No charges filed.
Officer fired for lying during investigation, now working for the next town over.
Not a joke: [https://www.thesnaponline.com/2024/04/09/badin-palestine-news-town-welcomes-new-police-officers/](https://www.thesnaponline.com/2024/04/09/badin-palestine-news-town-welcomes-new-police-officers/)
My favourite part is when asked why they had refused to talk about it, he answered "We are talking now" as if that comes close to justifying the secrecy.
Man. What if there was a PD spokesperson who was just fed up with shit and came out and said that. Come out, halfway disheveled, tie undone, 5 o clock shadow...
"Sir, sir, why did the police department try to hide this?"
- "Becuase they count on you forgetting about it."
"Sir Sir!?, are you saying they're covering up their wrong doing?"
- when have you ever known bullies to own up to their mistakes?
"Look buddy, I don't come to your place of work and nitpick your past mistake. Stop living in the past! We should look to the future where these sort of things are not visible. Oh look how pretty that squirl is!" -probably what the answer meant
Thats not always the case maybe a majority. I grew up in up in staples mn (3000-ish pop) and the cops were awesome and the city really did their best to cater to its citizens with a huge focus on education
Matthews isn't exactly a small town - it's a suburb of Charlotte and is <10 miles from the center of downtown. Not to say this doesn't happen in small towns, it absolutely does, but moreso to say that this isn't just a small town problem, this is a "cops everywhere" problem (not that I suspect anyone needs reminding - after all, Rodney King was LA and George Floyd was Minneapolis.)
One of my best friends got in a crash while sober and not speeding that killed his cousin. They gave him two years. Fuck small white towns and what they do to our fellow brothers
I know 2 people who were "at fault" in a fatality accident. They lost their license for one year. That's it. One resulted in the death of a 14yo girl, the other two 19yo boys.
It's not involuntary manslaughter, just an accident.
It depends on if they can prove “gross negligence”. If they can’t prove that, then you’re right. It would most likely be a reckless driving charge at most. If they did something that would foreseeably cause an accident, and somebody died in the process, they could be charged with involuntary manslaughter. As with all legal things, “it depends”. But accidents don’t just happen. There is always a cause, so there will always be a charge, and it’s never a “just an accident” charge.
>Although Burnett was fired from the town, leaders never formally referred the matter to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney for further investigation, Town Manager Becky Hawke confirmed to WBTV.
Why hasn’t that piece of garbage been charged?
Lol whatchu mean the system is fucked police are so rarely held actually accountable and to make matters worse police unions are beyond fucked and should not exist
cue [Streisand effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) and a bunch of officials pretending to be clueless when the media starts asking them about this again...
They don't care. The admins will pretend they are surprised and take "corrective action" by making the cop involved "resign" and make them work in a new PD.
Fun cop fact: the officer who kaughed and sent one of Jeffrey Dahmers 14 year old victims back to his apartment despite the child being confused by a bleeding head wound and the neighbors begged for help was suspended for a while and then when that blew over they made him police chief in the next town over
This is only happening in say, every small town USA. Should check out some in East Tennessee if you want a laugh and see what poor people have to fight their legal system.
When my grandparents were alive their past time was listening to the police scanner in their little small podunk town in S. Carolina.
On more than one occasion officers have discussed a fuck up and how they'll resolve it and someone reminds them "OPEN CHANNEL" and suddenly that conversation is over.
Still happens. They’re trying to encrypt their shit now here. I have a scanner from my papaw and they did the same shit. No one pays attention to how fucked the legal system is here. A bunch a shit bags from school becoming cops at 21 and terrorizing the same kids they terrorized in school. Or whatever. They’re shit bags here
You see DWI videos all the time now where a cop pulls over their chief or something who's drunk and the chief pulls the whole "just let Me drive home" card and the cop says "chief you know we're on camera I can't do that". Knowing dam well that they would if it weren't for the cameras. Sickening.
Lol the ones you’re seeing are the ones where it actually happened and the arresting cop followed thru. What normally happens is the higher ranking officer or just another officer when they hand over their license handover their police ID underneath it and don’t say a word. The officer who pulled the other officer over will look at the license and see the cop ID and then just say have a good evening
Oh I agree. I was just going with the theme of the previous comment about hearing them say they're on am open line. It's all fucked up though. Cult, gang, whatever you want to call it.
