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There may well be charges that stem from this. If there was brain injury as a result, for example, then they could be facing far more than merely misconduct and failure of duty to report charges.Two off-duty cops beat up a teenager which resulted in his death. They did not document the interaction nor notify anybody. Investigation into the dead kid found the connection to the cops. They are before police tribunal for discipline now. WTF. You or I would have been in real court fighting for our lives. Disgusting.
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I'm not saying they deserve to be convicted but holy fack. This needs a whole lot of light shone on it (probably through a criminal trial) and they should be immediately terminated for inability to make good decisions. The kid died a year ago.
If charges haven't been laid a year in, I don't have high hopes. Tribunal charges were laid a month ago. Normal process is tribunal trial happens after criminal trial. Imo, they were trying to get this dealt with under PSA and pretend it never happened to avoid more bad press. By the time it eventually got to trial, there is a reasonable defence using 11b. It will be hard for the prosecution to argue that pulling a phone number out of a victims phone and seeing who it belongs too reasonably takes more than a year and therefore that delay was justified.There may well be charges that stem from this. If there was brain injury as a result, for example, then they could be facing far more than merely misconduct and failure of duty to report charges.
Concealing the crime won't count toward 11b. It sounds like they were getting all their ducks in a row on the evidence before going forward, which meant figuring out all parties involved. With this now having come out it will be up to The Crown as to whether or not criminal charges are laid.If charges haven't been laid a year in, I don't have high hopes. Tribunal charges were laid a month ago. Normal process is tribunal trial happens after criminal trial. They were trying to get this dealt with under PSA and pretend it never happened to avoid more bad press. By the time it eventually got to trial, there is a reasonable defence using 11b. It will be hard for the prosecution to argue that pulling a phone number out of a victims phone and seeing who it belongs too reasonably takes more than a year and therefore that delay was justified.
Sounds more like manslaughter than murder but your summary seems to fit with what we know.This is first the time I heard of this.
Two off duty police officer beat to death a teenage boy over a fake watch?
Their police buddies trying to cover up the murder?
Not publicly released. It seems plausible that the kid banged his head. The cops running away when a witness showed up while they were assaulting the kid is a nice touch.I've been watching this one since it happened.
What was the COD?
I like the last sentence in the news article "A separate police disciplinary process will follow after the criminal charges have been dealt with, police said."Who did he piss off? "I smelled weed" is a standard law enforcement tactic used in the entire western world with impunity.
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With pension accrual. Not a department issue but I still maintain that is a glaring problem in the PSA. How many cases have enough evidence to lay criminal charges but insufficient for a PSA conviction? I suspect 0.0% .I like the last sentence in the news article "A separate police disciplinary process will follow after the criminal charges have been dealt with, police said."
That's police talk for a 3 year paid vacation.
Once the officer has been found guilty of the criminal charges, the tribunal can pretty much hand wave a disciplinary finding. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" means they don't have to prove anything, themselves, in order to proceed with punishment.With pension accrual. Not a department issue but I still maintain that is a glaring problem in the PSA. How many cases have enough evidence to lay criminal charges but insufficient for a PSA conviction? I suspect 0.0% .
I find it hard to believe that prosecuting psa charges would cost more than the 300k+ they will pay in salary to the dirtbag while waiting to rubber stamp.Once the officer has been found guilty of the criminal charges, the tribunal can pretty much hand wave a disciplinary finding. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" means they don't have to prove anything, themselves, in order to proceed with punishment.
They should be able to recover the monies or a share of it if dismissed.I find it hard to believe that prosecuting psa charges would cost more than the 300k+ they will pay in salary to the dirtbag while waiting to rubber stamp.