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RCMP officer killed
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Dizzy1
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Fancy wrote:Still disagree. I guess I read more about the driver running a red and the loss of life on the first page. There was no "police can do no wrong" in my opinion.
My point is that if its a civilian, certain posters will point the finger even though we have very limited facts and they'll base their opinion on those facts (which is fair enough) but as soon as new facts roll in where the police may have possibly contributed to the accident, then those posters don't want to hear about it because to them, "it doesn't matter".
Nobody wants to hear your opinion. They just want to hear their own opinion coming out of your mouth.
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FreeRights
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I don't think that it doesn't matter, but it certainly does depend on the context.
Come quickly Jesus, we're barely holding on.
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FreeRights wrote:I don't think that it doesn't matter, but it certainly does depend on the context.
Why don't you think it matters?
Nobody wants to hear your opinion. They just want to hear their own opinion coming out of your mouth.
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FreeRights
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Dizzy1 wrote:Why don't you think it matters?
No, double negative - I think it matters, but you're referring to "some people's" extremely general opinion on civilian accidents vs police accidents. Though I'd guess it's possible, because police do have a career where they are more likely to be in dangerous situations
Come quickly Jesus, we're barely holding on.
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Smurf wrote:There should be some serious jail time and loss of licence for life. Condolences to the family and friends of RCMP Const. Sarah Beckett.
He was sentenced today to 4 years, so out in just over 2½ years and no DL for 10 years.
Life is cheap in Canada.
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yes it is--sad but true what he did was not a mistake, he should get life
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the truth wrote:yes it is--sad but true what he did was not a mistake, he should get life
3 times the legal limit.
Sad for her family and especially the children.
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a husband lost his wife, 2 kids lost there mom,and he will be out in less than 3 years , 
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This is terrible, very sad. I feel for her family, that is not acceptable.
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Treblehook
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Under these circumstances, described many times over, the sentence handed out is embarrassingly inadequate. This loser has proven on more than one occasion that he is a criminal behind the wheel... and he took a life this time through criminal acts. What would he have to have done to get an adequate sentence, north of 10 years... run into a school bus and kill a dozen kindergarden children, one of which was the Judge's grandchild?