2 canadian cops get 8 months for 1 attempted murder+

[capt. apathy]

quit a few successful killings that they(or others on their police force) may have gotten away with.
 (they call it "unlawful imprisonment", I 'd call it atempted murder)
here

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Nov. 22 —  Two white policemen picked up Darrell Night outside his uncle’s apartment one January before dawn. There had been a quarrel, and Night, who had been drinking, was shouting obscenities.

 NIGHT, a member of the Cree Nation, recalls thinking the cops were going to throw him in the drunk tank, but they drove straight out of town. They took him to an isolated spot three miles outside Saskatoon.
       “Get the [expletive] out of here, you [expletive] Indian,” he recalled one officer saying, and they slammed his face on the hood of the trunk, took off his handcuffs and left him standing alone on a riverbank.
       “I’ll freeze out here,” he yelled. “What’s wrong with you guys?”
       A voice echoed in the cold: “That’s your [expletive] problem.”
       Night watched the car drive off, its lights trailing out of sight. The wind was whipping on the night of Jan. 28, 2000, in Saskatchewan, where there can be sudden blizzards and temperatures may drop to 40 degrees below zero. He was wearing a T-shirt, jeans, a jeans jacket and running shoes.
       “I thought I was dead, but something told me, don’t give up,” he recalled. So Night started walking.
       Night said he would have been “one more dead Indian,” a victim of what had become known as the “midnight blue tour,” a body found on the outskirts of Saskatoon, with no witnesses and only a dead man’s story to tell. But he managed to walk several miles to the Queen Elizabeth power station, where a watchman let him in from the cold

The case has now triggered questions about others who had been found frozen to death on the edge of town.
       One day after Night’s ordeal, the body of Rodney Naistus was found shirtless in the same area on the edge of Saskatoon.
       On Feb. 3, 2000, the body of Lawrence Kim Wegner was found near where Night had been dropped off. Wegner, who was found wearing a T-shirt, socks and jeans, was last seen alive early on the morning Jan. 31. Both Wegner and Naistus appeared to have frozen to death. By some accounts, they died within hours of being released from police custody, according to police investigations and public inquests.

[Thrawn]

Sounds like attempted murder to me also.  That sentence is a freaking joke.

[capt. apathy]

I'd also think a re-opening of all 'found frozen on the edge of town' cases.

[Fishu]

Cops who does things like these, should be jailed for rest of their pitiful life.
I don't care if a cop manages to kill a guy by shooting him in the leg, when attempting to stab the officer or is high on drugs and trying to kill the cop by hands... but when they commit murders, like that.. thats worse than a murder by some whacko.

[mrblack]

Cops seem to forget they work for us.

[Torque]

They've been doing that for decades out west.

[mrblack]

You see now why I get "bent" about African Americans whining all the time.
When the American Indian Is still getting Screwed.
I am white but sometimes I look back on our history and shake my head

We have made a habit out of diplacing and abusing whole races of peoples .

I think we are beyond that now I hope.

[john9001]

why didn't he rub two sticks together and make a fire?

[mrblack]

Originally posted by john9001
why didn't he rub two sticks together and make a fire?

Why didn't you'r daddy wear a rubber:aok

[capt. apathy]

the part theat kinda stunned me was-

Morris Bodnar, Munson’s attorney, denied the drop-off was motivated by racism. “There have been other individuals around Saskatchewan who said they have been dropped off by different police forces,” he said. “Some are aboriginal. Some are not aboriginal. I have my doubts that race was a factor.”

he's basicly willing to concede that his clients (and other cops aparently) had done this as almost a policy.

but seemed it important to get out that his client wasn't a racist, as other 'undesirables' had been disposed of like this before and not all of them where indians.

is that suposed to be some kind of deffence?

it's not so bad that they tried to kill this indian, because some of those they had killed before were not indians?

[Lizard3]

Originally posted by Fishu
Cops who does things like these, should be jailed for rest of their pitiful life.
I don't care if a cop manages to kill a guy by shooting him in the leg, when attempting to stab the officer or is high on drugs and trying to kill the cop by hands... but when they commit murders, like that.. thats worse than a murder by some whacko.

Cops to some degree or more or less think on this level. They not only ARE the law, but they are also above it. Cops suck. Cops murder people. Cops sell dope. Cops speed. Cops wave badges and expect to get away with it. Most do.

[capt. apathy]

Most do.

when I was younger I used to believe the same thing.
now I tend to think that the A-holes just stand out more.

if you think about it, the guy who isn't breaking laws has most of his police contact through the a-holes.  unless he's a victim calling for help, the good cops have no real reason to come into contact with him.

[Torque]

Originally posted by mrblack
You see now why I get "bent" about African Americans whining all the time.
When the American Indian Is still getting Screwed.
I am white but sometimes I look back on our history and shake my head

We have made a habit out of diplacing and abusing whole races of peoples .

I think we are beyond that now I hope.

GeeZus Mr Black you hit the nail on the head, and my thoughts exactly.

You should see how badly the Canadian govn't has screwed over the Indians and eskimos.

[Maniac]

I hope these pigs gets but ****ed every day in prison.

[Maverick]

Originally posted by Lizard3
Cops to some degree or more or less think on this level. They not only ARE the law, but they are also above it. Cops suck. Cops murder people. Cops sell dope. Cops speed. Cops wave badges and expect to get away with it. Most do.

Another stunning generalization about all police drawn from an isolated situation. Funny I don't recall meeting you much less letting you determine how or what I think.