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Kerwin Harris died after a St. Louis cop held him in a chokehold in 2012. It was ruled an accident.
(missouriindependent.com)
Terrorism.
Cops are terrorists.
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I believe that you didn't intend to kill someone. You still killed someone.
Pinkerton stayed with the St Louis PD until he was “forced out” in 2021. He posted on Facebook:
“For all you mother f—— at the St. Louis Police Department,” one post began last November, “especially the Internal Affairs Division, you can all kiss my a— for condemning me and pushing me out of my decorated career and losing my ability to retire with the benefits I wanted, all because I exposed the corruption behind the prosecution of Derek Chauvin.”
Don’t worry, he immediately bounced to a police department in a nearby town, where he remains on active duty.
because I exposed the corruption behind the prosecution of Derek Chauvin
What did you expose, bud? That cops kill people?
If I put someone in a choke hold and they died, I would be in prison.
But give me a badge and it's an accident.
The Missouri Independent is a bastion of journalism in the state. Their journalists do incredible work shining a light in this awful state.
This (too) is such a strangely American issue for some reason! In Hungary the police has way way way more power! You can be stopped, identified, searched and held up, even imprisoned any time for as long as they deem it necessary… And police have no body cameras! Yet, I have never even heard of any abuse