More evidence that most cops are racist liars:
This happened in St. Louis a couple days ago. After a police chase, a stolen car crashed near the home of a black, off-duty cop. He heard the wreck and came out of his home to offer assistance and ended up getting shot by a white cop.
Okay, you can sort of accept that it was an honest mistake, blah, blah, blah... but here's the interesting part: The FIRST thing the Chief did was LIE to the press about the incident.
COPS REFLEXIVELY LIE TO THE PUBLIC TO COVER-UP THE MISDEEDS OF OTHER COPS. THEY WILL ONLY TELL THE TRUTH WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT IN THE LIE.
Here's the story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
An off-duty officer was wounded by "friendly fire" as police looked for suspects after a stolen vehicle fled police and crashed late Wednesday.
Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole told reporters the off-duty officer had come out of his home to help after the stolen car crashed nearby, and was hit in the crossfire between officers and suspects who had been in the car.
But police now say the off-duty officer was shot by a fellow cop who did not recognize him as an officer, in a separate encounter away from the initial crash.
According to a department summary of the incident released later Thursday, two officers who encountered the armed off-duty officer ordered him to the ground. He complied. When they recognized the off-duty officer, they told him he could stand up and walk toward them.
Another officer just arriving at the scene saw the off-duty officer get up and, not knowing he was an officer, fired his weapon once at the man. He hit the off-duty officer in the arm, the department said.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/off-duty-st-louis-officer-injured-by-friendly-fire-after/article_761b9cc4-75d1-5023-a38f-c4096f99d114.html
You can reasonably draw two conclusions from this mess:
1) Cops are trigger-happy racist cowards, even towards other cops if they're black.
2) The first words out of a cop's mouth are ALWAYS a lie.
The Supreme Court ruled that it's okay for cops to lie to suspects--Frazier v. Cupp, look it up--so now they all think it's their bounden duty to lie all the time... and everybody's a suspect.
When a cop asks you a question, the only words you should utter are "I want a lawyer". I don't care if you've just witnessed a murder on your front stoop, if a cop asks you what happened you should only say "I want a lawyer". If you don't, like as not they'll try to pin it on you.