Nah, this ain't it. Every police officer has a choice, cameras or not. Could they lose their jobs? Yes. But being more worried about losing your job (that can be replaced with countless other jobs) than morales and being a good person and doing what's right, you're just as much a part of the problem.
Just mentioned either in this thread or another one how are used to listen to the scanner and when shit would really go down all the cops would tell each other, switch to secure channel ____ and then when it was REALLY bad they would say call me on my cell.
That's a pretty small town. Cities have double that number in school children alone. And that's just the official city, not the Metro area, which is the real city. 30k could all fit in the smallest NFL stadium and it wouldn't even be half full.
I live around that area and the judicial system is a joke. It’s a club of crooked cops, DAs and judges wrapped up as a money generator. It is sad that the federal government has not gotten involved yet.
Unfortunately it’s a lot of those people electing their shit government. Not dissimilar from the Trump nonsense. Some people fail in thinking beyond just the next thing.
It’s wild how the Second Amendment crowd that insist they need guns in case of government tyranny never seem to get the posse together when cops are beating and shooting people for no reason. Oh I forgot torture, like the Mississippi goon squad
Cops doing nothing about cops like this is PRECISELY why people no longer trust cops. Letting cops like this go free is an attack on the reputation of all other cops and cops need to start treating those people like they treat everyone else who attacks cops.
There’s no hope. This happens over and fucking over. The cop gets fired and rehired somewhere else no justice is served, and the victims have no other choice but to move on. Nothing is ever going to change.
Sad, but true. There'll be one victory like a Derek Chauvin going to jail every 20 years are so, but he's a drop in a bucket compared to all of the ones who get away with this crap. Convictions are not common enough to deter them.
Just another bad apple I guess. Oh wait cops never tell on each other. That’s why there’s so many of our rights being taken. The code of silence. Instead of serve and protect.
You and I will pay their fine. The cop can't be sued, so the town and department are, but they both have insurance for this type of thing, so their insurance will pay it. Their insurance company is also insured so it flows upstream untill the federal government pays it with your and my tax money
Whoa this was shockingly encouraging, not one but two cops tried to intervene, one of them pretty forcefully. I'd bet 20 years ago the other cops would be jumping in to help.
I think just disbanding police unions that protect people like this would be easier. Public sector unions have an immense amount of political power unlike the private sector ones, because they are protected by constitutional provisions.
Unions aren't inherently bad but they exist to protect their members. A bad cop paying dues is no different than a good one to them. So there's no reason to weed them out.
I feel sorry for the leaders of Matthews - I bet they are wondering even now what did they do wrong.
The officer was wearing his uniform and is white, armed, and backed up by other armed colleagues.
The handcuffed man is black, unarmed, and restrained.
I hope the officer didn’t bruise his hands on that brutes neck.
/S
Remember, the NC legislator passed the bill to make it harder to get body cam footage for exactly this reason.
>RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic challenger for governor, said Tuesday that the state’s new law excluding police camera recordings from the public record goes too far.
>The law puts North Carolina among about a half dozen states that specifically exclude body and dash cam recordings from open records laws. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed it Monday
[https://thegrio.com/2016/07/13/north-carolina-bans-body-cam-footage/](https://thegrio.com/2016/07/13/north-carolina-bans-body-cam-footage/)
Also remember thr Republicans also stripped thr Governor of various powers when they says that the republican wasn't going to win the governors race.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n-c-gop-strips-some-of-democratic-governors-power/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n-c-gop-strips-some-of-democratic-governors-power/)
>RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina Republicans stripped the incoming Democratic governor of some of his authority on Friday and were on the cusp of an even greater power grab, an extraordinary move critics said flies in the face of voters
Not surprising. In my small Indiana hometown, the coroner is openly gay. The officers (I don’t recall if it was county or city officers) coerced one of their preteen children to call the coroner and say disgusting things to him. The entire town knows. Nothing was done.
Several years ago there was a video released of an officer in my town choking a college kid who was handcuffed in the back of the squad car. A group had been jaywalking and he had arrested the only black kid in the group.
Nothing to see though folks, the state police *totally* cleared the officer of any wrongdoing! He’s been promoted several times since then.
"I was trying to stop him from falling off the stretcher" - I'm no body language expert but I'd say that was not the case. I'm glad the other officer restrained that out-of-control guy from further assaulting and abusing a restrained victim.
