Police run over, kill suspect, and send family bill for repairs to patrol car

[Savannahmann]

Last edited Sat Oct 6, 2012, 06:31 AM - Edit history (1)

In what can be considered one of the tackiest possible actions, the NYPD has sent a bill for repairs to the car that ran over the fleeing suspect to the family of the deceased.

My dark humor wonders if the NYPD should have taken out the optional insurance to protect against uninsured pedestrians.

My wife would say. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mother-tamon-robinson-charged-dent-made-nypd-car-struck-son-article-1.1175484#ixzz28R3WvwzO

On Edit. I remembered a story where China would bill the families of executed prisoners for the bullet. After a very brief search, I found the link. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/12/1047431092598.html

The condemned criminal is taken by open truck to the execution ground and made to kneel with hands cuffed and head bowed, before being shot in the head. Families who want to reclaim the body are charged for the bullet.

Apparently the NYPD felt that this practice was one that it needed to emulate.

[Kalidurga]

1. She should sue the NYPD for wrongful death...

A car is not a weapon and I don't think stealing pavers is even something a weapon should be drawn for anyway. They shouldn't have just told him to put the stones down or whatever. It's a petty crime and at the most worth going downtown for booking or whatever spend the night in jail, be ordered to pay restitution. Sure didn't warrant the death penalty by car verdict. I don't buy that it was an accident.

[lonestarnot]

7. A car is a deadly weapon.

[Berserker]

8. Holy shit wait

the gun control crowd say's cars don't count as a deadly weapon only guns do.

[Kalidurga]

9. You are right...

I meant to say a car shouldn't be used as a deadly weapon. Especially when the crime in question is a petty crime.

[HiPointDem]

2. sick and cruel.

[tama]

3. Wall Street cops or rather private army.

Dissolve.

[MadHound]

4. How long will it be before the NYPD becomes so unbearable that people start to move out of New York?

God knows, the current state of the NYPD really disinclines me from even visiting NYC at this point. Trouble is, their intelligence officers are visiting my area, and apparently setting up office.

[Savannahmann]

5. I've heard that about NYPD.

The asinine argument they use is that NY is the most probable target, so jurisdiction doesn't really matter all that much. It's a shame that New Jersey has a nut job for a Governor, A Democrat would take umbrage at the offensive actions of the NYPD, self appointed police of the nation.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Oink, Oink!