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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus10/31/2014 10:26:00 am PDT

Mostly off topic but it does have to do with the rule of law:

This caught my eye:

MILWAUKEE POLICE VOTE ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ IN CHIEF

Milwaukee police have taken a vote that expresses no confidence in their chief after he fired a white officer who shot and killed a black man in a downtown park.

Union president Mike Crivello announced Friday that about 99 percent of the votes expressed no confidence in Chief Edward Flynn.

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Officers are angry over the firing of Christopher Manney, who shot 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton on April 30. Hamilton had been sleeping in the park. The two struggled during a pat down and Hamilton grabbed the officer’s baton and struck him in the neck. Manney then shot Hamilton 14 times.

Flynn said he fired Manney for instigating the fight.

I think this takes the whole brotherhood-of-police thing way too far. Group-think is always troublesome, but I find it particularly so when it comes to police.