Cop who shot 18-year-old 9 times charged with second degree murder
 

Excellent. There was no reason for him to execute him like that. The first few bullets were bad enough, but to pump a bunch more in him while he was motionless on the ground was murder any way you look at it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...r-charged.html

here's hoping they go after his accomplices

I'm sure this case will fall apart if he has a facebook page where he made a gang sign.


:2 cents:

I realize that this is Canada, not the United States. But do you guys know the difference between first and second degree murder?

that's what a good lawyer is paid to do amigo.

In Canada it is any murder which is not first degree murder.

First degree murder is:

was planned and deliberate
was contracted
was committed against an identified peace officer
while committing or attempting to commit the hijacking of an aircraft
while committing or attempting to commit sexual assault
while committing or attempting to commit sexual assault with a weapon
while committing or attempting to commit aggravated sexual assault
while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping and forcible confinement
during a hostage taking
while committing criminal harassment
was committed during terrorist activity
while using explosives in association with a criminal organization
while committing intimidation.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(Canadian_law)

while committing criminal harassment
while committing intimidation.

Yeah, but who pays the jury to be stupid enough to buy into that garbage?

:1orglaugh

How many of the 9 shots hit the suspect?

all of them. then they tazed the kid. then the video came out of the entire incident

guess you come from a part of the world where DWB gets you shot 100+ times, but it's a bit different up here

Making the choice to cause a living thing's life to go away is murder any way you look at it, doesn't really matter how many bullets.

i hear ya. a fancy lawyer can sell sky in the pie to a jury. reasonable doubt, etc, jurors get bogged down with the the myth that law is intimidating.

They had to charge him. There is no debating this was murder. However, it will go to trial and he will get off without a doubt. Fucking cops always do.

Also had this not been caught on video there would be no charges.

Yeah, like when a criminal robs a bank in the states and one of the numb skulls shots someone .

Did you watch the video? After the nine shots the police move to enter the bus and then stop and raise their guns again. Their was like 4 officers who were right next to him. I think the police video is going to show a more menacing image based on the police actions.

No. he is doing 2 years. Min.

He had no reason to shoot other than the fact that the kid did exactly what he was told not to do.

makes you wonder how many people have died 'because they didn't do what they were supposed to'

If he is convicted of 2nd degree and that is a big if. He's still won't do the same time as I would if I were to be convicted. It's also comical that this piece of shit is still getting paid while on suspension.

I thought I read a second degree murder conviction means no chance of parole for 10 years, but I am not sure exactly how that works.... if it is possible to get out sooner for whatever reason.

ahh the new minimum sentencing :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

god if that isn't irony, i don't know what is

Shots fired and shots that hit are 2 different things. Just curious.

I always thought this kind of murder is a usual thing for the USA, but CANADA? WTF?