As a bonus blood pressure booster there is a brief but infuriating interview with the DA currently handling the Lopez case. In a response that is perfectly typical in these types of cases he opines that he didn’t prosecute the case, but he has to trust the experts that did…. so they are locked in to a course of opposing any examination of Lopez’ actual guilt or innocence. His logic is that a jury convicted him, ergo he’s guilty.

An excellent summary in the program details the proof that he’s manifestly not guilty. It also demonstrates more callous indifference to justice. The medical examiner in the case didn’t review any of the hospital records for the child before determining that she was molested and murdered. Her reasoning? Her ‘patients’ are dead, so medical tests are not relevant. In this case they showed conclusively that the child had a severe blood disorder that caused all of the symptoms noted as reasons that Lopez should be locked away forever as a murdering child molester.

I couldn’t agree more.

“The other was the deputy’s statement that he took cover behind a metal newspaper rack; it was refuted by surveillance video from a nearby doughnut shop. Attorneys said Reyes made the statement to exaggerate the danger the deputy felt he was in when he shot Cody.”

Doughnut shops can hazardous to your health. Doughnut shops are cop magnets.

If the story was not so tragic I’d be LMAO.

But giving an officer who can’t think straight in critical situations a talking to in the hope that the next time he’ll think straight in a critical situation is just not going to work.

What I find disturbing in that video is all the other people sitting passive as the cops lead her out. Every last one of those in the audience should have stood up and beat the crap out of the cops attempting to remove the woman. That was, at a minimum, a very illegal arrest.

Well that sure puts my mind at ease.

Perez has been pushing the notion that officers are more likely to change their behavior if they are made to think about their misconduct and how it undermined the department’s fundamental mission of protecting the city, along with its reputation and the officer’s own self-interest.

I’ve taught middle school, and my girlfriend still teaches middle school, and this is the new style of “discipline.” Trust me when I say, this is what’s wrong with middle school. The police departments will fare no better.

I gotta get out of here. Escape from LA!

Democratic State Representative Gary Moore, of Joelton, however, co-sponsored a House bill to stiffen the fine after he got several angry calls from constituents.

“On two different instances they had their children in the car with them and they pulled up on a vehicle that had an obscene bumper sticker,” he said. “I think it will make drivers a little more aware that there is a law out there.”

Dear Democratic State Representative Gary Moore.

The best response to the calls from said angry constituents is to tell them to shove it up their tailpipe.

“If you can read this bumper sticker you’re probably from out of state.”

You forgot pro-cop stickers.

Taken out of context, Perez’s statement might indicate that he favors reform for our entire criminal justice system. But we all know that isn’t true.

I really hope they do. I hope the cops start getting 5000 calls a day. Obama stickers, Pro-Choice stickers, Pro-Life stickers, Jesus stickers. I wish I lived in Tennessee. I would call everyday. I mean, the only litmus test is if I find the sticker obscene or patently offensive. Hell, if I just don’t like the way they are driving, they better not have a sticker on their car.

It would be even better if hundreds of people began wrecking their cars while on the phone with the cops trying to give them license plate numbers because of a bumper sticker.

Attorneys for the teen’s family say the reason gunpowder residue was detected on the teen’s hands was because Reyes rubbed them to make it appear that Cody had been armed.”

I just can’t figure out why cops are so insistent that people don’t video tape them while they’re “doing their job”. Of course, in this case it looks like the video may have actually interfered with the deputy, just not in the way they usually claim…

Just, wow.