Brickbat: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Former Hialeah, Florida, police officer Rafael Otano has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison after being convicted of kidnapping a homeless man who was considered a nuisance by shop owners at a local strip mall. Prosecutors said that after a shopkeeper called police last year to complain about the man, Otano and another officer drove the vagrant to a wooded area outside of city limits that is a popular dumping site, beat him, and left him there. An off-duty Miami-Dade police officer later saw the man and called for help. The trial date for the other officer charged in the kidnapping has not yet been set.

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[Adans smith]

These cops should be punished to the full extent of the law. Still, with all the 'homeless' camps and crime you see I once again have trouble caring.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

An off-duty Miami-Dade police officer later saw the man and called for help.

This guy saw a beaten civilian at a known dumping sight and couldn't put two and two together? What was he, a rookie?

[Vernon Depner]

Safe bet he won't be a cop very long.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Site.

[mad.casual]

The dumping site is so popular, people are getting beat up by the cops to get in.

[Vernon Depner]

When government abdicates its responsibility to maintain reasonable order, vigilantiism will inevitably arise. People will put up with only so much.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Yeah. I don't want cops to feel even more empowered to simply beat the crap out of people when they feel like it, but I also don't want a million bums around.

[Chumby]

Ashli Babbitt was considered a nuisance by lawmakers. She got it a lot worse than being beaten and relocated to a wooded area outside city limits.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Otano should have put the bum on a flight to Martha's Vineyard.

[sarcasmic]

He was just following department policy.

[Don't look at me!]

Cite?

[sarcasmic]

It's unwritten.

[Chumby]

The first rule of police brutality club is you do not talk about police brutality club.

[Vernon Depner]

Yeah, that's why I said that off-duty officer won't be a cop for long.

[JFree]

5. Take Back the Streets: Get Rid of the Bums. Again: unleash the cops to clear the streets of bums and vagrants. Where will they go? Who cares? Hopefully, they will disappear, Murray Rothbard

[Vernon Depner]

"I don't care if they survive."—Neal Boortz

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

I dunno. Did they apply the Copenhagen Consensus cost-benefit analysis? Could be worth it, amiright Reason?

[Dillinger]

copper followed the Giuliani plan what's the problem?

[The Margrave of Azilia]

He cross-dressed and promoted abortion?

[SRG2]

I am surprised that the cop didn't argue that history and tradition legitimised his conduct.