{"id":176988,"date":"2020-01-29T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/29\/this-is-a-surprise\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T00:16:00","slug":"this-is-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/29\/this-is-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is increasingly likely for corrupt and brutal police officers to face consequences, large as a result of groups like Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I am profoundly surprised that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bvgjja\/a-cop-was-just-charged-with-murder-less-than-24-hours-after-he-shot-and-killed-a-black-man-handcuffed-in-a-police-cruiser\">a Prince George&#8217;s County police officer was charged with murder less than 24 hours after he shot a black man 7 times and killed him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, he did shoot the victim 7 times while he was in handcuffs, but I figured that the officer&#8217;s claim that murder victim was on PCP would have gotten him at least a month before an investigation started:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Maryland police officer who killed a handcuffed black man Monday night has been taken into custody and charged with second degree murder \u2014 less than 24 hours after the incident. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Stawinski identified the victim as 49-year-old William Green.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to reports of a driver who had rammed his vehicle into several other cars at around 8 p.m. Monday. They told reporters later that night that they suspected Green was high, and smelled PCP coming from his car. Stawinski no longer thinks that\u2019s the case. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not believe PCP was involved,&#8221; Stawinski said. <\/p>\n<p>An officer then cuffed Green with his arms behind his back and strapped him into the passenger seat of the police cruiser. <\/p>\n<p>About 20 minutes later, Officer Michael Owen then got into the driver\u2019s seat and shot him. According to ABC, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SweeneyABC\/status\/1222275795420418053?s=20\">Green had asked the officer <\/a>if he could use the bathroom \u2014 then the officer shot him seven times. Officers at the scene attempted lifesaving measures on him before transporting him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s extremely unusual for police departments to announce criminal charges against one of their own so soon after an officer-involved killing. Charges, if they come at all, can take weeks, if not months, to be filed \u2014 and often come after intense community pressure.  <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, this is the start of a trend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is increasingly likely for corrupt and brutal police officers to face consequences, large as a result of groups like Black Lives Matter. That being said, I am profoundly surprised that a Prince George&#8217;s County police officer was charged with murder less than 24 hours after he shot a black man 7 times and killed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,407,526,582],"class_list":["post-176988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}