Body-cam video shows Illinois officer fatally shooting Black woman in face

I noticed another comment that mentioned he had been working for a few departments over the years, so probably he just did too much finally. Mean don't get me wrong I'm happy an officer is being charged for crimes committed but I'm guessing there're reasons he has a longer work history and probably shouldn't have been hired multiple times in the past. Again this was off a comment so maybe the information isn't accurate but when it's so easy to believe is a pretty bad situation of police officers in general.

This is pretty out of touch as someone who sees new bodycam videos daily of cops violating people's civil rights and who has had run ins with crooked cops. In places like Portland and Seattle, the police departments have been under federal consent decrees due to a pattern of violating constitutional rights. This isn't relegated to the deep south and is actually quite common in the more "liberal" cities of the country (CO police have had numerous issues lately). We're just a couple years out from George Floyd and things have barely changed.

1,166 people have been shot and killed by police in the past 12 months

Yes it must be the Left's fault for your feelings.

The rhetoric on the left hasn’t changed, and still assumes every cop is the enemy at all times and nobody gets any credit for the change in culture in policing to the point that the frontline police are probably the least of the problems in our still pretty overall unjust “justice” system, which kind of pisses me off tbh.

So after more than a century of abuse and coverups that will never see the light of day, decades of (predominantly) black entertainers and comedians ringing the bell on this over and over, and nothing being done, Rodney King not being enough of a wake up call to effect any meaningful change, and despite the fact that the problem is still not fully solved and that to this day people claim Chauvin should not have been convicted, you are upset that a few headlines about cops being prosecuted hasn't completely turned the bus around on attitudes towards police yet in the four years since 2020?

How about when there isn't a new story like this once every couple weeks for a few years? Maybe we can check then to see if it's time for an attitude adjustment on "the left." Because consequences are great, but if cops are still behaving like this it means that even they figure they will probably still get away with it.

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And when they stop having such non-existent standards for kicking someone out (or hiring them in the first place) maybe we'll see some actual change. This is about the "good apples" refusing to toss out the bad ones. (and we all know what that does to the "good" ones)

He had been hired by Sangamon county despite two charges of driving under the influence, the Springfield State Journal-Register reported, and had worked for other law enforcement agencies in Illinois for seven years before arriving in Springfield.

Wonder why he left those other agencies? And I'm not even focusing on the 2x DUI.