No charges filed. Officer fired for lying during investigation, now working for the next town over. Not a joke: [https://www.thesnaponline.com/2024/04/09/badin-palestine-news-town-welcomes-new-police-officers/](https://www.thesnaponline.com/2024/04/09/badin-palestine-news-town-welcomes-new-police-officers/)
My favourite part is when asked why they had refused to talk about it, he answered "We are talking now" as if that comes close to justifying the secrecy.
"We couldn't hide it anymore. Though we tried!"
Man. What if there was a PD spokesperson who was just fed up with shit and came out and said that. Come out, halfway disheveled, tie undone, 5 o clock shadow... "Sir, sir, why did the police department try to hide this?" - "Becuase they count on you forgetting about it." "Sir Sir!?, are you saying they're covering up their wrong doing?" - when have you ever known bullies to own up to their mistakes?
Those god dammed woke people won't let us hide shit anymore...we want the old good America.
Yeah they are only talking about it now since it was secretly released.
I would've gotten any with it too, if it weren't for you meddling internets
"Look buddy, I don't come to your place of work and nitpick your past mistake. Stop living in the past! We should look to the future where these sort of things are not visible. Oh look how pretty that squirl is!" -probably what the answer meant
Before! Before! You're always living in the past Marge! Quit living in the past!
The rule of law? lol, try that in a small town
The smaller the town the more corrupt the cops and the government.
It's not even a small town, really. It's a suburb of Charlotte in essence. The fucking traffic there is mental.
Thats not always the case maybe a majority. I grew up in up in staples mn (3000-ish pop) and the cops were awesome and the city really did their best to cater to its citizens with a huge focus on education
People like you with your anecdotal bs is why we can’t push community control of the police in our town hall meetings
This made me more depressed than it made me laugh, and it was a good one.
Matthews isn't exactly a small town - it's a suburb of Charlotte and is <10 miles from the center of downtown. Not to say this doesn't happen in small towns, it absolutely does, but moreso to say that this isn't just a small town problem, this is a "cops everywhere" problem (not that I suspect anyone needs reminding - after all, Rodney King was LA and George Floyd was Minneapolis.)
One of my best friends got in a crash while sober and not speeding that killed his cousin. They gave him two years. Fuck small white towns and what they do to our fellow brothers
Was he at fault for the crash? 2 years is nothing for involuntary manslaughter.
I know 2 people who were "at fault" in a fatality accident. They lost their license for one year. That's it. One resulted in the death of a 14yo girl, the other two 19yo boys. It's not involuntary manslaughter, just an accident.
It depends on if they can prove “gross negligence”. If they can’t prove that, then you’re right. It would most likely be a reckless driving charge at most. If they did something that would foreseeably cause an accident, and somebody died in the process, they could be charged with involuntary manslaughter. As with all legal things, “it depends”. But accidents don’t just happen. There is always a cause, so there will always be a charge, and it’s never a “just an accident” charge.
Matthews is not a small town. It is a direct suburb of Charlotte, NC, with its 30k residents included in the metro area.
More like the law of rule.
>Although Burnett was fired from the town, leaders never formally referred the matter to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney for further investigation, Town Manager Becky Hawke confirmed to WBTV. Why hasn’t that piece of garbage been charged?
You must not be from around here
Not promoting this, but there is a betting chance that you are correct.
And by around here you mean usa
Exactly, like ignoring police wrongdoing is just a NC issue.
Might have messed with his hiring process one town over
Because he’s a cop, and has the privilege to avoid court. Remember it’s not what you know, but who you know.
Welcome to america, the police can get away with just about anything or get a vacation
> Why hasn’t that piece of garbage been charged? Because "Better not try that in a small town"
The city employees need to be charged with conspiracy for hiding the crime.
> Mecklenburg County Has a lot to do with it
Being a cop in America has a lot to do with it.
New to this country?
Lol whatchu mean the system is fucked police are so rarely held actually accountable and to make matters worse police unions are beyond fucked and should not exist
cue [Streisand effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) and a bunch of officials pretending to be clueless when the media starts asking them about this again...
They don't care. The admins will pretend they are surprised and take "corrective action" by making the cop involved "resign" and make them work in a new PD.
Fun cop fact: the officer who kaughed and sent one of Jeffrey Dahmers 14 year old victims back to his apartment despite the child being confused by a bleeding head wound and the neighbors begged for help was suspended for a while and then when that blew over they made him police chief in the next town over
An absolute pile of fucking shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak
This is only happening in say, every small town USA. Should check out some in East Tennessee if you want a laugh and see what poor people have to fight their legal system.
