Totally Non-Racist Cops Take Polaroid of Their Fine Hunting Skills.

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...With-Black-Man-Wearing-Antlers-305197521.html

Finnigan and McDermott worked together in the Special Operations Section. But McDermott was not accused of criminal wrongdoing in a scandal involving the unit that led to it being disbanded in 2007 — and Finnigan and other officers being convicted of crimes.

Police investigators believe Finnigan and McDermott posed in the photo while McDermott was assigned to SOS between 1999 and 2003, when he became a detective, according to court records in McDermott’s case.

When the feds confronted Finnigan with the photo, he told them he and McDermott arrested the African-American man for having “20 bags of weed” and the man provided them with the rifles, according to court records. The photo was taken in the tactical office of the Harrison Police District on the West Side, Finnigan said.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Looks like a joke to me.

 

[jladam]

So, they arrested a guy for having "20 bags of weed," yet (1) they don't know who the guy is, (2) there's no record of the arrest, and (3) nobody knows what happened to the "20 bags of weed." Great police work there, guys!

Looks like a joke to me.

And your point is? Police officers should never never never take photos of themselves with suspects even if the suspect consents to the photo. The suspect can always claim later on that they did not consent to the photo and now you've just given your police department it's own mini-Abu Ghraib scandal. Most police departments already prohibit their police officers from taking this type of photography. These police officers should have been fired for stupidity alone.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, at least they didn't shoot him.

Baby steps, people.

 

[dismal]

believed to have been taken in a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003,

Well, it's good we found this picture 15 years later. Don't want the police hating trend to lose steam.

If that one cop didn't already lose his job because he's serving time for that murder-for-hire and bribery case he'd be in real trouble now.

 

[jladam]

believed to have been taken in a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003,

Well, it's good we found this picture 15 years later. Don't want the police hating trend to lose steam.

If that one cop didn't already lose his job because he's serving time for that murder-for-hire and bribery case he'd be in real trouble now.

So pointing out when a cop does something stupid is all of a sudden hating on them, huh? So the photo was taken some fifteen years ago. I didn't realize there was a statute of limitations on stupidity.

 

[laughing dog]

Looks like a joke to me.

And a racist joke by the police is okay because.......?

 

[Keith&Co.]

So, they arrested a guy for having "20 bags of weed," yet (1) they don't know who the guy is, (2) there's no record of the arrest, and (3) nobody knows what happened to the "20 bags of weed."

Man. I wish MY lawyer was that good....

 

[dismal]

Well, it's good we found this picture 15 years later. Don't want the police hating trend to lose steam.

If that one cop didn't already lose his job because he's serving time for that murder-for-hire and bribery case he'd be in real trouble now.

So pointing out when a cop does something stupid is all of a sudden hating on them, huh? So the photo was taken some fifteen years ago. I didn't realize there was a statute of limitations on stupidity.

There's no statute of limitations on pointing out the stupidity of gleefully rushing to the internet to post a picture from 15 years ago to keep the cop hatred going either.

There is also no statute of limitations on rushing to the internet to point out this cop was doing time for murder either. But I don't recall a thread about that so I guess the murder was not as newsworthy as this picture.

 

[jladam]

So pointing out when a cop does something stupid is all of a sudden hating on them, huh? So the photo was taken some fifteen years ago. I didn't realize there was a statute of limitations on stupidity.

There's no statute of limitations on pointing out the stupidity of gleefully rushing to the internet to post a picture from 15 years ago to keep the cop hatred going either.

There is also no statute of limitations on rushing to the internet to point out this cop was doing time for murder either. But I don't recall a thread about that so I guess the murder was not as newsworthy as this picture.

I was not the one who posted the picture. My post only dealt with stating that what these officers did was stupid. And I articulated the reasoning behind why it was stupid. I'm still waiting on your reasoning why I'm a cop-hater for simply posting one single solitary post on why cops shouldn't take photos of themselves with suspects when you don't even have the slight fucking clue as to who the hell I am. Oh, but you're not the one who's being judgmental.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Well, at least they didn't shoot him.

Baby steps, people.

Have they checked man-caves to see if this guy is mounted on the wall?