2y ago

Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle that was hit by a train sentenced to 30 months probation, 100 hours community service

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Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle that was hit by a train sentenced to 30 months probation, 100 hours community service | CNN

Because nothing says “accident” like leaving a prisoner in the middle of a railroad crossing!

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That’s barely more than a slap on the wrist. The system is rotten.
- Dude. They have to maybe do community service. How can you say that!?
  Thoughts and prayers for the officers family...
  
  A cop is actually going to have to help people. That’s torture right there. This is clearly unconstitutional.
- You know, I agree with your point after reading it but sure don't read statements about trains hitting things that way.
  A train is a huge and heavy thing that takes forever to slow down, so putting someone in front of a train or being hit by a train is read as the person who created the situation causing the harm, not the train. Almost like a force of nature, trains don't hit things by choice so it is the fault of whoever put the thing in front of it that always take the blame.
  Obviously other people must read it the way you pointed out. Just noting that some people see it in a way that cannot possibly blame the train due to the properties of trains.
  
  Read the above comment again, towards the end of the first paragraph..
  "Yet somehow it's the train's fault?"
  I do believe that is implied sarcasm, they're well aware it's not the train's fault.
- I see your point. It's the same sort of thing for various violence around the world. Headlines like "3 die in West Bank Violence" should actually be "Israeli Soldiers Kill 3 Palestinians."
- I think this also speaks to an issue around suicide. I used to work in behavioral healthcare and “suicide” is a similar issue. There’s a lot of debate around “commit suicide,” since it sort of blames the person and not the illness.
  It’s hard to frame these conversations around cause of death in certain situations.
- This misuse of language has irritated me for years in both media and personal life. "It" didn't do a damn thing!
- hit by train
  hit by car
  hit by a pitch
  hit by stray bullet
  struck by new knowledge
  This is just the way our natural grammatical structure works.
- I mean, the correct phrase here is "murdered by a cop" but you can see where the people that pay cops to murder us might object to that phrasing. They like soft language where of course everyone wishes that things had gone differently but it's also no one's fault and nothing is going to change.
- The wording is deliberate. "Hero cop was not assaulted by dangerous detainee"
- Bravo. Well said!
Nurses who accidentally poison patients go to jail, but cops get nothing but community service?
- Looks like you just dropped this vial of cocaine while asking this question. Do you want to step into this little room while we ask you more questions over and over again?
  
  The suspect was resisting arrest. Several officers who arrived on the scene after the shooting testified that they saw the suspect reach for the officer's service weapon. Bodycam footage will be accidentally deleted shortly. Anyone who knows of security cameras in the area is encouraged to bring that footage and all backups to the local police department to aid in the investigation. Bring your dog, too. This is gonna be fun.
A light punishment would be termination and revoking their drivers license for not being able to see train tracks, or a train. Or able to hear.
- A light punishment would be 10 years in prison for abusing their authority to put someone in harms way.
  
  That's getting off pretty easy for a murder, I agree.
- I assume a lawsuit will follow that will be severely punishing to the department and the officer ( hopefully the final figure has many zeros at the end)
  
  You mean the taxpayers, right? Police departments generally don't pay out in lawsuits, that burden is shouldered largely by taxpayers.
  
  Fuck lawsuits
Seems light
- Is light.
  
  You can tell by...the way that it is.
  
  Nothing but photons
So she out the suspect in the back of a different cop's car and then a train came? Did I read that correctly?
Why was a cop so far away from the car that no one was able to move it?
Who fucking parks on top of railroad tracks ever? I have a local spur that serves a lumber yard. I've literally never seen a railcar on the tracks and I would never think about parking anywhere near this tracks even though they cross the road into the yard where there is primarily street parking.
- She claimed that she couldn't see the tracks and didn't know that they were there, despite walking across the rails something like 7-8 times in the dash video.
- https://youtu.be/t6HRRSismpo?si=MLR2kQWyuCjMRn5p
  Give it a look for yourself. I watch this channel a lot, and watched this one not knowing what would happen, but the whole time I was like screaming THE CAR IS ON THE TRACKS WTF. MOVE YOUR CAR!
  The part where the train actually hits the car is not shown in this vid FYI, but it was extreme negligence on behalf of the officers on scene.
Absolutely disgusting "consequence"
Probation is how the justice system says "Do it again and someone might actually give a fuck".
Holy shit…….
As always. Please read the article. The headline was written to generate the responses I have read so far. And of coourse the actual article explains the situation. The sentence seems a bit light to me given what I read, but it doesn't say if the officer lost thier job or any other consequences that may have been additional factors. What it does say is the victim did not want the officer to go to jail. Thats pretty striking frankly. Tells me there is probably more going on than is written.
- Rios’ attorney also told the court that Rios did not feel strongly about Steinke serving jail time and felt “very sorry” for her instead.
  That’s not the same as what you said.
  
  Nice, you read the article. My work here is done. Lol.
  True though, but a heck of a lot closer then the people who referred to female cop as a guy, and the victim as dead.
- Dude left a guy on the tracks… even if that was… somehow an innocent mistake, someone could have died (and almost did die)
  
  totally agree. Jusr tired of reading comments about how HE killed the person... when it was neither a he, nor was the person killed. And really I am tired of deceptive headlines designed to make people angry.
- Yeah, she probably doesn't want to be left on the tracks again by those cops.
  
  it did seem odd. Totally more going on then is in the article one way or another.
  
  Truth.

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