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December 23, 2007
cop targets wrong house for home invasion
In what I hope is just an isolated incident, an eleven year veteran Philadelphia police officer has been arrested after allegedly participating in a home invasion in nearby Montgomery County, then leading police on a 130 m.p.h. chase: Malik Snell, an 11-year veteran of the police department, was the alleged getaway driver after the home invasion turned violent, Ferman said yesterday. Ferman said Snell led Pottstown police on a chase that reached 130 m.p.h.More here. While it's bad enough to think that the cop was the getaway driver, absent from both reports is a more chilling detail which found its way into Fox News: The victim of a home invasion and robbery tells Fox Philadelphia a police officer was one of the men who tied his girlfriend up with an iron cord.And suppose he'd not been caught. How many other crimes might the man have committed? Will we ever know how many of them might have been committed under color of police authority? This is the sort of thing which typifies police in Third World countries. I'm ashamed to see it in Philadelphia, and I sincerely hope it's not a trend. (Of course crooked cops and the war on drugs go hand in hand.) UPDATE: My thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link, and a warm welcome to all. Any ideas, I'd love to hear them. MORE: M. Simon points out that this web site features a weekly "corrupt cops section." UPDATE: James Fulford at VDARE thinks this is about race: ...the important point here is that the Philadelphia cop who was allegedly assisting in a home invasion robbery was named Malik Snell, and his associates are called Tyree Aimes, and Stephon Gibson. What that means is that they're African-Americans. There is actually a photograph available at CBS3.com, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Cop Arrested In Home-Invasion, Chase, December 18, 2007. That means this isn't a "bad cop" story, it's also "black crime" story-if you know that the suspects are black.Absent a racial motive in the crime (none appears), I don't see why the race of the suspects would matter any more than it would if they were white. In fact, if the officer had been white, I'd have said exactly the same thing. Corruption in law enforcement -- especially when it involves vice -- was alive and well when police departments were mostly all white, and I don't think the race of the officers changes anything. posted by Eric on 12.23.07 at 12:50 PM
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Unless I see MARKED police vehicles in my driveway, anyone charging into my home with guns is going to get shot. No, I am not Rambo and yes, I know it will end badly for me eventually if they are real cops. But as a law-abiding citizen I assert the right not to have my home invaded by criminals with fake badges and $4.99 overcoats that have "POLICE" stenciled on them so they can murder me as I lay dutifully on the floor thinking they are the real police. Les Nessman · December 23, 2007 10:01 PM This is the fruits of affirmative action. Jakealope · December 23, 2007 11:05 PM Jakealope, you are a Moby. Go back to dKos or whatever rock you crawled out from under. Venus Flytrap · December 24, 2007 02:25 AM Sorry, but it is an affirmative action story. Why else, in our race consious society, would the races involved be ignored? Because the MSM has a story line: Blacks are victims, whites are arrogant from born privilage. Reality: Smarty · December 25, 2007 12:15 PM Post a comment
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This would be an interesting test of the brotherhood of blue's code of silence. When one of their own is caught violently victimizing in a clearly armed, violent criminal sort of way, how strong is the outrage among the rest of the force? How many of them would rather hang him out to dry as a traitor than give him the protection that dirty cops often get because he or she is still a cop?