some times these thin blue line posts are just beyond my imagination and this is one of those;

Frederick County, MD — As TFTP previously reported, three off-duty Frederick County sheriff deputies forced 26-year-old Ethan Saylor to the ground — over a movie ticket — crushing his larynx, depriving him of air until he died. Despite the taxpayers shelling out $1.9 million in 2018, none of the officers were ever held accountable and now one of them has been hired at a neighboring department to screen cops in the hiring process. That’s right, a cop who was involved in the act of killing a young man with Down syndrome over a move ticket, is now presumably in charge of picking the officers who work for the Frederick Police Department.

“There’s a cliche that you can’t assign a dollar amount to a human being’s life, but that is our system, that’s the only remedy we have for justice in our system,” Saylor’s mother, Patti Saylor, said after the settlement was finally reached in 2018. “We’re not comforted by the money as much as knowing we gave our son everything we could, that we stood up for him until we exhausted all avenues for standing up for him. Because his life mattered. What happened to him should not have happened.”

The deputies, Richard Rochford, Scott Jewell and James Harris were all cleared in the death of Ethan Saylor — despite his death being ruled a homicide by asphyxiation. The “investigation” claimed that the deputies could not have expected that the “minimal force” they used would have led to his death.

After being cleared, Rochford, one of the deputies involved in Saylor’s death, retired from the Frederick County sheriff’s office in 2016. Then — despite costing the taxpayers of Maryland hundreds of thousands of dollars — he was quietly hired in 2019 by the neighboring police department as a Background Investigator.............read more...........