Nurse Awarded $7M After Being Jailed for Saving Cop

Platapus · 06-14-08, 05:26 PM

Wow way to encourage citizens to come to the aid of the police.

Why would the police even go there? Here was a person who came to the aid of officer's down and this is their reaction?

Just because something is missing does not mean that this person took it.

Was the weapon found on the nurse?

Where there witnesses that said the nurse took the weapon?

Did the police conduct a through search of the accident scene to determine if the weapon was in the wreckage or thrown out of the vehicle?

This has to be the most circumstantial case.

And if how the nurse was treated in jail is true (she may be exaggerating her story), what the police did was.. well.. criminal.

7 mill is a lot go give her, but we don't know how much of this 7 mill was punitive.

I guess no good deed goes unpunished in Chicago.

I wonder how the police department will feel when their next officer involved in an accident bleeds to death or burns to death because no one wanted to take the risk of being falsely arrested and held for 10 months.

SUBMAN1 · 06-14-08, 05:35 PM

Trust me. I've had dealings with the ATF for example, and when i thought I was helping out, they totally turned me off from 'ever' helping them again. They are evil and will destroy you to get what they want. Plain and simple. Never again.

-S

Platapus · 06-14-08, 05:39 PM

I fear that there are many federal agencies with the same "customer relations"

It is not good when the government assumes that citizens are the enemy.

Sailor Steve · 06-14-08, 06:57 PM

I'd qualify that slightly: It's not good when the government assumes anything.

SUBMAN1 · 06-14-08, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'd qualify that slightly: It's not good when the government assumes anything.

But they create think tanks so that they can assume everything - what an oxymoron.

-S

Yahoshua · 06-14-08, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Trust me. I've had dealings with the ATF for example, and when i thought I was helping out, they totally turned me off from 'ever' helping them again. They are evil and will destroy you to get what they want. Plain and simple. Never again.

-S

Getting burned for doing the right thing really screws us up. Out of curiosity, do you even bother going out of your way to help people anymore due to your experience?

I know for damn sure that I avoid helping others because I got burned doing it. It just isn't worth it to me.

SUBMAN1 · 06-14-08, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Yahoshua

Getting burned for doing the right thing really screws us up. Out of curiosity, do you even bother going out of your way to help people anymore due to your experience?

I know for damn sure that I avoid helping others because I got burned doing it. It just isn't worth it to me.

It is getting to that point, but I wouldn't dream of not helping a neighbor, though helping for the greater good has been damaged.

-S

06-14-08, 05:26 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,388 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Wow way to encourage citizens to come to the aid of the police. Why would the police even go there? Here was a person who came to the aid of officer's down and this is their reaction? Just because something is missing does not mean that this person took it. Was the weapon found on the nurse? Where there witnesses that said the nurse took the weapon? Did the police conduct a through search of the accident scene to determine if the weapon was in the wreckage or thrown out of the vehicle? This has to be the most circumstantial case. And if how the nurse was treated in jail is true (she may be exaggerating her story), what the police did was.. well.. criminal. 7 mill is a lot go give her, but we don't know how much of this 7 mill was punitive. I guess no good deed goes unpunished in Chicago. I wonder how the police department will feel when their next officer involved in an accident bleeds to death or burns to death because no one wanted to take the risk of being falsely arrested and held for 10 months. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-14-08, 05:35 PM	#2
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Trust me. I've had dealings with the ATF for example, and when i thought I was helping out, they totally turned me off from 'ever' helping them again. They are evil and will destroy you to get what they want. Plain and simple. Never again. -S __________________

06-14-08, 05:39 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,388 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I fear that there are many federal agencies with the same "customer relations" It is not good when the government assumes that citizens are the enemy. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-14-08, 06:57 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I'd qualify that slightly: It's not good when the government assumes anything. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo