Before people can go to jail, they have to be arrested or surrendered to custody. I wonder why this violent nutjob didn't allow himself to be arrested?

So it's totally okay that my friend regularly gets told by her black boyfriend's friends that she shouldn't be taking a good black man away from them? How is that not racism? It exists no matter what color you are.

Read the whole SFGate story:

Oh please, don't give me that high horse shit. I do my best not to be a dick about what I fully admit is my white privilege, but there is this thing called reverse-racism that also bothers me, mainly because it's still racism and all racism really just saddens me in general. Get off it.

And witnesses are clearly 100% totally trustworthy.

I'm not going to argue that kind of discrepancy because I am aware that there are racist cops, just as there are racists in any other profession, and I'm definitely not going to try to justify it because those situations are unfair and blatantly wrong. But I'm sure there are also situations that are justified; I'm…

Well, the D.A.'s report included interview with the people menanced by Nieto.

I feel like they at least need to earn their guns and learn how to interact with people without having a firearm to fall back on. Like maybe prove themselves for a year or two with a baton and a taser. Pair 'em up with a longer serving, gun use-approved cop if you have to.

Well, frequently those situations crop up when police deal with white people. And often- though certainly not always, its far more often than with minorities- the situation is deescalated and the white person gets arrested or let go with a warning and conspicuously few bullet holes in their shirt. This is including in…

I think the problem is assuming anything we don't know the whole story about, to be honest. I'm going to get Jezzie shot (edit: no terrible pun intended there) for this, but I'm tired of hearing about cops-shoot-man stories where the assumption is that the cops are white racists and killed out of some kind of hate.…

Not to defend what the police did (and certainly not defending 59 shots), as I don't know 100% of the situation, but why the fuck would anyone point anything that even remotely resembles a weapon at an armed officer? Especially given recent events?

Didn't we already establish he doesn't deliver on his promises anymore, what did you expect XD

because I'm such an eloquent talker.

Comparing him to Uwe Boll is just...mean.

Right, because Black and White and Populous sucked, not to mention how god awful Fable was!

Apologies if this is against the site's rules, but I strongly recommend that everyone have a read over this article.

There should be regular prosecutions of officers who don't render proper aidafter shootings.

Even if he shot and killed Gurley in a completely and irrefutably justified manner, and let me make it clear the available evidence makes that highly unlikely, he should go to jail for a decade for letting Gurley bleed out for six minutes and die. As a cop part a your job is to attempt to save the lives of even the…

... by using his service weapon to open a door in the stairwell.

A) Terrified that I'm relieved that this officer was indicted. Seems like this should be pretty automatic.
B) How shitty is police training that you can be jittered into killing someone. Fucking ridiculous.