this post is your daily thin blue line display of police 'just doing their job';


Bucks County, PA — An unidentified officer, who pulled his gun and shot an unarmed man inside a jail cell last month was allowed to retire and found out this week that he will not be charged. This decision by the District Attorney is in spite of the fact that the shooting was captured on video and the officer broke multiple department policies.

Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced Friday that the officer is going to be free from criminal prosecution for shooting Brian Riling, 38, in the abdomen on March 3. He called the shooting, which left Riling in critical condition, “not justified, but excused.”
During their “investigation” into the shooting, authorities found multiple violations of policy that led to the unarmed man nearly being executed. According to Weintraub, the officer who pulled the trigger had violated the department’s taser policy by failing to go to training. Weintraub also told reporters that the New Hope officer who shot Riling in the abdomen wore his taser on the wrong side—another department policy violation.
The reason the taser violations are important is due to the fact that the officer says he “accidentally” pulled his pistol instead of his taser which led to the near fatal shooting.
“This violation of policy, however, does not constitute a violation of law,” Weintraub wrote.

The policy violation did not constitute a violation of the law, so for shooting the unarmed man, the officer walked free...........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-officer-shooting-man-jail-cell-not-charged/