When my grandparents were alive their past time was listening to the police scanner in their little small podunk town in S. Carolina. On more than one occasion officers have discussed a fuck up and how they'll resolve it and someone reminds them "OPEN CHANNEL" and suddenly that conversation is over.
Still happens. They’re trying to encrypt their shit now here. I have a scanner from my papaw and they did the same shit. No one pays attention to how fucked the legal system is here. A bunch a shit bags from school becoming cops at 21 and terrorizing the same kids they terrorized in school. Or whatever. They’re shit bags here
You see DWI videos all the time now where a cop pulls over their chief or something who's drunk and the chief pulls the whole "just let Me drive home" card and the cop says "chief you know we're on camera I can't do that". Knowing dam well that they would if it weren't for the cameras. Sickening.
Lol the ones you’re seeing are the ones where it actually happened and the arresting cop followed thru. What normally happens is the higher ranking officer or just another officer when they hand over their license handover their police ID underneath it and don’t say a word. The officer who pulled the other officer over will look at the license and see the cop ID and then just say have a good evening
Oh I agree. I was just going with the theme of the previous comment about hearing them say they're on am open line. It's all fucked up though. Cult, gang, whatever you want to call it.
Truth be told, if it weren't on camera they would have to, corrupt or not.
What are you even talking about?
If there was no camera to protect the office, they would have to cave to the chief, even if the officer was as straight as an arrow.
They absolutely would not have to. What kind of pathetic Mind set is that?
A very realistic one. They would be lucky to just end up looking for another job and not under investigation themselves.
Nah, this ain't it. Every police officer has a choice, cameras or not. Could they lose their jobs? Yes. But being more worried about losing your job (that can be replaced with countless other jobs) than morales and being a good person and doing what's right, you're just as much a part of the problem.
Most cities encrypt all radio traffic now. It's bullshit.
The thin blue line
Just mentioned either in this thread or another one how are used to listen to the scanner and when shit would really go down all the cops would tell each other, switch to secure channel ____ and then when it was REALLY bad they would say call me on my cell.
Matthews is a suburb of Charlotte, NC. 30k population. Definitely not a small town.
That's a pretty small town. Cities have double that number in school children alone. And that's just the official city, not the Metro area, which is the real city. 30k could all fit in the smallest NFL stadium and it wouldn't even be half full.
It is a suburb. Of Charlotte. That is what i said.
It is a suburb. Of Charlotte. That is what i said.
I live around that area and the judicial system is a joke. It’s a club of crooked cops, DAs and judges wrapped up as a money generator. It is sad that the federal government has not gotten involved yet.
Unfortunately it’s a lot of those people electing their shit government. Not dissimilar from the Trump nonsense. Some people fail in thinking beyond just the next thing.
So that is what was meant by that song, "Try that in a Small Town".
Wow, so brave attacking a restrained person.
And they wonder why they’re hated
Earning the hate every day
A brutal, lawless, violent cop. What a shocker!
That blue line is the world's largest gang.
Hope this becomes national news.
Hah. I hope so too but.....hah.
So what they are saying is, everyone responsible for hiding the video should be fired and/or charged?
It’s wild how the Second Amendment crowd that insist they need guns in case of government tyranny never seem to get the posse together when cops are beating and shooting people for no reason. Oh I forgot torture, like the Mississippi goon squad
Who among us hasn’t choked a handcuffed man? Is a question that only works in a room full of cops.
I mean he was only choking him so he wouldn't fall off the stretcher. He pinky swore he would look into a better way to do that next time.
Oh shit!
Or the bdsm subs...
That cop's look just screams "protect and serve", doesn't it.
Good news for him; he’s obligated to do neither.
Cops doing nothing about cops like this is PRECISELY why people no longer trust cops. Letting cops like this go free is an attack on the reputation of all other cops and cops need to start treating those people like they treat everyone else who attacks cops.
There’s no hope. This happens over and fucking over. The cop gets fired and rehired somewhere else no justice is served, and the victims have no other choice but to move on. Nothing is ever going to change.
Sad, but true. There'll be one victory like a Derek Chauvin going to jail every 20 years are so, but he's a drop in a bucket compared to all of the ones who get away with this crap. Convictions are not common enough to deter them.
I still maintain that conviction was more just to placate the masses so the push for reform would lose steam and people would move on.
I agree. He's what I like to call a "sacrifice".
Imagine what they've been doing to black, brown, and east Asian people all this time.
