Bloomberg bodyguard jailed for 7 years for attempted murder.

[danez71]

I'm not even sure where to start with this one. Lots of stupid involved.


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cop_next_stop_is_jail_pyEpHcEOlgjMaNW0qyeIjO

Convicted shooter Leopold McLean, 49, also got a verbal spanking from the judge for the boneheaded, career-ending attack.

“I don’t know what caused this situation to happen — it could have been fear, frustration, arrogance or stupidity — but as a citizen you forgot your common sense,” Queens Supreme Court Justice James Griffin told the 19-year cop as the judge sentenced him for attempted murder and two counts of reckless endangerment.

.....two months shy of earning his 20-year pension

 

[Solo]

Just before retirement...

 

[jbrown50]

At trial, Winfield admitted that, while she was dating McLean, she filed complaints against Gammons but then continued to call him, visited him in jail and accepted two cars he bought for her adult daughter.

He is no longer dating Winfield and she didn’t attend the sentencing.

Love triangles are very dangerous and deceptive. As an armed individual, whether LEO or regular citizen, you have to realize how vulnerable you can become emotionally and avoid those situations.

Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)[1], was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that under the Fourth Amendment, when a law enforcement officer is pursuing a fleeing suspect, he or she may use deadly force only to prevent escape if the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.

 

[Al Thompson]

Not seeing this one as on topic......