The officer claims she didn’t realize a whole train was coming when she left a woman handcuffed in a parked police car.
Like when one ACCIDENTALLY leaves their wallet at home, or ACCIDENTALLY forgets to turn the porch light on, or ACCIDENTALLY beats their wife unconscious. Y’know, things we all have in common with cops, right??
In her testimony, Steinke claims that she didn’t realize the car was sitting on the tracks until it was too late.
This is definitely someone I would trust with a gun.
I wouldn’t trust her even with desk duty and safety scissors.
Colorado cop who left man shackled to table in the path of an industrial laser beam says it was an accident. Officer Goldfinger claims he didn’t realize the machine was on.
she didn’t realise a whole train was coming.
So just a carriage or two would have been fine.
Well surely one of those mine cart things being operated by a monkey in red velvet would’ve been ok.
If her excuse was “i didnt know i parked my car on the tracks”, she needs to have her drivers license confiscated. Someone with such little awareness of their surroundings has no business operating heavy machinery (car), let alone the responsibilities of her job.
How could someone get out of a car and walk away without noticing railroad tracks?
They couldn’t. ACAB.
Steinke faces a felony charge for criminal attempt to commit manslaughter…
How can you have “attempted” manslaughter? I thought one of the defining characteristics of manslaughter is that there isn’t a deliberate intent to kill.
A clumsy name for a law against almost killing someone by negligence.
I’m surprised the woman even survived.
I really don’t think they were expecting her to.
Aww c’mon now, it was just a little whoopsie-doodle! We all make mistakes! Surely, it’s not fair to hold those who enforce the violence of the state upon the rest of us to the same standard we hold regular people to!
aww. she said it was an accident. better let her go now. Would wanna have cops be accountable now would we.
Wouldn’t*
This Snidely Whiplash mf
Yeah, did she have a mustache that she twirled?
There are an insane number of factors making it impossible for this to be anything other than an intentional murder attempt.
Officer Whiplash reporting for duty!
This calls for the harshest possible punishment! I think two weeks of administrative leave should do it.
And police unions will defend the cop. Unions are not our friend no matter how much some folks on here will want to claim otherwise. Unions make it difficult to reprimand and fire incompetent employees.
Police Unions are not our friends. I don’t remember my local pipe-fitter’s union trying to shield a plumber who killed someone for not playing simon-says correctly.
Police have been used for unionbusting for as long as there have been unions and police. Except police unions of course.
Many of the aspects of the modern workplace that make them look better than sweatshops of old, and which most people take for granted, are present only because unions literally fought for those things in the past.
If you work at a job in modern America, you are benefiting from union pressure on business. Edit - Here’s five of those things.
Police union aka criminal gang.
Just because you don’t understand that unions - ALL unions - shield incompetent workers doesn’t mean it isn’t the reality. That clueless pipe fitter you hired to do some work and then fucked up your pipes or charged your 2x as much as the job should have cost is just one of the many issues with incompetent union workers who can’t be fired.
Source: Trust me bro.
Hope you enjoy losing your weekends and sick time. Because those will be the first things to go if unions are eliminated. They’re what made them possible in the first place.
Your union does the exact same thing as police unions. Keep incompetent employees on the job. It just so happens that the stakes tend to be a lot higher with cops.
No other union keeps people on the job when they kill people. Not even Jimmy Hoffa could get that put in a contract.
Just because the stakes are higher with cops, doesn’t mean other unions don’t pull the same shit - keeping lazy workers employed who otherwise should have been fired.
Damn, you were doing so well in the first half… Well, first sentence.