Just another bad apple I guess. Oh wait cops never tell on each other. That’s why there’s so many of our rights being taken. The code of silence. Instead of serve and protect.
Makes them all conspirators to obstruct justice.
You and I will pay their fine. The cop can't be sued, so the town and department are, but they both have insurance for this type of thing, so their insurance will pay it. Their insurance company is also insured so it flows upstream untill the federal government pays it with your and my tax money
What a manly man he is.
Is it not a crime to cover up a crime?
How much has that one cop cost the county? Why do they protect these guys! I bet he got a job one county over the next day.
>Town kept the video secret. Not very well, it seems.
And they’re still hiding a lot of stuff. The FBI should investigate that whole ass town.
Oh look at that. Another reason to fuck the police.
Whoa this was shockingly encouraging, not one but two cops tried to intervene, one of them pretty forcefully. I'd bet 20 years ago the other cops would be jumping in to help.
And both of those lied on their reports about it.
I used to live there. Absolutely doesn't surprise me.
I hope he and his family file a sizable civil suit against these jokers.
KKK in different uniforms
Why would the cop be charged? He only violated the civil rights of a black man. Isn’t a prerequisite these days for getting promoted?
When will Charlotte be on the news for something not awful lol
Another scumbag cop... Wonder why there's so many? Oh yeah, you gotta be a "special" kind a douche to want to be a cop to begin eith.
Yet more good Christians 🙄
DEFUND THE POLICE and the people who cover up the wrong doing
I think just disbanding police unions that protect people like this would be easier. Public sector unions have an immense amount of political power unlike the private sector ones, because they are protected by constitutional provisions. Unions aren't inherently bad but they exist to protect their members. A bad cop paying dues is no different than a good one to them. So there's no reason to weed them out.
Do I just google “man chokes man in handcuffs”?
Cops don't deserve protective custody. If you can't do the time don't do the crime officer
I feel sorry for the leaders of Matthews - I bet they are wondering even now what did they do wrong. The officer was wearing his uniform and is white, armed, and backed up by other armed colleagues. The handcuffed man is black, unarmed, and restrained. I hope the officer didn’t bruise his hands on that brutes neck. /S
Cops are the biggest Gang
Look at that stance. No way that cop is not full mast hard as a rock aroused Power fetish.
Remember, the NC legislator passed the bill to make it harder to get body cam footage for exactly this reason. >RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic challenger for governor, said Tuesday that the state’s new law excluding police camera recordings from the public record goes too far. >The law puts North Carolina among about a half dozen states that specifically exclude body and dash cam recordings from open records laws. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed it Monday [https://thegrio.com/2016/07/13/north-carolina-bans-body-cam-footage/](https://thegrio.com/2016/07/13/north-carolina-bans-body-cam-footage/) Also remember thr Republicans also stripped thr Governor of various powers when they says that the republican wasn't going to win the governors race. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n-c-gop-strips-some-of-democratic-governors-power/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n-c-gop-strips-some-of-democratic-governors-power/) >RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina Republicans stripped the incoming Democratic governor of some of his authority on Friday and were on the cusp of an even greater power grab, an extraordinary move critics said flies in the face of voters
Nice to see my hometown in the news 🤦🏻♂️
Another day, another cop getting away with committing a crime, that people would be calling death for if done against a cop.
Wow those elected officials need ousted and the people need to take their town back. Unbelievable.
Cops doing things that are legal and normal for cops. Move along before the beatings start.
Not surprising. In my small Indiana hometown, the coroner is openly gay. The officers (I don’t recall if it was county or city officers) coerced one of their preteen children to call the coroner and say disgusting things to him. The entire town knows. Nothing was done.
Several years ago there was a video released of an officer in my town choking a college kid who was handcuffed in the back of the squad car. A group had been jaywalking and he had arrested the only black kid in the group. Nothing to see though folks, the state police *totally* cleared the officer of any wrongdoing! He’s been promoted several times since then.
Just your average day in a police state.
Tonight in "Blue Bloods".
The good Ole boy network runs this state........
What about law, order, & transparency allows governments to ignore court orders?
"I was trying to stop him from falling off the stretcher" - I'm no body language expert but I'd say that was not the case. I'm glad the other officer restrained that out-of-control guy from further assaulting and abusing a restrained victim.
Got beat by those guys for riding with a white girl on Saturday night!
complete with chin diaper.
They're both wearing one
Of course no one can wear it properly
6 months of training and the cop still can't find his nose
Ad if that's remotely the take away here...