whichever you choose)
100 rounds were fired by the police on a crowded street and you seem to think that's okay?
How about the civilian injuries?
Or does "reckless endangerment" only apply to civilians?
Firstly, I don't need 20 rounds to hit something.
Further, I'm not cheering ANY of that.
Even further, I'm not providing "answers". Its observation and critique.
Lastly, I don't sell furniture. Is there ANYTHING you could be accurate and correct about, or are you just trying to deflect questions about incompetent police work?
Argue the facts.
Refute what I said, if you can.
Or get back to protecting us with the seat belt thing. Produce some revenue for your masters. Beat up some kids. And then body slam their mom to the concrete when she asks why. Say you "smelled marijuana" on her and became deathly afraid.
Use your name.
I'd cheer THAT.
I wish the guy who ran was shot. To all the lowlife's who ignore commands from a police officer should get shot. When enough are maimed or dead they may get the hint.
And, as long as we have rulings like this you, the American public, are going to be murdered at the hands of our 'out of control' LE.
And cheer we will! Somebody's got to get the bad guys and I'm sure you wouldn't volunteer 12:27!
Only if you don't COMPLY Ginny. Look up the definition and adhere to it!
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