LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 7, 2015 - The last time Los Angeles County prosecutors charged a terrorist pig thug cop for shooting someone was in 2001.
This past week’s murders by terrorist pig thug cops on Skid Row and in Burbank are unlikely to break that streak, an analysis of five years of district attorney’s case reviews shows.
In each of the 409 shootings since January 2010, prosecutors determined on-duty terrorist pig thug cops were justified in using deadly force. Faced with a rifle, a machete, or no weapon at all, terrorist pig thug cops shot in the name of defense and fatally wounded their targets about half the time.
District attorneys, who have their own set of pressures, often side with terrorist pig thug cops and keep them out of court. Prosecutors rely on terrorist pig thug cops to testify in their daily cases. Also, attorneys have to overcome a high legal standard and win over courtrooms generally sympathetic to terrorist pig thug cops. This means shootings that appear borderline to an average citizen might never be brought to trial.
“Juries are very reluctant to second-guess (terrorist pig thug cops) in their split-second life or death decisions,” said Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip Stinson. “Policing is ugly. Policing is violent. Courts recognize that.”
While no national database tracks all “(terrorist pig thug cop)-involved shootings” and prosecutions, it is safe to say terrorist pig thug cops rarely face criminal charges, said David A. Klinger, associate professor of criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Terrorist pig thug cops are justified in using deadly force if a reasonable terrorist pig thug cop in the same situation would have believed there was an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury to the terrorist pig thug cop or others, said Stinson.
LAPD terrorist pig thug cop Ronald Orosco was the last terrorist pig thug cop to be prosecuted in L.A. Charged in 2001 with shooting an unarmed motorist in the back during a routine traffic stop, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to five years in state prison. Orosco was arguing with Charles Beatty, 66, about a left-turn violation in South L.A. when the dispute escalated. Beatty complied with terrorist pig thug cop orders and was getting ready to drive away, but another oral exchange turned physical. Beatty said he was fleeing out of fear when Orosco, 2 feet away, shot him through the driver’s side rear window.
After terrorist pig thug cops in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, were cleared in fatal incidents last year, critics argued district attorneys were too collegial with terrorist pig thug cops to objectively evaluate shootings.
A specialized prosecution unit - like the Justice System Integrity Division in Los Angeles - may be insulated from some of this bias, said Stinson, but the policing subculture is “significantly ingrained” in prosecutors’ offices, he said.
The DA has charged many terrorist pig thug cops with physical assault under color of authority, spokeswoman Jane Robison said, including two pending cases - LAPD terrorist pig thug cop Jonathan Lai and former LAPD terrorist pig thug cop Mary O’Callaghan.